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It was a shock to those who thought things like that always happened somewhere else. >> ive lived in this county for pushing 60 years now. so ive been down that road many times. >> and you had no idea what was going on inside that house? >> nobody had any idea what was going on, including the neighbors that lived across the street. >> and plenty of people knew who this guy was? >> hes well known, you know, in his local community. hes been there for his entire life. >> but did anyone really know ...

You like it here? >> we play partner spades. the guys have taught me how to play checkers. we talk. i have gotten sort of like a walking club together, and we walk the perimeter together and we talk and we talk. >> what age will you be when you get out of prison? if -- what age will you be when youre eligible to get out? >> i probably wont get out. i probably wont get out. >> youll probably die behind bars? >> probably. >> as for the women who once lived in john jamelskes world, life above groun...

Sitting here. >> no. >> and if you werent sitting here, youd probably still be doing it. >> no, i dont think i would, because i was taking viagra towards the end. and it would have ended because i dont have -- i dont have the physical urges that i had before. and i told her, i said, we got to have less sex. >> so you couldnt keep up at the end? >> no, no, no. >> but there were still plenty of questions ahead. while jamelske cooled his heels in jail, authorities desperately tried to get a final n...

>> but did anyone really know john jamelske, the 67-year-old grandfather now accused of kidnapping and rape? >> im not the monster theyre painting this horrid picture of. im a pretty nice guy. coming up, the dungeon master tells his side of the story in a stunning jailhouse interview. >> i never hurt anyone physically. >> chaining them up and keeping them in that room isnt hurting somebody? >> people wear ankle bracelets all day long. >> its not jewelry, john, come on. you chain them to the fl...

Wondered, would an elderly man looking at life behind bars mount an insanity defense or gamble on an outright acquittal in the face of such damning evidence? but when the time came to speak for himself, john jamelske did neither. >> that you are going to plead guilty to each and every count in this indictment? >> in a prearranged deal with prosecutors, jamelske agreed to plead guilty to five counts of kidnapping and let his victims divvy up his estimated million-dollar estate in return for a sen...

Returnable bottles for the deposits, few could have guessed the eccentric old man was actually a self-made millionaire, thanks to some shrewd real estate investments out west and his own obsessive penny-pinching. >> im very thrifty, extremely thrifty. >> jamelske does not deny he kept women and girls locked up in his homemade dungeon for months at a time. he doesnt deny using them for sex or using lies and threats to ensure their silence. but in jamelskes world none of that makes him a criminal....

Volunteered to be pampered in his subterranean love nest. in the end, that was the delusion that led to his arrest. confident the 16-year-old african-american girl actually wanted to be with him, jamelske began taking her out in public. >> she loved billiards. we played a lot of billiards. she liked bowling. >> so youre not worried about getting caught? she could grab someone and say, "this guys holding me." >> why would she do that? >> why didnt she run or scream for help earlier? no one knows ...

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