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>> 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. it's too boring. >> 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. >> you realize if i was home i could be doing 10 mi...

Workings of a clock, jamelske says he simply wanted her for sex and decided to keep her chained close by in this shed on his mother's property. >> and you think that's okay? >> that's why i built the dungeon. she said, this is kind of small. >> so you build the dungeon so you have more space? >> she said, this is small, i want more room. >> can you blame her? >> hell, no. that's why i turned earth upside down to get this place bigger. >> if it all sounds like the twisted logic of a madman, listen to this. jamelske says it was not until after he'd spent weeks in jail that his lawyers were final...

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. >> i'm in dewitt, where investigators are searching for clues into those young women held in an underground bunker. >> within days of john jamelske's 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. >> i'm a pretty nice guy. >> in a network television exclusive, jamelske agreed to speak with nbc news from his temporary home in a syracuse jail alon...

>> guilty. >> after 15 years of subjecting others to mental torture and sexual slavery, the syracuse dungeon master had quickly tired of the public spotlight. >> you are a sick coward. you're an evil man. you're 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. >> i'm just truly sorry for what i did. i've had a lot of time to think about it. and i'm just very sorry for what i did and for how it affected everyone. god bless all of them. >> but less than 24 hours later jamels...

But in jamelske's world none of that makes him a criminal. so how do you think you'd 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. >> come on. >> it was absolutely beautiful. there was a bed. there was water. >> you're saying everything a girl could want in that dungeon? >> anything that they wanted except leaving at certain times was there. >> well, in any state i've been that's called kidnapping. >> that's what i understand the law says. >> and you're a smart guy, and you didn't think that you w...