“I loved him so much that I would have climbed Everest for him with a violet on my nose”: the story of insane passion Joyce McKinney (16 photos + 1 video)
What can a woman go to for love? A story of crazy passion Joyce McKinney, who hunted her lover for years, proves that a lot. Like a smart and quiet girl who lost virginity at 25, became the hero of a sex scandal? Why queen beauty fell in love with a Mormon and was ready to follow him to the ends of the earth? How did this crazy story of passionate love, which the media turned into a porn thriller? 
Most love stories tend to be told about lofty feelings, devotion and self-sacrifice. But sometimes the feeling is implicated in selfishness, insane passion, cruelty and even crime. One of the brightest and ambiguous examples can be the story of Joyce's crazy love McKinney to Kirk Anderson.
How it all started 
Joyce McKinney as a teenager.
Joyce McKinney was born in a small town in the state North Carolina. She was one of those right girls who only date successful men go out marry them, live in a cozy house behind a white fence and quite happy with their lives. Joyce started walking late dating, participated in a program for children with high intellect. By the way, her IQ was 168. 
Already grown-up Joyce with her parents.
Joyce McKinney's parents worked at the school: her father was director, and his mother taught English. At 22 the girl became the winner of a beauty contest in Wyoming. 
Clever and beautiful McKinney received two diplomas at once: first graduated from the University of North Carolina, and then the university Brigham, Utah, where her family moved for permanent residence. It was the very center of the Mormon communities. Fatal not only for her, but also for Kirk Anderson was 1975 - the beginning of a crazy, criminal and all-consuming love. Joyce lusted after the young and a shy Mormon parishioner.
Love flame
Kirk Andeson did not give the impression of a male standard beauty. He was rather overweight, above average height, shy and the janitor's angular son. Regardless, Joyce McKinney possessed by an insane passion. She already made plans for the future came up with names for joint children and did not think of options further life without the object of his passion. As a result, 19-year-old the guy could not refuse the 25-year-old beautiful blonde. 
Joyce McKinney and Kirk Anderson
They were in love with each other, lost their virginity together but the young Mormon was tormented by pangs of conscience because of the premarital affair. His parents condemned the relationship with a woman who is older than their son for 6 years. In addition, the laws of the Mormon sect strictly forbade premarital sex. It got crushing a blow to the fiery passion of a woman for a man.
The Pursuit of Happyness
When Kirk repented to his confessor, members of the Mormon sects decided that the young man needed to be urgently rescued and taken away away from this "sinful" connection. On the instructions of the elders, the young man went to California to carry there as a missionary parishioners the Word of God. 
members of the Mormon community.
But Joyce McKinney found her lover and there - passion flared up with renewed vigor. Soon Kirk Anderson was transferred to Oregon, but a passionately in love beauty queen “Miraculously” ended up there too. After that it was decided send an unfortunate lover across the ocean to Europe. 
“I loved him so much that I would have climbed Everest for him with a violet on my nose,” said Joyce McKinney.
This time it was very difficult for the girl to find out where her lover. I had to hire private detectives. But despite despite their efforts, the young man could not be found. Money ended, and attempts to find Kirk ended in nothing. Joyce went to Hollywood with the hope of making a career there, becoming star and earn the necessary funds. 
“She was stunningly beautiful. I madly desired her, but she only dreamed about Kirk. Apart from him, for her there was nowho,” recalled one of her friends of that time.
Alas, Hollywood rejected the blonde in love. Then persistent beauty decided to earn some money by participating in dubious photo shoots for obscene magazines. Later these photos will be published by almost all media outlets of the Old and New Worlds. 
In her quest to have the person she loves, Joyce McKinney does not stopped at nothing. She even started working as a girl call to get money for detectives and find my beloved, but in principle dealt with clients exclusively oral sex. If they wanted a classic contact, help Joyce was visited by a Russian student, Lola.
"I just wanted to save Kirk"
First of all, a passionate and loving woman tried free Kirk from the influence of Mormon ideology. She wanted to do his beloved "happy" in the proper sense of this the words. The search for Anderson was nevertheless crowned with success, but for Joyce needed an assistant to achieve her goal. 
Joyce McKinney and her accomplice in the kidnapping, Keith May in love with her
She found him through a newspaper ad in the face 22-year-old architect Keith May, to whom the girl told her dramatic love story. This guy became obsessed with Joyce, just like and she was Kirk. May was filled with understanding and compassion. His I was not even embarrassed by the fake pistol in the suitcase with things. The man realized that persuasion alone would not solve the issue. and agreed to participate in the adventure.
Abduction of a loved one
It happened on September 14, 1977. According to Joyce, Kirk, seeing her, was incredibly glad and immediately sat down into the car to follow his beloved. However, Mormon told a completely different story: he was approached man and, threatening with a pistol, ordered to follow him. When he got into the car, they put him to sleep with chloroform, and woke up he is already in a house. 
And in a cozy love nest, everything was ready for receiving a welcome guest. Favorite food, drinks, luxurious bed. And so that the guest does not take it into his head to suddenly leave this "paradise", he was handcuffed with a long chain.
Joyce McKinney warned her chosen one that he would stay here for one, two or three months until she becomes pregnant. After three days of lovemaking, the exhausted Kirk vowed to marry on Joyce. The woman believed and released the prisoner. 
But the treacherous lover immediately ran away and went to the police for help. Three days later, a couple of kidnappers were arrested.
British media sensationalized sex scandal
Joyce took the first lines of newspapers, became the main character British news. Journalists, having fun, put forward dozens of versions, trying to understand how an average height girl weighing 50 kg could rape a man under two meters tall and weighing 107 kg? Whole bags of letters were brought to Joyce's cell from enthusiastic men with appeals: "Kidnap me!" - with address and attached a detailed description of how to get there. 
With the scandal, indecent pictures of Joyce, which she took to earn money for detectives, surfaced.
The tabloids of the United Kingdom have been savoring this for a very long time. history. All publications wrote about her: a spectacular blonde, obsessed passion for the Mormon missionary, became the focus of attention in Britain throughout the whole year. Unfortunately girls The Daily Mirror tabloid found and published her photographs in bondage and told not only about her model past, but also about how she traded the body.
Judgment and escape
Under British law, Joyce McKinney and Keith May could be punished for kidnapping and unlawful imprisonment using fake firearms. accusation in actual rape rejected - of this kind crimes like rape by a woman of a man in Criminal the code of this country did not exist. 
Sobbing Joyce hides from annoying reporters.
The criminals were released under an insignificant size bail, but at the court session, which was to be held May 2, 1977, they did not appear. Later it turned out that the couple on fake passports as part of an acting troupe of the deaf and dumb went to Ireland, and then through Canada to the USA. The unlucky mistress was soon arrested, but Britana authorities in memory of an unusual story and a tragic denouement did not demand her extradition.
Another meeting with a loved one
The unexpected and final meeting of the madly in love Joyce and fanatically loyal to the Mormons Kirk was held in 1984 at one of Anderson's sermons in Salt Lake City. He immediately recognized his "torturer" in the crowd of parishioners and reported to the police. When arrested in a car McKinney was found to have a chain and handcuffs. 
Joyce McKinney after her arrest in 1984.
The police suggested that the voluptuous lady was plotting again kidnapping "for love". She was warned that another attempt might result in a hefty fine or even imprisonment.
Film "Tabloid"
In 2010, the world once again remembered about the "stealer of men." Documentary maker Errol Morris made a film "Tabloid", in which he tried to trace the fate of the main characters those events. What do they say and think about the events of those days 30 over a year later?
Kirk Anderson got a wife and children and flatly refused to meet with documentarians. Mormon the preacher erased those three days in the "love nest". Joyce was enthusiastic to filming a film about yourself. 60 year old woman so far still sure that Kirk loved her. She is such a family and did not create, because in addition to her Mormon she had no one is needed. 
Joyce McKinney, 60, in the documentary Tabloid.
“Those were the three happiest days of my life. It was true romantic love. But the Mormons for the second time Kirk was taken from me, and my heart has been broken ever since. I don't blame him for anything, it was the Mormons who made him tell all those terrible lies about me. I loved him, and now I love him, and I just want to tell the world my the truth,” she says to the camera.
It is difficult to assess this sensational story in its time. For some, Joyce McKinney is a sexually obsessed maniac, a place who is in a madhouse. And for others, this is a story about a big love and a woman ready for anything for her. Everyone can to see in this "saga" what he wants, that's how to look.
