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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...

Eventually landed him in prison began in 1985 when his wife, dorothy, a respected preschool teacher, became seriously ill. >> we rushed her to the hospital hemorrhaging. they couldn't 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 you're saying your wife was too sick to have sex? >> exactly, yeah...

She's, in fact, 16. >> so he is talking without the lawyer? >> he's talking. >> a misunderstood may/december romance is all there was to it, the old man said. >> that he didn't 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 man's motives, police now had a name and an address. his name was john jamelske, and their search of his house, a blue rancher by the highway, was about to tell them everything they needed to know. inside, th...

>> but you sat here for hours minimizing everything you've done. >> i'm not saying that i didn't do anything wrong. i'm just saying i am not this horrible monster. i never hurt anyone. >> and that's the way things are likely to remain in john jamelske's world, a place where dungeon accommodations are posh, a place where there's 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 have gotten sort of like a walking club together, and we walk th...

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 jamelske's 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 damning evidence? but when the time came to speak for himself, john jamelske did neither. >> you are ...