120: Cryptic: American Dyatlov Pass, aka The Yuba City Five

Corpus Delicti

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True Crime

4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Five men attend a basketball game together, only to never be seen again. Later, their car is found abandoned two and a half hours away from where they should have been. Even later, four out of the five men are found dead, when they should have been able to survive. What happened?

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Sources:
https://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Yuba-City-Five-s-fate-still-haunts-more-than-40-13939352.php
https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article226544615.html
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/532063/bizarre-hell-disappearance-yuba-county-five
https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/2017/12/7/mathias-group-from-yuba-city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_County_Five
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases/3509dmca.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/07/06/5-boys-who-never-come-back/f8b30b11-baeb-4351-89f3-26456a76a4fb/
https://web.archive.org/web/20180217142025/https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/164905145/

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0:00.0	Everyone is Jen.
0:25.5	And this is Lindsay.
0:28.3	Were you sneezing when you said Lindsay?
0:30.6	No, I'm an idiot.
0:32.7	I knew that we were starting recording and you said this is Jen.
0:36.6	And I picked that moment to take a sip of my
0:38.6	drink and like almost missed my part. Sorry. No, you did miss your part. This is Lindsay and I'm okay.
0:47.2	As y'all can tell, we are officially quarantine and it's driving us absolutely bonkers.
0:53.0	We are stark crazy. Hence the extra episode.
0:56.8	Yes. So day three, journal of quarantine in my household, we have survived and that's about
1:05.5	as positive as we can get it this time. I have to admit, my children have done phenomenally. My pets are a different story.
1:15.9	Who would have thought the pets have lost their DAC of minds?
1:20.5	You have a menagerie. That's why. We have a dang zoo. It's our own fault, but the dog just
1:26.4	wants to play with the kitten. The kitten is
1:28.2	terrified of the dog. The kitten loves the bunny. The bunny's terrified of the kitten. It's a whole
1:32.9	thing. Today, tonight, whenever you download our episode, you are now going to hear about
1:39.2	the American Diaplov Pass, aka the Yuba City 5. Now, we did talk about Diaplov Pass, the whole Russian group
1:48.4	that went up the mountain again. They were buried in the snow. This is the American version. So,
1:52.6	we're going to take you back to February 24th, 1978. So not that long ago, this was a year
1:58.5	before my brother was born in Yuba City, California.
2:02.3	There was a group of five friends who decided to go to a basketball game together.
2:06.5	So the five friends that we have are Gary Dale Matthias, Jack Madruga, Jackie Hewitt,
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