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The Casual Criminalist

Unsolved: The Yuba County Five

The Casual Criminalist

Cloud10

True Crime

4.83.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Five friends vanished after a basketball game, leaving behind an abandoned car, a frozen mountain mystery, and one missing man never found. Explore the baffling case of the Yuba County Five. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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com.com to learn more. Hello, everybody. Welcome to a brand new episode of The Cautralcriminalist. I, as always, I'm your host, Simon. Welcome to the show today, the Yuba County 5, unsolved. Ah, so there's going to be one of those really unsatisfying episodes where we don't find out the answer. Really selling this episode right at the beginning

0:38.9

of it aren't? Yes, Simon. Uh, yeah. So, uh, Formal does show. If you're brand new here is I've never

0:43.5

read this before. Danny wrote it. I'm going to read it. Let's jump in.

0:52.5

On the night of February the 24th and 1978, the Yuba County 5 were cheering on the UC Davis basketball team during an away game held in Chico.

1:05.3

What are the Yuba County 5?

1:06.5

Is this like a cheerleading team or something?

1:08.8

All five men, okay, I guess not.

1:11.5

I mean men can be cheerleaders, right? There are male cheerleaders, I'm pretty sure. I can't picture one,

1:18.8

but I do know they probably exist. All five men were participants in a place called Gateway

1:24.0

Projects, which was an organization aimed at supporting adults with developmental

1:28.1

disabilities, intellectual impairments and mental health conditions, providing training

1:32.0

to help them find employment.

1:34.0

These guys weren't just basketball fans, they were pretty good players themselves, and

1:37.5

they all had spots on the local Gateway Gators team who had an important match scheduled

1:42.0

for the very next day.

1:43.7

So this made it all the more puzzling when none of them returned home that night.

1:46.8

And from now point onwards, the puzzles kept on coming thick and fast.

1:50.8

Wait, so these are just five dudes as part of some sort of project, and they're just going to go,

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