N.Y. Police Seek More Sex Dungeon Victims

S Y R A C U S E, N.Y., April 30 -- The 67-year-old retired handyman accused of kidnapping at least five females and keeping them as sex slaves in an underground concrete dungeon may have been active since the 1980s, police say.

John Jamelske is accused of luring or pulling his victims into his car, and then bringing them back to his house, where he allegedly kept them chained in a two-room bunker beneath his back yard in the quiet town of Dewitt, outside Syracuse, N.Y.

Onondaga County Sheriff Kevin Walsh described a concrete prison that could only be reached with difficulty.

"Concrete walls, concrete ceiling, concrete floor," Walsh said. "You have to crawl on your hands and knees through an opening in the cellar."

The only furnishings in the bunker were a mattress, a microwave, a small tub, and a bucket for a toilet.

Seeking Additional Victims

Police are now seeking additional victims. They believe Jamelske has kidnapped, raped and imprisoned a series of girls and women in his suburban home as far back as 1988.

They released Jamelske's photo for the first time Monday, in an effort to coax other women to come forward.

Jamelske is being held without bail on charges of kidnapping, rape, sodomy and sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl, whom he allegedly held hostage from October or November until earlier this month.

Toward the end of her captivity, Jamelske began taking the girl out with him, police said. She managed to make two secret phone calls to her sister, Angela Wilson.

"She sounded afraid, she was quiet, I could barely hear her," Wilson told ABCNEWS' Good Morning America. The conversation was 15 or 20 minutes. She told me that he [Jamelske] was a rapist and that she was being held against her will and was not able to come home," Wilson said.

After Wilson alerted police, Jamelske was arrested and the teen girl was rescued on April 7.

Ishmael Wilson, the girl's brother, is in the Army and was away on duty while his sister was missing. "Being in the military and coming back to such a horrific thing and some demented person who takes my little sister away into a dungeon against her own will, it's something that I can't believe happened to this family and to my sister," Wilson said.