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The Mormon Sex In Chains Case - September 17 2025

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Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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September 17th: Kirk Anderson Found (1977) Not all legally historic cases involve murders. On September 17th 1977 a man came to the police with a harrowing story. One that shocked the public and had no real legal basis for prosecution. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manacled_Mormon_case, https://www.grunge.com/1178046/the-manacled-mormon-case-how-an-american-beauty-queen-enraptured-the-british-tabloids/, https://www.crimelibrary.org/criminal_mind/sexual_assault/joyce-mckinney/joy-to-the-world.html, https://glenn-stewartm.medium.com/joyce-mckinney-and-the-manacled-mormon-bd45169b9b6d, https://www.dailynews.com/2020/04/02/woman-accused-of-running-over-holocaust-survivor-in-san-fernando-valley-has-led-a-tabloid-life/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.9

Not all legally historic cases involve murders.

0:18.9

On September 17, 1977, a man came to the police with a harrowing story,

0:25.1

one that shocked the public and had no real legal basis for prosecution. So, if you like your

0:31.6

coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day with a morning cup of murder.

0:38.5

On September 17, 1977, a young man named Kirk Anderson made a bizarre and truly terrifying

0:46.4

claim to police in Surrey, England.

0:49.1

He claimed that three days earlier, he was abducted from the steps of a meeting house of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

0:56.7

by a man who claimed he was investigating Mormonism and who was carrying a fake gun in one hand and chloroform in the other.

1:07.2

Kirk was then taken to a cottage in Devon, where for three days he was held against his will by a woman named Joyce Vernon McKinney.

1:17.2

A woman who made attempts to seduce him, sexually assaulted him repeatedly while he was tied to a bed and raped him.

1:26.0

He claimed that she came into the room where he was manacled to the bed

1:29.3

wearing negligee and tore at his clothing until he was nude, that he laid there powerless

1:35.8

to her advances for three days, and that she performed non-consensual oral sex on him,

1:42.2

and forcibly had intercourse with him while saying he could not leave

1:45.8

until she was pregnant. Kirk said that she only let her guard down when he finally agreed to marry her

1:52.1

and seizing the opportunity, he made his escape. The case when the news spread became known as the

1:59.6

manacled Mormon case or the Mormon Sex in Chains case.

2:05.6

And who was the woman at the center of this entire thing?

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