No problem. I’ve been interested in mysteries like this, and this is a sad and odd one. Do you remember that being a big news story around that time? Sadly, it’s unlikely we’ll get more answers as to what happened unless someone steps forward with a confession (assuming this was a case of foul play). Finding the body of Gary Mathias might shed some more light or raise even more questions. They are still living relatives of these men and they want to know what happened.
“No problem. I’ve been interested in mysteries like this, and this is a sad and odd one. “
There’s lots of podcasts out there about it.
I just this minute finished watching a Dateline segment about a gal stationed at Fort Bragg, NC, an Army medic who came up missing. A private investigator got on the case and couldn’t let it go - spent thousands of his own dollars working on it until it was finally resolved by him 2+ years later - her body found. That’s exactly what happened with this case. The PI wore the suspect down and got a confession and he had a criminal record and had done prison time. Had to rule out an estranged husband and a new boyfriend in FL until he hit the jackpot. A bartender at the local establishment that she went to alone.
I’m addicted to TV stories of that kind AND books! Sometimes we get answers and sometimes we don’t. Can’t imagine what families go through when it happens.
No, I really don’t recall the Yuba County case but it had to be a pretty big story on Sacramento TV stations. I seem to remember news of a flood in Marysville sometime earlier???? And more recent tho’ no longer living there, the Oroville Dam rupture just a few years ago. That was interesting. Had a stepson living in Lincoln at that time and I think he even had high water at his place.