Justice for Joyce Yost | Buyer's Remorse | 10
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2021
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
The promise of returning Joyce Yost's body has fallen through, leaving Doug Lovell with a death sentence. Joyce's children continue pressing for answers about their missing mother's final resting place, while Doug embarks on a more than decade-long series of legal appeals in the hopes of having with guilty plea withdrawn. In the middle of that effort, a new informant named Jared Briggs comes forward claiming to know the actual location of Joyce Yost's remains.
Joyce Yost had never met the man who followed her home on an April night in 1985, who kidnapped and raped her. He threatened to kill her, but she went to police anyway. Then, she vanished. Joyce has never been found. Now, investigative journalist Dave Cawley delves into the decades-old case to uncover the details of a murder-for-hire plot to silence Joyce. Cold reveals flaws in the system that left Joyce unprotected, examines pitfalls of the death penalty and asks if there’s such a thing as justice for Joyce Yost.
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Episode credits:
- Research, writing and hosting: Dave Cawley
- Audio production: Nina Earnest
- Audio mixing: Trent Sell
- Additional voices: Richie Steadman (as Doug Lovell)
- Cold main score composition: Michael Bahnmiller
- Cold main score mixing: Dan Blanck
- KSL executive producers: Sheryl Worsley, Keira Farrimond
- Workhouse Media executive producers: Paul Anderson, Nick Panella, Andrew Greenwood
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast includes discussion of rape and sexual assault, abuse, murder, and other criminal behavior. |
| 0:08.0 | Listen or discretion is advised. Doug Lovell sat under sentence of death at the Utah State Prison. |
| 0:19.4 | His guilty plea to the murder of Joyce Yost and his failure to lead police to her body had resulted in the |
| 0:25.2 | ultimate penalty. |
| 0:27.6 | South Ogden Police Sergeant Terry Carpenter couldn't escape the thought, though. |
| 0:31.1 | The whole mountain search during the summer of 93 had been an act of |
| 0:34.4 | misdirection on Doug's part. Dave we tried everything that we could to try to |
| 0:40.4 | get him to be truthful with us about where she was and what he used and he definitely |
| 0:48.1 | said he came back with the shovel the second time, but still then he indicates that she was only a few inches under the ground. |
| 0:56.0 | Joyce's daughter, Kim Salazar, and her husband Randy believed Doug had used Snow Basin as a ploy to enjoy a few days of relative freedom. |
| 1:05.4 | I don't believe she was there for one thing. |
| 1:17.6 | Doug hadn't offered a good explanation for why Joyce's body wasn't where he had claimed to have buried her, which opened the door to speculation. |
| 1:21.8 | The other thing that I've wondered in the back of my... which opened the door to speculation. |
| 1:22.7 | The other thing that I've wondered in the back of my head |
| 1:25.8 | is Doug was driving the cement truck. |
| 1:28.6 | Could he have known that there was going to be a huge cement pour someplace and got Joyce tucked down into the foundation |
| 1:34.9 | someplace and just covered her up with cement. I don't know. |
| 1:40.2 | He drove a cement truck and I think he knew cement was being poured. |
| 1:45.4 | I think he put her there one day and the next day he poured cement there. |
| 1:50.1 | I've heard several variations on this theory. |
| 1:53.0 | Joyce might be under a road bridge that now spans the Ogden River, which was under construction |
| 1:57.5 | in 85. |
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