South Carolina Serial Killer Pee Wee Gaskins's Defense Attorney Tells His Story

Impact of Influence: The Murdaugh Family Murders and Other Cases

Matt Harris and Seton Tucker

True Crime

4.1 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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This episode starts with a few minutes of taking listener comments and questions. Then a replay of an episode from November 2023. A few weeks ago Matt and Seton Interviewed Dick Harpootlian who prosecuted Pee Wee Gaskins. In this episode you will hear from the other side of the courtroom in the Gaskins trial. Donald Henry "Pee Wee" Gaskins Jr. is one of South Carolina's most notorious serial killers. He murdered more than a dozen people between 1970 and 1975. Gaskins was sentenced to 10 concurrent life sentences. While serving his sentence at Central Correctional Institute (CCI) prison in Columbia, South Carolina, he murdered another inmate. Dick Harpootlian prosecuted Pee Wee and Jack Swerling defended Pee Wee Gaskins. Gaskins was sentenced to death, which was administered in September of 1991. In this episode you will hear from Jack Swerling about the case and his dealings with Pee Wee Gaskins. 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	I had the absolute pleasure of speaking to Pamela Anderson.
0:04.2	All thanks to the Dove Self-Eesteem Project.
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0:21.4	body confidence-building exercises, go to dove.com forward slash Y2K. That's Y2K spelled W.H.Y.2K.
0:30.8	Impact of influence. Covering true crime throughout the southeast.
0:38.7	Hello, friend. It's Matt Harris and Seton Tucker. Always grateful you to spend time with us,
0:44.8	taking the week to do some Fourth of July stuff. So we're going to rerun one of our
0:49.7	favorite episodes from 2023 involving the South Carolina serial killer, Pee Wee Gaskins.
0:57.6	Before we get to that, Seton, where can they join in the conversation?
1:01.4	You can find us on Facebook at Impact of Influence and also on our YouTube page.
1:05.3	We will not be doing a YouTube channel edition of this.
1:08.8	Another place you could have joined us was in Wilmington at the library.
1:12.9	New Hanover County Library. We were honored to be asked to speak for their adult summer series
1:19.0	program. I think they're calling it a true crime summer. And it was really fun. I typically don't
1:24.8	enjoy public speaking, but this was more of a question and answer type event.
1:29.3	We had a listener lawyer who came to see us, but the questions were so interesting and good,
1:33.7	and these people really knew their stuff.
1:35.3	They did.
1:36.3	And I think the whole county is reading Valerie's book, what is it called, The Devil
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