Uh....beside Major Depression? People with Major Depression can kill themselves and take others with them. People with Major Depression can become psychotic and dangerous to others.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0001929/
Since the Jamisons are missing and can't answer for themselves, all we have are articles from the internet with statements from those who investigated. Here is one:
Interviews with friends and relatives, court records and letters the Jamisons left behind depict a
family in turmoil.
Inside the locked, four-door pickup with the keys in the ignition they found Bobby Jamison's wallet, his wife's purse, a cell phone, a GPS unit, clothing and $32,000 stuffed in a bank bag beneath the driver's seat. They also found Maizy, a family dog barely clinging to life.
There were no signs of a struggle.
"The dog was eating its own feces to stay alive," Beauchamp said. "Why would anyone leave their family pet like that? Doesn't make sense.
Then again, nothing seems to make sense about this case.
Gary Brandon, a Eufaula pastor, told investigators the Jamisons were engaged in spiritual warfare. He said Bobby Jamison told him he often saw "two to four spirits on the roof" of their lakeside Eufaula home.
Once, Bobby Jamison called Brandon to inquire whether there were "special bullets" he could use to shoot the spirits, the minister told investigators. He told the pastor he was reading the "satanic bible" for a natural remedy.
Beauchamp said the paranoia could suggest an addiction to drugs, but
has found no evidence they were users or dealers.
The circumstantial evidence can't be ignored, the sheriff said.
Both had lost substantial weight in the months before vanishing. They carried large amounts of cash. And a security camera mounted at their house showed them moving in what Beauchamp described as
trance-like motions.
"On the video sometimes they would just stop and stare," Beauchamp said. "It was strange."
Investigators have ruled out nothing, including murder-suicide. An 11-page letter from Sherilyn Jamison to her husband was found in the pickup. Beauchamp described it as "
a hate letter" in which she derides him as a
"hermit."
Eufaula police found another letter in their home that
dwelled on the spiritual realm of death.
"They were certainly a family
obsessed with death," said Beauchamp, adding that a .22-caliber pistol registered to Sherilyn Jamison is unaccounted for.
Source:
http://www.allbusiness.com/crime-la...w-police-forces/14388718-1.html#ixzz1k9t9137A
The statement about "obsessed with death" is important r/t the diagnosis of Major Depression and the wife's history of bipolar disorder. 15-20% of bipolars commit suicide. 15% of those diagnosed with Major Depression will kill themselves.
Pensfan
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