An Interview With the Rose Petal Murder Defense Team

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

4.1 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Andy Moorman and Mark Moyer are the defense attorneys for Zachary Hughes, who was convicted of murdering Christina Parcell. The case was dubbed the Rose Petal Murder by Fitsnews. Andy and Mark discussed the case on this episode. In the previous episode we heard about the case from the solicitor's perspective. The trial of the murder of Christina Parcell began on February 10, 2025. It concluded 2/21/2025 with Zachary Hughes being sentenced to life for the murder of Parcell. Hughes had a very unusual defense. He admitted to killing Parcell but he claimed it was to protect her daughter. There are eight other episodes on this case. Those were released on January 10, 13, 21 February 14th and Feb 17th, February 24, March 4, and March 27. Here is more background on the Parcell case. On Oct 13, 2021, 41 year old Christina Parcell was found brutally murdered in Greer, SC. Parcell had suffered 31 stab wounds and www.Fitsnews.com dubbed the homicide the Rose Petal Murder because rose petals were found scattered around Parcell’s body. Shortly after her murder Parcell’s fiancé was arrested, but not on charges relating to her murder. Parcell had also been involved in a contentious custody battle with the father of her child. This horrific story involves murder and allegations of criminal sexual conduct with minors and buggery. Seton Tucker and Matt Harris began the Impact of Influence podcast shortly after the murders of Maggie and Paul Murdaugh. Now they cover true crime past and present fro the southeast region of the U.S. Impact of Influence is part of the Evergreen Podcast Company. Look for Impact of Influence on Facebook and Youtube. Jenn Wood and Fits News have been covering this case in great detail and have been really digging into the large amount of documents that have been filed To see their great reporting https://www.fitsnews.com/ please support our sponsors who allow us to continue doing these shows for you Quince, Indulge in affordable luxury use code Quince.com/impact for free shipping Magic Mind has a limited time offer 48% off your first subscription or 20% off one time purchase with code IMPACT at checkout Eat smart with Factor. Get started at FACTOR MEALS dot com slash FACTORPODCAST and use code FACTORPODCAST to get 50% off your first box plus free shipping. That’s code FACTORPODCAST at FACTOR MEALS dot com slash FACTORPODCAST to get 50% off plus free shipping on your first box Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Impact of influence.
0:03.0	Covering true crime throughout the southeast.
0:09.0	Hello, friend. Matt Harris and Seton Tucker, always grateful you're spending time with us.
0:14.0	We're going to attack the Rose Pedal murder trial in a second with a conversation with Zachary uses defense attorneys. We've already talked
0:22.3	to the prosecutor in a previous episode, but the defense attorney's up next. And before we get to
0:27.1	that, I want to tell you a part of the Evergreen podcast network. Support our sponsors. Can't
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0:51.4	so a little background uh in case you haven't been following.
0:55.0	But again, in the show notes, we'll list all the rose pedal murder trial episodes we've had.
1:00.2	But Cedin, for those who haven't done that yet, here's a little bit of the background.
1:03.1	Well, you should definitely listen to our episode with Walt Williams because this would be a good balance to listen to both.
1:07.6	He's the prosecutor, yeah. He was the prosecutor, or solicitor in South Carolina. Yeah, that's what they call them, right? Yeah. So in October of 2021, 41-year-old
1:15.6	Christina Parcell was found brutally murdered in her Greer South Carolina home. She was stabbed over 30
1:21.3	times. It was dubbed the rose pedal murders because there were rose petals scattered around her
1:26.9	body, and that Fitznoose coined
1:29.5	to that.
1:30.5	Now, she was involved in a very bitter custody dispute with the father of her child, and during
1:36.1	the course of her death investigation, there were child pornography materials discovered,
1:43.4	and her former fiane is facing charges for
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