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.