Rose Petal Murder Trial Set To Begin: An Attorney Breaks Down Strategy

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

4.1 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In the previous episode we went in to detail on what has been dubbed the Rose Petal Murder. In this episode we discuss the strategies and problems facing the defense and the prosecution as the trial is scheduled to begin January 13. We discuss with Seton's father and attorney Matt Siembieda. Matt Siembieda is an attorney and law professor at Temple Law School. 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. When word of Christina Parcell’s murder spread, there was an outpouring of kind words about Christine. However, sometimes things are not what they seem. 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. In this episode Seton and Matt give listeners and viewers the background on this case before it is scheduled to go to trial on January 13. 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 Visit C B Distillery dot com and use code IMPACT for 20% off. That’s C B Distillery dot com code IMPACT. C B Distillery dot com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, Brent, Matt Harris, Seton Tucker, and we want to talk about podcast from Ayrship,
0:07.7	the studio behind American scandal, business movers, and history daily. It's called American
0:14.2	criminal. And they dive deep into lives and misdeeds of some history's most notorious criminals,
0:20.2	as well, some of the wildest
0:21.3	crimes you've never heard of. Rob, death, murder, and worse. Whatever the case, whoever the
0:26.9	criminal, you don't know the whole story until now. Previous seasons have included the jaw-dropping
0:32.5	stories of a series of bombings that rock Salt Lake City to its core with rare Mormon documents holding the key to the puzzle.
0:40.1	And the most recent season covers the assassination of Harvey Milk inside San Francisco's City Hall.
0:46.8	On November 27th, former supervisor Dan White arrived at City Hall with a gun where he shot and killed Harvey Milk.
0:54.9	What did Harvey Milk done through Dan White's ire?
0:58.6	So listen to American Criminal on Spotify, Apple, or wherever you get your podcast.
1:04.4	Impact of Influence.
1:07.1	Covering true crime throughout the southeast.
1:11.6	Hello, friend.
1:13.7	So grateful we're going to spend time with us, Matt Harris, Seton Tucker.
1:17.9	Part two of the case and the murder of Christina Lorraine Parcell in Greer, South Carolina,
1:25.1	outside Greenville, South Carolina.
1:29.1	We will tell you there's going to be some graphic content here, be aware of that. We should also thank our friends over at Fitznews.
1:34.2	Yeah, they started covering this case a couple years ago and have really done a lot of deep dives.
1:38.6	We'd encourage you to check out their online service as well as their podcast. And they
1:41.9	dubbed it the Rose Pet rose pedal murder because there was
1:44.5	rose petals around Christina's body when it was found. So I'm going to just recap many.
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