Introducing - Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County

In Season 1 of Bone Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King tells a story of a man, Leo Schofield, fighting to prove his innocence in the case of his wife Michelle’s murder.

In Season 2, “JEREMY” Gilbert King brings us a story about her actual killer, Jeremy Scott, fighting to prove his guilt. The State of Florida does not believe either man.

Bone Valley Season 3 | GRAVES COUNTY is a new story about a new case. A story that shares many familiar themes with the first two seasons of Bone Valley - an unspeakable crime, a dubious investigation, half-truths that ensnare innocent people, and heartbroken families caught in the middle.

GRAVES COUNTY is hosted by Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the hosts of Lava For Good’s Wrongful Conviction and is executive produced by Gilbert King.

Maggie is going to take us to a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, where a terrible discovery on the front lawn of a middle school invites a string of amateur and professional investigators to try to solve a murder. Maggie is the latest investigator to get pulled in. And she’ll take all of us along as she teases out this complicated web of rumors and lies, and perhaps even the truth.

Bone Valley Season 3 | GRAVES COUNTY will be available every Wednesday beginning September 17 wherever you get your podcasts. To binge the entire season, ad-free, starting September 17, subscribe to Lava for Good+ on Apple Podcasts.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
All I know is what I've been told, and that's
a half truth is a whole lie.

Speaker 2 (00:08):
For almost a decade, the murder of an eighteen year
old girl from a small town in Graves County, Kentucky
went unsolved until a local homemaker, a journalist, and a
handful of girls came forward with a story.

Speaker 1 (00:25):
I'm telling you.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
We know, we know why Kilber. We know a story
that law enforcement used to convict six people, and that
got the citizen investigator on National TV brew sheer persistence
and nerve. This Kentucky housewife helped give justice to Jessica Current.
My name is Maggie Freeling. I'm a Pulitzer Prize winning

(00:48):
journalist producer, and I wouldn't be here if the truth
were that easy to find. I did not know her,
and I did not kill her, or write or burn
or any of that other stuff that y'all see it,
because this is a story about just how far people
and our legal system will go to get a conviction.

(01:09):
They literally made me say that I took a match
and struck and threw it on her. They made me
say that I poor guests on her.

Speaker 1 (01:15):
So to be clear, law enforcement is paying a citizen
with no training to do interviews in a high profile
murder investigation.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
Yes, and it's about the tales we tell and choose
to believe when we need someone to blame. This is
why you all are steady here because of lies. So
it sounds like a lot of people have come forward
saying I know who did this, but no one has
said who did it. That's correct, the repercussions of which

(01:49):
have uprooted lives, shattered families, and exposed a deep rot
in Kentucky's halls of power to lie.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Oh my daughter liked that. Did I'm not see the
one of you because I will be in prison.

Speaker 2 (02:04):
I've spent over two years trying to get to the
bottom of it all. Marky, y'all gotta work the hell up.
Bad things happens to good people and small towns. From
Love of for Good. This is Graves County, a new

(02:26):
story of corruption and the fight for truth, released in
the Bone Valley Feed. Listen to Graves County starting September
seventeenth on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts or wherever you
get your podcasts, and to binge the entire season ad free.
Subscribe to Love of for Good plus on Apple podcasts,

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