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Feb 2023
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Episode 240: Gilbert King on the shockin...

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When Gilbert King was asked by a Judge to look into a case of wrongful conviction he was shocked by the request and intrigued by the story.Michelle Scholfield was murdered in 1987, and her husband Leo, who protests his innocence, has remained behind bars for the crime ever since. In King's new podcast series Bone Valley, he looks at the trial which put Schofield behind bars, shocking new evidence which puts a convicted murderer at the scene of the crime and the tragic murder of a young woman.I'm Clodagh Meaney and this is crime world a podcast from SundayWorld.com

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