Those of us of a certain age have memories of Joyce McKinney and the "Manacled Mormon" case in the back of our minds somewhere. The Times helpfully provides a reminder of the details:It does so because it turns out that Joyce McKinney is the same person as the Bernann McKinney who this week was reported as having paid $50,000 for five cloned copies of Booger, her pit bull terrier.In 1977, the former Miss Wyoming stalked her lover, a Mormon missionary, to a tabernacle in East Ewell, Surrey, allegedly kidnapped him and held him in a cottage in Devon. There, the 17-stone Kirk Anderson claimed, his petite, busty admirer tied him to a bed using mink-trimmed handcuffs, slipped into a see-through nightie and forced him into sex.
At a remand hearing she declared her love for the Mormon with the immortal line: “I’d ski naked down Mount Everest with a carnation up my nose if he asked me.”
It seems that all these years on, McKinney still loves not wisely but too well.
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My old man recounted this story to me yesterday.
What a dull time I was born into.
"Dog clone woman is "Manacled Mormom" kidnapper"
Best. Headline. Evar.
At the age of 14, I wanted to become a Mormon missionary...
I didn't know at that same time that the bloke across the road called Andrew Newton was Britain's top dog assassin. Our family hardly noticed him, and he wasn't a babe magnet. Even when the Thorpe story emerged, Mormon missionary had more career appeal than canine shooter. To my regret, I followed neither profession.
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