text: Cameron Hooker, who kept a hitchhiker as sex slave for seven years, was handed a 104-year sentence in 1985 . A man branded the 'most dangerous psychopath ever encountered' after he kept a young hitchhiker as a sex slave for seven years has been denied parole. Cameron Hooker, 61, was handed a 104-year sentence in 1985 for the kidnap, torture and rape of Colleen Stan. The case made international headlines and Stan was known as 'the Girl in the Box' after it was revealed that she was forced into a coffin-like structure for 23 hours a day during for much of her captivity. Despite Hooker's century-long jail term, he was allowed to request parole  seven years earlier than under the normal rules, USA Today reported. In an attempt to reduce its prison population, California has recently introduced the Elderly Parole Program which allows a parole hearing from inmates older than 60 who have served at least 25 years. But the parole board at Corcoran State Prison, where Hooker is incarcerated, denied the request and have stated the inmate won't get another hearing for 15 years. Luis Patino, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said Hooker had been given the longest delay period until his next parole hearing as the board found he was 'far from suitable' for being released. Scroll down for video . In May 1977, Stan had been hitchhiking along Interstate 5 near Redding, California. Despite the high risks involved - it just a few years after the arrest of a serial killer in Santa Cruz who preyed on young female hitchers - the then 20-year-old stick out her thumb and accepted a ride from a young couple traveling with a 7-month-old baby. Colleen Stan was known as 'the Girl in the Box' after it was revealed that she was forced into a coffin-like structure for 23 hours a day during much of her captivity . Stan was tortured, raped and left for days in a head box (right) or another coffin-like box under the couple's bed . The Coffin-like box in which Colleen was held for up to 23-hours a day under Hooker and his wife's bed . Within hours, she was tied up and naked in the basement of Hooker's home 30 miles away. It would be the start of seven torturous years as a captive of the 'psychopath'. Stan was starved, whipped and burned by Hooker, a 23-year-old lumber mill worker. He would tie her to the ceiling by her wrists or leave her for days with a 20-pound hinged wooden box around her head, blocking the outside world. At other times she would be forced into another, coffin-like box under Hooker and his wife Janice's bed, or tied to a rack. The specially-made torture device caused permanent damage to her back and one shoulder. She was also forced to sign a 'slavery contract' which meant she had to do anything Hooker wanted, from sex to the more mundane such as household chores or looking after his children. In 1978, Janice gave birth to a second baby on the water bed above Stan. Hooker had convinced her that if she ever ran away a powerful organisation known as The Company would find her, and would hurt her family. To avoid painful punishments, she said she tried to be a good slave and that due to this she was allowed out to jog, work in the yard, and care for the Hooker children alone in the mobile home. Video courtesy KXTV . Colleen Stan reads about her experiences being held captive by Cameron Hooker in the 1970s and 1980s during a crime victim's ceremony on Thursday in California . Even with an open door, neighbors, and a telephone, Stan made no attempt to escape; she said that her fear of "The Company" kept her from seeking help. Neighbors for years believed she was she just the family's helper. In 1981 she was even allowed to visit her family alone but then returned to Hooker, such was the extent to which she was under his control and feared 'The Company'. In 1984 she she was allowed to take a job as a maid at a local hotel. The turning point came in 1984 when Hooker told his wife Janice that he wanted to make Stan his second wife and bring in more female slaves. She told Stan that Hooker wasn't part of The Company and helped her to escape. Stan called Hooker from the bus stop and told him she was leaving him. He was said to have burst into tears. Despite escaping his clutches she continued to call him and refused to report him to the police. She said she wanted to give him the chance to reform. Once back home, Stan went to school for an accounting degree, married, and had a daughter. She also joined an organization to help abused women. It was his wife Janice who finally went to the police and in return for immunity agreed to testify against him. Despite Hooker's (pictured in 1984) century-long jail term, he had qualified for a new prison program which allowed him to request parole seven years earlier than under the normal rules . To the outside world she was simply a live-in housekeeper for the couple. No-one could imagine the horrors that went on behind closed doors. Stan, who was the subject of a best-selling book, Perfect Victim, finally escaped with the help of Hooker's wife Janice in 1984. Now living under a new identity, Stan said she had begun having nightmares that she was under Hooker's control again in the run up to the hearing. After Hooker's request for parole was refused, Stan told KXTV: 'The hearing went really well and I'm really pleased with the results. 'He didn't show any remorse. Basically he's wasted his life, 30 years in prison and hasn't done anything to try to improve himself or change himself or figure out why he did this.' 'I don't know what his health issues are physically or mentally,' Stan said. 'But I don't think he's a feeble old man that couldn't do this again.'
target: Cameron Hooker had kidnapped young hitchhiker Colleen Stan in 1977 .
  Over the next seven years victim was tortured and raped as his captive .
  Hooker, now 61, was sentenced to a 104-year prison term jail in 1985 .
  He applied for early parole but was told he'd spent at least 15 years in jail .