Bone Valley

About Bone Valley

Behind every Bone Valley season is a conviction: the right story, told with purpose, humanity, and craft, can have an enormous impact. Award-winning investigative documentaries from the fault lines of America's justice system. Bone Valley Season 6 | The Devil’s Quarry II is a ghost story. More than 30 years after 17-year-old Robin Murphy vanished from Carmel, New York, investigative journalist Paul Solotaroff and reporter Kathleen Horan plunge into the cold case that has haunted the community for decades. Robin was last seen with a convicted violent predator who was never charged in her disappearance. Now, as the original case file is reopened, new witnesses emerge, old evidence is reconsidered, and the search for Robin enters its most critical chapter. Can the truth finally be uncovered before time runs out? Or will one of New York’s most haunting mysteries remain a ghost story forever? Bone Valley Season 5 | The Devil’s Quarry is hosted by Paul Solotaroff, award-winning investigative journalist and longtime contributing editor at Rolling Stone. For Paul, who has been digging at this story for 5 years, the devil has always been a myth, until now. The bones of a twelve-year-old girl are found by a hunter in the woods. A young woman lives inside a real-life horror movie, ignored by everyone she turns to for help. Corrupt cops turn a blind eye to the evil lurking in their midst. The wrong people are convicted of a crime. A drug dealer works tirelessly for justice from jail. Records are hidden. Fingers are pointed. Lives are at stake. In Carmel, NY, the heroes are humble, the power is corrupt, and the devil is real. Bone Valley Season 4 | Earwitness chronicles the case of Toforest Jonhson. In 1995, Deputy Sheriff William G. Hardy was murdered behind a hotel in Birmingham, Alabama. Toforest Johnson was four miles away at the time and no physical evidence linked him to the crime. But he has been on Death Row for 25 years. Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County is a new story about a new case. Maggie Freleng, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of the hosts of Lava For Good’s Wrongful Conviction, takes us to a small town in Graves County, Kentucky, where a terrible discovery on the front lawn of a middle school invites a string of amateur and professional investigators to try to solve a murder. In Season 2, Jeremy Gilbert King brings us a story about her actual killer, Jeremy Scott, fighting to prove his guilt. The State of Florida does not believe either man. 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. Bone Valley (https://lavaforgood.com/bone-valley/) is a production of Lava for Good™ Podcasts (https://lavaforgood.com/) in association with Signal Co. No1. (https://www.signalco1.com/)

Publisher

Lava for Good Podcasts

Category

true crime

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

7 Sept 2022

Latest episode

3 Nov 2026

Latest episodes

55 of 100 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   3 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Chapter 6 | The Warrant

   Detective Karst interviews Julia Cowley, host of The Consort: Real FBI Profilers, about new evidence and a likely suspect in the Devil's Quarry II investigation.

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   31 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Bonus Episode | One Cold Night

   Author Robin Murphy shares a chilling fictional tale where imagination eerily predicts future events in this Halloween bonus episode.

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   27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Chapter 5 | Old Snapshots

   Host Ashley Banegas interviews teenage Howard about his early memories and friendships in Connecticut, revealing insights into his past.

Inside a recent episode

Chapter 6 | The Warrant

Published 3 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] But he knew what they'd already found at Jane's place. A suitcase of underwear. Karst told Gombert that one of the pairs belonged to Robin Murphy. Karst wrote in his notes that Gombert was stunned to hear it. He told him he had no idea how Robin's underwear wound up in his suitcase. […]

Reach and audience

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YouTube views

742,161

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.8 / 5

5,091 ratings

Spotify

4.9 / 5

2,801 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 73 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

52

Social presence

94

YouTube

86

Engagement

100

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