Joyce Mckinney and the Case of the Manacled Mormon

Academy Award-winning movie maker Errol Morris has premiered his latest, super-production, Tabloid, in Toronto and London. And – as a star attraction – it will be featured at the world-famous Sundance Film Festival on July 15 ... but the picture still hasn't yet been distributed and released to the general public. It's Errol's favourite piece of work to date and, maybe, in a year or so, it'll see the light of day at a cinema near you.
So it's with sincere apologies to...
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Academy Award-winning movie maker Errol Morris has premiered his latest, super-production, Tabloid, in Toronto and London. And – as a star attraction – it will be featured at the world-famous Sundance Film Festival on July 15 ... but the picture still hasn't yet been distributed and released to the general public. It's Errol's favourite piece of work to date and, maybe, in a year or so, it'll see the light of day at a cinema near you.
So it's with sincere apologies to Errol and his dedicated team of movie experts, intrepid researchers and skilled interviewers that BeWrite Books today spills the beans, by beating him to it with the first ebook publication of the story that inspired this insightful and intriguing – sometimes shocking – documentary.
You can now read Anthony Delano's warts-n-all, blow-by-blow insider account of the whole murky and hilarious shebang : Joyce McKinney and the Case of the Manacled Mormon. It's also available in paperback from Revel Barker Publishing.
US beauty queen Joyce McKinney hit the international headlines in the seventies when, love-struck by a straight-laced Mormon missionary, she – and a devoted minder – stalked him to England, kidnapped him (magic Mormon underpants and all) and manacled him to a bed in a remote country cottage while Joyce had her kinky way with him, and he – presumably – thought of Utah and hummed tunes from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
She skipped bail and fled home to America under one of her many exotic aliases before she could be fully tried for what amounted to charges of the abduction and serial rape by a beautiful woman of a helpless, God-fearing man she held captive and chained to her love bed.
Great tabloid newspaper fodder was that. And, wow, did it hit the headlines! But Joyce herself is just one act in the circus ring. The real stars – both of the book and the movie – are the expert trapeze artists, jugglers and lion-tamers, the crafty and skilled journalists who competed, daggers drawn (until the pubs opened and they were all pals again), to unravel the weirdest tale even the most hard-bitten had encountered.
Delano's book (which Morris bought for 300 bucks as a collector's piece when the first edition was out of print) tells all in this extended and updated edition ... the tragedy, the travesty, the mystery and the almost unbelievably comic.
Joyce, of course, is now back in the world news because of the movie, this book ... and because her true identity was discovered accidentally when she boasted on TV of having a litter of puppies cloned from the severed ear of her dead pet dog. That is one time she wasn't telling fibs and little black lies. Even though she'd assumed yet another alias and changed her appearance to spread the cloning tale, baby-boomers clocked her at a glance.
Joyce McKinney is what we called in the world press hub of Fleet Street 'good value'. Her secrets – and those of the newspaper wolf-pack that followed, and continue to follow, her every move – are told in this internationally released and mind-bogglingly unique third title in the BeWrite Books' ebook 'Hack-Lit' series in collaboration with RBP Publishing of London. Price of two pints of best bitter beer in ebook, maybe four pints in print.
Oh, and apologies to Joyce, too (she prefers to be called Joy 'like in the hymn, doncha'll know?') She hates the book and detests the movie. Says it makes her look bad ... as though anything could make her more laughable and outrageous than she made herself. Lots of fun is Joy. Plausible she ain't. At least not always. Pick out the truth from the whoppers yourself. It's not exactly a challenging exercise to sift the wheat from the chaff in Delano's book.