Justice for Joyce Yost | Garden Variety | 5
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 28 April 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
Doug Lovell's conviction for the rape of Joyce Yost carries a heavy penalty: 15 years-to-life in prison. With Doug safely in custody, South Ogden police turn their attention on his wife, Rhonda. The investigation stalls however, leaving the newly assigned lead detective Terry Carpenter chasing a strange lead involving a claim Joyce died at the hands of a satanic coven.
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: Saige Miller (as Rhonda Lovell), Ethan Millard (as Archie Smith), Alex Kirry (as Murray Miron)
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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. His decision that night in April of 85. |
| 0:26.0 | Altered my life forever. |
| 0:31.0 | Joyce Yost's daughter, Kim Salazar, was not satisfied. Doug Lovell, the man convicted of kidnapping and sexually assaulting her mother, was headed for sentencing. |
| 0:37.0 | But not for Joyce's murder. |
| 0:41.0 | She told the detectives, I remember telling him, I know that son of a bitch has something to do with it. |
| 0:45.3 | I know he has something to do with it. |
| 0:47.3 | And he told Kim, we're sure he is too, but we just can't go over there and just tell |
| 0:52.2 | him that he has something to do with or we have to figure somehow here. Two years earlier the Utah legislature had established a system of minimum mandatory sentences. |
| 1:13.0 | The reason we call it mandatory is the judge. |
| 1:16.0 | If you got the conviction, the judge could not give him probation. |
| 1:20.0 | That's retired Davis County prosecutor Brian Nomba. |
| 1:24.0 | Under the law, Judge Rodney Page |
| 1:25.8 | had to send Doug to prison for at least 10 years, |
| 1:29.9 | unless there were mitigating circumstances, |
| 1:32.2 | in which case Doug would get no less than five. |
| 1:35.7 | Or if there were aggravating circumstances, he would get no less than 15. |
| 1:41.2 | Brian had filed a motion, arguing in favor of the longer 15 year term. |
| 1:46.0 | So there's a list of potential aggravating circumstances. |
| 1:50.0 | They included Doug's pattern of stalking women, the extreme cruelty and depravity of his attack on Joyce, |
| 1:56.6 | his history of violent offenses, his pending charges for car theft, |
| 2:01.1 | and his hostility toward Joyce's family. |
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