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Caught on Tape The Distributing Final Moments of a Small Town Family · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: Normally, if you're trying to solve a mystery, if you
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  Speaker 1: can gather more information and gather more evidence, it will
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  Speaker 1: make it easier for you to solve that mystery.
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  Speaker 2: But in today's story, that's not the case.
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  Speaker 1: You have a whole family that suddenly goes missing under
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  Speaker 1: very suspicious circumstances, and ten years later, we still have
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  Speaker 1: no clue what happened to them, despite a plethora of
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  Speaker 1: information and evidence gathered, including a very famous videotape that
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  Speaker 1: shows them walking in a trance like state right before
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  Speaker 1: they go missing. But before we get into that family story,
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  Speaker 1: into today's story. In two thousand and nine, the Jamison family,
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  Speaker 1: which was Bobby who was forty four, Charylyn who was
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  Speaker 1: forty and their daughter Madison, who is six years old,
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  Speaker 1: were living in Eufallaw, Oklahoma, on lakefront property. While they
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  Speaker 1: seemed to be living a simple and happy life, behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes, their life was in turmoil. Bobby suffered from
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  Speaker 1: bad chronic back pain that he had as a result
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  Speaker 1: of a car accident that he was in in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and three.
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  Speaker 2: Charylyn was bipolar.
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  Speaker 1: She was medicated for it, but she didn't always take
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  Speaker 1: her meds, causing her to lash out at her family members,
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  Speaker 1: and it caused bouts of severe depression. Bobby and Cherylyn
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  Speaker 1: also believed that their house was haunted by three or
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  Speaker 1: four spirits who lived on their roof. Bobby was so
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  Speaker 1: convinced of this that he went to his pastor and
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  Speaker 1: asked where he could buy special bullets that he could
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  Speaker 1: shoot at these spirits. So, for all of these reasons,
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  Speaker 1: the Jamison family was actually looking to leave their property
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  Speaker 1: in Eufala and move somewhere else and hopefully start all
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  Speaker 1: over again, fresh with a new shot at happiness.
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  Speaker 2: The Jamisons would vanish.
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  Speaker 1: Their family and friends would say, we had no idea
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  Speaker 1: any of this was happening. We had no idea they
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  Speaker 1: were even considering a move. Now, this move they were
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  Speaker 1: considering was not a typical move. They were not looking
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  Speaker 1: to move into another house. They were looking to move
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  Speaker 1: onto a piece of property where they could place their
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  Speaker 1: storage container and live in the storage container until at
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  Speaker 1: some point they were going to build a house on
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  Speaker 1: a mountain and.
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  Speaker 2: Then move into the house.
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  Speaker 1: And they had actually already found a plot of land
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  Speaker 1: about thirty miles away from where they were currently living
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  Speaker 1: in a town called Red Oak. Now the storage container
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  Speaker 1: itself that they planned on living in was actually sitting
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  Speaker 1: on their property in Ufalla, and it drew a lot
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  Speaker 1: of attention from the neighbors because Chrylyn would graffiti on
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  Speaker 1: it the neighbors have poisoned our cats. Witches don't like
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  Speaker 1: it when you kill their cats, because it turns out
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  Speaker 1: Cheryln believed that she was a witch. So unsurprisingly, the
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  Speaker 1: neighbors avoided the Jamison family at all costs. Several weeks
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  Speaker 1: before the Jamison family went missing, they actually brought in
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  Speaker 1: a male border, so a guy that was going to
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  Speaker 1: live with them and help with manual labor in exchange
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  Speaker 1: for room and board.
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  Speaker 2: The border was a.
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  Speaker 1: White supremacist that immediately took exception to Charylyn, who was
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  Speaker 1: part Native American, and so anytime Bobby was out of
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  Speaker 1: the house, the white supremacist Border would get into a
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  Speaker 1: fight with Charylyn. And one day it came to a
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  Speaker 1: head and Charylyn drew a gun on the Border and
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  Speaker 1: said to leave the property or she was going to
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  Speaker 1: shoot him.
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  Speaker 2: The Border refused to leave, and.
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  Speaker 1: So Charyln began firing shots into the ground at his
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  Speaker 1: feet until he left. Now, once the Jamison family disappeared,
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  Speaker 1: this white supremacist Border became one of the primary suspects,
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  Speaker 1: but when the FBI found him, he had a rock
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  Speaker 1: solid alibi and was quickly crossed off the list of
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  Speaker 1: potential suspects. On October eighth, two thousand and nine, Bobby Scharylyn,
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  Speaker 1: their daughter Madison, and their dog Mazie load up the
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  Speaker 1: truck and they start driving towards Red Oak. They were
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  Speaker 1: apparently going to go scout out this piece of property
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  Speaker 1: that they wanted to purchase to live on with the
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  Speaker 1: storage container. Now, according to family and friends, it was
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  Speaker 1: not uncommon for the Jamisons to vanish for several days
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  Speaker 1: at a time without telling anybody where they went, and
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  Speaker 1: it would turn out that they would go into the
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  Speaker 1: woods for these retreats where they would get away from
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  Speaker 1: technology in the city. When they were gone for a
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  Speaker 1: few days and no one had heard from them, no
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  Speaker 1: one thought twice about it. On top of this, Bobby
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  Speaker 1: and Sherilyn had informed Madison's school that they'd be pulling
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  Speaker 1: her out of class because they were going to be moving,
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  Speaker 1: So when Madison didn't show up for school, the school
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  Speaker 1: did not raise any alarms because they assumed she'd been
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  Speaker 1: pulled out of school. On October sixteenth, two thousand and nine,
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  Speaker 1: eight days after the Jamisons had left their house to
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  Speaker 1: go scout out this property in Red Oak, a couple
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  Speaker 1: of hunters in the Panola Mountains, which is near Red Oak,
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  Speaker 1: found the Jamison's truck parked on the side of the road. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these hunters are in the middle of nowhere, which means
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  Speaker 1: the truck is in the middle of nowhere, and so
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  Speaker 1: as they're walking over to it, they're expecting to see
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  Speaker 1: the owner of the truck.
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  Speaker 2: But as they get over to the truck, there is
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  Speaker 2: no owner anywhere.
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  Speaker 1: They called out a couple times to see if they
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  Speaker 1: could get this person's attention or whoever it was that
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  Speaker 1: owned it, and no one came over to them. They
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  Speaker 1: look in the truck and they see there's this very
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  Speaker 1: sick looking dog sitting on the back seat. It would
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  Speaker 1: turn out it was the Jamison's dog.
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  Speaker 2: It was Mazy.
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  Speaker 1: Now the windows were up and the truck was locked,
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  Speaker 1: so the hunters called the police. Police show up, They
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  Speaker 1: break a window and they get Mazie out of the truck.
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  Speaker 1: They give her food and water, and she would end
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  Speaker 1: up making a full recovery. They look in the vehicle
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  Speaker 1: and all of the Jamison's personal effects are in there,
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  Speaker 1: their phones, their wallets, their jackets, their clothes. Underneath the
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  Speaker 1: front seat was thirty two thousand dollars of cash in
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  Speaker 1: a bank bag. Also, they found this weird letter written
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  Speaker 1: by cheryln to Bobby. That was this eleven page hate
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  Speaker 1: letter that basically accused Bobby of being a hermit, which
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  Speaker 1: seems like a strange thing to ramble for eleven pages about,
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  Speaker 1: but either way. The police did an initial search of
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  Speaker 1: the area looking for the Jamison family, but they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: find them, and so the running theory was they must
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  Speaker 1: have pulled over and walked into the woods for some reason,
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  Speaker 1: got turned around, and they're just lost and we need
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  Speaker 1: to go find them. The police were able to use
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  Speaker 1: the cell phones that have been left inside of the
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  Speaker 1: vehicle and were able to use their GPS locations and
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  Speaker 1: track where the phones had been before coming to rest
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  Speaker 1: inside of the spear, and they saw that the cell
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  Speaker 1: phones had actually gone up the trail a little ways.
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  Speaker 1: They had been up towards the top of the mountain
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  Speaker 1: for about fifteen minutes before coming back down and then
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  Speaker 1: wound up in the truck where they were when.
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  Speaker 2: They were found.
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  Speaker 1: So the police walk up the hill to where the
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  Speaker 1: GPS said they had been and they find all these
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  Speaker 1: footprints that looked to be Madison's because there's a child's
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  Speaker 1: footprint as well as probably Bobby's and Sharlyn's, but they're
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  Speaker 1: nowhere to be found, and there's no clue of where.
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  Speaker 2: They went after being up there.
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  Speaker 1: When they started scanning through each of the cell phones
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  Speaker 1: to see if there was any information about where they
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  Speaker 1: might have gone, they found on Bobby's phone a picture
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  Speaker 1: of Madison that was taken up at that little location
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  Speaker 1: that the GPS took them. The picture of Madison has
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  Speaker 1: been hotly contested on the Internet for a long time now.
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  Speaker 1: It's hard to tell in the image if Madison is
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  Speaker 1: happy or sad. It's also unclear based on her body language,
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  Speaker 1: if her parents are taking the photo or if this
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  Speaker 1: was kind.
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  Speaker 2: Of staged by someone else.
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  Speaker 1: So between the GPS showing that they had been at
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  Speaker 1: the top of this mountain at one point, plus the
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  Speaker 1: picture of Madison confirming she had at least been up there,
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  Speaker 1: the police started this massive search with that section on
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  Speaker 1: the mountain where they had been standing as kind of
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  Speaker 1: the center point, and they searched all.
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  Speaker 2: Around the Panola Mountains.
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  Speaker 1: But after an extensive search of this new area, they
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  Speaker 1: didn't find anything. No new leads had come in, so
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  Speaker 1: ultimately the search was called off. Four years later, in
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  Speaker 1: November of twenty thirteen, some hikers were in the Panola
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  Speaker 1: Mountains about five kilometers maybe a little bit less from
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  Speaker 1: where the Jamison truck was found, and they come across
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  Speaker 1: skeletal remains of three individuals.
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  Speaker 2: It looked like two adults and a child.
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  Speaker 1: They were laying face down, side by side, and it
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  Speaker 1: was clear that they were not complete skeletons, but there
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  Speaker 1: was enough there to know for sure that these are people.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as the police were called, everybody assumed this
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  Speaker 1: has to be the Jamison family. It would actually take
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  Speaker 1: almost a year before they were able to confirm that yes,
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  Speaker 1: those bones are in fact the Jamison family. While the
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  Speaker 1: Oklahoma Medical Examiner was not able to determine a cause
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  Speaker 1: of death because the remains were just partial, they didn't
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  Speaker 1: have enough to work with. They did see that there
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  Speaker 1: was a big hole in the back of Bobby's skull
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  Speaker 1: and there was other holes in some of the other
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  Speaker 1: bones that many people assumed were from bullets, but it
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  Speaker 1: was never determined if that actually was what it was from.
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  Speaker 1: As soon as it came out that it was the
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  Speaker 1: Jamison family's remains, the first prominent theory was that this
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  Speaker 1: had to have been a murder suicide where Sherilyn, who
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  Speaker 1: was mad at Bobby.
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  Speaker 2: She wrote that hate filled eleven page letter that was
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  Speaker 2: found in the car.
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  Speaker 1: You know, she's unstable from not taking her medication to
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  Speaker 1: combat her bipolar disorder. She seems like the person that
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  Speaker 1: would take her family out and then turn on herself.
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  Speaker 1: But all of her family said she would never harm
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  Speaker 1: her daughter. I mean, maybe she would have harmed Bobby,
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  Speaker 1: but she never would have harmed her daughter. Also, why
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  Speaker 1: would you have brought your dog along and left your
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  Speaker 1: dog in the car and thirty two thousand dollars of
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  Speaker 1: cash in the car, so that doesn't fit that scenario
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  Speaker 1: at all. The next theory was, well, maybe they just
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  Speaker 1: pulled over, walked into the woods for some reason, and
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  Speaker 1: then got lost and.
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  Speaker 2: Died of exposure.
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  Speaker 1: And that's still definitely a possible theory, except at the
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  Speaker 1: time they went missing, the temperatures were very mild, they
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  Speaker 1: were not dropping below freezing at night, it didn't rain
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  Speaker 1: very much, so it was kind of perfect conditions to
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  Speaker 1: be lost in the woods.
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  Speaker 2: It would have taken quite a while for them to
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  Speaker 2: die from exposure.
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  Speaker 1: And if you add in the fact that they were
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  Speaker 1: searching that area that they were found in pretty extensively
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  Speaker 1: within a few days of them going missing.
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  Speaker 2: If they had been.
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  Speaker 1: Lost and were only a few kilometers from the road,
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  Speaker 1: they would have been found in that search, but they weren't.
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  Speaker 1: The next theory that friends and family of the Jamison
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  Speaker 1: family predominantly believe is.
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  Speaker 2: They were kidnapped. That maybe you know, they were driving
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  Speaker 2: on that road and.
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  Speaker 1: Someone flagged them down, whether it was someone they knew
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  Speaker 1: or someone that did not seem threatening that caused them
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  Speaker 1: to get out of their car and come over to them.
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  Speaker 1: Leaving their car the way it was, with all of
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  Speaker 1: their belongings inside and with their dog inside shut the door.
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  Speaker 2: They're not threatened. They walk over to.
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  Speaker 1: This person or this group, and then something happens where
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  Speaker 1: they are either against their will or they're complicit, and
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  Speaker 1: they walk into the woods, never to go back to
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  Speaker 1: their truck, and then they ultimately pass away in the
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  Speaker 1: woods just a few kilometers away. However, none of those
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  Speaker 1: theories can account for the very bizarre video footage that
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  Speaker 1: they have of the Jamison family on the day they
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  Speaker 1: left their house to go check out the property in
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  Speaker 1: Red Oak, So on October eighth, two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 1: The video shows Bobby and Cheryl in making multiple trips
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  Speaker 1: about twenty or more from their house to their truck
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  Speaker 1: where they're loading gear into their truck, but they appeared
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  Speaker 1: to be almost in a trance, which is what the
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  Speaker 1: sheriff said when he first saw the video. They're walking
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  Speaker 1: back and forth, and they're carrying their stuff into the truck,
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  Speaker 1: but periodically they're making trips without carrying anything. They're just
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  Speaker 1: walking to the truck with nothing in hand, looking at
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  Speaker 1: the truck, and then walking back to the house. And
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  Speaker 1: then they come back out and they have something in
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  Speaker 1: their hands, and then the next trip they have nothing.
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  Speaker 2: And periodically on their truck.
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  Speaker 1: Back and forth, they would just stop and just turn
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  Speaker 1: and look off into the distance, not interacting with each other.
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  Speaker 1: Bobby and Cherylyn haven't spoken to each other at all.
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  Speaker 1: They're just doing this weird trance like commute back and
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  Speaker 1: forth between truck and house before ultimately they load up
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  Speaker 1: the truck and they do leave. A lot of people
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  Speaker 1: speculated that, well, it looks like Bobby and Cheryl in
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  Speaker 1: must have been using drugs. But when they first found
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  Speaker 1: the truck and they searched the jam Since truck and
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  Speaker 1: they searched the Jamison family house, there was no traces
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  Speaker 1: of drugs anywhere, and their family said there's.
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  Speaker 2: No history of drug abuse.
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  Speaker 1: There was also a theory that perhaps the Jamison family
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  Speaker 1: got tied up in a cult and that that was
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  Speaker 1: why they were moving and they were going to live
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  Speaker 1: this minimalist lifestyle, and they had brought cash to give
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  Speaker 1: to this cult, but in fact they had actually been
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  Speaker 1: the target of the cult and that was what led
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  Speaker 1: to their demise. Or maybe they were complicit and they
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  Speaker 1: wanted to sacrifice themselves or something. But no one really knows,
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  Speaker 1: so these are only a handful of the theories of
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  Speaker 1: what could have happened to the Jamison family.
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  Speaker 2: So what I want to know is do you.
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  Speaker 1: Agree with any of them or do you have your
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  Speaker 1: own theory of what could have happened to the Jamison family.
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  Speaker 2: Let me know in the comments.
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