Kidnapping of Colleen Stan
Colleen J. Stan was kidnapped and held as a sex slave by Cameron and Janice Hooker in their Red Bluff, California, home for over seven years, between 1977 and 1984. At Cameron Hooker’s trial, Stan’s experience was described as unparalleled in FBI history. Stan was tortured and kept locked in a box 23 hours a day until she was given a contract and forced to sign herself into slavery for life in January 1978.
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Colleen J. Stan was kidnapped and held as a sex slave by Cameron and Janice Hooker in their Red Bluff, California, home for over seven years, between 1977 and 1984. At Cameron Hooker’s trial, Stan’s experience was described as unparalleled in FBI history. Her case has received international publicity, and has been the subject of multiple books, films, and television series. Stan was tortured and kept locked in a box 23 hours a day until she was given a contract and forced to sign herself into slavery for life in January 1978. In view from the box, under her bed, propped up against her purse, was a photo Stan saw every day, of Marie Elizabeth Spannhake, a previous victim whose body was never found. Stan said that her faith in God and belief in a chance of escape helped her survive; her greatest fear was \”The Company\”, which Cameron reinforced daily. Stan tried to comply with his commandments, which later led to her being allowed to go out to jog, work in the yard, care for the family’s children in the mobile home, and help him build bigger accommodations — like an underground dungeon — for more slaves.
Her family thought it was because of her lack of money, and lack of communications over the years; they did not want her to stay away forever. The next day, Stan returned for a second visit with Hooker posing as her boyfriend. According to Stan, Hooker feared he had given her too much freedom and took her back to his mobile home where he took his slave back to the next day. Stan’s family thought she was involved in a cult, but she did not reveal this due to her fear of the possible consequences of her situation due to a lack of clothes, and she involved her family in homemade clothes, which she would not reveal in her absence. She said that she was happy about visiting her family, who were able to take a photograph of her and Cameron happily smiling together together. She also said she was an experienced hitchhiker and had allowed two rides to go past before accepting the ride with hooker. Stan stated that she had allowed herself to be picked up by Hooker because she felt confident climbing into the van.
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