Two unsettling road trips. Two parties engulfed in mystery. In the episode of Murder Most Brewed, we explore the baffling disappearance of the Yuba County Five—five friends who vanished into the snowy wilderness of Norther California in 1978. Their abandoned car, the chilling discovery in a remote trailer, and one missing man who was never found.

Then, we cross the globe to Australia, where the Tromp Family fled their home in 2016 in a frenzy of paranoia, leaving behind their phones, wallets, and sanity. Diagnosed with a rare shared delusional disorder, their story raises even more questions than it answers.

What makes people abandon logic and flee into the unknown? Was it fear, mental illness… or something they truly believed was hunting them?

Join me as we follow the road to nowhere—and ask what really happened when reason slipped away.

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