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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 wanna 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 million things right now and then i'm here? but i'm here and i can't do...

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...

Dungeon. now the man known as the dungeon 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 ...

One vietnamese, and one 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 his 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 mountain 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 neith...

I'm going to get some community service or something of that nature for, you know, a little bit of unlawful imprisonment or whatever. >> jamelske admits he showed his victims an old police badge he'd found and lied about working for powerful bosses just to keep the girls in line and persuade them that he was as much a victim of circumstance as they were. >> yeah, i told them that i can't make the decision as to, you know, when you go home. so, you know, you can't cry on my shoulder and -- >> because you, john jamelske, are taking orders from someone else? >> exactly. >> even though he admits l...