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Cold

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4.8 • 40.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Joyce Yost has disappeared. Her daughter begs South Ogden police to begin a search, but help is slow in coming. Detectives find nothing out of place in Joyce's apartment, but they miss a major clue suggesting an act of violence occurred right on Joyce's own bed. In Joyce's absence, an unexpected ally steps forward to bring her story before a jury in the rape case against Doug Lovell.

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. Kim Salazar had not been able to reach her mom all weekend.
0:19.0	I couldn't get a hold of her.
0:20.7	Doc couldn't get a hold of her.
0:22.3	And then the next day, you know, I mean, it just, we all always talked every day.
0:30.0	Kim arrived to work at Royal Studio on the morning of Monday, August 12, 1985, hoping to see Joyce there.
0:38.0	She wasn't late for work, she didn't miss work, ever. She called her husband Randy. And she told me that her
0:46.7	mom didn't make it, that she didn't go to work and she'd been trying to call her.
0:50.7	There was no answer. And so I told Kim, I says, maybe we should
0:55.3	check off the wind over again. I says, you know what, let's not panic. Kim phoned the state line, the hotel casino where Joyce liked to stay on her occasional
1:09.6	outings to West Wendover, Nevada. Her mom wasn't there either. So Kim next called South Ogden Police.
1:18.0	Kim explained to them, you know, but they already knew about the threat that she had had with the rape case and what was going on with the global
1:26.9	Near as Kim could tell her mother had last been seen late on the prior Saturday night in her sister Dorothy's driveway.
1:34.0	They wanted to know if it had been 24 hours she'd be missing and
1:38.0	like nobody knew when 24 hours started.
1:41.0	By the next day when there still wasn't anything,
1:45.0	I begged them, just meet me over there, go in and see what's wrong, you know?
1:50.0	So they met me over there, but they made me go in. They didn't go in first.
1:55.0	Kim wriggled into her mother's apartment around noon on Tuesday, August 13th, through a side window she knew did not latch tight. Then she unlocked the door,
2:06.0	allowing her husband and a South Ogden officer inside.
2:10.0	Everything was clean just like she kept it and was always spotless.
2:13.0	No sign of a struggle.
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