Unravel

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Episodes: 59

p b
 Sep 4, 2021
as with all podcasts by these guys... story is good but delivery takes far to long

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'Blood on the Tracks' is the latest season of Unravel, the ABC's award-winning true crime podcast. After explosive new developments in the case, this podcast — first released in 2018 — has been updated and rereleased. Just outside Australia's country music capital, a young man's body is found on the train tracks, surrounded by shattered Christmas presents and discarded wrapping paper. For decades, the mystery has haunted Tamworth. After Unravel's award-winning first season, 'Blood on the Tracks' brought national attention to the case, a new inquest was launched. Now, Muruwari and Gomeroi journalist Allan Clarke returns to where it all began for Unravel, revisiting Tamworth and uncovering what's happened since, as the long-awaited final chapter of the story unfolds, and there are major new revelations in the inquest hearings. The original 'Blood on the Tracks' won a Walkley award for Coverage of Indigenous Affairs. Previous seasons of Unravel have covered everything from love scams to Neo-Nazi gangs. In Season 6, Mr Big, a scratchy recording made in a Melbourne hotel room above a casino captures a man admitting to murder. But as journalist Alicia Bridges investigates the man on the tape known as Mr Big, she finds herself in a world of lies and subterfuge, where very few things are as they seem. The recording leads her deep inside an international controversy, to a world of secrets that powerful institutions don't want revealed. Mr Big won a silver New York Festivals award for Investigative Journalism Podcasts. In Season 5, Firebomb, Crispian Chan investigates what really happened after his family's restaurant went up in flames in 1988. He was just a kid when Chinese restaurants were being firebombed in the dead of night and a campaign of terror was underway in Perth. Thirty-five years on, most of us have never heard about it, even though it's one of the few sustained and coordinated terrorism campaigns in Australia's history. Crispian teamed up with ABC reporter Alex Mann, and together they traversed the country to find answers and explore the darker forces that still lurk in our suburbs today. 'Firebomb' won Best True Crime at the Australian Podcast Awards. In Season 4, Snowball, Ollie Wards investigates how his brother's whirlwind romance with a charismatic Californian woman ultimately cost his family more than a million dollars. When Greg Wards met Lezlie Manukian, a beautiful woman whose world is full of glamour, he is immediately drawn to her. They fall in love, get married and start planning the rest of their lives together — the only catch is Lezlie is a con artist. To find out who his brother's wife really is, Ollie must track down Lezlie herself, and it soon becomes clear that his family's story is just one piece of a bigger jigsaw. 'Snowball' won Best True Crime at the Australian Podcast Awards in 2020, was one of Apple Podcasts' Best Listens of 2019, made the American Bello Collective's top 100 list that year. In Season 3, Last Seen Katoomba, reporter Gina McKeon digs deep into the suspicious unsolved disappearance of young mum, Belinda Peisley, who was last seen in the Blue Mountains town of Katoomba, west of Sydney, in September 1998. Belinda's life descends into chaos after her 18th birthday when she receives a large inheritance and buys her own place in town. It's a move her family thinks will set her up for life but, instead, the house becomes a magnet for a world of drugs and a crowd of hangers-on who visit day and night. Gina pieces together the stories and evidence around the six main persons of interest named in the inquest into Belinda's disappearance and suspected death, and what emerges is a picture of a town and a case shrouded in secrecy. In Season 2, Barrenjoey Road, reporter Ruby Jones tries to solve the mystery of what happened to 18-year-old Trudie Adams after she disappears while hitchhiking home on Sydney's northern beaches in 1978. Ruby exposes the dark underbelly of the seemingly beautiful and serene "Insular Peninsula," uncovering a world where surfers run drugs home from Bali, gangs of men prowl the beaches and predators have unchecked power. Ruby will question why the case was never solved and her investigation will lead her to a criminal monster with links to organised crime and police corruption at the highest level. In Season 1, Blood On The Tracks, award-winning Muruwari and Gomeroi journalist Allan Clarke spends five years investigating the unusual circumstances surrounding the death of 17-year-old Gomeroi teenager, Mark Haines. In 1988, just outside of Tamworth in country New South Wales, a freight train hits Mark's body lying across the tracks. When the rail worker stops the train and gets out, the scene doesn't add up. The tracks divide Tamworth in two. An Aboriginal community on one side, a largely white population on the other. Some will say it was a suicide and others a murder. Despite the strange evidence found at the scene of his death, the family feel like they're being ignored by police. An inquiry finds no answers and the mystery is left to fester, causing division and suspicion in the town. Allan's reporting helps to spark a resurgence of interest in the case that sees the file reopened, a review launched, a reward announced. As Allan gets closer to the truth, the story ends with a revelation no-one was expecting, and the thirty-year-old mystery finally begins to unravel.

Episode Date
PRESENTS — The Eleventh
Nov 07, 2025
08 Blood On The Tracks | Finally, a new inquest
Oct 22, 2025
07 Blood On The Tracks | Face To Face
Oct 22, 2025
06 Blood On The Tracks | Revelation
Oct 22, 2025
05 Blood On The Tracks | The Driver
Oct 22, 2025
04 Blood On The Tracks | Whitewash
Oct 22, 2025
03 Blood On The Tracks | The Boxer
Oct 22, 2025
02 Blood On The Tracks | Foul Play
Oct 22, 2025
01 Blood On The Tracks | Blood On The Tracks
Oct 22, 2025
REINTRODUCING: Blood On The Tracks (reprise)
Oct 22, 2025
BONUS | Behind the scenes on Mr Big
Oct 21, 2024
07 Mr Big | Through the looking glass
Oct 07, 2024
06 Mr Big | The knife
Oct 07, 2024
05 Mr Big | A story about murder
Oct 07, 2024
04 Mr Big | You're it
Oct 07, 2024
03 Mr Big | A bee in the ear
Oct 07, 2024
02 Mr Big | Two suspects, one killer
Oct 07, 2024
01 Mr Big | The secret recording
Oct 07, 2024
INTRODUCING — Mr Big, a new true crime series from Unravel
Sep 23, 2024
Firebomb BONUS | Behind the scenes
Oct 09, 2023
Firebomb 07 | Close to Home
Sep 25, 2023
Firebomb 06 | Track Jack
Sep 18, 2023
Firebomb 05 | The Gang Rises
Sep 11, 2023
Firebomb 04 | Operation Jackhammer
Sep 04, 2023
Firebomb 03 | Punks and Ninjas
Aug 28, 2023
Firebomb 02 | The Posters
Aug 21, 2023
Firebomb 01 | The Man Lin
Aug 14, 2023
INTRODUCING — Firebomb
Jul 31, 2023
Snowball 07 | The Morning After
Sep 02, 2019
Snowball 06 | Stakeout
Sep 02, 2019
Snowball 05 | Black Widow
Sep 02, 2019
Snowball 04 | Charmed
Sep 02, 2019
Snowball 03 | The Coconut Wireless
Sep 02, 2019
Snowball 02 | The Great Houdini
Sep 02, 2019
Snowball 01 | The Girl With The Dragonfly Tattoo
Sep 02, 2019
INTRODUCING — Snowball
Aug 28, 2019
Last Seen Katoomba BONUS | Seeing Is Believing
Mar 12, 2019
Last Seen Katoomba 05 | The Visitor
Mar 05, 2019
Last Seen Katoomba 04 | The Best Friend's Boyfriend
Feb 26, 2019
Last Seen Katoomba 03 | The Best Friend
Feb 19, 2019
Last Seen Katoomba 02 | The Boyfriend
Feb 12, 2019
Last Seen Katoomba 01 | Belinda
Feb 05, 2019
INTRODUCING — Last Seen Katoomba
Jan 28, 2019
Barrenjoey Road 07 | Christmas Tree Hill
Nov 13, 2018
Barrenjoey Road 06 | The Unholy Relationship
Nov 06, 2018
Barrenjoey Road 05 | The Big Bad Wolf
Oct 30, 2018
Barrenjoey Road 04 | The Green Kombi Van
Oct 23, 2018
Barrenjoey Road 03 | The Hunting Ground
Oct 16, 2018
Barrenjoey Road 02 | Suspicious Minds
Oct 09, 2018
Barrenjoey Road 01 | Saturday night on Barrenjoey Road
Oct 08, 2018
INTRODUCING — Barrenjoey Road
Oct 01, 2018
Blood On The Tracks 07 | Face To Face
Jul 08, 2018
Blood On The Tracks 06 | Revelation
Jul 02, 2018
Blood On The Tracks 05 | The Driver
Jun 25, 2018
Blood On The Tracks 04 | Whitewash
Jun 18, 2018
Blood On The Tracks 03 | The Boxer
Jun 11, 2018
Blood On The Tracks 02 | Foul Play 
Jun 04, 2018
Blood On The Tracks 01 | Blood On The Tracks
May 28, 2018
INTRODUCING — Blood On The Tracks
May 18, 2018