01 Blood On The Tracks | Blood On The Tracks
Unravel
ABC Australia
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Just outside Australia's country music capital, a young man's body is found on the train tracks, surrounded by shattered Christmas presents and discarded wrapping paper.
For decades, the mystery has haunted Tamworth.
After Unravel's first season Blood on the Tracks brought national attention to the case and won a Walkley award, a new inquest was launched.
Now, Muruwari and Gomeroi journalist Allan Clarke returns to where it all began for Unravel, revisiting Tamworth and uncovering what's happened since, as the long-awaited final chapter of the story unfolds, and major new revelations are heard at the inquest.
But before then, let's return to episode one. We trace Mark's movements on the night before his death, as he hit the town on a big night out with a bunch of friends, dancing, drinking and having fun. Mark's friends and girlfriend say they left him in the early hours. Just after, a nearby resident hears voices on the street, what sounds like an argument, and a car driving dangerously.
But the next few hours remain a mystery. How did Mark end up on the tracks?
This season of Unravel is intended to be listened to as a whole. If you haven't heard all the episodes, you shouldn't draw any conclusions, because you haven't heard all the sides of this story.
To binge more great episodes of Unravel, the ABC's award winning investigative true crime podcast documentary series, search 'Unravel podcast' on the ABC Listen app (Australia) or wherever you get your podcasts.
There you'll find previous series covering various crimes and crime-related topics including solved and unsolved murder cases, forensic analysis, gangland crimes, love scammers, con-artists, drugs, terrorism, neo-nazis, and miscarriages of justice — all investigated by some of Australia's best reporters and people who know the story best.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.1 | Blood on the Tracks is the first ever series we made for Unravel back in 2017. |
| 0:11.1 | But we're re-releasing it now with a new episode because the New South Wales coroner is currently holding a fresh inquest into this case. |
| 0:22.8 | Keep listening to the end of this series to find out about the new information that's recently been revealed in the inquest hearings. |
| 0:29.6 | This season of Unravel is intended to be listened to as a whole. If you haven't heard |
| 0:35.9 | all the episodes, you shouldn't draw any conclusions because you haven't heard all the episodes, you shouldn't draw any conclusions because you |
| 0:40.1 | haven't heard all the sides of the story. And a warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait |
| 0:45.9 | Islander people. This series contains the names of people who have died. |
| 0:57.0 | It's just after dawn on a Saturday morning in Tamworth, a town in northern New South Wales. |
| 1:07.0 | A freight train driver eases his cargo out of the station to begin the journey south to Sydney. |
| 1:16.6 | He's scanning the horizon as the train picks up speed and leaves the city limits. |
| 1:29.3 | There's a light drizzle so the driver can't see that well. |
| 1:34.3 | His eyes strained to make out something up ahead on the tracks. |
| 1:40.3 | He thinks it might be a pile of clothes. |
| 1:45.0 | Seconds go by. |
| 1:48.0 | The bundle is actually a person lying between the rails. |
| 1:53.0 | The driver pulls the emergency brake. |
| 1:59.0 | Stopping a 300-ton train quick-time The driver pulls the emergency brake. |
| 2:06.6 | Stopping a 300-ton train quickly is impossible. It screeches down the straight track. The entire length of the train has gone over the body. |
| 2:26.3 | The driver doesn't want to get out. |
| 2:28.3 | He knows what's waiting for him a few hundred metres back. |
| 2:50.0 | I got a call from the driver on the train to say that he had passed over a body. And I did ask him to go back and see if he could render any assistance. |
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