Utah informant reported death-row confessions — did either tell truth? deseret.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from deseret.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
OGDEN A prison informant told Weber County investigators in 2006 that Douglas Lovell, the man who d killed Joyce Yost in 1985 to prevent her from testifying in a sexual assault and kidnapping case, had lied to police about the location of Yost s body. Doug told me every nook and cranny of everything, Jared Dee Briggs told investigators in a video recording of his Dec. 15, 2006, interview with investigators.
KSL s investigative podcast series Cold obtained a copy of the video recorded at the Utah State Prison, which has not previously been made public.
Lovell had admitted in 1993 to killing Yost. As part of plea negotiations, he led South Ogden police to the place where he d claimed to have killed and buried Yost along the Old Snowbasin Road. An intensive search of that area subsequently failed to turn up any sign of Yost s remains.
A 2News investigation revealed the state of Utah has lost track of more than 300 dangerous criminals during the last six months of 2020. Caption: KUTV: Wendy Halloran investigates 17-year-old Jahir Gomez lost his life after a parole fugitive slammed into the car he was riding in at 90 mph. The suspect was identified as Llobani Figueroa, a high-level drug trafficker with ties to an international criminal syndicate.
The only officer charged in connection with a police shooting in Utah last year when the numbers reached a record high wasn’t from the state. The shooting didn’t happen last year. And the officer wasn’t charged with killing the man.
This 2018 case involves a Colorado deputy, who now faces charges for firing through his windshield during a rolling shootout with men in an old Ford Tempo.
While no video footage exists of the chase or shooting, a
Salt Lake Tribune review of police reports and interviews investigators conducted with the officer and a person in the other car offer an unusually detailed look at this chaotic case.
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