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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 jamelskes 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 mount an insanity defense or gamble on an outright acquittal in the face of such da...

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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...

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 subterranean love nest. in ...

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. >> no. >> and if you werent s...

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 ankle. and -- >> you raped her, and you rob...

>> 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 name was john jamelske, and their ...

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 into 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 sex with someone? >> yeah. >> and ...

Others to mental torture and sexual slavery, the syracuse dungeon master had quickly tired of the public spotlight. >> you are a sick coward. youre an evil man. youre a kidnapper and a rapist. your reign of terror is over. >> for once, jamelske seemed uncharacteristically contrite. when his time came to speak, he was brief and emotional. >> im just 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 for how its affected everyone. and god...

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 sex with someone? >> yeah. >> and...