Sentenced to 104 years in prison, Cameron Hooker, now in California’s Corcoran state prison, is getting a parole hearing after only 30 years
Cameron Hooker is doing time at Corcoran, the same California state prison where Charlie Manson has been roosting. Bob Walsh calls Hooker a ‘seriously warped individual.’
Here is a very good editorial from the Chico Enterprise-Record:
EDITORIAL: CAMERON HOOKER’S PAROLE HEARING SHOULD BE EXTREMELY BRIEF
Chico Enterprise-Record
March 14, 2015
If the justice system works, the parole hearing next month for notorious Red Bluff kidnapper, rapist and suspected murderer Cameron Hooker should be the shortest on record. It should last as long as it takes to say the words, “No way on earth. Never.”
Just the fact that Hooker is getting a parole hearing is appalling enough to many people in these parts. Hooker is the sadist who kept a young woman he abducted under his bed in a box, with his wife’s knowledge, in their Red Bluff home. The family had two children living at home.
The victim was a sex slave for more than seven years. Janice Hooker eventually helped the woman escape and escaped punishment herself by testifying against her husband.
Janice Hooker said her husband also tortured and killed Marie Elizabeth Spannhake after abducting her in Chico in January 1976. Spannhake’s body was never found so there was no prosecution, but it didn’t matter because Cameron Hooker was sentenced to 104 years in state prison in 1985 for the trial that became known nationwide as the “girl in the box” case.
The frightening trial was the stuff of nightmares. It was horror-movie material before horror movies ever got that weird. Hooker, a 31-year-old lumber mill worker when he was arrested, was painted at trial as a deranged man fascinated with bondage, torture and the occult.
When he was sentenced in Redwood City (the trial was moved from Red Bluff at the request of the defense), Superior Court Judge Clarence Knight called Hooker “the most dangerous psychopath I have ever encountered.”
Only in California can you be sentenced to 104 years in state prison and get a parole hearing and possible release 30 years later.
The hearing, though, is required by law. Hooker is serving in Corcoran. Tehama County District Attorney Gregg Cohen said he plans to attend the hearing and feels “very confident” that Hooker will not be released.
“I equate him along the lines of Charles Manson as far as his evilness,” Cohen said.
Anyone who remembers the case feels the same.
Hooker wasn’t supposed to have an initial parole hearing until 2022, but California has since allowed earlier parole hearings for the elderly and the sick who are no harm to society. Hooker is 61, which isn’t elderly, and with his twisted mind, he’ll always qualify as a threat to society.
There should never be parole for Cameron Hooker. He deserves to stay in his box forever.
1 comment:
Actually I called him a piece of shit. The editor changed it.
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