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Jul 9, 2026 14 min

AUSTRALIA'S STRANGEST MURDER

from DEVIOUS Hosted by Handy and Maal

This week on Devious Backstories, Handy & Maal dive into one of Australia's strangest true crime cases: the infamous Shark Arm Case. In 1935, visitors at Sydney's Coogee Aquarium watched in disbelief as a tiger shark suddenly became ill... and regurgitated a human arm into its tank. What looked like a bizarre accident quickly unraveled into a web of insurance fraud, organized crime, forged documents, suspicious deaths, and murder. The gang breaks down how one shark shocked an entire nation, the investigation that followed, and why the mystery remains one of Australia's most fascinating unsolved true crime stories. A story so unbelievable it sounds like fiction—but every twist really happened.

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