Bone Valley

Bone Valley

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​​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 this groundbreaking podcast, Bone Valley 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...

Introducing: Someone Knows Something

Introducing: Someone Knows Something

Christine Harron, a book-loving teenager from Hanover, Ontario, leaves for school in the spring of 1993 and is never seen again. A suspect emerges, confessing to her murder, but the case falls apart and Christine's family are left without answers. In Season 9 of the award winning podcast Someone Knows Something, David Ridgen, along with Christine's mother, reopen the investigation and come face to face with the man who said he killed Chrissy. Someone Knows Something is the investigative true cri

Dec 9, 2024 • 35:43

Introducing: Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng Season 4 - TRAILER

Introducing: Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng Season 4 - TRAILER

Pulitzer Prize winner and iHeartPodcast 2024 Social Impact Award Honoree Maggie Freleng brings compelling stories of redemption and justice with new episodes of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng starting September 9, 2024. Click HERE to follow Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Sep 1, 2024 • 2:17

Halfway Home

Halfway Home

Leo Schofield takes his first steps outside prison in 36 years. Gilbert and Kelsey spend the day with him.  Bone Valley is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jun 7, 2024 • 45:49

Leo's Parole Hearing Comes to a Close but it's not Over

Leo's Parole Hearing Comes to a Close but it's not Over

Leo Schofield’s parole hearing in Tallahassee, FL, April 17th, 2024 with reporting from Gilbert King and Kelsey Decker. Bone Valley is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 18, 2024 • 25:47

BREAKING NEWS | Leo Schofield’s parole hearing set for April 17th

BREAKING NEWS | Leo Schofield’s parole hearing set for April 17th

BREAKING NEWS: Leo Schofield’s parole hearing set for April 17th.   For photos, images, and full transcripts of each episode visit:  https://lavaforgood.com/bone-valley/ To read and sign the petition from the Innocence Project of Florida visit:  http://bit.ly/BringLeoHome Bone Valley is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Apr 5, 2024 • 1:07

Introducing - The Prosecutors: The Murder of Michelle Schofield

Introducing - The Prosecutors: The Murder of Michelle Schofield

The Prosecutors is a true crime podcast with a different point of view. Every week, Alice Lacour and Brett Talley bring their unique perspective as prosecutors to the most famous cold case mysteries of all time. Murder, mayhem, disappearances, you name it. If it's true crime, they're on the case.  This season, they cover Bone Valley and the Michelle Schofield case. Alice and Brett bring the same commitment to research and legal analysis that sets them apart in the world of true crime podcasting.

Mar 14, 2024 • 10:37

Wrongful Conviction 2024 - Trailer

Wrongful Conviction 2024 - Trailer

Lava for Good’s critically acclaimed Wrongful Conviction podcast, co-hosted by celebrated criminal justice reform advocate and founding board member of the Innocence Project Jason Flom, and Pulitzer prize-winning podcast host and producer Maggie Freleng, returns with gripping new episodes that delve into harrowing stories highlighting pervasive issues in the criminal justice system. Flom and Freleng speak with individuals who were wrongfully convicted of crimes they did not commit. Some have bee

Jan 1, 2024 • 1:34

Bonus Episode | Restoring the Way

Bonus Episode | Restoring the Way

Gilbert and Kelsey check in with Leo Schofield, who has spent the last 7 months at the Corrections Transition Program at Everglades Correctional Institution, where he’s been preparing for life on the outside after more than 35 years of incarceration.  For photos, images, and full transcripts of each episode visit:  https://lavaforgood.com/bone-valley/ To read and sign the petition from the Innocence Project of Florida visit:  http://bit.ly/BringLeoHome Bone Valley is a production of Lava for Goo

Dec 21, 2023 • 21:23

Introducing - Crime Story: Gilbert King on Bone Valley

Introducing - Crime Story: Gilbert King on Bone Valley

Every week, CBC’s Crime Story podcast brings you a true-crime case told by the storyteller who knows it best. In this special episode, Gilbert King, host of Bone Valley, gives the inside scoop on the making of the Bone Valley podcast, and how it changed Gilbert’s life.  Find more Crime Story episodes in your podcast app, or here: https://link.chtbl.com/WMFUUoW1  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 9, 2023 • 38:45

#403 Jason Flom with Gilbert King on the Groveland Four

#403 Jason Flom with Gilbert King on the Groveland Four

On July 16, 1949, 17-year-old Norma Padgett and her estranged husband, Willie Padgett, reported to police that they had been attacked by four black men in Lake County, FL, with Norma claiming that the men had raped her. On the same day, police arrested 16-year-old Charles Greenlee, and 22-year-olds Samuel Shepherd and Walter Irvin. 26-year-old Ernest Thomas was hunted into the woods and gunned down by a mob of men, as he was also blamed for the attack. Despite weak evidence and testimonies taint

Nov 2, 2023 • 42:42

Introducing - Erased: The Murder of Elma Sands

Introducing - Erased: The Murder of Elma Sands

Twenty-two-year-old Elma Sands is found murdered in a Manhattan well on January 2nd, 1800. Her lover, wealthy and well-connected Levi Weeks, is accused of the barbaric offense. Weeks brings in the nation’s best legal defense team – none other than Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr – to clear his name while a pandemic-stricken New York City buzzes with scandal. This six-episode true story unfolds over the unbelievable two-day trial that laid the sexist roots of today’s justice system. Through fla

Oct 11, 2023 • 2:21

Earwitness: Episode 1 | Behind the Crown

Earwitness: Episode 1 | Behind the Crown

From the production team that brought you Bone Valley, here is Episode 1 of our new podcast: Earwitness. If you like what you hear, you can listen to episode 2 right now wherever you get your podcasts or by clicking this link: http://lavaforgood.com/earlanding Journalist Beth Shelburne meets with former Alabama Attorney General Bill Baxley, who explains why he is deeply disturbed by the wrongful conviction of Toforest Johnson for the murder of Deputy Bill Hardy. Through her reporting on the case

Sep 19, 2023 • 42:01

Introducing: Earwitness

Introducing: Earwitness

One July night in 1995, Deputy Sheriff William G. Hardy was shot behind the Crown Sterling Suites hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time as the murder, at least ten people saw Toforest Johnson four miles away, at a popular nightclub called Tee's Place. But detectives zeroed in on him as a main suspect in Deputy Hardy’s murder anyway, ultimately resulting in Toforest being tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. For over a quarter century, Toforest has been confined to a 5’ by 8’ cell o

Sep 12, 2023 • 2:43

Lava for Good Live: The War on Drugs - Did Anyone Win?

Lava for Good Live: The War on Drugs - Did Anyone Win?

Today we present a special episode of The War on Drugs podcast. Hosts Clayton English and Greg Glod are live on stage with some of the top names in podcasting including Gilbert King from Bone Valley, Jason Flom from Wrongful Conviction and Ben Bowlin and Noel Brown from Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know to discuss the intersection of The War on Drugs and wrongful convictions. Recorded Live at iHeart Media in Atlanta, GA on April 26th, 2023 Featuring hosts from the following podcasts; Bone Valley

Jun 21, 2023 • 1:01:49

#355 Guest Host Gilbert King with Juan Roberto Melendez

#355 Guest Host Gilbert King with Juan Roberto Melendez

Lava for Good Podcasts presents this special episode of Wrongful Conviction guest hosted by Gilbert King. If you like what you hear you can find and follow Wrongful Conviction wherever you listen to podcasts https://lavaforgood.com/landing/ On September 13, 1983, Delbert Baker was found dead – shot and with his throat slashed – in Auburndale, FL. Witnesses gave the police a lead on two suspects but they quickly dismissed it since one of the suspects was working as a police informant. A few month

May 19, 2023 • 45:02

Introducing: Betrayal Season 2

Introducing: Betrayal Season 2

Ashley Lytton was a typical mom and wife in suburban Utah with three children until she discovered her husband’s horrifying secret. It was a shocking crime that would alter Ashley’s life and jeopardize the safety of her children. This season Betrayal will focus on one mother’s fight to find justice for her daughter and protection from a predator too close to home. Listen to Betrayal Season 2 on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-betrayal-95

May 18, 2023 • 2:05

Bonus Episode | Nothing but a Meatball

Bonus Episode | Nothing but a Meatball

Leo Schofield’s parole hearing is held in Tallahassee, FL on May 3rd, 2023, before the Florida Commission on Offender Review. In the lead up to the hearing, Gilbert and Kelsey check in with Scott Cupp and Crissie Schofield. Following the commission’s decision, Leo’s friends, family, and supporters grapple with the outcome. And Leo processes the news. For photos, images, and full transcripts of each episode visit:  https://lavaforgood.com/bone-valley/ To read and sign the petition from the Innoce

May 5, 2023 • 1:03:06

Bonus Episode | Heading to the Parole Hearing for Leo Schofield

Bonus Episode | Heading to the Parole Hearing for Leo Schofield

On Wednesday, May 3, 2023, Gilbert and Kelsey are on the way to Leo’s parole hearing. Live update from the hearing coming soon. For photos, images, and full transcripts of each episode visit: https://lavaforgood.com/bone-valley/ To read and sign the petition from the Innocence Project of Florida visit: http://bit.ly/BringLeoHome PLEASE CLICK HERE TO TAKE PART IN OUR LISTENER SURVEY. YOUR FEEDBACK WILL HELP INFORM HOW WE MAKE PODCASTS IN THE FUTURE. AND YOUR COMPLETE AND CANDID ANSWERS WILL HELP

May 3, 2023 • 0:55

Bonus Episode | Prepping for the Parole Hearing in the Case of Leo Schofield

Bonus Episode | Prepping for the Parole Hearing in the Case of Leo Schofield

In preparation for the upcoming parole hearing in Tallahassee on May 3rd, Gilbert and Kelsey travel to Florida to preview what’s at stake for Leo. They visit a halfway house in Tampa, and speak to Crissie, Ashley, Jessie Saum, and Seth Miller. They also accompany Scott Cupp to meetings with Florida Senator Jonathan Martin and parole commissioners. Leo Schofield’s parole hearing will be at 9:00 am on May 3, 2023, and is open to the public:Florida Commission on Offender ReviewBetty Easley Conferen

Apr 19, 2023 • 42:33

Introducing: Party Crews: The Untold Story

Introducing: Party Crews: The Untold Story

For many Latinx kids in the ‘00s, the party crew scene was a safe space to express themselves as they came of age in the grit and glitter of Los Angeles. A space to make friends, forget about your problems and dance the night away. But the scene wasn’t always physically safe. There were shootings and police raids. Many adults saw the scene as gang-adjacent and the media fueled negative stereotypes of kids who were out of control. One of the teens who got caught in that easy narrative was Emmery

Mar 17, 2023 • 3:00

Bonus Episode | Leo Speaks

Bonus Episode | Leo Speaks

Leo shares a message for listeners of Bone Valley about the impact of the podcast on his life, and his hopes for freedom. For photos, images, and full transcripts of each episode visit: https://lavaforgood.com/bone-valley/ To read and sign the petition from the Innocence Project of Florida visit: http://bit.ly/BringLeoHome PLEASE CLICK HERE TO TAKE PART IN OUR LISTENER SURVEY. YOUR FEEDBACK WILL HELP INFORM HOW WE MAKE PODCASTS IN THE FUTURE. AND YOUR COMPLETE AND CANDID ANSWERS WILL HELP US CO

Mar 8, 2023 • 33:42

Introducing SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow

Introducing SUSPECT: Vanished in the Snow

For more than three and a half decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews was a mystery – a riddle neither authorities nor her family members could solve. The residents of her cloistered Colorado hometown had scoured every inch of prairie. Jonelle’s face had been on milk cartons nationwide. Even the President of the United States had appealed to the public for help. Still, every lead had fizzled. Every person of interest had turned out to be a dead end.  Then, in 2019, Jonelle’s

Mar 6, 2023 • 6:20

Introducing: The War on Drugs

Introducing: The War on Drugs

This is the trailer for the new podcast called The War on Drugs from Lava for Good Podcasts. If you like what you hear you can find and follow The War on Drugs wherever you listen to podcasts. https://lavaforgood.com/wodlanding/ In 1971, President Nixon declared drug abuse ‘public enemy number one’— the first salvo in America’s War on Drugs. Fifty years later, with drug overdoses in the US at a record high, are we any closer to ‘victory’? The War on Drugs has a more profound effect on society th

Jan 25, 2023 • 1:51

Introducing Paper Ghosts Season 3

Introducing Paper Ghosts Season 3

When a young college student’s car was found stranded on the side of a busy Illinois highway in 1992, police figured it was a runaway case. Nine days later, she was found brutally murdered, nearly 500 miles away in another state. What happened to Tammy Jo Zywicki? Hear the story when PAPER GHOSTS returns with a new season on February 1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Jan 25, 2023 • 2:25

Bonus Episode | The Lion, the Boat, and the Lighthouse

Bonus Episode | The Lion, the Boat, and the Lighthouse

Gilbert and Kelsey drive to Hardee Correctional Institution with Judge Scott Cupp, who hasn’t seen Leo in nearly a decade. Judge Cupp has arranged a visit with his former client, because he has something important that he wants to share—a personal decision he’s made—and he’s hoping to receive Leo’s blessing. For photos, images, and full transcripts of each episode visit: https://lavaforgood.com/bone-valley/ To read and sign the petition from the Innocence Project of Florida visit: http://bit.ly

Jan 17, 2023 • 24:31

Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng: Episode #323 - Tasha Shelby

Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng: Episode #323 - Tasha Shelby

This is Episode One of the new season of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng from Lava for Good Podcasts. If you like what you hear you can find and follow Wrongful Conviction wherever you listen to podcasts https://lavaforgood.com/landing/ On May 30, 1997, Tasha Shelby found her boyfriend's two and half-year-old toddler having a seizure on his bedroom floor. Bryan was pronounced dead at the hospital the following day, and the manner of death was ruled a homicide. Tasha, a naturally small wo

Jan 10, 2023 • 36:58

BONE VALLEY Q&A with Gilbert King and Kelsey Decker - Hosted by Maggie Freleng

BONE VALLEY Q&A with Gilbert King and Kelsey Decker - Hosted by Maggie Freleng

Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer prize winning host of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng sits down for a Q&A with Gilbert King and Kelsey Decker from the new podcast Bone Valley. Listen in as Gilbert and Kelsey share with Maggie the answers to many questions from their listeners and reveal some of the details that went into creating one of the finest podcasts of the year. For photos, images, and full transcripts of each episode visit: https://lavaforgood.com/bone-valley/ To read and sign the p

Nov 23, 2022 • 51:19

BONE VALLEY - SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

BONE VALLEY - SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The finale of Bone Valley may have left you with a million and one questions. We’re here to answer them. On November 16, 2022 at noon eastern, join Gilbert King and Kelsey Decker as they host an Ask Me Anything / AMA on Reddit. Tune in here: http://reddit.com/r/IAmA Bone Valley is a production of Lava for Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nov 11, 2022 • 0:42

Chapter 9 | Coming Clean

Chapter 9 | Coming Clean

Chapter 9 of 9 Gilbert and Kelsey travel to the Florida prison where they will interview Jeremy Scott. Jeremy tells them about his interactions with prosecutor John Aguero, his involvement in a 1987 unsolved homicide, his encounter with Michelle Schofield, and how he copes with the violence of his past. Gilbert visits Leo Schofield one last time, and reflects on this tragic injustice. For photos, images, and the full transcript of this episode visit: bit.ly/BVS1E9 To read and sign the petition f

Nov 9, 2022 • 1:13:15

Chapter 8 | Dear Mr. King

Chapter 8 | Dear Mr. King

Chapter 8 of 9 Leo Schofield faces more legal setbacks. Gilbert and Kelsey attend Leo’s latest hearings: one before an appellate court, and one before the parole board. In the aftermath, Gilbert writes a letter to Jeremy Scott. Soon, Jeremy begins sending detailed letters, and sharing more and more information about his crimes. Gilbert and Kelsey make arrangements to interview Jeremy in person.  For photos, images, and the full transcript of this episode visit: bit.ly/BVS1E8 To read and sign the

Nov 2, 2022 • 1:10:02

Chapter 7 | I Lost It

Chapter 7 | I Lost It

Chapter 7 of 9 Leo Schofield grapples with a devastating legal decision, and the intensity of his feelings towards Jeremy Scott. But he soon learns that Jeremy has more to say. Leo is granted another hearing, and Jeremy testifies once again. This time, he tells a different story.  For photos, images, and the full transcript of this episode visit: bit.ly/BVS1E7 To read and sign the petition from the Innocence Project of Florida visit bit.ly/BringLeoHome PLEASE CLICK HERE TO TAKE PART IN OUR LISTE

Oct 26, 2022 • 1:07:01

Chapter 6 | Know That I Know

Chapter 6 | Know That I Know

Chapter 6 of 9 Jeremy Scott’s ex-girlfriend reveals some incriminating information about his life in the late-1980s, leading Gilbert and Kelsey to investigate Jeremy’s potential links to another crime in a neighboring county. Leo Schofield is granted an evidentiary hearing to determine whether he should receive a new trial. Jeremy is called to testify at the hearing, and he and Leo come face-to-face for the first time beneath the Polk County courthouse. For photos, images, and the full transcrip

Oct 19, 2022 • 1:02:08

Chapter 5 | Bam Bam

Chapter 5 | Bam Bam

Chapter 5 of 9 Gilbert and Kelsey do a deep dive investigation into Jeremy Scott. By speaking to people who were close to Jeremy at the time, a picture emerges of an impulsive and troubled teenager who was prone to violence. When investigators confront Jeremy about the newly identified fingerprints, he explains that he was in Michelle’s car to steal stereo equipment. The State believes Jeremy, and they close their investigation.  For photos, images, and the full transcript of this episode visit:

Oct 12, 2022 • 50:39

Chapter 4 | Dog with a Bone

Chapter 4 | Dog with a Bone

Chapter 4 of 9 Gilbert and Kelsey analyze the State’s case against Leo Schofield and locate a juror who admits she didn’t believe that Leo was guilty. As the years pass, Leo’s appellate attempts fail, and he falls in love with social worker Crissie Carter who works in the prison. Crissie begins investigating Leo’s case on her own, and recruits a friend in law enforcement to run unidentified fingerprints from Michelle’s Mazda. There’s a match, but the fingerprints do not belong to Leo Schofield.

Oct 5, 2022 • 1:02:19

Chapter 3 | Trial by Ambush

Chapter 3 | Trial by Ambush

Chapter 3 of 9 Facing the death penalty, Leo Schofield retains renowned Polk County defense attorney Jack Edmund, who must square off against an aggressive young prosecutor, John Aguero at trial. The prosecutor builds his case around testimony from numerous witnesses who describe a volatile relationship between Leo and Michelle, and a witness who claims to have observed something suspicious on the night Michelle disappeared.  For photos, images, and the full transcript of this episode visit: htt

Sep 28, 2022 • 53:18

Chapter 2 | Combee Critters

Chapter 2 | Combee Critters

Chapter 2 of 9 Leo’s friends and family search desperately for Michelle around Lakeland, Florida. Three days later, her body is found in a phosphate mining pit with 26 stab wounds. Leo is arrested, charged with first degree murder, and faces the electric chair.  For photos, images, and the full transcript of this episode visit https://bit.ly/BVS1E2 To hear the full length version  of "Ducking Grady" by Stephon Girard, go to: https://youtu.be/lA6bruIZ0Ak To read and sign the petition from the Inn

Sep 21, 2022 • 1:01:57

Chapter 1 | God Help Us

Chapter 1 | God Help Us

Chapter 1 of 9 Author Gilbert King receives a message from a Florida judge who claims that there is an innocent man in prison, wrongly convicted of murdering his wife back in 1987. King and researcher Kelsey Decker meet Leo Schofield in prison and learn about the disappearance of 18 year-old Michelle Schofield.  For photos, images, and the full transcript of this episode visit https://bit.ly/BVS1E1  To read and sign the petition from the Innocence Project of Florida visit bit.ly/BringLeoHome PLE

Sep 21, 2022 • 52:30

Bone Valley Trailer #2

Bone Valley Trailer #2

In 1987, 21-year-old guitarist Leo Schofield was pursuing his rockstar dreams when his teenage wife Michelle was found dead in a phosphate mining pit in Lakeland, Florida. Two years later, Leo was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for the murder he has always denied. Fifteen years after Leo’s conviction, previously unidentified fingerprints from Michelle’s car matched Jeremy Scott—a troubled teen with an extensive history of violence who lived near the young couple at the time. Jeremy ha

Sep 14, 2022 • 3:11

Introducing: Bone Valley

Introducing: Bone Valley

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

Sep 7, 2022 • 3:24

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