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

The kidnapping of Colleen Stanton. I cannot conceive of how awful her life must have been, and have continued to be after her release. This book Perfect Victim, is pretty detailed and horrific.

you should acquaint your self with the colleen stan case. forced to live in a box under a bed for years, towards the end of her imprisonment, she actually got a job at a hotel, and gave the paycheck to her captor.

edit: you can watch the documentary on the case here, featuring the girl.

there's also a book on it called the perfect victim, written by the lawyer who prosecuted the guy. the writing itself is pretty shitty, but the book is impossible to put down.

Yeah, crazy story. The book I read about it was called Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0440204429?pc_redir=1408593642&robot_redir=1

I read this book years ago, and it was horrific. If I recall, immediately after being picked up while hitchhiking, a sensory-deprivation box was placed on her head. Everything went downhill from there. In the end, she was so much under her captor's control that she was even allowed to hold a job outside of the home.

The first true crime book I ever read was Perfect Victim: The True Story of the Girl in the Box about Colleen Stan who was kidnapped by a husband and wife, lived with them for 7 years as their "sex slave" and eventually their baby sitter, and even was allowed to visit her parents once during her captivity until eventually his wife told her that everything she believed about her captivity was false. It was a fascinating read.

I also recommend Fatal Vision about Dr. Jeffery MacDonald who hired a writer to write his side of the story of the murder of his wife and two children while he was at home. The writer eventually comes to his own conclusions about the case and ends up getting sued by the Dr. himself. A Wilderness of Error by Errol Morris takes a different take on the case than the first book.

And lastly you should read Helter Skelter about the Manson Murders written by the prosecutor Vincent Bugliosi. Another fascinating book with a ton of detail.

Maybe this is it. http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Victim-True-Story-Girl/dp/0440204429