Strangest Missing Persons Case in U.S History - Yuba County Five

Hot On The Case

Breanna Heim

True Crime

5 • 714 Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of Hot On The Case, we’re diving into one of the most bizarre and unsettling mysteries in true crime history.The Yuba County Five is a case many have heard of—but none truly understand.

The truly bizarre true story of the disappearance of Jack Huett, Gary Mathias, Bill Sterling, Jack Madruga, and Ted Weiher.

Why did five men vanish miles from their intended destination?What drove them into the freezing wilderness… only to become lost, and ultimately perish?And the most haunting question of all: what were they running from?

#Unsolved #YubaCountyFive #TrueCrime

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0:00.0	The case of the Yuba County 5 is easily one of the most bizarre unsolved cases I've ever heard.
0:07.0	It's a case that will stick with you, haunt you, long after you've heard it.
0:12.3	For me personally, I haven't been able to stop thinking about it for days.
0:16.3	The layers of this case are truly unexplainable. Five men who on February 24th, 1978, were having a
0:26.1	simple fun boys' night out before vanishing miles and miles and miles away from their intended
0:33.7	destination in one of the strangest disappearances and unsolved mysteries of all time.
0:40.9	This is the mysterious enigma of the Yuba County Five.
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