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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, the abandoned cars 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 Matthias, 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 Five shrouded in mystery.

After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to the latest episode of the trail went cold.

I'm your host Rob and Warner, and under our old schedule, we would ordinarily be releasing a mini-sode right now,

but as you probably heard, our podcast is no longer alternating between longer episodes and shorter mini-sodes,

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.

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