http://www.wikio.com/search=Ian McKinney Wikio - Ian McKinney http://www.wikio.com/search/Ian+McKinney?rinfoid=67993011 My husband Ian and I are helping to petition in Long Island, New York for Cynthia McKinney for President. A total of 15,000 signatures is needed statewide. We heard an informal comment a few days ago that there were 10,000 collected. Today, someone from a different camp inside the project stated he was fairly sure [...] Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:39:48 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Ian+McKinney?rinfoid=67993011 2008-08-17T01:39:48Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Ian+McKinney?rinfoid=67145732 What would you do for love? Fri, 08 Aug 2008 20:01:04 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Ian+McKinney?rinfoid=67145732 2008-08-08T20:01:04Z http://www.wikio.com/search/Ian+McKinney?rinfoid=67078405 It still remains the most memorable and most bizarre news story of my teenage years. Today's Guardian has put Joyce McKinney back centre stage . Whatever happened to her? Now we know. Perhaps it would have been better if we had remained in blissful ignorance. Ian Cobain takes up the story: Utter the name Joyce McKinney to Britons of a certain age, and you are inevitably rewarded with the briefest flash of incomprehension, followed by a gasp as their memories take them tumbling back to the dark days of early autumn, 1977. It was a miserable time: there were clashes on the picket line at Grunwick, inflation was sprinting away at 13%, Elvis had just died and a band called Baccara were at Number One with Yes Sir, I Can Boogie. And then, as if to lift the spirits of a nation, along came the most unlikely, the most baffling, the most downright weird news story. A Mormon missionary from Utah called Kirk Anderson, who was going door-to-door in Ewell, Surrey, was kidnapped at gunpoint by McKinney, a former cheerleader and beauty queen from North Carolina. With the help of a friend, Keith May, McKinney drugged Anderson with chloroform and drove him to a rented 17th century cottage near Okehampton, Devon. There the unfortunate young man was chained, spreadeagled, to a bed, with several pairs of mink-lined handcuffs, and over the next few days he was repeatedly required to have sex with McKinney, who later explained that she had been keen to bear his child. Eventually the missionary wriggled free, dashed from the cottage and alerted police, who set up roadblocks around Okehampton, capturing both beauty queen and friend. The pair were charged with false imprisonment and possession of an imitation .38 revolver, and brought before Epsom magistrates. McKinney explained at the commital proceedings that she had fallen head over heels for Anderson when they were at college together in Utah, adding: "I loved him so much that I would ski naked down Mount Everest in the nude with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to." She had hired a private detective, tracked Anderson down and came to Britain with May. The paper says that McKinney and her accomplice were both bailed and fled to Canada disguised as mime artists. After crossing the border from Canada she travelled to Atlanta, Georgia, where she went into hiding, disguised as a nun, according to some accounts. Then she returned to the tiny town of Minneapolis on the North Carolina-Tennessee border, where her parents had been schoolteachers, and moved on to her late grandparents' wooden farmhouse. In 1984 she was arrested after Anderson spotted her loitering near his place of work in Salt Lake City. When the police searched the boot of her car they found a length of rope and a pair of handcuffs, but charges against her were dropped after she once again jumped bail. The Guardian concludes: Anderson himself married after returning to Utah, and found work as a travel agent in the small town of Orem. And by and large, McKinney has also led a blameless life over the past three decades. She could not be contacted for comment yesterday, but when a British reporter tracked her down and spoke to her nine years ago she said: "Now everybody understands, and they know what it means to have the paparazzi chasing around after you. I cried all night when Diana died. I may be just an ol' farm girl, but I've hit that wall with her. Everywhere I go, people will always remember me as a woman who did the unthinkable. Just try to imagine what that feels like." In theory, however, McKinney remains a fugitive from British justice, and after breaking her cover to hail the success of the scientists in Soeul, could face extradition to stand trial back at Epsom. Is this possible? We asked Scotland Yard. The young woman - clearly too young - who answered the call, listened patiently for a few minutes. "I'm sorry," she said finally. "I haven't a clue what you're talking about." You could not make it up. Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:53:00 GMT http://www.wikio.com/search/Ian+McKinney?rinfoid=67078405 2008-08-08T09:53:00Z