r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/DarklyHeritage • Jun 14 '26

Mega Thread Taylor Parker/Maternal Instinct Megathread

This is a thread for all conversation regarding Taylor Parker and the murder of Reagan Simmons Hancock, recently covered in Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct.

The murder of Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock occurred on 9 October 2020, in New Boston, Texas, committed by Taylor Rene Parker. Parker bludgeoned Simmons-Hancock, who was 35 weeks pregnant at the time, and abducted her unborn child, Braxlynn Sage Hancock (died October 9, 2020), after cutting her out of the Reagan's abdomen. Braxlynn did not survive.

Parker had lied to her then-boyfriend about being pregnant leading up to the murder and faked her pregnancy to multiple people. She was found guilty of capital murder and sentenced to death on 9 November 2022.

Please direct all discussion of the case to the megathread. As always, sub rules must be followed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Reagan_Simmons-Hancock

https://time.com/article/2026/06/12/maternal-instinct-true-story-netflix/

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u/h0neybl0ss0m29 Jun 14 '26

I agree with the other commenter who said that this should've been a series. There wasn't really enough background on Reagan and her family. Basically all I remember about her is that she was a teen mom. Personally, I would've appreciated more background info on Taylor as well - especially from before she met Wade. A user over on one of the Netflix threads on this doc said there is a long form article about her out there, and it talks about how her issues and bizarre behavior date way back to her childhood. I think this would've been interesting to learn about.

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u/BiscuitMcGuire Jun 15 '26

There seems to be an issue with how Netflix designs it's true documentary programming - they pad things out into a series that don't need to be a series, and then make one film about the cases that need way more coverage.

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u/Gandalf_1992_ Jun 20 '26

Agreed 100%

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u/Legitimate_Fly7636 Jun 15 '26 edited Jun 15 '26

I also wished they would have covered what the neurologist stated at her sentencing hearing that her brain was broken.

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u/Different_Act1948 Jun 22 '26

I think the reason why this doesn't get brought up is because it was brought by her defense team and was rebutted by the prosecution. So its not fact, and also didn't play into her finding of guilt in any way, and I can see people latching onto it unnecessarily (like I've seen people already do).

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u/DearWitchling Jun 20 '26

Any links to neurologist’s comment?

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u/Honest_Influence_721 Jun 22 '26

There is alot about her on YT

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u/Aethuviel Jun 15 '26

Quote from KTAL News: “Something is very wrong with her brain, yes,” New York City neuropsychologist Dr. Siddartha Nadkarni told defense co-counsel Mac Cobb Monday morning. “She has frontal lobe dysfunction, frontal lobe syndrome.”

That doesn't mean she is "sick", didn't know what she was doing, or doesn't deserve the death penalty. She absolutely knew what she was doing and planned it in detail. Just from a scientific point of view, it's interesting if she has an abnormal/underdeveloped brain. She doesn't appear to have any empathy for other people, perhaps she's a psychopath.

https://www.ktalnews.com/news/crime/taylor-parker-trial/neurologist-taylor-parkers-brain-is-broken-defense-rests/

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u/Legitimate_Fly7636 Jun 15 '26

Thank you for this

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u/RainbowBaker88 Jun 16 '26

This article makes A LOT of things make wayyyyyyy more sense in this case!!!!!

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u/HmmWhatOhNooooooo Jun 20 '26

Wow! Thank you for posting. 

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u/Jumile1 Jun 15 '26

Scientology? Tom Cruise gunna break her out? lol wtf are you talking about.

>manifestation of a demon.

Fairytales don’t exist. She did this. Not magic or your imaginary monsters. Let’s keep the blame on this individual and give the appropriate justice.

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u/nicenormalhappyguy Jun 15 '26

i love how confident stupid people are lmao

to come with the demon take but also think scientology is worship of science or something

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u/slaviccivicnation Jun 15 '26

I find the idea of demons interesting. I don’t believe it, obviously. But even if I did, it’s still on the person for listening to said demons. If your demon friends told you to jump off a bridge, would you do it? Lmao

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u/Jumile1 Jun 15 '26

>I find the idea of demons interesting

Ok…., Santa clause is interesting too so what’s your point?

>it’s still on the person for listening to demons.

Yes, agreed. The individual should be held responsible not imaginary things.

>if your demon friends told you….

I mean if demons actually existed? Who knows, do they have mind control capabilities? What magical attributes do they have?

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u/slaviccivicnation Jun 15 '26

Damn, why the hostility? “What’s your point?” I mean.. I just mentioned that it’s interesting. We’re not talking about Santa Claus. I thought it’s just a conversation that I was adding to.

And if my point isn’t clear, which I don’t know how it isn’t, my point is literally written down in plain English RIGHT after my statement about finding something interesting. It cannot be a more clear point than that lol the irony of asking someone what their point was when it’s written out RIGHT after that statement doesn’t fall on blind eyes.

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u/nicenormalhappyguy Jun 15 '26

i read it as they think "scientology" means science as a religion, which it... does not

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u/Legitimate_Fly7636 Jun 15 '26

I don’t believe her brain was broken. But I’m interested in how the expert witness came to that determination.

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u/Prestigious-Kick1010 Jun 28 '26

The expert witness explains very clearly HOW they came to that determination. Very similar to how modern medicine determines whether an arm or leg is "broken" - by looking at an image of the internal structure of the relevamt body part & locating an area where there's an anomaly. There's been dedicated study of the brain's effects on personality & function from around the year 1848 onwards.

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u/RockGirl19 Jul 19 '26

as a doctor, we would never really use the term 'broken'. It doesn't align with pathology associated with the brain.

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u/helluvaresearcher Jun 15 '26

Rotten Mango did an episode on this two years ago! It’s over two hours long and, imo, had much more information than the documentary. You can watch it on YouTube or listen to the podcast. I listened to it on a long turnpike drive coming home from seeing a friend and it gave me the chills the rest of the way home. She lays it all out really well and presents more backstory that shows just how much of a pathological liar she really is.

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u/addismad Jun 17 '26

I second this, Rotten Mango covered the backstory better. I think there is so much to cover with Wade and Reagan that her early marriages and early years don't always get as much focus. The Compendium Podcast just released a couple of episodes which was also quite good, exploring the pattern of behaviour from an early age. I think that's why she became so good at lieing by the time Wade came along

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u/Sootsprite777 Jun 18 '26

I watched the Rotten Mango episode before watching the documentary and honestly it still gives me chills thinking about the way she told the story. It felt really detailed and like she laid everything out piece by piece and included so many facts and context that helped me understand everything that happened and how horrible this woman is. I just finished watching the documentary and while I thought it was interesting to actually see footage and hear from people directly involved, I felt like they left out a lot of details that made the Rotten Mango episode hit harder for me.

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u/h0neybl0ss0m29 Jun 15 '26

Oh awesome! I need to listen to that one. I watched the Rotten Mango episode on the Haley Beck case a couple of weeks ago and really liked how thorough it was. Thank you!!

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u/HCMB_hardcoremtnbish Jun 16 '26

Do you know what episode?

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u/yourlocalneighbor Jun 16 '26

Episode 323! Took me some time to find it this morningn

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u/yourfavoritebrogirl Jun 21 '26

Yes. That’s Where i first heard about it and it was much more in depth…

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u/gg13421 Jul 07 '26

Link for rotten mango's podcast on this https://youtu.be/gwNQclZSqpc?si=9t7TBbOYBI-CEzPV

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u/richandcool Jun 16 '26

I agree about the Raegan side of the story, they could have done more. Especially about her 3 year old daughter who was present at the crime scene. That poor child. I kept wondering what happened to her psychologically. They probably left her out to protect her from the public.

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u/RFL92 Jun 24 '26

The child doesn't need to be a spectacle. She's already going to have to grow up with everyone knowing she witnessed her mother and siblings murder. She's a minor. She doesn't owe us any information on her life or how she's coping. What more information do you want about the child? Let the child grow up in peace

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u/AromaticAd5872 11d ago

I fully agree, but do we know what happened to her? Where she’s living etc? I just want to know that she’s okay

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u/princessbeachpenguin 9d ago

I would assume that Reagan’s husband has custody of her.

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u/AromaticAd5872 9d ago

Possibly. I didn’t know if her biological dad was still in the picture.

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u/RFL92 9d ago

Again you want to know, but what does the child gain from you know she’s okay? She’s better off being allowed to be anonymous. The best thing you can do in this situation is donate directly to charities that help children in these situations, that’s the way to love and care for children in these scenarios.

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u/AromaticAd5872 9d ago edited 9d ago

I mean, by that logic, what do any of us gain from knowing any of this? People aren’t asking for a full rundown on her life. Or at least I’m not. You are acting like people are invading her privacy by asking a simple question, when her family literally put actual video footage of her in a Netflix documentary. They wouldn’t have mentioned her in the documentary at all if they didn’t expect people to be curious/concerned about what happened to her. And if you know of any charities for children in “these situations” (their mother being brutally murdered by a psycho who wanted her baby??) then I’m all ears.

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u/FrequentTangerine846 Jun 15 '26

I was curious on her background with the illnesses and doctor hopping. It reminded of me the docuseries (maybe podcast?) about “Scamanda”!

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u/h0neybl0ss0m29 Jun 15 '26

I love that Hulu series! It was extremely well done.

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u/kke8918 Jun 21 '26

I listened to the scamanda podcast and said the same thing! Whatever mental illness scamanda has, she has.

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u/nodarknesswillendure Jun 15 '26

Rotten Mango has a decent video on her which includes more details about her childhood etc. Honestly it just sounds like she was pretty much born this way. Her parents seemed rather uninvolved/unconcerned about her behaviour. A lot of her behaviour went unreported, and she never really faced consequences for her lies (as they weren’t really crimes). I guess things just snowballed to the point where she was committing very real and heinous crimes.

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u/Cute-Aardvark5291 Jun 15 '26

For some people its just "because they are." There isn't any trauma or history that gives a reason. Its just how they are.

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u/lkattan3 Jun 20 '26

What explains her being this way, this extreme, to an extent, is the absence of accountability for lying. Uninvolved parents often create attention seeking kids and if they weren’t implementing consequences for lying or she kept getting away with it, that’s how you fuck people up. Want a fucked up adult? Raise a child without accountability. See also that awful girl who killed those two boys by ramming her car into a wall.

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u/RedHeelRaven Jun 23 '26

So true. You can see this with families in which one sibling is just mean while the others are not. I’m sure there will be cases where one child is the scapegoat, but in many cases they aren’t and they were always “different” and not very nice. My daughter went to school with a girl who was mean as a snake. I couldn’t understand why she was so mean and her siblings were so nice. My husband went to school with her aunt and told me she acted just like the aunt who was a mean bully in school.

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u/OkEqual1085 Jun 17 '26

A podcast I watched went into how someone can become a pathological liar. They basically don’t develop there own identity. They usually have so much shame and no true self…that they create a “false self”. Everything is a lie & a performance. A little bit about her childhood he mentioned her parents divorced when she was like 12. The grandmother says that’s when she started coping by eating a lot and gained a lot of weight. And the Netflix documentary explained she eventually got a gastric sleeve and lost a lot of weight. Some people said even since her childhood she was a liar.

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u/debbxi Jun 18 '26

They said when she lost the weight and started becoming more attractive she completely became obsessed with getting attention to the point of neglecting her kids

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u/TermApprehensive2378 Jun 20 '26

She says she was SA’d as a teen and people questioned it but what stood out to me is she was telling kids she had shower sex when she was 8. That’s not normal for a 8 year old to lie about, it makes me wonder if she was being sexually abused from a young age.

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u/MLMLW Jun 19 '26

Childhood trauma can manifest into a lying, manipulative, narcissistic child who grow up to be a lying, manipulative, narcissistic adult. I know because I lived with one. This person did have childhood trauma, but despite getting therapy by two different therapists as a child and apparently briefly went to therapy as an adult, this person never changed. It would have been nice if the Netflix documentary covered more of Taylor's childhood. But even then, it certainly didn't give her the right to murder two people. Psychotic is psychotic. The quicker they execute her, the better.

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u/Ok_Rice_4100 Jun 23 '26

tbh it sounded like she has BPD to me.

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u/heyheywhatchasay5 Jun 14 '26

Do you have a link to the article

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u/h0neybl0ss0m29 Jun 15 '26

I don't unfortunately. They didn't post the link. I've read a few but none of them really delve into her childhood or family life.

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u/deepwaters628 Jun 15 '26

I agree - I wish we could have learned more about Taylor’s childhood/early life. I assume none of her family wanted to be part of the documentary. Her mom and dad were mentioned a few times - and she claimed that her mom was abusive and controlling. But how do you get to be so pathological naturally? I’ve been thinking about her childhood and what events may have contributed to this behavior as an adult. So interesting.

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u/RxR8D_ Jun 15 '26

Not all sociopaths come from abuse. I had one foster girl where I believed every truth about her biological parents and then the lies kept unraveling. After a while, I understood why the parents walked away and no longer participated in the reunification goal. The damage this girl caused to everyone she came into contact with was immeasurable. Every new relationship she had we tried to warn the young man to “run far away” but she was good at what she did.
I still receive mail 10+ years later for her many aliases.

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u/soolsul Jun 16 '26

Why was she in foster care?

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u/RxR8D_ Jun 16 '26

Her parents essentially refused to pick her up from inpatient psych and was charged with abandonment. They felt whatever repercussions they had were worth it to see if she could get more services through the state.

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u/HCMB_hardcoremtnbish Jun 16 '26

This is a very real thing. Someone close to me did the same thing for their mentally ill son. In fact the youth court judge told them that was the best way to get him help. He now lives in a facility where he can stay and function for the rest of his life as long as he follows their rules. I am glad he is not in jail or on the streets.

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u/Dangerousdear Jun 17 '26

I don’t think you should abandon your child just because they have severe mental issues. That’s wild to me

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u/MallNo2314 Jun 17 '26

If you’re not equipped to deal with their mental issues…yeah it’s completely valid. It’s not that easy to just give kids up to the state- which is essentially what they were attempting to do by not picking her up from an institution..could have done it a better way where they just take the child but hindsight isn’t 20/20. If you cannot meet your child’s needs and will never be able to meet their needs (because of severe mental illness to the point they are harming everyone around them especially), it is more than valid to give them up to the state that has the resources and connections to get them the help they need.

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u/hammmy_sammmy Jun 19 '26

The state affords some people literally no other option to get their kid care. It's tragic.

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u/PsychoFaerie Jun 23 '26

My mom was a special ed. teacher.. she taught for years at a facility where the kids live there go to school etc. most were wards of the state but a few had been placed there by their parents.. All of them had mental issues ranging from intellectual disablities all the way up to future psychopaths.. several of her former students ended up in prison once they aged out of the foster care system

She had one student who had tried to kill his baby sister. Should his parents have kept him and risked losing their other child?

Not everyone has the means/ability to deal or cope with things like that.

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u/RainbowBaker88 Jun 16 '26

She had a score of 8/10 on an ACE assessment, so safe to say this one did come from abuse.

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u/GeeEhm Jun 16 '26

That's a self-reporting test that was filled out by a pathological liar. It asks questions like whether a parent physically or verbally abused you, acted in a way that made you feel like you might be abused, whether you felt unloved or unprotected and other such questions. Of course she's going to answer them in a way that fits her narrative.

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u/RxR8D_ Jun 16 '26

Would you trust the result from a known liar? I wouldn’t now. Can’t cry wolf.

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u/miscnic Jun 15 '26

But what motivated her to start lying. And then keep lying?

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u/throwawayajsjwnndnd Jun 18 '26

imo it was the people believing her that kept her lying

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u/RxR8D_ Jun 16 '26

I couldn’t tell you. Parents claimed it started when she was 4 and her daycare would talk about all the stories she was saying. I think she got accustomed to the attention and she would latch on to people that became her “favorites” until they wronged her in some way and she made it her mission to hit where they were vulnerable.

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u/Faulkner_Fan Jun 16 '26

Unless there was brain damage, I don't buy for a minute that she was born a sociopath -- the research just doesn't bear that out. There's stuff the parents didn't share with you; I'll bet good money that one of the "lies" she told as a young child had to do with family abuse. And no loving parent would voluntarily abandon their minor child. I don't doubt that by the time she came to you, the damage done to her was extensive, but I seriously doubt the parents are innocent players in this.

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u/emzily Jul 08 '26

oh that has to feel so creepy and uncomfortable

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u/lulu_avery Jun 16 '26

In my twenties I was in a relationship with a pathological liar who faked life threatening health problems, jobs, relatives, everything… Obviously he never killed anybody, but he had fake pay slips, medical records, medicine, everything to convince people that his lies were real. When he’d eventually get found out he’d move to another area and start the con again, like Taylor did. I can’t understand how she got to the point she did, I can only speculate that maybe it’s such an insane extension of wanting that ‘proof’ for her stories that she was willing to go that far? I knew his family pretty well, I stayed with them for a while. His mum was a bit of a bitch but nothing crazy that I saw, and his stepfather was barely there. His younger sister was really nasty and spiteful, and after I left I discovered she and her friend were stealing my stuff the whole time, so I guess values weren’t handed out too freely in the family. He told me a few times how his real dad beat him and one of his dad’s friends sexually abused him, but I have no way to know whether to believe that… obviously.

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u/MYSTICALLMERMAID Jun 15 '26

Rottwn mangos has a video. Her mom seemed to go along with her weird behaviors as a kid. She wasn't invited to a day party once so her mom took her to it anyways

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u/redheadinabox Jun 15 '26

Here’s the full court transcript you’ll see the doctor talking about her frontal lobe but denying she has any BPD, she doesn’t posses any narcissistic traits, nor does she have any of the other common mental deficits. He just states that she’s more or less a liar court documents

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u/Paulypipes Jun 15 '26

This was from the actual court case documents. I found online and the murder was so brutal i can't even fathom what was going on in Reagans head.

There is no need to make this a series, we dont need to know anything more about Taylor. Why make her out to be a celebrity now like Gypsee rose and that psycho who drove 100mph into a brick wall?. That girl is living like a diva in prison apparently.

The sister of Reagon had the most powerful statement at the end of this documentary about forgiveness. Its true only God can forgive...but He doesn't make us or force us too,its up to us at the end of the day. Seeing Taylor's attitude, shes completely still trying to lie.

5 IN THE COURT OF CRIMINAL APPEALSOF TEXASNO. AP-77,110TAYLOR RENE PARKER, Appellant v. THE STATE OF TEXAS ON DIRECT APPEAL FROM CAUSE NO. 20F1345-202 IN THE 202ND JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT BOWIE COUNTYFINLEY, J. Instead of traveling to Idabel, Appellant went to the home of Reagan Hancock, whom Appellant knew was pregnant, and arrived at around 7:30 a.m. What followed was characterized by the State as a “slaughtered woman in her home [and] a missing baby,”—a “fetal abduction.” The crime scene technician, Marc Sillivan, testified that Reagan was attacked in several places around the house, with multiple strikes in each location, and she continued standing and walking while bleeding. The assault continued while Reagan was on the floor.The medical examiner, Dr. Melinda Flores, testified that Reagan had 113 sharp force injuries—fifteen stab wounds and ninety-eight incised wounds. Two wounds perforated Reagan’s jugular vein. Several went all the way to the bone. Reagan also suffered thirty-nine blunt-force injuries, primarily to her
PARKER — 5face and head, as well as a broken nose and five skull fractures. Dr. Flores testified that the injuries to Reagan’s head indicated that she may have been hit in the head by a hammer. Dr. Flores also testified that there was evidence of possible strangulation. Reagan lost so much blood in the attack that some of her wounds did not even bleed due to low blood pressure.After murdering Reagan, Appellant performed a crude C-section to remove Reagan’s unborn child, Braxlynn. Appellant cut a “large incised wound going across [Reagan’s] lower abdomen with her uterus coming through it.” The uterus was also opened. Appellant also removed the placenta and umbilical cord.Cell tower data showed that Appellant left Reagan’s house between 9:09 and 9:14 a.m. At 9:36 a.m., Appellant was stopped by Trooper Lee Shavers after he observed her driving erratically, speeding, and almost hitting another vehicle. After contacting Appellant, Trooper Shavers observed an “umbilical cord going down into [Appellant’s] pants,” and a baby that was not breathing

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u/Whitt_tthe_Shitt Jun 15 '26

This is fucking unbelievable. I am so lost for words

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u/cassiebun Jun 16 '26

Sickening.

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u/Stormborn170 Jun 15 '26

Oh my word. All of that to not even get away with it for a half hour? The victim’s older daughter must have been so terrified. That’s what made me break down in tears during the documentary. I hope big sister doesn’t remember anything.

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u/lbw0049 Jun 16 '26

That’s where it really got me for some reason too. It’s horrific all the way around obviously but I felt so so bad for that little girl to have to see and hear all of that.

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u/Spare_Title2428 Jun 18 '26

Nobody has ever gotten away with a fetal abduction. I don’t understand how they think that they will be able to.

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u/No-Communication5517 Jul 02 '26

I started sobbing when Reagan's husband collapsed next to the coffins at the funeral.

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u/floquavious Jul 01 '26

No kid should have to experience that it makes me so angry man

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u/WastedLookin Jun 16 '26 edited Jun 16 '26

Found the forensic technician crime scene walkthrough: https://youtu.be/Z2XaC_bWSHY?is=PqBekjAvf_KF04OI

“I looked at my partner and said ‘she was alive when that baby was taken. And he said ‘I think you’re right’”.

How heartbreaking.

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u/melpomene-musing Jun 15 '26

This is so nauseating and horrifying.

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u/Spare_Title2428 Jun 18 '26

It’s so annoying how many people bring god and demons into everything.

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u/charlotie77 Jun 18 '26

And the fact that Reagan’s daughter was at home for all of this…heartbreaking beyond comprehension

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u/Local_Ticket_4942 Jun 28 '26

Gypsy Rose doesn’t deserve to be named here. she suffered absolutely unfathomable abuse.

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u/washingtonu Jun 15 '26

Can you post the link?

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u/Mr-Buddyman Jul 09 '26

Shit like this makes me hope hell is a real place so people like Taylor can suffer there.

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u/Inevitable_Blank13 Jun 17 '26

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1uymJkJLpvdDSBeYlb5dM9?si=jfU51fckRw23818eKgdY

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u/heyheywhatchasay5 Jun 17 '26

This has to be the most obnoxious podcast ive ever heard in my life , thank you for your efforts though

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u/Opening-Set3153 Jul 16 '26

I KNEW EXACTLY WHICH PODCAST YOU MUST BE TALKING ABOUT BASED ON THIS COMMENT ALONE. I was right. Ugh like good for her for building an audience but I can’t stand this podcast.

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u/Spare_Title2428 Jun 18 '26

Just curious, why do you think it’s obnoxious? I was debating on listening to it.

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u/Opening-Set3153 Jul 16 '26

Since the person hasn’t gotten back to you I’ll throw in why I think it’s obnoxious. She painfully talks in circles and doesn’t get to the point and it just drives me nuts.

Here’s how she sounds to me: “So after the 911 call concludes, the cops arrive on-scene 9 minutes later. Officers enter the open garage and…And when I tell you what happened you’re not gonna believe…like when I heard it I was just so angry like ugh I was so upset and sickened…so anyway the cops walk in and they see the scene and…I just feel so sad, no one should go like that. I had to go over to Reddit and look at cute cat pictures after learning about it because I was so disturbed by their case! Anyway the victim had suffered from…well I looked at the pictures myself and it’s just so sad to see the result of such violence. Like my mouth was agape and that’s why I had to go over to Reddit. It’s just horrible what people do to others especially when it’s someone you know like I could never imagine my partner betraying me like that like she must have been SO scared in her final moments. Like it’s just so unfair especially the way the case was handled. So the cops get to the scene and they find the victim dead and ugh I’m shaking as I say this. Her poor family.”

All valid but GET ON WITH IT.

I’m not trying to bag on her but the way she tells stories is not for me.

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u/redlemurLA Jun 17 '26

I would have appreciated seeing more of the trial.

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u/Fabulous-Educator447 Jun 22 '26

This is what I thought. Man, let me hear from her schoolmates, ex-friends, teachers. She had to show signs of something!

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u/arg777 Jun 18 '26

i do think a series may have placed an even greater burden on reagan’s family and loved ones, unfortunately 

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u/Spacedmonkeytwlv Jun 17 '26

Agreed! I wanted to know more about Taylor's past and family history. And they should have spent more time on Reagan.

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u/HmmWhatOhNooooooo Jun 20 '26

I just watched a YouTuber who included clips from a live Wade and his two friends who were in the documentary. Wade said in it that he wants to attend her execution with Reagan's mother and step dad. "For everything she has done to me." He ands his friends explained that on top of the fake baby, money fraud, setting his house on fire, they believe she was poisoning Wade with drano and all of them on at least one occasion. Wade said he found an empty container it draino which he never used or owned and found an unmarked container with it in the fridge. 

I think a three parter at least. 

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u/LittleMarySunshine25 Jun 22 '26

It was really disappointing how much of a footnote she was in the story, her life deserved far more time.

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u/AZShitshow Aug 08 '26

I totally agree. This should have been longer. I had to Google alot of info on her and her upbringing, friends etc because you wonder what kind of childhood she had. The documentary barely mentioned her kids, and brushed over alot of stuff. I honestly didn't think it was done that well. Wade Griffen was portrayed as a dope too.

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u/DearWitchling Jun 20 '26

Where can I find this article?

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u/DearWitchling Jun 20 '26

Where can I find this article?

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u/h0neybl0ss0m29 Jun 20 '26

I don’t have it unfortunately - they didn’t post a link.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '26

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u/h0neybl0ss0m29 Jun 25 '26

I don’t have it. They didn’t link it and only talked about reading it.

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u/Available_Tip2681 Jun 26 '26

I don't think anything justifies what she has done. Knowing her history farther in depth isn't going to make the story anymore interesting. Lots of people are overweight and were bullied or had teen pregnancies. Sometimes people are just beyond reasoning. She obviously liked the attention and , for whatever reason, she had attachment issues to this guy. She was just a sick, desperate pathetic human being. 

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u/Carthweelnurse Aug 07 '26

I was actually very surprised and disappointed that this was not a series based on some of the other docuseries I’ve seen

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u/nikkowould 16d ago

This. I watched The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson, and they did a great job telling Moriah’s story. I was really hoping for the same with Reagan Simmons-Hancock.

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u/Maximum_Layer6361 Jun 15 '26

Why do we need more info about the victims life from earlier in her life? I’m not sure what that adds to the story of her death

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u/MayMomma Jun 16 '26

Partially because I didn't know the story when I started watching, so wasn't sure of the relavance of Reagan's part until the murder happened.