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He Served 36 Years for His Wife’s Murder and Then Forgave the Man Who Confessed

Leo Schofield maintained he was innocent all along in his wife’s 1987 murder. For “Bone Valley,” a podcast about the case, he connected with the man who said he did it.

© Zack Wittman for The New York Times

Leo Schofield served 36 years in prison before he was paroled in 2023, eight years after another man, Jeremy Scott, first confessed to the crime that put Mr. Schofield away.
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