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

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 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.

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, Perfect Victim reveals the whole truth about Collen Stan's real-life nightmare . . . and the psychopath who enslaved her body and her mind.

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

I was creeped out. The idea that this could actually happen boggles my mind. Oh. My. God.

I hope and pray that guy never gets out.

Excellant book...really makes you think

Please don't judge me too hard for marking this book as "looks-interesting". Actually you know what? Judge me all you want; I don't care. This book actually does look interesting. (By the way I may or I may not have read [b:The Story of O|40483|Story of O|Pauline Réage|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1344368703s/40483.jpg|2462307], but I will never admit one way or another. Take it how you will.)