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On cult leader, I strive for telling stories

in a truthful matter, though press, media,

and other resources cannot always be verified.

Sources can be found in the show notes. Oh, I'm not. Hello and welcome week we've got a story of a beauty

Spencer Henry and this week we've got a story of a beauty queen gone bad

and I promise no I actually guarantee that you have no idea where this story is going

you might think you know there's gonna be parts where you're like whoa that's really crazy

is that where this ends and it's not where it ends this is the

story of Joyce McKinney and it's one of tabloids seduction and absolute chaos

so we're just gonna get right into it because we got a seduction and absolute chaos.

So we're just gonna get right into it

because we got a lot of ground to cover today.

Joyce McKinney grew up in a small town

in North Carolina, Avery County, to be specific, raised by her parents, Davis and Mamie McKinney,

both of whom were school teachers. She was their only child, the apple of their eye.

And from a young age age she really wanted to be something. She loved to

entertain. Her parents ended up putting her into beauty pageants when she was a

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