Former Beauty Titlist Charged in Deception
A former beauty queen accused in the 1977 kidnaping and rape of a Mormon missionary in England must stand trial on a charge of giving false information to police, a judge has ruled.
Third District Judge Timothy R. Hanson did not set a trial date for Joyce McKinney, court clerk Evelyn Thompson said Friday. Details of the ruling were not immediately available.
McKinney, 33, was accused of abducting and assaulting Kirk Anderson, 29, while he was on a mission in England for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She fled before being brought to trial and British officials have not sought extradition.
McKinney, who was Miss Wyoming in 1973, was arrested last June outside the Western Airlines commissary in Salt Lake City where Anderson worked.
Police said Anderson told them that McKinney had been shadowing him, and that he feared she was planning to abduct him again.
The false information charge stemmed from police reports that McKinney, from Asheville, N.C., had identified herself as Susan Castrilli.
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