rusty mercury comet, almost identical to the one jennifer spalding reported to detectives two years earlier. the girl told police the old man had kidnapped her, raped her and held her prisoner in a basement dungeon. the old guy looked harmless, but the police decided to arrest him anyway and sort it out later on. quicker than you could say karaoke, it was over. he immediately exercised his fifth amendment rights, asked for a lawyer. what police didn t know is that they had one of the most prolific sexual predators in the region s history in custody. onondaga county sheriff kevin walsh said law enforcement and the local media hadn t even known there had been a single kidnapping and sexual assault, much less a series of them. as they were driving into the police station, he started telling them about the fact that he was with this girl who was a friend of his, and they d had a relationship. and he s 67 and she s how old? 18. according to him? according to him.
rusty mercury comet, almost identical to the one jennifer spalding reported to detectives two years earlier. the girl told police the old man had kidnapped her, raped her and held her prisoner in a basement dungeon. the old guy looked harmless, but the police decided to arrest him anyway and sort it out later on. quicker than you could say karaoke, it was over. he immediately exercised his fifth amendment rights, asked for a lawyer. what police didn t know is that they had one of the most prolific sexual predators in the region s history in custody. onondaga county sheriff kevin walsh said law enforcement and the local media hadn t even known there had been a single kidnapping and sexual assault, much less a series of them. as they were driving into the police station, he started telling them about the fact that he was with this girl who was a friend of his, and they d had a relationship. and he s 67 and she s how
right. the story has not made the same national headlines as other stories out there that we ve been covering. what do you want this national audience, now that you have their attention. what do you want them to know? i want the lord to be able to give me something, words that can touch the person s heart that has these children. i want the media to understand my frustration. i was here one week and the media, the local media hadn t gotten this out to the nation. it took me going out of arizona, responded, getting people in california to get this message out. going to other missing associations like peas in a pod that represent missing black children around the nation. and after that, and cnn getting out and getting that information out there. this has not been obvious.
walsh said law enforcement and the local media hadn t even known there had been a single kidnapping and sexual assault, much less a series of them. as they were driving into the police station, he started telling them about the fact that he was with this girl who was a friend of his, and they d had a relationship. and he s 67 and she s how 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