Murder, mutiny, and cannibalism: Naval sailors fight for survival following ship’s wreckage – Everything Law and Order Blog

This Week on True Crime Daily The Podcast: A maritime disaster that prompted the surviving Naval sailors’ descent into madness. To survive, the men resorted to murder, mutiny, and cannibalism before facing a court martial for their alleged crimes.

David Grann joins host Ana Garcia.

Check out “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder”
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0385534264
Apple Books: https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-wager/id6443175101
Website: https://www.davidgrann.com/book/the-wager/

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Ana Garcia
https://www.instagram.com/anagnews/
http://www.anagarciatv.com/

David Grann
https://www.davidgrann.com/

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28 thoughts on “Murder, mutiny, and cannibalism: Naval sailors fight for survival following ship’s wreckage”
  1. I am an archaeologist but not in that part of the world. This is one of the most interesting things I have ever heard! I am going to get this book because who knows when the movie will come out or when it will get to this part of the world where I live, where we don't even have a movie theater close by anyway. I guess I would have to go into Mexico City. This man is a fascinating story teller and so I can only imagine how much more great his book is going to be! Please excuse my English, it's been a long time since I have used it.

  2. funny thing, I was listening to the Radio – Sept 28th the TIFF festival just wrapped up and they were praising the efforts of Martin Scoresse and the actors involved regarding THIS VERY STORY – Killers of the Flower Moon – wowsers what a coincidence. Now I will have to definately see this movie. thanks Ana and David – great podcast today loved it!!!

  3. this has been very fascinating, I really find this podcast soooo very interesting, eye opening and this gentleman has been quite pleasantly interesting to listen to…scuttlebutt…pipedown…under the weather…(like this one) but turn a blind eye ( telescope on blind eye). love this!!! great job you two!!!

  4. So interesting that a similar story happened with another ship from the British East Indian Comapny. I had to double check on the name of the ship, be ause the story was so similar. That Chapter made an awesome podcast about it – the mutiny on the Batavia.

  5. I just had a thought relating to the part about the State preferring to pretend like some war crimes don't happen: maybe that's eh same thinking at play with Wikileaks releasing US helicopter footage of them killing unarmed civilians & journalists? Maybe that's why Julian has spent more than a decade in a kind of "limbo"? Maybe that's what the State wants- because bringing him to trial would allow people to see the nature of the crimes he exposed?

    Loved this episode anyway- was awesome 😎

  6. The name of David's other book and movie sounded familiar, so I just went and read up on it a bit at Wikipedia. The story in "The Killers Of The Flower Moon" is a fascinating one, and the book got positively RAVE reviews from every single source of reviews! So I have got to read it, and to see the movie, which is due for release in Oct 2023, and made by Martin Scorcese.

    I will try to see the movie first though, since good books are next to impossible to adapt to film. There is just too much info to fit into a movie, even a long one, so the movie always feels disappointing if I've already read the book. But if I see the movie first, I can still thoroughly enjoy the book, especially if it's nonfiction, as this one is.

    But this is a different story he tells here. The fact that from his other book he is considerred a truly great writer makes me think that I've got to read this one too. I missed the name of it, but it must be mentioned at the start or end of the interview, or in the description area.

    Yes it was there. It's called "The Wager, A Tale Of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder." There's also a link to its page on Amazon, if we want to buy it.

  7. I believe that they saw the survival of these men as being more of an achievement than was thought, hence the lack of punishment. Not just to save face on the mutiny….. always trying to make the British sound bad in some way.

  8. As a Brit, and a lover of History I loved this so much! When I was at school someone found a message in a bottle on the banks of a river in our city, the school sent it to London and it was verified for its age! It was all very exciting at the time!

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