Yuba County Five // 334

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🗓️ 25 August 2023

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In February of 1978, a group of five men went missing in the lush wilderness of Northern California while on their way home from a college basketball game. After the snow melted in June, four of their bodies were recovered, scattered miles from their abandoned car. As for the fifth member of their group, he mysteriously vanished altogether. As their causes of death were revealed, police wondered what had driven the men into the forest in the first place, and why things unfolded the way they did. These are the stories of Ted Weiher, Jack Madruga, Bill Sterling, and Jackie Huett, and Gary Mathias, also known, as the Yuba County Five. BONUS EPISODES Apple Subscriptions: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/going-west-true-crime/id1448151398 Patreon: patreon.com/goingwestpodcast CASE SOURCES 1. Historic Mysteries: https://www.historicmysteries.com/yuba-county-five/ 2. Strange Outdoors: https://www.strangeoutdoors.com/mysterious-stories-blog/tag/Ted+weiher+death 3. The Sacramento Bee: https://www.newspapers.com/image/620944080/?terms=yuba%20county%20five&match=1 4. All That's Interesting: https://allthatsinteresting.com/yuba-county-five 5. Autobiography: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B09PR565KY/ref=atv_dp_sign_suc_3P 6. Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/07/06/5-boys-who-never-come-back/f8b30b11-baeb-4351-89f3-26456a76a4fb/ 7. Jack's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/74257245/jack-antone-madruga 8. Ted's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/170496384/theodore-earl-weiher 9. Jackie's Find A Grave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154899123/jackie-c-huett 10. Oroville Mercury Register: https://www.newspapers.com/image/681872430/?terms=ted%20weiher%20obituary&match=1 11. Without A Trace: https://without-a-trace.com/2020/07/31/strange-stories-the-bizarre-case-of-the-yuba-city-five/2/ 12. The Human Exception: https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/the-yuba-county-5-revisited/ 13. The Human Exception: https://www.thehumanexception.com/l/the-yuba-county-5/ 14. The Charley Project: https://charleyproject.org/case/gary-dale-mathias Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is going on True Crime fans? I'm your host Tee. And I'm your host Daphne. And you're listening to Going Less.
0:20.7	Hello, everybody. Today's case was recommended by CJ, Cassie, Judy, Kaylee, and Sarah. Thank you all. We also
0:29.6	discussed this one briefly in episode 316 on the California Missing 5. And we got a lot of feedback
0:36.0	from you guys that you wanted us to cover the whole story. And for good reason, because this story
0:41.1	is just so perplexing. Yeah, it's definitely one of those cases that kind of almost has like a mystery
0:48.7	to it. Oh, there's a huge mystery. Huge mystery. Yeah, I should say that. But I've been wanting to
0:53.6	cover this case for so long. So I'm so glad that you guys want to hear it and that you guys
0:58.2	recommended it. So let's do it. All right, guys. This is episode 334 of Going West. So let's get into it.
1:18.9	In February of 1978, a group of five men went missing in the lush wilderness of Northern California,
1:38.1	while on their way home from a college basketball game. After the snow melted in June,
1:45.6	four of their bodies were recovered, scattered miles from their abandoned car.
1:52.5	As for the fifth member of their group, he mysteriously vanished altogether.
1:59.0	As their causes of deaths were revealed, police wondered what had driven the men into the forest
2:05.2	in the first place and why things unfolded the way they did.
2:14.3	These are the stories of Ted Weir, Jack Madruga, Bill Sterling, Jackie Hewitt, and Gary Matthias.
2:23.6	Also known as the Yuba County Five.
2:28.4	On the evening of Friday, February 24, 1978, five friends were en route to a basketball
2:56.8	game excited for what should have been a routine night out. All five men resided in Yuba City and
3:04.4	Mary'sville in Northern California, just north of Sacramento. They were headed up to Chico,
3:10.5	California, which is about an hour away from a basketball game between Chico State University
3:15.9	and the University of California Davis, the latter of which they were rooting for.
3:21.6	Four of the men had slight developmental disabilities and the fifth was navigating a
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