04 Blood On The Tracks | Whitewash
Unravel
ABC Australia
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🗓️ 22 October 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Nine months after Mark's death, an inquest is held. The family are hopeful it will give them answers, but the police won't budge from their theory that he put himself on the tracks.
As the hearing unfolds, the family find out just how mediocre the initial investigation was.
One person is in the family's corner though. The railway worker who found Mark on the tracks is adamant the police and the forensic pathologist have it wrong. He's remained silent for the last thirty years but finally comes forward to set the record straight.
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.
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| 0:00.0 | insightful. One hour. Deeply personal. Two mics. Two microphones. Four walks. Going at the same time, |
| 0:06.8 | one for each hand. Um, can you murder him, please? Unforgettable stories. We got hit by a wave and |
| 0:13.3 | I was just in this sort of perumbra of bubbles, this world of fizz. And it was very beautiful. |
| 0:18.5 | I didn't notice that I was drowning. |
| 0:23.5 | Hear the latest from conversations. |
| 0:26.1 | Find it on the ABC Listen app. |
| 0:33.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:36.4 | Just a note before we start. |
| 0:40.0 | This case is currently being looked at by the New South Wales coroner. After this podcast was first released in 2017, the coroner agreed to launch a fresh |
| 0:47.4 | inquest. Keep listening to the end of this series to find out about the new information |
| 0:53.3 | that's recently been revealed in the |
| 0:55.7 | inquest hearings. This season of Unravel is intended to be listened to as a whole. |
| 1:02.5 | If you haven't heard all the episodes, you shouldn't draw any conclusions because you haven't |
| 1:08.4 | heard all the sides of the story. And a warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. |
| 1:14.6 | This series contains the names of people who have died. |
| 1:22.6 | Today's a big day for me. |
| 1:24.6 | I'm on my way to meet one of the few eyewitnesses that actually saw Mark's body on the tracks the morning he was found. |
| 1:32.3 | And at the inquest into Mark Haynes' death in 1988, this man's evidence was crucial. |
| 1:39.3 | We've heard about him in previous episodes. His name is Glenn Bryant, and back then he was the assistant station master at West Hamworth. |
| 1:47.0 | Hi Glenn, how I am. |
| 1:50.0 | Hi Alan. |
| 1:51.0 | I'm good. |
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