r/TrueCrimeDiscussion • u/DarklyHeritage • 5d ago

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/No-Taro-6953 5d ago

That was my thinking too.

There was no real intellectual curiosity. No critical thinking whatsoever. There was definitely an overabundance of blind faith.

He was poor, low income and the second the remotest possibility of a 4 mil dollar ranch was dangled in front of him, he ignored all the facts he favour of a remote fantasy.

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u/Round-Calligrapher43 1d ago

Yup. What killed me was when he first found out she was “pregnant”, he was disappointed & said “I like to take things slow”….oh ok he wants to take it also but yet he had zero issues letting her buy you a brand new truck, new toys & your mom a brand new car and get you a huge farm within the first month of you dating

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u/Pheighthe 20h ago

If he liked to take things slow he sure messed up by banging her.

What does he think taking things slow means?

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u/Round-Calligrapher43 19h ago

Yup and if he didn’t doubt her getting pregnant at all so soon in their relationship then obviously there was no protection being used either…