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Trace

An investigative podcast hosted by ABC journalist Rachael Brown, Trace examines the fractures in Australia"s criminal justice system, and the decades-long ripples they have caused.

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PRESENTS — Unravel: Blood on the Tracks

Trace ·

2025/10/23

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 first season 'Blood on the Tracks' brought national attention to the case and won a Walkley award, a new inquest was launched. Now, Muruwari and Gomeroi journalist Allan Clarke returns to where it all began for Unravel, revisiting Tamworth and

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PRESENTS — Mushroom Case Daily: The trial begins

Trace ·

2025/05/02

The long-awaited trial of Erin Patterson has begun. The ABC's Mushroom Case Daily podcast is your eyes and ears in the courtroom. Follow the podcast to make sure you don't miss a second of what's sure to be one of the most famous cases in Australian history.We're dropping a new episode every day... with the details everyone's talking about.Nearly two years ago Erin Patterson served up a lunch of beef wellington, laced with poisonous death cap mushrooms.Now she's facing a

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05:27

S1 Bonus | The Inquest

Trace ·

2021/11/03

The new coronial inquest into the murder of Maria James has wrapped up. Will the Coroner be able to name her killer? And of the police exhibits that haven't disappeared, what DNA testing can be done? This episode nears us closer to the end of the James brothers' 41-year-fight for answers for their mum.

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26:45

S1 Bonus | Breakthrough in Maria James cold case

Trace ·

2021/08/12

The discovery of a police exhibit - thought to be missing for around three decades - could finally help unmask the killer in the 1980 cold case of Maria James.

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36:57

S1 07 | Hope

Trace ·

2018/12/03

More than a year on from their plea for a new coronial inquest, the James brothers get a decision.Will they finally get answers to the burning questions they've carried for 38 years about the murder of their mother?And what about those items Trace has been given that might have DNA on them?Can they identify the killer?We take them to one of the world's best DNA labs, with some of the most sensitive equipment, to find out.

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29:12

S1 06 | Limbo

Trace ·

2018/06/12

New evidence has been found. So can police test it for a trace of the killer? What happened to crucial documents? And a new confession.It is nearly a year since the James brothers applied for a new coronial inquest into their mum's murder, but the case hangs in legal limbo.

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24:18

S1 05 | Wait

Trace ·

2017/09/06

The fall-out from major revelations in the Maria James cold-case continue, as her sons make a desperate plea to the Coroner.

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34:00

S1 04 | DNA

Trace ·

2017/07/12

There's a major break in the case, as Trace uncovers a police bungle in the murder of Maria James. But it only serves to throw up more questions than answers, as the James brothers continue their desperate search for justice.

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27:54

S1 03 | Sins

Trace ·

2017/07/05

A second person of interest emerges within the church. Rachael Brown investigates their past and discovers a dark and disturbing history.

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07:45

BONUS | How your leads are helping the investigation

Trace ·

2017/07/04

Since Trace was first released, the ABC has received over 50 emails from the community with leads and tip offs. In this bonus update, reporter Rachael Brown follows up with two women who got in touch to say they saw men acting suspiciously around Maria's bookshop at the time of her murder. Send us your tips: trace@abc.net.au

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35:40

S1 02 | Confessions

Trace ·

2017/06/27

Rachael Brown's investigation into the death of Maria James turns to the local Church, and Rachael tracks down a new witness who saw someone covered in blood around the time of Maria's death.

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30:23

S1 01 | Bookshop murder

Trace ·

2017/06/20

On a winter morning in June 1980, Maria James turned to her son Mark and looked him in the eyes. "If anything happens to me, look after your brother." Later that day she was found stabbed to death at the back of her suburban Melbourne bookshop.

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01:55

INTRODUCING: Trace, series 1 — Bookshop Murder

Trace ·

2017/06/16

June, 1980, suburban Melbourne: Mother of two Maria James is stabbed to death in the back of her bookshop. Her killer has never been found. Was it a scorned lover? A random stranger? Or was Maria's murder tied up in the sins of the Catholic Church?

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