Episodes

#340 Jason Flom with John Giuca Pt.1
March 9, 2023

#340 Jason Flom with John Giuca Pt.1

On October 12, 2003, Mark Fisher was found shot and killed in a driveway in Brooklyn, NY after spending the night hanging out with a group of his peers, including John Giuca and Antonio Russo. Upon interrogation, a few of the...
#341 Jason Flom with John Giuca Pt.2
March 9, 2023

#341 Jason Flom with John Giuca Pt.2

On October 12, 2003, Mark Fisher was found shot and killed in a driveway in Brooklyn, NY after spending the night hanging out with a group of his peers, including John Giuca and Antonio Russo. Upon interrogation, a few of the...
#342 Maggie Freleng with Nancy Smith
March 13, 2023

#342 Maggie Freleng with Nancy Smith

On May 7, 1993, Margaret Grondin brought her four-year-old daughter to the hospital in Lorain, OH. Grondin claimed her daughter had told her that her school bus driver, Nancy Smith, a 37 year old mother of 4, had not taken he...
#343 Jason Flom with Brian Neirynck
March 16, 2023

#343 Jason Flom with Brian Neirynck

In 1999, Brian Neirynck and Roberta Smedley separated and got into a custody battle over their three-year-old son. In June of the following year, Smedley reported to the South Bend, IN police that Neirynck molested their son....
#344 Maggie Freleng with Tami Vance
March 20, 2023

#344 Maggie Freleng with Tami Vance

In March 2000, Tami Vance and Leigh Stubbs completed a 60-day drug rehab program. Once discharged, their friend Kim Williams joined them and they went to Kim’s boyfriend’s house. He had been in a car accident and always had a...
#345 Maggie Freleng with James Richardson
March 27, 2023

#345 Maggie Freleng with James Richardson

On June 29, 2009, and into the following morning, James Richardson was out at The Other Place nightclub in Greenville, NC. James and another club goer exchanged words and were escorted out of the club. Shortly thereafter, a w...
#346 Maggie Freleng with Amanda Busse
April 3, 2023

#346 Maggie Freleng with Amanda Busse

From an extremely young age, Amanda Busse endured severe physical and sexual abuse, not only by her father, but also by her father’s friends, who were all feared by much of the community as they were rumoured to control the l...
#347 Maggie Freleng with Talalelei "TJ" Edwards
April 10, 2023

#347 Maggie Freleng with Talalelei "TJ" Edwards

In May 2001, Talalelei “TJ” Edwards, his wife and son were sharing an Anchorage, AK apartment with a woman named Melissa along with Melissa’s 1 year old son, Derrick. Talalelei often watched the boys on the days when other si...
#348 Jason Flom with Zavion Johnson
April 13, 2023

#348 Jason Flom with Zavion Johnson

In November of 2001, in Sacramento, CA, four month old Nadia was declared brain dead after being rushed to the hospital the day prior. Nadia’s father, Zavion Johnson, eventually told authorities that he had dropped Nadia by a...
#349 Maggie Freleng with Gwen Graham
April 17, 2023

#349 Maggie Freleng with Gwen Graham

In 1987, five elderly women passed away at a nursing home in Grand Rapids, MI. Gwen Graham and Cathy Wood both worked at this nursing home, and the pair had been in a brief relationship at the time. Months later, when Gwen br...
Prepping for the Parole Hearing in the Case of Leo Schofield
April 19, 2023

Prepping for the Parole Hearing in the Case of Leo Schofield

In preparation for the upcoming parole hearing in Tallahassee on May 3rd, Gilbert and Kelsey travel to Florida to preview what’s at stake for Leo. They visit a halfway house in Tampa, and speak to Crissie, Ashley, Jessie Saum...
#350 Guest Host Lauren Bright Pacheco with Lamar Johnson
April 20, 2023

#350 Guest Host Lauren Bright Pacheco with Lamar Johnson

On the evening of October 30, 1994, Marcus Boyd and Greg Elking were sitting on Marcus’s front porch in St. Louis, MO when two men, wearing ski masks and armed with guns, ambushed them and shot Marcus several times leading to...
#351 Maggie Freleng with Hank Skinner - UPDATE
April 24, 2023

#351 Maggie Freleng with Hank Skinner - UPDATE

On New Year’s Eve in 1993, Hank Skinner fell asleep early on his couch after being rendered comatose from a cocktail of vodka, xanax and codeine. His girlfriend, Twila Busby, left for a party, and when she returned, she and h...
#352 Jason Flom with Terry Ceasor
April 27, 2023

#352 Jason Flom with Terry Ceasor

On October 3, 2004, in Port Huron, MI, Terry Ceasor was at home alone with his girlfriend Cheryl’s 1 year old son, Brenden. Terry and Brenden had been playing a game that consisted of Terry chasing Brenden behind the couch wh...
#354 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tommy Ward Pt. 2 - UPDATE
May 1, 2023

#354 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tommy Ward Pt. 2 - UPDATE

No body, no bones, no motive. Just a decades long nightmare that has not ended. For the final episode of Season 2 Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin take us back to Ada, OK, for the second half of the story of Tommy Ward and Karl...
#353 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tommy Ward Pt. 1 - UPDATE
May 1, 2023

#353 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Tommy Ward Pt. 1 - UPDATE

He thought the police would recognize this was just a dream, not reality. Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin bring us a story from Ada, OK where a young woman went missing. A few months after her disappearance, a man named Tommy ...
Bonus Episode | Heading to the Parole Hearing for Leo Schofield
May 3, 2023

Bonus Episode | Heading to the Parole Hearing for Leo Schofield

On Wednesday, May 3, 2023, Gilbert and Kelsey are on the way to Leo’s parole hearing. Live update from the hearing coming soon. For photos, images, and full transcripts of each episode visit: https://lavaforgood.com/bone-vall...
Bonus Episode | Nothing but a Meatball
May 5, 2023

Bonus Episode | Nothing but a Meatball

Leo Schofield’s parole hearing is held in Tallahassee, FL on May 3rd, 2023, before the Florida Commission on Offender Review. In the lead up to the hearing, Gilbert and Kelsey check in with Scott Cupp and Crissie Schofield. F...
#356 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions -  Peter Reilly - UPDATE
May 8, 2023

#356 Wrongful Conviction: False Confessions - Peter Reilly - UPDATE

Why do we tell these stories? Laura Nirider and Steve Drizin tell us the story of Peter Reilly, one of the first modern-day false confessors. In 1973, police continued to interrogate 18-year-old Peter until he started to beli...
#357 Jason Flom with Jennifer Del Prete
May 11, 2023

#357 Jason Flom with Jennifer Del Prete

In December of 2002, a mother dropped off her 3 month old daughter, I.Z., at daycare in Romeoville, IL. Jennifer Del Prete was working at the daycare center and later that day, Jennifer noticed that the girl was not breathing...
Introducing: Betrayal Season 2
May 18, 2023

Introducing: Betrayal Season 2

Ashley Lytton was a typical mom and wife in suburban Utah with three children until she discovered her husband’s horrifying secret. It was a shocking crime that would alter Ashley’s life and jeopardize the safety of her child...
#355 Guest Host Gilbert King with Juan Roberto Melendez
May 19, 2023

#355 Guest Host Gilbert King with Juan Roberto Melendez

On September 13, 1983, Delbert Baker was found dead – shot and with his throat slashed – in Auburndale, FL. Witnesses gave the police a lead on two suspects but they quickly dismissed it since one of the suspects was working ...
Lava for Good Live: The War on Drugs - Did Anyone Win?
June 21, 2023

Lava for Good Live: The War on Drugs - Did Anyone Win?

Today we present a special episode of The War on Drugs podcast. Hosts Clayton English and Greg Glod are live on stage with some of the top names in podcasting including Gilbert King from Bone Valley , Jason Flom from Wrongful...
Introducing: Earwitness
Sept. 12, 2023

Introducing: Earwitness

One July night in 1995, Deputy Sheriff William G. Hardy was shot behind the Crown Sterling Suites hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time as the murder, at least ten people saw Toforest Johnson four miles away, at a po...