Episode 1 - The Call

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 iHeartPodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A phone call that changes everything; something unimaginable has happened and Lizz needs to figure out how. In an instant, she goes from being interested in true crime to living it.  Award winning journalist and host Maggie Robinson Katz take you inside the police investigation that followed, inside the courtroom drama as a jury wrestles with who’s responsible for the 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.   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-WrightManaging Executive Producer (iHeart): Cristina EverettExecutive Producer (BBC Studios): Joe Kent Hands Tied  is a BBC Studios Audio production for iHeartPodcastsSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Lizz Melgar Rose went from being interested in true crime to living true crime. Back in 2012, Lizz’s world cracked in two when relatives find her mother locked in a closet, her hands and feet bound, and her Dad, Jim – murdered just a few feet away. Lizz was meant to continue a university    course inspired by her teenage fascination with violence and serial killers. But all that is put on hold as she tries to put the pieces together and figure out what happened to her parents – and who killed her Dad.Hands Tied is a new eight-part true crime podcast from iHeartPodcasts and BBC Studios.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.