The Dark Story of the Yuba County Five — Five Men Who Drove Into Mountains After a Basketball Game

The Dark Story of the Yuba County Five — Five Men Who Drove Into the Mountains After a Basketball Game Just before ten o'clock on a Friday night in February 1978, five friends walked into a corner market in Chico, California, to buy candy bars, sodas and cartons of milk for the drive home. Four days later, their car turned up 70 miles away in the snow of the Plumas National Forest, empty. Deputies assumed it had broken down. It hadn't. When they hotwired it, the engine started right away, with a quarter tank of gas left. At first, it looked like five young men had taken a wrong turn. Nothing that came after would be that simple.