REINTRODUCING: Blood On The Tracks (reprise)

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🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Back in 2018, our first season Blood on the Tracks investigated the suspicious death of 17-year-old Mark Haines, whose body was found on the railway line outside Tamworth in January 1988.

Since Allan Clarke first reported this story, there's been a fresh inquest, with new witnesses and explosive allegations.

Dive back into Blood on the Tracks. We're republishing the original series plus a brand new episode, where we delve into the latest from the new inquest.

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0:00.0	This is an ABC podcast.
0:06.0	This is a story that started decades ago, and now we might be closer to the truth than ever.
0:16.0	They said there's been an accident.
0:19.0	Mark's been found on railway tracks.
0:22.6	Just outside Tamworth, a 17-year-old Aboriginal boy is dead.
0:28.6	I just said, oh Mark, it just broke me. I cried. Not Mark.
0:38.3	Why Mark? Not Mark.
0:40.3	He was gone.
0:42.3	Is it suicide?
0:44.3	Misadventure?
0:45.3	Or something more sinister?
0:48.3	Well, what we didn't see was any blood. Under under his head there was a towel, it was a white towel.
0:57.0	And we picked up a comb and a pink cigarette ladder.
1:03.0	And that's what I said, no, I'm sorry. You could not drive a car. No, wait.
1:07.0	The jigsaw puzzles didn't fit.
1:10.0	A million questions, why, how, who, what.
1:12.6	A country police investigation, overshadowed by the politics of race.
1:18.6	You know how it is, young Aboriginal men, they just walk her away, lie down on
1:22.6	railway tracks and wait to get by a freight train.
1:24.6	That's actually their answer.
1:25.6	That was their story, you know what I mean?
1:28.3	But it wasn't our story.
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