She Lived in a Box for 7 Years… And Could Have Left Whenever She Wanted

She Lived in a Box for 7 Years… And Could Have Left Whenever She WantedIn 1977, 20-year-old Colleen Stan accepted a ride from a young couple with a baby in the back seat. She thought she was safe.She wasn't.What followed was seven years of captivity so psychologically complex that the FBI described it as unparalleled in their entire history. Colleen was locked in a wooden box under a waterbed for up to 23 hours a day. She was beaten, tortured, and forced to sign a contract selling herself into slavery for life.But here's what makes this case different from anything you've ever heard.She went jogging alone. She visited her family alone. She held down a job miles from the house. The doors weren't always locked.And she never ran.This is the story of Cameron and Janice Hooker, a fictional organisation called The Company, and the most sophisticated psychological prison ever documented — built entirely inside one woman's mind.This is The Unknown Files.#TrueCrime #ColleenStan #GirlInTheBox #TheUnknownFiles #TrueCrimeDocumentary #CameronHooker #Kidnapping #UnsolvedMysteries #TrueCrimeCommunity #ColdCase