Leo Schofield – Part 2: The Wrong Man | #450
5/14/20261 hr 2 min
As wrongful convictions go, the trial of Leo Schofield – who stood accused of killing his young wife Michelle Schofield – had it all: bias, speculation, and pure fabrication. And through the years, through a combination of bad luck and bad representation, Schofield stayed behind bars.
In this second part, we look at how this cold case finally warmed up, thanks in no small part to the journalists behind Bone Valley. And, the bigger question: if not Leo, then who?
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Hannah Maguire· Host1:10
I'm Hannah.
Sruti· Host1:10
And this is Red Handed, and welcome back for part two of our look at the case of Leo and Michelle Scofield. Let's just immediately, I think, pick up where we left off last week, at the start of Leo's trial in 1989 in Polk County. The state claimed that Leo was an angry,