Reagan Simmons-Hancock trusted Taylor Parker completely.Parker was her friend, wedding photographer and a fellow expectant mom.
What Simmons-Hancock believed was a genuine friendship was actually a carefully crafted deception — one that would ultimately end in her murder.In 2022, Parker was convicted of capital murder for the 2020 killing of Simmons-Hancock, 21, and the abduction of her unborn daughter, who was cut from her mother's womb and later died.The Texas woman is now the subject of the Netflix true-crime documentary "Maternal Instinct," directed by Jessica Dimmock and executive produced by Liz Garbus."What Taylor did is a type of cold-hearted manipulation that could make your blood run cold," Dimmock told Fox News Digital.
"This is not what we think danger looks like.God, she’s such a master manipulator.
She is so deceptive.It’s really unfathomable the lengths that she will go to avoid accountability.
So much of what happened just never needed to happen."'DATING GAME' SERIAL KILLER'S RISE TO FAME WAS KEY TO HIS DOWNFALL, ARRESTING OFFICER REVEALS FOR FIRST TIMEThe shocking case of Taylor Parker — who faked a pregnancy before murdering expectant mother Reagan Simmons-Hancock and cutting her unborn baby from her womb — is the focus of Netflix's new true-crime documentary, *Maternal Instinct," now streaming.(Courtesy of Netflix)Simmons-Hancock, an Arkansas native, met Parker while searching for an affordable photographer for her wedding to Homer Hancock.
Recommended by a friend, Parker seemed like the perfect fit, and the two quickly formed a friendship.Their bond grew even stronger when Simmons-Hancock learned she was pregnant with her second child.
Parker claimed she was expecting as well, telling friends and family she was pregnant with her third child.But Parker's pregnancy was a lie.Few people — including her boyfriend, Wade Griffin — knew she had undergone a hysterectomy years earlier and could not have children.Taylor Parker wore a s...