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Paradise Lost - Jamison Family's Disappearance · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: It's like you hear about a family vanishing, right, and
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  you think, okay, that's awful, But then you hear about
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  the Jamison family and it's not just the vanishing act,
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  it's the little things they left behind.
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  Speaker 2: It's true, those details, those breadcrumbs, they stick with you.
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  They make a case like this feel personal, you know.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, it gets under your skin. So like that.
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  Speaker 2: Briefcase, right, oh, the briefcase.
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  Speaker 1: The brown briefcase Cheryl and Jamison is seen carrying in
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  the security footage. Never found what was in it. It's like,
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  if that briefcase.
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  Speaker 2: Could talk, it probably has some wild stories.
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  Speaker 1: To tell exactly. And that's what we're diving into today,
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  the strange disappearance of the Jamison family. So for those
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  who might not know the story, let's set the scene.
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  October two thousand and nine, Oklahoma. Bobby and Cheryl and
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  Jamison along with their six year old daughter Madison.
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  Speaker 2: They just vanish last scene alive on October eighth. They
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  were get this looking at buying land in Red Oak, Oklahoma,
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  right forty acres.
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  Speaker 1: They'd even been out to see it before.
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  Speaker 2: Tells us something right there, doesn't it. They had plans.
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  This wasn't some random road trip gone wrong.
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  Speaker 1: It adds this layer of like premeditation to the whole thing.
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  You know, they had a purpose. And then just a
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  few days later, their truck.
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  Speaker 2: Is found abandoned near Kinta, Oklahoma, and inside it's a
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  laundry list of strange Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk about those details, because this is where
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  things get really weird.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, So inside the truck, you've got their IDs, their
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  cell phones just sitting there.
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  Speaker 1: Like they didn't even try to take them with them.
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  Speaker 2: It's almost like they expected to come back for the
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  truck exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But then there's more a lot more.
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  Speaker 2: Thirty two thousand dollars cash, thirty two grand just sitting
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  in that truck.
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  Speaker 1: Who does that?
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't add up, does it. You don't just misplace
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  that kind of money.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course there's the home security footage.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, now that footage. That's the stuff nightmares are
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  made of. Have you seen it?
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  Speaker 1: Chilling? It shows them packing the car, right, yeah, But
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  it's not just what they're doing, it's the way they're
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  doing it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like they're in a trance or something. There's this
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  unsettling calmness to their movements.
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  Speaker 1: No sense of urgency, no fear, like they knew exactly
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  where they were going. And to top it all off,
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  Sherylyn walks out with that brown.
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  Speaker 2: Briefcase, never to be seen again.
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  Speaker 1: It's like stepping into a mystery novel. You know, you've
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  got the abandoned car, the money, the missing briefcase, What happened?
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  Where did they go?
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  Speaker 2: And for years that's exactly what everyone wanted to know.
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  The theories Man, they ran wild?
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  Speaker 1: Oh I bet so? What were some of the leading theories?
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  What did people think might have happened to the Jamisons?
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  Speaker 2: Well, one of the first things that came up was
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  witness protection. Really, yeah, I know it sounds kind of
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  out there, but think about it. The strange behavior, the cash,
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  the sudden disappearance. It's not totally impossible, right, I guess not.
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  Speaker 1: But wouldn't someone have said something by now? Wouldn't the
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  police have at least hinted at it to you know,
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  calm everyone down.
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  Speaker 2: You'd think, so witness protection. They're pretty secretive about it.
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  But still the lack of any whispers any it makes
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  you wonder.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so scratch witness protection. What about like faking their
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  own deaths? Did anyone think they might have just wanted
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  to disappear.
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  Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, that was a big one, and it makes
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  a certain amount of sense. Right, and you've got the cash,
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  the car. It's like they were trying to make it
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  look like they were gone for good.
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  Speaker 1: And maybe the briefcase was part of that, like it
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  had new identities or.
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  Speaker 2: Something could be maybe a map to their new life,
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  who knows, or something they were trying to hide.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that briefcase is like a black hole of speculation.
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  But we have to talk about the other stuff too, right, Like,
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  there were rumors about Bobby Jamison's behavior before they disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: Right, It's like you peeing back one layer of the
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  mystery and find a whole other layer underneath. The Jamisons.
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  They'd been telling people about seeing things in their house,
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  spirits they called them. Okay, now that's just creepy, and
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  it gets creepier. There were rumors he was involved in
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  some let's just say, darker stuff. Darker how there is
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  talk about the occult, even dabbling in Satanism.
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  Speaker 1: Whoa hold on? Are we talking like full on devil
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  worship here?
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to say what's true and what's just rumor,
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  you know, But the claims were out there, and when
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  you combine that with everything else, the money, the footage,
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  it's easy to see how people's imaginations went into overdrive.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, it's a lot to process, but there's one
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  more piece of this puzzle, right, the lawsuit. Yeah, Like,
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  this wasn't just some spooky stuff happening in a vacuum.
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  There was some serious family drama going on too.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got Bobby Jamison at Odds with his own father,
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  Bob Dean Jamison, and I mean really at Odds. They
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  were in the middle of a legal battle, a pretty
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  nasty one from what I hear.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, there were accusations flying back and forth, right, Like
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  Bobby claimed his dad was threatening him exactly.
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  Speaker 2: And get this, he even told people that if anything
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  ever happened to him or his family, his father was
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  to blame.
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  Speaker 1: Oh wow, Okay, with that kind of statement out there,
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  you have to wonder did the police ever look into
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  the father.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they looked into him, but they could never
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  find anything concrete to tie him to the disappearances. No evidence,
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  no alibi that didn't check out, nothing.
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  Speaker 1: So we're left with a lot of questions, very few answers,
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  and this huge cloud of mystery hanging over everything.
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  Speaker 2: And that's how it stayed for years, years with no
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  sign of the Jamisons, no clues, no leads, nothing until
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  twenty thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Twenty thirteen, that's a long time. What happened A group.
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  Speaker 2: Of hunters they were out in Latimer County, not that
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  far from where the truck was found, and well, they
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  stumbled across something they weren't expecting.
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  Speaker 1: Oh no, don't tell me, skeletal remains the Jamisons.
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  Speaker 2: It was them. Dental records confirmed it. Bobby, Sherilyn and
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  Madison Man.
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  Speaker 1: That's awful, but at least it brought some closure, right,
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  I mean, after all that time they were finally found.
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  Speaker 2: You'd hope so. But here's the thing. Because of the
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  condition of the remains, they could never determine a cause
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  of death.
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  Speaker 1: So no answers there. We still don't know what happened
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  to them.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's that piece of the puzzle is just gone.
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  We know they're gone, but we don't know how or why,
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  and we may never know.
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  Speaker 1: It's like you go through all the theories, right, witness protection,
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  Maybe they ran off, maybe it was something more sinister,
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  but none of it really fits. And then you have
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  that briefcase.
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  Speaker 2: That damn briefcase, the one detail that still nags at everyone.
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  It's like a symbol of everything we don't know about
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  this case. What was in it? Where did it go?
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  Speaker 1: It's like it took all their secrets with it. Well,
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  there you have it, the strange, sad and ultimately unsolved
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  case of the Jamison family disappearance. What do you think
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  of it?
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  Speaker 2: It's a mystery for the ages.