REINTRODUCING: Blood On The Tracks (reprise)

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This is a story that started decades ago, and now we might be closer to the truth than ever.

They said there's been an accident.

Mark's been found on railway tracks.

Just outside Tamworth, a 17-year-old Aboriginal boy is dead.

I just said oh, Mark,

it just broke me.

I cried,

not Mark.

My Mark, not Mark.

He was gone.

Is it suicide?

Misadventure?

Or something more sinister?

Well, what we didn't see was any blood.

And under his head, there was a towel.

It was a white towel.

And we picked up a comb and a pink cigarette lighter.

That's why I said, no, I'm sorry.

You could not drive a car.

No way.

The jigsaw puzzles didn't fit.

A million questions.

Why, how, who, what.

A country police investigation overshadowed by the politics of race.

You know how it is?

Young Aboriginal men, they just walk away, lie down on railway tracks and wait to get hit by a freight train.

That's actually their answer.

That was their story, you know what I mean?

But it wasn't our story.

Her family on a 30-year fight for justice.

So I just done what any

family would do for their loved ones.

Question what has happened.

I'm Alan Clark and eight years ago I created the Walkley Award-winning podcast Blood on the Tracks, the first ever series from Unravel.

It's about the suspicious death of Aboriginal teenager Mark Haynes in Tamworth back in 1988.

After this podcast was first released, the coroner agreed to launch a fresh inquest.

It's currently underway and there's been some big revelations.

We're closer than ever to finally getting some answers and getting an end to this story.

So now we're going to update this series and re-release it.

We're retelling the whole story right from the start.

It was foul play and it was a cover-up right from the word go.

I said, well, where was you?

Where was you when my nephew was found dead?

I'll fight every one of you fools.

One at a time, we're all the ones I don't care.

We don't call ourselves vigilantes.

We're here in search of the truth and still are.

He hasn't given up.

30 years later.

I just wish...

I just wish he'd fight.

He'd get his answers.

I just want him to have peace.

I want Mark to have peace.

So I'll just ask you one last time.

Did you have anything to do with Mark's death?

To find out what happens, listen to my updated podcast.

Blood on the Tracks is the latest season of the ABC's true crime podcast, Unravel.

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