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.
