Justice for Joyce Yost | Here We Are | 6
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
A long shot lead claiming Joyce Yost had died at the hands of a satanic coven took an unexpected turn when South Ogden police Sgt. Terry Carpenter confronted Doug Lovell's ex-wife in April of 1991. Rhonda Buttars came clean to Carpenter, breaking open his investigation more than five years after Joyce's disappearance. But Rhonda did more than just talk. She recorded Doug Lovell while wearing a wire.
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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| 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. South Ogden Police Sergeant Terry Carpenter drove into downtown Ogden on the afternoon of April 10, 1991. |
| 0:23.7 | He headed to a building on Washington Boulevard, |
| 0:26.4 | which housed the offices of the Utah Department of Social Services. |
| 0:31.4 | The offices where Doug Lovell's ex-wife, Rhonda, worked. |
| 0:35.0 | Kind of out of the clear blue, went into work one day and said, |
| 0:41.0 | Ronda, you know, let's level with each other. |
| 0:46.0 | Terry saying this came out of the clear blue was perhaps an oversimplification. |
| 0:52.0 | So let's back up just a step. Terry was at the time in the |
| 0:56.4 | spring of 91 pursuing a long shot lead in the Joyce Yost case. It centered on |
| 1:02.4 | a claim Joyce had died at the hands of a satanic |
| 1:05.4 | coven. |
| 1:07.0 | This tip had come from a woman named Barbara as I described in the last episode. |
| 1:18.0 | In this next clip you will hear Barbara say she knew a contract had been put out on Joyce by a guy named Love. |
| 1:27.5 | I was told that she, that there had been a contract and that her name was Joyce Yost and that I shouldn't tell anyone or I would be in pretty serious trouble. |
| 1:40.0 | Terry had spent weeks trying to verify this. He had scoured a gravel pit, searching for bones. |
| 1:48.7 | He had told Barbara her information was the most valuable and pressing available in the case. |
| 1:55.3 | There were no other leads. |
| 1:57.3 | If I had other leads that were more valuable than were pressing those would be the areas I'd be |
| 2:02.3 | concentrating on. |
| 2:04.0 | Do you think I would have said on this growth that you're involved with for the last several weeks |
| 2:09.0 | if I had something better that I had to work on? |
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