Perfect Victim Author:Christine McGuire, Carla Norton Colleen Stan was a sweet-natured, lively twenty-year-old on the day in 1977 she decided to hitchhike from her home in Oregon to see a friend in California. Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and extraordinary crime. Kidnappers, Cameron and Janice Hooker, had literally made her their slave -- and forced her to endure... more » all of Cameron's twisted sexual perversions.
This is the incredible, true story of Colleen's ordeal and of the strange marriage between Cameron, a well-liked mill worker, and his young wife, Janice -- who knew too well her husband's secret, sadistic appetites. During the seven years Colleen was their slave, they raised two children, entertained their friends at home, and held down jobs -- while Colleen was held captive in a coffinlike box under their bed.
This is also the true story of Christine McGuire, the determined young deputy district attorney who prosecuted Cameron Hooker in what became known around the world as the "Sex Slave" and "Girl in the Box" case, and who found herself faced with disturbing questions:
How had such an astounding crime gone undetected for so long?
Why did Colleen, despite numerous opportunities, never escape?
Could the prison have actually fallen in love with her captor?
To overcome these doubts and bring Cameron Hooker to justice, Christine McGuire would have to prove to a skeptical jury what no other attorney had ever successfully proven: that a brainwashed mind can be enslaved as much as a woman in a box.
A story of riveting psychological intensity, fascinating legal implications, and compelling drama, Perfect Victim reveals what really happened during Colleen Stan's seven-year nightmare -- and the trail that made national headlines.« less