Perfect Victim

Perfect Victim
Christine McGuire (Author), Carla Norton (Author)
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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 anythin g but true, it is a tale of riveting intensity and gripping courtroom drama.

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• Published on: 2013-03-12
• Released on: 2013-03-12
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Description #1 by Biblio.com:

True Crime. PAPERBACK. 0352325615 Editorial ReviewsnnAmazon ReviewnSome may find it unbelievable that a 20-year-old Oregon woman could be enslaved by a sexual sadist for seven years--that even after being able to move freely during the day she would allow him to lock her into a wooden box every night. Perhaps it's a minor failing of this book that the authors do not elaborate on the psychology that made her such a perfect victim. In other respects though the story is well told with an impressive accumulation of details: the woman's capture the tortures she endured the brainwashing techniques the fiendish contraptions her captor constructed the slave contract he made her sign and the increasingly strained relations within the peculiar family that included master slave wife and child all inside a single-wide trailer. As well-known attorney and author Vincent Bugliosi writes A gripping and disturbing story of the secret life of apparently normal people. At once horrific and engrossing. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.nnFrom Publishers WeeklynHitchhiking 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.nCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. . Very Good.

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Perfect Victim

Description #3 by Booksforcomfort.com:

Perfect Victim published by Arbor House Publishing Co, NY, 1988. Book Club Edition. Hardbound w/Paper DJ. Size 8vo (up to 9-1/2'' tall). 261 Pgs. Condition: VG in Chipped DJ. Orig owners book plate pasted inside front cover. By Christine McGuire and Carla Norton. A true story of riveting psychological intensity by the assistant DA who prosecuted the captor of the ''Girl in the Box''. Illustrated with photographs. Description text copyright 2000 www.BooksForComfort.com. Item ID 2792.