Hands Tied

Hands Tied

Lizz Melgar Rose went from being interested in true crime to living true crime. Back in 2012, relatives found her mother Sandy Melgar shut in a closet, her hands bound behind her back. Her dad Jim Melgar had been murdered. There was no time to finish the university course Lizz had signed up for, inspired by her teenage fascination with violence and serial killers. She needed to figure out what happened. If it weren't for her strange interest, she believes she’d have been lost. It enabled her to protect her family and herself and helped her try to fit the pieces of a seemingly unsolvable puzzle together. Award-winning journalist and host Maggie Robinson Katz will take you inside the police investigation that followed, inside the courtroom drama as a jury wrestles with who’s responsible for a truly shocking crime, and inside Lizz’s ongoing battle for answers and for justice. Because there is one thing Lizz is convinced of, the wrong person is in prison for her dad’s murder.Hands Tied is a new eight part true crime podcast from iHeartPodcasts and BBC Studios.

Episodes

August 27, 2025 30 mins

Lizz knows her best chance of convincing the cops her mum didn’t kill her dad is to find out who did. So she starts investigating.

Host: Maggie Robinson Katz

Producer: Maggie Latham

Script consultant: Emma Weatherill

Sound designer:  Tom Brignell

Production support from Dan Marchini, Elaina Boateng and Mabel Finnegan-Wright.

Managing Executive Producer (iHeart): Cristina Everett Executive Producer (BBC Studios): Joe Kent

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Sandy is back home, but her home is now a crime scene besieged by journalists. Friends rally around her, Lizz flies in to be with her and the police continue to suspect her. 

Host: Maggie Robinson Katz 

Producer: Maggie Latham 

Script consultant: Emma Weatherill  

Sound designer:  Tom Brignell 

Production support from Dan Marchini, Elaina Boateng and Mabel Finnegan-Wright.

Managing Executive Produ...

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August 13, 2025 30 mins

Sandy Melgar finds herself in a cramped interview room being questioned by cops, but is she there as a witness or a suspect? 

Just hours after her husband was found murdered and she was found shut in a cupboard,  her arms tied behind her back, Santy agrees to a police interview. She tells detectives she’s not well and that she can’t remember what happened. They want her to take a lie detector test. 

Host:...

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August 6, 2025 30 mins

A phone call that changes everything; something unimaginable has happened and Lizz needs to figure out how. In an instant, she goes from being interested in true crime to living it. 

Award winning journalist and host Maggie Robinson Katz take you inside the police investigation that followed, inside the courtroom drama as a jury wrestles with who’s responsible for the shocking crime, and inside Lizz’s ongoing battl...

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July 30, 2025 2 mins

Lizz Melgar Rose went from being interested in true crime to living true crime. Back in 2012, Lizz’s world cracked in two when relatives find her mother locked in a closet, her hands and feet bound, and her Dad, Jim – murdered just a few feet away. Lizz was meant to continue a university    course inspired by her teenage fascination with violence and serial killers. But all that is put on hold as she trie...

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