Mystery AtlasCarroll A. Deering Mutiny Theory
The theory, favoured by federal investigators Herbert Hoover and Lawrence Richey, that a shipboard conflict between Captain Willis Wormell and first mate Charles McLellan led to the crew's disappearance; unproven and never formally confirmed.
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Carroll A. Deering Mutiny Theory is frequently compared to Flannan Isles Violent-Altercation Hypothesis — Both cases have a minority violent-altercation theory alongside a mundane-loss explanation, resting on secondhand characterisations of the men's tempers rather than direct evidence.
Carroll A. Deering Mutiny Theory is frequently compared to Joyita Mutiny Theory — Both cases have a minority mutiny theory resting on circumstantial evidence, bloodstained bandages for the Joyita, characterisations of the crew's tempers for the Deering, that a formal inquiry could neither confirm nor dismiss.
People
Carroll A. Deering Mutiny Theory had as a victim Willis B. Wormell — The theory holds Wormell was the target of a conflict with first mate Charles McLellan; disputed and never confirmed.
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Carroll A. Deering Mutiny Theory attempts to explain Carroll A. Deering — Investigators Herbert Hoover and Lawrence Richey favoured this explanation privately, but the federal case closed in 1922 without an official finding.