Introducing: Bone Valley

Wrongful Conviction

Lava for Good Podcasts

True Crime

4.6 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2022

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

In 1987, 18-year-old Michelle Schofield was found dead in a phosphate pit in Florida. Two years later, her husband Leo was convicted and sentenced to life in prison. Fifteen years later, previously unidentified fingerprints matched Jeremy Scott--a violent teenager who lived nearby. Jeremy has since confessed to Michelle’s murder. Yet Leo Schofield remains behind bars. In Bone Valley, a groundbreaking 9-episode podcast, host Gilbert King uncovers startling new evidence that Jeremy is responsible for a string of murders. King is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Devil in the Grove, which led to the exonerations of four innocent men. Bone Valley will be available every Wednesday beginning September 21 wherever you get your podcasts. Bone Valley is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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0:00.0	Listen, this is the story. It is what it is. You believe it. Don't believe it. It's up to you. It will not change the fact that I'm an innocent man.
0:11.0	Do you hear my madness?
0:16.0	In February 1987, Leo Skofield's 18-year-old wife, Michelle, went missing.
0:24.0	Left to raise my fears. I need to talk to somebody about finding my wife. I'm really worried about her. I like to find out something.
0:36.0	Three days later, Michelle was found stabbed to death off a freeway in Lakeland, Florida.
0:43.0	Shouldn't it be your responsibility to investigate?
0:46.0	No wait a minute. We have investigated this thing upside down.
0:50.0	No physical evidence connected Leo Skofield to the crime.
0:54.0	He said, I'm going to put you in the electric chair and I said, that's what you're going to have to do.
0:59.0	But I'm not going to say something that's not true.
1:03.0	At 22 years old, Leo is convicted for his wife's murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1:09.0	Leo Skofield is a cold-blooded murderer and if I have my wife, you'll never get out of prison.
1:16.0	Leo's conviction, there were still so many unanswered questions.
1:20.0	Always, always. The fingerprints was a big question in my mind.
1:25.0	Obviously, somebody was in the car. Somebody knew something. Who was it? What do they know?
1:29.0	So I took the fingerprint and I'm like, all right, who does it come back to?
1:34.0	And he said a guy named Jeremy Scott.
1:37.0	Jeremy Scott, who the fuck's Jeremy Scott?
1:39.0	Grandma. Have you ever heard of somebody called you?
1:43.0	I don't know. I don't know. I don't know.
1:46.0	Despite new evidence pointing to Jeremy Scott, Leo Skofield is still in prison.
1:52.0	He's been locked up for the last 34 years.
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