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Enjoy the show. February 24th, 1978. Chico, California.

After embarking on a road trip to attend a basketball game,

five mentally disabled young men begin the 50-mile drive back to their homes in Yuba County,

but never arrive.

Four days later, their abandoned car is found in some snow on an isolated

mountain road, but the five men have gone missing. After the spring thaw hits, the remains of four of the victims are discovered at different locations throughout the area,

but the fifth missing man, Gary Mathias, is never found.

While foul play is not suspected, a large number of troubling unanswered questions such as why these men wound up in the area to begin with, leave the deaths of the Yuba County 5 shrouded in mystery. After that, the trail went cold. Oh, uh, uh,

uh, uh, uh,

uh, uh, Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the Trail Went Cold.

I'm your host Robin Warder and under our old schedule we would ordinarily be releasing a mini-sewed right now, but as you probably heard, our podcast

is no longer alternating between longer episodes and shorter minisodes, so I decided to pick a very

special case to cover today.

It's the strange tale of five men from Yuba County, California,

and for the sake of brevity, I've decided to title this episode,

The Yuba County Five. And because this case is so obscure, I can guarantee

this is the first time you've ever heard the phrase Yuba County Five before. On every episode,

you're always hearing me make reference to the Unresolved Mystery Sub-reddit, a place where I frequently post about and discuss the cases featured on this podcast.

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