At about 10:15 p.m., they walked out and parted ways.

The two spent about three hours dining and dancing. On April 3, 1985, Yost met her friend Lex Baer, 62, for some drinks at the Pier 3 supper club. She poured her heart into her children and grandchildren, while enjoying social events with friends. Followed homeДЄnyone who knew Joyce Yost spoke fondly of her zest for life. So, she went to work at another department store in Fashion Place Mall in Murray, Utah. Although she never knew why, her kids said she always thought it was because she was about to become eligible for their retirement plan. They also recall Yost pouring herself into her work, selling cosmetics at a ZCMI department store before working as a cocktail waitress at nights.ДЄfter working for ZCMI for 12 years, she was terminated from her position. It was there she got remarried to a man named George Yost, which only lasted about three years.Д«y the time she was in her 30s, Yost became a grandmother - which her children remember as one of her greatest joys in life. Soon after, Yost earned enough money to move out of her sisterвЂ™s home and moved to Sunset, Utah, in Davis County. While there, she landed a job as a salesperson at a cosmetics counter. Army in 1968, Yost wanted a fresh start and followed her eldest sister, Dorothy, to Utah. вЂњHad we not been so young, IвЂ™m pretty sure the relationship would have been far more successful,вЂќ Roberts said.ДЄfter Roberts was drafted into the U.S. Yost would pick up evening waitressing jobs to bring in extra money, but the young couple divorced after a few years. Life wasnвЂ™t easy for the new family, as the two parents scrimped to get by. The couple were married in January 1962 and gave birth to their daughter, Kim. And honest to God, I think thatвЂ™s probably why he hired me.вЂќ Come to find out, his son was in the same circumstances. вЂњAnd I looked at him like he was on Mars. вЂњ said, вЂDo you have a girl pregnant?вЂ™вЂќ Roberts told Dave Cawley, host of the COLD podcast. Roberts dropped out of college as the two moved to Minneapolis, where he secured a lifelong job at a metal stamping company. The two dated for nearly a year when Yost discovered she was pregnant at age 15.Дespite her motherвЂ™s wishes not to keep the baby - urging her instead to give the infant to a Lutheran home to be adopted - Yost married Roberts, and the two started their own family.

She met her high school sweetheart, Mel Roberts, when she was only a freshman he was a senior. YostвЂ™s father was mostly absent, leaving her to be raised by her mother and sisters. She was the third daughter of George and Hulda Figel. 3, 1946, in Bemidji, Minn., a small college town right beside the headwaters of the Mississippi River. Listen to the prelude episode for season 2, вЂњCorpus Delicti,вЂќ below. This precedent was set in April 1984, and it became critical in the disappearance of Yost just a year later.

In short, facts must establish a crime has occurred before the suspect can be charged with that crime.Д«ut under Utah law, courts hold that a murder can be proved to have happened without a body so long as the totality of the circumstances surrounding the personвЂ™s disappearance shows the crime has occurred. This is often referred to as c orpus delictiВ or вЂњbody of the crime.вЂќ Under the law, itвЂ™s required for prosecution to meet a certain burden of proof. One of those three cases was the murder of Yost. Prior to the disappearance and presumed murder of Susan Powell in 2009, KSL is aware of just three cases in the state of Utah in which prosecutors successfully convicted someone of murder without finding the victimвЂ™s body. SALT LAKE CITY - A legal concept called вЂњcorpus delictiвЂќ is at the center of the new season of the COLD podcast, hosted by KSL NewsRadioвЂ™s Dave Cawley, and focusing on the 1985 murder of Joyce Yost.

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