Justice for Joyce Yost | Help Me, Rhonda | 8
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2021
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
A reckoning comes for Doug Lovell, in the form of a capital murder charge. In a never-before-public audio recording, Sgt. Terry Carpenter confronts Doug about the murder of Joyce Yost. The walls close in and Doug turns to his confidant and co-conspirator: his ex-wife Rhonda Buttars. He doesn't realize Rhonda has obtained immunity and is working against him.
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)
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- 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. Doug Lovell's relationship with his ex-wife Rhonda Butters had soured, so much so that on Sunday |
| 0:21.8 | May 10th, 1992, he told her off in an angry letter. |
| 0:27.0 | I have done everything I can to be a friend to you, Rhonda. |
| 0:30.2 | I have never bad-mouthed you behind your back and I have treated you as kind as possible on the phone. |
| 0:35.6 | You've heard most of this already at the end of the last episode. |
| 0:40.0 | As I said earlier, Ronda, you win. You don't need to hide behind the answering machine or ask the kids to lie or even make up lies yourself. I won't call, write, or send anything anymore. |
| 0:52.0 | What you didn't hear was or send anything anymore. |
| 0:53.0 | What you didn't hear was the aftermath. |
| 1:00.0 | Days later, on Wednesday of that same week, |
| 1:03.4 | Weber County Attorney Reed Richards |
| 1:05.1 | signed a formal immunity agreement for Rhonda. |
| 1:09.4 | This was something South Ogden Police Sergeant Terry Carpenter |
| 1:12.2 | had promised Rhonda more than a year earlier. |
| 1:15.4 | There was an agreement made between you and I that immunity would be sought for you, |
| 1:21.8 | but there would be no charges filed against you per se your involvement |
| 1:26.3 | with Joysho, is that correct? |
| 1:28.3 | Okay. |
| 1:29.3 | And there was a condition that I'll put on that. |
| 1:31.3 | Remember what it was? |
| 1:33.0 | Provided you didn't pull the trigger, |
| 1:35.0 | we wouldn't have any problem with that. |
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