The State - News from June 10, 1988

The state Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a man sentenced to up to 104 years in prison for holding a young woman captive in a box and repeatedly raping and torturing her over a seven-year period. None of the justices voted to grant a hearing on an appeal by Cameron Hooker, 34, of Red Bluff, from a lower-court ruling upholding his sentence on convictions of kidnaping and multiple sex crimes. While out driving with his wife and their oldest child, Hooker kidnaped a 20-year-old Riverside County woman at knifepoint. He took the woman, identified as Colleen R., to his home, stripped her and hung her from the basement rafters, and whipped her when she cried, according to court records. She testified that in the succeeding years, she was kept for most of the time in a small box in various parts of the home.