10 Horrendous Details Surrounding About Colleen Stan, The “Girl In The Box”

6 /10 Life In The Box

Colleen spent twenty-three hours a day inside that box for the first year, and Cameron would only take her out for one hour every day to feed her and brutally rape her.

Inside the box, a bedpan was placed alongside her to perform her bodily functions, and she had to move it around with her feet before and after she was done.

In summer, the temperature inside the box would rise to more than 100ºF (38ºC), and she would nearly suffocate due to the lack of oxygen in the box.

Placed in this box, under the Hooker’s bed, she would even hear the birth of Janice Hooker’s second child in 1978.

5 /10 The Company

To keep Colleen quiet and docile, Cameron came up with an even more sickening tale: he was a member of a secret organization that supposedly would gruesomely kill her and her family if she left; that would hunt her down and kill her. Its name was “The Company.”

Unable to withstand all of this any longer (and her hopes of escaping broken by her increasing belief in the organization), Colleen would sign a contract giving herself into life-long slavery in 1978.

4 /10 Colleen Becomes K

So she became “K,” a slave that would only speak when spoken to, and that would call Cameron Hooker’ master, in a twisted attempt to recreate BDSM formulae.

Eventually, her compliance gained her enough of Cameron’s trust for her to be allowed to clean the house, work on the yard, take care of the children, and even jog around the property.

She had phones and open doors available, but her fear of “The Company” and the brainwashing of years started to take effect.

3 /10 She Visited Her Family

In this state, she was even allowed to visit her family in 1981. She appeared at her house to her surprised relatives, who immediately believed that she was involved in a cult and started to walk on eggshells to prevent her from leaving forever.

They couldn’t have imagined the extent of the abuse that Colleen was suffering or that the man that she came with and called her ‘boyfriend’ was, in fact, Cameron Hooker, a murderer, rapist, and a sex maniac.

A photo of this visit depicts them both laughing and embracing each other in a way that chills those who now know what has happened in those years.

2 /10 Back In A Coffin

But Cameron wasn’t satisfied with Colleen after all, and he decided that she had too much liberty: that same year, when they got back from visiting her family, he forced her again into the box for twenty-three hours a day.

The children were told that “K” had gone home, and she subsequently spent two years in that box, without anyone else but the Hookers knowing. It all regressed to the first, horrendous days of torture.

1 /10 Her Captor Released Her

But perhaps the most surprising part of this story would be that Janice Hooker, one of her two captors, would release her in the end.

By 1984 she was once again introduced in the house and allowed even to get a job as a maid in a local motel, but Janice Hooker (for reasons still unclear today; though some speculate that she learned that her husband planned to kill them both and replace them) took her out, informed her that her husband didn’t belong to “The Company,” and drove her to a bus stop.

There, she called Cameron and announced that she was leaving, making him break into tears.

But she didn’t even reach the police: it would take three more months before Janice would turn in her husband, by denouncing the murder of Marie Elizabeth Spannhake.

He would be sentenced to 104 years of prison, with a twist: he would be able to ask for parole in March 2021.