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Officials: Search for missing family from Eufaula scaled back

By AP Wire Services
Published: 10/25/2009 2:35 AM
Last Modified: 10/25/2009 4:10 AM

RED OAK (AP) — The search for a missing Eufaula family continued Saturday in southeastern Oklahoma, but the size of the search party was scaled back.

The Latimer County Sheriff's Office said Saturday's search was limited to a select number of ground personnel working with aerial searchers.

Bobby Dale Jamison, his wife, Sherrilynn, and their 6-year-old daughter, Madyson, have been missing for about two weeks. Latimer County Sheriff Israel Beauchamp launched a search for the family when their pickup truck was found in the Red Oak Mountain area Oct. 17, eight days after a resident remembered seeing the family.

The pickup was parked at a well site, about 30 miles from the family's Eufaula home. Inside the pickup, investigators found Bobby Dale Jamison's wallet, Sherrilynn Jamison's purse, maps, a GPS device, a substantial amount of cash and a cell phone last used Oct. 8.

Beauchamp said the family had gone to look at a couple of 40-acre plots of land for possible purchase and that they apparently planned to move a shipping container to the secluded mountain area and live there.

Mud-slicked roads made search conditions treacherous Friday, and Beauchamp said he planned to scale back the search Saturday, the first day of black-powder deer hunting season, because it would be too dangerous to have crews searching heavily wooded areas.

Beauchamp said he was not ready to call the search a "recovery" effort for bodies, but as the days have turned into weeks, some searchers have

begun to prepare themselves for the worst.

Monty Jackson, a searcher and former state forester, said he doesn't make assumptions about what has happened or what he expects to find.

"We'll just look and see if we can find some clues," Jackson said. "It's hard to say what's going to happen."

Beauchamp said thick foliage and windy conditions also hampered air searches. By AP Wire Services

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	Report Comment turley, turley (10/25/2009 9:34:31 PM) this is strange when no money was taken either.....
	Report Comment Few Clothes, America (10/25/2009 10:04:18 AM) I still suspect foul play is involved with their disappearance.
	Report Comment FUTURE WORLD, Tulsa (10/25/2009 6:16:15 PM) This is a true mystery. I can't figure out why the OSBI has not been called in to help with this case.
	Report Comment ikesdad, Tahlequah (10/26/2009 10:57:25 AM) This whole story seems really odd. I would have to guess that if someone harmed them it would have had to been for personal reasons since nothing was taken or they were too far away from their vehicle for anyone to connect them to it or find it. Really strange that the OSBI hasn't been called in on this. Surely they know about it. Sad that this family was not reported missing by anyone.
	Report Comment moon, shine (10/26/2009 11:42:38 AM) Hope i'm wrong but it seems the culprit is probably a family member...
	Report Comment Centrist, the burbs (10/25/2009 5:04:39 AM) It's so puzzling how an entire family could have gotten hurt out there on their own. Forty acre plots are not that big to get lost in either, such a mystery.
	Report Comment elvis, Broken Arrow (10/26/2009 10:51:50 AM) did the search involve bloodhounds there was plenty of personal belongings at the vehicle site ?
	Report Comment Yellowbird, (10/26/2009 4:08:52 PM) Wow, every commenter is a hobby police investigator who knows more about the situation than actual law enforcement involved in the search. Stop speculating and let the professionals do their jobs. If they need your help, they'll ask for it.
	Report Comment William42, Broken Arrow (10/25/2009 10:44:51 PM) This is prime pot-growing territory. The growers found this family getting a little too close. The family is dead and buried out there somewhere. Get the Feds and the FBI and OSBI and any other "I" group we can find, and solve this ridiculous disappearance of innocent people.
	Report Comment mike2000, (10/25/2009 9:57:47 PM) This is a very odd story for several reasons. As a poster said, why has outside support not been called in? Why have the media shortchanged this story? If this had happened in Georgia Nancy Grace would have had it on every night. When three non-criminals disappear from our rural area that should be a cause for alarm.
	Report Comment mayor_maynot, Tulsa (10/26/2009 4:10:06 AM) Yea WILL42/BA So if that's true why wouldn't they take the considerable amount of cash that was found in the vehicle. Your mystery story does not pencil out. Unethical people do unethical things. It was nice of them to leave the money.
	Report Comment LilyWren, Cushing (11/16/2009 12:28:43 PM) What is going on. Why haven't we heard anymore about this missing family, it's like it never happened!
	Report Comment MyraGulch, (10/26/2009 1:02:10 PM) I agree, it is strange that seem to be scaling back and then didn't look for a couple of days when the whole thing started. I fear the family met with foul play.

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