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Author Visit: Tony Wright

2025-03-01 13:30:00 2025-03-01 15:00:00 America/Chicago Author Visit: Tony Wright Author of Things Aren't Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five will present and have time for questions. Books will be available for purchase. Downtown Library - MEETING ROOM A/B

Saturday, March 01
1:30pm - 3:00pm

Add to Calendar 2025-03-01 13:30:00 2025-03-01 15:00:00 America/Chicago Author Visit: Tony Wright Author of Things Aren't Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five will present and have time for questions. Books will be available for purchase. Downtown Library - MEETING ROOM A/B

Downtown Library

MEETING ROOM A/B

Author of Things Aren't Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five will present and have time for questions. Books will be available for purchase.

This event explores the bizarre and tragic 1978 disappearance of Ted Weiher, Jack Madruga, Bill Sterling, Jackie Huett, and Gary Mathias in the Plumas National Forest in Northern California. Four of these men had intellectual disabilities while one was diagnosed with schizophrenia. On Friday February 24, 1978, they left the Yuba County, California area in Madruga's 1969 Mercury Montego to attend a basketball game in Chico, California. Four days later the car they were traveling in was found abandoned on a snow-covered road in the mountains of the Plumas National Forest, some 75 miles in the wrong direction from home. Forty years later their case was brought back to life by the true crime community.

Tony Wright is the author of Things Aren't Right: The Disappearance of the Yuba County Five.  He's also the author of two comic books and a graphic novel. Tony is an archivist, father, husband, and a lost soul of rock and roll. When he is not writing, he spends time with his family or watches football. Tony has been featured as a Yuba County Five case expert on the Mopac Audio podcast Yuba County Five, the Motor Trend TV show Auto/Biography: Cold Case, and the hit Netflix series Files of the Unexplained. 

Books will be available for purchase for $20. Cash, Venmo, and Paypal will be accepted.

Registration is required. If you have questions, please call 605-367-8700. If an ADA accommodation is needed, please contact the City of Sioux Falls Human Relations Office at 367-8745 or human.relations@siouxfalls.gov at least 72 hours before the event.

AGE GROUP: | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Author/Speaker |

TAGS: | Author visit |

Downtown Library

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Tue, Mar 11 9:00AM to 8:00PM
Wed, Mar 12 9:00AM to 8:00PM
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Fri, Mar 14 9:00AM to 6:00PM
Sat, Mar 15 9:00AM to 5:00PM
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Tue, Mar 25, 7:00pm - 8:30pm
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