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Be consensual, but remember, this girl, like jennifer and the 16-year-old african-american girl, was a prisoner locked underground and totally relied on jamelske for food and water. as far as she knew, her very life depended upon playing along. >> what do you guys wanna see? there aint nothing to do down here. its too boring. >> several times the girl looks right into the camera and appeals directly to jamelskes bosses, the men she believes have the power to set her free. >> you realize if i was...

Eventually landed him in prison began in 1985 when his wife, dorothy, a respected preschool teacher, became seriously ill. >> we rushed her to the hospital hemorrhaging. they couldnt get the blood in to her faster than it was coming out. we almost lost her a couple of times. >> and what happened to your relationship at that time? >> well, i always loved her very much every single second, but, you know, sex was pretty much out of the question. and, you know, i needed my -- >> you needed to have s...

Dungeon. now the man known as the dungeon master is about to tell his side of the story in a dramatic jailhouse interview. is he really the monster he seems to be? here again is rob stafford. >> im in dewitt, where investigators are searching for clues into those young women held in an underground bunker. >> within days of john jamelskes arrest, the nation knew that a gaunt, gray dungeon master had been living in central new york, kidnapping local girls and keeping them as sex slaves. >> im a pr...

One vietnamese, and one caucasian. three told investigators they had known their captor by a biblical name, joshua, peter, or paul. one said he told her to call him fish. four positively picked his mug shot from a photo array but each described the dungeon in detail. >> your honor, for purposes of the arraignment -- >> it was certain to be a sensational trial and everyone wondered would an elderly man looking at life behind bars mountain insanity defense or gamble on an outright acquittal in the...

Im going to get some community service or something of that nature for, you know, a little bit of unlawful imprisonment or whatever. >> jamelske admits he showed his victims an old police badge hed found and lied about working for powerful bosses just to keep the girls in line and persuade them that he was as much a victim of circumstance as they were. >> yeah, i told them that i cant make the decision as to, you know, when you go home. so, you know, you cant cry on my shoulder and -- >> because...

Over here, the prized collection. thousands upon thousands of empty beer bottles, shelf after shelf meticulously organized by brand, some of them stacked alphabetically. but it was at the back of this room that police discovered what they were looking for, the entrance to the dungeon. it was secured by four heavy steel doors. this ten-foot tunnel separates the dungeon from the rest of the house. you have to get on your hands and knees to get there. its cold, dark and damp down here. police say t...

Something, just like that. she went through bottles of a-1. i bought the biggest bottles i could find of a-1 steak sauce, and she could -- she could use like a half a cup on a steak. >> so youre saying youre waiting on jennifer hand and foot? >> yeah. i mean, thats the least i can do. i wanted to make it as nice as i possibly could for her. >> nice? its hard to believe, but in jamelskes mind each of the women he imprisoned found him charming and practically volunteered to be pampered in his subt...

It. >> but you sat here for hours minimizing everything youve done. >> im not saying that i didnt do anything wrong. im just saying i am not this horrible monster. i never hurt anyone. >> and thats the way things are likely to remain in john jamelskes world, a place where dungeon accommodations are posh, a place where theres little difference between chains of bondage and chains of gold. and jail is a virtual walk in the park. >> you like it here? >> the guys have taught me how to play checkers....

Hed hurt his already slim chances for parole. if allowed jamelske told us he would have said some pointed things to the victims he felt had lied about the way he treated them. >> to number three, god bless you and have mercy on you and have him help you increase your vocabulary. >> how can you say god have mercy on her after what she has been through? >> because she lied. she lied about something very important. shes claiming that she was hit in the ear and shes claiming that she was hit in an a...

>> you also notice the bulge of the ceiling, which is kind of nerve-racking when you think you have about 3, 3 1/2 feet of soil above us. >> investigators were dumbfounded. not only was the 16-year-old apparently telling the truth, but police say she might never have been victimized at all if jennifer had given them more to go on two years earlier. >> had we believed everything she had to say, we still couldnt have found him. >> the one fact she did have is she remembered that car. >> thoroughly...