Murder Homes

Hi, Murder Home 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.

Listen to Hands Tied on the iHeartRadio App or wherever you get your podcasts!

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Spade Cooley was the King of Western Swing, but when his career dried up, he turned his fury on his petrified wife. Matt heads to the basement with his band Mr. Pescado, plugs in his amp, and says goodbye with a song.

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What’s it like to be obsessed by true crime? Matt interviews a young woman who says tales of murder have changed her life…for the better. A deeper look at why we’re fascinated by the darkest stories.

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It’s October 19th, 1970, and a young intruder named John Linley Frazier is sitting on a sofa inside a spectacular stone and glass mansion on a hill in Soquel, California, patiently waiting for a wealthy family of five to return home, so he can kill them one by one, and then burn their dream home to the ground.

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Would you buy a home where a double murder had occurred? How about a home where another murder occurs, in the same bedroom, seven years later? The unbelievable story of the horrors that continue to haunt the quaint brick colonial in Silver Spring, Maryland. It may look like any other home on that quiet street, but a river of blood runs through it.

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Take a step into a Murder Home that only exists in the future. It’s 2048 on Magnolia Drive, and a man named Millar is about to find out what happens when you leave your custom-designed comfort zone and become the person you fear most.

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Roy Den Hollander, a fanatical men’s right’s activist, was dying of cancer and only had a few months to live. He decided he would make the most of it by hunting down his two arch enemies in California and New Jersey. Dressed as a fake Fedex deliveryman, he embarked on a murder spree that would become even more bloody than he had planned.

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The murder of Reverend Canon Wancura was only the second homicide to occur in the history of Shelter Island in over 300 years. But was his home invasion a random and brutal attack by a day laborer working near his mansion, or an act of revenge on a priest who was leading a double life?

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Levittown, Pennsylvania, is just an ordinary suburban town, and January 30th, 2024, seemed like a perfectly ordinary winter day, which made it all the more shocking when a 32-year-old man named Justin Mohn uploaded a video to YouTube that began with him lifting his father’s head out of a stockpot, and ended with him calling for armed revolution from his tidy bedroom.

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Jim Gordon was one of rock & roll’s most legendary drummers, but when he began hearing voices the high-paying gigs started drying up fast. It was his mother’s voice in particular that nagged him incessantly, all day long. Slowly driven crazy, he packed a clawhammer and knife in a canvas bag and on June 8th, 1983, committed one of the most shocking crimes in music history.

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