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Unravel

05 Blood On The Tracks | The Driver

Unravel

ABC Australia

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture

0.00 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

More than two decades have passed since the coronial inquest into Mark Haines' death. The family have been forgotten about — until news reporter Allan Clarke arrives in Tamworth on a routine story and becomes convinced this is a major injustice.

Allan's reporting unearths fresh information. A mother comes forward with a story about her son's involvement.

Police aren't quick to follow up. But, after a flurry of protests and phone calls … the case finally starts to gain traction.

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

When the police raided the Stonewall Inn back in 1969, they had no idea that it would

0:05.7

eventually lead to the birth of gay pride.

0:08.3

We started standing up for ourselves.

0:10.1

We stood tall and said, this is who we are, and you're going to accept us.

0:13.5

I'm Mark Fennell, and I am the host of the ABC Radio National podcast.

0:17.7

No one saw it coming.

0:19.0

Each week, we unravel a moment in history that changed the course of the world, but, well,

0:24.5

no one saw it coming.

0:25.9

To hear it, search for no one saw it coming on the ABC Listen app.

0:31.7

This is an ABC podcast.

0:34.9

Just a note before we start.

0:40.7

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

0:48.0

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

0:55.3

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

1:03.1

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

1:09.0

heard all the sides of the story.

1:11.2

And a warning for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

1:15.6

This series contains the names of people who have died.

1:20.2

Now back to our story where we're currently exploring what happened at the first inquest,

1:25.8

way back in 1989?

1:37.0

The inquest into Mark Haynes' death unearthed a lot of suspicious evidence,

1:40.4

but it didn't answer the central questions in this case.

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