Perfect Victim
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4.2 • 68 Ratings
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
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
Perfect victim
Very gruesome and raw, disturbing but a satisfying ending.
A Perfect Crime Story!
This is a well written book that moves the reader from the past to the present, making it easier to endure the details of the victim’s long ordeal. I could not put this book down!
Could not put it down
I lost sleep reading this book; because it was riveting & revolting. I usually read fiction & wish this was fiction! Well put together, it keeps the reader completely engrossed start to finish