This Family Fled A "Haunted House" & Mysteriously Disappeared
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The 2009 disappearance of the Jamison family—Bobby, Sherilyn, and their 6-year-old daughter Madison—remains one of true crime’s most perplexing unsolved cases. The family vanished after a routine property tour in rural Oklahoma, leaving behind their abandoned truck, a distressed puppy, and a large sum of cash that defies their known financial struggles. Investigators found no signs of violence, no weapons, and no footprints, while GPS data revealed brief walks into the woods before they disappeared. The case is riddled with conflicting theories: supernatural beliefs about hauntings, possible drug-related violence, a white supremacist cult, or a family suicide driven by years of marital strife. A critical detail—the dog, Maisie, was left alone and suffered for over a week—undermines theories of a planned family death, suggesting they were either forced out of the vehicle or planned to return. A disturbing flower found on Madison’s remains adds to the mystery, with no clear explanation for its placement. Despite extensive searches and media coverage, no body was found until years later in remote, rugged terrain, and no cause of death or suspects have been identified. The lack of physical evidence, combined with deeply personal family conflicts and bizarre behaviors, leaves the truth unresolved. Over a decade later, the case continues to divide investigators and online communities, with no consensus on what truly happened, making it a enduring enigma in true crime.
In 2009, a family of three went to tour a property that they were considering buying
and were never seen alive ever again.
The months leading up to their disappearance were nothing short of shocking and bizarre.
It was clear that they were paranoid that someone or something was after them.
Sherilyn and Bobby believed that there were spirits in their house and it frightened them.
In my further imagination, I can't see that happening.
It just doesn't make any sense.
How can somebody do that?
This is a case full of confusing clues and endless theories,
all trying to answer the same question that has baffled investigators,
internet sleuths, and true crime viewers for nearly two decades.
What happened to the Jamison family?
My name is Brianna, and I'm hot on the case.
There is an extremely good chance if you have spent any time online looking into true crime cases
that you have stumbled across the bizarre mystery of the Jamison family.
There is no shortage of theories, Reddit posts, podcast episodes on this case,
and that is not surprising at all because,
this is easily one of the most baffling mysteries I've ever looked into.
It's one of those cases where there are so many different theories about what possibly might have happened,
and each theory will seem like it makes a lot of sense,
but then there's just this one detail that completely contradicts the entire theory.
And just a quick disclaimer, because this is a case that has so much public discourse surrounding it,
there are quite a few things that have gotten muffled,
details that have been revealed,
things that have been reported differently here and there.
Like always, I did my best to compile the information that I believe to be the most accurate for this video.
If you believe I got something wrong or possibly left something really, really major out that you think should have been included in this investigation,
please just let me and your fellow detectives know down in the comments.
Bobby Jamison met Sherilyn in 2002.
When they met, they immediately hit it off and they quickly fell in love.
They were married the following year.
And then welcomed their daughter, Madison Stormy Starr Jamison, on August 1st, 2003.
By 2009, the family lived in a really cute lake house in the small rural town of Eufaula, Oklahoma.
Just the three of them and the family's beloved dog, Maisie.
Maisie was only still just a puppy.
This was a puppy that Bobby and Sherilyn got for their daughter, Madison.
Madison was absolutely in love with Maisie and reportedly never wanted to leave the house without her dog.
Their daughter really was this couple's entire world.
They were super in love with each other.
They seemed like a happy, normal family.
They were active members of their local church.
It all seemed perfect.
But of course, no family is perfect.
The family was unfortunately really struggling financially.
At the time, neither Bobby or Sherilyn was working a traditional job.
Bobby was seriously injured in a car accident in 2003.
That left him with severe injuries.
Bobby had severe chronic back pain to the point where he just could not work.
So the family at the time were living solely off of disability and government assistance.
Bobby and Sherilyn had this big dream of living a more simple life out in the mountains away from really everything and everyone.
In the fall of 2009, they were highly considering buying a large plot of land in the Sand Boys Mountains of Oklahoma and living out of a storage container that they had already purchased.
So this wasn't just one of those plans, like a fantasy that you dream about with your husband.
This was something that they were very much planning to do.
They had already bought the storage container and everything.
And I'm assuming the plan was to eventually renovate this storage container into a tiny home.
That would definitely check out because tiny living had just gotten super popular in 2008, the year prior.
On the morning of October 8th, 2009, Bobby and Sherilyn had already bought a storage container that they had already purchased.
And I'm assuming the plan was to eventually renovate this storage container into a tiny home that would definitely check out because tiny living had just gotten super popular in 2008, the year prior.
On the morning of October 8th, 2009, Bobby and Sherilyn had already bought a storage container into a tiny home that they had already purchased.
Bobby and Sherilyn packed their truck up with some of their belongings, their daughter Madison, and their puppy Maisie. And then they drove an hour to check out a 40-acre plot of land that they were considering buying up in the mountains. That morning, they met with an associate of the landowner to discuss the possibility of them buying this land. The associate of the landowner said that the family seemed very normal, nothing was out of the ordinary, and the family seemed like they were in really high spirits and were really excited. After the tour was over, the associate got ready to leave, but claims that the family told him that they were going to hang around in the area and just check it out a little bit more. And after that, 44-year-old Bobby, 40-year-old Sherilyn, and 6-year-old Madison were never seen alive ever again.
After not hearing from the family for several days, loved ones reached out to the police to report the entire family missing, and quickly, the first signs of what possibly happened to this family was discovered.
On a remote dirt road on the Palola Mountain by hunters.
Where the truck was found just abandoned was only less than about a quarter mile from where the family was last seen, speaking with the realtor.
One of the hunters that found the Jamesons' white truck told police that they had actually seen the white truck parked in the exact same place several days earlier, but at that time, didn't think anything of it.
It wasn't until they returned to the mountain and saw that the same truck. Was parked in the same place and hadn't moved, that they thought that something was probably really wrong.
After deciding to snoop around a little bit, the hunter knew that they had to call 911 when they found a little puppy locked inside of the truck that was clinging to life.
The family's beloved puppy, Maisie, was left locked in the family's truck for over a week.
She was dehydrated, she was starving, and on the brink of death.
Maisie did survive, though, just so you all know, and she went and, luckily, lived with Bobby's mother after she was found.
The question was, though, where were the rest of the family?
There was still fuel in the truck, so it's not like they ran out of gas, they weren't stuck, there wasn't anything mechanically wrong with the truck that would have made them have to get out and walk on foot.
When the truck was discovered, it was locked, and the keys were still in the ignition.
So what was it that made this family abandon their truck and just walk away?
Maisie the dog wasn't the only bizarre thing that was found in the Jamesons' abandoned truck.
Inside were both of the couple's cell phones, their IDs, Bobby's wallet, Sherilyn's purse, all three of their jackets, and nearly every single belonging that they packed inside the truck earlier that morning.
But possibly. The strangest thing that was discovered in the Jamesons' truck was $32,000 in cash that was stuffed into a bank bag and was stashed under the driver's seat.
A very large amount of cash for a family known to be in serious financial turmoil.
There were zero signs of a struggle in or outside of the truck, and there were no footprints or clues for investigators to follow.
But Bobby's cell phone did track some of the family's final moments.
According to the GPS in Bobby's cell phone, the family had parked their car around the area where the car was discovered.
The family got out, they walked a short distance into the woods that was off of the dirt road, and then after walking a short distance, they turned around and headed back to the truck.
Somewhere along the way, a haunting final photo was taken of six-year-old Madison on her father's cell phone.
Now there is a serious debate surrounding. This photo.
There are a lot of people that think this looks like a normal photo that a father would take of his daughter.
Just a candid, he caught her not looking, she's maybe halfway through a word, maybe she was crying, maybe she was laughing.
And there are other people that believe that this photo is just weird.
It's uncomfortable, it looks like Madison's in distress.
And there are a lot of people, including members of the Jameson family, like Bobby and Sherilyn's mothers, that do not believe that Bobby was the one that took this photo.
They don't even believe that Sherilyn was the one that took this photo.
They believe that whoever caused the Jameson family to disappear and never be seen alive ever again was the one that took this photo of Madison.
Super interested to hear all your thoughts and opinions.
Surrounding this photo.
Investigators do believe from the position that the Jameson's truck was discovered in that they drove or attempted to drive before being stopped and forced out of their truck for whatever reason.
This was unfortunately really all of the evidence that was discovered at the scene.
And like I said, there was no signs of the Jameson family, no clues to where they might have gone.
Immediately after the discovery of the missing family's abandoned vehicle, an extensive search was launched.
This included drones, two helicopters, planes, people on horses and ATVs, over 400 volunteers on foot, and 16 canine teams, all searching the mountain with zero luck.
To try and find the Jameson family, it was important for investigators to first learn who the Jameson family were.
And what was going on in their lives at the time that they disappeared.
Family photos would lead you to believe that the Jamesons were your typical happy family.
But there were definitely a lot of cracks in this marriage.
Something else that investigators found in the Jamesons' abandoned truck was an 11-page letter written by Cheryl Lynn to her husband Bobby, detailing all of the things that she hated about him.
The entire letter has never been released.
But what we do know about the letter is Cheryl Lynn calls Bobby a loner and a hermit that didn't care about their daughter Madison.
And Cheryl Lynn expresses that she wants a divorce.
Friends extremely close to Cheryl Lynn would claim that Cheryl Lynn would often just write things out and vent on paper as a form of like therapy.
And they do not believe that she ever intended for Bobby to actually divorce her.
But Cheryl Lynn says that she would never have considered a divorce, no matter how bad things got, and things had certainly gotten really bad in the months leading up to them going missing.
It was no secret to those closest to Bobby and Cheryl Lynn Jameson that they had never considered a divorce.
And they would never have considered a divorce, no matter how bad things got, and things had certainly gotten really bad in the months leading up to them going missing.
and when that happens,
happened it was confirmed that these were the remains of the missing Jameson family. In the area
along with the bone fragments there were also all three sets of the family's shoes as well as bits
and pieces of clothing and it is believed that the reason the remains and the clothing was disturbed
it was likely due to animals and also the elements. A dried flower was discovered on the
remains of six-year-old Madison which is a very strange detail that we will certainly touch on
later. The remains were found like I said less than three miles away from where their truck was
found abandoned but the area that the remains were discovered in was off of the beaten path
like way off of the beaten path.
It was very rough terrain in that area.
This area was very rarely traveled and was on a very steep incline.
It was very, very unlikely that anyone, even very skilled hunters, would be walking around
in this area.
So right away, people are questioning why two parents would bring their six-year-old
daughter in this area, especially with Bobby's very severe back pain.
He couldn't work.
He couldn't walk far distances, especially on rough terrain and steep inclines.
The family's remains were all discovered in a line and they were all face down.
So right away, this is really looking like the family was possibly murdered, execution
style, forced onto their stomachs, their faces in the dirt, just lined up in a row and taken
out just like that, unfortunately, because of
how, again, badly decomposed the remains were.
A manner of death, a cause of death, and a time of death could not be determined and
to this day are still listed as undetermined.
There was a very small hole to the back of Bobby's skull, which could have possibly
been a bullet hole, but this could also be explained as damage from the elements or possibly
animals.
There were no holes found in Cher Lynn's or a
Madison's skulls, and there were no bullets or weapons found nearby in the area either.
It's still possible, though, that the Jameson family were shot.
They could have been shot in their back when they were forced to lie down on their stomachs,
and because there is no muscle and full skeletons were not found, it doesn't disprove that this
could have possibly happened.
But unfortunately, because it had been
so long and the remains were left out in the elements and with animals, it was just impossible
to determine if this was murder or not.
And even now, 17 years later, people are still wondering what happened to the Jameson family,
and there are no shortage of theories.
The first theory that I want to dive into, because I've already touched on it here and
there, is that there was a supernatural element to whatever happened to the Jameson family.
In the
months leading up to them going missing, Bobby and Cher Lynn Jameson were experiencing what
they called spiritual warfare.
They believed that the home they were living in in Eufaula, Oklahoma, was haunted by spirits
and demons.
It started when their daughter Madison started speaking with an imaginary friend named Emily,
and they believed that Emily was actually a spirit.
They believed that there were other spirits in the
home, maybe about three or four, possibly also demons, and the spirits lived primarily
on the roof of their home, and then the family was being tormented and harassed on a daily
basis by these ghosts.
Both Cher Lynn and Bobby spoke with their pastor at their local church and asked for
ways to rid their home of the spirits and demons that were haunting them.
Bobby even asked his pastor if there were special bullets.
He told his pastor that he could buy those bullets that would work on ghosts.
He also told his pastor he bought the satanic bible, hoping to find a way of casting an
exorcism on his home.
When investigators searched the family's home, they found notes left around all around the
house written by Cher Lynn telling demons to get out of her house.
They also found a witch's bible.
One of Cher Lynn's close friends said that her and Cher Lynn both
bought these witch's bibles as a joke, but it did not seem like this was a joke to Cher Lynn.
According to pretty much everyone around her, Cher Lynn really started to get serious about
witchcraft and the occult, especially around the time that her and her family disappeared.
Cher Lynn had also become very recently paranoid that someone in her neighborhood
was trying to poison her cats.
On the shipping container that
the family purchased that was in their lawn, there was a lot of graffiti, different messages
that Cher Lynn wrote on the shipping container.
And one of the things she wrote said, quote,
three cats killed to date by people in this area.
Witches don't like their black cat killed.
And if you're watching the video version of this podcast, you likely noticed that there
are quite a few spelling and grammatical errors.
In what Cher Lynn wrote, I would be interested to know from people close to Cher Lynn, if this
was something normal for her, if she often made grammatical errors and spelling errors
in her writing, or if this was something completely out of character.
Believing that this home was haunted was not just the paranoia of two mentally ill people.
The feeling that this home was haunted was actually shared amongst some of their closest friends.
One of Cher Lynn's best friends was, quote,
In all seriousness, that house was haunted.
I don't want to sound crazy, but whenever I went there, I felt a horrible presence.
I would leave feeling so down and depressed, unquote.
Others described that sometimes Bobby had these dark black eyes.
He looked possessed.
Could their bizarre behavior and their disappearance be explained by demonic possession?
Could this also be the reason why both of them,
seemed to be in these hypnotic trances on the morning that they disappeared,
while they were packing up their truck, as seen on that security footage?
The entire reason that the Jameson family was even going to look at land
the day that they disappeared, was because they wanted to get away from their haunted house.
So this was a couple that was so afraid of whatever was in their home,
that they were willing to move away, move an hour away, an hour away from herself.
She was going to go and live on a mountain.
They were going to live out of a shipping container in the middle of nowhere in the
remote wilderness on the top of a mountain.
They even pulled their daughter, Madison, out of school and were planning to homeschool her,
again, out of a shipping container on a mountain, because that's how real this threat was to them.
Ghosts weren't the only thing that the Jameson family seemed to be running away from.
Turns out, the Jamesons had a lot of enemies, people that would possibly want to hurt them.
To start, the area that the family lived in and the area that the family were planning to move to
was known to have a lot of drug production and dealing, specifically meth. Some people have
even theorized that maybe Bobby and Sherilyn were using and or dealing meth. This would certainly
explain a lot of the reason why the Jamesons were so afraid of the Jamesons.
This would explain their sudden changes in behavior, why they seemed so paranoid,
and why both of them lost a lot of weight very, very quickly.
This would also explain why a couple that was known to have a lot of money troubles
was in possession of $32,000 of cash that was stuffed in a bag and stuffed under the driver's
seat of their abandoned vehicle. Yeah, definitely don't forget about that money. $32,000?
What was that all about? It has also been reported that shortly before the Jameson family
disappeared, Bobby might have discovered that one of his neighbors was running a meth lab
out of the house and even reported this to the police. So there are a lot of ways in this theory
that the Jameson family could have ended up being murdered. Did they go up on the mountain that day
with all of that cash and there was some sort of
drug deal gone wrong? Did they upset the wrong people and those people followed them up on the
mountain? I mean, this theory certainly, like I said, explains a lot. It would definitely explain
why there was a missing gun and a missing briefcase. A lot of people have speculated
that maybe the briefcase was filled with drugs or maybe a lot of money. And it's very possible
that the killers didn't know there was more money stuffed under the car seat of the Jameson family
and they thought that whatever was in the briefcase was all the money that they were after.
I will say, though, if these drug lords
slash killers found a briefcase and also a gun and took those items out of the truck,
it would be pretty odd that they wouldn't be able to find a bag of cash that was just under
the driver's seat. But really the main thing that makes this theory seem really, really implausible
is the fact that if this theory is true, then two loving parents brought their six-year-old
daughter to a drug deal. And also when investigators searched the Jameson's family
home and also their truck, they did not find a single shred of evidence that the Jameson family
were using, dealing drugs of any kind. There is also the theory that a white supremacist cult
was responsible for the Jameson family's deaths. Recently, Bobby had invited a local handyman
named Kenneth Bellows to come live with him and his family to help make ends meet and to help out
around the house because with his back injury, Bobby really couldn't do a lot of things around
the home. This was in the summer of 2009, so just a few months before the family all disappeared.
Well, a few weeks into Kenneth living with the Jamesons, he discovered that Cherilyn was part
Native American. And this was a big problem for Kenneth because he was reportedly a white
supremacist. So one day while Bobby was out of town in August of 2009, he confronted Cherilyn
again in her own home and was threatening her and making a lot of racist comments at her and using
lots of racial slurs. Cherilyn tried to kick Kenneth out of her house and when he refused to
leave, she went and grabbed her.22 caliber pistol, returned, and started firing warning shots at
Kenneth's feet until he ran away. And again, this just happened only two months before the family
disappeared. And a year after the Jamesons disappeared, but three years before their
bodies were discovered, their case was featured on an episode of Disappeared on Investigation
Discovery. People really close to the Jamesons were involved in the episode and one of Cherilyn's
really close friends after the episode aired got a phone call from someone claiming that they were a
part of a white supremacist cult or at least was a part of a white supremacist cult in the past and
they believed they had answers to what happened to Bobby, Cherilyn, and Madison. They claimed that
this cult kept a long list. This was a list of their enemies. It was a hit list. People that they
planned to take out. The person, this caller, claimed that they would do their best every single day to memorize
the names that were on this list. And then when they would go home, they would go and Google these
different names. And what they found was missing person after missing person. And this caller claims
that one of the names on this list was Cherilyn Jamison. The FBI investigated Kenneth Bellows and
cleared him because he had a solid alibi. But reportedly they never investigated any of the other white supremacists that Kenneth ran in
circles with. So if this theory is true, it's very unlikely that Kenneth played a physical role in whatever
happened to Jamisons. But maybe someone else, maybe someone he was in this group with, acted out in
revenge for Kenneth against the Jamison family. I think this theory is possible, but I don't think
it's plausible. And unfortunately, when cases like this one get a lot of media attention, there are
really sick people out there that want to get involved. They want attention and they will call
in and make false tips. Before this episode even aired on Investigation Discovery, the case was
already very heavily publicized in the media. And the connection to white supremacists was already
made public. So whenever this episode aired and this person made the call, there was already this link to neo-Nazi
news. So I do think it is possible that this was a fake call. No one that saw the Jamisons driving
around the day they disappeared witnessed anyone following the Jamisons. And if no one was following
the Jamisons that day, how would they know where the family was? Like I mentioned earlier, there
really is no shortage of theories in this case. And turns out Kenneth wasn't the only person in
the picture. There was someone even closer to the family that had an even bigger reason for wanting
the family gone. And that was Bobby's own father, Bobby Jamison Sr. For the sake of this episode and
not being confusing, I will either refer to Bobby's father as Bobby's father or senior.
Well, years earlier, Bobby's father purchased a gas station and his son, Bobby,
worked at his gas station for free with the promise that one day Bobby would either inherit
the gas station or if his father ever sold it, Bobby would get a large chunk of the profits.
Well, in early 2009, Bobby's father sold the gas station and Bobby didn't get a cent. So in May of
2009, Bobby actually sued his father for the part of the profits that he thought he was owed. And in
that same month, Bobby even filed a restraining order against his father. And according to the
court documents, he claimed that in November 2008 and April 2009, his father threatened his life
and the lives of his wife and daughter, and that his father even tried to run him over with his car.
Both Bobby and Sherilyn were absolutely terrified of Bobby's father. And he was even the reason that
the family had to leave the house. Bobby's father was also the reason that the family had to leave
those security cameras installed in the first place. Bobby Sr. was of course investigated and
he had an alibi. He was very sick at the time that his son, daughter-in-law, and granddaughter
all went missing. He was even in a care home at that exact time. And he would actually die only
two months after the family disappeared. But reportedly, Bob Sr. had a lot of links to the
organized crime. Many have theorized that the 67-year-old possibly put a hit out on Bobby
Sherilyn in Madison. But a lot of people have argued that it seems unlikely that a man angry
at his son enough to want to get a hit out against his son would also want to target his innocent
six-year-old granddaughter. There is also the theory that the family just was out checking out
the area of Bobby Sr. and his daughter-in-law. But there is also the theory that the family just
like they told the realtor they were going to do. They were thinking about moving here so it would
make sense they want to just walk around and check it out and maybe they got lost and succumbed to the
elements. I think this theory is possible. We do know that the family was out walking around.
Bobby's cell phone's GPS told us that much. But I do think this theory is unlikely. I think if this
theory was true, I don't think they would all die in the same place in the exact same way at the exact
same time. I would also think it's odd that we have Bobby's final moments. Him and his family
are all walking around. He has his cell phone. They go back to the car. He puts his cell phone
in the car and then they go back out walking again and that's when they disappear. Why would they
not bring the cell phone that time? The GPS, the maps, all of their jackets. It was apparently
really, really cold that night. So I think that is really, really strange. There is also the theory
that the Jamesons just so happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. And whoever killed
them was a stranger that they just so happened to cross paths with up on top of that mountain.
In this theory, maybe the $32,000 cash they had with them in the car was cash they were planning
to use as a down payment if they ultimately wanted to get out of the car. I don't know.
We know after meeting with the associate of the property owner, the family said that they were
going to drive around and check out the area. And we know at one point they at least got out
the truck and were walking around the area for a bit. It seemed like they're having good time.
They're taking photos of their daughter and then they go back to the truck and attempt to drive
off. But for whatever reason, they are stopped. Did the family make that decision? I don't know.
Someone that maybe wanted to rob the family? Or maybe did the Jamesons see something that they
weren't supposed to see? Like I mentioned in a theory earlier, the area they were planning to
move was known to have a lot of drug activity. On top of this mountain, a lot of people would
actually buy property up there to put up meth labs on top of that mountain. Is it possible that
that they stumbled across someone producing meth
and that person wanted to get rid of these witnesses this theory would make a lot of sense
it would also make sense why they were forced out of the vehicle when they tried to drive away
maybe this person had them at gunpoint and then they took the briefcase not sure what was in the
briefcase but they took the briefcase they took the gun they enforced them to walk into the woods
deep into the woods where they took the family's lives i do believe personally this is one of the
more probable theories i would think it's odd though that a stranger would kill madison and
then put a flower on her remains if this theory is true but maybe it's possible that this killer
was getting rid of witnesses and after they killed madison because she was a child they
were so remorseful that they wanted to do this small act
by putting the flower on her remains as a way to say they were sorry i don't know absolutely
just spitballing here this theory also doesn't explain all the jameson's odd behavior and their
paranoia leading up to their disappearance but maybe it's possible that there are two things
that are right at the same time and they just so happen to not be connected maybe the jamesons were
just really struggling with their mental health and shared delusions at the exact same time they
could have been victims of a random act of violence the last theory i want to discuss with you is
another one of the more probable theories in my opinion and that is the theory that either one
or both of the jameson parents were to blame for the family's deaths like i have said plenty of
times in this episode already it was no secret that bobby and sharilyn were really struggling
with their mental health in the months leading up to their disappearances and untimely deaths
is it possible that one or both of them were really struggling with their mental health
planned to go up on this mountain as a family and to all go out together as a family this theory in
my opinion certainly makes a lot of sense when you look at the evidence that we have in this case
it would really make sense with this 11 page letter detailing all the things sharilyn hated
about her husband i know one of her really close friends said that this was just a way for sharilyn
to vent and it was like therapy and she was like i don't know i don't know i don't know i don't
know i don't know i don't know what to say to her but if that's the case why would this letter be in
the truck where her husband could possibly find it and read it is it possible that maybe bobby did
discover this letter and he brought the letter with them to toward this property because he
wanted to confront his wife with it and he was the one that ended all of their lives or could it be
possible that it was the other way around sharilyn was clearly very unhappy with bobby she was angry
with her husband and she was angry with her husband and she was angry with her husband and she was
angry with her husband and she wanted to read this letter out to her husband to explain why she brought
all of them out there to end all of their lives we at least know without a doubt that sharilyn
was at least considering bringing an end to her own life shortly before her life ended she was
even hospitalized for an attempt on her life just one month before her and her family disappeared
but i also think it's very possible that maybe bobby and sharilyn
both planned this together and both planned to go up on that mountain with their daughter
so they could all die together this theory really is the only one that makes 100 sense in my brain
why there was a flower placed on madison's body i don't know if a stranger that would kill madison
would do that but i think it's possible that a parent would do that there are a few things that
make this theory not make a lot of sense in my mind like i've also done a lot of research on
madison's body and i've also said a few times by now bobby really could not walk long distances
so i don't think he would plan to walk three miles on rough terrain on steep inclines if he knew that
those were going to be his final moments with his family why would he want to be in this terrible
pain where he could barely walk this theory also really doesn't explain why they had all that cash
in the car and it really doesn't explain why that brown bear was so angry with sharilyn
and their gun has never been found to this very day there was also no murder weapon found at the
scene which really starts to put holes in this theory altogether and if bobby and or sharilyn
wanted the entire family to go out together why would they leave their beloved puppy maizey in the
car to suffer alone and have this terrible slow death by herself if the whole point was for the
why would they not bring the puppy with them especially because their daughter loved this
puppy so much if they knew this was going to be their daughter's final moments why would they not
bring the puppy with why would they bring the puppy in the car and let the puppy suffer that
just really doesn't make any sense to me i think the fact that maizey was left in the car is
probably in my opinion the biggest piece of evidence that points to the fact that when
bobby and sharilyn and madison got out of that car they either
planned to come back and they planned to come back very shortly or they were forced out of the truck
against their will the thing about all the theories in this case though is that they
all almost seem right they all almost seem like this is what happened and then there's just this
one thing that just makes the entire theory seem completely impossible but i'm so so interested
to hear what all of you think i really want to know what theory you believe
is the most likely what theory you believe is absolutely not what happened at all and i'm
already really expecting that the comment section is going to be very very very split on this one
i was looking across the entire internet every reddit post i could find every comment section
i could find and it really seems like people are just split on this case people really just cannot
make their minds up about what they think happened and i'm really excited to see what
happened to the jameson family so i told you the theories that i think are the more possible
theories in my opinion but i'm so so interested to hear from all of you just this past week at the
time i'm uploading this was the 17th year anniversary of when the jameson family
disappeared and still we are no closer discovering what happened to 44 year old bobby 40 year old
and their six-year-old daughter madison today there are no leads and there are no suspects
i'm definitely going to be reading every single comment that comes in i'm so interested to hear
from all of you i swear you all are always coming up with different theories and piecing
things together that i would never piece together in my own head whenever we cover
these more unsolved and mystery-like cases so i'm definitely going to be checking out every
single comment on spotify and youtube while you're there please let me know a case that you would like
to see in a future episode of hot on the case but until then that is all i have for this week's
investigation and i will see you guys all next friday when we are hot in the case once again
Podcast Summary
Key Points:
The Jamison family disappeared in 2009 after a tour of a mountain property, with no signs of struggle, only their abandoned truck and a beloved puppy left behind.
Investigators found $32,000 in cash, personal belongings, and a haunting photo of six-year-old Madison, raising questions about motive, financial strain, and possible violence.
The family exhibited severe paranoia, believing their home was haunted by spirits and demons, with evidence of occult practices and a detailed 11-page letter expressing marital hatred.
Multiple theories exist—supernatural haunting, drug-related violence, a white supremacist cult, or a family suicide—each weakened by contradictory evidence such as the presence of cash, the dog left alone, and the location of the remains.
The absence of physical evidence like weapons, the family’s physical inability to walk long distances, and the placement of a dried flower on Madison’s remains challenge any single explanation.
A deep personal conflict, including Bobby’s father’s threat and legal action, suggests possible familial motive, though no direct link to violence was proven.
The family’s final GPS data shows short walks and returns to the vehicle, indicating they were not lost or abducted, but stopped abruptly.
Despite 17 years of investigation, no definitive cause of death or suspects remain, and the case remains one of true crime’s most unresolved and debated mysteries.
Summary:
The 2009 disappearance of the Jamison family—Bobby, Sherilyn, and their 6-year-old daughter Madison—remains one of true crime’s most perplexing unsolved cases. The family vanished after a routine property tour in rural Oklahoma, leaving behind their abandoned truck, a distressed puppy, and a large sum of cash that defies their known financial struggles. Investigators found no signs of violence, no weapons, and no footprints, while GPS data revealed brief walks into the woods before they disappeared.
The case is riddled with conflicting theories: supernatural beliefs about hauntings, possible drug-related violence, a white supremacist cult, or a family suicide driven by years of marital strife. A critical detail—the dog, Maisie, was left alone and suffered for over a week—undermines theories of a planned family death, suggesting they were either forced out of the vehicle or planned to return. A disturbing flower found on Madison’s remains adds to the mystery, with no clear explanation for its placement.
Despite extensive searches and media coverage, no body was found until years later in remote, rugged terrain, and no cause of death or suspects have been identified. The lack of physical evidence, combined with deeply personal family conflicts and bizarre behaviors, leaves the truth unresolved. Over a decade later, the case continues to divide investigators and online communities, with no consensus on what truly happened, making it a enduring enigma in true crime.
FAQs
The Jamison family—Bobby, Sherilyn, and their 6-year-old daughter Madison—disappeared on October 8, 2009, after a property tour in Eufaula, Oklahoma. They were never seen again, and their vehicle was found abandoned with their beloved dog, Maisie, left inside for over a week.
The remains were discovered approximately three miles from where the family's truck was found, in a remote and steep area of Palola Mountain, Oklahoma. The remains were found face down, in a line, suggesting possible violent deaths.
The family was financially struggling, so the presence of $32,000 in cash is highly unusual. It has no clear explanation, and investigators believe it may have been intended for a down payment on a new home or for a potential drug-related transaction.
Yes, Maisie survived after being found dehydrated and starving inside the abandoned truck. She was later taken to live with Bobby’s mother.
Yes, both Bobby and Sherilyn exhibited extreme paranoia and believed their home was haunted by spirits and demons. Sherilyn wrote a detailed 11-page letter expressing her anger toward Bobby, and the family became increasingly isolated and fearful.
The photo, taken during the family's final moments, is disputed—some believe it shows a normal moment, while others think it shows distress. Family members and investigators question whether Bobby or Sherilyn took it, or if a stranger did, suggesting potential involvement of a third party.
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