Invisible Intruders, Empty-Handed Looters & The Perfect Occasion for Planning a Home Invasion: Sandy Melgar

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🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 203 minutes

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On the afternoon of December 23, 2012, a Houston, TX woman named Sandra Melgar was discovered bound and trapped inside her bathroom closet, while her husband Jim lay nearby in a pool of blood, the victim of a vicious stabbing. In the aftermath, what initially seemed like a home invasion became a situation where detectives zeroed in on Sandy as the prime suspect. But could this seemingly fragile woman, limited by physical ailments such as two hip replacements and arthritis, really butcher her husband in cold blood? A jury believed so, and convicted Sandy. But did she do it? Join host Ryan Kraus for a psychological journey through the evolutionary implications of the crime scene and beyond in search of the truth.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody welcome back to Cole Case Murder Mysteries. I'm your host
0:09.1	Ryan Kraus dragging the swamp for clues once again as we delve deep into a fascinating yet controversial
0:14.9	incident which is the stabbing death of Houston resident Jim Melgar in Harris County, Texas,
0:20.9	and the subsequent arrest, prosecution, and imprisonment of his wife Sandra for the horrifying
0:26.5	crime.
0:27.5	But did she do it?
0:29.5	Let's take a look.
0:31.0	On the night of December 22, 2012, leading into the early morning hours of the next day,
0:37.0	somebody murdered Jim Melgar in a brutal stabbing that left 31 wounds on his chest, hands, and arms, causing him to succumb to the injuries
0:46.7	despite only one major artery in the thumb being damaged in the process.
0:52.0	He was found dead on the floor of his bedroom closet, bound at the
0:56.0	ankles with an attempt at restraining his upper body having been made as well.
1:01.6	Nearby, in another closet, Jim's wife Sandra was left bound, bruised, and unconscious, trapped
1:08.5	inside by a chair propped underneath the door handle outside. And while investigators were immediately suspicious of Sandy
1:16.0	and tried to file murder charges while the home was still being processed on a forensic level,
1:21.0	her conviction five years later in 2017 has only managed to ignite
1:26.7	further controversy surrounding the crime. On the surface, she doesn't seem capable of taking
1:32.1	a life. We aren't going to find an
1:34.6	explicit motive that can be articulated properly in a courtroom, and we won't
1:39.4	find physical evidence that definitively proves her innocence or guilt by way of putting the knife in her hand.
1:46.0	We simply don't have physical access to the truth in this case.
1:50.0	That means the best approach for us is psychological examination of the evidence at play in the case.
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