Perfect Victim
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4.3 • 6 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
A true story of riveting psychological intensity by the assistant D.A. who prosecuted the captor of "the girl in the box".
Called the "sex slave," and "the girl in the box" case, this is the story behind Colleen Stan's terrifying, seven-year-long imprisonment by Cameron Hooker as told by the district attorney who tried the case. Too bizarre to be anything but true, it is a tale of riveting intensity and gripping courtroom drama.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hitchhiking from Eugene, Ore., through northern California in 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan thumbed a ride into hell. Her kidnappersa sadistic lumber mill worker, Cameron Hooker, and his battered wife Janicesubjected her to seven years of torture and sensory deprivation. She was made a sex slave, kept locked in a wooden box and brainwashed into believing that an underground network of sadists would recapture her if she attempted to escape. Did Colleen fall in love with Cameron and make herself a willing partner in a love triangle, as the Hookers' defense lawyer asserted? The jury found otherwise, convinced by the evidence marshalled by coauthor McGuire, state prosecutor in the case, a trial that journalist Norton attended in 1984. Not for the squeamish, this harrowing tale shuttles between the courtroom and the grisly doings in the Hookers' basement.
Customer Reviews
WOW
This book is extremely graphic. In my worst imagination I can not imagine what she went through and survived. In my opinion, Hooker should have been given the death penalty, or at the very least put in general population. If he was raped constantly and beat up, it might just give him an insight as to what Miss Stan went through. I agree he was miss-wired. Had to have been. And if Miss Stan reads this, you are in my prayers. Good luck, and God Bless.