The lawyer for a man accused of...
The lawyer for a man accused of kidnaping a hitchhiker and imprisoning her as a sex slave for seven years said he wants the Feb. 20 trial transferred to another community, contending that pretrial publicity in the Red Bluff area has hurt his client’s chances for a fair trial. Defense attorney Rolland Papendick filed the request in Tehama County Superior Court. A hearing on the motion was set for Feb. 4 before visiting Glenn County Superior Court Judge Roy MacFarland. Papendick’s client, Cameron Hooker, 31, is being held in lieu of $500,000 bail on charges of rape, sodomy and kidnap stemming from the May, 1977, abduction of a then-20-year-old female hitchhiker from Riverside. The woman was abducted on a Red Bluff street, then held for years in Hooker’s home, often in boxes built specially by Hooker, according to court testimony.
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