The Unsolved Disappearance Of The Jamison Family From Their Own Home
YouTubeBobby Doyle Jamison (right) told his pastor that his family’s home was haunted shortly before they all vanished.
Shortly before the entire Jamison family vanished in 2009, the father Bobby Dale Jamison visited his pastor and claimed that their home was haunted. Days later, Jamison, his wife Sherilynn, and their six-year-old daughter Madyson all disappeared from their Eufaula, Oklahoma home.
It was Oct. 8, 2009, when the family was reported missing. Police found their pickup truck a few days later, but it only added to the mystery, as it was discovered in Latimer County one hour away, and contained the family’s IDs, wallets, phones, their pet dog, and $32,000 in cash.
The Jamisons were both collecting disability checks at the time, leading police to believe that they could only have acquired this much cash if they were involved with buying or selling drugs.
Investigators thought that perhaps the Jamisons were killed in a drug deal gone wrong, but then wondered why they had brought their daughter and dog along with them. Everything found in the car suggested that the Jamisons didn’t think they’d be away from their vehicle for long. But the missing persons case went cold for years — until Nov. 16, 2013.
Three miles from where their truck had been found, hunters discovered the skeletal remains of two adults and one child. While forensic experts were confident that these belonged to the Jamison family, no cause of death could be determined from them. At this time, the police renewed their quest to finally solve the case.
Police recalled how Bobby Dale Jamison had told his pastor that “two to four ghosts” were living on his roof and haunting his family’s home. They then discovered some unsettling security footage of the house on the night of the family’s unsolved disappearance.
The video showed both adults packing up their belongings and dumping them in the back of their pickup. Meanwhile, Sherilynn’s mother claimed that her daughter and son-in-law had become involved with a cult. Police also discovered that Sherilynn had recently purchased a Satanic bible.
YouTubeSecurity footage from outside the Jamison family home on the night of their unsolved disappearance.
Some suspected, instead, that Bobby Dale Jamison’s father had murdered the family. Jamison had recently filed a protective order against his father, which painted him as a “very dangerous man who thinks he is above the law.”
Perhaps the most convincing theory, however, was that Jamison first killed his family before committing suicide. This theory was initially sparked by an angry 11-page letter Sherilynn had written to her husband prior to their disappearance. Ultimately, the Jamison family’s unsolved disappearance remains a disturbing open case.
The Infamous Case Of Jimmy Hoffa
Robert W. Kelley/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty ImagesJimmy Hoffa’s missing person case is the only one on this list that implicates the American Mafia.
As the former head of the powerful and corrupt Teamsters Union, Jimmy Hoffa was a household name long before he vanished in 1975. His social standing also arguably made his the most famous mysterious disappearance in America. There are plenty of theories of what happened to Jimmy Hoffa.
Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman famously chronicled the most convincing theory — that Hoffa ran afoul of the mob and was consequently murdered.
Hoffa was hired by the Teamsters as an organizer in 1932, where his resourceful ambition led him to thrive — and to form shadowy relationships.
He leveraged his associations with organized crime figures into political capital that made the Teamsters the most powerful union in the country. But the mob and the Teamsters developed mutually exclusive interests in the 1970s.
It was July 30, 1975, when Jimmy Hoffa vanished completely. He was last seen in the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Michigan, after meeting with numerous mobsters involved in the growing dispute between the Teamsters and the mob.
Arranged as a discussion, the meeting was likely just a set-up to have the powerful labor leader eliminated. While Hoffa was officially declared dead in 1982, his case remains an open investigation to this day — his body has never been found.
Other theories suggest Hoffa was killed by New York Mafia hitman John Sullivan, who dismembered Hoffa with a meat cleaver and saw and stored his body parts in a freezer. Sullivan allegedly dumped Hoffa’s remains into the concrete foundations of the Giants Stadium, then under construction in New Jersey,
Ultimately, the narrative detailed in The Irishman about its titular figure, Frank Sheeran, seems the most convincing. Claiming that his friend didn’t suffer, Sheeran confessed before dying that he murdered Hoffa at the behest of Pennsylvania mob boss Russell Bufalino, perhaps also in league with fellow mob boss Angelo Bruno.
Nonetheless, the unsolved disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa continues to spawn new conspiracy theories to this day.
