Jason Sandford
Jason Sandford is a reporter, writer, blogger and photographer interested in all things Asheville.
Time magazine has the story. It’s a little convoluted, but here are the relevant parts. As we know, all roads lead to Ashvegas:
It took a while to register, but there was something naggingly familiar about Bernann McKinney, the 57-year-old California woman whose ecstatically beaming features were splashed across the world’s media on Aug. 6. The story was already a corker: the five baby pitbull terriers McKinney was showing off had been cloned in Korea from the ear of her late and much-missed pet Booger, who’d once saved her from an attack by another dog that had practically ripped McKinney’s arm off.
An American woman received five puppies Tuesday that were cloned from her beloved late pitbull, becoming the inaugural customer of a South Korean company that says it is the world’s first successful commercial canine cloning service.
Now the story could get even better. McKinney, if British newspaper suspicions prove true, may be none other than Joyce McKinney, the former Miss Wyoming who once fled Britain to escape charges of kidnapping a Mormon missionary and forcibly having sex with him.
Britons over a certain age will recall with a shudder the surreal and sexy details of that story from the winter of 1977. The 27-year-old McKinney was accused in court, along with a friend, Keith May, of abducting 21-year-old Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson from a church in a London suburb and taking him to a cottage in Okehampton, Devon in the southwest of England. There, said Anderson, he was chained to a bed and forced to have sex with McKinney for three days. McKinney, once a Mormon herself, was said to have formed a crush on him after they’d first met and had sex in 1975.
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In July, 1979, the FBI finally caught up with the couple in Asheville, North Carolina, where they got suspended sentences for falsifying passports but were not considered liable for extradition. In 1984, McKinney surfaced again, when she was arrested outside the office of Kirk Anderson in Salt Lake City where he was living. Police found rope and handcuffs in her car.
