SOUTH OGDEN Joyce Lynn Yost disappeared from her apartment here on an August weekend in 1985. She is believed to be dead, killed by a man who was intent on keeping her from testifying against him in a criminal trial.
That man, Douglas Anderson Lovell, was later convicted of sexually assaulting Yost and, in a separate trial, sentenced to die for murdering her. However, Lovell s case has for decades been tied up in appeals and Yost s body has never been found.
The Joyce Yost case is the focus of the newly released second season of the KSL podcast Cold. Yost s experience prior to her disappearance and the many facets of the investigation that followed have not previously been presented together in a single, holistic narrative.
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SALT LAKE CITY A judge in Ogden has rejected an ineffective counsel argument from a death row inmate appealing his second death sentence, a decision that now goes to the Utah Supreme Court for review.
Douglas Lovell, 63, contends one of his former lawyers failed to properly prepare witnesses and didn t object when Lovell claims The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints meddled in his 2015 trial.
Second District Judge Michael DiReda rejected both claims.
Lovell, of Clearfield, pleaded guilty to killing Joyce Yost in 1985 to prevent her from testifying after he had been charged with raping her. He was sentenced to die for the same crimes in 1993.