Jamison family deaths

Bobby Jamison, his wife Sherilynn, and their daughter Madyson, of Eufaula, Oklahoma, disappeared on or after October 8, 2009. At the time, the family was reportedly considering the purchase of a 40-acre plot of land near Red Oak, roughly 30 miles from Eufaula. Their suspected remains were not found until November 2013, and the Oklahoma medical examiner's office did not positively identify them until July 3, 2014. No cause of death was ever determined, and the circumstances surrounding the family's disappearance remain unknown.

The initial investigation concluded that the family had probably not vanished of their own accord. A few days after they disappeared, their pickup truck was found abandoned in Latimer County, Oklahoma, a short distance south of Kinta. The Jamisons' bodies were not in the truck, but their malnourished dog, Maisie, was, along with the family's ID cards, wallets, mobile phones, a GPS system, and about $32,000 in cash — an amount investigators noted was unusual for the family to be carrying. Home surveillance footage time-stamped the day the family left showed Bobby and Sherilynn making several silent trips between the house and the vehicle as they packed; in the footage, the couple's movements were described as "trancelike." The footage also showed Sherilynn placing a brown briefcase in the vehicle. Former Sheriff Beauchamp said he believed the briefcase could be an important clue; neither it nor Sherilynn's handgun has ever been recovered.

Two hunters discovered skeletal remains of two adults and one child in a remote part of Latimer County in November 2013, more than four years after the family went missing and less than three miles from where the truck had been abandoned. The remains were widely presumed to be those of the Jamisons, though the medical examiner's office had to rely on anthropological and forensic pathological testing to identify them because of their heavily decomposed state. Officials confirmed on July 3, 2014, that the remains belonged to Bobby, Sherilynn, and Madyson Jamison. A cause of death was not determined.

Before the remains were found, several theories circulated about what had happened to the family, but none resolved the case. Shortly before the disappearance, Bobby Jamison had been involved in a bitter lawsuit against his father, alleging threats and other criminal activity; police have stated they do not believe Bobby's father was involved in the family's disappearance.

The case was later profiled on the Investigation Discovery series Disappeared, in an episode titled "Paradise Lost," and on the YouTube documentary series BuzzFeed Unsolved.