Replay: William Jamison Part 3 - Sliding Down the Back of the Mountain
The Vanished Podcast
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🗓️ 3 September 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
This episode originally aired on May 23, 2022. In the last two episodes, we shared Bill Jamison’s story. In Part 1, we walked through the night Bill disappeared and the early investigation into his case. In Part 2, we examined the unusual circumstances at Bill’s job and the people connected to his work who may have had motives to harm him.
Today, in Part 3, we will explore other facets of this mystery and take a closer look at the many theories that have surfaced over the years.
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| 0:00.0 | It was very strange. The whole disappearance of Billy affected our family. It really did. |
| 0:17.8 | Me talking about it right now, it's got me thinking still, you know. |
| 0:22.6 | Like maybe I should take a ride up there. |
| 0:24.1 | It's only a couple hours away just to go into these diners. |
| 0:28.5 | I would drive up and back and up and back and hit all the diners. |
| 0:32.6 | I was doing my little investigation where I'd leave one of my other brothers up there |
| 0:36.8 | when my brother Michael would go up with us on weekends me and Jackie and Frank and all of us would go and hit all the places that Billy could possibly go to we met people who knew Billy there was a lot of different thought processes after Billy disappeared as to just what the hell happened to him. |
| 0:58.2 | Did he take off on his own, you know? Is he on a beach somewhere? |
| 1:01.6 | Did he get mugged? |
| 1:03.2 | You get to a point where you just want to find out what happened. |
| 1:08.0 | We're at the stage now where if Billy came to my back door today, |
| 1:13.0 | people have said to me, what would you do? And, you know, I frequently said, well, I'd hug them, |
| 1:18.6 | and then I'd say, where the hell have you been? But I really just want to know what happened. |
| 1:25.5 | Last week, we introduced you to the puzzling disappearance of Bill Jamison, |
| 1:30.3 | who went missing just about a month shy of his 34th birthday. Bill disappeared after what seemed like |
| 1:36.3 | a normal night out for him. But something happened to Bill that night and he disappeared without a |
| 1:41.3 | trace, along with the company car that he was driving. |
| 1:45.0 | The police didn't seem motivated to look for Bill, and his case has been all but forgotten by the |
| 1:50.3 | media. But Bill's family never forgot about him. His nine siblings came together to do |
| 1:56.2 | everything they could think to do to look for him. They knew he would do the same for them. But decades later, |
| 2:02.6 | they still feel no closer to the truth. And of those nine siblings, only three remain today, |
| 2:09.2 | still looking for Bill. And that is why they decided that they wanted to share Bill's story |
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