The Salt Lake Tribune
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Joyce's infamy fades again
A South Korean lab that cloned a pit bull says the revelation that its famous client had a sordid background will not change the way it does business.

The dog lover known around the world, Bernann McKinney, admitted she was Joyce McKinney, a former Miss Wyoming who became a tabloid sensation in 1977 when she faced charges for kidnapping a Mormon missionary in England and forcing him to have sex with her. She jumped bail and was never brought to justice. British authorities say the case is too old to revive.

Ra Jeong Chan, the head of RNL Bio, says that even if he had known about McKinney's record, it would not have changed his decision to clone her pet:

There was no reason to check her background.
Ra went on to speculate that the cloned pets could possibly help people with criminal records find stability, preventing future crimes.

The Joyce/Bernann McKinney story was quickly eclipsed in South Korean media by the country's on-going medal tally in the Beijing Olympics.

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