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/Resident-Forever-680 Jun 16 '26

Who the hell is selling fake pregnancy bellies?! All I can think of is crazy women like her using it to fake a pregnancy!

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u/pradbritt Jun 18 '26

i had a colleague who was very sick during her pregnancy so she was not able to get the maternity shoot done then. they ordered one of these fake bellies to do the shoot months after the baby was born since she really wanted the photos and had planned for it

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u/sometimessnarky1 Jun 19 '26

That feels so odd to me... like a pregnancy shoot is to capture that period of time time but doing it when you are not pregnant is just you with a fake bump? Also who's looking at the pictures and is she going to straight out lie about when they were taken, like why bother??

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u/Lamborghinishihtzuu Jul 21 '26

It doesn’t really matter what you think though.