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Unravel

03 Blood On The Tracks | The Boxer

Unravel

ABC Australia

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On the surface, Tamworth in 1988 is a typical Aussie town with rodeos, farmers and an active Country Women's Association. But beneath the friendly veneer, there's a thriving criminal underbelly. Large marijuana crops grow on the outskirts of town and there are reports of bikie gangs with links to corrupt cops on the take.

The police investigation into Mark's death has stalled, allowing gossip and innuendo to take hold. The family know Mark occasionally smoked marijuana, but now they're hearing whispers that he might've got on the wrong side of some serious criminals.

The family decide to confront a man rumoured to have been involved… with ugly consequences.

Blood on the Tracks is the first ever series we made for Unravel, back in 2018.

But we're re-releasing it now with a new episode because the NSW Deputy State Coroner is currently holding a fresh inquest into this case.

Keep listening to the end of this series to find out about the new information that's recently been revealed in the inquest hearings.

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.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What do Rasputin, Tupac and Pharaoh Ramses III have in common?

0:06.0

No, it's not the weirdest boy band ever.

0:08.9

They all met their end at the hand of an assassin.

0:13.0

From seizing power to silencing dissidents,

0:16.8

Assassins unpacks the moments in which someone decides that murder is the move.

0:23.1

Search for Assassins with Aslan Pahari on the ABC Listen app or wherever you get your podcast.

0:31.6

This is an ABC podcast.

0:34.9

Just a note before we start.

0:37.3

This case is currently being looked at by the New South Wales coroner.

0:42.0

After this podcast was first released in 2017, the coroner agreed to launch a fresh inquest.

0:49.4

Keep listening to the end of this series to find out about the new information that's recently been revealed

0:55.6

in the inquest hearings. This season of Unravel is intended to be listened to as a whole.

1:02.8

If you haven't heard all the episodes, you shouldn't draw any conclusions because you haven't

1:08.8

heard all the sides of the story.

1:15.0

And a warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

1:18.9

This series contains the names of people who have died.

1:27.0

Six months have passed since Mark Haynes was found dead on the tracks.

1:31.2

Winters set in and the police investigation is stalling.

1:36.8

The evidence the family handed to the cops, the lighter, the comb, the mat from the boot,

1:38.5

it's all led to nothing.

1:48.5

We were hopeful police would have been able to work out exactly what has happened to Mark,

1:55.5

but that was not the case. There are still so many unanswered questions. With no progress from the police, rumours and innuendo grow wilder each day. Paranoia and violence take hold.

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