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Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box"

1989Carla Norton

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Q:Standing in the small, cool room, she had a strange feeling that she should escape, as if a voice were warning her: Run! Get away! She noticed the restroom’s little window, and the voice insisted: Crawl out the window! Run! You can get away! But Colleen couldn’t understand why she was having such crazy notions; she shook off the impulse to flee and went back to the car. (c)A cautionary tale of a horrible experience. The book is rather well-written, however. Poor girl. I hope she managed to overcome all this terror those not-people inflicted on her.I really liked the attorney side of the hearing described in great detail. It was an unexpected bonus.Q:Few prisoners have known a confinement more solitary, more frightening, more hopeless than the one Cameron Hooker was fashioning around his newfound slave. (c)Q:This story seemed to have everything—from pornography to the Bible, from waterbeds to whips. It made little sense, but great copy. (c)Q:No one can accurately say what those long months had done to her mental state. The human psyche is a malleable thing—it bends. And it can break. A few hours of simple isolation and sensory deprivation would be an ordeal; a day or two would be cruel; months is macabre, brutal beyond imagining. But more than an extreme solitary confinement, more than a living death in a box the size of a coffin, Colleen had suffered a netherworld of terror and pain...Now, after months of continual humiliation and abuse, whatever tenuous grasp on reality Colleen had left was about to be replaced by an elaborate and terrifying fiction. (c)
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