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It's a mystery to us and, you know, we try to look at most, if not all, the angles of possibility, but not one clue since he's left. No credit cards, nobody, he didn't show up.

No sign of a crime.

We did an awful lot trying to find my brother. We had private detectives right away and did all the important things. My father-in-law had worked for the Carter Administration and had businesses in New Jersey and knew the governor and different mayors and he got a state police investigators involved right away. We made every effort.

March 26, 1981, started out just like any ordinary day for 33-year-old William Jamison. He went to work that morning at Halg-Dicasting Company in Kennellworth, New Jersey, where he was the vice president of Production. After work, Bill went to a restaurant for dinner. Bill's next stop was the Shea Lounge, inside of Lyndon Lane's bowling alley in Lyndon, New Jersey.

After spending several hours enjoying drinks and good conversation with friends and acquaintances, Bill left and stopped at the St. George Diner, which is also in Lyndon. Bill arrived at the diner around 1 a.m. and had a quick late-night meal and left about 30 minutes later. That's the last time that anyone ever saw Bill Jamison. It was like he vanished into the night.

The following morning, Bill's coworkers were immediately concerned when he didn't show up at 8 a.m. as he always did. One coworker went over to Bill's apartment, but he wasn't there. This wasn't like Bill.

That's when they decided that it was time to contact Bill's sister Katie. Katie jumped into action. She contacted law enforcement and started calling around to local hospitals.

More than 41 years later, Bill's family is still searching for answers. This is a mysterious story that goes in many unexpected directions. From sightings of Bill several states away, to the theory that this could have been a mob hit.

Amarissa and from Wondery, this is Episode 344 of The Vanished, part one of Bill Jamison's story.

Stories come to us in different ways. Mostly we get submissions from family members of the missing, sometimes friends or even law enforcement. This story came to us from a long time listener of the show named Sarah.

Sarah sent in our case submission form explaining the roundabout way this case was brought to her attention.

My husband had a girlfriend all through college and her last name was Jamison and her uncle was Bill Jamison, the missing aunt that I contacted you about.

Years ago, when Sarah's husband was in college, he dated a member of the Jamison family and made a website about Bill's disappearance to help spread the word.

He's maintained this website over the years and when the 40-year anniversary rolled around, Bill's family contacted him again. This is when Sarah became interested.

My husband's a web guy. So the family got back into contact with him to ask if he would post something for the 40th anniversary of Bill's disappearance.

And in the meantime, since almost virtually nothing was ever done in this, I kind of, you know, I listen to a lot of podcasts. You're seeing one of my favorites.

So they've all this paper information. So I thought I might reach out to podcasts because I've seen what it does for cold cases. And I asked if I could take a look at it and kind of compile the information. So that's how I kind of got involved.

I have been in contact with their family, just trying to get more information and trying to get it out there so that anybody knows about it because it's been so long.

So I ended up meeting with Bill's sister, had a diner and she started talking about it. I just thought it would be interesting to kind of go through and compile a summary and just kind of get everything together to get it out there to be public if it was possible.

Almost a year ago, I went over to Bill's sister's house and she has actually a bin. And in the bin is a very organized, basically huge case file of everything on bill. So let's see.

The initial missing police report from the 80s, you know, from the Roselle Police Department of New Jersey. They had a private investigator look at this case, the private investigator, I think holds the most information. They're big binder because they spoke to a lot of people.

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