Episode 277: The Chilling Case of The Yuba County Five

Inhuman: A True Crime Podcast

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🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

On February 24, 1978, 5 young men from Yuba County, California attended a college basketball game at Chico State, which is a CSU campus in Chico, Ca. The game was about 50 miles away from their hometowns. The 5 men were: 29 year old Bill Sterling, 24 year old Jack Huett, 32 year old Ted Weiher , 30 year old Jack Madruga, and 25 year old Gary Mathias. By the next morning, their families realized their sons had not returned home that night. They have never been seen alive again. There are so many theories and unanswered questions in this case that we could discuss it for days, weeks, years... what do YOU think happened to the Yuba County 5?

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0:00.0	What's up you guys? I'm Andrea and I'm Haley and you're listening to Inhuman a true
0:07.1	crime podcast. I'm going to record.
0:27.0	In true baby fashion. All right, well welcome back everybody. Thank you
0:39.4	for being here. Today I'm going to be discussing the chilling disappearances of the Yuba County 5.
0:49.2	I don't think I know anything about this.
0:51.3	Okay, so I researched the case and then I was like oh let me
0:56.1	see if anybody suggested it and boy did they so I just want to give a shout
1:00.4	out to Key, Megan, Oscar, Taylor, Lance, as well as several others for
1:07.7	suggesting this case. I did know it. I was familiar with most of the details and it is a really really
1:16.1	sad and tragic case so okay well get ready yeah all right on February 24th, 1978, five young men from Yuba County, California attended a
1:29.5	college basketball game at Chico State, which is a CSU campus in Chico, California.
1:37.0	And this was about 50 miles away from their hometowns.
1:41.0	The five men, 29-year-old Bill Sterling, 24-year-old Jack Hewitt, 32-year-old Ted Weir, 30-year-old Jack
1:51.6	Madruga, and 25-year-old Jack Madruga and 25-year-old Gary Mathias all struggled with unspecified
1:58.6	intellectual physical and mental disabilities and they were each part of a special education project.
2:07.0	As a result, the boys, which they are often referred to by their families and the media, became a very close-knit group of friends,
2:18.7	which I think is just so sweet and precious.
2:20.4	Yeah, that is really sweet.
2:22.3	They all were a part of like this special education program and they all kind of like became one big family. Yeah. Oh, I love that. So not only that, but they were each huge fans of the visiting team
2:35.2	from the University of California Davis who ended up winning the game that night.
2:40.8	Oh wow I I love UC Davis. I applied there and like if that if I was going to stay in California for college, that's where I would have gone. It's like a beautiful campus. It's really cool. So I love that.
2:55.6	Yeah. Well, they were huge fans of their basketball team. So, and they were very excited that they won that night.
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