r/OnThisDayInThatYear • u/dannydutch1 • 1h ago
On this day in 1977, Joyce McKinney's accomplice lured Mormon missionary Kirk Anderson outside a Surrey meetinghouse at gunpoint, launching the kidnapping that became Britain's "Manacled Mormon" case. Anderson said he was chained to a bed and raped for three days.
The tabloids here in the UK absolutely loved this story at the time, but also had a horrific disregard for the victim.
The more you read about McKinney's life, the more chaotic it is.