Rapist Who Kept Woman In Box Under His Bed For Years And Hung Her From Rafters Could Be Freed: Report

SAN MATEO COUNTY, CA — Prosecutors are looking to bar the release of a violent rapist whose sentence for crimes he committed more than four decades ago is nearing its end, according to a report from KRON4.

For seven years, Cameron Hooker, 71, tortured and raped Colleen Stan, a woman he abducted from Red Bluff in 1977, according to the report.

Hooker forced Colleen to sign a "slave contract" and kept her hung from rafters in his basement and forced her to live in a box, according to the report.

Hooker, who was diagnosed by a psychiatrist as a "sexual sadist," was eventually convicted of torture, kidnapping and rape, and sentenced to serve six to 35 years in prison, plus 69 years.

Hooker was set to be paroled in 2020. But due to the diagnosis, he's been deemed a threat to the public, keeping his case in limbo.

Now, the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office is holding a new trial seeking to keep Hooker involuntarily committed.

The hearing on trial motions began last week and will continue, and then a jury will be chosen in May, prosecutors said.

Read more from KRON4.

Bay City News contributed to this report.

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