Justice for Joyce Yost | The Type that Sends Roses | 1
Cold
KSL Podcasts
4.8 • 40.8K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2021
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Our story begins with a barrage of bouquets, dozens of unsolicited yellow roses sent by a mysterious male admirer. We then meet a young Joyce Yost in Minnesota and follow her path to Utah. At the same time, a young man named Douglas Lovell finds himself on the wrong side of the law, landing in prison for armed robbery.
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 Douglas 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 | This podcast includes discussion of rape and sexual assault, abuse, murder, and other criminal behavior. |
| 0:08.0 | Listen or discretion is advised. Susan Uridge did not expect what greeted her when she walked through the doors of the |
| 0:19.0 | America First Credit Union Branch where she worked. |
| 0:21.7 | A dozen long-stem yellow roses in a bud vase sitting on her desk. |
| 0:27.2 | They just had a little note on them to a friend or says thank you for being a friend or something like that. |
| 0:35.0 | What friend would have sent her a dozen roses without so much as signing a name? |
| 0:40.0 | Susan moved the flowers to her credenza, thinking it must be a mistake, except it happened again. |
| 0:47.2 | Another dozen yellow roses arrived a couple of days later, again bearing a card that read, |
| 0:52.1 | Thank you for being a friend. |
| 0:54.0 | She again set the flowers aside. |
| 0:57.0 | I mean, they were beautiful flowers, |
| 1:00.0 | but when you're getting them from somebody |
| 1:02.0 | that they don't even write their name on the card, |
| 1:05.2 | it makes you a little nervous. |
| 1:18.0 | That feeling only intensified at the end of the week when a third batch of roses arrived. They had come from a place called Gibby Floral. |
| 1:21.0 | Susan phoned the company and asked who had sent them. |
| 1:24.6 | They told me that it was a young kid that came in, paid cash for them and said to send flowers. |
| 1:31.4 | This secret admirer game was not endearing. |
| 1:34.0 | Some stranger who refused to identify himself was harassing Susan. |
| 1:39.0 | Her unease soured into outright fear. |
| 1:42.0 | Because every day I'd walk out looking around. une soured into outright fear. |
| 1:43.0 | Because every day I'd walk out looking around the credit |
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