#The Yuba County Five

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 30: Murder and

Disappearance Edition III

Given that Roanoke and the Dyatlov Pass Incident are credibly solved, though not 100% provable, I'm leaving them out in favor of things more mysterious. I almost left out Amelia Earhart from a previous edition, but the evidence there is sketchier.

No, I'm not doing JFK. I refuse.

Please add new suggestions below, if you have them, for future consideration.

[samble-moved]

hate when there's a true crime case that's p interesting and then a ton of theories are just "well clearly the insane scary schizo/delusional/psychotic person did it!" when there's zero evidence of that like please shut the fuck up get more creative with your ableism god damn

[haverwood]

Files of the Unexplained File: Missing Yuba County Five USA, 2024

[typhoid-mary-64]

09/07/23

Some age-old questions, no matter how much and for how long we've probed, haven't really yielded any answers. Questions such as "does the set of all sets contain itself?", "what happened to the Yuba County Five?" and, most pressing of all, "how come we don't see more fan art of Nermal, the androgynous tabby cat from Jim Davis' seminal masterwork "Garfield"?"

Well fear not! I got you freaks covered (regarding the last one that is)!!!

xoxo

[thingelonmuskcouldbedoinginstead]

figure out why the Yuba County Five went up there in the first place

[verita-lapalissiana]

i shouldn't be reading about the yuba county five at three in the morning but here i am

[weirwoodforest]

Wait, Netflix has a docuseries that has an episode about the Yuba County Five????

[bafflingmysteries1]

Explore the haunting mystery of the Yuba County Five, a group of young men who vanished under mysterious circumstances in 1978. This stock video delves into the details of their disappearance, the search efforts, and the enduring questions that surround this baffling case. The Yuba County Five: Unsolved Disappearance published first on https://www.youtube.com/@bafflingmysteries/

[jamiesugah]

I just finished a five-part, six-hour YouTube deep dive on a 45-year old murder case and it is fucking INSANE and needs to be a miniseries. Way more interesting than another OJ Simpson doc. Who cares.

Anyway. Story. Someone I went to high school with is in jail for murder. He was up for parole a few years ago and got denied. Anyway, when Netflix came out with the new Unsolved Mysteries show, it made me think of him, and I mentioned it on our monthly family video chat. Which prompted my dad to go, "oh that reminds me of when this girl that my sister used to babysit was murdered".

And I just kind of blinked at him. Like. Say more right now. Why am I almost 40 and didn't know this. And he didn't tell me much, but there was a TV movie made about the case so I looked it up. Learned the basics of the case, and it always stayed in the back of my mind, because there didn't seem to be much on it anywhere.

Putting this under a read more just in case people get triggered by it. Also it's long.

So when I looked up the Wikipedia, there was a bit on it, but the basics are that she was a teacher in a town in PA near Philly (she is from my dad's hometown, though, which is super tiny and rural), and she was found in the trunk of her car in a motel parking lot near Harrisburg (which is a couple hours away from Philly). Her children also disappeared and THEY WERE NEVER FOUND. IT'S BEEN 45 YEARS.

It was the kids that kept this in the back of my mind. No one ever found out what happened to the kids. Their dad is dead, both suspects in the woman's murder are dead, and they spent their entire lives claiming that they were innocent and the other man had done it. We will never know what happened to these kids. They were 10 and 11.

Anyway, I fell into a bit of a YouTube spiral this past weekend where I started with watching videos on the Watcher situation, then Jojo Siwa, then J Lo, and then somehow ended up on true crime, specifically The Boy in the Box and then the Yuba County 5. And I was like, "I've never been able to find an official documentary, but surely someone on YouTube talked about this case about the woman and her kids." And lo and behold, I found one.

It is six hours long, which surprised me, but I kept watching because this shit is BONKERS, and the fact that there was only one TV miniseries (even if it starred Stockard Channing and Treat Williams) and, like, 20/20 never even covered this is a huge missed opportunity. This shit is BANANAS and Hulu or something needs to jump on this.

So the two main suspects, who were both convicted (though one was later overturned as the cops withheld evidence during his trial), were the former principal of the school - who was also convicted of robbery and his sentencing was like the day after the murder - and her secret boyfriend and fellow teacher.

By the way, the principal has a Wiki page, the woman - Susan Reinert - does not.

Anyway, the boyfriend/teacher was like a narcissist and compulsive liar. He was dating something like 5 women at the same time (including two former students) while being legally married, and he used to tell people that he had helped the government hunt down rebels in Cuba, which of course was not true. He basically had a little cult of followers around him, and he would ask them to do stuff like HIDE WEAPONS and WIPE FINGERPRINTS OFF $25K IN CASH and no one ever went, "huh that sounds shady" because I guess he was just that charismatic.

The former principal was known to be weird and secretive. He never even let his wife or their children in the basement of their own house (which when they raided because of the robbery they found riddled with bullet holes), and it's more than likely that he murdered his oldest daughter and her husband and then tried to pretend they ran off to California.

Anyway, the boyfriend/teacher spent the months leading up to Susan's murder telling as his "followers" that he knew for sure that the principal was going to kill her and lamenting that he would likely be framed for it because she had made him the beneficiary of her life insurance (which she did, and he would have gotten like $700k which is a lot of money now, let alone in 1979). And none of these people went to the cops or told Susan, even though they all knew each other because they all worked at the same school. So then boyfriend/teacher worked REALLY hard to have an airtight alibi on a specific weekend, which just so happened to be the weekend that she died.

After the murder, all of this dude's followers were like, "wow you were right, principal actually killed her", and then he suddenly started going, "no I think he was framed by the mob" and everyone was like wtf is wrong with you, you have been telling us for months that he was going to kill her. And then his lies started to catch up with him and basically everyone in his influence turned on him and went to the police, except one of his girlfriends, who may or may not have helped him dispose of the kids' bodies, since they were never found.

ANYWAY this case is fucking crazy and should absolutely be immortalized on like HBO or something, but if you want to go down the rabbit hole, this is the first part of the series that I watched. It is super detailed. Like the murder doesn't even happen until part 3. You can also look up The Mainline Murders, there were a couple of books, but one was written by the principal's lawyer.

[cinegoremagazin]

[:hu]Igaz történet alapján: a Yuba megyei fiúk[:]

[:hu]A Yuba megyei fiúk története nagyon régen beégett a fejembe, és majdnem ennyi ideje szeretnék is írni róluk. Amikor láttam, hogy 2024. januárjának első napjaiban megjelent egy új könyv Things Aren’t Right címmel, melyet az a Tony Wright jegyez, aki a Mopac Audio Yuba County Five podcastjében –mely máig is a téma egyik legjobb információforrása – úgy szerepelt, mint az eset egyik szakértője;…

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 2.24 (after 1920)

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[ransomites]

Im researching the Yuba County Five im sane I prommy