Joyce McKinney, the 1973 Miss Wyoming beauty pageant winner, rose to prominence after being involved in a string of troubling episodes. McKinney was arrested by authorities in 1977 after kidnapping Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson from his church and holding him captive for three days as a compelled sex slave.
Following the high-profile case, McKinney fled the United Kingdom and entered the United States using a false passport. In 2008, it was discovered that she had cloned her pet pit dog five times in South Korea, which led to accusations relating to her claimed conspiracy to have a teenager commit burglary to generate funds for her horse's prosthetic leg. McKinney sued director Errol Morris in 2016 over his documentary on her.
McKinney was also involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in 2019, in which she ran over and murdered a 91-year-old Holocaust survivor with her truck. She drove away from the scene, leaving her truck near the Hollywood Burbank Airport. Detectives deliberated on how to handle the situation, but McKinney abruptly exited the truck, presumably ignorant of their presence. Surprisingly, she then proceeded to urinate in front of the officers. The detectives approached her and began questioning her. McKinney was eventually found to be mentally unfit to face trial and was committed to a mental-health hospital.
McKinney was released on bail after three months at London's Holloway Prison due to her deteriorating mental condition. She took advantage of as much of the investigation's exposure as she could once she was released. Then she and her accomplice, Keith May, escaped England. They arrived in Canada, where they used fake passports to enter the country, and subsequently in the United States.They dressed themselves as nuns to conceal their identity. When US officials detained them for fabricating passports, their cover was blown wide open.
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During the worldwide McKinney tabloid frenzy, the media dubbed her "Madam Mayhem." McKinney was detained by British authorities for kidnapping Anderson, but she was not charged with rape. When McKinney was free on bail awaiting her trial, she devoured the British tabloids. She made a lot of money selling her narrative to them.She featured on the covers of the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror at the same time, with similar stories. The Daily Express apparently gave her 40,000 pounds in cash for her story.
After some years she again went for anderson:
And he said I never expected Joyce McKinney to reappear in my life at anytime.