article_snippet.sent: In May 1977, Stan had been hitchhiking along Interstate 5 near Redding, California.
article_snippet.sent: Stan was starved, whipped and burned by Hooker, a 23-year-old lumber mill worker.
article_snippet.sent: Colleen Stan reads about Colleen Stan experiences being held captive by Cameron Hooker in the 1970s and 1980s during a crime victim's ceremony on Thursday in California .
article_snippet.sent: It was his wife Janice who finally went to the police and in return for immunity agreed to testify against Colleen Stan.
article_snippet.sent: Stan, who was the subject of a best-selling book, Perfect Victim, finally escaped with the help of Hooker's wife Janice in 1984.
highlights_snippet.sent: Cameron Hooker had kidnapped young hitchhiker Colleen Stan in 1977 .
  