Hands Tied cover art

Hands Tied

Hands Tied

By: iHeartPodcasts
Listen for free

About this listen

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.

2025 iHeartMedia, Inc. © Any use of this intellectual property for text and data mining or computational analysis including as training material for artificial intelligence systems is strictly prohibited without express written consent from iHeartMedia True Crime
Episodes
  • Episode 4 - Suspects and Suspicions

    Episode 4 - Suspects and Suspicions
    Aug 27 2025

    Lizz knows her best chance of convincing the cops her mum didn’t kill her dad is to find out who did. So she starts investigating.

    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 production for iHeartPodcasts

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
    Show More Show Less
    30 mins
  • Episode 3 - Homecoming

    Episode 3 - Homecoming
    Aug 20 2025

    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 production for iHeartPodcasts

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
    Show More Show Less
    32 mins
  • Episode 2 - The Interview

    Episode 2 - The Interview
    Aug 13 2025

    Sandy Melgar finds herself in a cramped interview room being questioned by cops, but is she there as a witness or a suspect?

    Just hours after her husband was found murdered and she was found shut in a cupboard, her arms tied behind her back, Santy agrees to a police interview. She tells detectives she’s not well and that she can’t remember what happened. They want her to take a lie detector test.

    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 production for iHeartPodcasts

    See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
    Show More Show Less
    31 mins
No reviews yet
In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.