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Singing and role playing seem to 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 ...

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. >> oh, 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 ...

Sexual slavery at the hands of central new yorks own dungeon master. 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...

>> 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? >> we play partner spades. the guys have taught me how to play checkers. we -- we talk. i have gotten sort of like a wa...

Will in his secret underground 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...

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 idea. >> oh, come on. >> i n...

But on april 8, 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 that youre sitting here. >> no. >> and if you werent sitting here, youd probably still be d...

>> 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 you, john jamelske, are taking orders from someone else? >> exactly. >> even though he admits locking women and girls in a dungeon w...

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? >> we play partner spades. the guys have taught me how to play checkers. we talk. i h...

And slop bucket furnished the second. it was enough to give even hardened cops the creeps. >> 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 cou...