On February 24th, 1978, five young men drove 50 miles from Yuba City, California to Chico to attend a college basketball game. They never returned home. Four days after their disappearance, their car was found abandoned on a snowy mountain road, far from both Chico and Yuba City. They had made a mysterious and inexplicable detour. Three months later, the remains of four of the five men would be found. Forty years later, one man remains missing, and the circumstances behind their disappearance and death remain unknown.
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-a recent special section from the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/16/well/live/life-after-covid.html
-the YouTube series "Hot Ones": https://bit.ly/3utduYG
Sources:
-Associated Press, “Multiple Murder Possible: Five Men Vanish in Wilderness.” The Desert Sun, 9 March 1978. https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=DS19780309.2.32&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1
-Cathleen Becker, “Mystery of 5 Men Lost in Sierra Deepens.” The Los Angeles Times, 19 June 1978. Accessible via Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13126342/the-los-angeles-times/
-Benjy Egel, “Out in the Cold” (two-part series). The Sacramento Bee, 26 February 2019. https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/crime/article226777394.html
-Cynthia Gorney, “5 ‘Boys’ Who Never Come Back.” The Washington Post, 6 July 1978. https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1978/07/06/5-boys-who-never-come-back/f8b30b11-baeb-4351-89f3-26456a76a4fb/
-Dave Smollar, “Missing 5: Foul Play Suspected.” The Los Angeles Times, 10 March 1978. Accessible via Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/image/384393249/
-United Press International, “Mystery Lingers: Why Did 5 Go Into Woods?” The Sacramento Bee, 14 June 1978. Accessible via Newspapers.com https://www.newspapers.com/image/620960906/
-Advertising booklet for the 1969 Mercury Montego http://dgv4.xr793.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/1969-Mercury-Montego-Booklet.pdf