The Mysterious Disappearance Of The Jamison Family

Up until October 8, 2009, Bobby Dale Jamison, his wife Sherilynn, and their six-year-old daughter Madyson seemed to be enjoying regular lives in Eufaula, Oklahoma. All three of them vanished from their house that day mysteriously, leaving no trace of their whereabouts. The family’s pickup truck was found by the police after several days of searching, but this discovery left more questions than it did answers.

Where Is The Family?

After an hour’s trip from their house, the Jamison family vehicle was discovered in Latimer County. The family was recently there in search of buying 40 acres of property, on which they intended to build a home within a storage shed they already owned.

However, it appeared from the things found inside the truck that the couple had not intended to leave the truck alone for very long. Investigators discovered the family dog, who was underweight but still alive, in the backseat of the truck, along with their IDs, wallets, phones, and Sherilynn’s pocketbook inside.

A little over $32,000 in cash was found as well. When Bobby Dale and Sherilynn vanished, they were both on disability, so it was unclear how they planned to use the large sum of money or where they may have gotten it. Investigators concluded that narcotics could have played a role in the couple’s disappearance and that the big sum of cash came from them either selling or purchasing drugs.

However, they were unable to provide an explanation for why they would have taken their daughter with them, and based just on the state of the truck, it was hard to determine whether they had gone freely or had been coerced into leaving the automobile by someone else, possibly leaving their possessions behind while under duress.

In order to find any evidence of the Jamison family, a search team was organized, and detectives scoured miles of forests and the surrounding region. They found nothing.

Four Years Later, The Jamisons’ Remains Were Found

Up to November 16, 2013, the crime remained unsolved. On that day, hunters discovered the skeleton remains of two adults and one kid, about three miles from the location where the Jamison family vehicle was discovered four years prior. Although forensic examination established that they were the Jamison family’s remains, the cause of death was unknown because of the decay. The cops reopened their investigation.

The first thing they found was an odd surveillance tape that had been taken the night before the Jamison family left. The pair can be seen packing up their stuff in the footage, moving back and forth between the house and the truck. And if all of that wasn’t weird enough, Bobby Dale had told his pastor that his house was haunted, claiming to have “two to four ghosts” on the roof, before they vanished.

It is reported that Sherilynn bought a Satanic bible as a joke. But Bobby Dale told his pastor he had read it, thus some thought witchcraft could have played a part in their demise.

Connie Kokotan, Sherilynn’s mother, thought the Jamisons had been involved with a cult and were killed by its violent members. However, she never identified a cult, and the notion has never been verified by any evidence.

Unsettling Theories Regarding The Deaths Of The Jamison Family

The hypothesis that the deaths of the Jamison family had been a murder-suicide was investigated by the police. They found an eleven-page furious letter that Sherilynn had written to Bobby. They assumed that Bobby Dale had driven his entire family into the woods, killed his wife and daughter, and then turned the gun on himself, but there was no evidence to support this idea.

The idea that Bob Dean Jamison, Bobby Dale’s father, had been involved was also taken into consideration. Bobby Dale had applied for a protective order against his father, saying that his family was terrified for their life and that he had threatened to murder them. In his application for a protection order, Bobby Dale describes a picture of a “very dangerous man who thinks he is above the law” and that he has connections to “prostitutes, gangs, and meth.”

Bob Dean Jamison, who had been ill for some years, passed away just two months after the Jamison family vanished.

Despite being a troubled person, his brother Jack Jamison stated that he was “either in a hospital or rest home” at the time and “was not capable of being involved” in the killings.

There appeared to be a lot of leads in the Jamison family case, but none of them resulted in anything definitive, leaving detectives puzzled over the family’s unexplained death and disappearance.

To this day, the case remains unsolved.

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