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IDAHO FALLS — The Motor Vu Drive-In is celebrating its 75th anniversary this weekend, and you’re invited to the party! Since opening in 1947, the iconic Idaho Falls venue has served as a popular entertainment draw for east Idaho. It has been the backdrop for experiences that helped families and friends bond, young couples fall […]
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Upgraded Motor Vu Drive-In kicks off 2021 season this weekend Updated at Share This Motor Vu Drive-In. | Adam Forsgren, EastIdahoNews.com file photo Few things say summer’s here like the opening of our local drive-in movie theaters. But when the Motor Vu Drive-In in Idaho Falls opens Friday, it won’t just be a new season. It will be a new beginning. The Motor Vu, which was built in 1947 and provided people with entertainment for 60 years before closing in 2007, has been undergoing renovations under its new ownership. The restrooms have been remodeled and will be open to the public for the first time in years. The projector room, which has housed every Motor Vu projector since the theater first opened, was also rebuilt.
hardened cops the creeps. >> the ceiling, which is kind of nerve-racking when you think that you have about three, three and a half 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 couldn't have found him. >> the one fact she did have is she remembered that car. >> thoroughly investigated the car. but unfortunately, we had to run -- we didn't look at '75s or '73s and '76s. we just adjusted the possibility based on what she had told us. >> remember, jennifer had told them it was a 1974 comet. jamelske, it turns out, owned a '75. now, the detective who had been skeptical of jennifer's story before was desperate to talk to her about the dungeon she
spalding just wasn't believable. she had a drug history. she had written a letter saying she was in drug rehab. now she was claiming she had been an old man's sex slave locked in an underground dungeon. who would believe a story like that? as far as the police knew, this had never happened before. >> i think they could have handled it better than they did. they could have took a composite. you know? they could have -- i mean, that's the least they could have done. >> nearly two years would pass before the press and police would be begging for every detail jennifer could recall. but by then, it was too late. the dungeon had a new tenant. and the story of the syracuse dungeon master was about to make headlines around the world. coming up, an escape and a
rusty mercury comet, almost identical to the one jennifer spalding reported to detectives two years earlier. the girl told police the old man had kidnapped her, raped her, and held her prisoner in a basement dungeon. the old guy looked harmless, but the police decided to arrest him anyway and sort it out later on. quicker than you could say karaoke, it was over. >> he immediately exercised his fifth amendment rights, asked for a lawyer. >> what police didn't know was that they had one of the most prolific sexual predators in the region's history in custody. sheriff kevin said the law enforcement and media hadn't even know there was a single kidnapping and sexual assault, much less a series of them. >> as they're driving him to the police station, he started telling him about the fact that he was with this girl who was a friend of his, and they had had a relationship. >> and he's 67, and she's how
described. >> he said, what did it say on the wall? i said, it said wall thugs. he said, we got him. we got him, jen. >> three words. wall of thugs. >> yeah. >> words you never forgot. >> never forgot, ever. >> and when the detective asked jennifer to pick her captor from a photo lineup -- >> i didn't even look at the other guys. i seen him automatically. seen him right off the bat and pointed right to his picture. said that's him. coming up, uncovering a secret stash of evidence all captured on tape. >> peace out. >> peace out. >> how many years had this been going on? and how many victims were there? >> you had no idea what was going on inside? >> nobody had any idea what was going on, including the neighbors who lived across the street. >> when msnbc reports continues.
a few days later, she says the old man handcuffed and blindfolded her, put her in a car, and began to drive. jennifer says she prepared to die. but instead, he gave her $270 compensation for her two month in the dungeon and dropped her off in front of her mother's apartment complex. >> he snips off the handcuffs, takes the sweatshirt off me and tells me to get out of the car. >> just like that? >> i'm like thank god. i'm outside. i'm actually breathing air. i'm alive, and this guy is gone. >> later that night, when her mother took her to a hospital emergency room, jennifer says the doctors insisted she tell police what happened. like kiersten ten years earlier, jennifer says the old man had threatened to have her family killed if she ever went to authorities. but unlike the teen-aged kiersten, jennifer did go to the police with a sharp description of the man who had been holding
>> i bet. >> i miss her. >> at first glance, the dancing, 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 want to see? there ain't nothing to do down here. >> several times, the girl looks right into the camera and appeals directly to jamelske's bosses, the men she believes have the power to set her free. >> do you realize if i was at home, i could be doing ten million things right now, and now i'm here. i'm here and i can't do nothing. so please, please, be fast. please. >> be fast. >> within days of the police discovering this tape, the victorious syracuse orangemen
her. >> he had white hair. he was bald up on top. he had deep-set green eyes. they were like, you know, deep in his head. he had thin eyebrows, high cheekbones. thin lips. very thin lips. and his voice was kind of high pitched. >> jennifer says she also told detectives assigned to her case that the old man drove an orange or tannish two-door mercury comet, a 1974, she thought. but jennifer says within days of taking her statement, the investigator closed the case. telling her no orange or tan 1974 mercury comets were registered in the area. a police artist would never get the chance to sketch her description of the old man. >> they didn't believe your story? >> no. no. >> no one believed you? >> no. i called every single news station. newspapers, everything. and they didn't want to hear it. >> bluntly put, jennifer