SALT LAKE CITY Even if you are not a fly fisher, there s reason to be concerned with the loss of salmonfly in Utah rivers and streams.
This giant stonefly, a large aquatic insect, is an indicator of water quality. It can only live and thrive in cold, clean, well-oxygenated water. Its dwindling numbers and possible extirpation from river systems could have detrimental effects on other aquatic insect species, fish and birds that share the river environment, and even a river s aesthetic value decrease for people.
Provo and Logan rivers
Salmonfly extirpation from rivers such as the Logan and sections of the Provo has been studied and documented.
Utah informant reported death-row confessions — did either tell truth?
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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.
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The Right Fork South Fork Ogden River cuts through sediment below the high water mark of Causey Reservoir on September 20, 2014. Photo: Dave Cawley, KSL Podcasts
A man with a distinctive stammer phoned police 34 years ago and claimed to have found a body in the mountains near Causey, a reservoir on the South Fork of the Ogden River.
“I didn’t touch the body or anything because I didn’t want to get fingerprints on it, OK,” the man told a dispatcher, “but I noticed there was a purse there.”
The man refused to identify himself or provide more specific information about where police might find the body, saying only that it was 2 to 3 miles back from the reservoir. The man hung up when a Weber County dispatcher told him she needed to put him in touch with an investigator.
SOUTH OGDEN An audio recording that captured a killer s unwitting confession and broke open a murder case after years of inaction is coming to light in the latest episode of the KSL podcast Cold.
The recording was the pivotal piece of evidence that confirmed what police had believed for years, but which they d been unable to prove: Douglas Lovell had murdered Joyce Yost to prevent her from testifying against him in a 1985 sexual assault case. I committed a first-degree felony to cover another felony. It s the death penalty, Lovell said on the recording.
Only a few snippets of the recording have previously been shared publicly, presented as evidence in court to establish Lovell s guilt. Those clips clearly showed Lovell understood the gravity of what he d done, as well as the consequences if he were to be convicted.
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