Justice for Joyce Yost | Shameless | 7
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2021
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
More than five years have passed since Joyce Yost disappeared. A judge declares her deceased in the eyes of the law, even without her body as evidence of a murder. South Ogden police Sgt. Terry Carpenter receives a surprise tip from a prison informant, who suggests Doug Lovell might have played a role not only in Joyce Yost's murder but also in the disappearance of another Ogden-area woman.
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: Andy Farnsworth (as Jeff Pratt), 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
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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. Greg Roberts saw his mother everywhere. He would spot cars on the highway that looked like Joyce's Oldsmobile, |
| 0:23.0 | Big White Delta 88, huge car. |
| 0:26.0 | And catch himself doing double-takes at stoplights, |
| 0:29.0 | hoping to see her behind the wheel. |
| 0:32.0 | The conversations he had had with his mom, after her rape, |
| 0:36.2 | replayed over and over in his mind. He agonized about what she hadn't told him. |
| 0:43.0 | I talked to her real regularly, but in the meantime, you know, I was at school and |
| 0:48.0 | she didn't want to affect my schooling and grades and things that were going on. |
| 0:55.0 | A single thought haunted Greg. |
| 0:59.0 | He had not been there to protect her. He didn't share this pain with anyone, save perhaps his sister and father. |
| 1:20.9 | He holds a lot of it inside of him. |
| 1:24.0 | Mel Roberts told me Greg bore this burden, the sense of guilt, in private. |
| 1:30.0 | The only time we'll ever talk about is if we're just together alone. |
| 1:34.0 | We don't talk about it much when other people are around. |
| 1:38.0 | Greg had finished dental school and at the end of 1990 wrapped up his residency with the Georgetown University Medical Service in Washington, D.C. |
| 1:47.0 | He had achieved his childhood dream and become not just a dentist, but an oral surgeon. |
| 1:54.0 | The person who would have been most proud of him, |
| 1:57.0 | who would have celebrated his achievement more than anyone, |
| 2:00.0 | was not there. |
| 2:02.0 | Nearly six years had passed since Greg had first faced the question of whether or not to drop out of school and move home to help search for Joyce. |
| 2:12.0 | Mel had urged him to hold fast. |
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