A hitchhiker's seven-year rape ordeal, which saw her locked in a coffin-shaped box for 23 hours a day, was depicted in a drama which aired on UK TV last night.
Colleen Stan, then aged 20, was kidnapped after accepting a ride from Cameron Hooker while hitchhiking to a friend's birthday in 1977.
Hooker pounced on Colleen after she returned from a toilet stop, locking her head in a soundproof box he had constructed.
The 23-year-old and his wife, Janice, then drove 300 miles back to their rural home in Red Bluff, California, in an ordeal retold in the Channel 5 drama 'The Girl In The Box' last night.
Hooker put the youngster in a box under his bed, where she stayed for 23 hours a day, only being allowed out when he wanted to rape or torture her.
When she was back at the house, Hooker put a blindfold over her eyes and hung her up by chains in the basement.
He raped and beat her, before having celebratory sex with Janice on a table below.
He forced Colleen into signing a 'slave' contract and said he would kill her and her family if she tried to flee.
The sadist electrocuted and whipped her in an ordeal that was depicted in last night's film.
She was initially kept in a crate which she could not lie down in, however she was then put in a coffin-like box when Hooker moved home.
Due to the lack of space, she had to use a bed pan as a toilet, moving it underneath her body with her feet.
Her cell became scorching hot in the summer - and she even once had to listen to Janice giving birth on the bed above her.
Colleen's kidnapper convinced her that he was part of 'The Company' and would execute her if she attempted to escape.
Hooker brainwashed Colleen, now 62, forcing her to call him 'master' and his wife 'ma'am'.
He even took her back to see her parents, with Colleen persuading them that he was her boyfriend.
Opening up about her terror, Colleen says it was Janice who was the one to eventually help her escape seven years after they took her.
In 1984, Janice came to her and said she needed to escape before taking her to her parents' home while Hooker was out of the house.
Hooker was sentenced to 104 years in prison while Janice was given immunity in exchange for her testimony against her husband.
