Groundbreaking Lava For Good Series Unearths Jaw-Dropping New Evidence in Controversial Florida Murder Case
‘Bone Valley’ Is Available on iHeartRadio and All Popular Podcast Platforms Today
NEW YORK, Sept. 21, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — On the heels of its recently-inked cope with the iHeartPodcast Network, award-winning multimedia platform Lava for Good immediately debuts the primary two episodes of Bone Valley, a gripping story of homicide and the chilling miscarriage of justice. The episodes at the moment are out there on iHeartRadio and all in style podcast platforms. (Listen now.)
The 9-episode podcast chronicling the case of Leo Schofield and the killer who claims to have murdered Leo’s spouse is written and hosted by acclaimed investigative reporter Gilbert King, creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Devil In The Grove. On September 23, the Schofield case would be the topic of a particular episode of ABC’s 20/20 that’s based mostly on the podcast — airing two days after Bone Valley launches.
In 1987, 21-year-old guitarist Leo Schofield was pursuing his rockstar goals when his teenage spouse Michelle was discovered lifeless in a phosphate mining pit in Lakeland, Florida. Two years later, Schofield was convicted and sentenced to life in jail regardless of his claims of innocence and ample proof unearthed by King and researcher Kelsey Decker pointing to the precise killer.
Fifteen years after Schofield’s conviction, beforehand unidentified fingerprints from Michelle’s automotive matched Jeremy Scott — a troubled teen with an intensive historical past of violence who lived close to the younger couple on the time. Scott has since confessed to Michelle’s homicide, but Schofield stays behind bars.
The Bone Valley podcast leads listeners on a singular and provocative true crime investigation that includes firsthand accounts from each Schofield and Scott themselves. With heartrending readability and suspense, Bone Valley finds new proof within the case, exposing the catastrophic flaws within the American prison justice system and documenting the story of each a wrongly accused man and a confessed killer of their determined seek for fact and redemption.
It’s a return to Central Florida for King, whose New York Times-bestselling e book, Devil within the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America, additionally happened within the area. His cutting-edge analysis for that e book led to the 2021 exonerations of the wrongly-accused males often known as the Groveland Four. King has written about race, civil rights, and the dying penalty for the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Atlantic.
“We spent four years of our lives investigating this case, and anyone who listens to Bone Valley is going to be shocked and outraged by what we’ve uncovered,” King stated. “Above all, this series exposes how the wrongful conviction of Leo Schofield allowed Michelle’s real murderer to escape justice and kill more people in Florida.”
“This truly is a case like no other. Leo Schofield maintains his innocence as he sits behind bars for this murder, while Jeremy Scott has credibly and voluntarily confessed but was never charged for it,” stated Jason Flom, founder and CEO of Lava for Good. “The state of Florida believes neither of them. We hope that by revealing the parallel narratives of these two men, we will finally expose the truth and bring about the justice that Leo has awaited for over three decades.”
To take heed to Bone Valley and the present slate of Lava for Good sequence, discover them on iHeartRadio and all in style podcast platforms or go to www.lavaforgood.com to be taught extra. Bone Valley is distributed by iHeartPodcasts.
About Lava for Good
Lava for Good creates standout unique content material, podcasts, and experiences, amplifying the voices of up to date social justice champions and provoking motion in direction of a extra knowledgeable, empathic, and simply society.
Founded and led by famend music govt, kids’s e book creator, and philanthropist Jason Flom together with Lava Media COO Jeff Kempler, Lava for Good’s #1-charting lineup of podcasts, produced in affiliation with Signal Co. No1, have been downloaded over 35 million instances and are credited with influencing exonerations, clemencies, pardons, laws and reforms nationwide. The lineup, hosted by main consultants, attorneys, activists, previously incarcerated individuals, and journalists on the frontlines of human rights and justice actions, at the moment contains Wrongful Conviction, Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng, Righteous Convictions with Jason Flom, False Confessions, Junk Science, and extra, and is on the market on all main podcast platforms.
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