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Speaker 1: It had been a relatively quiet day down at the
Speaker 1: Latimer County Sheriff's office when the call came in. On
Speaker 1: that unforgettable Saturday of October seventeenth, two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: a group of deer hunters making their way down Oklahoma's
Speaker 1: Panola Mountain in the Sands Boys Mountain Range had spotted
Speaker 1: a white pickup truck parked by the side of the road,
Speaker 1: which hadn't moved all day. Since the area was popular
Speaker 1: with hunters and also close to a number of gas
Speaker 1: wells that were in need of occasional maintenance, it wasn't
Speaker 1: unusual to see vehicles parked up there in unlikely locations,
Speaker 1: but something about this truck just didn't quite fit. Going
Speaker 1: over to take a closer look, they were surprised to
Speaker 1: find a small black and white dog lying on the
Speaker 1: back seat that seemed strangely lethargic. It might be nothing,
Speaker 1: they explained to the sheriff's office, but if the dog
Speaker 1: was left inside any longer, there was a good chance
Speaker 1: it could be in serious trouble. Sheriff Israel Beauchamp knew
Speaker 1: the location well as a particularly dense and rugged tract
Speaker 1: of local woodland, not the sort of place you might
Speaker 1: go for a casual hike, for example, but considering a
Speaker 1: dog had been left on the back seat, there was
Speaker 1: little to suggest that the truck's owners wouldn't be coming
Speaker 1: back anytime soon. That was until a second call came
Speaker 1: through later that afternoon confirming that an actual fact, the
Speaker 1: truck hadn't been sat there for a few hours, but
Speaker 1: rather days. You're listening to Unexplained and I'm Richard McClane smith.
Speaker 1: It was early evening by the time patrol cars carrying
Speaker 1: Sheriff Beauchamp, under Sheriff Matt Bone and several other officers
Speaker 1: from Latimer County Sheriff's Office set off toward Panola Mountain,
Speaker 1: making their way north, heading ever deeper into the Sandboys Mountains,
Speaker 1: they soon found the white pickup located high into the mountain,
Speaker 1: roughly a third of the way between the towns of
Speaker 1: Panola and Kinter. Having pulled up alongside it, the officers
Speaker 1: stepped out into the fast cooling air and made their
Speaker 1: way over to the vehicle, with their first concern being
Speaker 1: for the safety of the dog. They wasted little time
Speaker 1: and breaking a window to gain access to the truck,
Speaker 1: only to recoil immediately at the smell coming from inside,
Speaker 1: clearly the dog, which they found to be severely malnourished
Speaker 1: and dehydrated, had been trapped in there for some time.
Speaker 1: After giving her some water and laying her gently on
Speaker 1: to the back of a patrol vehicle, the officers proceeded
Speaker 1: to search the rest of the abandoned truck. Though it
Speaker 1: wasn't quite heavy jacket weather, they were surprised to see
Speaker 1: a number of coats and other clothing items scattered about inside.
Speaker 1: Having found a few kids toys in the back as well,
Speaker 1: it was clear this wasn't a maintenance truck and not
Speaker 1: likely to be hunters either. Most likely, they thought, given
Speaker 1: the situation with the dog, the truck had simply been
Speaker 1: stolen and abandoned out there for whatever reason. Only moments later,
Speaker 1: officers discovered not only mobile phones and a GPS device
Speaker 1: left abandoned on the dashboard, but also a wallet and
Speaker 1: purse had been left inside, both complete with cash and
Speaker 1: cards untouched. Examining the items, the officers found two sets
Speaker 1: of identification, one for a forty year old Sherrilyn Jamieson
Speaker 1: and another for forty four year old Bobby Jamieson, who
Speaker 1: was assumed to be Sherilyn's husband, Having radioed the information
Speaker 1: back to base, Sheriff Beauchamp soon learned that the couple
Speaker 1: were registered owners of an address in Sandy Bass Bay,
Speaker 1: an area located just to the northeast of the town
Speaker 1: of Eufola, just under fifty miles away. However, oddly it
Speaker 1: appeared that neither the truck nor the couple had been
Speaker 1: reported missing in the last few days. Believing now that
Speaker 1: the Jamisons were likely to have been the last occupants
Speaker 1: of the truck before it was abandoned, possibly along with
Speaker 1: a child, Beauchamp ordered a few of the officers to
Speaker 1: make a cursory search of the area to see if
Speaker 1: they could find anything. Though that part of the forest
Speaker 1: was not ideal for an impromptu walk, being especially thick
Speaker 1: and difficult to navigate, there was no accounting for what
Speaker 1: people who were unfamiliar with the area might do. Perhaps
Speaker 1: he thought the family had merely wandered off, got lost
Speaker 1: or injured somehow. Fearing something worse, Beauchamp and Bone also
Speaker 1: made sure to examine the truck and the ground around
Speaker 1: it for any sign of a struggle or something to
Speaker 1: suggest the occupants had been forced out against their will. However,
Speaker 1: no signs of blood, dens or scratches were found on
Speaker 1: the truck, and nor did they discover any scuff marks
Speaker 1: or scraps of clothing on the ground, the usual signifiers
Speaker 1: of a violent altercation. Officers searching the immediate vicinity also
Speaker 1: failed to turn up any clues as to the whereabouts
Speaker 1: of the vehicle's owners. With the sun having all but
Speaker 1: vanished behind the mountains, there was little more they could do.
Speaker 1: Sheriff Beauchamp took one last look at the abandoned truck,
Speaker 1: then into the still unmoving forest beyond, and ordered the
Speaker 1: officers back into their cars. The following day, Sunday eighteenth,
Speaker 1: having confirmed that the Jamiesons were not at home, Bobby
Speaker 1: Jamieson's mother, Starlett, was informed by the Sheriff's office that
Speaker 1: her son's truck had been found abandoned. As the terrible
Speaker 1: implications of this news sunk in, it was only then
Speaker 1: that she realized it had been over a month since
Speaker 1: she last heard from the family. Starlett would go on
Speaker 1: to confirm that her son and Chyline were indeed married,
Speaker 1: and also had a daughter together named Madison, who just
Speaker 1: recently celebrated her sixth birthday. Struggling to contain herself, Starlett
Speaker 1: thought hard about what they might have been doing out
Speaker 1: there in the woods. Finally, after a long pause, she
Speaker 1: remembered the couple had talked about buying some land close
Speaker 1: to the town of Red Oak, a small community of
Speaker 1: roughly five hundred people located at the southern foot of
Speaker 1: Panola Mountain. Both Bobby and Sherilyn, from what the police
Speaker 1: would soon learn, were a somewhat reclusive couple. As such,
Speaker 1: despite being close to friends and family, they would often
Speaker 1: go for weeks, even months at a time without speaking
Speaker 1: to anyone for as yet unknown reasons. It seemed that
Speaker 1: the family had decided to move from their present home
Speaker 1: in the bright Sandybass Bay and set up somewhere far
Speaker 1: more remote and ideally off grid. The couple had also
Speaker 1: recently pulled Madison out of school in preparation for the move,
Speaker 1: which also helped to explain why nobody had reported the
Speaker 1: family missing. When officers first arrived at the Jamieson's home
Speaker 1: in Sandybass Bay, they discovered a large shipping container sitting
Speaker 1: on the front lawn. This, it seemed, was going to
Speaker 1: be their new home. Once they had found a plot
Speaker 1: of land to install it on. Strangely, they also found
Speaker 1: scrawled across the container some unusual graffiti stating three cats
Speaker 1: killed to date by people in this area, which is
Speaker 1: don't like their black cat killed back up the mountain.
Speaker 1: Earlier that morning, officers had returned to the truck to
Speaker 1: continue their investigation. After conducting a second search of the vehicle,
Speaker 1: they made an unexpected discovery. A money wallet stuffed full
Speaker 1: with thirty two thousand dollars in cash, was found wedged
Speaker 1: under a front seat. Soon after, officers had also found
Speaker 1: a deeply personal eleven page letter written by Cheryl Lynn
Speaker 1: and directed at Bobby. In it, she expressed her sadness,
Speaker 1: anger and frustration at all the years that she and
Speaker 1: her husband had spent fighting, and her worry that what
Speaker 1: he really wanted was to be alone and away from
Speaker 1: the family. Realizing the abandoned truck was now almost certainly
Speaker 1: a crime scene, Sheriff Beauchamp ordered it to be taped
Speaker 1: off immediately as they set about trying to piece together
Speaker 1: just who Bobby and Sheril and Jamieson were exactly. It
Speaker 1: wasn't long after that officers also learned from Starlett that
Speaker 1: Cherrilynn kept a point twenty two pistol on her at
Speaker 1: all times, but no sign of it was found in
Speaker 1: the truck later that day. Realizing that Jamison's hadn't been
Speaker 1: seen or heard from for at least a week, the
Speaker 1: Latimer County Sheriff Office initiated a major search operation, recruiting
Speaker 1: local fire and forest services to help find the missing family.
Speaker 1: Posters were put up in nearby towns and media appeals
Speaker 1: launched asking for people to come forward with any news
Speaker 1: on the families possible whereabouts, and before long, a rough
Speaker 1: outline was beginning to emerge. Having been searching online for
Speaker 1: a plot of land to move to, the Jamiesons had
Speaker 1: come across the perfect location, a secluded forty acre spot
Speaker 1: surrounded by forest, not far from Red Oak and nearby
Speaker 1: Panola Mountain. After setting out to visit it on October seventh,
Speaker 1: the family had headed east, making a stop at a
Speaker 1: gas station in Poorham, a town just fifteen miles from
Speaker 1: their home, before continuing on south towards the Sands Boys Mountains.
Speaker 1: A resident of the mountain region remembered seeing them that day,
Speaker 1: having stopped to help them with directions. The Jamiesons were
Speaker 1: then thought to have returned home before heading back out
Speaker 1: the next day with the intention of visiting the plot again,
Speaker 1: just as they had done on the seventh. They stopped
Speaker 1: once more in Poorham to get gas before heading into
Speaker 1: the mountains, and that, as far as investigators knew, was
Speaker 1: the last time that anybody had seen them alive. There's
Speaker 1: a miner break in the case when a photograph of
Speaker 1: Madison is discovered and one of the phones left in
Speaker 1: the truck. The photo, taken at two forty seven pm
Speaker 1: on October the eighth, showed Madison standing in front of
Speaker 1: a rock, with her arm folded across her chest and
Speaker 1: a wide, toothless smile on her face. The search team
Speaker 1: soon discovered the location of the photo, roughly twenty minutes
Speaker 1: walk from where the truck was discovered, but there is
Speaker 1: no other sign of the family to be found. For
Speaker 1: the next week, the search continued, with hundreds of volunteers
Speaker 1: joining in, aided by helicopters and fixed wing aircraft, as
Speaker 1: well as cadaver and air scent dogs. For days, they
Speaker 1: trekked through the thick brush, along steep cliffs and deep
Speaker 1: craggy ravines, but all to no avail, and though the
Speaker 1: volunteers were well meaning, many struggled with the treacherous to reign,
Speaker 1: with police often having to take care that they themselves
Speaker 1: didn't get lost. Meanwhile, as more and more people contacted
Speaker 1: the police to help them with their inquiries and investigators
Speaker 1: looked a little further into the family's history, things were
Speaker 1: beginning to get a little murky. Are you always taking
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Speaker 1: slash Unexplained podcast. Sherilyn Jamison born Sherilyn Duncan first met
Speaker 1: Bobby in two thousand and two, and the pair became
Speaker 1: immediately inseparable. For the thirty two year old Sherilyn, six
Speaker 1: years since an acrimonious divorce, Bobby was a breath of
Speaker 1: fresh air and the first boyfriend she had trusted since
Speaker 1: separating from her first husband. Sherilyn also had a son, Colton,
Speaker 1: from the previous marriage, none of which mattered to Bobby,
Speaker 1: for whom it was also love at first sight. Before long,
Speaker 1: the pair were expecting their first child and planning for
Speaker 1: their perfect future together as a family. In August two
Speaker 1: thousand and three, daughter Madison, was born. A few months later,
Speaker 1: whilst making his way back from work, Bobby's car was
Speaker 1: hit by two other vehicles simultaneously. Though Bobby survived the crash,
Speaker 1: severe damage to his spine left him with chronic back pain,
Speaker 1: making it impossible for him to work and forced the
Speaker 1: family to rely on wealthfare checks to get by. The
Speaker 1: couple's spirits were raised, however, when they decided to get
Speaker 1: married in two thousand and four, before settling down together
Speaker 1: with baby Madison in a sizeable home in Sandy Bass Bay,
Speaker 1: a quiet, tranquil spot that backed on to Lake Eufola.
Speaker 1: But as the Latimer County Sheriff's Office soon came to realize,
Speaker 1: what should have marked the beginning of a settled, harmonious
Speaker 1: life together was soon to be overshadowed by a series
Speaker 1: of catastrophically destabilizing events. With the couple struggling for money
Speaker 1: and Bobby still unable to work, they took out a
Speaker 1: second mortgage on their home, increasing their debts significantly. To
Speaker 1: compensate for the loss of employment, Bobby filed a lawsuit
Speaker 1: against the three individuals involved in the traffic accident. To
Speaker 1: make matters worse. However, the case was dismissed the following year,
Speaker 1: leaving the couple even more out of pocket. As his
Speaker 1: chronic back pain persisted, Bobby sunk in and out of depression.
Speaker 1: One afternoon in two thousand and seven, Sherilyn received the
Speaker 1: devastating news that her younger sister, Marla had died unexpectedly
Speaker 1: after suffering a severe allergic reaction to a beasting. It
Speaker 1: was as if the whole world were conspiring against them.
Speaker 1: For Sherilyn, especially who suffered from bipolar depression, life was
Speaker 1: becoming an ever steepening uphill struggle. For both Bobby and Sherlyn, however,
Speaker 1: solace could always be sought in Madison In despite even
Speaker 1: their most turbulent times, they both fought to keep the
Speaker 1: family together as best they could for her sake, if
Speaker 1: not always their own. It was on one morning, a
Speaker 1: few weeks into the search, that one of the cadaver
Speaker 1: dog handlers fell to hefty tugging at the leash, releasing
Speaker 1: the dog, which had been given items of the family's
Speaker 1: clothes to smell earlier in the day. The search team
Speaker 1: struggled to keep up as it made its way toward
Speaker 1: a large water tower. Having singled out the spot so emphatically,
Speaker 1: it was clear to investigators that whatever the dog had
Speaker 1: sensed would be significant. Later that afternoon, detectives watched expectantly
Speaker 1: as bit by bit all the water was drained from
Speaker 1: the tower until only a small puddle remained at the
Speaker 1: bottom of it, but nothing of note was found. A
Speaker 1: further financial blow came in two thousand and eight, when
Speaker 1: Bob Senior sold a gas station he owned, but refused
Speaker 1: to split the proceeds with his son. Bobby had spent
Speaker 1: a great deal of time working there for free, on
Speaker 1: the understanding that he would profit from its eventual sale.
Speaker 1: The ensuing spat coincided with a complete breakdown in Bobby's parents' marriage.
Speaker 1: Bob Senior, perhaps provoked by his son's anger, allegedly took
Speaker 1: to threatening his wife and Bobby's family, even trying at
Speaker 1: one point to run his son over. In May two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, afraid of what his father might do,
Speaker 1: Bobby filed a restraining order against him. The order, which
Speaker 1: was later dismissed, alleged that Bob Senior threatened to kill
Speaker 1: Cherylynne and her son Colton, and also kidnapped Madison. Bobby
Speaker 1: went on to accuse his father of associating with violent
Speaker 1: gangs and sex workers, while also alleging that he had
Speaker 1: recently been admitted to hospital with crystal meth in his
Speaker 1: system and was showing early signs of dementia. However, at
Speaker 1: the time of the family's disappearance, Bob Senior, who was
Speaker 1: in progressively poor health, was also living in a nursing
Speaker 1: home and was promptly struck off as a suspect. What
Speaker 1: was of interest, however, were the CCTV cameras that had
Speaker 1: been installed at the Jamieson family home for fear of
Speaker 1: what Bob Senior might have done. Fortuitously, the cameras had
Speaker 1: been recording the day the Jamisons left their home for
Speaker 1: the final time. But if the detectives were hoping the
Speaker 1: recordings might finally bring some clarity to the investigation, they
Speaker 1: would be sorely mistaken. The case of the missing Jamison
Speaker 1: family was about to get even more peculiar. It started
Speaker 1: innocuously enough with footage of Sherilyn and Bobby loading various
Speaker 1: items into the family's white pickup as Madison merrily watches on.
Speaker 1: But as the footage continued, detectives noticed something a little unusual.
Speaker 1: Neither Sherilyn or Bobby were engaging with each other at all.
Speaker 1: Not only that, but they were loading and unloading the
Speaker 1: same bags in and out of the truck as they
Speaker 1: made roughly twenty trips back and forth from the house.
Speaker 1: A psychologist called in to analyze the footage speculated that
Speaker 1: the couple were under the influence of some kind of drug,
Speaker 1: and finally it all seemed to make sense. Why else
Speaker 1: would they have had thirty two thousand dollars of cash
Speaker 1: in the truck. Drawing lines between Bobsy's apparent use of
Speaker 1: crystal meth and Bobby's talk of violent gangs, detectives began
Speaker 1: to wonder if whatever had taken place might have had
Speaker 1: something to do with a drug deal gone wrong. However,
Speaker 1: when the FBI searched the family's property, they found nothing
Speaker 1: to suggest any involvement with this line of inquiry, and
Speaker 1: nor was anything found in the truck connected to it either.
Speaker 1: In the midst of Bobby's violent spat with his father,
Speaker 1: to make matters even worse, Cheryl Lynne lost custody of
Speaker 1: her son, Colton. The subsequent emotional fallout, combined with her
Speaker 1: struggles with bipolar depression, came to an inescapable head when
Speaker 1: in early September, a month before the family disappeared, Cheryl
Speaker 1: Lynne attempted unsuccessfully to take her own life. In the
Speaker 1: wake of Cheryl Lynne's desperate act, it appeared she and
Speaker 1: Bobby made plans to take her survival as an opportunity
Speaker 1: to wipe their slate clean and attempt to start again
Speaker 1: on their own terms. It was around the same time
Speaker 1: that Bobby was awarded thirty two thousand dollars for his
Speaker 1: share of the gas station sale money after filing a
Speaker 1: claim against his father. Many believe it was in fact
Speaker 1: this cash and not drug money, but was found in
Speaker 1: the Jamison's truck. With the freedom this money had afforded,
Speaker 1: the family began preparing for a life off grid, swatting
Speaker 1: up on what skills and materials they would need, buying
Speaker 1: books and resources to home school Madison, and looking for
Speaker 1: available plots of land. When Madison lost her two front
Speaker 1: teeth in a school playground accident soon after, it felt
Speaker 1: like a vindication of their plans. By October twenty fourth,
Speaker 1: more than two weeks since the family had last been seen,
Speaker 1: there remained no sign of them, and with the arrival
Speaker 1: of the hunting season, the search was suspended as police
Speaker 1: stepped up their efforts to look for more clues. Another
Speaker 1: intriguing lead came to light involving a temporary lodger that
Speaker 1: the family had taken in in June. The man named
Speaker 1: Kenneth had been moved in to help pay some bills
Speaker 1: and carry out various maintenance tasks that Bobby couldn't do
Speaker 1: on account of his back. It was a few months later,
Speaker 1: with Bobby out of the house, that sherrel Lynn was
Speaker 1: sat watching t V on the sofa when Kenneth came
Speaker 1: over to sit with her. When Sheryllyn asked him what
Speaker 1: he wanted, he proceeded to explain in no uncertain terms
Speaker 1: that he was a white supremacist and the thought of
Speaker 1: her Native American heritage made him sick to his stomach. Horrified,
Speaker 1: sheryl Lynn jumped straight from the sofa, grabbed her point
Speaker 1: twenty two pistol and chased Kenneth out of the house
Speaker 1: with it, firing two shots into the ground as he fled.
Speaker 1: Police followed this inquiry up, too, wondering perhaps if the
Speaker 1: racist Kenneth had sought some kind of retribution with the family. However,
Speaker 1: soon after, he too was struck off as a suspect,
Speaker 1: with one lead after another coming to a dead end.
Speaker 1: Just when things couldn't have got any more convoluted, the
Speaker 1: Latimer County Sheriff's Office were contacted by the Jamison families
Speaker 1: pastor Gary Brandon. Brandon, who thought fondly of the family,
Speaker 1: especially Madeline, had known the Jamison's for a number of years,
Speaker 1: and often offered his time and counsel whenever they needed it.
Speaker 1: Nothing could have prepared him, however, for what Bobby came
Speaker 1: to see him about one morning shortly before he disappeared.
Speaker 1: It had started, apparently sometime time earlier in the year,
Speaker 1: when Cheryl Lynne found Madison talking to someone in their
Speaker 1: house when there wasn't anybody else there. When Sherrilyn asked
Speaker 1: who she was speaking to, Madison replied simply it was
Speaker 1: her friend Emily. Soon after, both Bobby and Cheryl Lynn
Speaker 1: claimed he witnessed apparitions moving about their home, often seeing
Speaker 1: them standing on the roof of the house. Bobby had
Speaker 1: wanted to know if the preacher knew of any special
Speaker 1: bullets that could be used to get rid of the
Speaker 1: terrifying spirits, Not quite knowing what to make of it all,
Speaker 1: these revelations became just the latest in this mind bending
Speaker 1: case for investigators that only seemed to get more complex
Speaker 1: the deeper they scratched below the surface. As Latimer County
Speaker 1: Sheriff Beauchamp later exclaimed, normally, you go through an investigation
Speaker 1: and one by one start to emanate certain scenarios. But
Speaker 1: with this family, everything seemed possible. What was needed more
Speaker 1: than anything to piece it all together if the family
Speaker 1: were indeed dead, as many suspected, was a body. But
Speaker 1: as weeks turned into months, with absolutely nothing to show
Speaker 1: for it, the search was eventually called off. Though the
Speaker 1: investigation remained open. As one suspect after another was dismissed,
Speaker 1: the peculiar case of the missing Jamison family slipped inevitably
Speaker 1: from the list of priorities. It was early in November
Speaker 1: two and thirteen when Sharry and Tim Graham from Quinton
Speaker 1: in Oklahoma set out towards an area on the north
Speaker 1: side of Panola Mountain known as Smokestack Hollow. The idyllic
Speaker 1: spot had become a favorite ground for the pair ever
Speaker 1: since their first experience there back in two thousand, just
Speaker 1: as they had done for every opening weekend of the
Speaker 1: past thirteen years. A couple, this time with their young
Speaker 1: nephew in tow arrived early at their favorite camping spot
Speaker 1: and promptly set up camp. With a light rain beginning
Speaker 1: to fall, the family kitted up and headed out for
Speaker 1: their first session of the day. A few hours later,
Speaker 1: with the rain continuing to fall, the family had yet
Speaker 1: to spot anything Just as they were about to turn back, However,
Speaker 1: a sudden pause in the rain was followed by a
Speaker 1: break in the cloud and the appearance of a single
Speaker 1: ray of light shining through the canopy onto a spot
Speaker 1: of grass just a few yards ahead of them. Gazing
Speaker 1: on in wonder at the natural marvel in front of him,
Speaker 1: Tim was instantly drawn to the spot where the sunbeam
Speaker 1: was hitting the ground, through which something appeared to be
Speaker 1: glinting in the light. Tim moved closer to investigate and
Speaker 1: kicked at it with his foot, drawing back in horror,
Speaker 1: who looked on aghast as the hard white thing rolled
Speaker 1: over to reveal two large eye sockets. It was unmistakably
Speaker 1: a human skull. Sharry rushed over to help, tripping over
Speaker 1: something else in the ground that soon revealed itself to
Speaker 1: be a femal bone attached to an entire human skeleton.
Speaker 1: Then Tim spotted another one next to it. It was
Speaker 1: late in the evening before officers from Latimer County Sheriff's
Speaker 1: Office made it to the scene. The bones three skeletons
Speaker 1: in total, two adults and one child, had been found
Speaker 1: about seventy five yards from a dirt track, and two
Speaker 1: and a half miles from whether Jamison's abandoned pickup had
Speaker 1: first been spotted, though it would be a further eight
Speaker 1: months before it was officially confirmed the bodies of six
Speaker 1: year old Madison, forty year old Sheryl Lynn, and forty
Speaker 1: four year old Bobby Jamison had finally been discovered. But
Speaker 1: in a case that had confounded from day one that
Speaker 1: the discovery of the bones might mark the beginning of
Speaker 1: the end for the investigation, it was anything but. Excruciatingly,
Speaker 1: forensics were unable to determine the cause of death for
Speaker 1: any of them. A small hole found in Bobby's skull
Speaker 1: suggesting a bullet wound, was considered equally likely to have
Speaker 1: been caused by a forest animal some time after his death. Certainly,
Speaker 1: no gun, bullets or any other possible murder weapons, including
Speaker 1: Sheryl Lynne's point twenty two pistol, were found near the scene.
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