John Jamelske, a DeWitt man who kidnapped and raped five women and girls and imprisoned them in a basement over the course of 15 years, was set to make his case for parole today after 17 years in ...

John Jamelske, a scruffy bottle-picker from Syracuse, regarded himself as smooth with the ladies. To the rest of the world, he was a kidnapper and sexual predator. Before there was Ariel Castro, ...

JOHN Jamelske’s first victim was just 14 years old when she awoke naked on a cement floor in tiny windowless cell with a chain around her ankle. He calmly explained that she was there to have sex with ...

John Jamelske in an interview and a taping of a 2003 documentary at the Onondaga County Justice Center jail, gets emotional and starts to cry as he admits that he has accepted Jesus into his life. He ...

A retired handyman who admitted keeping five women as sex slaves in an underground bunker in his back garden was jailed today for a minimum of 18 years. Tue, 15 Jul, 2003 - 18:18 A retired handyman ...

DEWITT, N.Y. — John Jamelske,the man who kidnapped five women and girls and subjected them to sometimes daily rape in a dungeon he built off his basement in DeWitt, has been denied parole. Jamelske, ...

DEWITT, N.Y. (WSTM) - After serving nearly 18 years for kidnapping and imprisoning five women and girls in a homemade bunker he built under his home, John Jamelske, 85, will appear before a New York ...