Search - Perfect Victim : The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. That Prosecuted Her Captor

Horrific story with some revealing psychological insight into the mind of captive victims. Not the greatest true crime book, but a decent read and a quick one.

I could not put this book down. It was a great book, however I will never understand why the girl who was trapped for so long did not leave when their were many opportunities to do so.
After being held prisoner for years and enduring years of painful abuse, I would risk it all if I thought that there was a chance at freedom.
This book is about a girl who was kidknapped and kept by a husband and wife and stored under a bed in a man made box. This went on for years. Eventually they let her out to run loose in the home and introduced her to friends as a relative who just came to visit.

In 1977 20 year old Colleen Stan left home to hitchhike from Oregon to California. Seven years later she emerged from hell, the victim of a bizarre and extraordinary crime.
This is Colleen's incredible true story, told by the determined young D.A. who prosecuted the man who had forced her to endure years of sexual perversion...and held her captive in a coffinlike box under his and his wife's bed. A story of riveting psychological intensity and gripping courtroom drama. Perfect Victim reveals the whole truth about Colleen's real-life nightmare...and the psychopath who enslaved her body and her mind.

If this book hadn't been a True Crime book, I would have never believed it .... truth is, many times, stranger than fiction.

Excellent book! Wow!!

Christine McGuire should be ashamed of herself. She wrote this UNAUTHORIZED book about Colleen without sharing a penny of her proceeds.

Blood money....

Don't buy the book on moral reasons, which should count somehow in picking a book.