The Yuba County 5 Revisited - The New Evidence
Added 2025-04-05 19:52:31 +0000 UTCComments
I agree with you. It’s the only explanation that really makes sense. The heart attack dude is definitely hiding something! But I think you’re right I think it was road rage. I know the parents think that they would’ve never taken that road on their own. But how well do parents really know their kids? Mental issues or not I mean granted they had to be up for a really important game the next day, but maybe just this once they wanted to go for a little joyride and happened to run into heart attack dude.
Carrie Rietman
2025-04-24 21:56:08 +0000 UTCJoseph Schons arrived at the mountain house after leaving his car, and on arrival, a waitress and several other witnesses reported Schons as saying, “I should have done this two years ago.” Maybe that statement holds the key to this all? Excellent video. Thanks!
Daniel Stadnyckyj
2025-04-16 02:19:30 +0000 UTCThe empty college campus was creapy too!! The exact spot in The mountain, chilling!!
Lorna Dryden
2025-04-09 21:15:45 +0000 UTCNow I’m more obsessed than ever with this, why wasn’t the car protected and prosessed?
Lorna Dryden
2025-04-09 21:13:31 +0000 UTCSo many have asked why the "boys" didn't do this or didn't do that. I understand that they all had some mental disability. I spent much of my career with kids who had mental disabilities and they did not function rationally all the time. The ones I knew were usually friendly and trusting innocents! If you asked them why they did something the usual answer was, "I don't know". You couldn't expect them to have made rational decisions. And sadly, it sounds to me, as if they were all terrified of something. This is one of the saddest cases that you have worked on, Nick. Every time I read through it, I am sadder thinking of these young man in that terrible situation!
Polly Schneider
2025-04-09 03:29:16 +0000 UTCYeah, maybe there is some evidence out there linking Schons to the Yuba boys through his handicapped daughter, but nobody has found it. If that connection could be made, it might really start explaining things.
The Missing Enigma
2025-04-08 21:32:28 +0000 UTCI think Schon hiked up the hill to see where the boys ran off too when he scared them
Lorna Dryden
2025-04-08 19:34:31 +0000 UTCI just went back and listened to the original two episodes on the Yuba boys. They had to have been forced to drive into the mountains, no way they would have driven that far without being forced to. And how random is it that they were directly behind Schon? Was it just a coincidence that Schons daughter was mentally disabled? Could there have been a connection and Schon had someone bring the guys to a deserted road in the middle of the night? None of it makes sense, like all your stories there is just one little clue that can’t be found but if it was everything would fall into place 🙏
Lorna Dryden
2025-04-08 19:30:47 +0000 UTCAnother excellent video, Nick! Thank you for slogging through the painstaking and no doubt mind-numbing work of transcribing that tape. It doesn't make Schons seem any less shady, creepy, or unreliable, that's for sure. Your theory has quite a lot of plausibility going for it, which is more than can be said for most imaginings of what happened. I'm not comfortable with so many assumptions and so much speculation, but I would bet you are right about some of it, at least. I've never trusted the "coincidences" that keep popping up, either. The fact that Mathias knew people in Oroville, which is where they went off course, doesn't sit well with me. The fact the people he was acquainted with there were unsavory characters only makes it worse. I have no doubt that foul play or at least serious malice was involved. There are just too many nasty people available as potential suspects. Thank you, too, for actually going to the scene of the mystery. It's the kind of context that is sorely lacking in most treatments of the story. Among many other things, it makes it painfully obvious that Schon's BS about climbing the hill is flat out absurd. The distance seems to have been lost on me, as well. Going that far in the fog, up a winding road none of the men were familiar with, seems to point to duress of some kind.
Zack Reuter
2025-04-07 16:27:19 +0000 UTCOne of the saddest things about this case was an interview Ted Wiehers nephew gave. Where he said that after Teds body was found he realized he'd been so close to him (the families had all gone up to where the car was found), while he was still alive but wasn't able to help him and his uncle died an awful death. If Schons was to blame then he got away with five counts of murder. It's nice to know that all five of them seemed to have families who loved them and cared about them and helped them live the best lives they could with their various disabilities and illnesses The only other theory, IMO, that makes sense is foul play. If whoever was responsible split the boys between the montego and the pickup truck and drove up to the Plumas, so they couldn't try to escape out of fear the others would be killed. Then once there they tell the boys to get out and walk up into the woods to get rid of them. And Schons, having ties to the local criminal underworld (since he used to grow weed) was recognized and threatened to keep his mouth shut. But that doesn't explain why they didn't move the car to cover their tracks, unless Madruga somehow managed to get his keys back before running off
Invictus
2025-04-07 04:44:25 +0000 UTCGood point… I forgot they found Matthias shoes at the trailer. Maybe Matthias and Schon had a road rage issue at the scene and a weapon was pulled. I just can’t believe the boys wound up on that road by accident… great work sir.
Gary Jones
2025-04-06 18:42:17 +0000 UTC
