Perfect victim

"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 w...

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Main Author: McGuire, Christine.
Other Authors: Norton, Carla.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York, NY : Dell, 1989.
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Summary: "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 coffinlikebox under his and his wife's bed. A story of riveting psychological intensity and gripping courtroom drama, Perfect Victim reveals the whoe truth about Colleen Stan's real-life nightmare . . . and the psychopath who enslaved her body and her mind."--Back cover.
Physical Description: 370 pages, [8] pages of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
ISBN: 0440204429 (pbk.) :
9780440204428 (pbk.)
Author Notes: Christine McGuire is a veteran prosecutor of murder cases in a California District Attorney's office. She has taught at the academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Quantico, Virginia. Her first book, Perfect Victim, a nonfiction account of a sexual enslavement case, was a #1 New York Times bestseller.

Carla Norton is a novelist and true crime writer. Her books include Perfect Victim, Disturbed Ground, What Doesn't Kill Her, and The Edge of Normal .