UPDATE Paul Rolly: Is dog cloner same woman accused of raping missionary?

[helderheid]

Cloned puppies owner acknowledges she's Joyce McKinney

By Jennifer Dobner
The Associated Press
Article Last Updated: 08/10/2008 12:28:15 PM MDT

Posted: 12:27 PM- A woman who made news around the world when she had five pups cloned from her beloved pit bull Booger looked very familiar to some who saw her picture: She's the same woman who 31 years earlier was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave.

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."'

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[Drunken Irishman]

1. Only in Utah. :P

[helderheid]

2. LOL!

:hi:

[BuelahWitch]

6. Nope, it happened in England

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Yes, but both were from Utah.

That's where she fell in love with him.

[foo_bar]

3. I think she had the missionary position backwards.

Sorry, filling in for IanDB1.

[helderheid]

4. LMAO! I think she cloned the wrong one!

[bahrbearian]

5. I quess doing something selfish is the same as doing something good.

There are a lot of Pitbulls at the Dog Pound that need a home.

[helderheid]

8. she's batshit crazy.