Perfect Victim: The True Story of "The Girl in the Box" by the D.A. That Prosecuted Her Captor

“True crime at its most shocking, most harrowing, and . . . most thought-provoking.”—Booklist

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 a...