Syracuse Dungeon Dragoon Abductee Speaks Out – Jennifer Spaulding Tells Her Story
Imagine being a 20-something-year-old woman who becomes the victim of an abduction and slave to a serial rapist. Now imagine that your captor one day releases you, and when you tell your story to police, they don't believe it!
Jennifer Spaulding lived through this traumatic experience, but couldn't convince police that her story was real. To make matters worse, John Jamelske - aka the Syracuse Dungeon Dragoon, and the man who pled guilty to playing out this scenario with numerous women - would then call and harass Spaulding at her workplace in the months after her release, she said.
Eventually, police did catch on to Jamelske, his homemade dungeon was discovered and his practice of terrorizing young women came to an end.
''It was a dirty, windowless basement. There was piece of foam to sleep on,'' Spaulding said, describing her living area while she was Jamelske's sex prisoner from May of 2001 through June of that year.
Her 'stay' totaled 56 days. Authorities say in other cases Jamelske kept some of his victims for several years.
''I was partying one night, I was actually on drugs. I ended up in a bad part of Syracuse.'' Spaulding, then 26, says there was a group of people following her as she wandered in the street and would soon get into car with an innocent looking man who was really a monster in sheep's clothing. She saw 'an old white man' and thought getting into a car with him would be a safe way to get out of that 'bad' part of town.
''He knocked me out with chloroform to get me down there,' she said, but otherwise, he did not use drugs to control her when she was in his custody, where he would sexual assault her on a daily basis.
''I always hated him for what he did to me. But, for that amount of time in that situation when you have no one else to talk to you kinda have to be friends.''
Jennifer Spaulding tells her story on WIBX First News with Keeler in the Morning (photo courtesy of Jennifer Spaulding and Todd Estes):
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