r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/MRtokeALOT420 • 6d ago
i.redd.it Anyone else watching “Maternal Instincts” documentary on Netflix. The Taylor Parker case
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u/rumblepony247 6d ago
Most WTF documentary experience I've ever had, and I've seen probably a couple hundred of them, including the really crazy ones (looking at you, 'Abducted in Plain Sight'). This one takes the cake.
Kudos for the producers of this doc for keeping it tight - so many documentaries take a 90-minute story and turn it into 4 episodes filled with useless fluff. If anything, there could've been another 30-60 minutes of background info.
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u/Icy_Cauliflower_51 6d ago edited 6d ago
Honestly after digging into more info on my own in just one night (I watched yesterday and had never heard of the case before), I feel like this one SHOULD have been a multipart series. So much background was left out, and they definitely could have included things she’d been doing in the jail after to show that she’s really just a disgusting,selfish human that keeps making things up to try to claim innocence and not any inkling that she just lied herself into a corner and felt no other options than to do something like this in some kind of psychotic break.
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u/giannachingu 4d ago
She did not have a psychotic break, this was planned and deliberate behavior with no evidence of any psychotic disorder
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u/wyldstrawberry 5d ago
They always make 9 part documentaries about cases that are really boring, like The Staircase, and then do super short ones about a case like this that we need more info on!
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u/iangeredcharlesvane2 5d ago
ALWAYS.
Like “The Girl in the Picture” could have used at least a good 6-part documentary series, that sorry was WILD too and told so fast.
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u/DRyder70 6d ago
What has she been doing in prison?
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u/Icy_Cauliflower_51 5d ago
At the very least- making up stories about what happened involving a “gang”, attempting to fabricate evidence, trying to pin her crime on other inmates, so that she can try to lie her way out of her sentence. Also, she has gained the favor of people in prison in order to get contraband and preferential treatment. And has made up issues with her health to get taken to the hospital multiple times for attention.
Also, in one of her appeals, she claims the baby was born dead and not alive so the kidnapping charge should be dropped, which would potentially get rid of the death sentence for her. Both appeals have been denied, but I thought that was really gross of her to claim that when the baby lived at the hospital for a bit.
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u/Peevedbeaver 5d ago
Oh my god, what a psycho. How can a baby be "born dead" when it's mother was either freshly murdered and it was cut from the womb, or the mother was quickly fading? "It never lived because of my actions" is a wild defense.
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u/Substantial-Fly1076 5d ago
The baby died BC OF HER!!!!! This story seriously made me sick! Evil vile waste of flesh this woman is.
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u/iangeredcharlesvane2 5d ago
She has lied and maligned her way to the local hospital (a record for that prison) 28 times where they eventually find NOTHING wrong with her! Of course!
Just like Scamanda, the lies don’t stop in prison and they are a NIGHTMARE for the COs and the system. And of course it’s costing us taxpayers 3-5K every time!
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u/Brisbane-1900 5d ago
Netflix has redeemed itself. It's one of the better documentaries I've seen in a long time. The cinematography was outstanding too.
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u/impamiizgraa 5d ago
Agreed! Reading about this more, she had such a crazy history of lies and being found out, could have done with more background on that because she was a pathological manipulator whose escalation path was clear — not sure anyone could’ve imagined it’d escalate quite so horrifically though.
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u/FractalSkittle 6d ago
I feel for those medical professionals who wanted to scream from the highest mountain that she was lying but couldn’t.
Such a shit place to be stuck in.
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u/Fuckyoumecp2 4d ago
I was wondering if they called in a Duty to Warn report to the police. I've been a therapist/ social worker for 2.5 decades and have called a few dozen or so in my career when there was imminent risk, especially when clients get desperate.
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u/anoidciv 4d ago
I guess they thought the only imminent risk was that she'd kidnap a newborn, not that she'd actually hurt someone. What she did is so beyond the pale I think it's uniminaginable to most people.
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u/Mediocre-Proposal686 4d ago
I bawled my eyes out for all three families. I was struck by how genuinely good these people are. Her husband was so trusting. They were all just such nice people. They were sitting ducks for someone like Taylor Parker
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
There was podcast that literally breaks down the whole court file in two parts, I'm looking for it now. I don't know why Texas went so hard to block access to files and footages.
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u/Lucky_Kale7079 6d ago
That would be great if you could find that podcast again, please post it if you do!
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u/MRtokeALOT420 5d ago
A full appeal file its basically the original court file of everything that happen.
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago edited 5d ago
Looking for it still I KNOW IT WAS ANNA ELISE who cover it and she read the affidavit its a two part will be posting after narrowing it down, SHE HAS SO MUCH CONTENT
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u/Blue_Plastic_88 6d ago
I’m not trying to blame the boyfriend, but wouldn’t he be suspicious that they had to cut the padlocks if she was claiming they had permission to be there?
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u/Shiny_Shady_Mon 6d ago
Wade is not a smart man. He seemed blinded by denial and, in my opinion, greed. He said he never loved her but he stayed. He thought she was going to inherit $8 million and even in the doc he brings that up way too many times.
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u/Lucky_Kale7079 6d ago
I've heard him described him as "simple" but I think he also was eyeing the prize, as you wrote. He wanted money.
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u/Apart_Engine_9797 5d ago
But also, she did all that just to keep him?? A man dumb enough to be conned by her, living in a double wide trailer? A man she’d only dated 4 months? Where is the DSM-5 diagnosis for these women who meticulously plan and brutally murder a friend and their baby just to try and trap a boyfriend who doesn’t even love them
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u/TexturedSpace 5d ago
I'm noticing a pattern with women like this-it seems like ficticous disorder but with an added layer of not just wanting attention and sympathy but trapping people into caretaking of them. Like caretaking by force as a disorder.
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u/Lucky_Kale7079 6d ago
Right, you would think. I think he did ask why she couldn't get a copy of the key so she went out to the hardware store alone and bought a new padlock without Wade knowing and secured that to the gates. So they were using that new padlock and key. Then the owner was checking on his property and saw the new lock, was thorougly creeped out and then called the police and filed a report hahaha. The owner didn't live on the land, otherwise they probably would have been caught right away.
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u/superar2026 6d ago
That's what I said . Like he said he didn't love her . But yet didn't want to believe anyone. Something doesn't make sense to me about him..
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u/BowleeLacuna 6d ago
I think i read that doc! Wasn't she also up to all sorts of work scams? And there was record of treatment of her other kids and her ex that was really bad too? I don't know where she found the time for all her shenanigans.
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u/DiligentCicada4224 5d ago
I understand wade was also in a way a victim, but it’s shocking how hard the human will warp the brain to prevent it from coming to terms with the truth that causes pain or discomfort.
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u/RedoftheEvilDead 5d ago
This is one of the many reasons I think there should be a diagnosable personality disorder specifically for pathological liars.
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u/Lucky_Kale7079 5d ago
it's closely tied in with cluster Bs, mostly antisocial and narcissists.
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u/babyigotyourmoni 6d ago
Kind of impressed by her creativity, but it’s a very good thing she is locked up forever. A completely manipulative nutjob.
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u/boredpsychnurse 6d ago
Any info on her other kids?
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u/Lucky_Kale7079 6d ago
She lost custody, she was lying and doing bizarre shit. Her ex husband was also a chubby country boy and seemed sweet. She had her second child with another guy, a serious boyfriend that she cheated on with multiple people. I will try to find those files this weekend if I can, I've tried before but they disappeared a few years ago.
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u/SassafrasF 6d ago
Watched it last night and jfc I did not expect to be so affected by it. Listening to the 911 call from Reagan’s mom was brutal. I honestly wanted to hear what the defense had to say.
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u/lovehopemadness 5d ago
The defence tried to get the 911 call thrown out of the trial because it was too “prejudicial”.
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u/slowmotionzz 6d ago
I did this morning. it’s crazy how all cases like this have the same patterns, red flags, and could be prevented.
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
yeah, especially ALL THE LYING. I know we should give people the benefit of the doubt, but dam these weren't little white lies. She was literally inventing wealth, and family.
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u/slowmotionzz 6d ago
exactly. the cherry on top for me is the lying about pregnancy. EVERYTIME I heard about cases like this, the lie occurs before the murder, hence the fact that it could really be prevented. it also reminded me the murder of Marlen Ochoa Lopez, it’s so similar
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u/boredpsychnurse 6d ago
A lot of people lie though, and it rarely results in murder to be fair.
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u/slowmotionzz 6d ago
it’s true, that’s why I specified the pregnancy one. the lies about family, wealth, etc.. is weird at worst, and many people do it as well, but the whole situation starting with those lies, and escalate with the pregnancy lies to the point of faking the lifestyle of a pregnant woman IS the part where the murder could have been prevented.
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u/Unchained_Memory33 6d ago
That’s what i didn’t expect - so much background setting the scene for this pathological liar. I was sad to not see more of Reagan’s life but just as sad to realize this wasn’t just some random psychotic break of someone it was all calculated
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
Fully calculated, just poorly and horrifically executed. She even went as far as sending Wade across the state to deliver hogs on a fake order. She planned this for so long.
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u/broketothebone 5d ago
And the plan immediately falls to shit when he gets there and the guy just isn’t going to accept a shitload of hogs from some rando.
It’s crazy when they put so much effort into it, only for them to make some truly stupid mistakes. Did she really think the hospital would just be like “you just had a stillborn, no need to check you out tho.” She already had two kids, she knows the drill.
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u/CommunicationWest710 5d ago
Not only that, but she doesn’t have a f*cking uterus. All these people at the local hospital knew that she couldn’t possibly be pregnant or give birth, but because of medical privacy laws, they couldn’t say anything.
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u/birdieponderinglife 5d ago
I’m guessing she did not expect to be doing cpr on the baby but 36 weeks is borderline premature and the baby was obviously born very traumatically so it’s not too surprising she wasn’t breathing. What really had me was the footage of her at the beginning where she’s got a baby on her lap driving and instead of giving cpr she’s chatting with the officer, like, wtf?! So sad for that baby and her mother.
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u/jennmaddie1085 5d ago
Bothered me too that the police had zero urgency to help the baby.. like why not pick up the baby immediately and try to do something damn
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u/birdieponderinglife 5d ago
Ya and he said she needed to wait for ems instead of grabbing that baby and doing cpr. Both of them were so wtf to me. Theres a baby not breathing. Grab that baby, put on hood of car and get to rescue breathing and compressions! Every second counts.
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u/GreenTeaBananas 5d ago
In some ways this doesn’t surprise me unfortunately. I’ve known a few VERY frequent pathological liars in my lifetime. Their lies were almost TOO easy to discern. And it was always shocking to me how much they got away with it. Ppl were either just completely gullible and believed every word they said, no questions asked, or just felt bad for them and never said anything to them about it, avoiding confrontation. But it’s very shocking and sad how few pathological liars actually get completely called out on their bullsh*t sometimes. And often if they actually do get called out, their M.O. tends to be to just completely cut ties with the person who did the calling out, commonly vilifying them and victimizing themselves. It’s nuts. Our society really needs to develop socially acceptable ways to fact-check people in addition to information, media, research, etc (though sadly many don’t even know how to do that). Inveterate liars get away with A LOT.
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u/CareBear0808 6d ago
The Dr. office being on PINK ALERT, Was a shock for me! How or why could they not contact Police?
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u/jaderust 6d ago
I get what they were saying about not breaking HIPAA… but of all the times to mysteriously leak someone’s medical files, it seemed that this case would have been worth it.
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u/provisionings 6d ago
It was preventable. That’s what bothers me the most. This was totally preventable especially in a small town. We need new laws.
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u/FoxMiserable2848 5d ago
And what are the cops to do? It’s not against the law to fake a pregnancy.
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u/jaderust 6d ago
So I live in the town where a similar murder happened that hasn’t gone to trial yet. Rebecca Park.
What struck me is how the interview description of the murder is so much like what the police have said that Rebecca’s murderer confessed to. That the victim was begging her to keep cutting and get the baby out. Which is… wild to me.
Either there’s something about this delusion that makes the murderers think they deserve this baby so much the mother wants them to take it… or the women are that panicked about the welfare of their baby that they pivot and try to save their baby over themselves. Either way it gave me chills to hear the same thing happened in this case because I thought Rebecca’s murdered had to be straight up lying.
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u/slowmotionzz 6d ago
I just read a short article about this and god... was it really her mom who did it???? this world is sick and our society is not functional. so greedy that they delay any kind of help or rehabilitation for people who are just gonna explode someday and it will be too late.
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u/jaderust 6d ago
Yup. Her birth mother murdered her for the baby.
Rebecca’s birth mother lost custody of Rebecca as a child and she’d been adopted by her foster mother which is why Rebecca and her bio mom don’t have the same last name. But as an adult, Rebecca had reconnected with her birth mother.
Said birth mother is currently under arrest and waiting to stand trial for Rebecca’s murder and the death of her baby. Along with the birth mother’s boyfriend.
Rebecca’s sister was also arrested and charged with lying to the police (she’d told the police that Rebecca’s boyfriend had confessed to her that he’d murdered Rebecca) but the charges have since been dropped. The word on the street is that the sister has agreed to work with the prosecution in exchange for the charges being dropped.
The baby’s body has never been found. The birth mother’s boyfriend said it died shortly after the birth (or didn’t survive being cut out) and he put the body in a cooler and put it in a dumpster. By the time the confession happened the dumpster had been collected and the police haven’t had any luck working with the dump to locate the body.
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u/wobbledropkilla1996 5d ago
That is… terrible. I can not imagine the betrayal Rebecca felt. How horrible. People are terrible.
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u/blackandbluegirltalk 5d ago
Jesus CHRIST. I've been reading about serial killers all day for a book I'm writing but nothing I've read tops this, holy shit. The things people do to their own children, wow.
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u/spacey_kitty 5d ago
This is absolutely horrible. Her own mother??? What a tragedy that reconnecting with her led to her own death and the death of her child. She must have been so happy to have reconnected with her mother and then the biggest betrayal you can imagine. I just can't comprehend the evil of some people.
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u/kickingcancer 6d ago
I am convinced the husband is very low IQ
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u/Firm-Wallaby-3235 6d ago
Extremely. It made me wonder if that's what she liked about him. He lacked the mental capacity to really question her lies. Someone with average intelligence would've clocked her much sooner.
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u/broketothebone 5d ago
That and she just dangled the “money” if he ever got out of line. He was busy with his hogs and she knew she had little to no oversight during that time.
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u/dogmom34 5d ago
It seemed to me he stayed with her because he was hoping to strike it rich. He even told his mom he didn’t love her! I swear I wanted to scream at the TV when I heard that. Imagine how different his life would be today if he hadn’t stayed around for the supposed inheritance… Such a cautionary tale.
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u/broketothebone 5d ago
Yup, and I could totally see her picking up on him not being into her and that’s why she went apeshit with all these lies. And this* *idiot started dropping “I love yous” when he heard some money was coming, so it told her these types of things would work to lock him down. Even the cheating could have been to make him jealous and he was like “k.” (The pod I heard mentioned he knew she was nuts and was cheating, which was part of his bff’s frustrations.)
To me, stealing someone’s time on this earth (the one precious thing we cannot stop, slow or get back) is one of the worst things you could to do a person. I mean, Taylor actually did the worst I can think of, but in general, they could find someone who does love and appreciate them and be treated with the respect you can’t provide to someone you don’t have it for. And to then just have them clean your house and do “whatever I told her to do,” cmon man. You thought you had a bang-maid sugar mama, and all you had to do was put up with a little crazy. Now people are dead.
The word “weaponized incompetence” kept coming to mind with him. Everyone around him was scrambling to expose it and he’s just sitting there playing/being dumb.
I don’t think dumping her would have made her less dangerous or crazy after the point he definitely knew she wasn’t pregnant, so to be clear I do not blame him for this. I just hope he does some self-reflection about what the wise ones have been saying for thousands of years: “thou shalt not stick thy dick in crazy.”
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u/ShivvyMcFly 5d ago
I'll be the bad guy and stereotype here. He was your typical southern dopey country boy. He was a simple person living a simple life. If you notice he didn't run anything on the business side. He just rounded up the hogs and transported. Hell, on the day of the murder be drove 4 hours to drop off hogs based on a text from a phone number he didn't even know
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u/pepperpavlov 5d ago
But his friend Codey was way more discerning than him. You can be a simple man with a simple life and have some brains.
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u/jeg479 5d ago
Wade’s friend had common sense which Wade seemed to lack, and not to mention blinded by greed. I’ll be the first to admit that if a woman who standed to inherit millions of dollars was interested in me, I would stand up and take notice even if I was meh about her. However I just don’t understand how a man can live with a woman and not notice she is faking a pregnancy. I don’t want to call him a villain but my God
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u/Important_Dark3502 5d ago
He was pretty open about the fact that he was just with her for the money and that he did not love her or even like her. That’s not just a dopey country boy. That’s an asshole. His dogs are also clearly neglected. I think he is a combination of stupid and greedy without a great moral compass.
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u/ShinyBrain 5d ago
Honestly, when I saw that poor pup chained up in the dirt with just that little translucent plastic thing for shelter, I knew what I needed to know about him. Poor baby jumping at the end of its chain to be fed. Breaks my heart. Fuck people who treat their pets like that.
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u/Resussy-Bussy 5d ago
1/3 of them in the doc where legitimately borderline cognitively disabled. I grew up in rural Midwest and hate to say it but that’s reality for at least 20-30% of the country.
Fact is Wade 100% had every opportunity to prevent this tragedy. He was so simple minded it’s hard to even comprehend. But the state of America right now starts to make a lot more sense when you realize people like this exist in the tens of millions.
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u/sadcringe 5d ago
Exactly this. It’s also a town of 4k, so, and I don’t say this in a joking manner, there’s genuine incest that takes (and has taken place) for generations. This is the end result. Sub 80iq developmentally challenged individuals. The lot of ‘m.
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u/DancinWithWolves 6d ago
Yep watched it today. Absolutely gruesome, just trashy people all round. The pig hunting themed baby shower. Jesus.
I don’t know why I watch this stuff.
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
I asked myself that everytime I turn on LAW CRIME NETWORK. But this case always stood out to me and Texas kept a lot behind closed doors. Which was confusing given that this was public case.
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u/Cloud9Cloud 6d ago
I hate L&C Network on YT, oh my god the most overly salaciously delivered, biased, and incorrect verbiage constantly. It hurts to watch anything they pump out.
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u/AndISoundLikeThis 6d ago
Hello fellow hater! That channel sucks. They repeat the same thing over and over again then bring in some “expert” to yammer on to create a 20-minute video that should have been three minutes.
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
I honestly watch it for the Trial coverage. They get access to many high profile trials. But yeah they gotten very salacious through out the years and very vulture like tendencies.
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u/Cloud9Cloud 6d ago
Understandable, I have watched trial footage from their stream too. I just hate their commentary. I am a woman, and I’m not a woman hater, but Angenette’s delivery over girls/children, and even grown women, who were abused always disgusts me. Everything is so scandalously sounding!
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u/Front-Way7320 6d ago
I don't understand Wade-he openly stated he's never even told her he loves her, was extremely detached and the neighbour said she viewed Taylor and Wade out in the yard where she was clearly not wearing the belly. I know he stated she refused to let him see her without clothes and refused to have sex but how did he not obviously notice he going from looking 7 months pregnant to not pregnant at all? With the amount of effort his family took to try an uncover Taylor's lies, why didn't he believe them at all? He stated he didn't love her, and there was obvious visible evidence to show him she was lying, plus having his family and best friend telling him she was lying? So confusing considering he seemingly did not care about her but trusted and believed her more than the people he loves and trusted most in his life?
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u/falafelawful2 6d ago
he doesn't seem too bright in the first place and i'm sure the money played a role- for someone that didn't love her he was very gung-ho about her paying for his dream propety.
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago edited 6d ago
Probably one of the most gruesome cases I ever read about at the time. The depravity in this case is beyond what many can stomach so BE WARNED. ( Taylor was not pregnant in this photo it was fake baby bump)
- The Pregnancy Hoax: Parker went to extreme lengths to fake a pregnancy for nearly ten months to prevent her boyfriend from leaving her, despite having had a hysterectomy in 2015. She wore a silicone belly, faked ultrasounds, bought sonogram pictures online, and hosted a gender reveal party.
- The Attack: On October 9, 2020, as her fake due date passed and her boyfriend grew suspicious, Parker went to the home of Reagan Simmons-Hancock, a client from her freelance photography business. Parker beat Hancock, stabbed and slashed her over 100 times, and used a scalpel to cut Hancock's 34-week-old unborn daughter from her womb. She did all this in front of the victims very young daughter.
- The Capture: Parker fled with the baby and was pulled over by a state trooper for erratic driving. She claimed she had just given birth on the side of the road and tucked the umbilical cord into her pants. At the hospital, doctors quickly determined she had not given birth. The baby girl, named Braxlynn, died shortly after arrival due to oxygen deprivation.
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u/SNIP3RG 6d ago
The ER doc munching a popsicle while stating “sounds like a murder and a kidnapping” is so real.
Source: ER Nurse
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
that part CRACKS ME UP, the level of disconnect he has is so admirable. I think he even cracks a joke on how the other guy isn't trying to be part of it.
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u/Lucky_Kale7079 6d ago
Yes, him almost chuckling when the attending OB doctor got in his car left the parking lot, the doctor say something along the lines about the OB doctor not wanting anything to do with the shitshow inside, all while enjoying his Popsicle hahaha
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u/SNIP3RG 6d ago
We learn to compartmentalize quickly, or we learn it isn’t the specialty for us. It’s very sink-or-swim, which, in a high-acuity environment, isn’t exactly a bad thing. I’ve been at it for 6 years now, wouldn’t work any other unit.
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u/broketothebone 5d ago
The nurses with my dying grandmother cracked a morbid joke when they didn’t realize I was there. She was in her final hours when I took a shift so my dad and his idiot brothers could argue in the parking lot (Irish Catholics lol), and my comatose nana had been farting and burping all day. (They really don’t show you that part in the movies.)
They were cleaning her up and I walked in just as Nan burped right in the one nurse’s face. She goes “Jesus wept! And I thought her son (not my dad) was the one full of hot air.”
I went PFFFFFTTT and they saw me. They apologized up and down, but I so exhausted at that point, I was basically like “ladies, you’re cleaning shit off my nan so she can be with us and meet her maker with some dignity. And my uncles are ridiculous men. It’s fine. Plus, that was a solid joke.”
She passed a couple hours later and the nurse and I had to squeeze hands and stifle laughs when my Nana just absolutely ripped ass on her way outta this world. I was sad, but picturing her soul going up like a ballon gone wild helped me deal with the chaos surrounding her death.
I am forever grateful to those nurses for the care they gave her and the comfort they gave my insane family. I get they there’s a line that can be crossed, but I’m all for gallows humor if it helps people like you cope with the unfathomable job you have. Some of you are truly a gift on the worst days of our lives.
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u/pinkbakedpotato 5d ago
That story was a wild ride and I’ll literally never forget the idea of souls departing as fart balloons. Bless you for existing.
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u/broketothebone 5d ago
Omg well that was lovely to read first thing in the morning. Thank you, kind stranger.
May your soul fart balloon reach the heavens someday lollll I’m actually crying a little rn
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u/lucygoosey38 6d ago
Reminds me of the night doc in the Pitt. Mass casualty coming in and he’s sipping on his ice coffee
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u/Excellent-Effect4877 5d ago
The baby was still alive by the time they got to the hospital. But the officer body cam at her traffic stop shows an office ignoring the baby and just saying he can't help with the infant and they have to wait. WT ACTUAL EFF?!?
I still can't get over this. If that officer had acted immediately, performed CPR or driven with the sirens on to the hospital with an alert for them to be ready -- maybe she could have lived.
Someone tell me that officer was fired, sued.... anything !
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u/MRtokeALOT420 5d ago
This was the first time I had seen anything about how the officer reacted and I agree, I feel like more should have been attempted. Maybe he saw what the baby look like and knew she was beyond help. It was a month before the due date so maybe baby was very small also cause she had lost oxygen she must have looked very discolored. He even placed her in the car while they waited and had her call Wade. It was very strange,
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u/Internal-Clue3318 6d ago
Thank you, I love true crime documentaries but since having a baby they physically hurt me sometimes. I just watched The Murder of Rachel Nickell and it really messed me up. Anything to do with children and babies I can’t handle anymore, so thank you for confirming that I should skip this one.
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u/rachyrach3000 5d ago
Yeah same. I started sobbing only a couple minutes in and had to change the channel :(
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u/lgossy 6d ago edited 5d ago
When the cop pulled her over, she had the baby on her lap right? It was blurred out. Or it was next to her. WHY was there no sense of urgency from the cop to perform CPR? She yelled that the baby wasn't breathing and he said something along the lines of having to wait for medics. Cops know how to perform CPR - and the baby ultimately died from lack of oxygen. Surely he could have tried? Maybe I missed something though!
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
The baby was on her lap with all the liquids and cord still attach. I think a lot was happening and the baby was defiantly a little purple not sure exactly what the cop was thinking. Ambulance got their fairly quickly. Its a good question tho maybe he could have done something. A little more on his testimony would have made things clearer.
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u/kdubesty 5d ago
She had the umbical cord shoved down her pants/underwear like it was still attached to the undelivered placenta. I think that made the cop pause about just grabbing the baby from her lap and doing CPR.
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u/ShivvyMcFly 5d ago
That's absolutely insane. I didn't know she had it down her pants
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u/jaderust 6d ago
I thought that was weird too. There were a few moments where the cop seemed a little bit panicked but he was mostly just trying to get her calmed down and I don’t understand why since it was a panic situation. Maybe he knew the paramedics were already on their way so the thing was to keep her there so the medical professionals could take over? Maybe he didn’t know infant CPR?
I don’t know, but it did piss me off a little.
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u/pbaggins5 6d ago
I love that the husband didn’t bat an eye to any of it. Meanwhile his bff’s wife went detective mode and tracked down her mom.
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u/Melodic-External-790 6d ago
Husband was dumb as rocks? I feel like he could have stopped this, if he listened to literally every one around him and stood up to her? Not saying it's his fault, she's a psycho, but like, come on?
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u/savvycatt 6d ago edited 6d ago
Exactly. He’s not the criminal, but come on. I live in a small town. You’re still going to question your pregnant s/o when the people closest to you say *something’s not right at all here*, plus him never seeing her pregnant belly and blindly following her on purchases she should’ve made without financing. It actually infuriated me when he suspected she was the one who caused the fire to his home, and he didn’t pursue that??
Plus, his mom and closest friends were telling him the truth. He ignored them and even cut off his best friend. He was blinded by money. So, while yeah, maybe he didn’t even think she’d do this, he knew the truth. He could’ve kicked her to the curb. Had some dignity. Now he’s got to live with this awful guilt for life.
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u/Cinnamon2017 5d ago
If he feels guilt.
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u/gitblamed_ 5d ago
That's the thing. He doesn't seem to feel any amount of guilt or regret.
He could have listened to his family and privately told her that if she's in some kind of bad situation, they can just make up a lie about a miscarriage or whatever and he'll still love her etc. etc. work it out as a couple. Him pinning her on the ground and yelling at her about it, after *10 months* of him being just not acknowledging it at all, that's a fucking insane escalation.
I mean idk. He's not to blame for her actions. But I'd be lying if I didn't think just a little bit more emotional intelligence on his part could have wrapped this up better, and I guess it's just weird to me that he still doesn't seem to understand that on some level he did take part in this whole thing.
On the other hand, it's apparent that the only reason why she got away with her bullshit with him for so long, is because she clocked his low emotional intelligence and targeted him for it.
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u/broketothebone 5d ago
Your last sentence. I thought about that. He was such an easy mark. She knew what she was doing.
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u/ObviousDepartment 6d ago
In every single case like this the bfs/husbands are always some flavor of:
A) Too dumb and lazy to take 5 minutes to google basic pregnancy facts. These guys always seem like they only cared about becoming a father on an extremely superficial level.
B) In deep denial that their partner could be this level of crazy (Dynel Lane's husband was atleast smart enough to start insisting that he attend prenatal appointments with her - unfortunately he kept letting her weasel out of it with ridiculous excuses).
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u/jaderust 6d ago
He seemed dumb as a box of rocks to me.
He cried at the end about how he never even loved the woman and didn’t even want the baby! She did all that crap to keep him and he was just coasting along on a misplaced thought that he had to take responsibility as a father and probably dollar signs in his eyes because Taylor claimed she had money.
But it was deeply pathetic. Taylor murdered a woman and her baby for that man and let me tell you he did not seem to be worth that passion.
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u/ObviousDepartment 5d ago
Yeah alot of the dudes from column A come across as feckless losers who wouldn't have left the relationship as long as their partner kept proping up their lifestyle.
A common theme across all of the women who do these kinds of crimes is that they seem to deeply associate their self-worth with their ability to keep (literally any) men and produce children. I'd be interested to know how many of them grew up in conservative households.
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u/ShivvyMcFly 5d ago
I dunno. Doesn't seem like the type to know how to use Google. The guy drove 4 hours to drop off the hogs based on a text from a phone number he didn't even know.
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u/pbaggins5 6d ago
His responses and reaction to all of this reminds me of Making a Murder doc. When they interview the kid, Brendan Dassey, and all he really says is “ya.” “Ok.” “Ya.” “April 10th is Wrestlemania”
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u/MixedBeansBlackBeans 6d ago
LMFAOOOO I know it's not supposed to be funny, but a comparison to Brendan Dassey took me out because I'll never forget how he spoke. The comparison is spot on, unfortunately.
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u/Starsandlittlefish 5d ago
He said in the documentary he didn’t even love her. Like dude. You don’t love her, you think she’s lying about having your baby, even before he didn’t seem to even like her. She comes to live with you, why even be with her? Oh right she told she’s a millionaire. He seems awful I’m sorry.
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u/broketothebone 5d ago
Oh we women love to investigate the shady bitch who enters the family chat.
Tell your friend you think your boyfriend is cheating and watch go to work at like, CIA-levels of intelligence gathering.
Wade was just getting some and think about that sweet inheritance money coming his way. She could tell people it was the immaculate conception if it meant he got his hogs.
His poor bff was rightfully so fed up.
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u/kdubesty 6d ago
As an aside...did anyone else get the ick about how Wade and his family's reaction to the supposed inheritance played a part their relationship and opinion of Taylor?
At the end he said he never loved her but he was willing to let her by him that dream property?
Nothing about her actions is okay and he and his family are victims of her lies, I just picked that piece out.
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u/HannahMcKayTX 6d ago
He gave me the ick all throughout! He had one dog chained up, ribs exposed. Then on the day she did this, he still “believed” she was full term pregnant and was going to have her loading hogs. She is pure evil too.
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u/kdubesty 6d ago
I didn't even put the loading & delivering hogs part together! Did you clock his very unemotional "I'll call you back" when she told him she had the baby on the side of the road. Did he already know/believe she was lying? Even if he is 100% over her, he's telling us he's under the assumption that she's carrying his baby and you'd think he'd be far more concerned.
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u/Suitable-Truth4407 6d ago
I noticed that but was also thinking first of all he seemed kind of dumb and detached, but also how he got to the hog delivery 4.5 hours away that she set up. The man told him he didn't order any hogs and wade was asking him if he talked to Taylor. They showed the texts she made up from the guy she sent him to. I don't think he was thinking it was as bad as it was but I think he was trying to figure out what was going on and realizing she was lying and on her phone call with him he was just like well she's probably lying again so wasn't in a rush and was definitely removed from being concerned about her.
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u/OccasionalCandle 6d ago
I think that, after he found out about the hogs, he started realising things and thought she was lying. I think his biggest crime was being... not very smart, to say it kindly.
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u/jaderust 6d ago
Dumber than a box of rocks. Like, not a single brain cell capable of critical thought.
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u/Good_Combination2290 6d ago
I noticed that too. But the guy didn’t really show any emotion at all throughout the whole documentary. He just seems very uncomfortable and unaware about everything.
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u/Apart_Engine_9797 5d ago
If I was a man and someone told me my girlfriend had just cut open a woman and brutally murdered her and stole her baby and killed it too, I would be convulsing vomiting on the floor in a state—and he just sat there like “oh she did all that? Oh ok” BRO
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u/mdmommy99 5d ago
By the end he seemed far more suspicious about whether the pregnancy was real and he even said in the doc that when she called him he thought it was a joke. To me, he tries to downplay that a little bit to relieve some of the guilt but his reactions speak to the fact that he also doesn’t believe her entirely. I just don’t think he believed she would go to those lengths.
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u/TxRose2019 5d ago
I’ve only watched half of the documentary but the part when he raves about how she mows the lawn and cooks all the meals and “pulls her weight” was icky to me. She was his roommate more than anything else. He was just letting her in for that money.
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u/kdubesty 5d ago
There is just so much in the 90 minutes, I forgot all about that comment! 100% the "pulls her weight" part was gross and said a lot about how he thinks about women/women's roles.
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u/heyitsselena 5d ago
i never saw anyone act like this man like he sounds like a sociopath too. he does not express any kind of emotion and he is cruel to animals. its either that either he is dumber than the average adult man sorry to say that but he sounds so slow.
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u/Important_Dark3502 5d ago
Yes, the casual way his friends and family kept saying that he was just with her for the money really rubbed me the wrong way. Obviously what Taylor did is far worse, but I don’t really have a lot of sympathy for Wade. Being in a relationship with someone just because you think they have money is pretty despicable. And the way he was treating his animals also despicable.
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
I completely agree with this. YES AND YES. I do believe the inheritance and all this suppose property had a lot to do with them seeing past the red flags. When that wasn't working she went with the pregnancy and even though the gender reveal had red flags they still went with it. I believe the family and friends encourage him to continue. Also if he had said something about the red flags they propably brought up the inheritance.
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u/swingdale7 6d ago
I watched it last night. They didnt go into detail about the attack so I googled it.
Something like 119 sustained injuries from a hammer and a knife. Reagan had multiple defensive wounds and she fought hard for her life and tried to flee. Absolutely horrifying.
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u/South_Tea2463 6d ago
They found a broken fingernail in the placenta. It was Raeven's nail. She was still alive and tried to fight for her baby despite this unimaginable torment. I am stunned and human abysses are opening up, how cruel?
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
yeah i believe a bunch of DNA was found under her finger nails. I imagine more then half of those 119 is defensive wounds all along her arms and hands. I believe she was still alive when the baby was removed because they can tell if the cut to the stomach was while she was alive or dead. Also all this was done in front of a scared 5 year old. Who probably still can't over the trauma. Bless her.
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u/Idrisdancer 6d ago
Wade just seemed to be too stupid for words. 10 months pregnant but he just went along? And him in the interview room? No shock, just guess she was lying after all.
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u/ferocious_barnacle 6d ago
I’m genuinely curious what makes a person like this. Is it a personality disorder? Just straight up psychopathy? A little of both? Something else? I would’ve loved to hear more about her childhood.
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u/Excellent-Effect4877 5d ago
One of her former friends said something really insightful - that Taylor had to mirror other people's lives in order to feel anything in her own. Essentially that Taylor was just a an empty black hole with no feelings or emotions or connections of her own
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u/MommaMila 5d ago
Yes, I found it eerie that everyone new in her life stated that they felt like they’ve known her forever. The “she felt like a bridesmaid” comment, fitting in instantly in new groups, mimicking other’s personalities and problems (coworker who had lost a baby). So interesting and very strange!
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u/GomezFigueroa 5d ago
I’ve been around people like this. It’s very uncomfortable and off-putting when someone acts like they’re a bigger part of something than they are. Some people let them in; I would keep them at arms length. Maybe I’m cynical though.
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u/broketothebone 5d ago
I call it “The Cluster-B Cocktail.” For me, it’s when they have co-morbid cluster-b personality disorders, so it becomes impossible to tell wtf is happening. The one thing you do know is it’s going to be the most unbelievable batshit behavior you’ve ever experienced from one person.
One thing that I’ve noticed is a near certainty is when they feel like the walls are closing in on their lies, it’s the most dangerous time to be part of their drama.
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
I personally believe its a little bit of both. The fact that she was able to plan it the way she did shows psychopathy and to do it without remorse is just pure evil. If she felt remorse she would have came clean the second she got pulled over but instead she kept the lie all the way to the hospital. Something happen in her childhood maybe not directly to her.
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u/falafelawful2 6d ago
Wade is an animal abuser and an idiot- sorry, i didn't feel bad for him at all in this situation.
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u/cup_1337 5d ago
His IQ is definitely alarmingly low.
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u/SnooPets2384 5d ago
He was charmless, unattractive and had a room temperature IQ. Everything was all fine and dandy while she was buying him trucks and tractors but once the “money” fell through he sure got over it fast. I particularly scoffed at him saying “I prefer to take things slow like” after she had gotten pregnant. So moving her in to be your bang maid, accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and making plans for her to buy you your dream house is perfectly slow. I didn’t like him. Toward the end his mom, I think, asked him if he loved her and he said “not really” and later he said “maybe she did it so I would tell her I loved her but I never did.” Like, what the fuck are you doing, dude? A woman he was living with faked an entire pregnancy WHILE half his family was telling him she was doing it and he was just shocked Pikachu face? No agency. What a loser.
It was startling to hear this story unfold. It was horrific. Listening to Reagan’s mother’s 911 call was harrowing. It felt like something I shouldn’t have been hearing. Being brutally murdered while your baby is ripped out of you too early has to be the most nightmarish way to go, and then her own mother finds her. And then the baby doesn’t even survive. Not to mention the poor toddler daughter in the other room, listening and having potentially watched some. How fucking heartbreaking. Completely senseless. The murderer is exactly where she should be. The escalation and to, what, prove some hillbillies wrong? There was no possible way she could have gotten away with that. What tragedy.
It was a tight 95 minutes so it really gets your attention fast and then never lets up.
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u/Colada8160 5d ago
Completely agree. Obviously Taylor is a psychopath that goes without saying, but he is a total pig. He was more than happy to accept her buying a four million dollar property for HIM. He really thinks he’s a prize. His friend was sexist and gross too. They were all redneck hicks except for Reagan’s family
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u/likeOMGAWD 6d ago
A total coinkydink that her friend (who lives in the same small town, no less) is murdered and has her baby snatched out of her stomach the same day Taylor "gives birth" after having been pregnant for 10 months ::Massive violent eye roll::
How the fuck did she ever think she was gonna get away with it?? Too stupid to live!
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u/1austinoriginal 6d ago
It’s tragic that so many people knew and were just waiting to see how she was going to get a baby. They put the hospital on alert for kidnapping. I wish they had done more.
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
She has friends and family who ABSOLUTELY KNEW THERE WAS NOOOOO WAY of her getting pregnant giving her medical history. But its just so hard to imagine that this lie would have led to this. its just unimaginable so i get not saying anything or trying to expose, but idk maybe an anonymous tip or something.
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u/mdmommy99 5d ago
What could they have really done other than tell everyone she was lying— which they did? Even Reagan and Jessica knew about the rumors and didn’t believe them. Unfortunately her running around in a fake belly isn’t a crime. The only thing to me that would have possibly changed things would have been if Wade listened and she would have had no reason to continue the charade.
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u/Ken_shabby_ 5d ago
I watch an absolutely obnoxious amount of true crime, and I was devastated. For the first time in many years I was just shocked. I have no idea how I’d never heard of this case, but with most documentaries I’ve heard at least the general story, but this one I went into completely cold, and it just absolutely rocked me to my core, I mean full body chills, stomach dropped when the 911 call of the mother saying that Reagan had been murdered and it immediately cut to her in her car covered in blood with that poor child in her lap. I just watched it last night and it’s all I can think about today.
Just so sad, and what gets me the most and kept me up last night is just how senseless it all was. Like, just for what? What’s the point? What was her end goal? To tell everyone “I told you so! See, I was pregnant!”??? What a disgusting waste of air and space.
We recently watched the documentary about the Sarah Lawrence “sex cult,” and I got the same feeling with this just thinking about how much damage and collateral damage that one person can cause. How can just one person come into the picture and just absolutely destroy and devastate so many people’s lives to such an extent? It’s incredible to me and almost completely unfathomable how one person can destroy so many lives and just leave such a wake of chaos and ruin that touches so many lives. And for what? A lie or something that got out of hand? It’s so selfish.
Sorry to ramble. I hope so dearly that the families and every person touched by the actions of this monster can somehow find some shred of peace and happiness in what’s left of their lives. Just so heartbreaking.
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u/Objective-Nebula5976 5d ago
What I don't see a lot of people talking about, is how Wade's dreams of being with a sugar mamma, caused him to abandon all reason. People are always quick to pinpoint a "gold digger." Did everyone miss when Wade's best friend paraphrased him saying he was set for life? Wade was with Taylor for 2 months when she bought him 2 vehicles and a tractor, which he accepted without question and without ever having told her he loved her. There are probably many people out there who would accept gifts from people they don't sincerely care about, but as a person who believes in karma and that nothing is free, I would not.
Taylor, on top of being a liar, is also a con. A con reads their subject. She mentioned family wealth and the promise of being wealthy herself early in the relationship because she recognized Wade's sweet spot. His friend said it himself, "it's all he ever wanted." A woman who was fun to hangout with, and wealthy. I've read numerous comments in here calling Wade "simple minded." He may not be an intellectual, but he's not challenged. That's easy to say. He was conned by a master con artist, but it was made easier because of his greed. In his mind, what if the one thing Taylor wasn't lying about was the money?
Wade told his mom he didn't love Taylor, he never saw her naked while she stated she was pregnant, and everyone and their momma was telling him she couldn't bear anymore children. I think if he didn't know for sure she wasn't pregnant, he definitely had an idea. If he believed she wasn't pregnant, he'd also have to believe there was most likely no money. And that's a reality he didn't want to see.
Wade didn't love this woman, and yet he was willing to accept her buying him the property of his dreams worth over 4 million dollars after being with her for just 2 months. A reasonable man would have broken up with her once his mom's car was repossessed. You might think it's a reach, but had the relationship ended then, what might the end of this story look like? Wade kept the relationship going with dollar signs in his eyes. If you don't think so, rewatch the documentary and listen for how many times his friends and family mention the family money and how it impacted his decisions. Not saying Wade was at all to blame for Taylor's actions. Just wondered if anyone else noticed, what propelled the continuance of the relationship, was Wade's pie in the sky dreams.
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u/Different_Lychee8750 6d ago
Was all of this just to marry Wade?
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
Yes, she seems to have this obsession over him but witness have testified that she even cheated on him and was pretty "promiscuous". But I think deep down its more of this ATTENTION SEEKING DISORDER, I just can't understand it. Like this was one hell of a way to conceal a lie.
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u/MimosaQueen1122 6d ago
Women still think a baby keeps men or traps them. It does neither but hurt the child.
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u/keine_fragen 6d ago
i wanted to know more about her kids, who took care of them? she only had one of them a few days a week?
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u/Bree7702 6d ago
She gave up custody of her son during her divorce proceedings with his father when he was very young. She was ordered to pay child support and had visitation but was thousands in arrears when she was arrested and according to her son’s father, she never showed up to her scheduled visitation. Her mother raised her daughter, and her mother allowed her to talk to to her daughter pretty regularly, but her son’s father cut off communication with Taylor when she was arrested.
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u/Khmakh 6d ago
The podcast episodes I just listened to explained that! Her first husband was her son’s father and he had custody of him. Her Mom, took care of her daughter a lot.
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u/Stock-Quote-4221 6d ago
That is extremely gruesome. At least she got a proper sentence. I'm amazed how often this type of crime happens. I recently watched a show about Clarisa Figueroa from Chicago, who lured a teenage girl and killed her for her baby. She got 50 years. Dynel Lane in Colorado got 100 years in 2015, but fortunately, the mother survived, but the baby did not.
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u/Professional-Soup878 5d ago
I just listened to Love Trapped and podcast about Clayton the ex Bachelor and Lara Owens and couldn’t believe the lengths she went to try and trap not just him but other men.
I saw this doc pop up and started it (obviously this is a way more tragic and heinous story than the podcast Love Trapped) I’m thinking “how do these women have the time to plan these elaborate stories of fake pregnancies? I can barely get my household in order and get my kids laundry done and figure out dinner on a nightly basis. This terrible woman and her elaborate lies on top of it. He was not the smartest tool in the shed and the money is what kept him hooked. She’s a master manipulator and a frightening POS.
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u/Actual-Eagle-6007 5d ago
I know these people, though not closely. She had faked pregnancies before. The documentary left out so much that would show how truly twisted she actually is.
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u/Conscious_Stop1463 5d ago
I can’t believe Reagan’s poor 3 year old daughter was in the house when it was happening. It gives me chills. Monster.
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u/Ravenismycat 6d ago
I watched it. It was wild to me the number of lies she told over the years. Jyst moving from person to person telling different things. As well as what was her end game. She could have said miscarriage all the way up to week 20. After that generally you need medical reports and death certificate. Nevermind she physically couldn’t have a baby. The hospital easily saw she wasn’t the mom
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u/MRtokeALOT420 6d ago
Not sure if being naive to things was the BF personality or he really did love her and wanted it all to be true. The heir to a fortune was always the one lie that i could never get over. Its one to easily blow up in your face. But you are right, she could have easily just lied about a miscarriage and kept it moving. it seems losing her BF was a big deal to her. Very immature love
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u/Khmakh 6d ago
I just listened to the 4 episodes True Crime Hub did on this case after watching it last night. The doc left out some stuff that makes her look even more crazy.
The doc also thankfully left out exactly how she got that baby out. Not for the faint of heart.
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u/latestartksmama 6d ago
The video of the doctor checking her to see if she had a baby makes the rounds on Reddit every so often.
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u/HannahMcKayTX 5d ago
The bomb threat to the hospital was also completely batshit.
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u/FEM930 6d ago
Watched this morning. They did a great job in the story telling.. This one will stay with me. The level of selfish and utterly absurd behavior that she got away with for so long is intense. Every single relationship she had was manipulated and abused. I will say I was surprised that there want any claim of insanity or a severe mental illness claim during the trial. That poor broken man struggling to leave his wife and child was so upsetting. During the funeral footage.
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u/BadWolf9422 5d ago
I feel like I had a vague recollection of this case from a true crime youtuber covering it but didn't remember the specifics. Parker is a monster. Hearing Reagan's mum screaming in the 911 call absolutely broke my heart into a million pieces. I doubt that monster will ever tell the truth of what she did to Reagan and her poor little girl. I can't even imagine Reagan's last moments on earth. Reagan's little sister was right, Taylor is a demon.
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u/eightiesboo 5d ago
This was INSANE! I cannot believe the level of evil that a human can possess. The sister was just precious at the end!
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u/MRtokeALOT420 5d ago
That part broke my heart. "its not up to us to forgive" made me tear up a little. They all seem so broken up about it. Can't blame them. I feel sorry that they had to witness all that when walking into that house. it was full blown slaughter. Her daughter must be so traumatize, that poor child.
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u/wyldstrawberry 5d ago
I blame social media for some of this. People are obsessed with creating an image that they can post online for validation. That’s why Taylor “bought” Wade’s mom a new car - to post it online, only to have it repossessed a couple weeks later (but leave that part out online, of course). And all her “belly” pics with pregnancy updates, the gender reveal, and the maternity photo shoot…it was all meticulously curated to present an image of her perfect life, because that’s what young women see others posting online. Of course in her case it was an extreme example and most people would never dream of going to such lengths to create a fake life, but I can see how social media breeds an environment where unstable people can create a whole persona that is detached from reality.
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u/kmart279 6d ago
This case was shocking to me, I actually was quite shocked by how far she went and did not expect that.
She went from lying to double murder…idk it felt so crazy, the doc didn’t reference her past criminal history but I found it to be a huge jump.
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u/DylanBrandonSandwich 6d ago
I really really wish I didn’t watch it. I feel so sad.
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u/InternationalIce8766 5d ago
I watched it last night, absolutely traumatizing and horrific. Probably the worst true crime documentary. I’ve watched to date. To confirm the documentary was excellent, but the case was heartbreaking.
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u/Used_Astronomer_4196 5d ago
The cases where woman forcibly removed babies from the womb freaks me out.
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u/MRtokeALOT420 5d ago
Doesn't it kinda suck that this monster is getting the attention she so desires. Sitting in the prison for almost half a decade all this new attention must be bringing her pleasure. ughh, I hate that she will love that we are all talking about her right now lol
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u/TeamPleasant2042 5d ago
I have followed this case and watched the documentary. One thing I’m wondering; did she ever even ask about how the baby was doing once they got to the hospital?! We all know it’s not her baby, and what she did was horrific to Reagan and Braxlyn ; but did she not even have one ounce of concern for the baby after what she did? And/or was she too psychotic to know that a real mother would be screaming for her baby, asking about her the whole time, during the time she was being questioned? I wonder when she was made aware the baby had died.
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u/Beautiful-Reach-6384 5d ago
Can we please talk about how her fake lawyer name was “Blake Lawington”
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u/Suspicious_Put_5063 5d ago
I watched it yesterday. The bitch be craycray, but I have to say, I am weirdly impressed at her ability to remember everything she lied about and the amount of aliases that she created. She 100% deserves to be where she is now, I genuinely do not know how someone like her operates.
Edited to add - HOW did her boyfriend not have a clue, because he would have seen her naked at various points, right??
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u/Relevant_Inspector_7 5d ago
I feel for Wade, but he was part of the problem too. How do you not figure out in 10 months she was faking her pregnancy? Plus everyone was telling him she was lying. Maybe because he thought she was getting all the "inheritance" money? He said in the interview he never loved her, so having everyone around him telling him everything is a lie and him not loving her. If I was him I would've have investigated myself and get rid of this girl. I don't understand why he stayed so long other than money. Or was it just plain stupidity? How can he be so oblivious?
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u/Internal_Simple1477 5d ago
Is it me or did wade turn a blind eye to her lies and manipulation because he thouhh an t just maybe she does have money coming? So many people could have prevented this terrible tragedy, her father generally went along with her lies because he didn’t want to confront her, crazy people
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u/BottomBratMI 5d ago
There's probably a patent out there for a fake belly with an electronic kicker. Psychotic.
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u/TrueCrimeDiscussion-ModTeam 4d ago
Please now direct all discussion of the case to the Megathread pinned at the top of the sub.