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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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OGDEN 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 two to three 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.
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LAYTON UDOT will receive an additional $60 million to finish a rebuild of U.S. Highway 89 through Layton, the agency said Monday.
Planners budgeted nearly half a billion dollars for the U.S. 89 rebuild project from Kaysville and Fruit Heights through Layton, when the Utah Department of Transportation asked for an extra $60 million to complete the final stretch. The Utah Transportation Commission approved the request at its meeting last week.
Driver feedback leads to more money
The section of U.S. 89 from S.R. 193 in north Layton to Interstate 84 had been left out of the plan because of budget constraints, but Zach Whitney with UDOT says people were concerned about finishing the entire project.