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On February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba City, California left for a college basketball game and never came home. Their car was found five days later, stuck in the snow on a remote logging road deep in Plumas National Forest, over fifty miles off course-fuel in the tank, keys in the ignition, and no sign of the men who'd been riding inside.
What followed became one of the strangest missing persons cases in American history. Four agencies searched the mountains for months. On June 4, 1978, hunters found the first answer: a man who had survived alone in a forest trailer for weeks before the cold took him. Two more friends were found nearby. A fourth wasn't found until 1979. A fifth not until 1980. The last man, Gary Mathias, has never been found.
Built from sheriff's department records, sworn testimony, and contemporary newspaper coverage-not decades of guesswork and podcast rumor-this book sources every claim and weighs every theory honestly against the evidence. Nothing is invented to make the ending feel neater than it was.
On February 24, 1978, five friends from Yuba City, California left for a college basketball game and never came home. Their car was found five days later, stuck in the snow on a remote logging road deep in Plumas National Forest, over fifty miles off course-fuel in the tank, keys in the ignition,...
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