Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box by Christine McGuire and Carla Norton

A shocking case of captivity and survival

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In 1977, Colleen Stan accepted a lift while hitchhiking and disappeared into years of captivity at the hands of Cameron and Janice Hooker. Held through violence, confinement and psychological coercion, she endured circumstances that would later become the centre of a disturbing criminal case. Prosecutor Christine McGuire and writer Carla Norton reconstruct her experience and the investigation that followed, tracing how control was maintained and how the truth eventually emerged. The account moves from the private world of the captors to the demands of proving the case in court. It is a detailed true-crime narrative about prolonged abuse, survival and the difficult process of bringing an extraordinary crime to light.