Justice for Joyce Yost | Rising Star | 11
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 9 June 2021
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
A turn to religion for Douglas Lovell as he heads toward trial, 30 long years after the crime. He finds sympathy and support among several people of faith, particularly bishops for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Just weeks before his trial is to begin, a man walking his dog spots a human skull at the base of a hill along the same highway where Doug had burned Joyce Yost's clothes on the morning following her murder.
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), Annie Knox (as Theresa Greaves)
- 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. Christmas Day 2009 dawned cold and clear at Point of the Mountain. Doug Lovell wasn't able to walk through the fresh snow that blanketed the prison yard. |
| 0:27.0 | He couldn't make a snowball or sit around a pine tree decked with lights, or ornaments, and tinsel, exchanging presents with his loved ones. |
| 0:36.4 | Instead, Doug sat at his typewriter and pecked out a message. |
| 0:41.2 | My name is Doug Lovell. I hope I have reached you all in good health and spirits. |
| 0:45.0 | He was riding to a group of missionaries for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints who were |
| 0:51.7 | serving in the Marshall Islands. |
| 0:54.3 | Their Mission President, who Doug New, had asked him to provide the missionaries with an inspiring |
| 0:58.8 | message. |
| 0:59.8 | I thought I would share with you something that has been extremely difficult for me to talk about since the death of my brother. |
| 1:07.0 | Doug wrote his brother Royce had been an A student who loved sports. Royce had been an Eagle Scout and an active member of the church. |
| 1:20.0 | That had changed once Royce developed a drug habit. |
| 1:24.0 | Doug said he and Royce had been very close. |
| 1:28.0 | That all changed the day before he died. |
| 1:31.0 | To this day I have no idea what the reason was, but we got into a horrible argument. |
| 1:36.8 | I thought at any second the punch would come that would silence me. It never did. I don't know why, but he just walked away. |
| 1:45.0 | Doug described getting the call at work and rushing home with his brother Russell, only to find Royce dead. |
| 1:52.0 | I remember opening the front door and seeing Royce lying on the living room floor. |
| 1:58.0 | He went on, writing that in the days and months after Royce's death, he felt regret for never telling his brother he had loved him. |
| 2:07.1 | He said he had learned when you love someone, you should let them know. |
| 2:12.4 | I hope none of you will feel love for someone and risk losing them without ever having said these three simple words. |
| 2:19.0 | I love you. |
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