The Twisted Case of the "Rose Petal Murder"

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Hailey Elizabeth

True Crime

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🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Peter Manfredonia was a University of Connecticut student who committed a series of violent crimes in May 2020 that led to a multi-state manhunt. On May 22 in Willington, Connecticut, he attacked two men with a machete, killing 62-year-old Ted DeMers and intensely injuring another. Peter then fled to the home of a stranger, named Donald Hipsky. He then held Donald hostage int he basement of his own home while stealing food, firearms, and Donald's vehicle. Two days later, in Derby, Connecticut, Peter killed 23-year-old Nicholas Eisele, a former classmate, and kidnapped Eisele’s girlfriend and forced to drive at gunpoint all the way to New Jersey. The woman was able to leave the car unharmed and call police but when police arrived, Peter was gone again. Peter fled through several states before being captured on May 27, 2020, in Hagerstown, Maryland. In 2023, he pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in Connecticut and was later sentenced to life in prison. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	In South Carolina, in a small town called Greer, well, not really small.
0:04.2	It was population 40,000, and it was said to be a very nice suburban town.
0:09.8	It was full of nature and forest preserves.
0:12.9	And also, in the most recent years, it had a huge spike in people moving there.
0:17.6	But then on October 13, 2021 is when the Greer police station will receive a call
0:22.6	from 68 year old Bradley Post. He was telling the officers that that morning, his fiance,
0:28.2	41 year old Christina Parcell, had a job interview. And so he had called her just to ask her
0:33.1	how the job interview was, but then he got no response. And so after a while of trying to contact her,
0:39.0	he went over to her house that she lived in with her sister Tina and her nine-year-old daughter A.
0:44.5	So he went to the house and he said that when he walked in through the back door, it was very,
0:49.2	very quiet in there. And when he started looking around the living room and the kitchen,
0:53.8	he noticed that there
0:55.5	was rose petals kind of flown all over the place as well as rose stems. And it wasn't like a
1:02.5	romantic trail or anything like that. It was kind of like very abrupt as if someone had just
1:08.9	thrown flower petals all over the place.
1:11.2	So then he starts looking at all the rose petals and he notices that there's a trail
1:14.8	that leads down the hallway into the master bedroom.
1:18.0	But then when he walks down and goes to the master bedroom is when he would discover
1:22.4	a 41 year old Christina Parcell lying on the ground with blood all around her. And when he found Christina
1:29.2	is when he immediately called the police.
1:31.4	I just walked in. I smelled some weird smell. I look like she's blood out on the floor.
1:36.3	Is she breathing? No. Okay. Then we need to get her, turn her over, make sure she's flat on her back.
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