The Arm in the Shark (Part One of Two)

Detectives Don't Sleep

NOISER

True Crime, Fiction, History, Drama

4.6 • 637 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

On Anzac Day 1935, visitors to an aquarium in Sydney witness a grotesque spectacle as a massive tiger shark vomits up a severed arm. Whose arm is it? And how did it end up inside the shark? These are just some of the questions facing Detective Sergeant Matthews of Sydney’s Central Intelligence Bureau. When the victim is identified as a man called Jim Smith, Detective Matthews realises he knows him. Not only that, he may be the reason Smith was killed. A Noiser production, written by Roger Morris. For ad-free listening, exclusive content, and early access to new episodes, join Noiser+. Now available for Apple and Android users. Click the Noiser+ banner on Apple or go to noiser.com/subscriptions to get started with a 7-day free trial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:27.7	slash setup it's Thursday April the 25th 1935 in Sydney, Australia.
0:45.3	Hundreds of thousands of visitors have flooded into the city for the Anzac Day public holiday.
0:52.3	Some of these visitors find their way to the Cougy Aquarium Bass on a pier at the end of Cougy Beach.
0:57.0	Owned by brothers Charlie and Bert Hobson, this popular tourist site is basically a 50-meter outdoor tank,
1:02.0	filled with sharks.
1:05.0	Spectators crowd around the sides and peered down the sleep killing machines lurking beneath the
1:12.1	surface the latest attraction is a massive tiger shark the 14 and a half
1:19.5	foot monster has been captured after eating a smaller shark already snagged on one of
1:25.0	the fixed baited lines that the Hobson brothers laid to catch their exhibits.
1:30.3	It took a gang of burly men to haul the shark across the beach and transfer it into the brothers' pool.
1:37.3	Though the shark appears a little sluggish in its new home, the Hobson's are hoping for great things from their latest acquisition,
1:45.0	which they advertise as the largest tiger shark ever in captivity.
1:51.0	Curiosity draws spectators at record numbers, especially at feeding time.
1:58.0	Generally, the Hobson brothers like to make a spectacle of feeding time, sometimes throwing
2:04.5	in rabbits for the bigger sharks to hone in on and devour.
2:09.2	Okay, not live rabbits.
2:12.0	This is a family show, after all.
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