Joyce McKinney And The Case Of The Manacled Mormon

So the Mirror had won, the Express conceded, they all got pissed together and that was the end of it. Joyce was never taken to trial and the whole thing fizzled out. As for Kirk Anderson he's back in Utah now and still doesn't take press calls. The doggedly loyal Keith died of kidney failure in 2004 and Steve Moskowitz has vanished entirely. Joyce herself sidled back into the press in 1984 after she was caught lurking outside Salt Lake City airport where Kirk Anderson worked at the time. She was charged with harassment and lying to police but she never showed up to her trial and the case was dismissed. Joyce did become briefly involved with the Right to Life movement and popped up outside abortion clinics but that hobby didn't last long. She can't help herself like she needs it like she I've never come across someone who so desperately needs people to be talking about her and we've given her what she wants unfortunately. Joyce lives in a house near the Kentucky border now with a small menagerie of animals and there's all sorts of stories of like she has horses and one of the horse's legs go missing and then she's convincing a teenage boy to break into someone else's house like there's just a lot of really weird stuff going on but she claims that she no longer has anything to do with men and she quotes Bridget Bardot and the famous quote is I gave my beauty and my youth to men I'm going to give my wisdom and experience to animals okay Joyce oh my god but when it comes to animals she did a little bit more than give them wisdom or experience. Joyce had a favourite dog called Booger and when Booger died Joyce couldn't imagine her life without him so she rang Dr Jin Han Hong in South Korea and she gave him $150,000 and then Dr Hong used a tissue sample from Booger the first and cloned five baby Boogers who Joyce named Booger Hong, Booger Burger, Booger Raw, Booger Mac and Booger Pug. Is that five? Anyway she gives them Korean surnames is what I'm getting at and Joyce lives with her cloned dogs and she's still working on her book about Kirk Anderson which she has called A Very Special Love Story. I mean all the stuff with Kirk all the stuff with Booger really shows you a woman who doesn't like to be left. No she can't she doesn't know how there are lots of things that we can't agree on with this story uh there's a lot of hearsay it doesn't help that never goes to trial etc etc etc but I think we can all agree that everything you just heard is absolutely not a love story. No whatever Joyce McKinney would have you believe so there you go. Joyce McKinney absolutely Coco Bananas. I can't even she just keeps coming she keeps coming with it she can't stop. No no she cannot and she will not but we're gonna stop now we're gonna stop talking about Joyce McKinney we're gonna stop thinking about her. Hopefully you enjoyed that episode and go get your tickets. Yes absolutely. For the North American tour if you have not yet done so we cannot wait to see you all on the road and um I don't know we'll see you then. Be good. Bye.

What's really interesting is the book called Joyce McKinney in the case of the Manicled Mormon the foreword is like this is a period piece this is what it was like in Fleet Street and I think it's quite a it's just quite an interesting angle because I don't think the role of the press can be overstated at all.

This is what it was like in Fleet Street.