The Shark Arm Case - Australian True Crime

The Shark Arm Case - Australian True Crime Mystery

Anzac Day, 1935. A live tiger shark in a Coogee swimming pool vomits up a human arm in front of a crowd of holiday families. And on the inside of the forearm, a tattoo that a man reading the Sunday paper over breakfast will recognise as his brother's.

What follows is one of the strangest murder cases in Australian history. A bankrupt billiard hall manager. A respectable boatbuilder running cocaine through Sydney Heads. A four-hour police chase around the harbour. And a body found in a car at Dawes Point in the small hours of the morning.

Nobody was ever convicted of anything.

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Sources:

• The Shark Arm Case — Vince Kelly, Angus & Robertson, 1975

• The Shark Arm Murders — Alex Castles, Wakefield Press, 1995

• Shark Arm Murder 1935 — Dictionary of Sydney, 2010 - https://dictionaryofsydney.org/entry/shark_arm_murder_1935 

• The Shark Arm Murders — Sydney Crime Museum, 2015 - https://www.sydneycrimemuseum.com/crime-stories/the-shark-arm-murders/