Gilbert King
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334 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 4 Jul
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And he meets a young teenager by the name of Michelle Schofield.
They they get married in nineteen eighty six.
They're only married for six months in February of nineteen eighty seven.
And Michelle
is on her way home from work to go pick up Leo at band practice and she doesn't show up and she becomes missing for the next three days.
Finally on the third day when she's missing, they find her body in a canal in Lakeland, in a phosphate drainage canal, you know, laying face down.
She's been stabbed twenty six times.
And police don't really have any evidence.
There's nothing physical connecting Leo to the crime, so they don't really know what to do and the case starts to go cold.
But a really aggressive uh prosecutor by the name of John Aguero comes in and sets his sights on Leo and manages to convict Leo of Michelle's murder, and Leo is sentenced to life in prison.
He was very proud of it.
It was the old Sparky, Florida's electric chair, and he had that on his tie clasp.
And uh and that's what he wore and uh so that was like a a thing that Leo didn't notice until he got on the plane when he was being extradited from Massachusetts back to Florida.
And he's sitting next to the detective and the prosecutor and he looks down and he sees the prosecutor's electric chair.
Old Sparky and that's when he realizes, Oh, this guy's gonna try and kill me.
Pretty horrific for a young man to, you know, be extradited and catch a glimpse of old Sparky like that.
Yeah, and that's like one of those, you know, catch twenty twos of his situation.
I mean, it's really important to realize that the the state realized it didn't have much evidence against Leo and they were gambling.
They offered him right before trial, they offered him second degree murder, which if he had pled guilty to that
He explained this to us and uh the way Florida sentencing worked back in the eighties was that he would have probably gotten a twelve year sentence for second degree murder, but because he had no prior felonies and a clean record, he probably would have gotten half of that, so six years, and then there's time off or time served.
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