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.
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Detective Karst dives into a correspondence. A clue is recovered. The case is re-opened.
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Special thanks to Julia Cowley, featured in this episode, who hosts the excellent podcast The Consort: Real FBI Profilers, which covers crimes from the perspective of behavioral analysis. Listen to her show here.
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With new evidence in hand, Detective Karst confronts a likely suspect.
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Special thanks to Julia Cowley, featured in this episode, who hosts the excellent podcast The Consort: Real FBI Profilers, which covers crimes from the perspective of behavioral analysis. Listen to her show here.
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An unfinshed fiction short by Robin Murphy. In this Halloween themed bonus, listeners will hear how Robin's own imagination forshadowed future events.
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Detective Karst dives into a correspondence. A clue is recovered. The case is re-opened.
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New episodes are available every Wednesday.
Listeners can hear new episodes ad-free by subscribing to Lava for Good+ on Apple Podcasts.
Special thanks to Julia Cowley, featured in this episode, who hosts the excellent podcast The Consort: Real FBI Profilers, which covers crimes from the perspective of behavioral analysis. Listen to her show here.
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With new evidence in hand, Detective Karst confronts a likely suspect.
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New episodes are available every Wednesday.
Listeners can hear new episodes ad-free by subscribing to Lava for Good+ on Apple Podcasts.
Special thanks to Julia Cowley, featured in this episode, who hosts the excellent podcast The Consort: Real FBI Profilers, which covers crimes from the perspective of behavioral analysis. Listen to her show here.
The Devil’s Quarry II is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.
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An unfinshed fiction short by Robin Murphy. In this Halloween themed bonus, listeners will hear how Robin's own imagination forshadowed future events.
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New episodes are available every Wednesday.
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Teenage Howard arrives in Connecticut. His friends share memories of old times.
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With nowhere left to look, investigators turn to the supernatural.
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Other suspects are revealed.
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In the lead up to Robin’s disappearance, Howard Gombert hopes she can help him with his girlfriend.
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When teenager Robin Murphy goes missing, her friends and co-workers organize a search.
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If Season 1 of The Devil’s Quarry was a horror story, Season 2 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?
Award-winning investigative journalist and longtime Rolling Stone Magazine contributor Paul Solotaroff hosts the latest entry in the acclaimed Bone Valley anthology: The Devil's Quarry II starting September 30.
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In early 2024, celebrated children’s book author and illustrator Petra Mathers and her husband,
photographer Michael Mathers, mailed letters to dozens of friends and family members to let
them know they had died by suicide. Petra and Michael were by all accounts healthy, happy,
and in love. Why did they choose to die together? And what did that decision do to the people
left to mourn them? On the new season of Death of an Artist, journalists Leon Neyfakh and Alice
Gregory set out to interview everyone who got one of Petra and Michael’s letters—as one
married couple trying to understand another. Through intimate conversations with Petra and
Michael’s friends and family about their own relationships to aging, grief, death, and the friends
they thought they knew, Death of an Artist weaves together a portrait of a community grappling
with the Mathers’ deaths and the final words they left behind. Listen to Death of An Artist
wherever you get podcasts. And if you want to hear the full story right now, ad-free, you can
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Howard Gombert speaks. Anthony sues the sheriff's department.
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Anthony makes the final case for his freedom.
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Anthony sends investigators to learn more about Howard Gombert. The women they speak with illuminate a signature crime.
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Award-winning investigative journalist and longtime Rolling Stone Magazine contributor Paul Solotaroff hosts the next entry in the acclaimed Bone Valley anthology: Bone Valley Season 5 | The Devil's Quarry.
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Anthony’s case file leads him to Rachel. She reveals her harrowing past.
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Anthony finds a new home in the prison law library. Working on his appeal, he discovers a new name.
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The cops investigating Josette’s murder have a strategy. By the time Anthony goes on trial, only one eyewitness remains.
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Anthony DiPippo is pulled into a murder investigation. But the worst part is the reason why.
Award-winning investigative journalist and longtime Rolling Stone Magazine contributor Paul Solotaroff hosts the next entry in the acclaimed Bone Valley anthology: Bone Valley Season 5 | The Devil's Quarry.
New episodes are available every Wednesday.
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The bones of 12-year-old Josette Wright are found in the woods. Cops hone in on two suspects.
Award-winning investigative journalist and longtime Rolling Stone Magazine contributor Paul Solotaroff hosts the next entry in the acclaimed Bone Valley anthology: Bone Valley Season 5 | The Devil's Quarry.
New episodes are available every Wednesday.
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In the woods outside Carmel, New York, a hunter finds the bones of a twelve-year-old girl. She had been missing. The people meant to protect her had looked the other way. Police set their sights on two teenage drug dealers, who are convicted of her murder and sent to prison.But this is just the beginning of the story. Now, buried records, ignored warnings, and a justice system that may have gotten it dangerously wrong are forced into the open, while the real killer bides his time, counting the days until he can hunt again.Award-winning investigative journalist and longtime Rolling Stone Magazine contributor Paul Solotaroff hosts the next entry in the acclaimed Bone Valley anthology: Bone Valley Season 5 | The Devil's Quarry starting June 10.
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Award-winning investigative reporter and long-time Rolling Stone contributor Paul Solotaroff thought he was chasing a single story in Carmel, NY. Instead, he uncovered a sprawling web of cases that would consume years of his life and become the foundation for Bone Valley Season 5 | The Devil's Quarry. What began as a magazine feature evolved into something far bigger: a relentless investigation that exposed shocking new layers with every turn. Listen to a special bonus episode with Bone Valley creator Gilbert King (@gilbertkingpics), Paul Solotaroff, and Senior Editor at Rolling Stone Liz Garber-Paul as they unpack the reporting, the storytelling, and the cases at the center of The Devil's Quarry. An official selection of the Tribeca Film Festival, Bone Valley Season 5 | The Devil's Quarry will be available everywhere you listen to podcasts on June 10th. Listeners can binge the entire season by subscribing to Lava for Good+ on Apple Podcasts.
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Earwitness: Chapter 8 | Bondage to the Law
In an unusual turn, District Attorney Danny Carr and original prosecutor Jeff Wallace push against Toforest Johnson’s conviction, even as he remains on death row. Beth Shelburne traces a system reluctant to admit its failures, while Toforest’s children reveal the human toll of a life caught between injustice and hope.
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Earwitness: Chapter 7 | Messy
Years after the conviction, the original prosecutor, Jeff Wallace, begins questioning Violet Ellison’s story, while Beth Shelburne uncovers a troubling pattern. Ellison’s moves through the legal system blur the lines between cunning and deceit, revealing a figure far from the innocence prosecutors once claimed.
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Earwitness: Chapter 6 | Misfiled
Beth Shelburne uncovers the murky story behind Violet Ellison, the ‘earwitness’ whose $5,000 payoff shaped Toforest Johnson’s fate. Decades of denial give way to uneasy facts, revealing a conviction propped up by money, influence, and half-truths.
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Earwitness: Chapter 5 | Anybody Will Do
Beth Shelburne digs into how Toforest Johnson was convicted without a shred of physical evidence, as prosecutors leap between ever-shifting theories of Deputy Hardy’s murder. Confronting the prosecutor who once sought a death sentence, she uncovers a case where the law bends into something dangerously personal.
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Earwitness: Chapter 4 | Witness or Defendant
Digging into the Hardy murder investigation, Beth Shelburne follows a trail narrowed by tunnel vision and vanishing alternatives. As detectives chase certainty over truth, witnesses falter, leads evaporate, and a case emerges driven more by obsession than evidence.
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Earwitness: Chapter 3 | Police Girl
When Yolanda Chambers admits to perjury, Beth Shelburne sets out to understand Chambers’ motivations. Tracing a life shaped by trauma and hidden alliances, her story slips between villain and victim—leaving behind questions that linger far longer than answers.
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Earwitness: Chapter 2 | Don't Know Diddly
In the raw hours after Deputy Hardy’s murder, Beth Shelburne digs through a story that pulled 15-year-old Yolanda Chambers into its orbit and put Toforest Johnson in the frame. A confrontation with lead detective Tony Richardson exposes a case built on pressure, doubt, and truths that won’t stay still—where justice isn’t blind, just selective.
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Earwitness: Chapter 1 | Behind the Crown
Beth Shelburne dives into the shocking conviction of Toforest Johnson for the murder of Deputy William Hardy, following a case that never stopped bleeding questions. With former Attorney General Bill Baxley as her guide, she moves through a justice system wired for punishment over truth, uncovering a story built on fear, assumption, and a man who may not belong at its center.
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Today, we're bringing you something unexpected: Lava for Good’s investigative series Earwitness will be released right here in the Bone Valley feed. You'll see it here as Bone Valley Season 5: Earwitness. The entire season will be available to Lava For Good+ subscribers on Apple Podcasts on January 28th, and everywhere you listen to podcasts on February 4th.
As an introduction, Gilbert King, Pulitzer prize-winning author and host of Bone Valley, sits down for a Q&A with Earwitness host and producer, journalist Beth Shelburne, as well as Emmy award-winning filmmaker Andrew Jarecki and film producer Charlotte Kaufman to discuss Earwitness, Toforest Johnson - the man at the center of the story - as well as their recent, critically acclaimed HBO documentary The Alabama Solution.
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Leo Schofield turns tables.
Exclusive Excerpts from Gilbert King’s new book, Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida.
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Graves County: Chapter 6 | Something Rotten
Just how far are cops and prosecutors allowed to go in their pursuit of justice – and who do we hold accountable when their whole case falls apart? These are questions that Quincy Cross, Tamara Caldwell, and Jeff Burton live with every day. Meanwhile, answers to why Jessica Currin’s murder investigation went so wrong in the first place may lie somewhere in the beginning.
Key figures in this chapter:
Tom Mangold: British journalist who covered the Jessica Currin case and worked alongside citizen investigator Susan Galbreath.
Tim Fortner: The lead Mayfield Police detective on Jessica’s murder case.
Ronnie Lear: Assistant Chief of the Mayfield Police in the early 2000s.
Michael Greisz: Mayfield Chief of Police from 2004 to 2005.
Wayne Potts (1939-2019): Former Mayor of Mayfield.
Joe Currin: He is still waiting for answers on the death of his daughter.
Quincy Cross: He is in prison, fighting for an evidentiary hearing and the chance at a new trial.
Tamara Caldwell and Jeff Burton: They are still hoping to clear their names.
David Cross and Rachelle Brown: Quincy Cross’ father and sister.
Darra Woolman: Our source.
**Editorial Note** This case involved many defendants throughout the years and investigations by three law enforcement agencies. There was a lot we couldn’t get to, including the fact that two more men were charged in Jessica’s case: Isaac Benjamin and Austin Leech. Benjamin pled guilty to complicity to tampering with evidence and served just over one year in prison. Leech went to trial for perjury and tampering with evidence – the only other defendant to stand trial – and was acquitted in 2009.
For photos and images from this chapter, visit Lava for Good
Graves County is hosted by Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the hosts of Lava For Good’s Wrongful Conviction, and is executive produced by Gilbert King.
New episodes of Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County are...
Graves County: Chapter 5 | The Receipts
Prosecution witness Rosie Crice was the first person to publicly say that law enforcement made her lie on Quincy Cross and his co-defendants – but she wouldn’t be the last.
Key figures in this chapter:
Vinisha Stubblefield: the last known person to see Jessica Currin alive and one of the prosecution’s main witnesses.
Rosie Crice: Victoria Caldwell’s sister. She was a prosecution witness.
Miranda Hellman: Attorney with the Kentucky Innocence Project working on Quincy Cross’ post-conviction case.
Ken Nixon: Exoneree and volunteer with the Kentucky Innocence Project.
Victoria Caldwell: the prosecution's key witness.
Bob O’Neil: Agent with the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation (KBI).
Tamara Caldwell: Victoria and Rosie’s cousin. She was convicted of manslaughter and abuse of a corpse.
Brenda Jackson: Tamara Caldwell’s mom
Noble Faulkner: Private investigator, Brenda Jackson’s common-law husband.
Others: Victoria and Rosie’s mom, Wanda; KBI agent Lee Wise; Kentucky Assistant Attorney General Barbara Maines Whaley; Citizen investigator Susan Galbreath; British journalist Tom Mangold; and Susan’s friend, Lacey Gates.
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Graves County: Chapter 4 | My Girl Susan
Soon after Jessica Currin’s death, Victoria Caldwell came forward with a story different from the one she told at trial and implicated two completely different people. But the investigation into those suspects ended after Mayfield Police bungled the investigation and Susan Galbreath – with the help of Tom Mangold – homed in on Quincy Cross.
Key figures in this chapter:
Jeremy Adams: The purported father of Zion, Jessica Currin’s son. He was first charged with her murder.
Carlos “Lolo” Saxton: Jessica Currin’s last known boyfriend. He was first charged with complicity to commit murder.
Donna Adams (1958-2019): Jeremy Adams’ mom and alleged friend of Susan Galbreath.
Nette Todd: Jeremy Adams' girlfriend during the early 2000s. She joined Susan Galbreath for parts of her investigation.
Miranda Hellman: Attorney with the Kentucky Innocence Project who worked in the post-conviction case for Quincy Cross.
John Poole: Private investigator, three-time Mayfield councilmember, and the uncle of Jeff Burton. Jeff Burton was convicted of manslaughter and abuse of a corpse.
Lacey Gates (1971-2022): A friend of Susan Galbreath. She helped her with the investigation.
Rosie Crice: Victoria Caldwell’s sister and a prosecution witness. She later recanted her testimony in the trial of Quincy Cross.
Others: Citizen investigator Susan Galbreath; British journalist Tom Mangold; former Mayfield Police detective Tim Fortner; Jessica’s dad Joe Currin; Victoria Caldwell, the state’s key witness; and source Darra Woolman.
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Graves County: Chapter 3 | Persons of Interest
Six years after Jessica’s death, agents with the Kentucky Attorney General’s office took over her murder investigation. After pinpointing their main suspects with the help of citizen investigator Susan Galbreath, the agents conducted a series of unorthodox interrogations that elicited key confessions and led to the trial and conviction of Quincy Cross.
Key figures in this chapter:
Susan Galbreath (1960 - 2018): Citizen investigator.
Greg Stumbo: Attorney General of Kentucky from 2004 - 2008. He promised Joe Currin that he would solve his daughter’s murder. He revamped the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation (KBI).
Lee Wise and Bob O’Neil: Agents with the Kentucky Bureau of Investigation (KBI). They ran the interrogations that elicited key confessions later used in the 2008 trial and conviction of Quincy Cross.
Rosie Crice: Victoria Caldwell’s sister. Served as a corroborating witness for the prosecution.
Quincy Cross: Convicted of murder and currently serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole.
Tamara Caldwell: Served almost six years in prison for manslaughter in the second degree. Victoria and Rosie’s cousin.
Jeff Burton: Served almost eight years in prison for manslaughter in the second degree.
Victoria Caldwell: The state’s key witness in the trial of Quincy Cross. Served less than three months in jail for being an accomplice to the crime.
Vinisha Stubblefield: The other main witness in the trial of Quincy Cross and the last known person to see Jessica Currin alive. Served six months in jail for being an accomplice to the crime.
Barbara Maines Whaley: The lead prosecutor in the trial of Quincy Cross. Assistant Attorney General at the Kentucky AG’s office.
David Cross: Quincy Cross’s father. He was born and raised in a small town in Tennessee.
Darra Woolman: Fighting alongside David Cross’s family to get Quincy Cross out of prison.
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Graves County: Chapter 2 | Jessica
Joe Currin did right by Mayfield. He played defense for the beloved high school football team, went to church every Sunday, ran his own business, and became a lieutenant for the fire department. So when his daughter Jessica was brutally killed, Joe thought Mayfield would do right by him. Instead, her case went unsolved for years.
Key figures in this chapter:
Joe Currin: Jessica’s father. A lieutenant with the Mayfield Fire Department, bailiff, business owner, and churchgoer – Joe had to fight for years to get law enforcement to solve his daughter’s murder case.
Jessica Currin (1981 - 2000): In the summer of 2000, Jessica had a seven-month-old baby named Zion. She had just moved out on her own and was dating a boy she really liked.
Vinisha Stubblefield: A friend of Jessica and the last known person to see her alive. She was 16 at the time. Citizen investigator Susan Galbreath became convinced that Vinisha knew more than she was letting on about Jessica’s death.
Quincy Cross: He was 23 at the time and lived across the border in Tennessee. He went to Mayfield for a party the same Saturday night Jessica was last seen alive. He was arrested early Sunday morning for drug possession along with many other partygoers from ta house at Chris Drive.
Jessica Lindsey: Jessica Currin’s best friend. They went to Graves County High together. She recalls Jessica as a sweet girl who stood up for herself and for others.
Tim Fortner: The lead detective in Jessica Currin’s murder investigation. He was a patrolman with the Mayfield Police Department who had just been promoted to detective. This was his first homicide investigation, and he ran it from August 2000 until the case was transferred to the Kentucky State Police in 2003.
Susan Galbreath (1960 - 2018): After watching police bungle Jessica's murder case, Susan began her own citizen investigation in 2004 with the blessing of the Kentucky State Police.
Victoria Caldwell: She move...
Graves County: Chapter 1 | Something Stinks
On August 1, 2000, the body of 18-year-old Jessica Currin was found outside of the middle school in Mayfield, KY. Jessica was a new mom and the daughter of a lieutenant with the fire department. Her case would go unsolved for years, until a local homemaker, a British journalist, and a few local girls came forward with a story that law enforcement would use to convict six people – including one man for life. It’s a good story: an ordinary woman helps solve a crime and bring justice to a small town. Maybe too good to be true.
Key figures in this chapter:
Jessica Currin (1981 - 2000): 18-year-old from Mayfield, KY. A new mom and the daughter of a lieutenant with the fire department.
Susan Galbreath (1960 - 2018): Mayfield, KY homemaker originally from Chicago, IL. Received an “outstanding citizen” award from the Kentucky Attorney General’s office for her help in solving Jessica Currin’s murder.
Tom Mangold: British investigative reporter who covered Jessica’s murder and helped Susan Galbreath with her citizen investigation. She helped find Victoria Caldwell.
Victoria Caldwell: Mayfield, KY local who was 15 at the time of Jessica’s death and would end up being the state’s key witness in the trial of her accused killer. She was also convicted as an accomplice to the crime.
Quincy Cross: A Tennessee man convicted of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of Jessica Currin in a 2008 capital murder trial. Currently serving life in prison without parole. He dated Tamara Caldwell.
Tamara Caldwell: Mayfield, KY local convicted of manslaughter and abuse of a corpse. She took a plea after Quincy Cross’s 2008 trial. Served almost six years. She is Victoria Caldwell’s cousin.
Darra Woolman: She leads the "Department of Collaborators" – a group of folks from all walks of life committed to helping people in prison and connecting them with resources.
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Today we’re bringing you something new. An introduction to Lava for Good’s newest investigative series – it's called “Graves County” and it will be released right here in the Bone Valley feed. You’ll see it shown here as “Bone Valley Season 3 ” and while there are many familiar themes - this is an entirely new show told by a different host - Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the hosts of Lava For Good’s Wrongful Conviction.The first two episodes of Graves County will be out on September 17th - right here in the Bone Valley feed. Subscribers to Lava For Good+ on Apple Podcasts will be able to listen to the entire series the same day.As an introduction to the new series, Gilbert King sat down with Maggie for a Q&A about her experience reporting this show for over 2 years and what she learned along the way.
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Today we’re bringing you something new. An introduction to Lava for Good’s newest investigative series – it's called “Graves County” and it will be released right here in the Bone Valley feed. You’ll see it shown here as “Bone Valley Season 3 ” and while there are many familiar themes - this is an entirely new show told by a different host - Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the hosts of Lava For Good’s Wrongful Conviction.The first two episodes of Graves County will be out on September 17th - right here in the Bone Valley feed. Subscribers to Lava For Good+ on Apple Podcasts will be able to listen to the entire series the same day.As an introduction to the new series, Gilbert King sat down with Maggie for a Q&A about her experience reporting this show for over 2 years and what she learned along the way.
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Nick, Amanda, and three Georgetown undergraduates set out to re-investigate Kevin Herrick’s conviction, combing through trial transcripts, police reports, and overlooked details. What they uncover reshapes everything: a hidden police report that ties the crime to a different man with a violent record—a document Kevin’s defense never saw. For Amanda, it’s a discovery that could finally crack open a case buried for more than thirty years, and it raises a new possibility after decades of silence; maybe Kevin really is next.
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Leo Schofield walked out of prison wearing a shirt that read “Kevin is next.” For Leo, that wasn’t a slogan—it was a promise to the man who had shared his cell for decades, a friend he believed to be innocent. This episode traces Leo’s bond with Kevin Herrick and the years they spent fighting side by side, even as the courts shut them out. Now, with Leo free, Kevin’s case draws new attention from Georgetown’s Making an Exoneree program, where law student Nick White and Dr. Amanda Lewis begin peeling back the layers of a case that has never added up.
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Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer prize winning producer, journalist and host of Wrongful Conviction with Maggie Freleng sits down for a Q&A with Gilbert King to chat about the newest season of Bone Valley. In this special episode, Gilbert shares with Maggie the latest news on Leo Schofield, Jeremy Scott, Jeremy’s son Justin, as well as answers to many questions from the millions of Bone Valley listeners.
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Jeremy: Chapter 6 | Walk Down that Road
By taking Michelle’s life, Jeremy not only shattered her family’s world—he also took Leo’s freedom.
Now, in an unlikely and unexpected moment—these two men, connected by Michelle Schofield’s murder, speak at last, their conversation heavy with the weight of the past.Leo offers something unexpected: forgiveness and gratitude. And Jeremy responds with something he’s never truly given before: an apology.
As Gilbert brings Justin the answers he’s been looking for, Justin feels a weight lift. He no longer sees himself as an echo of his father’s worst acts.
And for the first time, Jeremy and Justin begin writing to each other. Their letters reveal a new side of Jeremy—vulnerable, searching, deeply human.
This is not the end of the story. It’s the beginning of something neither man thought possible: a relationship. In the end, redemption isn’t about escaping the truth, but about searching for it, confronting it, and finding the humanity still buried beneath.
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Jeremy: Chapter 5 | Like a Little Kid
Meri is a housecleaner in North Florida. She didn’t know Jeremy. She just listened to Bone Valley. And she wrote him a letter.
Their friendship becomes a lifeline—something neither of them expected, and both of them needed. Through Meri, we see Jeremy as someone craving connection, terrified of being unloved, and trying to become a man his son might one day want to know.
When Jeremy finds out Justin wants to talk, it’s as if something inside him shifts. For the first time, there’s hope. A chance to become the version of himself he never thought possible.
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Jeremy: Chapter 4 | Horse and Buggy
Some truths never see the light. Gilbert has long believed that Jeremy Scott is responsible for more deaths than the state acknowledges—especially the unsolved murder of a cab driver in Intercession City. He’s tried everything he can think of to bring attention to the case, but the Osceola County Sheriff’s Office will not cooperate.
Then, out of nowhere, a retired detective—the one who led the investigation that resulted in the arrest and eventual acquittal—reaches out to Gilbert, offering to help.
The State finally agrees to reopen the cab driver case, but the lines between author and advocate blur. Gilbert works with Jeremy—an unlikely collaborator—to chase the truth and bring resolution to a family that’s waited decades.
But justice doesn’t always wait. And it doesn’t always come.
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Jeremy: Chapter 3 | Never Turned Her Back on Me
As Gilbert’s relationship with Jeremy deepens, it’s tested by Jeremy’s darkest instincts. After a long silence, Jeremy reveals he’s been thrown into solitary confinement because he stabbed another inmate—possibly in self-defense. Possibly not.
Gilbert is forced to reckon with the contradictions: the man trying to right past wrongs, and the man still capable of harm. In letters and phone calls, in moments of rage and vulnerability, Jeremy opens a window into who he is now… and what still haunts him.
Even in solitary confinement, Jeremy begins to connect: with Gilbert, through books the author sends him, and eventually, with himself.
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Jeremy: Chapter 2 | Destroyer
Justin’s life has been shaped by absence—of answers, of explanations, and his father. Now that he’s reaching back, he’s haunted by what he might find: rumors of brutality, inherited darkness, a legacy of violence.
As Gilbert helps Justin trace the moments that defined Jeremy’s path—especially the day he killed Donald Moorehead—Justin begins to confront an impossible question: if Jeremy had been stopped sooner, Leo would not have spent three decades in prison, but would Justin even exist?
This is not just a story about a murder. It’s about what we inherit, what we carry, and the fear that we might be made of the very things we fear most.
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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 he did—finally telling the truth. Among those drawn in is someone who has every reason not to be: Jeremy’s son, Justin. Now 35, Justin has never met his father, never wanted to. But something’s shifted. He wants answers.
Through a conversation years in the making, Justin’s mother Jami opens up about the relationship she once had with Jeremy—a relationship she’s never fully shared with anyone. Now, through Gilbert, mother and son begin to uncover a truth that’s been buried for decades.
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Leo Schofield takes his first steps outside prison in 36 years. Gilbert and Kelsey spend the day with him.
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Leo Schofield’s parole hearing in Tallahassee, FL, April 17th, 2024 with reporting from Gilbert King and Kelsey Decker.
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