On April 17, 1935, the Coogee Aquarium in Sydney, Australia, welcomed a cutie, a wild tiger shark up to 4 meters long. Eight days later, April 25 is Australia's public holiday, so large numbers of people flock to the aquarium to see the real face of sharks.
But just when everyone appreciated this little cute, it suddenly twitched. After a while, a mouse was spat out of the tiger shark's mouth, and then a small bird was also spit out. Of course, this is not the end, a human arm was also spit out. The people present witnessed all this happening, and everyone also stayed away from this fierce tiger shark.
So whose exactly does this arm belong? What are the hidden stories behind this? Welcome back to Curious Research, today we will tell the story of the "shark" murder.
When the shark spat out its arm, police also arrived at the scene. The first thing they did was quickly kill the shark and then dissect it. Police tried to find other body parts in the shark's stomach, but it turned out to be empty. At this time, the police have to make a judgment, that is, whether this incident is a shark injury incident, or whether the injury is first, the shark just swallowed the arm.
Soon the police made a judgment. They judged from the wound in the arm that it was a man-made accident. Because the wound on the arm is very neat, it does not look like it has been torn and bitten at all, but more like it was directly cut with tools such as an axe. The next step for the police is to make a second judgment, that is, whether the owner of the arm is still alive or dead.
This problem cannot be judged by the arm alone, and they must find the owner of the arm to confirm the problem. But fortunately, there is a very personal tattoo on the arm, it is two villains boxing. So the police published a search notice, and then published the key information of the tattoo. It wasn't long before a man contacted the police. According to the man, the arm belonged to his brother Smith, who had been missing for weeks. In order to further verify the relationship between the arm and Smith, the police compared the fingerprint information of the two and finally confirmed that the arm was Smith's.
So where did Smith go?
Let's go back in time to April 7 of that year. According to Smith's wife, Smith went out normally that day. He told his wife that he was going fishing and would not be home for the evening. But he never appeared again. Through further investigation, the police found a man named Brady, who was likely the last person to see Smith.
According to Brady, on the night of the 7th, he ate and drank with Smith, and Brady dropped Smith off in a cabin by the sea. The two have since separated and have never seen each other since. When things got to this point, the police began to hesitate. On the one hand, because there were no clues in the seaside hut, the investigation was at an impasse. On the other hand, because this incident is worth investigating, maybe Smith didn't encounter anything unexpected, he just wandered the world. Although the confidence of the police was somewhat shaken, the people were very excited, and they continued to submit various clues to the police.
One of the taxi drivers' clues once again caught the attention of the police.
According to the driver, on the night of the 7th, he picked up a passenger near the seaside cottage, and he dropped the passenger off at his home in Holmes, north of Sydney. Holmes is a well-known local businessman, so the driver is familiar with this address. And the reason why the driver remembers this scene clearly is because the passenger behaved very strangely. One of his arms was inside his clothes the whole time, as if he was grasping something, and his demeanor was very nervous. After the shark incident, the driver immediately recognized the passenger as Brady. Speaking of which, the police can easily associate that what Brady has in his hand is likely to be that arm. So the police immediately arrested Brady.
Although Brady was arrested (May 16), the case did not go smoothly. Because Brady denied all the allegations, he did not admit that Smith's disappearance had anything to do with him. However, the police do not have more direct or stronger evidence.
On May 20, four days after Brady's arrest, Holmes appeared. He was on a rampage near the harbor in a speedboat, holding a wine bottle in one hand and a gun in the other. Then he suddenly raised his gun and shot himself in the head. I don't know if it was deliberately missed or accidentally missed, this shot just scratched the scalp.
At the same time, Holmes fell into the sea due to excessive fright. Fortunately, he was entangled in the rope of the boat, which saved his life. After about 15 days, Holmes recovered and was discharged from the hospital. He then contacted the police, who said he knew about Smith.
According to Holmes, on the night of the 7th, Smith had been killed by Brady and dumped out to sea. Brady then approached Holmes with a tattooed arm to extort money. If Holmes doesn't give it, then Brady will blame Holmes for the death and make Holmes' secret public. Holmes compromised and paid £500 before throwing his tattoo arm into the sea.
Holmes thought it would end here, but he didn't expect the tattoo arm to be eaten by a shark. What was even more unexpected was that the shark not only did not digest its arm, but it happened to be captured back to the aquarium. That's why things came to light. Speaking of which this audience friends may have questions, that is, what is the connection between these three people?
The missing Smith is a boxer with little fame. He ostensibly runs a billiard hall, but behind the scenes are Holmes' men. Holmes, on the other hand, runs a shipbuilding company on the surface, but behind the scenes is engaged in the smuggling industry. Under the cover of regular ships, Holmes transported contraband such as drugs and cigarettes from offshore smuggling ships to ports and then sold them across the country. In addition, Holmes often artificially creates shipwrecks in order to cheat huge insurance policies. And these unknown operations have Smith involved, so the relationship between Smith and Holmes is very close.
At the same time, Brady was also engaged in shady business. He specializes in forging documents such as documents and checks to carry out fraudulent activities. Before the disappearance, Brady and Smith had teamed up to make Holmes' fake checks. That is to say, these three people are engaged in illegal trading, but at the same time they are calculating each other. Okay, let's go back to Homs' confession to the police after he was discharged from the hospital.
Given Holmes' willingness to testify, Brady's trial was scheduled for June 12 of that year. But on the night of June 11, an accident happened. Holmes withdrew $500 at the bank and then told his wife that he had gone out to meet someone and should be back soon. But when he left, he never came back. By the next morning, Holmes was found dead in the car. He was shot three times, leaving no clues at the scene.
Although the police knew it was another murder, their investigation still yielded nothing. Brady was eventually acquitted due to insufficient evidence. So the question arises again, who exactly killed Smith and Holmes?
As time passed, the "shark" murder case gradually faded from people's sight, but a legal expert named Alex did not give up. After constant visits and investigations, Alex seems to have found the murderer. According to Alex, the missing Smith was not just the pool hall owner and Holmes' men. He actually has a third identity, that is, police undercover. Smith used his identity to channel a lot of intelligence to the police. Some of this intelligence is about gang leader Edward. Frederick's.
A year before the disappearance, Edward and Brady and others planned a fake check scam, but the bank easily detected it. Later, Edward secretly planned a bank robbery, but he did not expect that the police had been waiting for a long time.
After these two incidents, Edward realized that someone must have leaked information. After some investigation, the finger was pointed at Smith. On the night of the 7th, Edward ordered Brady to kill Smith, and Brady went specifically to blackmail Holmes with a tattooed arm. Holmes originally thought that breaking the fortune and avoiding the disaster would be over, but he did not expect that the tattoo arm was brought back by the shark.
During the police investigation, Holmes was under unprecedented pressure, and finally he was determined to report Brady's crimes. Before that, he bought himself a life insurance, and the beneficiaries were his wife and children. But before Holmes could go to court, he was shot directly by the gang. So the real murderers of Smith and Holmes were gangsters, but due to insufficient evidence, Brady and others were not sentenced for this.
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