Tabloid Page #2
# I hope they call me
on a mission #
You leave as a boy.
You come back as a man.
For Kirk, when he reaches
the age of 19,
he doesn't get whisked away
from Joyce.
He's just fulfilling
his religious spiritual
responsibilities.
Joyce knew where he'd gone
and set up this plan
with her strange,
unexplained friend Keith May
to come over to the U.K.
I had a really good friend
from Torrance, California.
He was an architect,
and his name
Everybody called him "K.J."
K.J. Was like my big brother,
and he said to me,
"I don't want you going over
there to England by yourself."
Said, "You don't know what
they're gonna do to ya."
All I knew
is this powerful group
had done something
to the man I loved.
We got two bodyguards
to go with us.
One was a big guy that was...
what do you call...
a body-builder guy.
And the other was a pilot.
I was interested in something
a little bit more exciting
than what I was doing.
I saw an ad in the newspaper.
short trips in England,
and it sounded kind
of interesting to me.
and a gentleman answered,
and an appointment was made
for the following week.
I was expecting to go
to an office
or something like that,
but it turned out to be
an apartment building.
I was taken in by a gentleman
by the name of Keith.
And after I was there
for a few minutes,
why, Joyce came out.
Tell me about
that first meeting.
Well, I was
favorably impressed.
She had a totally
see-through blouse on.
I can even remember the color.
It was a light brown,
totally see-through blouse.
No bra?
- No bra,
see-through blouse.
She was very, very easy
to talk to.
At one point, she came over
and sat down next to me.
I was trying to perceive
what type of relationship
existed between Keith and her
at that point.
Perhaps maybe down the line,
I might want to ask this girl
out for dinner or something.
Joyce had a trunk
that she brought out,
and in it were folders,
pictures, tablets,
letters from a private
investigator in England.
She then unraveled a story to me
that was just unreal.
Joyce had hired bodyguards,
she told me, from Gold's Gym.
She was gonna put 'em up
while they were there
in England,
and they were going to liberate
her fianc from this cult group.
In the back of my mind,
I was trying to figure out how
she could have all this money
to take all these people
to England.
She told me she was a model.
I didn't realize models
made that kind of money.
We actually hired some guys
to go with us from Los Angeles
in case we were attacked
or anything.
I didn't know
what was gonna happen.
I didn't know what
I didn't know if they would
release him willingly or what.
I didn't know if they would
do something to hurt me.
I didn't know.
Joyce called me
and wanted to know
if I would fly her someplace in
an airplane locally for dinner.
I thought it might possibly be
an overnight trip or something,
and I was more than up for that.
But when Joyce showed up,
much to my surprise,
Keith was with her.
I felt this was a time
that I could try to make
a determination
on how real she was
and her financial ability.
So I did rent the most expensive
airplane that was possible,
single-engine,
a Beechcraft A36 Bonanza.
When you rent an airplane
like that,
you have to give 'em
a credit card,
and they lock in the approximate
amount it was gonna be.
Joyce didn't have a credit card.
But she did bring out
an envelope
filled with
hundred-dollar bills.
That brought me
a little bit closer to realizing
maybe she has the money to do
what she wants to do.
So we flew down to San Diego.
We had dinner,
and we flew back.
Didn't stay the night.
No.
No.
Keith was with her, and so...
That's not for me.
I take it that you
were attracted to Joyce.
Yes.
She was in her late 20s,
had an outstanding figure,
had a Southern accent,
long blonde hair.
Any heterosexual male
would be attracted to Joyce.
Prior to our departure from
they wanted me
to meet the bodyguard.
His name was Gil.
Gil would come to their place.
then we would go down
to the beach.
Then they told me the beach they
were going to was a nude beach.
Well, I've never been
to a nude beach,
a little bit.
Joyce spread out a blanket
and proceeded to take off
all her clothes.
Totally.
Very quickly,
three to four guys showed up
around the blanket
and started taking pictures.
I don't know
where they came from.
Joyce protested,
tried to stop them.
She claimed
that she was a model,
and she didn't want photographs
taken of her.
After about 15 minutes,
Joyce put on her clothes,
and we left the beach.
And so we met at Los Angeles
International Airport.
Keith May was there,
Joyce McKinney,
Gil Parker, and myself.
First off, Gil Parker
had a problem
when he went through customs.
They asked him
what his occupation was,
and he told 'em
he was a bodyguard.
And they said, "For who?"
And they said,
"For Joyce and Keith."
Well, that put up a red flag,
evidently, in customs,
and they pulled him out.
Well, that scared Gil
right there.
Then, on the second day, we were
in a motel room together,
and Joyce had a lot of baggage.
with so many bags.
And they took out
wireless microphone
and listening devices.
Surprised me.
I wasn't sure what they
were going to use it for.
It was something you
could probably
just have carried
through customs,
but they had it inside
of a portable radio.
Well, when Gil seen this,
that about did it for him.
That was when
he called me outside
and said he wanted to go back
the next day.
The private investigator
had told Joyce
where Kirk was at,
into some of these places
where this cult group
was supposed to be,
ask questions,
and it would be transmitted out
to Joyce in the car...
wirelessly.
Keith May and I, we wanted to
go out a little bit on our own,
so busy, we couldn't,
so one day, she...
Keeping you so busy?
Yeah, driving places,
checking out places,
walking places.
She had this wig,
this wig she called "Matilda."
And she'd wear this strange wig
when we'd go out driving
sometime and sunglasses.
And any time we'd go down near
one of these churches
where they were trying
to find out
if Kirk was gonna be
at that church
or if that was one
he frequented,
she'd have that wig on.
We were across,
in front of a building.
Outcome two young men
dressed in suits,
a tie, and a white shirt.
And she told me,
"There is Kirk."
Well, I was totally surprised.
This was nobody
being held captive.
And that's when Joyce
kind of leveled with me.
She showed me a bottle
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