In 1978, five friends set out for home from a basketball game. The next day, their car was discovered in a lonely mountain road. The next spring, their bodies began to turn up. What happened that night remains a mystery to this day. Explore what we know with Josh and Chuck in this classic episode.
# Summary
This episode explores the mysterious disappearance and tragic deaths of the Yuba County Five, a group of five intellectually and developmentally challenged friends who vanished in February 1978 after attending a basketball game in California. What makes this case so haunting is the bizarre sequence of events that followed: their abandoned car was found miles away from where they should have been heading, deep in the snowy mountains with inexplicable details that don't add up—like a year's worth of emergency food in a nearby cabin that went largely untouched while one of the boys slowly starved. The episode traces the discovery of their remains scattered across the mountain and examines the countless unanswered questions about why these five friends, who had predictable, home-centered lives and were excited about a basketball game the next morning, ended up on that remote mountain road in the first place, with some bodies found miles from their car and one friend, Gary Matthias, never recovered at all.
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