Mary West
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40 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
Mary West’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mary West has had many jobs and worn many hats. She's in her 60s now and living in northern Florida, where, these days, she cleans houses.
Victoria Avalon is an assistant state attorney who questioned Jeremy Scott after he confessed to killing Michelle Schofield in a 2017 evidentiary hearing.
Bone Valley Season 2. Jeremy. Chapter 5. Like a Little Kid. When Mary first decided to write Jeremy a letter, she wasn't sure how to reach him or where he was. In order to deposit funds into an inmate's canteen, the Florida DOC has to approve you, so I helped her navigate the protocols. She sent Jeremy a letter, got approved, then deposited a little money for deodorant and toothpaste.
She assumed that would be the end of that. But Jeremy wrote her back. January 31st. Christmas had passed, and it was the beginning of a new year, 2023. One day, she was picking up her mail, and there it was.
As soon as she started getting letters from Jeremy, Mary agreed to send me voice memos, talking me through them. What really struck me in those early letters was how surprised Jeremy was to be hearing from her.
Something else that stood out. It seemed like Jeremy wanted to prove to Mary that he was worthy of her time, her letters, and her attention.
When Jeremy was a younger man in prison, his family was still writing and visiting. But then they stopped. Now, all of a sudden, he had someone new in his life, and it seemed important to him to be accountable to her.
In those early letters, Jeremy and Mary are just getting to know each other.
At first, he's writing once a week or maybe every two weeks.
By April, Jeremy is writing all the time, sometimes every three days.
The letters get more personal.
Mary asks him about his family and the people he used to know on the outside.
In May, the letters ramp up even more.
Mary wasn't able to find her gravestone, but she was able to find Arlene's obituary. It had a picture of her. Mary printed it out and sent a copy of it to Jeremy. He wrote back.
Mary also did what she could to connect Jeremy with other family members, just like I did. The last time I checked, Royal Dean Scott was in prison himself in Alabama. Mary found his mugshot online and sent that to Jeremy as well.
It's clear how much these family connections mean to Jeremy.
From his letters, Mary has learned even more than I have about Jeremy's childhood.
During the sentencing phase of the Donald Moorhead trial, when he was 19 years old, Jeremy listened to his Aunt Debbie describe him as slow, with a mind that wanders like a nine-year-old child.
Jeremy was barely literate when he was sent to death row. And it sounds like that's where he finally tried to learn.
Between the GED books Mary sends and the paperback novels that I send him, it still sounds like he can't get enough to read.
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