Eat your heart out, Weekly World News
From the Department of You Can’t Make This Stuff Up:
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.
McKinney made news around the world this summer when she had five pups cloned in South Korea from her beloved pit bull Booger.
One wonders if the Raelians were involved.
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In 2007 I became the fourth subject in Harvard geneticist George Church's Personal Genome Project. As the PGP moves forward, I am chronicling the dawn of personal genomics, that is, people obtaining their genomic information for whatever reason(s) and figuring out what to do with it. I am interested in the relevant technologies and especially the attendant privacy and other ethical/legal/social issues.
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