00:00In 1978, five friends drove to a basketball game.
00:03Only one car came back empty.
00:05The Yuba County Five were found months later in a remote mountain trailer.
00:09Four were dead.
00:10One was never found.
00:11But how they got there makes no sense.
00:13Their car was discovered 70 miles off a route, abandoned on a mountain road.
00:17The engine worked perfectly.
00:19The gas tank was nearly full.
00:21Yet somehow they walked into the wilderness and never came out.
00:24Ted Wire survived the longest, alone in that trailer for up to 19 weeks.
00:29He lost 40 pounds eating nothing but military rations.
00:32When they found him, he was wrapped in blankets, starved to death.
00:36The others showed signs of exposure and something worse.
00:39Evidence suggested cannibalism.
00:41Gary Mathias was never found.
00:43His fate remains unknown.
00:44These men had developmental disabilities.
00:46They knew their hometown roots by heart.
00:48So why did they drive into those mountains?
00:50What happened in that car to make them abandon everything and walk towards certain death?
00:54The Yuba County Five case remains one of America's most disturbing unsolved mysteries.
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