The State - News from Nov. 24, 1985

A lumber mill worker convicted of abducting a young woman and holding her in bondage for seven years as his sex slave was sentenced in Redwood City to 104 years in state prison. San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Clarence Knight said he imposed the maximum sentence on Cameron Hooker because of the “cruelty and viciousness of the crimes.” Knight called the 31-year-old defendant “the most dangerous psychopath I have ever encountered.” During his trial, Hooker admitted that he and his wife, Janice, kidnaped the woman, then 20 years old, at knifepoint as she was hitchhiking through Northern California in May, 1977. The victim testified that Cameron Hooker tortured and raped her repeatedly and kept her confined for long periods in a coffin-like box.