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Bone Valley

by Lava for Good Podcasts

Behind every Bone Valley season is a conviction: the right story, told with purpose, humanity, and craft, can have an enormous impact. Award-winning investigative documentaries from the fault lines of America's justice system. Bone Valley Season 6 | The Devil’s Quarry II is a ghost story. More than 30 years after 17-year-old Robin Murphy vanished from Carmel, New York, investigative journalist Paul Solotaroff and reporter Kathleen Horan plunge into the cold case that has haunted the community for decades. Robin was last seen with a convicted violent predator who was never charged in her disappearance. Now, as the original case file is reopened, new witnesses emerge, old evidence is reconsidered, and the search for Robin enters its most critical chapter. Can the truth finally be uncovered before time runs out? Or will one of New York’s most haunting mysteries remain a ghost story forever? Bone Valley Season 5 | The Devil’s Quarry is hosted by Paul Solotaroff, award-winning investigative journalist and longtime contributing editor at Rolling Stone. For Paul, who has been digging at this story for 5 years, the devil has always been a myth, until now. The bones of a twelve-year-old girl are found by a hunter in the woods. A young woman lives inside a real-life horror movie, ignored by everyone she turns to for help. Corrupt cops turn a blind eye to the evil lurking in their midst. The wrong people are convicted of a crime. A drug dealer works tirelessly for justice from jail. Records are hidden. Fingers are pointed. Lives are at stake. In Carmel, NY, the heroes are humble, the power is corrupt, and the devil is real. Bone Valley Season 4 | Earwitness chronicles the case of Toforest Jonhson. In 1995, Deputy Sheriff William G. Hardy was murdered behind a hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. Toforest Johnson was four miles away at the time and no physical evidence linked him to the crime. But he has been on Death Row for 25 years. Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County is a new story about a new case. Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the hosts of Lava For Good’s Wrongful Conviction, takes us to a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, where a terrible discovery on the front lawn of a middle school invites a string of amateur and professional investigators to try to solve a murder. In Season 2, Jeremy Gilbert King brings us a story about her actual killer, Jeremy Scott, fighting to prove his guilt. The State of Florida does not believe either man. In Season 1 of Bone Valley, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Gilbert King tells a story of a man, Leo Schofield, fighting to prove his innocence in the case of his wife Michelle’s murder. Bone Valley is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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Chapter 1 | You Told Me No

Jeremy: Chapter 1 | You Told Me No After Bone Valley Season 1, something unexpected happened: people began to respond to Jeremy Scott—not for who he was, but for what h

Apr 9 2025
36 min

Bonus Episode | 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 as

Jun 7 2024
45 min

Bonus Episode | 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™ Po

Apr 18 2024
25 min

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 b

Dec 21 2023
21 min

#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

Nov 2 2023
42 min

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 K

May 5 2023
1 h 03 min

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 ho

Apr 19 2023
42 min

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 ea

Mar 8 2023
33 min

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

Jan 17 2023
24 min

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 V

Nov 23 2022
51 min

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 Agu

Nov 9 2022
1 h 13 min

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.

Nov 2 2022
1 h 10 min

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

Oct 26 2022
1 h 07 min

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

Oct 19 2022
1 h 02 min

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 im

Oct 12 2022
50 min

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

Oct 5 2022
1 h 02 min

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 prosec

Sep 28 2022
53 min

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

Sep 21 2022
1 h 01 min

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 b

Sep 21 2022
52 min

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. F

Sep 7 2022
3 min

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#40 ▲ 4 True Crime US

What listeners say

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Gilbert + team doing GODS work — Amazing journalism, spark this necessary conversation around wrongful conviction and corruption, and bring the personal stories to listeners leaving a lasting impression with everyone involved. All bone Valley seasons 11/10

Rosiesthesis · Oct 2026

Literally cannot say enough GOOD about this podcast! The level to which the host embraces you into the storyline is unlike any of the other podcasts I listen too! I’ve listened to hundreds of true crime podcasts, and became hooked into the true crime space in the 90’s with shows like Dateline & 48 Hours Mystery! Thousands of docs, podcasts, movies, YouTube this Podcast is top 3 ALL TIME! I could marry Paul on voice alone ❤️

Msblack05 · Oct 2026

Admittedly, I am super late to the game listening to this podcast. I've listened to other podcast episodes about Leo Schofield and knew about his case. But the work done for this case on Bone Valley is amazing! I honestly do not believe that Leo would be where he is today if it weren't for the investigative journalism done on this series. If I'm ever wrongly accused of anything, I want Gilbert King to investigate.

Love2Dance80 · Sep 2026

Hi, we’re the team at Lava for Good, we make the Bone Valley series. We’ve seen some frequently asked questions and subjects come up in these comments. Here’s answers to some of them. Hope this is helpful and thank you all for listening and commenting. 1. Does Bone Valley use AI-generated voices? - No. The BV feed currently has no AI voices. If future seasons of BV use AI voices, we will clearly identify them for listeners. 2. Why are there so many ads? - Ads help cover the costs of making these shows. For the most part, our partners at iHeart place those ads. If the ads are too much for you, consider subscribing to Lava for Good Plus on Apple Podcasts. It's just $2.99 a month, and there are no ads. 3. Is Bone Valley one-sided / advocacy journalism? - No. We vet cases carefully, and while we advocate for the cases we cover, we do so with empathy and understanding for all sides. 4. How does Bone Valley fact-check its reporting? - Bone Valley combines original reporting with trial records, police files, contemporary news coverage, and research; an outside fact-checker and a law firm review every episode script against all interviews and documents for factual accuracy, fairness, and context. 5. Why does every season have a different host/style? - After most of the reporting is completed, it still takes close to a year to make each season. While one host is working with our team on their next season, we're working with another on theirs. Gilbert King is an Executive Producer on all of them, in addition to hosting his own. 6. Why are the seasons so long? - The story sets the length. We go where the work takes us, and some cases simply need more space and time to achieve the depth and perspective that the evidence, issues, characters and circumstances demand. 7. What real-world impact has Bone Valley had? - Every case we cover has incredibly talented and dedicated attorneys and advocates working as well, so we would never claim the impact as all our own, but we always see some movement in a case after our release. Some examples include: Leo Schofield is out of prison, though not yet exonerated. Multiple witnesses recanted in Quincy Cross' case, and Josette Wright's case has been reopened 8. Why does the show sometimes identify someone’s race? - Race, gender, and class are all factors that play into wrongful convictions, police tunnel vision, and jury perception. It's inescapable and, sadly, part of these stories. 9. Does Bone Valley approach cases assuming law enforcement got it wrong? - No. Wrongful convictions can result from a range of factors—including faulty forensic evidence, unreliable witnesses, prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective defense, and systemic failures—not simply from law enforcement getting the case wrong.

Lava for Good · Sep 2026

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