John Jamelske

About John Jamelske

John T. Jamelske (born May 9, 1935, in Fayetteville, New York) is an American serial rapist-kidnapper who, from 1988 to his apprehension in 2003, kidnapped a series of women and held them captive in a concrete bunker beneath the yard of his home in DeWitt, a suburb of Syracuse, New York, United States.

Jamelske was born and raised in the DeWitt area. He graduated from Fayetteville High School in 1953. Classmates did not recall him for much other than severe acne and the unfortunate nickname of "Germs".

In September 1959, he married Dorothy Richmond, a schoolteacher, with whom he had three sons. At this time, he worked in Acme Markets and other grocery stores. Later he started working in a series of side jobs, such as handyman and carpenter.