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Episode 115 - The Yuba 5

RedHanded

Wondery | RedHanded

True Crime

4.518.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In 1978, five men piled into a car after a local basketball game, they stopped at a shop to pick up some snacks and then they vanished. The next day their car was found on a mountain road, without a scratch, half a tank of petrol and in perfect running order. Why would the men have left the car and entered the freezing wilderness?

It wasn’t until the summer that four of the men were found, well at least their bodies were...but the discoveries only deepened the mystery; one of the men was even found in a trailer, surrounded by food - but had seemingly starved to death.

To this day Gary Mathias, man number five, remains missing - leaving us asking the question what happened to the Yuba 5?


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0:00.0

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0:21.0

And welcome to October 2nd episode Halloween Spectacular.

0:27.0

We've been talking a lot recently because we've been travelling loads about the favourite cases that we've covered on the show.

0:33.0

And for me, Amy Bradley kept popping up.

0:35.0

Because I quite like a mystery and it's one I've never stopped thinking about.

0:38.0

And we know that you lot quite like a mystery as well.

0:41.0

So we've got a real head scratcher for you.

0:44.0

For our second October Spooktacular episode of The Month.

0:47.0

And if you already know it, mind your business and keep it to yourself. Don't ruin it for everyone else.

0:51.0

We're going to the exact same place that we went to every single live show.

0:55.0

We are going to California in the 70s because we can't get enough. Apparently just absolute glutton for punishment over here.

1:01.0

I mean, they just loved killing everybody at that time. So it is only natural that we would be attracted to it.

1:07.0

Was it all the lead in the air or something?

1:09.0

Oh, the lead in the air. Quite possibly.

1:12.0

I think it was genuinely like all the petrol fumes before they like started making unleaded petrol.

1:17.0

And it was like making everybody crazy and kill each other.

1:20.0

I read something about it. I find an article back yourself up. Cover your ass with some barred facts.

1:25.0

I'll come back with some facts next episode.

1:28.0

So let's get to going on the evening of the 24th of February 1978.

1:33.0

A group of five mates aged between 24 and 32 went to go and watch a college basketball game in the town of Chico.

1:41.0

These five men would become known to the press as the Uber County Five.

1:45.0

Because that's where they were from or adjust the Uber Five if you are lazy like me.

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