The body of year-old Mark Anthony Haines was found on train tracks outside of Tamworth on Saturday 16 January Local police investigated the circumstances surrounding the death at the time, later subject to Coronial inquiries, which returned an open finding. Yet we believe there are still people who know exactly what happened to Mark but are either afraid, or unwilling, to share that information with police.
A freight train driver pulls out of Tamworth, heading to Sydney, and keeps his eyes up ahead. He sees something in the distance - a pile of clothes, perhaps. But as he edges closer he realises that lying on the train tracks, about seven kilometres outside of Tamworth, is the body of a young man.
The body disappears under the train. He doesn't see what happens to the man. But he can imagine. Soon after, Glenn Bryant, a Tamworth station master, receives a phone call. When he arrives at the scene, he is the first to discover the body of year-old Mark Haines.
This isn't the first time Bryant has been called to a body on the tracks. He has come to know what it looks like when a person is hit by a train weighing tonnes. For starters, there's blood. Usually lots of it. But when he edges towards this young man, sludging through the muddy ground, he notices there is barely any blood.
Mark has sustained a clear head injury, and there are several cuts. The lack of blood is perplexing. And there's more that baffles him. Looking down at his own muddy shoes, he thinks it's strange that Mark's shoes are clean. How did he walk to the tracks in the rain without getting his shoes dirty? And then there's the white towel. Beneath Mark's head, is a towel propping him up. How strange, to lie down on a train track, and fold yourself a makeshift pillow.
Speaking to the ABC more than 30 years later , Bryant said: "Very strange that a person would be on the track with a towel under his head. There was no way the train contributed to his death. Not long after Bryant, the police arrive. The train tracks where Mark's body lies, somewhat symbolically, divides Tamworth into two. An Aboriginal community resides on one side, and a largely white population on the other.
Mark himself was a Gomeroi man. It's 10 days out from January 26, - an especially fraught day for the Indigenous community. The date will mark the bicentenary of British invasion. While Mark's family mourns, putting pressure on police to search for answers, the rest of Tamworth will be alive with celebration. The white population will cheers to an Australia they 'founded' years ago. The Gomeroi population will reflect on their violent dispossession, aware that one of their own was killed, and still all these years later, no one cares.
Post continues below. At 9pm on the evening of January 15, , Mark, his cousin Leah, and her boyfriend, walked into town. While Leah wanted to go to the Workman's Club, Mark was interested in having a drink with his friends. When they reached town, Leah's boyfriend gave year-old Mark his birth certificate, so he could get into a nightclub. They parted ways, and Mark met up with a number of friends at Tamworth's town hall at 10pm. They stayed out late. Eventually Mark walked his girlfriend home towards South Tamworth, and said goodbye at about am.
About a kilometre and a half from the scene, police found a stolen vehicle. Witnesses told authorities that in the early hours of Saturday, January 16, they heard teenagers joyriding around Tamworth. With no fingerprints, DNA or eye witness reports, police believed that Mark had stolen the white Torana, crashed it, and then abandoned the vehicle.
Afterwards, the theory went, he walked a kilometre and a half and laid down on the train tracks, tucking a towel under his head.
First, Mark was unable to drive a manual car according to his best friend Jason Wann. It was a running joke. Second, the walk he allegedly undertook was not an easy one. It would have required Mark to walk along a narrow bridge, balancing only on tracks, in total darkness. When his uncle tried to retrace his steps in broad daylight, he was unable to. Third, his shoes. When the news popped out this morning it swept across the floor in a manner usually reserved for some large geopolitical event that moves markets," said Art Cashin, director of floor operations for UBS.
Dave Lutz, managing director of trading at Stifel Nicolaus, emailed clients to remind them of the famous "Haines bottom," as dubbed by his former broadcast partner, Erin Burnett. Haines called the financial crisis market bottom on March 10, , just a day after the market did, in fact, bottom before the 90 percent subsequent rally. Burnett shared an emotional goodbye with Haines when she left the network earlier this month see video.
She fondly remembered her first day on air with Haines when he implored producers to "give the girl something to do here. Haines was known for a lawyer-like determination to get at the truth, pressing guests for answers if they tried to avoid his pointed questions.
CNBC reporters and anchors remembered Haines holding them up to the same standard. He's the best," said "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer. I've been on CNBC with him once a month for over a year.
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