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Bone Valley

Podcasts · True Crime

Bone Valley

62 episodes · 3 with AI analysis

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 5 | The Devil’s Quarry is the latest podcast from Lava for Good. It 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. Bone Valley is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1.

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Brady Violations and Prosecutorial MisconductWitness Credibility and Financial IncentivesDeath Penalty Appeals and Post-Conviction ReliefEvidence Suppression and Document ManagementRacial Disparities in Criminal JusticeJudicial Accountability and TransparencyJury Verdict Reliability and Juror RegretCapital Murder Convictions Based on Single WitnessesFederal Court Intervention in State CasesInstitutional Failures in Prosecutor Offices

Analyzed Episodes

Feb 4, 2026

Misfiled

Brady Violations and Prosecutorial MisconductWitness Credibility and Financial IncentivesDeath Penalty Appeals and Post-Conviction Relief
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Feb 4, 2026

Messy

Witness Credibility and Reliability in Criminal TrialsWrongful Convictions and Death Row CasesFinancial Incentives for Witness Testimony
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Feb 4, 2026

Bondage to the Law

Wrongful convictions in capital casesWitness credibility and financial incentives in criminal trialsProsecutorial disclosure obligations and Brady violations
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