Speaker 1: Named one of the best true crime podcasts ever by
Speaker 1: Entertainment Weekly and called a triumph by The New York Times.
Speaker 2: I'm Gilbert King and this is Bone Valley. I'm in
Speaker 2: Florida speaking at a legal conference when this judge hands
Speaker 2: me his business card. On the back it reads Leo Schofield.
Speaker 2: Not just wrongfully convicted, He's an innocent man.
Speaker 1: Hey, listen, this is the story. It is what it is.
Speaker 2: You believe it, don't believe it.
Speaker 1: It's up to you.
Speaker 2: It will not change the fact that I'm an innocent man.
Speaker 2: Leo's eighteen year old wife, Michelle, was killed in nineteen
Speaker 2: eighty seven. When I meet Leo, he's in prison, where
Speaker 2: he's been for the last thirty years, convicted of her murder.
Speaker 1: Somewhere along the line in this nightmare of a dream
Speaker 1: we having that we're all going to wake up and
Speaker 1: see that this isn't right, because justice plays out always.
Speaker 2: We talked for hours, and I find out about new
Speaker 2: evidence that surfaced in his case. Always always. The fingerprints
Speaker 2: was a big question in my mind. So I took
Speaker 2: the fingerprint and I handed it to one of my
Speaker 2: crime scene detectives, and he said, there's a hit a
Speaker 2: guy named Jeremy Scott. Jeremy Scott. Who the fuck's Jeremy Scott?
Speaker 1: Holy shit.
Speaker 2: Jeremy was an extraordinarily violent young man who lived right
Speaker 2: down the road from Leo and Michelle. But when the
Speaker 2: fingerprints came back to him, the state of Florida quickly
Speaker 2: shut down the investigation. Leo Scholfield is a cold blooded murderer,
Speaker 2: and if I have my way, he'll never get out
Speaker 2: of prison. I investigated this case for over five years.
Speaker 2: I became convinced that Jeremy Scott was the key to
Speaker 2: solving this case, and I needed him to tell me
Speaker 2: why his fingerprints were found in Michelle's car after she
Speaker 2: was murdered. They ain't got no proof of the Oh, Lord,
Speaker 2: they come stupid.
Speaker 1: I hate God. Damn cops are they're coming back? Grandma? Well,
Speaker 1: I just tell him, you don't know nothing, and I
Speaker 1: ain't seen nothing, heard nothing, and just leave you alone.
Speaker 2: At first, I wasn't sure I wanted to know any
Speaker 2: more about this guy than I absolutely had to, But
Speaker 2: once I started talking to him, I couldn't stop.
Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Hey, oh Jeremy, you're there.
Speaker 2: There are two men connected to the murder of Michelle Schofield.
Speaker 2: Leo Schofield swore to me he's innocent.
Speaker 1: I did not kill Michelle.
Speaker 2: Jeremy Scott told me that he's the one who killed Michelle.
Speaker 1: I told you I killed her.
Speaker 2: The State of Florida doesn't believe either man. This is
Speaker 2: the story of the people who do.
Speaker 1: I did love him. I did love Jeremy Gilbert King,
Speaker 1: I'm the son of.
Speaker 2: Jeremy wind Scott. Bone Valley Seasons one and two, Stone Judgements.
Speaker 2: Do you hear the whole story?
Speaker 1: Bone Valley, written and hosted by Pulitzer Prize winning author
Speaker 1: Gilbert King, is the winner of the Ambi Awards for
Speaker 1: the Best Documentary Podcast and Best Reporting. It's also the
Speaker 1: winner of the Signal and Webby Awards. Bone Valley was
Speaker 1: named one of the best podcasts by Vogue Magazine, Entertainment Weekly,
Speaker 1: The Atlantic, Vulture, Slate, and The New Yorker. Listen to
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