ASSOCIATED PRESS: A woman who made headlines by having five pups cloned and was linked to an abduction case in England is also wanted in Tennessee on charges she tried to plan a burglary in 2004, a defense attorney and prosecutors there said. Joyce Bernann McKinney was charged in Carter County with criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and failure to appear in court, said attorney David Crockett, who represented her in the Tennessee case. Authorities there said she instructed a 15-year-old boy to break into a house, and Crockett said she needed the money to buy a false leg for a beloved horse.
McKinney [pictured with clone pup, right] was arrested in November 2004 in Tennessee in a van with the 15-year-old, according to a Carter
County Sheriff’s Department arrest report. McKinney, then living across the state line in Avery County, N.C., needed money to help her three-legged horse, Crockett said. “She loved it dearly,” Crockett said. “She was a rather bizarre character, and seems to have a strange circumstance now.” He recalled that McKinney had two or three dogs in her car when she conferred with him about her case. “There was a strong aroma about her, and I told her this needed to be taken care of before I went to court with her,” Crockett said.
McKinney made news around the world this summer when she had five pups cloned in South Korea from her beloved pit bull Booger. She later confirmed she was Joyce McKinney, who in 1977 became a British tabloid sensation over the kidnapping case. She faced charges of unlawful imprisonment after she was accused of abducting a Mormon missionary in England, handcuffing him to a bed and making him her sex slave. She jumped bail and was never brought to justice. MORE