INTRODUCING — Blood On The Tracks

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ABC Australia

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime

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🗓️ 18 May 2018

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Blood On The Tracks investigates the suspicious death of 17-year-old Mark Haines, whose body was found on the railway line outside Tamworth in January 1988.

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0:00.0	They said there's been an accident.
0:07.0	Mark's been found on railway tracks.
0:10.0	Just outside Tamworth, a 17 year old Aboriginal boy is dead.
0:15.0	I just said, oh my killer, it just broke me.
0:21.0	I, uh, I cried. Not Mark. Why Mark? Not Mark. He was gone.
0:30.5	Is it suicide? Misadventure?
0:33.0	Or something more sinister.
0:36.0	Well, what we didn't see was any blood.
0:42.0	And under his head they were to tail, it was a white tail.
0:45.0	And we picked up a comb and a pink cigarette lighter.
0:51.0	And that's what I said, now I'm sorry, you could not drive a car.
0:54.0	No weight.
0:55.0	The jigsaw puzzles didn't fit.
0:58.0	A million questions why, how, who, what?
1:01.0	A country police investigation overshadowed by the politics of race.
1:06.0	You know how it is? Young average men, they just walk away, lie down on railway tracks and wait to get
1:11.5	a freight train. That's actually their answer.
1:14.0	That was their story, you know what I mean?
1:16.4	But it wasn't our story.
1:17.9	Her family on a 30-year fight for justice.
1:21.5	So I just done what any family would do for their loved ones.
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