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Thursday, August 07, 2008 --- 119 days ago http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2008/08/cloned-dogs-kidnappin
| Heavens above! Do we now have proof that anyone who desperately wants to clone people or pets might just be two olives short of a pizza? Yesterday, when I appeared on a UK chat show discussing the world's first commercially cloned dogs , little did I or my hosts suspect that the American woman who owned the new clones might be a fugitive from the UK. I was discussing how Bernann McKinney had paid $50,000 to have her deceased pet pit-bull, Booger, cloned by RNL Bio , the cloning company in Seoul, South Korea, founded by disgraced Korean cloning expert, Woo Suk Hwang . We watched cheesy news footage of the five cloned puppies, followed by McKinney drooling over how wonderful they were. "That's really cute," I said to the chat-show hostess. Yet today, that same woman, has been cast in a totally different light after some digging by the UK newspaper, the Daily Mail . Their online story asks whether Bernann McKinney is actually Joyce McKinney , still wanted in the UK for her part in a bizarre kidnapping case 30 years ago. In 1978, Joyce McKinney skipped bail and escaped to the US following her part in what became known as the "Mormon Sex Slave Case", in which a male Mormon missionary was kidnapped, bound to a bed with mink handcuffs and repeatedly forced to have sex. Joyce McKinney was re-arrested in the US in 1979, but the UK failed to press for forced extradition. By the late 1990s, according to the Mail , Joyce McKinney was back in ... |
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