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245: Yuba County 5

245: Yuba County 5

This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens) vor 3 Jahren

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On Friday, February 24th, 1978, five young men left their homes to
head to a basketball game at Chico State in Chico, California. This
was the boys' favorite team and they had a basketball tournament
they were playing in themselves the next day. They were known as
the Gateway Gators and were competing in the Special Olympics. The
game ended and the boys' favorite team won. They left the school
and stopped at a nearby service station to grab snacks before the
hour drive home together. Unfortunately, the young men never made
it home. Months later, remains were found in the mountains of the
Plumas National Forest. The young men, rather than continue south
down the interstate, in a straight shot to their hometown, had
veered east and continued in the wrong direction for quite some
distance. Their car was found abandoned. Four of the young men were
found dead. People assumed that because four of the young men were
described as "slow" or mentally disabled, they'd just gotten lost,
but their families knew better. They still, to this day, believe
that the young men were victims of foul play. With one man still
missing, there are no answers to this case, only theories and
rumors. What happened to the Yuba County Five?

TRIGGER WARNINGS: outdated terminology for
intellectually and developmentally disabled, that can be considered
offensive now (these words were used to describe the men at the
time when it was more acceptable).

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