Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. That Prosecuted Her Captor
by Carla Norton, Christine McGuire
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Author: Carla Norton, Christine McGuireEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1989-07-01
ISBN: 0440204429
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: Dell
Book Reviews of Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. That Prosecuted Her Captor
Book Review: Creepy, scary and true!
Summary: 4 Stars
I read this many years ago and still cannot believe this could happen to anyone. How she endured those years is amazing. Great read, will stay with you long after your done reading it. I will never except a ride from anyone even if I break down in the middle of no where after reading this!
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Summary of Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. That Prosecuted Her Captor
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. 8 page photo insert. Soon to be a TV miniseries. HC: Arbor House.Some 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."
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