Blood On The Tracks 02 | Foul Play
Unravel
ABC Australia
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🗓️ 4 June 2018
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Mark Haines' family challenge the police investigation.
When Mark Haines dies, news of the teenager's death spreads quickly through Tamworth and beyond. His family are on summer holidays in different parts of the state and rush home to be together in grief.
While the family mourns and Mark’s body is in the morgue, their town is in full party mode. The Tamworth Country Music Festival is on and Australia is celebrating 200 years of colonization. For Mark’s uncles, it feels like the death of a young Aboriginal boy is the last thing on anyone’s mind.
The police come up with a theory that Mark might’ve killed himself ... but the family aren’t buying it. In the days and weeks ahead, his uncles return repeatedly to the train tracks looking around for answers. They’re worried the police have missed vital clues and they become convinced Mark met with foul play.
In their quest to disprove the police theory, the family find an unlikely ally. The railway worker who first found Mark’s body on tracks is just as convinced the evidence out there on the tracks just doesn’t add up.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an ABC podcast. |
| 0:05.3 | If you're an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, we want you to know that this series contains a name of someone who has died. |
| 0:19.7 | January in Tamworth means one thing, the annual country music festival. |
| 0:23.6 | Tourists are pouring into town, stages are being set up in the main street and hundreds of buskers are tuning their guitars. |
| 0:31.6 | The city lives for it. It's a time to party. |
| 0:36.6 | But the family of Mark Haynes' The city lives for it. It's a time to party. |
| 0:43.3 | But the family of Mark Haynes isn't celebrating. I couldn't believe it was him. |
| 0:46.3 | That this has really happened, I had to go to the morgue myself and have a look at him myself. |
| 0:53.3 | Duck walks around to the morgue at the have a look at him myself. |
| 0:55.0 | Duck walks around to the morgue at the back of Tamworth Hospital. |
| 0:59.0 | Well I just remember walking through a couple of big swinging doors and |
| 1:09.0 | well I can see this person laying out with a sheet over him. |
| 1:13.6 | I had to take a closer look and really look real hard to realize it was Mark. |
| 1:21.6 | I just said, oh Mark, it just broke me. I cried, that boy was like my own son. |
| 1:37.3 | I'm Alan Clark. Welcome to Unravel. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm your host for Season 1, Blood on the Tracks, |
| 1:43.3 | an investigation into the death of Aboriginal teenager Mark Haynes. |
| 1:49.0 | If this is your first time listening, it's best you start from the first episode. Mark's death comes as a shock to his family. |
| 2:11.6 | The news ripples through town. Some people think it was suicide. |
| 2:16.6 | Others think it was a drunk Aboriginal teen up to no good. |
| 2:20.3 | Case closed. But there's so much more to this story than that. |
| 2:24.3 | The We just got into theme park, and our local meetings today. |
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