Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. That Prosecuted Her Captor
by Christine McGuire, Carla Norton
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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
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- ISBN13: 9780440204428
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. That Prosecuted Her Captor
Book Review: A mediocre effort...
Summary: 2 Stars
Tbe book is an easy read and a good passing of time. In relation to the content of the book, at times it tends to drag and is boring. Frankly dont buy the story of a wife can tolerate bringing another woman and being shocked when she finds that husband has been sleeping with the victim. THe syndrome of victims falling in love with captors is known, but this was no child.. She was an eighteen year old woman. Seeing that all is well now, but this is not a particular book that I will recommend as its pure speculation. A person who was left out of the house and did not escape but once told by wife all the stories of the "company" was fake springing to action, this seems like its all dramatics...
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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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