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Joyce Yost family
Joyce Lynn Yost disappeared from her apartment in South Ogden 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.
SALT LAKE CITY The launch of a new season of the KSL podcast COLD this week highlights one of the plights of families whose loved ones disappeared or were murdered: they have to wait because the United States has a cold case backlog.
Season 2 of COLD focuses on the disappearance of Joyce Yost. In 1985, her rapist told her he would tear her throat out if she went to the police; she went anyway. A man named Doug Lovell eventually confessed to Yost s murder. He received the death penalty. But he continues to fight his conviction to this day.
Yost s body was never found. Neither was that of Susan Powell, the subject of COLD s first season, who vanished from West Valley City in 2009.
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.