This is Murder in the Morning with Tony Bruske and Stacey Cole.

Right now we are talking with Gilbert King of the Bone Valley podcast, Pulitzer Prize winner journalist.

This is such a fascinating story.

And we're breaking this whole thing into two parts. So this is a

beginning of part two. And if you've not, if you're joining us a part two, go to part one for context.

Yeah, please don't miss that. You don't want to, you don't want to miss any of that. But yes, so we're at

the point here where, okay, we got, you know, everything going on like you were just talking about.

But then 10 years later, there starts to be some movement on this in a very different direction.

Give us some more insight here into what, to pick up where it's basically where you left off is where I want to hear.

Yeah. So, you know, these fingerprints are discovered and, you know, they match Jeremy Scott,

a known killer who lived right in the same area as Leo and Michelle.

And so they have these fingerprints, but they don't really get identified for 17 years later.

Yeah.

When they're finally identified to Jeremy Scott, he says, I'm just a stereo

thief. I stole the stereo. That's what I used to do. That was my MO. And presents that in an

evidentiary hearing and the judge buys it. And so Leo is denied a new trial. And because he said,

Jeremy said that, you know, John Aguero, the prosecutor, brought him into an office with no tape recorders, no witnesses, and they worked out a deal.

And which is true.

I mean, it's testified to that he did not bring witnesses.

He didn't tape it.

They had a secret conversation.

And Jeremy comes up with a story that I'm just a stereo thief.

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