1991 Kidnapping Research Paper

Kidnapping is taking someone away illegally by force, typically to obtain a ransom or personal use. For people to kidnap and keep a person for many years there has to a problem or reason for doing so. In 1977 and 1991 kidnappings occurred that shared many similarities. In 1977 Colleen Stan was kidnapped by Cameron and Janice Hooker for seven years. Being his slave and used for sexual activities. In 1991 Jaycee Dugard was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido when she was only eleven years old and was kept for eighteen years. In the following paragraphs I will go into more detail about the kidnapping couples and how the stories are similar.

On November 5, 1953 in Alturas, California a criminal was born. Cameron Hooker was tall, thin, geeky

boy who was very shy. Growing up he had no friends so he began to use his imagination. When school was over he worked in a lumber mill and because he had no friends he read. He didn’t read typical teen boy books; he read things that were pornographic. He read the type which had bounded women being abused and tortured. When he was nineteen he met Janice who was only fifteen. Janice just like Cameron was shy but she also had a low self-esteem. Janice was grateful that a boy was polite and actually liked her. As time passed Cameron showed a different side of himself to her. One time Cameron suspended her by the wrist from a tree. He didn’t hurt her, so she was grateful and stayed with him to do everything he wanted. After many years together they finally got married in 1975 and they rented a home in Red Buff, California. His torture and bondage got too much for her so she agreed to let him kidnap a girl just to torture and cause pain. Janice said that Cameron court hurt the girl but he could never have sex with her. In 1976 Cameron kidnapped a girl and did things to her but it didn’t last, she was too loud so Cameron killed her. And buried her in a shallow grave, with not enough evidence he wasn’t charged so he moved on to the next one. So on May 19, 1977 they offered a twenty year old girl a ride. The girl was Colleen Stan, she was on her ways to surprise a friend from their birthday. As she walked she was offered by two others but she passed. Colleen Stan says she choose to ride with the Hookers because they seemed like a friendly couple with a baby but she later learned that it was a lie and it was no way she was going to escape with was about to happen to her. In the car they blindfolded her, cuffed her, and put her head in a box until it was dark so they could sneak her into their house. When they got Colleen settled in the basement all tied up and everything Cameron whipped her and then later Janice and Cameron has sex when she was right there blindfolded. The torture and abuse has been going on for about four year snow but things have changed a little. Colleen now sleeps in a big box in their bedroom. Colleen also cooks for them and takes care of their baby while Cameron goes to work and Janice stays at home to watch Colleen. Cameron started to break the promise he made to Janice because he couldn’t hold back his fantasies so he had sex with Colleen a couple of times. After Janice found that out she realized what he was doing wrong so she made her connection but Colleen which was the Bible and religion. As time passed it’s been seven years since she has seen or spoken to her family but good thing was that Cameron gave her more freedom. So with that freedom one day she got on a bus with the help from Janice and finally with home. She called Cameron and when she told him he started to cry. A couple months later Janice told the police on him and told them what happened to the other girl he kidnapped and killed. Janice testified against her husband for immunity and he was charged with sexual assault, kidnapping, and for using a knife during the process. And that added up to one hundred four years in prison. In 2015 he was denied parole and won’t be eligible for another hearing until 2022. On the other hand Colleen Stan moved on and got a degree in accounting, married, and has a daughter. Her and Janice but changed their last names and still live in California.
On April 5, 1951, Phillip Garrido was born in Pittsburg, California.

Phillip like most criminal had problems with drugs at a very young age. In 1972 Phillip rapped and drugged a girl a fourteen year old girl but charges were dropped because the girl didn’t want to testify. In 1976 he abducted a twenty-five year old woman and rapped her too. He was caught and was sentenced to fifty years in prison but he only served eleven years and got parole in 1988. While in prison he met his soon to be wife Nancy. Nancy was born on July 18, 1955 in Seguin Texas. While Phillip was still in prison they got married on October 5, 1981. He was released and only two years later he abducted Jaycee Lee Dugard. Jaycee Lee Dugard was born on May 3, 1980 in South Lake Tahoe, California. Only at the age of eleven, on July 10, 1991 she was kidnapped from outside of her house. She was kidnapped from outside of her house. Her stepdad tried to chase down the car on a bike but they got away. Her stepdad called the police and everything but she wasn’t found. Phillip and Nancy Garrido took and kept Jaycee in the backyard of their house in Antioch, California for 18 long and sad years. During those eighteen years she was rapped multiple times and was told many lies by Phillip and Nancy. The icing on the bake was that Phillip got Jaycee pregnant twice and she had two daughters when she was only fourteen and seventeen years old. One day Nancy and Phillip went to the University of California of Berkeley because they had a religious event. People got suspicious so one day someone called the police and found out that he was a sex offender and was shocked that he had two little girls with him. Because of that there was a parole meeting on August 26, 2009 so Nancy, Phillip, Jaycee, and her two daughters were there. Phillip told his parole officer that Jaycee and her daughters that were relatives. But later he crumbled under pressure and two days later Phillip and Nancy were charged with 29 felonies.

After pleading guilty Phillip was sentenced to four hundred thirty one years to life and Nancy was sentenced to thirty-six years to life. So after eighteen years Jaycee Lee Dugard was finally free.
Both kidnapping couple did a lot of bad things to women but most of the violence and rape came from the two men. Phillip and Cameron both grew up being violent young men who would later cause them to do major crimes. Cameron Hooker was a bot who stayed to himself and had a very dirty imagination. Cameron hurt women and though about violence from a young age. Also Phillip Garrido started his violence at a young age and the use of drugs influenced him. They both had victims that they hurt, rapped, and Cameron even killed before the kidnapping and rape that sent them to jail for one hundred plus years. They way that Phillip and Cameron both rapped and tortured Jaycee and Colleen were very similar. They both kept them in an area near or in their house in a separated box or room away from other people and the outside world. Just how Phillip had sex with Jaycee, Cameron had sex with Colleen, even though he wasn’t supposed to. They just didn’t rape the women and leave them; they both kept the women for more than five years and used them from many duties. After all those years Phillip and Cameron were both sentenced for the same crimes and for more than one hundred years in prison. On the other had the two women were different Nancy helped Phillip with the kidnapping and was sentenced to thirty-six years to life. But Janice didn’t help Cameron with the rape and torture and wasn’t sentenced to any time in jail.
In conclusion Cameron and Janice Hooker kidnapped and kept a girl for seven years, while Phillip and Nancy kidnapped and kept a girl for eighteen years. In the paragraphs above I have compared their stories and what happened. In these cases the men controlled the situation and used the victim for their personal use only. For people to kidnap and keep another human being for many years are very sick and something has to be truly wrong with them. Both women Jaycee Dugard and Colleen Stan have moved on with their lives and have not let that situation hold them back from the rest of their lives. The people that have done wrong to the victims for the most part are getting what they deserve by being in jail. “I enjoy life so much now, and I try had to appreciate each and every day. “This quote was from Jaycee Lee Dugard’s book “A Stolen Life” just shows how people can move on.