he never left her side. puts up the shot. it s too long and syracuse is your national champion! a few days after the karaoke night, the syracuse area celebrated the end of college basketball s march madness with a national championship. it had been a long time coming, and syracuse wanted its moment in the national spotlight. little did anyone know that the moment was about to be eclipsed by a different kind of madness. on april 8th, the day after the basketball victory, the odd couple from freddy s karaoke night was out running errands. while stopped at this bottle recycling center, the young girl slipped away and called her sister. an old man is holding me against my will, she said. the sister in turn called police, who found the couple a few minutes later at this car dealership. as soon as the police pulled up, the 16-year-old leapt out of a
they didn t want to hear it. bluntly put, jennifer spalding just wasn t believable. she had a drug history. she d written a letter saying she was in drug rehab. and now she was claiming she d actually been an old man s sex slave locked in an underground dungeon. who d believe a story like that? as far as the police knew, this had never happened before. i think they could have handled it better than they did. they could have took a composite, you know? they could have i mean, that s the least they could have done. nearly two years would pass before the press and police would be begging for every detail jennifer could recall. but by then it was too late. the dungeon had a new tenant. and the story of the syracuse dungeon master was about to make headlines around the world. coming up, an escape and a capture. police find their way to the dungeon.
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kept as a sex slave in an underground dungeon? now they re about to learn how horribly real her story really was. here again, rob stafford. thursday night is cheap beer and karaoke night at freddy s bar and grill on the north side of syracuse. on april 3rd, 2003, the usual crowd who come to see the aretha, elvis wannabes, saw something unusual. on three separate occasions, when a young african-american girl stood up to sing, an elderly white man got up and stood right next to her on the stage. cindy orman was the emcee. at the time i thought he was just trying to perhaps encourage her. later, when the girl went to the ladies room, some noticed the older white man waited outside the door. odd, but not alarming, the kind of thing that only seemed significant later on. he was with her wherever she went.
good on his death threats, kirsten says her family decided not to go to the police. that decision would turn out to have dire consequences for other young women in the syracuse area. ten years after kirsten left the old man s dungeon, this woman went in. coming up, another prisoner, another victim. what would her fate be? reality just hit me like a ton of bricks. like, oh, my god. you know, even if i knock this guy out, i can t open this door. there s no way out? no, there was no way out. when msnbc reports continues. [ female announcer ] there s a gap out there. that s keeping you from the healthcare you deserve. at humana, we believe if healthcare changes, if it becomes simpler. if frustration and paperwork decrease. if grandparents get to live at home instead of in a home. the gap begins to close. so let s simplify things.