The note also read, You will find the body covered with a load of cactus.
Colleen started to fear that something was amiss, but she got back in the vehicle.
The suspect took Colleen to an isolated location where he held a knife to Stans throat.
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The box prevented fresh air, light and sound from entering the wooden box.
The suspect and his wife came to an agreement to keep Stan so that she could be raped.
She was repeatedly tortured and beaten.
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During her visit with her family, she did not tell them her situation out of fear of retaliation.
The next day, she visited her family and introduced the suspect to her family as her boyfriend.
After the visit, the suspect feared that he had given his victim too much freedom.
The suspect took her out of the box for one hour a day to torture Stan and feed her.
During the summertime, temperatures would exceed over 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the wooden box.
In 1983, the suspect wanted Stan to become his second wife and started to allow her more freedom.
Stan was introduced to the neighbors, and she got a job as a maid at a local hotel.
The suspects wife then told Stan that she was not being watched.
She then took a bus home to escape her kidnapper.
The suspects wife asked Stan to not call the police to give her husband a chance to reform himself.
The suspects trial took place in 1985, and his wife testified against him in exchange for full immunity.
The suspect, Cameron Hooker, was given a sentence of 104 years to be served in consecutive terms.
Cameron Hooker was eligible for parole in 2015, where his request was denied.
He is not eligible for parole again until 2022.
Stan has since got married, had a daughter and attended college afterseven years in isolation with her kidnapper.
Mary McElroy
Mary McElroy was kidnapped on May 27, 1933.
Four people kidnapped Mary McElroy after being inspired by other successful kidnappings.
Mary was bathing when she was kidnapped.
Dressed as delivery men, they tricked the cook at the McElroy home to launch the door.
The kidnappers were armed with revolvers.
They went upstairs and took Mary McElroy hostage after they allowed her to get dressed.
The abductors took her to a house in Shawnee, Kansas.
They then handcuffed her to a wall in the basement of the house.
After her abduction, the kidnappers requested a ransom of $30,000, which they received.
They released Mary McElroy the next morning at the Milburn Golf Club.
Three of the kidnappers were arrested.
One of the kidnappers remains at large.
A boy walked into Robles Electric Company with a ransom note demanding $15,000 from her father.
The note had directions for delivery.
The note warned her father to not to get in touch with the police.
The boy told Junes father that an unidentified man paid him 25 cents to deliver the note.
Her father decided to get the police involved.
Volunteers started searching for June after her grandfather got a note for ransom.
The kidnappers reduced the ransom by $10,000.
A third note was delivered to the Pima County Attorneys door at the courthouse threatening the family.
The note demanded that they receive the money within 48 hours or that they would shoot and kill June.
He asked the kidnappers to contact him for further negotiations.
A letter was sent to the governor of Arizona at the time disclosing the location of June.
The letter stated that June was in the desert in Tucson.
Volunteers searched for June for two hours.
They found her alive in a metal cage buried under sand.
A federal grand jury didnt have enough evidence to indict anyone in the case.
The case was closed without any arrests.
After her alleged kidnapping, June raised her four children.
She was married to her husband for 64 yearsuntil her death in September 2014 at the age of 87.
The kidnapper took the nine-year-old girl at knifepoint and forced her into his trunk.
The kidnapper took Sano Fusako up to his bedroom and held her captive there for nearly 10 years.
The kidnapper claimed that he took Sano Fusako because he was lonely and needed someone to talk to.
He was previously diagnosed with a mental illness before the kidnapping.
The abductor bound Sano Fusako and placed adhesive tape over her mouth.
He also threatened her with a knife and punched her often.
During Sano Fusakos captivity, her abductor cut her hair short and forced her to wear his clothes.
He fed her three times per day.
The abductor threatened that he would leave her alone on a mountain if she attempted to flee.
The abductor became violent when his mother would go upstairs.
His mother made a phone call to social workers.
The social workers visited the house and found the girl.
They then asked the police for help.
The police refused to visit the house and told the social workers to fix the issue.
As the abductors violent behavior increased, he visited a hospital with Sano Fusako.
He started acting violently towards the staff, and they called the police.
Sano Fusako was rescued on January 28, 2000.
She suffered serious injuries during her captivity.
The kidnapper was taken to an area hospital the day Sano Fusako was rescued for a psychiatric evaluation.
The kidnapper went to trial and pleaded guilty to the abduction and unlawful confinement resulting in injury.
He was sentenced to 14 years of imprisonment on January 22, 2002.
The kidnapper was eligible for release in 2016, but his status is currently unknown.
The kidnapper was a 38-year-old writing teacher at the time of the abduction.
Jessyca Mullenberg fell asleep during the trip, and she woke up and realized that she was tied up.
When the pair arrived in Houston, they stayed at a Days Inn near the airport.
Her kidnapper locked her inside the room for 101 days, and he raped her almost every day.
Steve Oliver cut her hair short and dyed it from blonde to dark brown.
If Jessyca did not follow his orders, he would tie her to the bed or beat her.
He mentally, emotionally and physically abused her for the months that she was in captivity.
Steve Oliver watched Americas Most Wanted many times to see if the police were on his trail.
A woman working at the hotel they were staying at recognized Steve Oliver and called the show.
Around 2 a.m. that night, FBI agents entered their hotel room.
After the FBI agents entered the room, they realized that they had found Jessyca.
The trial took place in June 1996, and Jessyca testified for hours.
Steve Oliver received a 40-year prison sentence without the possibility of parole.
As of 2015, he is serving his sentence at a federal prison in Atlanta.
Unfortunately, Jessyca suffered serious injuries during her captivity from Steve Oliver repeatedly punching her in the face.
Sabine Dardenne
Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped on May 28, 1996 when she was just 12-years-old.
Her kidnapper, Marc Dutroux, kidnapped her while she was riding her bicycle to school.
Marc Dutroux held her captive in his basement for 80 days while he raped, abused and starved her.
Sabine Dardenne was not his first victim.
Marc Dutroux told her that her parents did not want her back while she was in captivity.
He finally made her believe that, but it was a lie.
While she was in captivity, she wrote letters to her family.
Marc Dutroux ended up getting caught and arrested in 1996.
Once he was arrested, he faced trial for his horrible acts.
Sabine Dardenne ended up testifying against him.
Marc Dutroux was found guilty.
He was sentenced to life in prison.
Sinceshe was found,Sabine Dardenne went to school, landed a job and found a boyfriend.
Kala Brown had cleaned for him five times in the past over a three-month period.
After they got out of their car and in the garage, Kohlhepp shot Carver multiple times.
Kala Brown was kept in the container in hot temperatures, and she was only fed once a day.
She was chained during most of her confinement.
After she was found, Todd Kohlhepp was arrested and charged with multiple offenses ranging from murder to kidnapping.
After he was arrested, Todd Kohlhepp admitted to killing several of his people in South Carolina.
Philin an interview that Todd Kohlhepp apologized to her for killing her boyfriend.
Kala Brown has since changed her appearance.
She isstill grievingover the loss of Charlie Carver.
Her kidnapper held her under his garage in a cellar.
He also forced her to shave off her hair and do chores while nude.
She was beaten so badly that it broke some of her bones in her body.
When she would cry, he would hold her head underwater until she lost consciousness.
Natascha Kampuschescaped when she was 18-years old.
Shawn Hornbeck
Michael Devlin kidnapped Shawn Hornbeck in 2002.
Shawn was only 11-years-old at the time of his abduction.
Michael Devlin constantly warned Shawn that he would kill him if he ever tried to escape.
Michael Devlin tied Shawn to a futon and taped his mouth shut.
The FBI rescued Shawn Hornbeck and another boy in 2007 after they entered Michael Devlins apartment.
Michael Devlin was later arrested.
Wu Ruofu
Several men dressed in police uniforms in Beijing kidnapped Wu Ruofu in 2004.
The kidnappers did not know who he was.
They kidnapped him because they saw him driving an expensive BMW.
During his captivity, Wu Roufu was beaten, bound and gagged.
When the police rescued Wu Roufo, the kidnappers were strangling him.
Wu Roufu has ahard time while thinkingabout the incident.
He is still mentally traumatized.
