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390 // Yuba County 5 Mystery

Missing

Crawlspace Media

True Crime, News, Society & Culture

3.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2023

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Crawlspace Media's Tim Pilleri and Lance Reenstierna speak with Christy Arnhart about the mystery of the Yuba County 5. In February of 1978, 5 young men - Bill Sterling, Jack Huett, Ted Weiher, and Jack Madruga, and Gary Mathias went missing after traveling together to see a college basketball game. One remains missing. What happened to the Yuba County 5? Check out our Missing subscription service where we have a bonus show and ad-free episodes! https://missing.supportingcast.fm/ Follow Christy on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CrimeChristy Follow Christy on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crimechristy Follow Brainscratch: https://www.youtube.com/lordanarts Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuba_County_Five https://youtu.be/MjRT1AqntLc Follow Missing: TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@missingcsm YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/missingcsm IG: https://www.instagram.com/MissingCSM/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MissingCSM FB: https://www.facebook.com/MissingCSM Follow Crawlspace: Twitter: https://twitter.com/crawlspacepod Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Crawlspacepodcast Instagram: https://www.Instagram.com/Crawlspacepodcast TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@crawlspacepodcast Check out our entire network at http://crawlspace-media.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0

Welcome back to missing I am Tim here today with Lance Lance. How are you today?

0:34.3

I'm doing fantastic today Tim. Hope all of our listeners are doing just as fantastic as I'm doing and

0:41.4

Really happy to welcome back a recurring guest on the show

0:45.8

She's a great researcher and she's bringing to the table one of those stories that I'd heard of in name

0:53.0

But never really dove too deep into until now and it really does push the limits of

1:00.0

My imagination in terms of what the heck happened here. Yeah, it really does and that guest you mentioned is Christy Arnhart

1:08.5

She is great. She has been on several times before also on crawl space as well

1:13.5

So you want to check out crawl space for some of her appearances there

1:16.9

So these five young men were all traveling together that's Gary Matthias who is still missing Bill sterling Jack Hewitt Ted Weir and Jack Madruga and

1:26.2

The mysteries within this one case are vast just as vast as the plumus

1:32.5

National forest in which they found their abandoned car pretty much the last thing that they found before finding bodies

1:40.3

And these five men were also afflicted with mild intellectual disabilities

1:44.8

which

1:45.6

adds to the tragedy and just makes it that much more sad to think about what was going on in their decision making

1:52.8

During the last few moments in this case is from

1:56.8

1978 in Uba, California

1:59.4

And I think we do a pretty good job here with Christy in this conversation to unpack all the mysteries in this one story

2:06.1

But we're gonna go even deeper on our subscription show

2:09.6

Which we do weekly and you can get that at missing premium and you can check missing premium out on Apple podcasts or

2:18.2

If you're not an Apple user you can go to missing dot supporting cast dot FM and you get ad free episodes that weekly bonus show and

2:26.7

early releases

2:28.5

And Tim you just mentioned the subscription service

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