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 Producer (iHeart): Cristina Everett Executive Producer (BBC Studios): Joe Kent Hands Tied  is a BBC Studios Audio production for iHeartPodcastsSee <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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 Producer (iHeart): Cristina Everett Executive Producer (BBC Studios): Joe Kent Hands Tied is a BBC Studios Audio production for iHeartPodcasts See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.&nbsp; &nbsp; Host: Maggie Robinson Katz Producer: Maggie Latham Script consultant: Emma Weatherill&nbsp; Sound designer:&nbsp; Tom Brignell Production support from&nbsp; Dan Marchini, Elaina Boateng and Mabel Finnegan-Wright Managing Executive Producer (iHeart): Cristina Everett Executive Producer (BBC Studios): Joe Kent Hands Tied&nbsp; is a BBC Studios Audio production for iHeartPodcastsSee <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener" rel="noopener noreferrer">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

Episode 3  - Homecoming

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&rsquo;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&rsquo;s responsible for a truly shocking crime, and inside Lizz&rsquo;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&rsquo;s murder.Hands Tied is a new eight part true crime podcast from iHeartPodcasts and BBC Studios.

True Crime

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.

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.

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