Justice for Joyce Yost | Last Chance | 13
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 23 June 2021
⏱️ 73 minutes
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Summary
A KSL employee receives a letter after talking about suicide prevention on the radio. It's from a man living on death row, who tells the story of how a little mouse helped him endure a period of darkness and despair. But is that inmate, Doug Lovell, telling an honest story? Or is the letter an attempt to cultivate a character witness? Cold season 2, Justice for Joyce, reaches its finale with a look at where Doug Lovell's appeal stands in 2021, as well as look back at what's changed since the murder of Joyce Yost.
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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Transcript
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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. Sean Young, one of the attorneys who had represented Doug Lovell during his 2015 capital |
| 0:21.2 | murder trial met with the attorney handling Doug's appeal of his death sentence in March of 2019. |
| 0:27.0 | That second attorney, Colleen Coburg, made an audio recording of their conversation. |
| 0:33.0 | I don't, I don't, I don't care what happens to Doug. |
| 0:35.0 | I used to care. |
| 0:36.0 | I don't care anymore. |
| 0:37.0 | And I'm doing a sociopath. |
| 0:39.0 | I'm going to tell him I said that. |
| 0:41.0 | I dug. |
| 0:42.0 | If you didn't catch that, Sean called Doug a manipulator and a sociopath. But I'm getting ahead of myself here, so let's take a moment and review. |
| 0:52.0 | Doug Lovels rape and murder of George. So let's take a moment and review. |
| 0:58.0 | Doug Lovell's rape and murder of Joyce Ost in 1985 had created a legal mess. His guilty plea to capital murder in 93, followed by his conviction for the same crime at trial in 2015, |
| 1:06.2 | meant he had twice received a death sentence. |
| 1:09.2 | But by 2017 the case had once again become bound up by an appeal. |
| 1:18.0 | Doug had claimed Sean Young had torpedoed the 2015 trial by failing to call many people Doug it identified as |
| 1:25.1 | potential character witnesses. He had also claimed lawyers for the Church of |
| 1:29.7 | Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had interfered with the testimonies of several people Sean had called to the witness stand. |
| 1:37.2 | Doug also opened a second front on Sean by filing a complaint against him with the Utah State Bar, which he mentioned in this letter to Judge Michael DeRita. |
| 1:46.0 | The Utah State Bar investigated Mr. Young and on March 2nd, 2017 voted to direct the Office of Professional Conduct to file a formal complaint against |
| 1:56.2 | Mr. Young in District Court. |
| 1:59.0 | Duggs wasn't the only bar complaint pending against Sean. |
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