Years later, in 2006 the fingerprints of Jeremy Scott were identified from the forensic evidence collected the night of the murder. At the time of this discovery, Scott was serving a life sentence for an unrelated murder and had been implicated in another brutal murder that he was not successfully charged for. Surprisingly, this evidence failed to meet the burden for a retrial, as Scott testified (after an impromptu and unrecorded meeting with prosecutor John Aguero) that he had been trying to steal stereo equipment from Michelle’s vehicle.
In 2016, nearly 10 years later, Jeremy Scott contacted Andrew Crawford, a defense attorney representing Schofield, and confessed to committing the murder to Crawford. Another attorney, Sean Costis, also heard the confession and signed a sworn affidavit to that effect.
Scott’s former cellmate, Paul Kline, has also stated that Scott told him that he had been the one that murdered Michelle.
