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Top Score: 5 Stars
Colleen stuck out her thumb and hitched the wrong ride with Cameron and Janine. The husband and wife exchanged glances, and soon the woman in the backseat was locked into a "head box" and hidden under her own sleeping bag.
Seven years later, neighbors considered Colleen a part of their family, babysitting and gardening, working as a hotel housekeeper, and going to church. What happened between her capture and the sensational "Sex Slave" trial?
This book tells the astounding and alarming tale of a young woman who was turned into the submissive slave of a sadist. The author, who prosecuted the case, alternates between the chronology of Colleen's pathetically circumscribed existence, and the tale as it unfolded seven years later when she was "'freed" by his wife.
Colleen's situation is terrible to contemplate, but the author portrays the case in a sympathetic yet professional manner, allowing the reader to develop a gradual emotional callous. I would imagine that the prosecutor herself went through the same process during her months of mind-numbing investigation.
This is a classic account, and a must-read and must-have in every crime library.
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