0:01

And listen, this is the story. It

0:03

is what it is. You believe it. Don't

0:05

believe it. It's up to you. it will

0:08

not change the fact that I'm an innocent

0:10

man.

0:11

you

0:13

man man

0:17

In February nineteen eighty seven,

0:19

Leo Schofield's eighteen year old wife,

0:21

Michelle, went missing. I

0:24

have to ask my

0:27

friends. Yes.

0:29

I need to talk to somebody about find

0:32

my life. I'm really worried about it. I

0:35

couldn't find out how much. Three

0:37

days later, Michelle was found

0:39

stabbed to death. off a freeway in

0:41

Lakeland, Florida. Shouldn't

0:43

it be your responsibility to investigate?

0:45

Oh, wait a minute. We have investigated this

0:47

thing. upside down. No

0:50

physical evidence connected Leo Schofield

0:52

to the crime. And he said, I'm gonna put

0:54

you in the electric chair. And I said,

0:56

that's what you're gonna have to do, but

0:58

I'm not gonna say something

1:01

that's not true. At twenty two years

1:03

old, Leo is convicted for his wife's

1:05

murder and sentenced to life in

1:07

prison. Leo Schofield is

1:09

a cold blooded murderer. And

1:11

if I have my way, he'll never get

1:14

out of prison. But after

1:16

Leo's conviction, there were still

1:18

so many unanswered questions.

1:20

Always. Always. The

1:22

fingerprints was a big question

1:24

in my mind. Obviously, somebody was

1:26

in the car. Somebody knew something. Who

1:28

was it? What did they know? So I took

1:30

the fingerprint and I'm like,

1:32

alright, who does it come back to? And

1:35

he said a guy named Jeremy Scott.

1:37

Jeremy Scott, who the fuck's Jeremy Scott?

1:39

grandma. Has anybody

1:41

come talk to you? That what? Burger.

1:44

Burger. Burger. Despite

1:47

new evidence pointing to Jeremy Scott,

1:49

Leo Schofield is still in prison.

1:51

He's

1:52

been locked up for the last thirty

1:54

four years.

1:55

You or somebody like you,

1:58

is Leo's last

1:59

shot. I would just really

2:02

like to know who did it. I want

2:04

you guys to find the truth. You know what I mean?

2:06

And I can leave this world knowing that least

2:08

it was solved.

2:10

I'm Gilbert King, a Pulitzer prize

2:13

winning author, and I've spent the last

2:15

four years investigating this case with

2:17

researcher Kelsey Decker. Together,

2:20

we set out to uncover the truth

2:22

behind the conviction of Leo Schofield.

2:26

but we would soon learn that Michelle

2:28

Schofields murder was just the tip of the

2:30

iceberg as our investigation

2:32

pulled us down. into the much

2:34

darker world of Jeremy Scott.

2:37

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2:39

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