Short Stuff: Shark Arm Murders
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Hey, and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry's here sitting in for Dave. So that's a short stuff. That's a bingo.
That's right, and we're talking about the shark arm murder, and we need to thank the Dictionary of Sydney, the Sydney Crime Museum, Snopes, and Atlas Obscura. Wow, you really did that up, man. I love that Atlas Obscura site. That's a great, great website.
Yeah, same here. Same with Snopes, too. They're good, too.
Yeah, and hey, hats off to the Sydney Crime Museum while we're at it.
Yeah, and who could leave out the Dictionary of Sydney?
Yes, we're talking about Sydney because that's where the shark arm murders took place. Infamous crime in Sydney, Australia's history. In 1935, and this is how it starts, a fisherman was fishing off of Coogee Beach and caught a little small shark. And then right after that, a larger tiger shark swallowed that smaller shark. And so all of a sudden he has two sharks. Because this tiger shark was so big, he was like, hey, this thing, maybe I should take this in to the aquarium baths there in Coogee because it will be a nice, like, attraction for people to come see it. Like it was still alive and people can come see this dreadful shark swimming around because sharks have been killing people around the area lately.
So he thought it was a pretty good idea.
Yeah, just over the course of a couple of weeks, three different men were killed by sharks on New South Wales beaches. So that was a big deal to catch the shark that may have been the one or at least one of the ones. And he was right. Like there were a lot of people that showed up to see this giant shark. I mean, 12 feet is pretty, pretty long, right? It's a big shark. And those tiger sharks, they're BAs too.
Yeah.
At any rate, the shark was giving the people what they wanted to see, you know, like he would swim around along the window and just flip the people off. He had a real bad attitude, exactly what they wanted to see. And he was acting pretty normally. And then on April 25th, which was Anzac Day in Australia, which is I'm taking it as similar to our Memorial Day here in the United States. The shark started acting really weird. Like he started getting lethargic and sluggish, like a wet sponge. He seemed disoriented. And then all of a sudden, everything came to a head, essentially. Yeah.
Yeah, the shark goes... That's usually your part. And pukes up a human arm. So everyone freaked out. They assumed initially, of course, like this is probably an arm of another bather that had bad timing and bad luck. But when they did the medical examination, they were like, this was no... Tiger Shark? No, sorry. I just watched Jaws with Ruby, so I had to work a Jaws quote in there.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–4:46
2
What is the Shark Arm Murder and where did it happen?
4:46–7:17
3
How was the tiger shark at Coogee Beach captured and exhibited?
7:17–12:26
4
When and how did the shark vomit a human arm on Anzac Day?
12:26–17:18
5
What did the autopsy reveal about the arm and identification?
17:18–19:29