Hi, Talina Zar listeners! We're excited to share with you a sneak peek at iHeartPodcasts' latest release, 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 Audio.
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Episode Transcript
Liz went from being interested in true crime to living
true crime.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
My husband comes.
Speaker 3 (00:07):
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 represent as kind of case. States
will take you inside the police investigation that.
Speaker 4 (00:35):
You can see her.
Speaker 5 (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 5 (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. I was like,
we don't know who's in here.
Speaker 4 (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 4 (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 3 (01:18):
I'm good in an emergency.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
I can stay calm, I can assess the situation.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
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 2 (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 3 (02:09):
There's a lot of guilt, I think pushing me.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Listen to Hands Tied on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts,
or wherever you get your podcasts.
Host
Melissa Jeltsen
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