Kara Kornhaber

In 1987, 21-year-old guitarist Leo Schofield was pursuing his rockstar dreams when his 18-year-old 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—a crime he has always denied. Fifteen years into his sentence, Leo learned that previously unidentified fingerprints from Michelle's car have pointed to a new suspect: Jeremy Scott. At the time of the crime, Jeremy was a homeless teenager, with an extensive history of violence. Now, Jeremy is serving his own life sentence for a different murder—and he's recently given a detailed confession to the murder of Michelle Schofield. Yet Leo Schofield remains behind bars. Bone Valley is a chilling story of murder and the miscarriage of justice, told by one of the country's greatest investigative reporters. In his three-year quest to unravel the truth behind Michelle's killing, host Gilbert King interviews both Leo Schofield and Jeremy Scott in their respective prisons, leading to the startling discovery of new evidence that Jeremy is responsible for yet another murder – his fourth – and one that has remained unsolved...until now. With heartrending clarity, suspense, and humanity, Bone Valley exposes the fundamental and catastrophic flaws in the American criminal justice system by documenting the story of these two men in their desperate search for truth and redemption. This groundbreaking and provocative true crime podcast series returns King to central Florida, where his Pulitzer Prize-winning book Devil in the Grove was based, and where his remarkably thorough research led to the exonerations of the wrongly-accused men known as the Groveland Four. Like his prize-winning book, King's work on Bone Valley is a testament to the power of investigative journalism.