Christine McGuire

Thanks to the details on the suffering, privation, and orchestrated isolation of "the girl in the box" this has the makings of an engrossing true crime study with as much to say on breaking a person as the farther limits of organized cruelty. However, the authors elected to pull forward discussion of legal events that occasions after the victim regained her into interleaving chapters much too soon; before escape even seemed possible. It seems today authors think fractured chronology is show more appropriately modern . here it is pointlessly disrespectful. I do applaud the writers for working in successfully the courtroom examinations and legal minutiae in a brisk and engaging way. show less

In 1977 twenty-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 district attorney who prosecuted the man who had forced her to endure years of sexual perversion . . . and held her captive in a coffin-like box under his and his wife's bed. A story of riveting psychological intensity and gripping courtroom drama, show more Perfect Victim reveals the whole truth about Collen Stan's real-life nightmare . . . and the psychopath who enslaved her body and her mind. show less

Ok as True Crime books go. Again, written by the attorney in the case so they could get their 15 minutes of fame. Apparently the victim in this case didn't get a book deal but the attorney did. Hmmm. Would have like a little more from the victim herself about how she survived and dealt with the aftermath of this ordeal

Terrible, totally unbelievable