An Interview With the Rose Petal Murder Prosecutor

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

4.0 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 March 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Walter Wilkins, The Solicitor for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit, joined the podcast to discuss his prosecution of Zachary Hughes. Wilkins discussed his strategy for the trial and the testimony that surprised him from the "Rose Petal Murderer" Here is the background on the case. 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 seven other episodes on this case. Those were released on January 10, 13, 21 February 14th and Feb 17th, February 24 and March 4. This is the 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. Eventually an arrest was made for the murder of Christine Parcell but it was not her not her fiancé or 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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0:30.8	Impact of influence. Covering true crime throughout the southeast.
0:38.8	Hello, friend.
0:40.8	So grateful we're going to spend time with us today talking more about the Rose Petal
0:44.8	murder trial in just a few.
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1:09.4	so we can grow this podcast and so we can keep on doing it.
1:12.7	So we've done a number of episodes on the Rose Pedal Murder Trial, named as such from
1:19.5	the folks at Fitz News. And the trial of murder of Christina Purcell began on February 10th,
1:26.1	2025 and concluded on the 21st of 2025, with Zachary Hughes
1:31.7	being sentenced to life for the murder of Parcel. Hughes had this very unusual defense,
1:37.9	his testimony, and the verdict we've discussed in the past episodes, but we're going to talk
1:43.6	to the solicitor on this
1:45.6	case in just a second. Just a little recap. October 13th, 2021, 41-year-old Christina Parcell
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