Justice for Joyce Yost | Dancing with the Devil | 12
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
The disappearance of Joyce Yost has had a multi-generational impact, leaving her children and grandchildren trapped in a repeating nightmare of court hearings and appeals. Following Doug Lovell's 2015 conviction for Joyce's murder, the jury faces the question of whether or not to return him to death row. Their only alternative: life with the chance for parole, which would mean Joyce Yost's killer might some day walk free again.
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), Scott Mitchell (as Chuck Thompson), Amy Donaldson (as Becky Douglas)
- Cold main score composition: Michael Bahnmiller
- Cold main score mixing: Dan Blanck
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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. The penalty phase of Doug Lovell's trial for the murder of Joyce Yost began on March 20, 2015. |
| 0:23.0 | Prosecutors described in detail Douglas Lovell's rape and murder of Joyce Yost back in 1985 |
| 0:29.0 | and a long criminal history that started in his teen years. |
| 0:32.0 | Kim Salazar and Greg Roberts said criminal history that started in his teen years. |
| 0:33.3 | Kim Salazar and Greg Roberts had each testified already |
| 0:36.5 | during the trial's guilt phase. |
| 0:38.7 | But they took the stand again in the penalty phase |
| 0:41.3 | and were able to tell a broader story. |
| 0:44.5 | It was great to look at the jury and just tell her side. |
| 0:47.5 | And I mean, I think it had a big impact. |
| 0:51.2 | This was an opportunity Kim and Greg had not had during Doug's original sentencing in 93. |
| 0:57.0 | They were able to tell the jurors who their mother was. |
| 1:01.0 | She was a great, great, great mother. She was just a wonderful grandmother. She |
| 1:06.0 | was so happy. |
| 1:07.0 | Everybody will say the same thing. Oh she was so beautiful. Oh she was so sweet. |
| 1:19.0 | She was the kindest woman she and she was she was and she was genuine and they described the far-reaching and ongoing impacts of what |
| 1:30.0 | Doug had done to her. Well, he is a horrible person and he's done horrible things and he's, as far as I'm concerned, |
| 1:39.9 | he's continued to do horrible things to our family for all these years. |
| 1:44.0 | Kim's children who were by then adults sat in the gallery as she testified. |
| 1:50.0 | Their dad, Kim's ex-husband, Randy, was right beside them. |
| 1:55.0 | When Kim testified this last time, she got up and even, she got up and apologized to me, |
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