Some Thoughts and Speculations on the Jamison Family Mystery

William Keckler
9 min readDec 23, 2021
  1. This unsolved case of a family discovered deceased in a remote mountain location is quintessentially American. Guns, drugs, mental illness, white supremacy, irrational supernatural beliefs and so much more feature in this half-told story. Darkness abounds. I think many people find this case haunts them because it is a microcosm of American trauma.
  2. Can we at least agree that this Oklahoma family was murdered? I think that is the most likely explanation for the positioning of the bodies of father, mother and child. They were…

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William Keckler

Writer, visual artist. Books include Sanskrit of the Body, which won in the U.S. National Poetry Series (Penguin). https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/532348.