Posted on 02/19/2023 6:44:37 PM PST by MAGA2017
The Yuba County Five were a group of young men from Yuba City, California, with mild intellectual disabilities or psychiatric conditions, who attended a college basketball game at California State University, Chico, on the night of February 24, 1978. Four of them—Bill Sterling, 29; Jack Huett, 24; Ted Weiher, 32; and Jack Madruga, 30—were later found dead; the fifth, Gary Mathias, 25, has never been found.
Several days after their initial disappearance, the group's Mercury Montego was found, abandoned, in a remote area of Plumas National Forest on a high mountain dirt road that was far out of their way back to Yuba City. Investigators could not determine why the car was abandoned, as it was in good working order and could easily have been pushed out of the snowpack it was in. At that time, no trace of the men was found.
David Paulides covered this incident in one of his Missing 411 books a few years ago and his Canam Missing Project produced a YouTube video on it two years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01gybENCynU
It is. I first heard of it a few years ago and I recently got a book about this incident. It’s easy to think, “these guys were mentally impaired and just got themselves in trouble.” But it’s not quite that simple. Lots of unanswered questions. The person who broke down in the Volkswagen had a checkered history and not the most reliable witness. Some criminal activity may have been involved here.
Thank you for the link. I have a few of the Paulides Missing 411 books. Some really odd cases there.
I’ve listened to numerous podcasts about this incident. Too strange.
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