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San Francisco Examiner Wife says suspect in sex slave case killed Chico woman name Is being withheld, allegedly es Examiner news services RED BLUFF Police here and in Chico said today they are investigating whether a 31-year-old mill-worker charged with kidnapping a woman and holding her seven years as a sex slave was involved in the 1976 disappearance of a Chico woman. "We are conducting an investigation to ascertain if (Cameron) Hooker had any involvement in the disappearance of Mary Elizabeth Spann-hake." the Red Bluff Police Department said in a statement Chico police said that Hooker was named by his wife, Janice, 26, as the kidnapper and killer of Spannhake, who was 18 when she disappeared on Jan. 81, 1976, from a street in Chico, 36 miles south of Red Bluff. Janice Hooker has given Red Bluff police a detailed account of Spann-hake's abduction, murder and burial, said Chico Police Chief U.F. Bullerjahn said.

Bullcrjahn said police have no information to corroborate the story, but said the investigation Is continuing. According to Bullerjahn, Hooker told Red Bluff police she and her husband had come to Chico to do some shopping when they picked up Spannhake, who was hitchhiking. Police said the couple subdued Spannhake and drove her to their home in Red Bluff. Janice Hooker told police that once inside the house, Spannhake was suspended by ropes hanging from hooks in the ceiling in a manner similar to the way Red Bluff police have said the alleged sex slave was held. Hooker said her husband tortured Spannhake, even though she begged to be released and swore never to tell about the abduction.

Hooker said that in response, her husband killed Spannhake. 1 looker told police she and her husband wrapped the woman's body In blankets, put It In a car, and drove to According to police, they conducted a months long investigation into the disappearance and reactivated the case on numerous occasions. They provided no more details. Police said they received new information about the Spannhake case in November, when Janice Hooker began providing Information to Red Bluff police on the sex slave case. Janice Hooker has been providing Information to Red Bluff police since before her husband was arrested on suspicion of kidnapping a Riverside woman from a Red Bluff street In May 1977.

The. victim in that case, whose an undisclosed location wnere utey burled the body, Chico and Red Bluff police officers accompanied Janice Hooker on a trip to the site recently but found no body. Bullerjahn said Chico police received a missing person's report on Feb. 2, 1976, from John Baruth, then a 2fryearold Chico resident, saying Spannhake, his fiance, had been missing since Jan. 31.

He told police they were at a flea market that Saturday afternoon when they got in an argument and Spannhake left to walk to their home, three miles away, police said. caped in August arter being new captive in a box under Hooker's bed for a number of years following her abduction. The 27 year-old victim also allegedly was held captive part of the time In a double-box device, which was fit-ted over her head and suspended from the Cameron Hooker is being held In Tehama County Jail on $500,000 bail and was arraigned today in Red Bluff Judicial District Court Janice Hooker was granted Immunity from prosecution in exchange for her testimony, D6 Thursday, December 20, 1984 -HnS Tandy Christmas Computer Camps Camps lor ages 2-1 5 and adults will be held Dec. 26-31 at Radio Shack Computer Centers. Instructors and computers provided at each daily 2-hour session.

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