Leo Schofield – Part 1: Murder in Bone Valley | #449
5/7/20261 hr 19 min
When the body of 18-year-old newlywed Michelle Schofield was found in a canal in Bone Valley, Florida, all eyes turned to her guitar-playing, heavy-metal husband, Leo Schofield.
But despite his protestations of innocence (and rock-solid alibi), the facts of this case couldn’t help but muddy those waters. Namely: a nosy neighbour with ever-changing stories; a hot-shot southern lawyer with exactly nothing to prove; and the body’s location being revealed through a message from God…
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[mysterious music] On the 29th of August, 1986, in a small church in the city of Lakeland, Florida, Leo Schofield and Michelle Som tied the knot. 19-year-old Leo looked every inch the wannabe '80s rock star, kitted out in his borrowed white tux and black mullet, while 18-year-old Michelle beamed in her high-neck ivory