The Shark Net - Australian True Crime

Strewth - Australian True Crime and Mystery Podcast · Oct 20, 2026 · 32m

The Unsolved Disappearance of Bevin and Brad Simmonds

On a glassy winter morning in 2003, Bevin Simmonds and his ten-year-old son, Brad, motored out to a shark net off the western coast of Cape York. By late morning the net was still there, half cleared, and they were gone. Up to eleven aircraft searched the Gulf of Carpentaria, and the police officer who ran the search later told a court it was the only one of his career where no trace was ever found, of the people or of their boat. What followed was a feud between two fishing families, an affair, a microphone hidden behind the dashboard of…