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Investigators found evidence that jennifer spalding and the 16-year-old african-american girl had not been jamelskes only captives. in an upstairs bedroom they discovered a stockpile of pictures and videotapes that jamelske had taken of other young women in the dungeon. in this video a younger-looking jamelske seems to be in the throes of a second childhood, rapping along with one of his young captives. >> peace out. >> peace out. >> role playing with her. >> word up. >> word up on a string. >> ...

Perspective on the people, places and events that landed him in jail seemed to come from a parallel universe. according to jamelske, every female who stayed in his dungeon went there willingly and happily exchanged sex for cash, room and board. so hes guilty of nothing more than cheating on his wife. >> thats basically -- what do you call it? adultery. so anyway -- >> but when you go to someone whos under age, its not called adultery. its called sexual assault. >> now i find that out. i had no i...

Old? >> 18. >> according to him? >> according to him. shes, in fact, 16. >> so he is talking without the lawyer? >> hes talking. >> a misunderstood may/december romance is all there was to it, the old man said. >> that he didnt plan on making it a permanent thing, it was just kind of a fling for the present time. >> mid-life crisis, or what? >> he was a little bit old for a mid-life crisis. >> but no matter what they thought about the old mans motives, police now had a name and an address. his n...

That makes him a criminal. so how do you think youd feel if you were 15 years old and you were locked at your house in that room for a year? >> i would not mind living down there in that dungeon. >> come on. >> it was absolutely beautiful. there was a bed. there was water. >> youre saying everything a girl could want in that dungeon? >> anything that they wanted except leaving at certain times was there. >> well, in any state ive been thats called kidnapping. >> thats what i understand the law s...

Grandfather, a widower who spent years nursing his sick wife. but for 15 years police say john jamelske had another identity as a sexual slave master in a makeshift underground dungeon he built himself to abuse and imprison a string of young women. now he is heading to trial accused of kidnapping and rape and there would be a drama in the courtroom. once more, here is rob stafford. >> in early summer, 2003, john jamelske entered a syracuse courtroom for the first time. after two months of satura...

The music and she has her joint and -- >> angry. emotional. >> very, very much. >> even before his house became snared in a tangle of yellow police tape, jamelske was well known in his suburban syracuse hometown of dewitt but not exactly beloved. his upscale neighbors put up a fence to prevent his junk-strewn yard from spoiling their view. though many knew that jamelske, a retired grocer, collected returnable bottles for the deposits, few could have guessed the eccentric old man was actually a s...

>> guilty. >> after 15 years of subjecting others to mental torture and sexual slavery, the syracuse dungeon master had quickly tired of the public spotlight. >> you are a sick person. youre an evil man. a kidnapper and a rapist. your reign of terror is over. >> for once jamelske seemed contrite. he was brief and emotional. >> i am truly sorry for what i did. ive had a lot of time to think about it, and im just very sorry for what i did. and god bless all of them. >> but less than 24 hours later...

In the matter-of-fact tone of someone explaining the inner workings of a clock, jamelske says he simply wanted her for sex and decided to keep her chained close by in this shed on his mothers property. >> and you think thats okay? >> thats why i built the dungeon. she said, "this is kind of small." >> so you build the dungeon so you have more space? >> she said, "this is small, i want more room." >> can you blame her? >> hell, no. thats why i turned earth upside down to get this place bigger. >>...

Investigators found evidence that jennifer spalding and the 16-year-old african-american girl had not been jamelskes only captives. in an upstairs bedroom they discovered a stockpile of pictures and videotapes that jamelske had taken of other young women in the dungeon. in this video a younger-looking jamelske seems to be in the throes of a second childhood, rapping along with one of his young captives. >> peace out. >> peace out. >> role playing with her. >> word up. >> word up on a string. >> ...

>> why didnt she run or scream for help earlier? no one knows for sure. but on april 8th, 2003, she brought john jamelskes career as a dungeon master to an end when she slipped away and called her sister. >> after three hours what you dont hear from you is any sympathy for jennifer or any of the others. >> i would never do it over if i had it to do over, and im extremely sorry for what happened to each -- every one of them. >> but it sounds like youre sorry because of the fact youre sitting here...