Dog Cloner Wanted In Tennessee

Remember Joyce Bernann McKinney is the woman who had her pit bull cloned and the publicity linked her to the Mormon sex slave kidnapping case in Britain back in the 1970s.

Now she has been charged in Carter County, Tennessee, with criminal conspiracy for a burglary plot in 2004. It's alleged tha she instructed a 15-year-old boy to break into and burglarize a house so she could get money to buy a prosthetic leg for her beloved three-legged horse.

According to her attorney, David Crockett, McKinney faces charges of criminal conspiracy to commit aggravated burglary, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and failure to appear in court.

McKinney was arrested in November 2004 in Tennessee in a van with the 15-year-old, according to a Carter County Sheriff's Department arrest report.

McKinney, then living across the state line in Avery County, N.C., needed money to help her three-legged horse, Crockett said.

"She loved it dearly," Crockett said. "She was a rather bizarre character, and seems to have a strange circumstance now."

He recalled that McKinney had two or three dogs in her car when she conferred with him about her case.

"There was a strong aroma about her, and I told her this needed to be taken care of before I went to court with her," Crockett said.

When your lawyer says that you stink and discusses it with the media, it's probably time to find a new lawyer. In any event, Joyce Bernann McKinney has a demonstrated history of making questionable decisions.