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Investigators found evidence that jennifer spalding and the 16-year-old african-american girl had not been jamelske's only captives. in an upstairs bedroom they discovered a stockpile of pictures and videotapes that jamelske had taken of other young women in the dungeon. in this video a younger-looking jamelske seems to be in the throes of a second childhood, rapping along with one of his young captives. >> peace out. >> peace out. >> role playing with her. >> word up. >> word up on a string. >> on a string. >> and working out. >> talk about school, because man, i got to go to school. >> in th...

Perspective on the people, 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 he's guilty of nothing more than cheating on his wife. >> that's basically -- what do you call it? adultery. so anyway -- >> but when you go to someone who's under age, it's not called adultery. it's called sexual assault. >> now i find that out. i had no idea. >> oh, come on. >> i never hurt anyone physically. >> chaining them up and keeping them in...

Old? >> 18. >> according to him? >> according to him. 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 t...

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 were kidnapping these women? >> n...

Grandfather, a widower who spent years nursing his sick wife. but for 15 years police say john jamelske had another identity as a sexual slave master in a makeshift underground dungeon he built himself to abuse and imprison a string of young women. now he is heading to trial accused of kidnapping and rape and there would be a drama in the courtroom. once more, here is rob stafford. >> in early summer, 2003, john jamelske entered a syracuse courtroom for the first time. after two months of saturation coverage, the place was packed with people who wanted to see the notorious dungeon master up cl...