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Liz went from being interested in true crime to living true crime.
My husband said, your dad's been killed.
This is Hands Tied, a true crime podcast exploring the murder of Jim Melgar.
I was just completely in shock.
Liz's father murdered.
And her mother found locked in a closet, her hands and feet bound.
I didn't feel real at all.
More than a decade on, she's still searching for answers.
We're still fighting.
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Death.
can come at any moment for soldiers on both sides of the Ukraine war.
Even before Russia's full-scale invasion,
eight years of fighting in East Ukraine had already claimed 14,000 lives.
Now there's been some 70,000 confirmed Ukrainian army deaths, though that figure is likely higher.
while on the Russian side, more than 100,000 soldiers are publicly confirmed dead.
Again, the real toll could be as high as a quarter of a million.
But who rallies the troops when morale crumbles and fear creeps in?
I'm Lucy Ash, and you're listening to the documentary from the BBC World Service.