Introducing: Hands Tied

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 tries to put the pieces together and figure out what happened to her parents – and who killed her Dad.Hands Tied is a new eight-part true crime podcast from iHeartPodcasts and BBC Studios.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Liz went from being interested in true crime to living
true crime.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
My husband comes back outside and he's he's shaking, and
he just looks like he's seen a ghost and he's
just in shock, and he said, your dad's been killed.

Speaker 1 (00:20):
This is Hands Tied, a true crime podcast exploring the
murder of Jim Melgar. Today is December twenty third, twenty twelve,
and this is a representeris kind of case. States will
take you inside the police investigation.

Speaker 3 (00:35):
That you can see her.

Speaker 4 (00:36):
I could see her. I believe she was tied up.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Liz's father murdered and her mother found locked in a closet,
her hands and feet bound.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
I believe that she was like this when she was
saying help, okay, And then I got scared and I
ran out and I told my dad.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
I was like, we don't know who's in here.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
Can you convict a person of murder with no motive?
I knew it would be an unusual try, just because
that question was so important to the prosecution.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
We'll go inside the courtroom as a jury decides who's
to blame for this shocking murder.

Speaker 5 (01:10):
I tried to keep an help in mind. I want
to believe somebody is innocent until the state can prove them.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Guilty, and will follow Liz's quest for answers.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
I'm good in an emergency. I can stay calm, I
can assess the situation. I know what I need to do.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
A quest that began the moment she learned her dad
had been killed.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
I was looking for similar crimes in the area to
see if anything could be tied together or if it
was the same people.

Speaker 1 (01:36):
And continues today using her true crime knowledge to unravel
the mystery surrounding her dad's death.

Speaker 3 (01:43):
I think if it weren't for that strange interest or
hobby or whatever you want to call it, things could
have gone very, very differently. It kind of helped me
put the pieces of the puzzle together, pieces.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Liz is still trying to put together years after her
dad murder. But for Liz, one thing is certain. She
believes the wrong person is in prison for the crime.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
There's a lot of guilt, I think pushing me.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Listen to Hands Tied starting on August sixth on the
iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.