Colleen Stan "Perfect Victim"
EnNess
book "Perfect Victim" who was abducted while hitchhiking to a friend's house
in 1977 by a married couple working in cahoots, then held captive for 7
years, imprisoned under the most abominal conditions, tortured a multititude
of times over the years as well as sexually abused and assaulted,
half-starved and mentally broken down until she was brain-washed into
believing she had no recourse but to stay with her captors, thus made no
attempt to escape even when many opportunities afforded themselves? For a
large portion of her captivity, she lived in a coffin-like box, housed most
of the time inside a platform holding her captors' waterbed. Much of the
time, she was inside the box 23 hours a day. When allowed out, she worked as
the couple's slave, and was subjected to torment and grotesque abuse by
Cameron Hooker, the sadistic sociopath behind her enslavement.
Hooker was convicted by a California jury in 1985 on multiple counts; the
judge sentenced him to the maximum, which were consecutive sentences adding
up to 104 years. When I read the book, I looked at the sentence and figured,
"Ok, this is probably sufficient...creepo is not likely to walk the streets
again", which is one thing I never want to see happen.
Anyway, I happened upon a program on A&E just by pure chance (I was trying
to find Court TV to catch up on SPeterson closing arguments and couldn't
remember the channel, so I started running through numbers randomly) that
was profiling the case, known by some as "Girl in the Box" or the "Sex
Slave" case. It featured recent interviews with Colleen Stan (now living
under a different name and raising a teenage daughter as a single mom, and
also working F/T and going to school to become an accountant), so I decided
to look at it, out of curiosity. She's gotten kind of chunky and looks like
a woman in middle age, as she is. But she has a very close relationship w/
her daughter -- they seem to adore each other -- and it does seem as though
she's done an amazing job readjusting to life after such a horrendous,
protracted and bizarre ordeal, and that she's basically a very positive
person w/ tremendous determination. She also volunteers for a crisis
hotline, counseling domestic abuse and sexual assault victims.
But here's the part that gave me pause: the report said Cameron Hooker is
enrolled in a work program at which he's excelled (he had superb "shop
class" skills, i.e., carpentry, mechanics, elecrtical wiring, metal welding,
etc, all of which enabled him to devise successful instruments of
enslavement and torture of his victim) and it said he's done so well, he may
be eligible for "early release". That was the end of the story and they said
nothing further.
I about PIMP'd. I don't want to hear this sicko may get out early. I thought
I was going to lose my lunch.
Has anyone else heard about this, or knows more? How "early" is "early" and
how likely are the chances for real of this guy walking the streets again?
If this guy gets out, no way is he going to be able to restrain his psycho
compulsion. He will be out stalking victims for certain, this time as a
serial killer who specializes in abduction-torture-rape-murder.
<shudder> I could barely sleep last night thinking about it.
NS
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nicki
>http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=%22cameron+hooker%22
>
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>"EnNess" <star...@global.net> wrote in message
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>> Most of you know who Colleen Stan is, right? The woman from the
>> prosecutor's book "Perfect Victim" who was abducted while hitchhiking to a
>> friend's house in 1977 by a married couple working in cahoots, then held
>> captive for 7 years, imprisoned under the most abominal conditions,
>> tortured a multititude of times over the years as well as sexually abused
>> and assaulted, half-starved and mentally broken down until she was
>> brain-washed into believing she had no recourse but to stay with her
>> captors, thus made no attempt to escape even when many opportunities
>> afforded themselves? For a large portion of her captivity, she lived in a
>> coffin-like box, housed most of the time inside a platform holding her
>> captors' waterbed. Much of the time, she was inside the box 23 hours a
>> day. When allowed out, she worked as the couple's slave, and was subjected
>> to torment and grotesque abuse by Cameron Hooker, the sadistic sociopath
>> behind her enslavement.
snip
Darn..I wish I had watched it. I saw the title in my tv guide and
wondered if it was about the girl in the box. I watch A&E most nights
and love the crime programs but I have been glued to the Court tv.
marathon this week.
nicki
EnNess
> http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&q=%22cameron+hooker%22
What's this? It's a bunch of URLs to various aspects of the case, all of
them much less recent than what I saw yesterday. None look to provide new
information. I can do a google search as well as anyone.
I appreciate you trying to help, but these links don't answer my question.
: (
EnNess
>>"EnNess" wrote:
>>> Most of you know who Colleen Stan is, right? The woman from the
>>> prosecutor's book "Perfect Victim" who was abducted while hitchhiking
<snip>
> Darn..I wish I had watched it. I saw the title in my tv guide and
> wondered if it was about the girl in the box. I watch A&E most nights
> and love the crime programs but I have been glued to the Court tv.
> marathon this week.
I know...ironic, isn't it? I stumbled on the program purely by accident
while trying to find Peterson closing arguments updates.
The only interesting new stuff on the case was seeing Colleen in her present
life and how remarkably well she's adjusted, and the awful thing about
Cameron Hooker suggesting he might get out one day. The idea makes me
physically ill...literally.
That was the part I'd really like to know more about, but there was nothing.
Also, I went over to the A&E website and they do have a discussion board.
But for some reason, the part designated to American Justice offers no open
discussions...it's all topic questions selected by the host. I looked it
over and there was nothing there about the Colleen Stan case. Very
frustrating. So I thought I'd post here and see if anyone else had caught
this ep, and/or if anyone knew more about this early release thing.
proudmari
An interesting follow-up on Colleen Stan's daughter, Danielle Rodriguez,
(who was also shown and interviewed at the end of the A&E program) can
be found at the following urls. This was a local case for me.
http://www1.redding.com/redd/nw_local/article/0,2232,REDD_17533_3250786,00.html
proudmari
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proudmari
>cro...@earthlink.net
> (<cro...@earthlink.net>)
>is it practicable to post the entire article
> when the site requires time-consuming
> (and unlikely to be used again)
> registration?
My apologies. I posted the most recent article listed in the google
search. I was not aware it would show up as a registration page, it
didn't for me, probably because I'm already a registered user of the
site. So, I should I have CC&Ped the article(s) instead?
Curious,
proudmari
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http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Af529h6WQXYJ:www1.redding.com/redd/nw_local/article/0,2232,REDD_17533_3250786,00.html+%22danielle+rodriguez%22+record+searchlight&hl=en
There's a picture at the LONG link above
Teen gets 10 years in prison
Redding youth was last defendant sentenced in the murder of woman
By Jim Schultz / Record Searchlight
October 13, 2004
The last of five defendants who accepted plea bargains in connection
with the Sept. 11, 2003, murder of a 40-year-old Round Mountain woman
was sentenced to prison Tuesday in Shasta County Superior Court.
Danielle Antolina Rodriguez, 17, of Redding was sentenced to 10 years
in prison after pleading guilty to robbery. She has already spent
about a year of that sentence in Shasta County jail.
Rodriguez, who was originally charged with murder and nine other
criminal counts in the death of Sandra Lynn Metz, accepted the plea
bargain in May.
But her sentencing had been delayed after one of the defendants sought
to have he plea withdrawn.
That effort by Meghan Michelle Powell, 17, was unsuccessful. She was
sentenced last month to 35 years to life in prison for the murder of
her mother.
During a November preliminary hearing for the five defendants, a
sheriff’s detective testified that Powell confessed in tape-recorded
interviews that she and her friends planned to burglarize her mother’s
Round Mountain residence and kill her, as well as her mother’s
boyfriend, if they were home.
Powell’s then boyfriend and suspected gunman, 19-year-old Jack Thomas
Morris of Igo, accepted a plea bargain earlier this year and was
sentenced to 50 years to life in prison. Clifton Garrett Sherer, 23,
of Shasta Lake was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for his
role in the murder.
Authorities have said that Metz was shot in the head by Morris after
she allowed the teenager and Sherer into the home after they asked to
use the telephone.
Another defendant, 19-year-old Calvin William Hodge Jr., of Ono was
sentenced last month to three years in prison after accepting a plea
bargain and pleading guilty to being an accessory after the fact and
receiving stolen property.
At the time of his sentencing, Hodge had spent nearly a year in Shasta
County jail and those 362 days of time served were knocked off his
prison sentence, as well as another 180 days for good behavior.
Reporter Jim Schultz can be reached at 225-8223 or at
jsch...@redding.com.
* FYI: I don't check mail at this @ddy.
mom=^
> From the Google Cache
> http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Af529h6WQXYJ:www1.redding.com/redd/nw_local/article/0,2232,REDD_17533_3250786,00.html+%22danielle+rodriguez%22+record+searchlight&hl=en
>
> There's a picture at the LONG link above
>
> Teen gets 10 years in prison
>
> Redding youth was last defendant sentenced in the murder of woman
>
> By Jim Schultz / Record Searchlight
> October 13, 2004
>
> The last of five defendants who accepted plea bargains in connection
> with the Sept. 11, 2003, murder of a 40-year-old Round Mountain woman
> was sentenced to prison Tuesday in Shasta County Superior Court.
>
> Danielle Antolina Rodriguez, 17, of Redding was sentenced to 10 years
> in prison after pleading guilty to robbery. She has already spent
> about a year of that sentence in Shasta County jail.
Is this really the daughter of the "girl in the box" case????
EnNess
> From the Google Cache
> http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Af529h6WQXYJ:www1.redding.com/redd/nw_local/article/0,2232,REDD_17533_3250786,00.html+%22danielle+rodriguez%22+record+searchlight&hl=en
>
> There's a picture at the LONG link above
>
> Teen gets 10 years in prison
>
> Redding youth was last defendant sentenced in the murder of woman
>
> By Jim Schultz / Record Searchlight
> October 13, 2004
>
> The last of five defendants who accepted plea bargains in connection
> with the Sept. 11, 2003, murder of a 40-year-old Round Mountain woman
> was sentenced to prison Tuesday in Shasta County Superior Court.
>
> Danielle Antolina Rodriguez, 17, of Redding was sentenced to 10 years
> in prison after pleading guilty to robbery. She has already spent
> about a year of that sentence in Shasta County jail.
>
> Rodriguez, who was originally charged with murder and nine other
> criminal counts in the death of Sandra Lynn Metz, accepted the plea
> bargain in May.
OMG...you mean to say this person, Danielle, is Colleen Stan's daughter?
How awful. How much grief and anguish does one person (Ms. Stan) need in one
lifetime?
On the American Justice program, the girl came off so sweet...she seemed so
loving and caring toward her mom. Then she turns around and helps her
friends commit a brutal murder of the mother of one of them? Unbelievable.
Iris McAlias
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> is it practicable to post the entire article when the site requires
> time-consuming (and unlikely to be used again) registration?
>
www.bugmenot.com - copy and paste the URL of the page asking for your login
and it will return a username and password that you can use without going to
the trouble of registering yourself.
I used to have this as a Firefox extension but it doesn't work with the
latest version yet.
mom=^
@LilyPad wrote...
>Is this really the daughter of the "girl in the box" case????
>
>
Thanks, I need to read a bit more thoroughly!
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Cameron Hooker comes up for Parole this April on the 16th..
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I am extremely interested in the murder case where Meghan Powel was involved. Where can i get more information regarding the case and what happened? Regards
Riaan de Klerk
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