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Speaker 1: A young family from a Fala vanish without a trace.
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Speaker 1: Just a few days later, their truck is found in
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Speaker 1: the mountains with over thirty two thousand dollars and their
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Speaker 1: starving dog inside. The more investigators looked into this case,
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Speaker 1: the more blurry the lines became. What happened to the
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Speaker 1: Jamison family. My name is Adrian, and today were flying
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Speaker 1: over Oklahoma to look at the Jamison family in October
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Speaker 1: two thousand and nine. So grab a coffee, get comfortable
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Speaker 1: and enjoying. Let's investigate. In October two thousand and nine,
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Speaker 1: Bobby Jamison was forty four and his wife, Sherilyn Jamison
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Speaker 1: was forty. Their daughter, Madison, was six years old. At
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Speaker 1: the time. They lived Infala, Oklahoma, and they were a
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Speaker 1: free spirited family. While happy in a Fala, Oklahoma, they
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Speaker 1: felt that the town lifestyle was maybe a little too
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Speaker 1: much for them, so they decided to move into the mountains,
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Speaker 1: where they would then live on their shipping container on
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Speaker 1: forty acres of land. Now, there's nothing wrong with trying
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Speaker 1: to minimize your footprints, but this idea was new to
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Speaker 1: them and hadn't been discussed before with their friends or family.
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Speaker 1: It sounded more like a spur of the moment's idea.
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Speaker 2: So on October the eighth, two.
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Speaker 1: Thousand and nine, the Jamison family loaded up their truck
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Speaker 1: and they decided to pay a visit to a landowner
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Speaker 1: in the mountains who they were trying to buy a
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Speaker 1: plot of land off of. This was the last time
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Speaker 1: they were seen again. However, their disappearance was initially not noted.
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Speaker 1: Only after a couple of days did friends and family
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Speaker 1: start to worry about them, and of course, eight days later,
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Speaker 1: on October the sixteenth, the family truck was found around
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Speaker 1: about thirty miles northeast of where they lived in New Falure,
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Speaker 1: on the pot of land they were interested in buying
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Speaker 1: on the mountains. This truck was found by the local
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Speaker 1: Latimer County sheriff, and this is where things start to
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Speaker 1: get a little strange. The abandoned truck was locked, but
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Speaker 1: inside the sheriff would find Bobby's wallet, Shearylyn's purse, the
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Speaker 1: family's GPS, family's mobile phone, over thirty two thousand dollars,
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Speaker 1: and the family's dog, Maisie, who at this point was
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Speaker 1: very malnourished and starving to death. Friends and family of
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Speaker 1: Bobby and Cherylyn were stunned. They were more stunned that
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Speaker 1: there were thirty two thousand dollars found in the truck.
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Speaker 1: They knew Bobby and Sherlon very well. They were both
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Speaker 1: unemployed at the time and living off of disability checks,
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Speaker 1: so thirty two thousand dollars was not something that they
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Speaker 1: had access to. The truck showed no signs of forth century,
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Speaker 1: but it was parked in an unusual position, and Bobby's
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Speaker 1: mobile phone contained images. One image was of Madison, taken
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Speaker 1: just a few hundred feet from where the truck was
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Speaker 1: found using the phone's GPS data, and it showed an
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Speaker 1: image of Madison looking unhappy. Was this image taken by
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Speaker 1: the Madison family or was it taken by someone else?
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Speaker 1: And why was Madison unhappy? The next day, over four
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Speaker 1: hundred people volunteers in a landon air search operation. However,
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Speaker 1: no dice, nothing came from this. The Latimer County Sheriff
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Speaker 1: Israel Buchamp said.
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Speaker 2: They it not appear to be any signs that the
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Speaker 2: Jamisons were in trouble or looking to start a new life.
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Speaker 1: However, the more that he and his police department investigated
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Speaker 1: the case, the more potential scenarios to the Jamison family
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Speaker 1: opened up. The sheriff shared is thoughts that while most
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Speaker 1: missing persons cases usually start with a plethora of scenarios
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Speaker 1: and eventually are wound down to just one or two possibilities,
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Speaker 1: the Jameson family was the opposite. All search efforts turned
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Speaker 1: up nothing. The case eventually went cold in November when
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Speaker 1: hunting season and the mountains opened up. A little over
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Speaker 1: four years had passed with no further information or evidence.
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Speaker 1: I was until November sixteenth, twenty thirteen. Two hunters were
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Speaker 1: in the Sansboys Mountain region when they came across a
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Speaker 1: unsidely discovery. They discovered the human remains of three deteriorated bodies.
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Speaker 1: All three bodies were found lying down next to each
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Speaker 1: other in a line execution style. It was almost instantly
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Speaker 1: speculated that it was the Jamison family, and of course,
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Speaker 1: over time forensics were able to conclude that that was true.
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Speaker 1: The two adults and one child found with that of
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Speaker 1: the Jamesons. They were found very close to their truck,
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Speaker 1: just three miles north. Actually, along with their remains, police
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Speaker 1: found shoes, clothes, adult teeth, and adult bone fragments. The
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Speaker 1: cause of manner of death were uknown due to timely decay,
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Speaker 1: and although there was no evidence of trauma, it was
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Speaker 1: noted that there was a small hole in the back
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Speaker 1: of Bobby's skull, possibly from a bullet, but we don't
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Speaker 1: know that it could be from wildlife. Over the four
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Speaker 1: years that they were left on the Mountain Range, their
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Speaker 1: deaths were recorded as under suspicious circumstances. I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: what else you would put, really, but for the clue
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Speaker 1: didn't add up to the Jameson's case. For example, the
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Speaker 1: Jameson's had a home surveillance system, and the day before
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Speaker 1: they left on their journey, this camera recorded footage of
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Speaker 1: them loading up the truck. There's not a lot to
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Speaker 1: say about it, really, there's a load that Bobby and
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Speaker 1: Sharylyn loaded the truck up twenty twenty five times seems excessive.
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Speaker 1: Israel stated in a interview that Bobby and Sherlyn looked
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Speaker 1: translike while loading up the truck. Almost everyone who's reviewed
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Speaker 1: this case has used the same words trans like, but
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Speaker 1: personally speaking, they look normal to me. I don't think
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Speaker 1: it's odd to not talk while you're loading up a
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Speaker 1: van or a truck. You just want to get the
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Speaker 1: job done. The equality of the surveillance footage also was
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Speaker 1: pretty poor. I personally think that this video holds any
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Speaker 1: substantial information. I could be wrong, What do you guys think.
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Speaker 1: One thing that the surveillance footage did pick up, however,
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Speaker 1: was a brown briefcase and a twenty two caliber pistol
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Speaker 1: that Shriylyn owned, both loaded into the truck. However, both
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Speaker 1: items not found on the truck when the sheriff found
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Speaker 1: the truck. So what happened to the Jamison family. There
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Speaker 1: are a few theories as to what could have happened.
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Speaker 1: Will review the few now, and I'll go over mine
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Speaker 1: in the end. The first theory is that the Jameson
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Speaker 1: family went out for a walk into the mountains but
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Speaker 1: got lost. Being exposed to the elements and hypothermia, they
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Speaker 1: died in the following days. I find this theory hard
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Speaker 1: to believe, though historic weather data shows that the temperature
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Speaker 1: never dropped below fifty degrees fahrenheit, not even at nighttime,
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Speaker 1: and although the area experienced rain, it wasn't that strong.
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Speaker 1: They would have also only walked for about three miles
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Speaker 1: before dying. I didn't realistically see how this had happened
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Speaker 1: with a group of healthy people. Let's also not forget
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Speaker 1: all the possessions that they're left in their car. Mobile
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Speaker 1: phones and GPS's were left behind, the two things required
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Speaker 1: really before in walking. The family's dog, Maisie was left
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Speaker 1: in the car. Even more unnerving, over thirty two thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars were left in there. Who in their right mind
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Speaker 1: would leave that much money in their car for a walk.
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Speaker 1: Personally speaking, I don't see this theory being realistic, only possible.
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Speaker 1: So what about theory too? What if one of them
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Speaker 1: or both of them were not in the right frame
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Speaker 1: of mind, could have this been a homicide? Suicide? Letters
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Speaker 1: written by Sherilyn were in fact found in one of
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Speaker 1: the bags in the truck. These letters were addressed to
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Speaker 1: her husband, accusing him of being a slob and a hermit.
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Speaker 1: She ranted about him for eleven pages, so there was
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Speaker 1: a little bit of tension in the relationship. Sherilyn also
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Speaker 1: had a track record of mental illnesses, which was in
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Speaker 1: fact bipolar. If you have bipolar disorder, you can be
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Speaker 1: euphoric at times, you can be depressed at others. Could
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Speaker 1: Sherilyn have killed her husband and daughter and then killed herself, Well, actually,
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Speaker 1: it's very unlikely. Sherilyn's mother, Connie shared that actually they
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Speaker 1: were both very good parents to their daughter and they'd
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Speaker 1: never hurt her. And while they's parents both had their
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Speaker 1: moments arguing between one another, they were in fact a
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Speaker 1: very happy couple. Connie had lived with them for a
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Speaker 1: period of time and in that period of time had
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Speaker 1: noticed no red flags. The reason for being up in
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Speaker 1: the mountain was also for planning ahead. I'm sure if
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Speaker 1: they were planning their futures, they had no motive to
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Speaker 1: ender right there and then. The couple, however, were both
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Speaker 1: infatuated with death and the paranormal and witchcraft had been
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Speaker 1: an interest in the family. A witchcraft book was found
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Speaker 1: in the truck. This belonged to Charlyn. There was also
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Speaker 1: threatening witchcraft graffiti on the Jamison's shipping container back on
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Speaker 1: their plot of land in you Falure. This graffiti was
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Speaker 1: written by Sherilyn, who believed that the neighbors were poisoning
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Speaker 1: the cats. A local pastor, Gary Brandon, had also claimed
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Speaker 1: that Bobby had shared and confessed to them that he
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Speaker 1: was reading the Satanic Bible. Bobby also claimed to him
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Speaker 1: that there was four ghosts in his house, and he'd
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Speaker 1: asked the pastor if he had any special bullets to
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Speaker 1: kill these ghosts. Okay thirty three was that the family
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Speaker 1: were murdered by Bobby's father, Bob Dean. As little as
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Speaker 1: six months before the Jamisons disappeared, Bobby petitioned a protective
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Speaker 1: order against his father, who had threatened to kill them
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Speaker 1: twice before. There was a lot of hate between Bob
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Speaker 1: and Bobby. Bobby he worked for free for several years
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Speaker 1: on his father's gas station, being promised they could become
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Speaker 1: half owner of it. Eventually. This never happened, however, and
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Speaker 1: it infuriated Bobby and that's when the relationship between the
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Speaker 1: two broke down. But during the time that the Jamison
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Speaker 1: family went missing, Bob Dean was actually an hospital. In fact,
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Speaker 1: he died two months later. His brother Jack Jamison didn't
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Speaker 1: believe that Bob was either mentally or physically able to
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Speaker 1: kill a son, particularly during that time while he was
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Speaker 1: an hospital. Since Bob Dean died in December two thousand
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Speaker 1: and nine, years before the Jamison family's bodies would ever
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Speaker 1: be found. When unable to ask Bob what happened, Connie
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Speaker 1: still believes that foul play was part of this, though
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Speaker 1: she doesn't believe it was Bob Dean. This leads us
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Speaker 1: into theory four that the Jamison family were killed by
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Speaker 1: a cult. At first, when I heard about this theory,
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Speaker 1: I was skeptical, but after a little bit of research,
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Speaker 1: I see it's actually possible. Although colts were much more
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Speaker 1: obvious a few decades ago, they do still exist in America.
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Speaker 1: In fact, there are multiple cults in the Oklahoma area,
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Speaker 1: including the Knighted White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan.
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Speaker 1: Connie claimed that a local cult had a hit list
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Speaker 1: with Sherilyn's name on it. She received an anonymous phone
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Speaker 1: call from a woman shortly after their disappearances who said
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Speaker 1: that she used to be in a white supremacist group
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Speaker 1: that had a murder book. Inside this book, it contained
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Speaker 1: Sharylon's name, among other names, some of which are also
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Speaker 1: missing to this day. Although this could be fake, what
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Speaker 1: was true is that Bobby and Charlyn both had another
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Speaker 1: man renting at their property just a few weeks before
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Speaker 1: they went missing. This man, Kenneth Bellows, is known to
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Speaker 1: be a white supremacist, and Anty started sharing his ideologies
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Speaker 1: and opinions to Sherilyn and her daughter and started insulting
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Speaker 1: Charylyn's heritage. She stuck a gun to his head and
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Speaker 1: told him to leave another come back. Although Kenneth had
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Speaker 1: a solid alibi during the time that the Jamison's on missing,
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Speaker 1: he was in prison. It is plausible that he asked
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Speaker 1: other members of his cult to take revenge on the Jamesons.
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Speaker 2: They had some words about it and she started to
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Speaker 2: get scared.
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Speaker 1: He was actually in jail during the times that they
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Speaker 1: went missing. And our final main theory is drugs. It's
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Speaker 1: common knowledge that drugs can influence strange behavior. This could
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Speaker 1: maybe explain why the Jamison family were acting strange in
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Speaker 1: the surveillance footage that was captured just the day before
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Speaker 1: they left, and maybe that explains the thirty two thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars found in the truck. Maybe it wasn't to buy
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Speaker 1: a plot of land, it was actually for a drug deal.
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Speaker 1: There were reports to the police that the Jamisons were
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Speaker 1: acting strange the days before that they disappeared, and these
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Speaker 1: signs of paranoia are exactly how you'd expect users of
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Speaker 1: methamphetamine to act and behave like. However, Israel said that
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Speaker 1: there was no evidence to back this up. The police
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Speaker 1: never found any drugs, they never found any drug equipment,
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Speaker 1: then never found any traces of drugs. Besides, why would
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Speaker 1: you bring your six year old daughter to a drug deal?
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Speaker 1: What is this show and tell? The money was also
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Speaker 1: never taken. The only motive to kill the Jamisons would
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Speaker 1: be to keep the drugs and take the money. I'm
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Speaker 1: not so sure that this theory for the rests of me.
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Speaker 1: I can see the possibility drug deals do go wrong,
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Speaker 1: and the mountains are also well known for running rampant
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Speaker 1: with meth labs and unlawful folk. So maybe, but it
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Speaker 1: still doesn't explain why the money was left in the
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Speaker 1: truck unless there was more money perhaps, So what's the
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Speaker 1: coffee house verdict? The Jamison family went missing under very
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Speaker 1: strange circumstances. The mystery that they left behind is so
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Speaker 1: loose that so many scenarios remain. Personally speaking, I'm almost
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Speaker 1: certain that this was a murder of some kind. I
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Speaker 1: think I'd like to know more about the landowner. He
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Speaker 1: was the last person to speak to the Jamison family,
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Speaker 1: after all, and he owned the land that the family
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Speaker 1: went missing on. He spoke to the family on October
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Speaker 1: the ninth, two thousand and nine, meaning that he spoke
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Speaker 1: to them an entire day after that. They left the house,
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Speaker 1: and he only lived four hundred meters from where the
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Speaker 1: truck was found. The only way off the mud track
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Speaker 1: was by road which passed his building. Why didn't he
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Speaker 1: check to make sure that they'd left, and why did
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Speaker 1: it take him eight days to report that the truck
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Speaker 1: was still on his property. He also offered very little
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Speaker 1: help to the investigators. He was reluctant to talk. Israel
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Speaker 1: did also.
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Speaker 2: Share that, but I'm claimed you never saw the family
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Speaker 2: after that, nor did he see anyone else go up
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Speaker 2: or come down.
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Speaker 1: Is it possible that the Jamison family, who were planning
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Speaker 1: to buy this plot of land, actually brought more than
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Speaker 1: thirty two thousand dollars with them on their trip. Well,
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Speaker 1: you know that from surveillance footage, a brown briefcase was
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Speaker 1: missing from the car. Historic data shows that the plot
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Speaker 1: of land that they were interested in buying was around
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Speaker 1: seventy thousand dollars at the time, so maybe they had
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Speaker 1: two halves. Perhaps they were ambushed outside of their car
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Speaker 1: with the rest of money in hand. It is also
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Speaker 1: a possibility that the Jamesons were being watched. If a
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Speaker 1: colt was planning to kill the family, this would have
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Speaker 1: been the best time for them to do it, but
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Speaker 1: it could also have nothing to do with with a
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Speaker 1: cult or drugs or buying a plot of land. During
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Speaker 1: the initial investigation, a detective working on the case characterized
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Speaker 1: both Bobby and Charlyn as scammers. At the point in
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Speaker 1: time that they went missing, they had several lawsuits opened
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Speaker 1: against other people, including Bobby's father, three people that they
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Speaker 1: had a car accident with in two thousand and five,
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Speaker 1: and the school that Madison was previously enrolled into. Connie
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Speaker 1: and those close to the Jameson family had no idea
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Speaker 1: how the two built up thirty two thousand dollars. That's
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Speaker 1: a lot of money for two people that are unemployed
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Speaker 1: and on disability checks. Maybe they scammed this money out
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Speaker 1: of the wrong people that were now seeking revenge either
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Speaker 1: way through cult, landlord, or revenge. All three bodies were
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Speaker 1: found lying face down in a row execution style. This
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Speaker 1: indicates that this was most likely a murder and not
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Speaker 1: through suicide. The hunters who found the remains said and
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Speaker 1: even argued with the police that looked like Bobby's skull
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Speaker 1: had a small bullet hole at the back. Murder also
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Speaker 1: completely explains why the family left the truck in the
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Speaker 1: world that it was found the one planning on death.
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Speaker 1: Why would you leave your truck with thirty two thousand
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Speaker 1: dollars in the boots? Why would you leave your dog
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Speaker 1: there to starve to death? But who knows how the
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Speaker 1: Jameson family ultimately died or why There are no suspects
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Speaker 1: in the case and no rests have been made. This
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Speaker 1: will very likely be a case that remains unsolved, and
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Speaker 1: I don't think I'll be going to Oklahoma's mountains anytime soon.
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Speaker 1: Hi there, and thank you so much for watching another
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Speaker 1: video of mine. If you enjoyed this case, please hang
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Speaker 1: around for more and maybe subscribe. What do you think
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Speaker 1: happened to the Jamesons? Do you think it was an
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Speaker 1: accident or do you think this is a murder? Who
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Speaker 1: killed them? Be sure to leave alike on this video,
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Speaker 1: Grab a coffee and I'll see in the next one.
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Speaker 1: Take care of each other. Goodbye. Four