justthinkin
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Well, yup, it's time for another rundown of the extant theories so far, for luck on the new thread:
* disappeared voluntarily - all three
* were set up by landsellers - and killed for briefcase $$$
* were out to deal or buy drugs; transaction went way bad
* truck actually was placed where it was found & they disappeared, or died, earlier, elsewhere
* church folks aided their voluntary disappearance
* church folks killed them
* vendetta-killing by former friend
* stumbled upon meth lab/pot crop; things went south from there
* out for a walk and tumbled into old mine/oil shaft
* murders/suicide
* murder(s) by family member(s) or former family member(s)
* murder(s) by one of the missing Jamisons
* one shot accidentally by poacher; rest done away with to cover up the mistake
* got lost after not taking GPS on walk; couldn't find way back
* murders by landowners on mountain, not eager to have new company
* random murders by redneck Okies in the vicinity, hopped up on corn liquor and/or meth
What am I leaving out?
Of this entire group one jumps out at me, and that's a poacher mistook one of them for a deer, then killed the others to cover it up.
In my book, poachers are not hunters, they're poachers. They hunt out of season, cross fences they shouldn't cross, shoot over onto someone else's property, usually haven't purchased a hunting license, and have the attitude, "if it's brown, it's down." They don't look where they shoot, they don't wait to be certain of their target, and they don't follow state regulations and game limits.
Suddenly this scenario is looking quite strong to me. It's totally believeable, but IIRC the poachers were cleared. And yet it strikes me as not only a simple explanation, but also the most probable since we know the poachers encountered them, and were the last to see them alive.