S6 Ep19: What Are We Missing?

Truth & Justice with Bob Ruff

Bob Ruff

Documentary, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.5 • 7.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2018

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Bob investigates the Prosecution's claim that nothing was stolen from the Melgar's home on the night that Jim was killed. We here from Jim and Sandy's daughter, Lizz, who explains how she worked tirelessly to find her father's killer, while being ignored by the Harris County Sheriffs Department.

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0:45.0	Investigation into Jim Melgar's murder was quite literally laughable.
0:50.0	In a recent interview in 2020, a Houston reporter stated that there was audible laughter in the courtroom
0:56.0	The Harris County Sheriff's Department members were testifying about their not-so-thuro investigation.
1:01.0	I think that we've proven at this point that right or wrong, the detectives who were charged with finding Jim's killer and bringing him to justice had blinders on from the very beginning of their investigation.
1:12.0	The moment that Sandy Melgar told police that she couldn't remember what had happened the night before,
1:17.0	Maurice Carpenter, Sergeant Ducey and Detective Carrizal, honed in on her with laser focus.
1:23.0	It's been my position from the outset of our investigation that this case was flawed from the very beginning.
1:29.0	Harris County's tunnel vision led investigators to ignore any and all evidence and leads that pointed away from Sandy Melgar.
1:36.0	This was a case that should have been and could have been solved, had the detectives approached it with any amount of objectivity
1:45.0	and let the evidence drive their investigation rather than their early theory.
1:50.0	The prosecutor on the case, Colleen Barnett, has stated repeatedly that there was nothing missing from the home,
2:02.0	and therefore there was no evidence that anyone other than Sandy could have been present and murdered Jim.
2:08.0	But today, I'm going to prove to you that that couldn't be further from the truth.
2:13.0	Texas Ranger James Holland is a legendary interrogator. They call him the serial killer Whisperer.
2:28.0	You can't hide those indications and that's why yesterday I knew that you did it.
2:32.0	But now, shocking interrogation tapes reveal how the Super Cup really operates.
2:37.0	And that's why they asked me to come in because I'm special.
2:40.0	From something else, the Marshall Project and Sony Music Entertainment, this is Smoke Screen. Just say you're sorry.
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