Bernann McKinney Of The Cloned Puppies IS Joyce McKinney Of The Mink Handcuffs
Remember this article I did a few days ago about Bernann McKinney, the woman who was so upset about the death of her pet dog that she had him cloned five times over? After I wrote it, news came out that she may be, in fact, Joyce McKinney, wanted since the 1970's for kidnapping a young Mormon missionary, chaining him to a bed with mink handcuffs, and repeatedly forcing him to have sex with her.
At that time, she had neither confirmed nor denied the story, but now even she realizes the jig is up:
Dog lover Bernann McKinney acknowledged in a telephone call to The Associated Press on Saturday that she is indeed Joyce McKinney, who in 1977 became a British tabloid sensation when she faced charges of unlawful imprisonment in the missionary case. She jumped bail and was never brought to justice. Through tears, she explained that she went public with her efforts to replicate Booger, who died two years ago, hoping people would be able to focus on that story rather than the "garbage" of the past. "I thought people would be honest enough to see me as a person who was trying to do something good and not as a celebrity," McKinney told the AP. "My mother always taught me, 'Say something good or say nothing at all.'" "I think I gave people too much credit," she said.No, I think you overestimated your own ability to fool all of the people all of the time, which simply shows your arrogance. You see, back in the days before the World Wide Internet Computer Web, you could fool some of the people some of the time, and even a few of the people all of the time, but you'll never fool the entire world any of the time, and in this day of instant worldwide coverage that's exactly the game she tried to play and lost.
She has repeatedly said that she doesn't want the "garbage" of her past to overshadow the "puppy story", but it is by understanding one's past that we can understand the present, and to look at Joyce/Bernann's past (all alleged, of course) is to see that we are dealing with a woman who is selfish at best, mentally disturbed at worst:
- She stalked a Mormon missionary across the Atlantic, kidnapped him, tied him to a bed with mink handcuffs, and repeatedly forced him to have sex with her until he managed to escape.
- She and her accomplice snuck out of the country pretending to be deaf-mute actors.
- In 1984, she was arrested outside the same man's workplace with rope, handcuffs, and a notebook in the trunk of her car.
- She again disappeared and the case was dismissed.
- She handed out business cards in South Korea with a business address that doesn't exist.
- There have been several cases against her in her hometown of Newland, North Carolina, one of which involved "communicating a threat" to another woman.
- They also include passing bad checks, assualting a public offical, and an animal cruelty charge concerning a horse.
- She has been described as allegedly being involved in prostitution and having drug and mental problems after the kidnapping and subsequent escape.
- She once broke into a shelter and rescued a pit bull which was scheduled to be put down for mauling a jogger (unknown if this was Booger or not).
- She claims to be a screenwriter who taught drama at colleges, but no record of her exists with the Screenwriter's Guild.
- Now, we have the dog-cloning fiasco, where she had five puppies created from the skin cells of her deceased pet dog.
What she fails to understand about the cloning of her dog is the same thing she failed to understand about how wrong it was to kidnap a man...not only does she have to live with the consequences of her actions, but what she ends up with isn't even the real thing, but a pathetic facsimile. She doesn't think through her decisions to their possible end results. Kidnapping a man, chaining him to a bed (even with mink handcuffs), putting on a nightie, and forcing him to have sex with her is not a real, true, loving relationship, no matter how much she wants it to be. Likewise, taking some skin cells from her dog and having a lab scientifically create little carbon copies of that dog isn't going to bring her original dog "back to life", no matter how much she wants it to...what she has now is little created creatures, without the memories and life experiences of her pet, and thus they are going to be completely different dogs. Not to mention that cloned animals are prone to early deaths and health problems...so when these dogs die, will she just have them create new ones? Copies of copies?
For less than a couple hundred dollars she could have rescued a homeless dog from a shelter...but that wouldn't be having her own way, would it?
This whole sordid story becomes more pathetic every day.
