The more I suffered, the more he laughed and every day I… The story of a woman who was held captive by a crazy couple for seven years

The story of a girl who was kidnapped and held captive for seven years. She was imprisoned in a wooden box and tortured in different ways every day. After seven years of painful captivity, she somehow got free and the kidnapper was sentenced to 104 years.

The girl was just 20 years old when a horrific incident happened to her. It was 19 May 1977, when she asked a crazy couple for a lift to her friend's birthday and they kidnapped her. After this, she was held captive in a wooden box at knifepoint and was given horrific torture for seven years. She was repeatedly raped, beaten, and hung from the ceiling.

This couple forced her to sign a contract of slavery. After this, she was threatened that if she broke this contract, She and her family's life would be in danger. After suffering torture for seven years, the woman somehow escaped from this captivity and reached her family. On the complaint of the family, the kidnapper was arrested and sentenced to 104 years in prison.

How did this painful story begin?

The name of this woman is Colleen Stan, who has shared her true and painful story through a documentary called 'The Girl in the Box'. Colleen, who grew up in an ordinary family in California, remembers every detail of the atrocities that happened to her. On May 19, Colleen left home for her friend Linda's birthday. When her car did not start even after trying for a long time, she decided to ask for a lift.

After waiting for some time on the road, a car stopped near her in which a man named Cameron Hooker was sitting with his wife Janice. Cameron said that he could drop her to her friend's house and Colleen sat in his car. Initially everything seemed fine to Colleen, but she was shocked when after moving a little further, Cameron took out a strange wooden box from the trunk of the car and placed it on the back seat.

The part above the neck is trapped in a box

There was a latch on this box. Before Colleen could understand anything, Cameron came to her put a knife on her neck, and blindfolded her. After this, Cameron picked up the wooden box kept on the seat and pushed Colleen's head in it and locked it, so that if she screamed, no one could hear her voice. The part above Colleen's neck was now locked in this box.

After this, Cameron reached his house and locked Colleen in the basement. From here began Colleen's painful journey, which she endured for the next seven years. Cameron used to torture her every day. Sometimes he hung her from the ceiling beam and sometimes raped her. Not only this, he also had sex with his wife Janice in the basement in front of Colleen. All this was becoming very frightening for Colleen.

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The blindfold was removed after seven months

Cameron's atrocities on Colleen did not end here. He made a new box like a coffin and started locking Colleen in it. He also gave her electric shocks. He kept Colleen blindfolded for seven months. While doing all this, Cameron said that he was doing this to her because he enjoyed it. He said that he liked doing all this very much.

Meanwhile, when Colleen did not return home, her family filed a missing person report with the police. However, despite a lot of searching, no clue was found. Her disappearance remained a mystery for the police and the family. In January 1978, after seven months, Cameron removed the blindfold from Colleen's eyes. However, this was not because he felt any pity for Colleen, but so that he could torture her in new ways.

Signed a contract of slavery

Cameron forced Colleen to sign a slavery contract. He instilled fear in Colleen's mind that this contract was with a very powerful organization and if she broke it, her entire family's life would be in danger. After this, Cameron and Janice started making her do household chores. However, the atrocities on Colleen still continued and Cameron started sexually abusing her repeatedly.

After three years of imprisonment, he allowed Colleen to meet her family but also threatened her with the contract that she had signed. Cameron told Colleen that the organization's people were keeping an eye on her family and if she told them anything, everyone would die. He himself went to Colleen's house and narrated a false story through her. Colleen told her family that Cameron was her boyfriend and they both lived together.

How did Colleen find freedom?

In this captivity, Colleen was given food only once a day. The more she cried, the happier Cameron became and he increased her torture. However, even in that captivity, Colleen did not give up her desire to live. In 1984, Colleen's story took a big turn. Actually, Cameron's wife Janice started regretting that she had done a very wrong thing to an innocent girl.

One day, when Cameron was not at home, Janice took a bold step and changed Colleen's fate forever. She freed Colleen and told her that the contract was a lie. Colleen reached home and told the truth to her parents. Meanwhile, to seek forgiveness for her crimes, Janice went to a priest and told him about all Cameron's actions.

I have never seen such a dangerous psychopath...

Janice also told the pastor about Cameron's brutality when he kidnapped and killed a woman named Mary Elizabeth Spanhawk in 1976. The pastor immediately contacted the police and Cameron was arrested three months after Colleen's escape.

When the police searched his house, they were shocked. In his house, they found a box in which the head was kept, pornographic magazines, and a copy of the contract which he had made Colleen sign. In the case, Cameron's wife Janice testified against him, in return for which she was given immunity by the court. Janice's testimony proved to be very important and the court sentenced Cameron to 104 years in prison.

While pronouncing the sentence, the judge said that he had never seen such a dangerous psychopath before. The judge said that as long as this person is alive, he will remain a threat to society and people, so it is necessary to keep him behind prison bars forever. Meanwhile, after a long mental consultation, Colleen recovered completely and gave birth to a daughter in 1987.