Introducing: Hands Tied
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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Transcript
Liz went from being interested in true crime to living true crime.
My husband comes back outside and 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.
This is Hands Tied, a true crime podcast exploring the murder of Jim Melgar.
Today is December the 23rd, 2012, and this is in Reference Harris County Case HC.
We'll take you inside the police investigation.
You can see her.
I could see her.
I believe she was tied up.
Liz's father murdered and her mother found locked in a closet, her hands and feet bound.
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.
Can you convict a person of murder with no motive?
I knew it would be an unusual trial just because that question was so important to the prosecution.
We'll go inside the courtroom as the jury decides who's to blame for this shocking murder.
I tried to keep it open.
I want to believe somebody's innocent until the state can prove them guilty.
And we'll follow Liz's quest for answers.
I'm good in an emergency.
I can stay calm.
I can assess the situation.
I know what I need to do.
A quest that began the moment she learned her dad had been killed.
I was looking for similar crimes in the area to see if anything could be tied together or if it was the same people.
And continues today, using her true crime knowledge to unravel the mystery surrounding her dad's death.
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 Liz is still trying to put together, years after her dad's dad's murder.
But for Liz, one thing is certain: she believes the wrong person is in prison for the crime.
There's a lot of guilt, I think, pushing me.
Listen to Hands Tied on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
