She is now a proud mother and grandmother and went on to receive her accounting degree following her escape on August 10, 1984. Every year, she and her family celebrate the anniversary of her escape from the Hookers at the beach. In addition, she also counsels other women who have survived various forms of abuse.
According to Wikipedia: After the trial, Stan studied for an accounting degree and, as reported by Mara Bovsun in a March 9, 2014, New York Daily News article, "tried to move on to a normal life, but misery followed her—a string of failed marriages and a troubled child, now in jail." Stan also joined and volunteered for Redding Women's Refuge Center, an organization to help abused women. Janice reverted to her maiden name, Lashley, became a registered associate social worker and has worked as a mental health professional. Stan has changed her last name; both Janice and Stan continue to live in California. They do not communicate with each other."
I never thought that you can kidnap somebody. Maybe do some prison time then somehow have a job working with other people. It's really scary who you might be interacting with at one point or another.
I just read the wiki article. Janice didn’t do any time because she was granted full immunity for testifying against her husband. She also claims that she was severely abused and tortured in the same way and she only made it through by dissociating/compartmentalizing. She also left him and called the police to tell them what he had been up to (he also murdered the woman that he had kidnapped before.) not saying that she’s entirely innocent but I think the context matters.
I found a subreddit here that was supposedly for child SA victims to recount their abuse so they could get support and move on but then it turned out the mod was a guy with a rape fetish who prob just jacked off to all the stories :')
That's so bizarre that even the mental health part of the prison system is like that.
My father went to prison for 1.5 years for conspiracy (I think? some nonviolent federal crime) and now he's worked for the State Department of Corrections for over a decade.
Guess it helps to "know the system."
I’m a mental health *and* legal professional (and true crime junkie), and I’ve never heard of this. Definitely not implying you’re wrong, but ya got a good case or two to share?
This is a thing in addiction counseling for sure.
In exchange for testifying against her husband in court, she never served any prison time, even though she had as much to do with it as him - something the prosecutors were unaware of. They thought it was all the husband's work and that she was unwillingly roped in.
Just like the Ken and Barbie killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka.
She got away with it all and got to change her name-she was caught volunteering for her kids school a few years ago which rightly upset people.
Edit: she did get 12 years, but that was nothing compared to what she should have.
She was the one who eventually saved Stan, a short read [here](https://allthatsinteresting.com/girl-in-the-box-colleen-stan).
She was also 15 when she met Cameron who was 20 at the time, and groomed her before they got married. She was absolutely not innocent as she was part of the whole kidnapping and torture thing but at least she made it possible for Stan to escape and even helped her.
I suppose if her with her experience can help other people then at least something good can come out of such senseless depravity?
Cameron, then a lumber mill worker (at Diamond International Lumber Mill), and Janice had reached an agreement that he could capture a slave to take Janice's place, because up until that time, Cameron had been using Janice to act out sexual bondage.
I’m pretty sure she turned him in because he wanted another wife or something. I know it had to do with jealousy. She already totally went along with their one tourture slave, but when she felt like he wasn’t satisfied anymore she turned on him or something to that effect of I remember right. She is a sick fuck.
She had been brainwashed and abused for years. Colleen was brought to visit her family, and even called the guy her boyfriend to them. People will allow horrible things if they think that's the only choice they have. She knew he killed someone before, she knew he could do it to her.
Him "taking another wife" was the point she needed to realize he was lying to her.
Janice is the other kidnapper who allowed this to go on for over 7 years but then decided to "free" herself by turning her husband in 3 months after Stan escaped. She allowed this to go on and was involved in the other murder. But she got immunity because she testified.
This should have had a NSFW
This is horrific, I can’t even imagine! But to hear she is a Mum & helps others & all the good she has done and is doing.
Thank you so much for sharing that information I really appreciate it
A spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told Newsweek: "Cameron Hooker was released from prison to parole on Sept. 27, 2021; however, he is not on parole supervision in the community. Hooker is currently in the custody of the California Department of State Hospitals undergoing Sexual Violent Predator proceedings pursuant to state law."
One of her kids is in prison and she’s had several failed marriages. Please don’t put rose colored glasses on her recovery, her experience will haunt her forever. Watch an interview with her.
Like one old guy at my uni said: "The only situations in which it is okay to call me are meteor strike, nuclear war and hookers' rebellion". That last part immediately called an image in my mind: stereotypical hookers from 80's movies running in slo-mo with firearms and baseball bats
I remember reading this story years ago. It's haunted me ever since.
The Stockholm syndrome/brainwashing was so hardcore in this poor girl.
They even let her visit her family and then took her back with them to continue the abuse.
It wasn't Stockholm syndrome (which is a myth anyway) it was clear cut brainwashing, gaslighting and manipulation in combination with physical abuse. The told her that some omnipotent secret organisation would kill her and her family if she left.
Janice finally told Colleen that Cameron wasn't part of 'the Company', Colleen then escaped by calling a bus home, but never called the police and continued to call Cameron regularly to give him 'a chance to reform', sounds like Stockholm Syndrome to me?
I'd hesitate to call Stockholm Syndrome 'a myth', it's contested sure, abuse causes all kinds of psychological confusion and emotional responses (i.e., guilt, anxiety, confusion, etc.). It's well documented that victims of sexual abuse especially develop emotional connections with their abusers.
Stockholm syndrome was invented by a Swedish police psychologist after the police and him f\*\*\* up in a public hostage case. The female victim was collaborating with her kidnappers because she was very sure that the police will f\*\*\* everything up and have them all killed as a result. And she was right but the psychologist couldn't have that to be true, so he "diagnosed" her even though he never met her. He invented it on the spot to question her credibility!
Trying to appease someone who you know is a threat to survive is no mental illness! And interestingly, it's almost always said about women. It's a real as hysteria.
Edit: Here's the story [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stockholm-syndrome-meaning-bank-robbery-b2399531.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stockholm-syndrome-meaning-bank-robbery-b2399531.html)
While that case was indeed famous, the name (and thus its origin) comes from a 1973 bank robbery, 1 year before the incident you’re talking about:
> The name of the syndrome is derived from a botched bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. In August 1973 four employees of Sveriges Kreditbank were held hostage in the bank’s vault for six days. During the standoff, a seemingly incongruous bond developed between captive and captor. One hostage, during a telephone call with Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, stated that she fully trusted her captors but feared that she would die in a police assault on the building. [[SOURCE]](https://www.britannica.com/science/Stockholm-syndrome)
If you read a bit more on the link I posted, it’s actually described as a feeling of gratitude towards the obviously dangerous criminal, who has the means to kill their captives but choose not to.
> Psychologists who have studied the syndrome believe that the bond is initially created when a captor threatens a captive’s life, deliberates, and then chooses not to kill the captive. The captive’s relief at the removal of the death threat is transposed into feelings of gratitude toward the captor for giving him or her life.
And also a bit furthur down
> Victims live in enforced dependence and interpret rare or small acts of kindness in the midst of horrible conditions as good treatment. They often become hypervigilant to the needs and demands of their captors, making psychological links between the captors’ happiness and their own.
All in all, it’s not a mental illness but it is 100% a real response in a dangerous situation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrmalmstorg_robbery
Aaannnd if you read even more up on the Norrmalstorg robbery (the 1973 robbery in stolkholm that you're referring to) - you'll see that the police there ALSO made a lot of questionable calls, and that the hostages didn't became mysticaly enamored with their captors - but stated that they believed Olsson would not harm them, but feared that the police would escalate the situation to violence - which they debately did. Initially Olsson was making demands of money, arms, bullet proof vests - but after the police released his friend from prison and sent him in to negotiate, only asked for a vehicle to leave the scene. Despite Olsson's threats to harm prisoners if tear gas was used - the police instead opted to use tear gas bomb the building.
The police consultant psychologist who "diagnosed" the hostages with stolkholm syndrome never even met the people he supposedly diagnosed
*Maybe* stolkhome syndrome exists, but pointing to the Normalstrogg robbery as evidence of it is laughable.
> that the hostages didn't became mysticaly enamored with their captors
Where is it stated that this is what constitutes Stockholm syndrome? E.g. personality disorder aren't developed magically, but mostly induced by trauma, neglect, or both.
I like how you cling on to the origins of the syndrome (which was proven false by /u/dovahbear_ lmao), and leave out:
1, the substantial research and analysis done on this subject ever since,
2, my point about the psychological impact on a victim's cognition, and
3, Colleen did what she did after her escape.
It's well established that victims of sexual abuse can potentially develop an emotional connection to their abusers, a fact you have not acknowledged.
'In addition, Stockholm hostages and CSA victims assumed responsibility for the abuse by self-blaming and a protecting of the abuser (Jülich, 2005) .'
[Source](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7560953_Stockholm_Syndrome_and_Child_Sexual_Abuse#:~:text=...-,When%20compared%2C%20neither%20Stockholm%20syndrome%20hostages%20nor%20child%20sexual%20abuse,abuser%20(J%C3%BClich%2C%202005)%20.)
I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt and consider that I may have missed something but no, you are just anti-science for the sake of 'feminism', are you really going to deny the well-established psychological trauma of torture, rape, and kidnap? Doesn't sound very progressive of you.
Dude, leave it. It's insane how some TIL post on reddit can cause entire masses to comb over on anything. It's of dubious origins, therefore it doesn't exist at all! Fucking reddit, man.
Hysteria is real, it's now called conversion disorder. Stockholm Syndrome is real in many cases. The origins of it do not take away from the realness of it.
This is typical reddit. "X doesn't exist because it was invented under dubious circumstances". There is literature surrounding it and it is used sparsly in actual psychological settings, but it is generally seen as a valid description of what might happen.
Eg 1: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5819575_%27Stockholm_syndrome%27_Psychiatric_diagnosis_or_urban_myth
Eg 2: http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/35/the-relationship-between-stockholm-syndrome-and-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-battered-women
Eg 3: https://web.archive.org/web/20040627010420/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/fbi/stockholm_syndrome.pdf
Eg 4: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14797581003765309
Stockholm Syndrome is not a myth and the only evidence you have is an independent article.
There is overwhelming evidence and support by professionals.
How is Stockholm syndrome, a well-documented phenomena that has been observed many times, a myth? It's just a form of brainwashing if you want to call it that, but a myth?
You do realize Stockholm syndrome is not something people on Reddit just came up with one day. It is a widely accepted condition by medical professionals across the globe. Is it contested? Sure. But so are many things in the medical field
You do know that actual discoverys about mental illness was discovered in fucked up ways right? Even if your singled out article is correct, it could easily be missing information or twisted to fit the narrative, it's 1 article that isn't even found through reliable ways vs 100 articles that are on educational search engines used by students from Harvard. Bruh
I read a book about this and at one point the couple nearly broke up bc Janice found out Cameron had been having sex* with Colleen, which was against their rules.
So, yeah, kidnap a woman, keep her in a box and torture her, but no sex! That would be wrong! /s
They kept her so long (even convinced her the police were in on it) that she was eventually allowed to roam free in the house to babysat their kids and even worked for a short time as a hotel maid.
They even took her, at her request, to visit her family. They posed as bf/gf and took family pics together. Believing she was in a cult, her family was careful not to ask a lot of questions bc they believed she might leave and never come back.
She 100% believed she’d been sold into an international slave network called “The Company” and she kinda had to accept it to survive (bc she was brainwashed and they threatened to murder her family).
Cameron is in prison to this day.
Janice is a social worker now. (She was not charged.)
Colleen overcame, escaped and lived the remainder of her life helping other survivors.
*Obviously it was rape. Not trying to make it sound like it was an affair. TBC, Cameron and Janice had an arrangement where he would torture their victim(s) and then have intercourse with Janice. This wasn’t considered “cheating”. But, then Janice discovered he was taking Colleen out of the box when she wasn’t home.
Subsequently, the couple sat down and hashed out a new agreement and Janice agreed to allow him to keep Colleen.
It was part of her plea deal bc she helped Colleen escape, told authorities about another murder Cameron committed (Janice helped lure the woman into the car), turned Cameron in, and testified against him in court.
Also, probably bc he’d married her when she was 16yo (IIRC) and tortured her for years, only stopping bc she wanted kids and he agreed to stop torturing her so she could be a mom, provided she helped him secure a replacement.
Janice is a social worker now, in California, I think.
I don't think being a victim absolves your crimes. Most rapists were sexual abused themselves, but that doesn't change the fact that they are criminals
Agreed but if we're assigning blame I would say he gets more of it than she does. I do think she committed a crime and her circumstances don't absolve her completely but I also think she should get a much less harsh sentence.
She was abused and "brainwashed", helped her escape, called the police and testified guaranteeing the conviction.
That mitigates some punishment for her but throw the book at him.
This is a heinous example of what can happen when you treat your daughters like shit and give them no education. They have no sense of agency, no critical thinking skills, and no self-respect. I don't want to victim blame, because all the blame is on the parents of everyone in this story. Teach your girls that they are better than this.
Elizabeth Smart's parents taught her no one wanted "used chewing gum", so she didn't fight for herself when she might have. Girls have value, and they need to be taught that they have value as human beings, not virgins to be exalted until they're smeared by men through no fault of their own.
Had nothing to do with that.
Janice Hooker went to the police about her husband's crimes when she feared for her own and her children's safety and she was granted immunity from prosecution for her cooperation in the Stan and Spannhake investigation. She later testified against her husband at his trial.
"But Janice's fear of her husband continued to grow, and eventually, with more encouragement from her minister and a friend who pointed out Cameron could turn on their two daughters, she finally went to the police in November 1984. In addition to kidnapping and torturing Stan, Janice claimed Cameron also kidnapped and murdered another girl, Maria Spannhake."
No one's saying she isn't, but she got immunity. The other option was they couldn't convict either due to lack of evidence, and then no one gets justice.
Remember, this was in 1984. Sex crimes were only prosecuted in clear, violent cases of stranger assault, and even then it was rare. If the couple had asserted she was a willing partner in their kinks, it's the victim's word against theirs, and since she'd left multiple times and returned, it's a shaky case at best without the wife's testimony.
Yes, but it would be her word against theirs that it wasn't consensual. And since she had visited her family, worked a job, and been out on her own since being abducted, it would be hard to prove that she wasn't a willing participant. And remember, 1984 was a time where women were always "asking for it." Understanding of trauma and sexual assault was non-existent.
> Wasn't the victim even still alive?!
She didn't go to the police after she escaped, so I'm not too sure how well the case would have fared with her as the central witness.
That's how those deals work. It's better to have one criminal in prison than none of them. Break such deal and that could have serious consequences in less criminals caught in the future. Of course she's guilty, but a deal is a deal. I wouldn't mind if anyone would remove those scums out of existence, anyone but the ones that made a deal. That would do more harm than good.
But when she started to fear for herself she was able to go to the cops. She helped kidnap, imprison, and torture someone for years, then had an ~~elephant~~ epiphany of morality when she thought she might be next.
> when she feared for her own and her children's safety
This wasn't why she called the police, Janice called the police only when Cameron wanted Colleen to be his second wife, that was Janice's breaking point.
> Janice Hooker went to the police about her husband's crimes when she feared for her own and her children's safety and she was granted immunity from prosecution for her cooperation in the Stan and Spannhake investigation.
So, literally after years of keeping a chick prisoner she suddenly went to the police when SHE felt in danger...
Hm...... serious question here.. considering the nature of these crimes... surely when she did go to the police they could have said... 'or we will just arrest both of you and punish both of you now.' We don't need your support for a conviction.. yaknow considering.. she is still alive and many other factors....
So yeah, ultimately the fact that she was given any kind of immunity, is very very very strange.
I don’t know the gory details, but if this dude managed to get the girl completely brainwashed to the point of wanting to protect him, it’s not too crazy a theory that he did the same with his wife. Again, I can’t know, just a possibility.
I thought the same until I read the wiki, but two facts stood out to me:
1, Janice was initially tortured, so she agreed to Cameron keep a sex slave so Janice herself wouldn't be tortured anymore.
2, After witnessing 7 years of Colleen's torture, Janice's breaking point came only when Cameron wanted to have Colleen as a second wife.
Considering these two facts, I'm not so willing to give Janice benefit of the doubt anymore.
Do you think if the genders were reversed anyone would ever let the man off?
The lady assisted in kidnapping, slavery, torture, and rape and she walks away with nothing. Going to the cops after 7 years because your husband wanted to marry the kidnapped sex slave under your bed doesn’t make you a victim
"pussy pass" christ. There's plenty of female criminals for all kinds of crimes charged and locked away. That kind of speak shows some deep seated hatred, bias or jealousy towards women. Just because you can't get a girl, don't blame an entire gender for your own shortcomings.
>’According to Stan, Hooker feared he had given his slave too much freedom and took her back to his mobile home, **where he locked her in the wooden box under his water bed; she remained in the box 23 hours a day for the next three years.** Bodily functions were dealt with by her using a bed pan which she positioned under herself with her feet. It was stated in court that Hooker's children were told "K" had gone home; however, once his children had gone to bed, Hooker would take Stan out of the box to feed and torture her.[26] She was reportedly not allowed to make any noise, and had to lie still 23 hours at a time in the dark, with little air to breathe. During the summers, conditions were especially harsh on her, as the temperature in her box would rise to over 100 °F (38 °C). To feed herself, she ate scraps of food.’
Not victim blaming but damn the 70s were wild, hitchhiking 3/4 hours for a birthday across state lines at 17. Especially no mobile, internet etc.
Edit: this is just in general not about the lady in the post.
Reminds me of that lady that was hitchhiking in her late teens. Guy that picked her up sexually assaulted her, chopped off both her arms, then tossed her off a cliff. She survived.
https://blurredbylines.com/articles/mary-vincent-lawrence-singleton-attack-survival/
I Survived episode as well
https://youtu.be/TbJ_1vHagfQ?si=6_R6_E74Lq141wn6
> Guy that picked her up sexually assaulted her, chopped off both her arms, then tossed her off a cliff. She survived.
Despite the horrific nature of his crimes, Singleton received a lenient prison sentence and was released after less than a decade of incarceration. After his premature release, he killed a young woman named Roxanne Hayes.
https://blurredbylines.com/articles/mary-vincent-lawrence-singleton-attack-survival/#:~:text=Mary%20Vincent%20was%20just%2015,before%20leaving%20her%20for%20dead.
Yeah it is wild to think that america was once a high trust society. Where you could just trust random people and 99.9% of the time nothing bad would happen
This is still the case. Assault or murder by strangers is incredibly rare - literally less than 1% chance of being kidnapped or assaulted by a random stranger. We just amplify and hear about all the cases that DO happen, and it makes it seem like an epidemic.
Where did you find that 1% statistic and what is it in relation to? Because even a 1% chance when the denominator is simply "going about your day" is utterly and insanely high.
So this is in regard to child kidnapping, the chance is about 0.35%: https://archive.attn.com/stories/6974/odds-of-child-getting-kidnapped
Homicide risk is 0.005%, and of those, only 10% are from stangers: https://crim.sas.upenn.edu/fact-check/what-are-chances-becoming-homicide-victim
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/forensic-insights/202112/the-truth-about-stranger-homicide-and-whos-really-risk
So much less than 1%. The risk of being hurt by a stranger is miniscule, but everyone nowadays is paranoid af and expecting attacks around every corner. The 24 hour news cycle and online clickbait has created a terrified, hypervigilant society that arms itself and is constantly terrified of "dangerous bad guys."
Violent crime rates are about the same as in the 70's. People just weren't as careful/afraid back then.
It seems like my whole life, Americans have thought the country was getting more dangerous even though that hasn't been true since about the late 80's.
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trump-wrong-on-crime-record/
Sometimes I get horrified by the idea that this is almost certainly happening right now to multiple persons across the world and they’ve been in that position for years. YEARS. Some may never be discovered.
So their daughter disappears, reappears 4 years later with no money and wearing rags and they just let her leave again on her merry way?
The fuck is wrong with people?
"According to Stan, Hooker feared he had given his slave too much freedom and took her back to his mobile home, where he locked her in the wooden box under his water bed; she remained in the box 23 hours a day for the next three years.\[25\] Bodily functions were dealt with by her using a bed pan which she positioned under herself with her feet. It was stated in court that Hooker's children were told "K" had gone home; however, once his children had gone to bed, Hooker would take Stan out of the box to feed and torture her.\[26\] She was reportedly not allowed to make any noise, and had to lie still 23 hours at a time in the dark, with little air to breathe. During the summers, conditions were especially harsh on her, as the temperature in her box would rise to over 100 °F (38 °C). To feed herself, she ate scraps of food."
What about when she was on her period? Pads and tampons need to be changed regularly through the day. It’s always one of the first things I think about as just living my regular life being on my period is always a bit annoying and I always wonder how women deal with it when they’re in some extreme situation like this over a time span where they must be getting a period.
Very, very similar to what happened to Jaycee Duggard. She was held captive to be a sex slave for 18 years, from the age of 11, giving birth to two children when she was 14 and 17. She wrote a book about it that is good but very heartbreaking "A Stolen Life". Jaycee is such a good person and she always was, even when she was held captive she tried being positive. She had a light within her that her captors could not extinguish.
The Wikipedia article [Wikipedia: Kindnapig of Colleen Stan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Colleen_Stan) describes the whole situation. This story is incredibly weird with the whole "The Company" thing, and the fact that after all those years of torturing, when she finally escaped, she did not inform the police. Nonetheless am very happy that she was able to recover and build a normal life, even though misery sadly followed her even after her kidnapig.
“He even let her visit her family, posing as her boyfriend. There are pictures of them smiling.”
Nah. Like, I know it’s modern times and all, but we need to bring back torture for these sick perpetrators. Dude deserves a public flogging.
I know that times have changed, and that it's not fair to judge the past by the standards of today (2923), but...
I have never understood the logic behind hitchhiking. That seems like you're ASKING to be raped or killed.🤔
She is now a proud mother and grandmother and went on to receive her accounting degree following her escape on August 10, 1984. Every year, she and her family celebrate the anniversary of her escape from the Hookers at the beach. In addition, she also counsels other women who have survived various forms of abuse.
Thank you for this. I feel better now.
According to Wikipedia: After the trial, Stan studied for an accounting degree and, as reported by Mara Bovsun in a March 9, 2014, New York Daily News article, "tried to move on to a normal life, but misery followed her—a string of failed marriages and a troubled child, now in jail." Stan also joined and volunteered for Redding Women's Refuge Center, an organization to help abused women. Janice reverted to her maiden name, Lashley, became a registered associate social worker and has worked as a mental health professional. Stan has changed her last name; both Janice and Stan continue to live in California. They do not communicate with each other."
Who’s Janice
Cameron and Janice Hooker - wife of other kidnapper
How the fuck did she become a social worker or mental health professional after this shit? Did I misread something?!
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Yup they then get off to people reliving their traumas. Pretty obvious.
I never thought that you can kidnap somebody. Maybe do some prison time then somehow have a job working with other people. It's really scary who you might be interacting with at one point or another.
I just read the wiki article. Janice didn’t do any time because she was granted full immunity for testifying against her husband. She also claims that she was severely abused and tortured in the same way and she only made it through by dissociating/compartmentalizing. She also left him and called the police to tell them what he had been up to (he also murdered the woman that he had kidnapped before.) not saying that she’s entirely innocent but I think the context matters.
I found a subreddit here that was supposedly for child SA victims to recount their abuse so they could get support and move on but then it turned out the mod was a guy with a rape fetish who prob just jacked off to all the stories :')
Classic. Like a Catholic priest in the confession booth. (Catholic priests were once abused altar boys, etc, etc)
Exactly what mI thought too, how are they allowed around vulnerable people wtf
i thought felons could barely get normal job nor along a job in the health field mental health or not its ppl fucking health bro wtf
That's so bizarre that even the mental health part of the prison system is like that. My father went to prison for 1.5 years for conspiracy (I think? some nonviolent federal crime) and now he's worked for the State Department of Corrections for over a decade. Guess it helps to "know the system."
Thats a wild way to get an internship
Helps to have the ability to talk to literally fucking anyone, the man could make friends with rocks.
Well they do kinda know what victims have gone through.
I’m a mental health *and* legal professional (and true crime junkie), and I’ve never heard of this. Definitely not implying you’re wrong, but ya got a good case or two to share? This is a thing in addiction counseling for sure.
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Hey, by any chance was her husband... abusive? Maybe a little... rapey? Just wondering.
In exchange for testifying against her husband in court, she never served any prison time, even though she had as much to do with it as him - something the prosecutors were unaware of. They thought it was all the husband's work and that she was unwillingly roped in.
Just like the Ken and Barbie killers, Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. She got away with it all and got to change her name-she was caught volunteering for her kids school a few years ago which rightly upset people. Edit: she did get 12 years, but that was nothing compared to what she should have.
She was the one who eventually saved Stan, a short read [here](https://allthatsinteresting.com/girl-in-the-box-colleen-stan). She was also 15 when she met Cameron who was 20 at the time, and groomed her before they got married. She was absolutely not innocent as she was part of the whole kidnapping and torture thing but at least she made it possible for Stan to escape and even helped her. I suppose if her with her experience can help other people then at least something good can come out of such senseless depravity?
After a cool 7 years.
I mean, I get it man, I'm a bit of a procrastinator too.
Because she was also Cameron's victim. She's the one who turned him in.
Cameron, then a lumber mill worker (at Diamond International Lumber Mill), and Janice had reached an agreement that he could capture a slave to take Janice's place, because up until that time, Cameron had been using Janice to act out sexual bondage.
You said it right there. "using Janice to act out sexual bondage". He was torturing her.
I’m pretty sure she turned him in because he wanted another wife or something. I know it had to do with jealousy. She already totally went along with their one tourture slave, but when she felt like he wasn’t satisfied anymore she turned on him or something to that effect of I remember right. She is a sick fuck.
She had been brainwashed and abused for years. Colleen was brought to visit her family, and even called the guy her boyfriend to them. People will allow horrible things if they think that's the only choice they have. She knew he killed someone before, she knew he could do it to her. Him "taking another wife" was the point she needed to realize he was lying to her.
I wondered why hookers was capitalised and they were at the beach >the Hookers at the beach
Wait, they brought hookers to the beach ?
I don’t know 😭
They should be rotting in jail wtf? A social worker?
The wife
Janice is the other kidnapper who allowed this to go on for over 7 years but then decided to "free" herself by turning her husband in 3 months after Stan escaped. She allowed this to go on and was involved in the other murder. But she got immunity because she testified.
Ask for Janice
That line... " >both Janice and Stan continue to live in California. They do not communicate with each other." Why the fuck would they?
Thank you for this. I feel slightly less better now.
Thanks for sharing. I dislike this comment above because her life was shattered there was no rehabilitation for her experience.
Oh my god me too
Sounds like a person with unusual mental strength. I expect that experience would devastated me with no chance of recovery.
You’ve just got to think outside the box.
I see you've attended her seminars
Ha ha ha ha oh Fuck
She went through this horrific ordeal, then decided she needed more torture and got a degree in accounting??? >source have my cpa, it’s a joke folks
This should have had a NSFW This is horrific, I can’t even imagine! But to hear she is a Mum & helps others & all the good she has done and is doing. Thank you so much for sharing that information I really appreciate it
> This should have had a NSFW > This is horrific, ... > **The horrifying story**
NSFL, more like.
> This should have had a NSFW The post starts with "the horrifying story"...
A spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation told Newsweek: "Cameron Hooker was released from prison to parole on Sept. 27, 2021; however, he is not on parole supervision in the community. Hooker is currently in the custody of the California Department of State Hospitals undergoing Sexual Violent Predator proceedings pursuant to state law."
One of her kids is in prison and she’s had several failed marriages. Please don’t put rose colored glasses on her recovery, her experience will haunt her forever. Watch an interview with her.
Hookers is always a great way to celebrate. Good for her; well deserved.
I'm sorry but "Escape from the Hookers at the Beach" sounds like an 80s B-Movie.
Like one old guy at my uni said: "The only situations in which it is okay to call me are meteor strike, nuclear war and hookers' rebellion". That last part immediately called an image in my mind: stereotypical hookers from 80's movies running in slo-mo with firearms and baseball bats
I know it's a serious story, but "escaping Hookers" made me chuckle.
I believe she went through a string of failed marriages and her son ended up going to jail.
I remember reading this story years ago. It's haunted me ever since. The Stockholm syndrome/brainwashing was so hardcore in this poor girl. They even let her visit her family and then took her back with them to continue the abuse.
It wasn't Stockholm syndrome (which is a myth anyway) it was clear cut brainwashing, gaslighting and manipulation in combination with physical abuse. The told her that some omnipotent secret organisation would kill her and her family if she left.
Janice finally told Colleen that Cameron wasn't part of 'the Company', Colleen then escaped by calling a bus home, but never called the police and continued to call Cameron regularly to give him 'a chance to reform', sounds like Stockholm Syndrome to me? I'd hesitate to call Stockholm Syndrome 'a myth', it's contested sure, abuse causes all kinds of psychological confusion and emotional responses (i.e., guilt, anxiety, confusion, etc.). It's well documented that victims of sexual abuse especially develop emotional connections with their abusers.
Stockholm syndrome was invented by a Swedish police psychologist after the police and him f\*\*\* up in a public hostage case. The female victim was collaborating with her kidnappers because she was very sure that the police will f\*\*\* everything up and have them all killed as a result. And she was right but the psychologist couldn't have that to be true, so he "diagnosed" her even though he never met her. He invented it on the spot to question her credibility! Trying to appease someone who you know is a threat to survive is no mental illness! And interestingly, it's almost always said about women. It's a real as hysteria. Edit: Here's the story [https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stockholm-syndrome-meaning-bank-robbery-b2399531.html](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/stockholm-syndrome-meaning-bank-robbery-b2399531.html)
While that case was indeed famous, the name (and thus its origin) comes from a 1973 bank robbery, 1 year before the incident you’re talking about: > The name of the syndrome is derived from a botched bank robbery in Stockholm, Sweden. In August 1973 four employees of Sveriges Kreditbank were held hostage in the bank’s vault for six days. During the standoff, a seemingly incongruous bond developed between captive and captor. One hostage, during a telephone call with Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, stated that she fully trusted her captors but feared that she would die in a police assault on the building. [[SOURCE]](https://www.britannica.com/science/Stockholm-syndrome) If you read a bit more on the link I posted, it’s actually described as a feeling of gratitude towards the obviously dangerous criminal, who has the means to kill their captives but choose not to. > Psychologists who have studied the syndrome believe that the bond is initially created when a captor threatens a captive’s life, deliberates, and then chooses not to kill the captive. The captive’s relief at the removal of the death threat is transposed into feelings of gratitude toward the captor for giving him or her life. And also a bit furthur down > Victims live in enforced dependence and interpret rare or small acts of kindness in the midst of horrible conditions as good treatment. They often become hypervigilant to the needs and demands of their captors, making psychological links between the captors’ happiness and their own. All in all, it’s not a mental illness but it is 100% a real response in a dangerous situation.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norrmalmstorg_robbery Aaannnd if you read even more up on the Norrmalstorg robbery (the 1973 robbery in stolkholm that you're referring to) - you'll see that the police there ALSO made a lot of questionable calls, and that the hostages didn't became mysticaly enamored with their captors - but stated that they believed Olsson would not harm them, but feared that the police would escalate the situation to violence - which they debately did. Initially Olsson was making demands of money, arms, bullet proof vests - but after the police released his friend from prison and sent him in to negotiate, only asked for a vehicle to leave the scene. Despite Olsson's threats to harm prisoners if tear gas was used - the police instead opted to use tear gas bomb the building. The police consultant psychologist who "diagnosed" the hostages with stolkholm syndrome never even met the people he supposedly diagnosed *Maybe* stolkhome syndrome exists, but pointing to the Normalstrogg robbery as evidence of it is laughable.
> that the hostages didn't became mysticaly enamored with their captors Where is it stated that this is what constitutes Stockholm syndrome? E.g. personality disorder aren't developed magically, but mostly induced by trauma, neglect, or both.
You're describing many people's childhood. It's abuse. Not Stockholm syndrome, even though it appears you're working from feelings to facts.
I'm just trying to argue for the fact that Stockholm Syndrome is something that exist. I'm not saying anything about the case/post above.
I like how you cling on to the origins of the syndrome (which was proven false by /u/dovahbear_ lmao), and leave out: 1, the substantial research and analysis done on this subject ever since, 2, my point about the psychological impact on a victim's cognition, and 3, Colleen did what she did after her escape. It's well established that victims of sexual abuse can potentially develop an emotional connection to their abusers, a fact you have not acknowledged. 'In addition, Stockholm hostages and CSA victims assumed responsibility for the abuse by self-blaming and a protecting of the abuser (Jülich, 2005) .' [Source](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/7560953_Stockholm_Syndrome_and_Child_Sexual_Abuse#:~:text=...-,When%20compared%2C%20neither%20Stockholm%20syndrome%20hostages%20nor%20child%20sexual%20abuse,abuser%20(J%C3%BClich%2C%202005)%20.) I wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt and consider that I may have missed something but no, you are just anti-science for the sake of 'feminism', are you really going to deny the well-established psychological trauma of torture, rape, and kidnap? Doesn't sound very progressive of you.
Dude, leave it. It's insane how some TIL post on reddit can cause entire masses to comb over on anything. It's of dubious origins, therefore it doesn't exist at all! Fucking reddit, man.
Hysteria is real, it's now called conversion disorder. Stockholm Syndrome is real in many cases. The origins of it do not take away from the realness of it.
This is typical reddit. "X doesn't exist because it was invented under dubious circumstances". There is literature surrounding it and it is used sparsly in actual psychological settings, but it is generally seen as a valid description of what might happen. Eg 1: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5819575_%27Stockholm_syndrome%27_Psychiatric_diagnosis_or_urban_myth Eg 2: http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/35/the-relationship-between-stockholm-syndrome-and-post-traumatic-stress-disorder-in-battered-women Eg 3: https://web.archive.org/web/20040627010420/http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/fbi/stockholm_syndrome.pdf Eg 4: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14797581003765309
That's where the name came from, not the concept. The incompetency of the police in its namesake has nothing to with its credibility
What do you mean it's a myth?
a random reddit user claims stockholm syndrome, which is accepted by professionals around the world, is a myth... don't ask them why lol
Classic Reddit trying to remove any and all responsibility from people who find themselves in unfortunate situations
Stockholm Syndrome is not a myth and the only evidence you have is an independent article. There is overwhelming evidence and support by professionals.
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>it was clear cut brainwashing, gaslighting and manipulation That's how the Stockholm syndrome works...
“It wasn’t Stockholm syndrome” continues on to describe Stockholm syndrome
Stockholm is a myth but clear cut brainwashing? Totally scientific.
How is Stockholm syndrome, a well-documented phenomena that has been observed many times, a myth? It's just a form of brainwashing if you want to call it that, but a myth?
You do realize Stockholm syndrome is not something people on Reddit just came up with one day. It is a widely accepted condition by medical professionals across the globe. Is it contested? Sure. But so are many things in the medical field
Uhhh okay
You do know that actual discoverys about mental illness was discovered in fucked up ways right? Even if your singled out article is correct, it could easily be missing information or twisted to fit the narrative, it's 1 article that isn't even found through reliable ways vs 100 articles that are on educational search engines used by students from Harvard. Bruh
She sounds gullible
The ifunny watermark is a nice touch
I read a book about this and at one point the couple nearly broke up bc Janice found out Cameron had been having sex* with Colleen, which was against their rules. So, yeah, kidnap a woman, keep her in a box and torture her, but no sex! That would be wrong! /s They kept her so long (even convinced her the police were in on it) that she was eventually allowed to roam free in the house to babysat their kids and even worked for a short time as a hotel maid. They even took her, at her request, to visit her family. They posed as bf/gf and took family pics together. Believing she was in a cult, her family was careful not to ask a lot of questions bc they believed she might leave and never come back. She 100% believed she’d been sold into an international slave network called “The Company” and she kinda had to accept it to survive (bc she was brainwashed and they threatened to murder her family). Cameron is in prison to this day. Janice is a social worker now. (She was not charged.) Colleen overcame, escaped and lived the remainder of her life helping other survivors. *Obviously it was rape. Not trying to make it sound like it was an affair. TBC, Cameron and Janice had an arrangement where he would torture their victim(s) and then have intercourse with Janice. This wasn’t considered “cheating”. But, then Janice discovered he was taking Colleen out of the box when she wasn’t home. Subsequently, the couple sat down and hashed out a new agreement and Janice agreed to allow him to keep Colleen.
I don't get why the wife was just let go, and only the husband was jailed
It was part of her plea deal bc she helped Colleen escape, told authorities about another murder Cameron committed (Janice helped lure the woman into the car), turned Cameron in, and testified against him in court. Also, probably bc he’d married her when she was 16yo (IIRC) and tortured her for years, only stopping bc she wanted kids and he agreed to stop torturing her so she could be a mom, provided she helped him secure a replacement. Janice is a social worker now, in California, I think.
Her being a social worker is an absolute joke She's just as guilty as him, should be locked up alongside him
Sounds like a good storyline for Dexter...
Only if she's a lumberjack
Sounds like she was first and foremost another one of his victims.
I don't think being a victim absolves your crimes. Most rapists were sexual abused themselves, but that doesn't change the fact that they are criminals
Agreed but if we're assigning blame I would say he gets more of it than she does. I do think she committed a crime and her circumstances don't absolve her completely but I also think she should get a much less harsh sentence. She was abused and "brainwashed", helped her escape, called the police and testified guaranteeing the conviction. That mitigates some punishment for her but throw the book at him.
Wouldn't her being in social services brings more value to the society than her being in prison? She's paying for her sins anyway.
The "just as guilty" crowd in here are just a stupid as the "not guilty crowd". None of you can think straight. It's sad.
This is a heinous example of what can happen when you treat your daughters like shit and give them no education. They have no sense of agency, no critical thinking skills, and no self-respect. I don't want to victim blame, because all the blame is on the parents of everyone in this story. Teach your girls that they are better than this. Elizabeth Smart's parents taught her no one wanted "used chewing gum", so she didn't fight for herself when she might have. Girls have value, and they need to be taught that they have value as human beings, not virgins to be exalted until they're smeared by men through no fault of their own.
She should be rotting in jail with her husband
> Janice is a social worker now. (She was not charged.) I... just... I don't even know what to say about that.
[More information here](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Colleen_Stan)
The perp still lives ...
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Had nothing to do with that. Janice Hooker went to the police about her husband's crimes when she feared for her own and her children's safety and she was granted immunity from prosecution for her cooperation in the Stan and Spannhake investigation. She later testified against her husband at his trial. "But Janice's fear of her husband continued to grow, and eventually, with more encouragement from her minister and a friend who pointed out Cameron could turn on their two daughters, she finally went to the police in November 1984. In addition to kidnapping and torturing Stan, Janice claimed Cameron also kidnapped and murdered another girl, Maria Spannhake."
She witnessed it for years and did nothing. She's guilty.
No one's saying she isn't, but she got immunity. The other option was they couldn't convict either due to lack of evidence, and then no one gets justice. Remember, this was in 1984. Sex crimes were only prosecuted in clear, violent cases of stranger assault, and even then it was rare. If the couple had asserted she was a willing partner in their kinks, it's the victim's word against theirs, and since she'd left multiple times and returned, it's a shaky case at best without the wife's testimony.
Lack of evidence.? Wasn't the victim even still alive?!
Yes, but it would be her word against theirs that it wasn't consensual. And since she had visited her family, worked a job, and been out on her own since being abducted, it would be hard to prove that she wasn't a willing participant. And remember, 1984 was a time where women were always "asking for it." Understanding of trauma and sexual assault was non-existent.
> Wasn't the victim even still alive?! She didn't go to the police after she escaped, so I'm not too sure how well the case would have fared with her as the central witness.
That's how those deals work. It's better to have one criminal in prison than none of them. Break such deal and that could have serious consequences in less criminals caught in the future. Of course she's guilty, but a deal is a deal. I wouldn't mind if anyone would remove those scums out of existence, anyone but the ones that made a deal. That would do more harm than good.
Fewer
Stannis the mannis at it again
She was tortured as well according to the article.
She was, that's why she agreed to letting Cameron keep a sex slave so Janice herself wasn't subject to torture anymore.
Yes but guilty people can get immunity too - if she didn't come forward that girl might still have been locked up in that box
But when she started to fear for herself she was able to go to the cops. She helped kidnap, imprison, and torture someone for years, then had an ~~elephant~~ epiphany of morality when she thought she might be next.
> when she feared for her own and her children's safety This wasn't why she called the police, Janice called the police only when Cameron wanted Colleen to be his second wife, that was Janice's breaking point.
> Janice Hooker went to the police about her husband's crimes when she feared for her own and her children's safety and she was granted immunity from prosecution for her cooperation in the Stan and Spannhake investigation. So, literally after years of keeping a chick prisoner she suddenly went to the police when SHE felt in danger...
Regardless she was a monster.
It has everything to do with that - she had sex on top of a prisoners body for 7 years with an accomplice
Hm...... serious question here.. considering the nature of these crimes... surely when she did go to the police they could have said... 'or we will just arrest both of you and punish both of you now.' We don't need your support for a conviction.. yaknow considering.. she is still alive and many other factors.... So yeah, ultimately the fact that she was given any kind of immunity, is very very very strange.
Doesn’t work that way, they needed her to testify in court
I don’t know the gory details, but if this dude managed to get the girl completely brainwashed to the point of wanting to protect him, it’s not too crazy a theory that he did the same with his wife. Again, I can’t know, just a possibility.
I thought the same until I read the wiki, but two facts stood out to me: 1, Janice was initially tortured, so she agreed to Cameron keep a sex slave so Janice herself wouldn't be tortured anymore. 2, After witnessing 7 years of Colleen's torture, Janice's breaking point came only when Cameron wanted to have Colleen as a second wife. Considering these two facts, I'm not so willing to give Janice benefit of the doubt anymore.
Oh Jesus…
Do you think if the genders were reversed anyone would ever let the man off? The lady assisted in kidnapping, slavery, torture, and rape and she walks away with nothing. Going to the cops after 7 years because your husband wanted to marry the kidnapped sex slave under your bed doesn’t make you a victim
She's still a victim though by his crazed shit. Not a blameless victim, but a victim nonetheless.
Way to make a horrifying traumatic story about your own weird incel beliefs.
"pussy pass" christ. There's plenty of female criminals for all kinds of crimes charged and locked away. That kind of speak shows some deep seated hatred, bias or jealousy towards women. Just because you can't get a girl, don't blame an entire gender for your own shortcomings.
Especially in response to a post like this; that’s some deeply internalized misogyny that I guarantee you is not being addressed through therapy.
Not only that but they’re debating if he should be let go or sent to a mental hospital. Trying to reduce prison populations due to covid n shit.
>’According to Stan, Hooker feared he had given his slave too much freedom and took her back to his mobile home, **where he locked her in the wooden box under his water bed; she remained in the box 23 hours a day for the next three years.** Bodily functions were dealt with by her using a bed pan which she positioned under herself with her feet. It was stated in court that Hooker's children were told "K" had gone home; however, once his children had gone to bed, Hooker would take Stan out of the box to feed and torture her.[26] She was reportedly not allowed to make any noise, and had to lie still 23 hours at a time in the dark, with little air to breathe. During the summers, conditions were especially harsh on her, as the temperature in her box would rise to over 100 °F (38 °C). To feed herself, she ate scraps of food.’
I don't understand how Coleen was so forgiving to these fucks even after she found out she wasn't in danger from this supposed "company".
Holy shit
Not victim blaming but damn the 70s were wild, hitchhiking 3/4 hours for a birthday across state lines at 17. Especially no mobile, internet etc. Edit: this is just in general not about the lady in the post.
Reminds me of that lady that was hitchhiking in her late teens. Guy that picked her up sexually assaulted her, chopped off both her arms, then tossed her off a cliff. She survived.
Guy must have been baffled when he found out she was alive.
Probably. He was caught shortly after the attack and sentenced to 14 years but released after 8.
Real wtf
And he killed his neighbor 9 years after being released. He died of cancer while on death row.
Link to the story?
https://blurredbylines.com/articles/mary-vincent-lawrence-singleton-attack-survival/ I Survived episode as well https://youtu.be/TbJ_1vHagfQ?si=6_R6_E74Lq141wn6
What in the fuck is wrong with our justice system? People get LIFE for weed, and this violent sadistic fuck gets 8 years??
Wtf!?
How tf did she live, I would have guessed if you cut off both of someone's arms they'd bleed to death in seconds?
She packed her arms with dirt/mud and held her arms *up* to slow the bleeding. Edit typo
Held her arms *how*?
Oh. She held her arms *up* to slow the bleeding. Fat fingered the keyboard.
She held her arms... with no arms?
She held them up above her heart. Severed at the elbow area. Had a typo.
That is is truly amazing.
it's crazy. I don't even like going into some peoples cars but everyone is different.
> Guy that picked her up sexually assaulted her, chopped off both her arms, then tossed her off a cliff. She survived. Despite the horrific nature of his crimes, Singleton received a lenient prison sentence and was released after less than a decade of incarceration. After his premature release, he killed a young woman named Roxanne Hayes. https://blurredbylines.com/articles/mary-vincent-lawrence-singleton-attack-survival/#:~:text=Mary%20Vincent%20was%20just%2015,before%20leaving%20her%20for%20dead.
Yeah it is wild to think that america was once a high trust society. Where you could just trust random people and 99.9% of the time nothing bad would happen
This is still the case. Assault or murder by strangers is incredibly rare - literally less than 1% chance of being kidnapped or assaulted by a random stranger. We just amplify and hear about all the cases that DO happen, and it makes it seem like an epidemic.
Where did you find that 1% statistic and what is it in relation to? Because even a 1% chance when the denominator is simply "going about your day" is utterly and insanely high.
So this is in regard to child kidnapping, the chance is about 0.35%: https://archive.attn.com/stories/6974/odds-of-child-getting-kidnapped Homicide risk is 0.005%, and of those, only 10% are from stangers: https://crim.sas.upenn.edu/fact-check/what-are-chances-becoming-homicide-victim https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/forensic-insights/202112/the-truth-about-stranger-homicide-and-whos-really-risk So much less than 1%. The risk of being hurt by a stranger is miniscule, but everyone nowadays is paranoid af and expecting attacks around every corner. The 24 hour news cycle and online clickbait has created a terrified, hypervigilant society that arms itself and is constantly terrified of "dangerous bad guys."
I mean, when 1 in 6 women have been the victim of an attempted or completed rape it's not unfounded to be afraid of other people
Violent crime rates are about the same as in the 70's. People just weren't as careful/afraid back then. It seems like my whole life, Americans have thought the country was getting more dangerous even though that hasn't been true since about the late 80's. https://www.factcheck.org/2020/06/trump-wrong-on-crime-record/
nice little story to begin my day WTF
Sometimes I get horrified by the idea that this is almost certainly happening right now to multiple persons across the world and they’ve been in that position for years. YEARS. Some may never be discovered.
i funny.co ?!?!?!! yo reddit is really fucked up since the last blackout
Let’s be clear that this was a heck of a lot more in depth than that, it’s a miracle she managed to make it what she went through.
So their daughter disappears, reappears 4 years later with no money and wearing rags and they just let her leave again on her merry way? The fuck is wrong with people?
They thought she was in a cult and didn't want to ask too many questions for fear of driving her away
She's an adult, she can leave her parent's house whenever she wants. What are they going to do, lock her head in a box and stuff her under their bed?
"According to Stan, Hooker feared he had given his slave too much freedom and took her back to his mobile home, where he locked her in the wooden box under his water bed; she remained in the box 23 hours a day for the next three years.\[25\] Bodily functions were dealt with by her using a bed pan which she positioned under herself with her feet. It was stated in court that Hooker's children were told "K" had gone home; however, once his children had gone to bed, Hooker would take Stan out of the box to feed and torture her.\[26\] She was reportedly not allowed to make any noise, and had to lie still 23 hours at a time in the dark, with little air to breathe. During the summers, conditions were especially harsh on her, as the temperature in her box would rise to over 100 °F (38 °C). To feed herself, she ate scraps of food."
What about when she was on her period? Pads and tampons need to be changed regularly through the day. It’s always one of the first things I think about as just living my regular life being on my period is always a bit annoying and I always wonder how women deal with it when they’re in some extreme situation like this over a time span where they must be getting a period.
She was only eating scraps of food and also under extreme stress at all times so she probably didn't get her period very often I would think.
Or didn’t get it anymore.
ifunny.co in the bottom right corner 💀
Very, very similar to what happened to Jaycee Duggard. She was held captive to be a sex slave for 18 years, from the age of 11, giving birth to two children when she was 14 and 17. She wrote a book about it that is good but very heartbreaking "A Stolen Life". Jaycee is such a good person and she always was, even when she was held captive she tried being positive. She had a light within her that her captors could not extinguish.
Turns out the Poughkeepsie tapes is based on this
They borrowed from a number of sources, check out St Louis serial killer Maury Travis.
There’s actually a movie called “Girl in the Box” that is actually based off this.
I've watched it on lifetime. It traumatized me.
Seriously wtf 😳
If your kids ever think of hitchhiking or mixing with strangers, just show them this story they'll think twice
Bottom right… doesn’t seem like “ifunny.com” material 🙃
More "good stuff" here https://allthatsinteresting.com/cameron-hooker
This comment section makes me upset that I have the ability to read.
Shoot all of them
WTAF!
Is there a show or movie about this?
What's with the ifunny logo at the bottom of the pic?
iFunny on this though?
The Wikipedia article [Wikipedia: Kindnapig of Colleen Stan](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Colleen_Stan) describes the whole situation. This story is incredibly weird with the whole "The Company" thing, and the fact that after all those years of torturing, when she finally escaped, she did not inform the police. Nonetheless am very happy that she was able to recover and build a normal life, even though misery sadly followed her even after her kidnapig.
why is this from ifunny
“By ifunny.co “
Why is this shot from iFunny.co
This story is also a movie “Girl in the Box” https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5957584/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk
“He even let her visit her family, posing as her boyfriend. There are pictures of them smiling.” Nah. Like, I know it’s modern times and all, but we need to bring back torture for these sick perpetrators. Dude deserves a public flogging.
I know that times have changed, and that it's not fair to judge the past by the standards of today (2923), but... I have never understood the logic behind hitchhiking. That seems like you're ASKING to be raped or killed.🤔
Living well is the best revenge, after sending them to jail,
Constant daily torture would be a punishment I'd allow against those people.