Episodes

BONE VALLEY SEASON 3: GRAVES COUNTY - SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT
July 31, 2025

BONE VALLEY SEASON 3: GRAVES COUNTY - SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT

The release of Bone Valley Season 3: Graves County has been delayed. It has been rescheduled for release on September 17, 2025. This will give us more time to coordinate with other major media organizations that will also be ...
Bone Valley Book Announcement
Aug. 12, 2025

Bone Valley Book Announcement

We are excited to announce that on October 8th of this year, Flatiron Books will release, Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida by Gilbert King. The book traces the origins of the Bone ...
Bone Valley Book Announcement
Aug. 21, 2025

Bone Valley Book Announcement

We are excited to announce that on October 8th of this year, Flatiron Books will release, Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida by Gilbert King. The book traces the origins of the Bone ...
Introducing: Culpable Season 3
Aug. 25, 2025

Introducing: Culpable Season 3

Culpable Returns - A New SeasonA bizarre mystery has haunted a small town for more than a quarter of a century, but it's not too late to change that. On October 24th, 1998, 17-year-old Danny Violette went missing from his hom...
Kevin is Next - Part I
Sept. 3, 2025

Kevin is Next - Part I

Leo Schofield walked out of prison wearing a shirt that read “Kevin is next.” For Leo, that wasn’t a slogan—it was a promise to the man who had shared his cell for decades, a friend he believed to be innocent. This episode tr...
Kevin is Next - Part 2
Sept. 3, 2025

Kevin is Next - Part 2

Nick, Amanda, and three Georgetown undergraduates set out to re-investigate Kevin Herrick’s conviction, combing through trial transcripts, police reports, and overlooked details. What they uncover reshapes everything: a hidde...
Introducing - Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County
Sept. 10, 2025

Introducing - Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County

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. In Season 2, “JEREMY” Gilbert King brin...
Something Stinks
Sept. 17, 2025

Something Stinks

Graves County: Chapter 1 | Something Stinks On August 1, 2000, the body of 18-year-old Jessica Currin was found outside of the middle school in Mayfield, KY. Jessica was a new mom and the daughter of a lieutenant with the fir...
Jessica
Sept. 17, 2025

Jessica

Graves County: Chapter 2 | Jessica Joe Currin did right by Mayfield. He played defense for the beloved high school football team, went to church every Sunday, ran his own business, and became a lieutenant for the fire departm...
Persons of Interest
Sept. 24, 2025

Persons of Interest

Grave County: Chapter 3 | Persons of Interest Six years after Jessica’s death, agents with the Kentucky Attorney General’s office took over her murder investigation. After pinpointing their main suspects with the help of citi...
Jeremy Lynn Scott  April 29, 1969 – September 20, 2025
Sept. 26, 2025

Jeremy Lynn Scott April 29, 1969 – September 20, 2025

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My Girl Susan
Oct. 1, 2025

My Girl Susan

Graves County: Chapter 4 | My Girl Susan Soon after Jessica Currin’s death, Victoria Caldwell came forward with a story different from the one she told at trial and implicated two completely different people. But the investig...
The Receipts
Oct. 8, 2025

The Receipts

Graves County: Chapter 5 | The Receipts Prosecution witness Rosie Crice was the first person to publicly say that law enforcement made her lie on Quincy Cross and his co-defendants – but she wouldn’t be the last. Key figures ...
Something Rotten
Oct. 15, 2025

Something Rotten

Graves County, Chapter 6 | Something Rotten Just how far are cops and prosecutors allowed to go in their pursuit of justice – and who do we hold accountable when their whole case falls apart? These are questions that Quincy C...
From the Mic to the Page: No. 1 of 5
Nov. 13, 2025

From the Mic to the Page: No. 1 of 5

Leo Schofield turns tables. Exclusive Excerpts from Gilbert King’s new book, Bone Valley: A True Story of Injustice and Redemption in the Heart of Florida. Subscribers to Lava For Good Plus on Apple podcasts can hear new ad-f...
Introducing -  The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance - Preview
Dec. 2, 2025

Introducing - The Burden: Death & Deceit in Alliance - Preview

On April Fools Day 1999, 26-year-old Yvonne Layne was found murdered in her Alliance, Ohio home. David Thorne, her ex-boyfriend and father of one of her children, was instantly a suspect. Another young man admitted to the mur...
Gilbert King Presents: Bone Valley Season 4 | Earwitness
Jan. 21, 2026

Gilbert King Presents: Bone Valley Season 4 | Earwitness

Today, we're bringing you something unexpected: Lava for Good’s investigative series Earwitness will be released right here in the Bone Valley feed. You'll see it here as Bone Valley Season 4: Earwitness . The entire season w...
Introducing - Bone Valley Season 4 | Earwitness
Jan. 28, 2026

Introducing - Bone Valley Season 4 | Earwitness

Today we're introducing you to Earwitness . Earwitness is one of Lava for Good’s most important investigative series and will be released right here in the Bone Valley feed. You’ll see it shown here as Bone Valley Season 4 bu...
Behind the Crown
Feb. 4, 2026

Behind the Crown

Earwitness, Chapter 1 | Behind the Crown Beth Shelburne dives into the shocking conviction of Toforest Johnson for the murder of Deputy William Hardy, following a case that never stopped bleeding questions. With former Attorn...
Don't Know Diddly
Feb. 4, 2026

Don't Know Diddly

Earwitness, Chapter 2 | Don't Know Diddly In the raw hours after Deputy Hardy’s murder, Beth Shelburne digs through a story that pulled 15-year-old Yolanda Chambers into its orbit and put Toforest Johnson in the frame. A conf...
Police Girl
Feb. 4, 2026

Police Girl

Earwitness, Chapter 3 | Police Girl When Yolanda Chambers admits to perjury, Beth Shelburne sets out to understand Chambers’ motivations. Tracing a life shaped by trauma and hidden alliances, her story slips between villain a...
Witness or Defendant
Feb. 4, 2026

Witness or Defendant

Earwitness, Chapter 4 | Witness or Defendant Digging into the Hardy murder investigation, Beth Shelburne follows a trail narrowed by tunnel vision and vanishing alternatives. As detectives chase certainty over truth, witnesse...
Anybody Will Do
Feb. 4, 2026

Anybody Will Do

Earwitness, Chapter 5 | Anybody Will Do Beth Shelburne digs into how Toforest Johnson was convicted without a shred of physical evidence, as prosecutors leap between ever-shifting theories of Deputy Hardy’s murder. Confrontin...
Misfiled
Feb. 4, 2026

Misfiled

Earwitness, Chapter 6 | Misfiled Beth Shelburne uncovers the murky story behind Violet Ellison, the ‘earwitness’ whose $5,000 payoff shaped Toforest Johnson’s fate. Decades of denial give way to uneasy facts, revealing a conv...