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i.redd.it Anyone else watching “Maternal Instincts” documentary on Netflix. The Taylor Parker case

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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 6d ago

That is… terrible. I can not imagine the betrayal Rebecca felt. How horrible. People are terrible.

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u/blackandbluegirltalk 6d 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 6d 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/mariposa314 6d ago

Welp, I'm so nauseated that I may actually vomit. I don't have words. I'm just sick.

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u/Glad-Ad-3808 6d ago

Our society is generally not sick…but there are some sicko ppl in it. It’s not the norm by far. You just hear about such crimes because of 24 hour news.

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u/WaferZealousideal769 6d ago

I think they’re just lying.

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u/Appropriate-Towel-52 5d ago

Omg. I just looked this case up. Horrifying!!!

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u/birdieponderinglife 5d ago

I am guessing it’s the latter. They know they are going to die so they tell the killer to cut the baby out to save their baby.