Justice for Joyce Yost | High Fidelity | 9
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2021
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
The stakes are set for Doug Lovell as he heads toward trial for the murder of Joyce Yost. The capital murder charge carries a potential sentence of death. His only leverage: returning Joyce's body to her family. Doug makes a deal as the clock winds down, promising to lead police to Joyce's grave. Will he really follow through?
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
- Amazon Music team: Morgan Jones, Eliza Mills, Vanessa Rebbert, Shea Simpson
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| 0:00.0 | As you know by now, this is where I give you a heads up about the content of this podcast, |
| 0:05.2 | rape, sexual assault, murder, domestic abuse, and that your discretion is advised. |
| 0:11.4 | This particular episode, though though also includes depictions of multiple |
| 0:15.4 | forms of death penalty executions as well as a recounting of an egregious |
| 0:19.9 | multiple murder case that involved instances of torture. |
| 0:24.3 | So some additional consideration about where, when, and with whom you choose to listen is probably |
| 0:29.6 | warranted. quiet pervaded the room no music no chatter of voices just the soft hum of the lights and the breathing of one man |
| 0:47.4 | Whatever happens I'm ready for it |
| 0:50.8 | That's that's that simple. |
| 0:54.0 | A pair of needles were inserted into the man's arms. |
| 0:57.0 | Two being snaked away from them, disappearing through a hole in the cinderblock wall. |
| 1:02.0 | The man, William Andrews, reclined on a padded plank |
| 1:06.8 | covered with straps. Across the room were a series of windows. On the other side sat a small group of people who were there to witness |
| 1:15.6 | Williams execution. I feel very comfortably, spiritually, with the aspect of dying, with the prospect of dying, because I'm a very spiritual man. |
| 1:27.0 | William had been scheduled to die at the stroke of midnight on Thursday, July 30, 1992. |
| 1:34.2 | A last-minute plea for reprieve to the U.S. Supreme Court had delayed the lethal injection |
| 1:39.0 | for about an hour and a half. |
| 1:41.7 | The Supreme Court justices had declined to intervene. |
| 1:45.4 | So now at 135 a.m. a state official signaled to an unseen executioner in the other room to push |
| 1:51.8 | the plunger and deliver the fatal drug cocktail into |
| 1:55.2 | Williams veins. I have come to terms with the idea of dying. I don't want to die, but I don't want to continue to live the way I have been living. |
| 2:09.2 | The rising and falling of William's chest slowed. |
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