One of the best podcasts I’ve ever listened to.

Wow. I’m a longtime true-crime podcast listener (with 78 different ones in my current podcast library) and have no idea how I’d never heard about this story and podcast before literally stumbling across it a few days ago. After listening to it for just a few minutes, I was completely hooked and binge-listened to the entire 9 episodes in just a couple of days.

My god, I’m not only stunned by this case but by the decades long deception and lawlessness of the investigators, prosecutors office, law enforcement and just about everyone involved. The fact that Leo Schofield is still in prison (and has been for almost 35 years) after being found guilty based on flimsy circumstantial evidence is absolutely nauseating. It’s all just so shocking that now, after finishing it, I was left so distressed that such a legal catastrophe and miscarriage of justice not only occurred in the first place (in the 1980’s) but that regardless of overwhelming evidence exonerating the person still behind bars in 2022, but it has never been righted. The real killer has not only admitted it, time after time but there is real evidence of it, only it’s continually buried, destroyed and ignored to this day. What are/were the authorities and prosecuting attorney in Polk County Florida hiding? It has to be something pretty big.

If you’re looking for a real and almost unbelievable case to learn more about, this is it. Before I listened to this case, I’d never heard of Leo Schofield. Now, he’s the only thing I can think about.