Because McKinney and her accomplice, Keith May, skipped bail and fled to the United States before the case could be tried and were not extradited, they were never tried for these specific crimes.

[7] Three days later, a freed Anderson made a report to police that he had been driven to a cottage in Devon and chained to a bed against his will, at which point Joyce Bernann McKinney [8][9][10][11] had attempted to seduce and then raped him.

"[12] At the committal hearing, she stated of Anderson: "I loved him so much that I would ski naked down Mount Everest in the nude with a carnation up my nose if he asked me to.

[14][15] Under the Sexual Offences Act 1956, then in force in the United Kingdom, no crime of rape was deemed to have been committed since the victim was male; however, indecent assault of a man did apply.

On 18 July 1979, May and McKinney were both arrested in the US by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on charges of making false statements in order to obtain passports.

[22] The case was documented in Joyce McKinney and the Manacled Mormon,[23] a book by Anthony Delano in 1978, who based his work on assembled Daily Mirror coverage.

A search of the vehicle uncovered road maps, rope, handcuffs and notebooks keeping detailed records of Anderson's routines.

[27] After initial denials,[8][28][29] the International Herald Tribune and other publications carried an admission by McKinney that she was the person named in the 1977 case.

[31] The film also gave further details regarding McKinney's work as a call girl, earning funds for her team's international adventure by offering bondage and S&M services around the time she became obsessed with Anderson.

In January 2016, McKinney filed suit against Morris, claiming that she had been misrepresented in the film and that Morris and others related to the documentary's production had broken into her home, stolen personal items related to the case, and threatened the life of her service dog if McKinney did not sign release papers allowing them to use her footage for the film.

In July 2019, the Los Angeles Police Department's Valley Traffic Division (VTD) named McKinney as the person involved in a fatal hit and run that took the life of 91-year-old Gennady Bolotsky.

The incident took place in the North Hollywood neighborhood of Valley Village on Monday, 16 June 2019, at around 5:40 a.m. Bolotsky was walking his dog at a crosswalk on Magnolia Boulevard and Wilkinson Avenue when he was struck by a white 2006 GMC pick-up truck.

On 1 July 2019, the VTD presented their case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney and charged McKinney with assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, hit and run with injury and vehicular manslaughter.