MADYSON JAMISON & her Mom and Dad - 6 yo - Eufala OK

A family has disappeared in Latimer County, and authorities are now searching a rural area near Red Oak. Bobby and Sherilynn Jamison and their six-year-old daughter Madyson live in Eufaula. They haven't been seen since October 8.

Jamison's pickup
truck was found in rural Latimer County. Inside were the family's cell
phones, coats, ID's and a substantial amount of money.

The family's dog was also inside, barely alive. Several
law enforcement agencies have been searching for the Jamisons, but the
Latimer County Sheriff suspended the search Monday as they work on a
new plan to find the family. Bobby Jamison is 44-years-old, 6'3", weighs 170 pounds and has brown hair and eyes. Sherilynn Jamison is 40-years-old, 5'07", weighs 105 pounds and has brown hair and eyes. Madyson Jamison is 6-years-old and has blonde hair. Anyone with information can call the Latimer County Sheriff's Office at 918-465-2161.

The FBI and state agents are looking for clues in the disappearance of an Oklahoma family that's been missing for two weeks.Bobby
and Sherrilynn Jameson were last seen in Red Oak, looking to buy a
40-acre tract of land with their young daughter, Madyson.
Deputies said they have since found the couple's truck but little else."The truck was locked," said Latimer County Sheriff Israel Beauchamp. "The keys were not in it."Beauchamp said that they found a lot of money, several coats, cell phones, maps and a GPS system inside the abandoned truck.The wooded area in which they were looking at land is considered rugged, even for experienced hikers.
"They
say the guy had back surgery, so up there, he wouldn't be able to get
around very far," said volunteer searcher Jordan Coffey.Investigators said they don't even know if the couple was planning to meet with someone about the property.Teams of volunteers have been part of a massive search for the Jamesons."We had planes and helicopters. We had people on foot, just under 100 people," Beauchamp said.Officers said the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation will also join the massive search.

On Friday, Latimer County investigators found what could be a key piece of evidence in the case of a missing Oklahoma family.The
only sign of Bobby and Sherilynn Jamison and their 6-year-old daughter
Madyson was their abandoned truck discovered Oct. 17 near the Panola
Mountains.Inside the Latimer County sheriff's department found money, coats, cell phones and the family's dog.During
a search on Friday, investigators found a pocket knife. Sheriff Israel
Beauchamp said pictures of the knife would be shown to the Jamison's
family members to determine if it was a knife the couple owned.Beauchamp
said the search for the family would conclude Friday evening and would
not resume unless new evidence or leads come into the sheriff's
department.Beauchamp said an FBI agent will remain on the investigation team since a missing child is involved.

Bobby Dale Jamison, his wife, Sherrilynn, and their 6-year-old daughter
Madyson had already been missing for 14 days when search teams from
across the region decided one last time to brave the mud-slick roads of
the Red Oak Mountain area in southeastern Oklahoma.

The steep
and winding oil and gas roads that had been bogging down pickups and
horse trailers all morning were becoming too treacherous. Search
conditions were poor, and black-powder deer season, which started
today, meant it would be too dangerous to have search crews tromping
through the woods.

After an all-out mass search with more than
100 people came up short last weekend, Latimer County Sheriff Israel
Beauchamp knew Friday was probably going to be the last chance to
unravel the mystery of the missing family. It was a big mountain, and
the clock was ticking.

Beauchamp has been looking for the
Jamison family since someone who lives in the area found their pickup
Oct. 17, eight days after the resident remembered seeing the family in
the area.

The pickup was parked at a well site, about 30 miles
from the family’s Eufaula home. Beauchamp said the family had gone to
look at a couple of 40-acre plots of land for possible purchase with
what appeared to be plans to move a shipping container onto the
secluded mountain land and live there.

Inside the pickup,
investigators found Bobby Dale Jamison’s wallet, Sherrilynn Jamison’s
purse, maps, a GPS, a "substantial” amount of cash, and a cell phone
last used Oct. 8.

At first, Beauchamp said, it appeared the
family had become lost because they were not at the location marked on
the map, but investigators recently learned the site where the truck
was parked was a second site where the family was looking for land.

Beauchamp
said he was not ready to call the search effort a "recovery” for bodies
at this point, but as the days have turned into weeks, some searchers
have begun to prepare themselves for the worst.

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


"We’re just here to do anything we can to try to help some
people who need help,” Jackson said. "Nobody knows what’s going on.
We’ll just look and see if we can find some clues. It’s hard to say
what’s going to happen.”

When the call went out that the
sheriff’s office was looking for experienced searchers and people
familiar with the area, they got 12 dog search teams, and dozens of
searchers on foot, on horse and on four-wheelers. And all of them had
one goal in mind — for one last day, they would work sunup to sunset,
trying to cover as much ground as possible and do their best to bring
some closure.

In this case, recent rainfall had made tracking
impossible, so the search meant setting up grids to look for disturbed
ground, checking waterways and looking for any pieces of clothing — any
clues.

Beauchamp said the air searches were frustrating at
times, because he had two helicopters, a plane and an unmanned drone,
but because of the thick "triple canopy” foliage, and windy conditions,
pilots were not able to see much of anything.

On the ground,
it was slow going, through thick mud, tangled undergrowth, rocky
ravines and mountainous terrain. But searchers said it was becoming
almost as important to complete a thorough search to rule areas out.

As
the sun started to drop near the horizon, however, teams had not found
any clues, and it was time to start down the mountain, disappointed and
frustrated.

In May, Bobby Dale Jamison filed a civil suit
against his parents Bobby Dean and Scarlet Jean Jamison for more than
$10,000 for the loss of money to which he said he was entitled when his
father sold the family gas station.

Bobby Jamison took out a
protective order against his father in May, but authorities said it has
been dismissed and appears unrelated to the disappearance of the
younger Jamison and his family.

In the suit, the missing
Jamison alleges his father enticed him to work for free at the Oklahoma
City gas station, but with the understanding that one day, the son
would have a half-interest in the station when he was older.

Victor Salcedo, principal of Eufaula Elementary School, said Madyson is a kindergarten student there.

"Our prayers go out to the family,” Salcedo said.

The Latimer County sheriff’s office announced Friday that the department is scaling back its ground search for a missing Eufaula family.


Bobby and Sherrilynn Jamison
and their daughter, Madyson, 6, were last seen Oct. 9. Their pickup was
found Oct. 17 near Red Oak, the sheriff’s department said. It contained
the family’s dog, cell phones, clothing, cash and other items that make
it appear the family was planning to return to the vehicle.Since Oct. 17, the sheriff’s department has used aircraft with heat
imaging devices, horse teams and 18 search dogs to comb the rugged
terrain looking for the family. More than 300 volunteers and dozens of
law enforcement officers have searched a 10-square-mile area but have
found no signs of the family.Sheriff Israel Beauchamp said there were no new developments but law officers were working around the clock looking for the missing family."After careful consideration, the decision has been made to scale back
on ground search efforts but will continue on a smaller scale … until
the Jamison family is found,” Beauchamp said in a prepared statement.Anyone who has information on the family’s whereabouts or other
information pertaining to the case is asked to call the Latimer County
sheriff’s office at (918) 465-2161.