Dick Harpootlian Talks About Alex Murdaugh's Chances for New Trial & His New Pee Wee Gaskins Book

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

4.1 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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This is part two of an interview with Joe McCulloch and Dick Harpootlian. In this episode, Harpootlian discusses his new book about South Carolina serial killer, Pee Wee Gaskins, talks about the chances of Alex Murdaugh getting a new trial, and how he feels about a new Murdaugh series coming out soon. 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 from 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. Please support our sponsors Elevate your closet with Quince. Go to Quince dot com slash impact for free shipping on your order and three hundred and sixty-five -day returns 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.
0:08.0	Hello friend, Matt Harrison, Seton Tucker, always grateful that you're going to spend time with us.
0:14.0	This is part two of our interview with Dick Harputtlian.
0:18.0	A lot of interesting things Dick has to say in this episode. In part one, we
0:22.7	discussed the tragic case he tried with Joe McCullough. Joe will also be on this episode. The story
0:27.7	we are covering today comes with a warning. There's a brief graphic description of some of the
0:34.6	claims made by South Carolina serial killer PeeweeWee Gaskins, in his autobiography.
0:40.1	Now, if you didn't listen to Part 1, go back and listen to Dick and Joe talk about this complete tragedy.
0:47.3	It involves the murder of two adults living in an unlicensed group home who were murdered by one of their housemates who really had no business living there.
0:54.5	No.
0:55.5	In this episode, we discussed with Dick Harpoulian his new book about Peewee Gaskins, the South Carolina serial killer who murdered 15 people.
1:03.8	Harpulian tried Gaskins for the death penalty and won and eventually Peewee was sent to death row and killed for his crimes.
1:12.6	But before we get started, we would encourage people.
1:14.6	Yeah, we want to encourage you to join in the conversation on our Facebook page, Impact of Influence,
1:19.6	and also on our YouTube channel, Impact of Influence.
1:22.6	So please subscribe to our channel and rate and share our podcast.
1:26.6	It would be greatly appreciated.
1:28.5	And we are part of the Evergreen Podcast Company. And we hope that you will support our sponsors.
1:34.1	Please do. Before we get into the interview, just a little bit about Joe and Dick, if you haven't heard,
1:40.0	Joe McCulloch, former prosecutor dedicated to representing and defending clients accused of serious crimes,
1:46.6	founder and past president of the South Carolina Association of Criminal Defenders,
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