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75. The Sydney Shark Arm Murder REDUX · Who Did What Now With Katie Charlwood

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Speaker 1: You're listening to you an Airwave Media podcast. Hi everybody,
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Speaker 1: and welcome to Who Did What Now? The history podcast
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Speaker 1: that's not your history class with me your host, Katie Charlewood,
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Speaker 1: history harlot and reader of books. So this week's episode
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Speaker 1: is a little bit different to other episodes because it's
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Speaker 1: a redo, a redux, a remake, a re something. And
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Speaker 1: the reason I've done this is one, I didn't have
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Speaker 1: enough time to finish my research because I have been
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Speaker 1: very sick. Sorry. And point two is I've been saying
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Speaker 1: for a long time that I wanted to redo some
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Speaker 1: of these episodes, especially those that had lower quality audio wise,
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Speaker 1: because the Marik of times, I have people who start
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Speaker 1: listening to the podcast and then they're like, oh no,
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Speaker 1: the sounds really bad or I can't really hear this,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, I get it. I do. And I
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Speaker 1: already readid Grand New Wheel, even though I didn't even
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Speaker 1: do that with the best quality, but I remade that
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Speaker 1: out of spite, and I wanted to go back to
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Speaker 1: something which I completely buggered up on the first time,
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Speaker 1: which was this episode, because if you actually listen to it,
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Speaker 1: there's so much information and I'm so desperate to get
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Speaker 1: the information out. And at the time, I was so
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Speaker 1: worried about talking any more than like thirty minutes, Like
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Speaker 1: I was so worried about going over that thirty minute
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Speaker 1: mark that I was freaking the hell out. And so
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Speaker 1: I'm talking so fast, like so ridiculously fast. It's it's
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Speaker 1: it's as if it's on double speed. But no, that's
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Speaker 1: just me, Like that was just my voice. That was
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Speaker 1: just me that day, And I feel I feel like
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Speaker 1: you deserve better as an audience, as listeners, as followers,
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Speaker 1: and so here I am remaking this because I fucking care,
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Speaker 1: which now leads me into the disclaimer. If you are
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Speaker 1: new here, Hello, welcome Mozeltov, please consider this your official
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Speaker 1: warning that my language on here, like my attitude, can
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Speaker 1: get a wee bit salty, and as such it's probably
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Speaker 1: best if you do not like any expletives or cussing,
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Speaker 1: cursing or swear words, probably best to exit stage left now.
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Speaker 1: And now that that's over with, welcome to the Guild
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Speaker 1: of Historical Descent, and I shall be your guide through
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Speaker 1: the rabbit hole. Not like the rabbit because he was
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Speaker 1: to busy run round panicked about how lady was for everything,
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Speaker 1: which is also me. I guess yeah, I'm in a
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Speaker 1: move that surprises absolutely fucking no one. Yet again someone
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Speaker 1: has complained it was a dude. Okay, it was a
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Speaker 1: dude who complained. Then I don't talk enough about men
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Speaker 1: on my podcast. Yes, I was silent for a moment
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Speaker 1: for dramatic effect. Oh, by the old gods. And then
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Speaker 1: you grant me the confidence of a mediocre white man.
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Speaker 1: I swear, I just like, I'm sorry. Was I lowed
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Speaker 1: on my podcast that I research, record and edit myself?
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Speaker 1: I'm sorry? Did I use my skills and expertise to
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Speaker 1: discuss areas in which I am an expert? I'm am
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Speaker 1: the like okay, cool, you do you boo? But like
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Speaker 1: the king audacity of it all, I just it bothers me. Right,
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Speaker 1: it shouldn't write, I should be used to it, which
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Speaker 1: leads mean is something that I really want to talk about.
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Speaker 1: And so I'm gonna have to give some context to this.
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Speaker 1: So I had made a video about the Donner Party
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Speaker 1: and how like one of the main contributing factors to them,
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Speaker 1: you know, dying and cannibalizing each other was racism, right,
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Speaker 1: it was, you know? And so someone is doing me
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Speaker 1: to comment something along the lines of, oh, well, you know,
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Speaker 1: clearly they deserved it, ha ha, And it was some
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Speaker 1: kind of joke. It was in poor taste. And I
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Speaker 1: was like, children died, like infants, like small children died,
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Speaker 1: Like this isn't okay, Like they didn't deserve this. You
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Speaker 1: don't get to say shit like this, like do your
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Speaker 1: fucking research. And and so he said something else in
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Speaker 1: response to it, and I was like, in that, get
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Speaker 1: you blocked? Right? I actually think I mentioned this before
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Speaker 1: because it was a dude from he was the co
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Speaker 1: host of some podcast. Apparently. I don't know who he was.
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Speaker 1: I still don't know who he has. Clearly I've forgotten
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Speaker 1: his name, that's how important he was to me. And
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Speaker 1: I just I was just blocked. Don And this woman
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Speaker 1: comments afterwards, going, oh, wow, are you so sensitive? It's
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Speaker 1: the internet? Fucking not sorry for the loudness in your
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Speaker 1: ears anyone who's got headphones, and but no, absolutely fucking not.
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Speaker 1: Just because it's on the Internet does not make it acceptable.
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Speaker 1: Just because you're hiding behind a screen does not make
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Speaker 1: your actions any less reprehensible. You should be judged for
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Speaker 1: what you say and do. There I don't care, right,
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Speaker 1: I mean there's joking in there's stuff and this comaraderat,
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Speaker 1: and there's things that are okay, and there's a level
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Speaker 1: to it, right, Like there's a time and a place
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Speaker 1: for that, and it all works within its specific bubble, right.
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Speaker 1: I Mean there's times where I've had to explain to
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Speaker 1: other people that, like, people are not insulting me, they're
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Speaker 1: my friends and they're joking. But people have a habit
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Speaker 1: of treating the Internet is if it's some sort of
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Speaker 1: purge zone where you can do and say whatever you
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Speaker 1: like and not have to suffer any consequences of it.
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Speaker 1: But that's not the case. You don't have to tolerate
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Speaker 1: anything anybody says to you. You don't have to argue
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Speaker 1: with people who are being urseholes. You can block them.
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Speaker 1: They do not have the right do you have to
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Speaker 1: be in your space, Like, they don't need to be there,
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Speaker 1: You don't have to have them there, and you don't
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Speaker 1: have to tolerate their bullshit. It is perfectly acceptable to
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Speaker 1: just get them the fuck out of your space. Just
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Speaker 1: because it's the Internet, just because it's the comments section
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Speaker 1: on a news article, just because it's a social media page,
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Speaker 1: just because it's discord it doesn't fucking matter. You don't
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Speaker 1: need to tolerate that shit. Get the fuck out, pal.
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Speaker 1: But I know what you're thinking. You're thinking, quit your
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Speaker 1: gibber jabber in fact me, In fact you I will.
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Speaker 1: But first I've got to get my source on. Our
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Speaker 1: sources are shark arm, a shark, a tattooed arm, and
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Speaker 1: two unsolved murders by Philip Woop and Kevin Maher Shark
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Speaker 1: Arm Murder nineteen thirty five by the New South Wales
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Speaker 1: Dictionary of Sydney, the Shark Arm case by Vince Kelly,
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Speaker 1: the Shark Arm Murderers by Alex Castle's and of course
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Speaker 1: we have articles from the papers of The Sydney Truth
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Speaker 1: and the Sydney Morning Herald. I was it uncomfortably good?
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Speaker 1: Then let's begin. So I'm not entirely sure how many
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Speaker 1: true crime cases involve sharks. I'm not entirely sure what
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Speaker 1: the number is. In fact, I've never actually looked. But
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Speaker 1: if somebody knows, if there was a marine biologist who
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Speaker 1: is also into historical crime and would like to inform
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Speaker 1: me of, you know, how many sharks have been involved
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Speaker 1: in murders. I mean, I don't think they were involved
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Speaker 1: in the planning of it. I feel like humans were
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Speaker 1: probably in charge of that, but the sharks were kind
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Speaker 1: of accessories tools, and I feel like accessory to murder
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Speaker 1: is a bit harsh to lay on a shark, I
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Speaker 1: mean crime sharks. No, let's not get into that right now.
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Speaker 1: We don't need to be sidetracked this early on. So
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Speaker 1: it's nineteen thirty five in Australia. It's winter there, or
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Speaker 1: coming into winter. I guess there's seasons are the other way,
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Speaker 1: but yet still really fucking warm because it's Australia and
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Speaker 1: it just likes to be toasty down there, or at
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Speaker 1: least toasty in comparison to you know, cold, dreary, wet Ireland,
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Speaker 1: where I am from. I love Ireland. Please don't kick
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Speaker 1: me out of the country. I like it here. Back to Australia.
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Speaker 1: It's the seventeenth of April nineteen thirty five and a
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Speaker 1: fisherman is out fishing as fishermen are wont to do
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Speaker 1: out just off the coast of Coogie Beach, and he
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Speaker 1: hooks himself away shark and he's thinking that's a way treat,
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Speaker 1: that's a nice way shark that and then what comes
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Speaker 1: along and guzzles up the way shark, but a four
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Speaker 1: foot tiger shark. It's Qui gone Gin says in Star
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Speaker 1: Wars Episode one, The Phantom Menace, there's always a bigger fish.
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Speaker 1: That is an absolutely shocking Liam Neeson impression. I would
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Speaker 1: like to personally apologize to Liam Neeson or anyone who
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Speaker 1: knows him personally, if for some reason, if he ever
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Speaker 1: has to listen to this podcast or this sound clip,
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Speaker 1: if that ever recurs, I'm so sorry. That was shit.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, instead of getting rid of this big fish,
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Speaker 1: instead of just dumping it, which is what the fisherman
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Speaker 1: could have done, because he's hooked the wise shark, right,
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Speaker 1: and then the big tiger shark has like literally swallowed
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Speaker 1: the Wai shark, you know, like a really shit Russian doll.
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Speaker 1: And so these two are stuck together and he's like, well,
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Speaker 1: this shark is still alive, and Anzac Day is coming
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Speaker 1: up in like it eight eight days, and so he's like, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this will be a really fun cool thing to like
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Speaker 1: show off at the aquarium or something like. This will
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Speaker 1: be fun for Anzac Day. So, for those of you
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Speaker 1: who don't know, Anzac Day is celebrated on the twenty
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Speaker 1: fifth of April every single year and they've been doing
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Speaker 1: it since nineteen fifteen, and it's to commemorate and celebrate
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Speaker 1: and revere all of the Australian and New Zealand Forces
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Speaker 1: people who had served in the forces. But like originally,
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Speaker 1: its main sort of commemoration was the landing at Gallipoli
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Speaker 1: during World War One, which just so happened to be
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Speaker 1: one of the worst military assaults of the First World War.
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Speaker 1: Once in Churchill he powered through with this plan that
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Speaker 1: was never going to work out of sheer stubbornness, and
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Speaker 1: he basically used the ANZAC forces as fodder even though
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Speaker 1: there was no way they could have won due to
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Speaker 1: just hubris and other such bullshit. But yes, Anzac Day
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Speaker 1: was to commemorate the landing and the lives that were
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Speaker 1: lost and those who served during this. So yeah, Anzac
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Speaker 1: Day is approaching and Bert hobbson the Fisherman, He's like
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Speaker 1: ding ding ding ding ding. This is going to be
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Speaker 1: great haul the Tiger Sharkin. And it can be exhibited
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Speaker 1: at the Coogie Aquarium in swimming Baths, which just so
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Speaker 1: happened to be owned by Hobson's brother. In fact, it
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Speaker 1: was a pretty easy sell because at this point in time,
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Speaker 1: like for the past few months, the shark was effectively
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Speaker 1: public enemy number one in New South Wales because like
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Speaker 1: three fellas had been gotten by sharks, and so there
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Speaker 1: was like a big manhunt, a manhunt shark hunt going on.
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Speaker 1: They were basically they're basically not cool with sharks. And
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Speaker 1: here is a massive, bloody tiger shark just dawsing about
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Speaker 1: in a swimming pool. And for the first few days
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Speaker 1: the shark seems to be enjoying its new habitat right.
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Speaker 1: It's eating. I mean it's like ravenous, like it's consistently hungry,
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Speaker 1: but it's a shark or shark's not like always hungry
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Speaker 1: again not a marine biologist. So the shark starts off
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Speaker 1: being full of beans, swimming about, eating stuff, just living
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Speaker 1: its best shark life, you know for an animal in captivity.
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Speaker 1: But then by Anzac day, when the place is packed
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Speaker 1: because everybody wants to see this fucking shark, right, it
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Speaker 1: is getting sluggish, it's not swimming the way it used to.
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Speaker 1: And then in front of this massive crowd, the shark
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Speaker 1: starts to vomit. Like up until this point, I was
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Speaker 1: not aware sharks could vomit, because like rats don't vomit
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Speaker 1: won't actually know rodent vomits like at all. So like rats, squirrels, mice, beavers, gofles,
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Speaker 1: other rodents that I don't know the name of chinchillas.
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Speaker 1: Are chinchilla's rodents I don't, I don't know. But yeah,
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Speaker 1: it's why rat poison works because rodents don't have gag reflexes.
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Speaker 1: And I know it's a kind of weird assumption to make,
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Speaker 1: but I just sort of assumed that something living in
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Speaker 1: the sea, in the water also wouldn't have a gag
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Speaker 1: reflex and would not puke, But as it turns out,
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Speaker 1: it does. And so there's this fourteen foot tiger shark
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Speaker 1: and in front of this massive crowd of people, and
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Speaker 1: it's kind of getting droopy and slow, and then it
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Speaker 1: starts frothing at the mouth, and it's brown and it
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Speaker 1: is repugnant. It is just a putrid smell of this brown, bubbly,
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Speaker 1: frothy good and it just starts chucking up. It's regurgitating
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Speaker 1: this just like lumps of dart and sand and other
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Speaker 1: just kind of brown muck. It also vomits up a rat,
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Speaker 1: a bird, and a human arm with a piece of
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Speaker 1: rope tied to it. Here's the thing. Finding an arm
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Speaker 1: inside a shark is suspicious enough, right, a whole arm, yeah,
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Speaker 1: but when it has a piece of rope attached, I
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Speaker 1: feel like some calls need to be made. Nactually, people
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Speaker 1: are shocked because this is a weird thing to happen,
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Speaker 1: and you know, everyone's kind of hoping tragic accident. You know,
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Speaker 1: maybe someone was swimming and then they got eaten by shark.
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Speaker 1: You know, like things happen. Like it's Australia. Most of
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Speaker 1: the wildlife is trying to kill you, apart from the koalas,
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Speaker 1: which are just trying to give you chlamydia. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: seeing as this incident falls under the category of weird
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Speaker 1: as shit, the police are called in and so they
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Speaker 1: bring with them a coroner and a shark expert because
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Speaker 1: they want to just confirm, you know, their suspicions, because
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Speaker 1: they're thinking, again, tragic accident. The sharks have already been
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Speaker 1: eaten people off the bay. We know of at least
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Speaker 1: three lives lost, and I'm thinking this is probably just
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Speaker 1: another one of those alas. This was not the case
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Speaker 1: because upon closer inspection, it was very apparent that this
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Speaker 1: arm had not been bitten off. Oh no, it had
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Speaker 1: been severed with a sharp implement of some kind, but
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Speaker 1: like not clean enough to be a surgical procedure, Like
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Speaker 1: it was far too crude or like like a hat
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Speaker 1: or sawing motion. There was no way this was done
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Speaker 1: by a medical professional, And I'd be really worried if
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Speaker 1: it was, because it really would call into question the
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Speaker 1: disposal method for like amputee's body parts, like into the sea.
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Speaker 1: So the shark expert agrees with a corner. You know
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Speaker 1: that this arm has definitely not been chopped off by
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Speaker 1: a shark, probably because of the lack of chomping marks
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Speaker 1: and you know, the sawing marks that were on it,
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Speaker 1: but also in addition, furthermore, because of how acidic the
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Speaker 1: gastric juices are in a shark, like, they were able
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Speaker 1: to sort of guestimate when the arm had been consumed,
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Speaker 1: So how long that arm had been in the shark's stomach,
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Speaker 1: which gives them a starting point or well like an
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Speaker 1: ending point really for their timeline, because this arm was
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Speaker 1: in the shark between eight and eighteen days, meaning that
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Speaker 1: it was quite possible that this arm had been consumed
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Speaker 1: by the shark just before it was caught and so
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Speaker 1: begins the investigation. Because although the authorities did not have
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Speaker 1: much to go on, this much they were sure of
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Speaker 1: the owner of this arm suffered a severe case of
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Speaker 1: the mrtos. Like I said, they didn't really have much
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Speaker 1: to go on. But luckily this arm, this forearm, had
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Speaker 1: a very distinctive tattoo of two boxer sparring, so distinctive
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Speaker 1: in fact, that after seeing a report in a Sydney newspaper,
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Speaker 1: The Sydney Truth, the police get a phone call from
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Speaker 1: one Edwin Smith, who very casually informs them that the
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Speaker 1: tattoo and the severed arm respectively belonged to his brother
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Speaker 1: James Smith. But his friends call him Jim, and in
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Speaker 1: a crazy random happenstance, Jim, as it turns out, has
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Speaker 1: been missing for weeks. His brother has not seen hide
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Speaker 1: nor hear of him. So after the brother phones in
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Speaker 1: and is like fairly certain that the tattoo slash arm
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Speaker 1: belonged to his you know, missing brother Jim, they then
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Speaker 1: bring in Gladys Smith, Jim's wife, to identify the body part.
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Speaker 1: In another serendipitous turn of events, the arm is so
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Speaker 1: well preserved that they are able to collect fingerprints, which
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Speaker 1: is very lucky because they have to have Jim Smith's
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Speaker 1: fingerprints on file. But while why does this nineteen thirties
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Speaker 1: Sydney Police Force have Jim Smith's fingerprints on file? Well,
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Speaker 1: let me tell you a wee bit about Jim. Jim
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Speaker 1: was a bankrupt builder, X boxer, x bookie and a
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Speaker 1: small tymn criminal with a wee record of minor convictions.
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Speaker 1: He wasn't quite in the underworld, wasn't exactly rubbing shoulders
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Speaker 1: with a criminal elite. He was more say, underworld adjacent
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Speaker 1: and the current pie he had his fingers in was
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Speaker 1: an illegal gambling ring that was happening at the time.
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Speaker 1: And so the police start digging and it doesn't take
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Speaker 1: them long to discover that the last time Jim Smith
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Speaker 1: was seen he was playing dominoes with his longtime buddy
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Speaker 1: and expert forger Patrick Brady. The two Cudly cons had
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Speaker 1: been seen together at the Cecil Hotel and Corneall they
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Speaker 1: had been drinking and playing dominoes, and so they were
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Speaker 1: hanging out there for a bit before heading back to
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Speaker 1: Gunnamata Bay because Brady had been renting a cottage there.
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Speaker 1: And this just so happens to be the very last
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Speaker 1: time that anybody remembers seeing Jim Smith. Now, the very
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Speaker 1: next morning, Patrick Brady gets a taxi, a Cornola Cabby
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Speaker 1: to be exact, who takes him all the way from
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Speaker 1: Gunnamata Bay to North Sydney and drops him right outside
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Speaker 1: the door of businessman Reginald Lloyd Holmes. See this Cornela Cabby,
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Speaker 1: he's a decent citizen. He's got absolutely nothing to fucking hide.
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Speaker 1: And so he comes forward and he tells the police
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Speaker 1: that when he picked up Brady, he's all disheveled, his
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Speaker 1: clothes throw kind of like wrong. He's acting weird, he's shaking,
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Speaker 1: acting jumpy and paranoid, like he's worried someone is following him.
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Speaker 1: Like this Cabby is no stranger to like weird and
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Speaker 1: creepy behavior, because you know, he's a cabby in the
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Speaker 1: nineteen thirties. But what he notices, and what he finds
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Speaker 1: like really bloody peculiar, is that Patrick Brady will not
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Speaker 1: take his hand out of his pocket and he was
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Speaker 1: holding something like this was a very deep, deep pocket
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Speaker 1: and he was gripping something in it, and he was
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Speaker 1: not taking his hand out. Listen, I don't care how
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Speaker 1: much good you see in the world. I don't care
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Speaker 1: how positive you are or how gullible you are. But
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Speaker 1: when he disheveled, jumpy, paranoid non criminal travels all the
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Speaker 1: way from Gonna Matter Bay all the way up to
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Speaker 1: North Sydney by taxi. By taxi, I mean, this is
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Speaker 1: a journey that is over thirty five kilometers long. It's
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Speaker 1: over twenty one miles for people who don't use the
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Speaker 1: metric system. But it's it's a long time. It's a
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Speaker 1: fifty two I mean it's a fifty two minute journey. Now,
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Speaker 1: back then cars would be like slower, So I say,
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Speaker 1: what would be like over an hour back then, like
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Speaker 1: in a taxi? Like that's not a cheap fair. So
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Speaker 1: this is a long ass journey by a non criminal
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Speaker 1: who's acting, if I dare say, it really fucking suspicious,
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Speaker 1: and he gets dropped off outside the home of a
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Speaker 1: well supposed respected businessman, who, as I'm sure you have guessed,
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Speaker 1: is anything. But that's right, Reginald William Lloyd Holmes. I
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Speaker 1: mean generally, when you have that many names, you're either
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Speaker 1: posh or a knob, and those two things are not exclusive.
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Speaker 1: So yes, this seemingly respectable entrepreneur was not none of
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Speaker 1: the sort. Holmes was the ringleader of a smuggling ring,
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Speaker 1: a smuggling ring that used speedboats that had been built
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Speaker 1: in Holmes's own boat building business. Apparently building boats and
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Speaker 1: speedboats wasn't lucrative enough for Reginald here. He clearly needed
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Speaker 1: to supplement his income and so he gets a side
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Speaker 1: hustle in smuggling. But what has this got to do
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Speaker 1: with Jim Smith and his missing arm. Well, both Jim
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Speaker 1: Smith and Patrick Brady were what you might call seasonal
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Speaker 1: employees of mister Holmes here. They would on occasion drive
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Speaker 1: the speedboats during these smuggling jobs. What's funny to me
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Speaker 1: about this, which is like not funny, how habit kind
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Speaker 1: of is, is that the method of smuggling that they
24:02
Speaker 1: use in this nineteen thirties historical crime case is still
24:10
Speaker 1: the method for smuggling shit today. Like drugs have washed
24:18
Speaker 1: up on the beaches here because of this method. Like
24:22
Speaker 1: you'd think over time that it would evolve, that they
24:25
Speaker 1: would make it work better, but no, no, Apparently nineteen
24:29
Speaker 1: thirties is where it stopped. That's the best way for
24:33
Speaker 1: transporting the contraband. So like what they would do, I
24:37
Speaker 1: shod probably explain. What they would do was the packages
24:42
Speaker 1: of illegal goods, the cocaine, the cigarettes and other such
24:48
Speaker 1: illegal goods. I mean it's Australia. Oranges can sometimes be
24:53
Speaker 1: illegal there. Clearly they've always had incredibly strict regulations regarding
24:58
Speaker 1: the import of goods. So yeah, ships that were passing by,
25:02
Speaker 1: they would chuck these packages of contraband overboard and they
25:07
Speaker 1: would basically be buoyant, right, so they would float atop
25:11
Speaker 1: the water, and then Jim Smith or whatever other dog's
25:15
Speaker 1: body he had driven the boat that night, would go
25:19
Speaker 1: pick up said package, just scoop it out the water
25:23
Speaker 1: in their fancy speed boat and then bring it back
25:26
Speaker 1: to shore so that Reginalds like other lackeys could then
25:31
Speaker 1: distribute said goods. So Jim Smith, he's got the high
25:35
Speaker 1: risk position. Yeah, high risk, low yield. He's out there
25:40
Speaker 1: risk and getting caught by the police, the coastguards, other
25:44
Speaker 1: criminals went in on the action, and so this is
25:48
Speaker 1: his role, that's his bit, right And Brady, remember Patrick Brady,
25:54
Speaker 1: he's a forger, so he's he's got a different role
25:58
Speaker 1: to play in this. But this does seem to be
26:00
Speaker 1: were Patrick Brady and Jim Smith cross paths, and this
26:04
Speaker 1: is where they start getting involved in stuff together. So
26:08
Speaker 1: on top of the you know, smuggling and drug running,
26:12
Speaker 1: they're involved in insurance scams. The gruesome to some. So
26:16
Speaker 1: they end up basically running a bunch of insurance scams
26:20
Speaker 1: for Reginald. And so they would commit everyone's second favorite
26:24
Speaker 1: crime arson. They would intentionally set fire to or you know,
26:30
Speaker 1: just plain old sink Reginald's boats, and then he would
26:33
Speaker 1: collect the insurance money. So they would do you know,
26:37
Speaker 1: the general rigmarole. They would have fake documentation, sort of
26:41
Speaker 1: fake bits and pieces. They would destroy older or damaged
26:46
Speaker 1: boats and then pretend they were like the newer ones.
26:50
Speaker 1: It's good old fashioned fraud, just like Grandma used to make.
26:54
Speaker 1: So the police they start piecing this together and they
26:57
Speaker 1: come to the conclusion that there was a botched job
27:03
Speaker 1: here somewhere, like the fraud, the insurance the scam, something
27:09
Speaker 1: went wrong, it failed, and a disagreement was had and
27:13
Speaker 1: as such, the clear resolution to this issue was murder.
27:19
Speaker 1: I guess. So this insurance scam, it goes awry, you know,
27:23
Speaker 1: something doesn't work out and the insurance company doesn't cough up. So, yeah,
27:29
Speaker 1: it didn't work out and that happens. Sometimes not every
27:33
Speaker 1: single criminal endeavor is going to give you the results
27:37
Speaker 1: you want. You know, sometimes you win and sometimes you learn,
27:42
Speaker 1: and that's something that you really should, you know, take
27:44
Speaker 1: on board, you know, whether you're learning a new skill
27:48
Speaker 1: or you know, defrauding insurance companies for buckets of money.
27:53
Speaker 1: And like this seems, you know, a fair thing to
27:58
Speaker 1: have happened, Like disagreements happened, people stop working together, you know,
28:01
Speaker 1: when something goes wrong, it can happen. But murder does
28:08
Speaker 1: seem like a wee bit of a jump, like maybe
28:12
Speaker 1: don't work together, maybe blackball them from the community, a
28:15
Speaker 1: wee bit bit murder, like these are seasoned criminals, Like
28:25
Speaker 1: this is a forger for fuck's sake, Like you would
28:29
Speaker 1: aim for something that would you know benefit you. I mean,
28:33
Speaker 1: you don't go into forgery to not benefit, Like how
28:36
Speaker 1: does killing someone benefit you? So a theory does emerge,
28:42
Speaker 1: and it's that Smith, Jim Smith, was blackmailing Reginald William
28:51
Speaker 1: Lloyd Holmes about the insurance scam. And because he was
28:57
Speaker 1: blackmailing him and you know, trying to get money that
29:03
Speaker 1: then Holmes uses Brady to of him one lacket, get
29:09
Speaker 1: rids of another Lackey like plan, and so the police are,
29:15
Speaker 1: if nothing else, highly suspicious, and so Patrick Brady and
29:22
Speaker 1: Reginald William Lloyd Holmes are taken in for questioning. Remember,
29:28
Speaker 1: they have no concrete evidence at this point. Everything they
29:32
Speaker 1: have this entire case, it's circumstantial. So they need evidence
29:39
Speaker 1: at the very least. They need one of these bastards
29:42
Speaker 1: to talk. But as soon as they get in there,
29:47
Speaker 1: Holmes is like variety, who New Telegram? Who this? I
29:53
Speaker 1: would now let to formally apologize to the entirety of
29:56
Speaker 1: Australia that that I cannot do access. I don't know
30:01
Speaker 1: why I try. They're so bad, They're so bad. But yeah,
30:07
Speaker 1: Reginald Holmes, he's like, ah, New Telegram? Who this is?
30:12
Speaker 1: That's also a really bad joke. I'm so sorry I
30:14
Speaker 1: made you suffer through that, but I've made you do
30:16
Speaker 1: it now, so we're just gonna power through. But yeah,
30:19
Speaker 1: the police are convinced that both of these men are
30:22
Speaker 1: involved in this, but they only really have enough evidence
30:27
Speaker 1: for Brady, and because both of them refuse to cooperate,
30:33
Speaker 1: Brady ends up charged with the murder and is basically
30:38
Speaker 1: being pushed to confess, and Reginald William Lloyd Holmes. Well,
30:45
Speaker 1: he doesn't know the men. He doesn't know Patrick Brady,
30:49
Speaker 1: he never knew Jim Smith. They can't prove he did,
30:54
Speaker 1: and so he walks away scott free. I can tell
31:00
Speaker 1: gender listener that you're shocked, shocked and aghast. I say
31:04
Speaker 1: that a rich, middle aged white man got away with
31:09
Speaker 1: a crime. I know, right, shocking. Reginald is free as
31:15
Speaker 1: a bird. Brady is not talking. And just when it
31:21
Speaker 1: feels like the case has hit an apparent dead end, okay, like,
31:27
Speaker 1: how do I put this? Okay, total nonsensical, tom fuckery. Right,
31:35
Speaker 1: dude is in the clear. They have nothing on him.
31:40
Speaker 1: And then on the twentieth of May nineteen thirty five,
31:47
Speaker 1: mister Reginald William Lloyd Holmes makes a break in the
31:53
Speaker 1: case with a fucking speedboat. Because what he does is
31:58
Speaker 1: he absolutely shoot out of his boat, shed into the
32:02
Speaker 1: harbor on one of his very fast, very special speed boats.
32:09
Speaker 1: Reginald here, he takes the boat out to Lavender Bay.
32:13
Speaker 1: He pulls out a pistol and attempts to die by suicide. However,
32:21
Speaker 1: this doesn't quite pan out for Reginald here, so he
32:26
Speaker 1: shoots himself in the head when he doesn't die because
32:31
Speaker 1: the bullet, it is such a small caliber bullet that
32:36
Speaker 1: it just flattens once it hits him in the head
32:39
Speaker 1: and it just stuns him. See it's information like this
32:44
Speaker 1: which really makes me consider things like the attempted assassination
32:48
Speaker 1: of Rasputin, Like we shocked him and he didn't die.
32:51
Speaker 1: How big were the bullets actually? Like what caliber were they?
32:56
Speaker 1: Did he have very strong bones? Like this is these
32:59
Speaker 1: are questions we must ask, don't you think? But anyway, Yeah,
33:03
Speaker 1: back to Reginald William Lloyd Holmes, right, he has stunned
33:07
Speaker 1: himself with a bullet and fallen off the side of
33:10
Speaker 1: the ship. He's gone overboard and into the water. But weirdly, serendipitously,
33:20
Speaker 1: I guess, for Reginald or not, or for the police,
33:24
Speaker 1: for somebody Reginald, he falls into the water. He is stunned,
33:29
Speaker 1: but as he falls, a rope catches around his wrist,
33:36
Speaker 1: not only keeping Reginald connected to his boat, but this
33:41
Speaker 1: prevents him from sinking beneath the waves and drowning because
33:47
Speaker 1: as well, when he lands in the water, the shock
33:50
Speaker 1: of it sort of revives him. So if he had
33:55
Speaker 1: just fallen into the water and wasn't attached to the boat,
33:58
Speaker 1: the panic could have very easily made him sink further,
34:02
Speaker 1: because when you have that amount of tension in you, like,
34:05
Speaker 1: that's where you go down as opposed to relax in
34:08
Speaker 1: your body and floating. So, yeah, he's had a bit
34:11
Speaker 1: of a shock with the water. He's he's alert, and
34:14
Speaker 1: he manages to scramble back on board the boat. Clearly
34:20
Speaker 1: at this point Reginald is not in the most logical
34:23
Speaker 1: of headspaces, and when he manages to sort of clamber
34:27
Speaker 1: back on the boat, he quickly discovers that you know,
34:30
Speaker 1: people saw this happen. They were onlookers and they have
34:35
Speaker 1: called the authorities. That's right, somebody called the water police.
34:41
Speaker 1: And yeah, not being of the soundest of minds, Reginald
34:46
Speaker 1: goes fuck this for a game of soldiers and goes
34:49
Speaker 1: pedaled to the metal and he just tries to straight
34:53
Speaker 1: up flee. So the water police they give chesse and
34:59
Speaker 1: like they somehow managed to relatively keep up with him,
35:03
Speaker 1: because remember he is in his very fast, very special
35:08
Speaker 1: speedboat like this is tip top, this.
35:12
Speaker 2: Is his like pist resistance like, and he is being
35:17
Speaker 2: chased by the cops and so he is gay and
35:21
Speaker 2: at Loudy.
35:23
Speaker 1: So they chase the man, the police, the water police,
35:28
Speaker 1: they are just benny hilling it, just following this dude
35:35
Speaker 1: for four full hours. So they go out past Circular Key,
35:42
Speaker 1: somehow managing to not collide with any of the morning
35:48
Speaker 1: ferry traffic, because this is a busy bay. Like it's
35:52
Speaker 1: it's a busy area, there's a lot of water traffic.
35:57
Speaker 1: This is not a quiet area and this is not
36:00
Speaker 1: a safe place to be zipping about in a speedboat,
36:03
Speaker 1: let alone having an aquatic chase. So yeah, they've come
36:09
Speaker 1: out of Lavender Bay, up past Circular Key, right down
36:13
Speaker 1: Sydney Harbor and finally finally around about the Sydney Heads
36:19
Speaker 1: he gives up. Did he run out of fuel, did
36:23
Speaker 1: the adrenaline wreof did he have a massive headache from
36:27
Speaker 1: flattening a bullet against his cranium. Did he come to
36:30
Speaker 1: the conclusion that, no matter how fast his way speedboat was,
36:34
Speaker 1: he was not going to outrun the many water police
36:38
Speaker 1: vessels that were chasing him. Whom's to say so, Reginald,
36:43
Speaker 1: He's given himself up, and the water police, not being
36:46
Speaker 1: total fucking dickheads, at least bring him to the hospital first,
36:51
Speaker 1: and after mister Holmes recuperates, words are had well. I mean,
36:58
Speaker 1: at first he tries to say that he was attacked
37:00
Speaker 1: at home, he was shot, and that he fled, and
37:03
Speaker 1: then he saw the water police, and he thought the
37:05
Speaker 1: water police were the people who tried to shoot him,
37:08
Speaker 1: Like he confused the water police for rampant criminals who
37:13
Speaker 1: had attacked him a kind and regular legal businessman in
37:18
Speaker 1: his own home. But of course that wasn't the case.
37:24
Speaker 1: But it is at this point, my dear guys, gals
37:27
Speaker 1: and non binary pals, that the plot thickens. So they
37:34
Speaker 1: arrest Reginald William Lloyd Holmes. You're like, why do you
37:40
Speaker 1: say his full name all the time, because I just
37:43
Speaker 1: like to remind us how much of a ship bag
37:47
Speaker 1: this fellow is, like, I just like to keep you informed.
37:52
Speaker 1: So they arrest him, and he, my dear friends, ends
37:57
Speaker 1: up singing like a fucking canary. He's got places, he's
38:01
Speaker 1: got dates, he's got names, and he is absolutely ready
38:05
Speaker 1: to squawk on Patrick Brady. Reginald claims that Patrick Brady
38:13
Speaker 1: killed Smith for reasons and that he had dismembered him
38:19
Speaker 1: and given him what is known in the criminal circles
38:25
Speaker 1: as a Sydney send off. Effectively, this is hacking up
38:30
Speaker 1: a body, putting the parts inside of trunks, and then
38:35
Speaker 1: dumping the aforementioned trunks off of good Man of Bait.
38:39
Speaker 1: And again, according to Reginald Patrick, Brady gave Jim Smith
38:45
Speaker 1: a Sydney send off and then showed up at his
38:49
Speaker 1: house with Jim Smith's faery, as you've said before, very
38:54
Speaker 1: distinctive tattooed arm, and then he threatened homes. He threatened
39:01
Speaker 1: him and demanded five hundred pounds, And naturally, Reginald William
39:09
Speaker 1: Lloyd Holmes, he doesn't want to be dismembered by a
39:13
Speaker 1: petty criminal, his body parts chucked in a trunk and
39:17
Speaker 1: then buried at sea. Of course, not so naturally he
39:22
Speaker 1: pays him off, and afterwards Brady takes the arm with him,
39:26
Speaker 1: ties awake to it and throws it into the ocean.
39:30
Speaker 1: And it was after this, in seeing no way out,
39:32
Speaker 1: that he had decided to do what he did on
39:36
Speaker 1: the speedboat. Now at this point, Reggie, he is ready
39:42
Speaker 1: and willing to testify in court. He agrees absolutely one
39:46
Speaker 1: hundred percent. And at this point it seems like the
39:48
Speaker 1: case is cut and dry. But then another twist in
39:53
Speaker 1: the tail. It's the twelfth of June. It's twenty past
39:57
Speaker 1: one in the morning, so one twenty am. It is
40:01
Speaker 1: literally hours away, hours away from Jim Smith's inquest. So
40:07
Speaker 1: the inquest into the murder of Jim Smith at which
40:11
Speaker 1: Reginald Holmes was supposed to be providing testimony. A couple
40:16
Speaker 1: hours early hours of the morning, Reginald William Lloyd Holmes,
40:23
Speaker 1: his car is found at this abandoned docks down at
40:30
Speaker 1: DAWs Point. In the car from a distance, it looks
40:34
Speaker 1: like it's just been abandoned, right but no. Inside, slumped
40:41
Speaker 1: over the steering wheel of the car was the body
40:45
Speaker 1: of Reginald William Lloyd Holmes with three bullet wounds in
40:50
Speaker 1: his chest. Now I'm gonna pepper this sandwich of mystery
40:55
Speaker 1: with just a sprinkling of intrigue. So the very day
41:00
Speaker 1: before the inquest was supposed to occur, So a couple
41:04
Speaker 1: hours before the body is found, Reginald goes to the
41:09
Speaker 1: bank and he withdraws five hundred pounds. Now this is
41:15
Speaker 1: the amount that he says Patrick Brady asked for. So
41:20
Speaker 1: he takes out five hundred pounds, and that's like what
41:26
Speaker 1: was it now in today's money, that's like thirty six
41:31
Speaker 1: thousand pounds forty thousand euros sixty five thousand Australian dollars
41:39
Speaker 1: or like forty eight thousand US dollars. So this is
41:43
Speaker 1: the eleventh of gine And so he's withdrawn the money
41:46
Speaker 1: like earlier in the day, and then in the evening
41:50
Speaker 1: he tells his wife that he has to go meet someone.
41:53
Speaker 1: And you know, she's not suspicious, it doesn't seem peculiar,
41:57
Speaker 1: but he goes to meet someone, or so he tells her,
42:00
Speaker 1: and then a few hours later he's found dead. Like,
42:04
Speaker 1: I'm not a lead, you know, criminal investigator or I
42:10
Speaker 1: don't know police authority person, but I feel like the
42:16
Speaker 1: main witness to your murder inquest should probably receive like
42:22
Speaker 1: a wee bit of police protection, especially you know, the
42:27
Speaker 1: night leading up to said incredibly important murder inquest. But
42:33
Speaker 1: back to the crime scene. Now again, I'm not a criminologist,
42:37
Speaker 1: I'm not a forensic criminal person. But like the ongoing
42:43
Speaker 1: theory here that they have at this moment in time
42:46
Speaker 1: at the crime scene is that Reginald William Lloyd Holmes
42:51
Speaker 1: died by suicide by shooting himself in the chest three times. Now,
42:58
Speaker 1: even the most determined of people, like, after you shoot
43:02
Speaker 1: yourself in the chest once, are you really going to
43:06
Speaker 1: go to the effort of shooting yourself in the chest
43:10
Speaker 1: two more times? Like? Are you going to do it?
43:13
Speaker 1: Like the money isn't found in the car, yeah, and
43:19
Speaker 1: he's just like they find the weapon, but they kind
43:22
Speaker 1: of it's like, oh, yeah, he definitely did this to himself,
43:25
Speaker 1: which is hmmm mmmm weird and doesn't make sense to me.
43:32
Speaker 1: Another theory is that he took out the money to
43:37
Speaker 1: put a hit on himself to protect his family, like
43:41
Speaker 1: because he's, you know, a member of the criminal underworld
43:44
Speaker 1: and there were other people that are are having it
43:47
Speaker 1: out for him that are going to come and get him.
43:50
Speaker 1: And also, you know, because he he gobbed to the
43:52
Speaker 1: police like it's you know, so there's this whole idea
43:58
Speaker 1: that he did this to protect them. Now, another contributing
44:02
Speaker 1: factor is that if his crimes were out in the open,
44:06
Speaker 1: if he testified, you know, on the Bible to the
44:09
Speaker 1: open court, that he would lose his livelihood, his reputation,
44:13
Speaker 1: and that his family would have to suffer embarrassment. So
44:18
Speaker 1: it's not just about like physically protecting them, but like
44:21
Speaker 1: protecting them financially, because he also left like an estate
44:25
Speaker 1: worth like thirty six thousand pounds at the time, which
44:30
Speaker 1: is just a lot, a lot of money, like millions,
44:34
Speaker 1: I suppose in today's money, like just a good hun
44:36
Speaker 1: could change. And that's like one of the prevailing theories
44:42
Speaker 1: that he takes his hit out on himself in order
44:45
Speaker 1: to you know, just ensure like a decent life or
44:49
Speaker 1: his family. You know. Another theory is that you know,
44:54
Speaker 1: Patrick Brady sort of put a hit out on him
44:57
Speaker 1: and he was murdered to silence him, because yeah, he's
45:00
Speaker 1: the primary witness it. Even he feels like it's a
45:03
Speaker 1: hit of some kind. But who orchestrated it, we just
45:09
Speaker 1: don't know. So, yeah, with the unfortunate end of Reginald here,
45:15
Speaker 1: Jim Smith's inquest no longer has a primary witness. There's
45:21
Speaker 1: no one really to testify at this point. And because
45:24
Speaker 1: of this, the trial lasts like two days, two day's
45:29
Speaker 1: tops for a murder inquest because you know, there's no
45:33
Speaker 1: relevant witnesses left. And so because the case against Patrick
45:39
Speaker 1: Brady is effectively circumstantial, the case just crumbles and he
45:47
Speaker 1: gets to stroll out of the court probably doing I
45:51
Speaker 1: don't know whatever dance was popular at the time, the
45:54
Speaker 1: Charleston maybe jiving, I don't know what. Once the nineteen
45:59
Speaker 1: thirties version of dabbing. Like that's twice I've mentioned dabbing
46:03
Speaker 1: in an episode. Somebody get me off the Internet. I
46:07
Speaker 1: need to stop talking about these things that I am
46:10
Speaker 1: not having anywhere with all of because everything, everything against
46:15
Speaker 1: him was circumstantial. The only thing they had, the only
46:19
Speaker 1: solid piece of evidence was Jim's arm. So, yeah, Brady
46:25
Speaker 1: is acquitted of all charges. But unfortunately for him, his
46:31
Speaker 1: Charleston is driving his susieing. They come to an abrupt
46:35
Speaker 1: stop because as soon as he's outside the court, as
46:39
Speaker 1: soon as they get a chance, he's arrested on forgery
46:42
Speaker 1: charges because they can get him for that. But yeah,
46:46
Speaker 1: for Patrick Brady, for the next thirty years up until
46:49
Speaker 1: his death in nineteen sixty five, he proclaims his innocence
46:53
Speaker 1: and the murder. He's like, he wasn't involved. Jimmy Smith
46:57
Speaker 1: was his friend and he didn't kill him. I mean,
47:00
Speaker 1: obviously we're gonna take that with a pinch of salt,
47:02
Speaker 1: but like, hmm, maybe that being said after the trial,
47:09
Speaker 1: after the dust stros some information starts to trickle out,
47:14
Speaker 1: and oh this stew that we are mixing like your
47:19
Speaker 1: your spoon is fighting you at this point, like this
47:22
Speaker 1: wooden spoon is about to snap. That is how much
47:25
Speaker 1: this plot has thickened. Okay, this witch is brew just
47:30
Speaker 1: it's not going any further. As it turns out, our
47:34
Speaker 1: dear friend Jimmy Smith was a fizz gig. Now, if
47:39
Speaker 1: you're an Australian person who knows nineteen thirty's you know slang,
47:45
Speaker 1: you won't have to look that up. I am not
47:47
Speaker 1: that person, and so I did. A fizz gig is
47:51
Speaker 1: a police informant. So Jimmy Smith police informant, which makes
47:59
Speaker 1: the yeah, quote unquote rat was caught and dealt with
48:07
Speaker 1: snitches get stitches bitches. Well, I mean less snitches get
48:13
Speaker 1: stitches and more like snitches get hacked up and served
48:17
Speaker 1: to the sharks. But what perplexes me again not a
48:25
Speaker 1: criminality criminologist person. Sorry it's very late when I'm recording this. Uh,
48:32
Speaker 1: what is confusing to me is that Jimmy Smith, Jim Smith,
48:39
Speaker 1: James Boy, Jim Jimmy Jim Jimmy Jim Jim is a
48:44
Speaker 1: distinct looking man. He has a very distinct tattoo, a
48:49
Speaker 1: very distinct tattoo that was shown in the newspaper that
48:55
Speaker 1: was shown to the police force, to the police force
49:00
Speaker 1: of which he was a police informant, and not one
49:05
Speaker 1: police officer recognized this very distinctive tattoo, Like no one
49:12
Speaker 1: recognized the name Jimmy Smith, Like, not one person, not
49:18
Speaker 1: one single solitary member of the police force when I
49:23
Speaker 1: know him. That's the guy who has been dobbing on everyone.
49:27
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's suspicious. I'm just saying, you know,
49:31
Speaker 1: it's fucking suspicious. So word on the street is that
49:37
Speaker 1: Jimmy the Fizzer snitched. He snitched on a guy called
49:42
Speaker 1: Eddie Wyman, and women in his pal were caught red
49:45
Speaker 1: handed robbing a bank. And again the rule is don't
49:51
Speaker 1: squeal to the pigs. Like that's I mean, that's kind
49:54
Speaker 1: of like a general rule for like life. But it's
49:59
Speaker 1: very much the the golden rule of being part of
50:03
Speaker 1: the criminal underworld. And there's also a theory this is
50:06
Speaker 1: all part of some like Razorhearst gang war, but yeah,
50:12
Speaker 1: we don't really have evidence one way or the other
50:14
Speaker 1: for that. And so ends the Tale of the Sydney
50:18
Speaker 1: Shark arm Murder. So what did we learned today? We
50:22
Speaker 1: learned that having the fastest speedboat doesn't necessarily mean you're
50:27
Speaker 1: gonna win the race, and that one arm does not
50:31
Speaker 1: a corpse make So I hoped you liked my retelling
50:36
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Speaker 1: Subscriptions to vintage newspapers are not cheap. I spent so
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Speaker 1: much time reading tiny tiny print all the links around
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Speaker 1: the description down below, and I guess it is recommendation time.
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Speaker 1: Da da da da da God. I'm tired recommendations, you know.
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Speaker 1: I think everybody needs to feel good sometimes, and I'm
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Speaker 1: not gonna recommend anything new because of you know, Saga,
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Speaker 1: Aftra and whatnot. So I am gonna recommend Dumpling. Everybody
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Speaker 1: should watch Dumpling. It is so good. It's on Netflix.
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Speaker 1: It is just it's just a wonderful movie. Go watch it.
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Speaker 1: It's brilliant. Go watch it. For reading, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: suggest the Christie Affair. It's sort of it's like a
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Speaker 1: fictional retelling of the chain of events that led up
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Speaker 1: to the mysterious disappearance of that other Christie, which is
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Speaker 1: not as mysterious if you like, just look at it
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Speaker 1: very reasonably. But yeah, and for listening, well nineteen eighty
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Speaker 1: nine Taylor's version, she'd be coming out very soon. Although
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Speaker 1: I have been listening to speak now and Mean is
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Speaker 1: so good. I love it. It's just like the most
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Speaker 1: country song is and it's just pure spite. I love
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Speaker 1: it because it's like adorable spite. But yeah, and so
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Speaker 1: that's my recommendations. And so with that, I shall say
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Speaker 1: good night to you adios, or of where is my Friends?
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Speaker 1: Bye bye,