Love Sick Leo: If I Can't Have You

Signs of Danger: A True Crime Astrology Podcast · Aug 6, 2026 · 35m

In 1977, a former beauty queen from North Carolina flew to England with fake passports and a plan so baroque it belonged in a novel nobody would publish. She found the man she loved — a young Mormon missionary the church had transferred abroad, in part to get him away from her — and forced him into a car at what he described as gunpoint. She drove him to a rented cottage in Devon. According to his testimony, she chained him to a bed with mink-lined handcuffs for three days.

Joyce McKinney sold nude photographs of herself and performed bondage services for strangers to fund the trip. She…