Introducing: Hands Tied

The Idaho Massacre

iHeartPodcasts

True Crime

3.6 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Hi, Idaho Massacre 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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0:00.0	Liz went from being interested in true crime to living true crime.
0:06.7	My husband comes back outside and he's shaking and he's just looks like he's seen a ghost and he's just in shock.
0:16.3	And he said, your dad's been killed.
0:19.9	This is Hands Tide, a true crime podcast exploring the murder of Jim Milgar.
0:27.1	Today is December the 23rd, 2012.
0:30.5	And this is a representative of Harris County case.
0:32.2	We'll take you inside the police investigation.
0:35.4	You could see her.
0:36.3	I could see her.
0:37.1	I believe she was tied up.
0:39.3	Liz's father murdered, and her mother found locked in a closet,
0:43.3	her hands and feet bound.
0:45.3	I believe that she was like this when she was saying, help.
0:48.3	And then I got scared and I ran out and I told my dad,
0:51.3	I was like, we don't know who's in here.
0:57.9	Can you convict a person of murder with no motive?
1:03.3	I knew it would be an unusual trial just because that question was so important to the prosecution.
1:09.7	We'll go inside the courtroom as the jury decides who's to blame for this shocking murder.
1:11.5	I tried to keep an open mind.
1:13.4	I want to believe somebody is innocent until the state can prove them guilty.
1:15.4	And will follow Liz's quest for answers.
1:18.8	I'm good in an emergency.
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