“It felt like, you know, I think as a director, ‘What is she going to say?’” Dimmock posited. “From everything that I’ve read, from the way that the trial went, I don’t think she’s remorseful. There doesn’t really seem to be evidence that she’s remorseful. If she said she was remorseful, could I even believe her, and does that matter?”
Parker currently sits on death row in Texas for the fatal attack of Hancock in 2020, during which she cut the 21-year-old’s unborn baby from her womb in an attempt to claim the child as her own. (Hancock’s baby girl Braxlynn Sage Hancock ultimately died.)
NetflixIn telling Hancock’s story, Dimmock noted that Parker’s perspective wouldn’t have added a clearer picture.
“I just wasn’t sure that there was anything that she could say that would be additive, or that I could believe,” Dimmock detailed. “and it felt disrespectful to those that she hurt the most to include her take.”
Parker has not spoken out publicly since her conviction of capital murder in 2022. In response to the sentencing, Hancock’s family expressed relief.
“I’m overwhelmed with happiness it’s over,” Hancock’s sister Emily Simmons told KSLA News 12 at the time, “because she has been such a burden in our life for so long now that I haven’t been able to think about my sister without thinking about her.”
Maternal Instinct is now on Netflix. For more on the documentary and the case it dives into, keep reading…
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NetflixWho Is Taylor Parker?
Wade Griffin met Taylor Rene Parker, a divorced mother of two, at a rodeo in the summer of 2019 and they got serious quickly, moving in together that October.
She “lit up the room when she walked in,” Griffin, a roofing company supervisor and hog trapper, recalled in the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct. And while “most girls don’t like the country life,” Parker pulled her weight on the farm.
“I thought she was fantastic,” Griffin’s friend Codey Ott said in the doc. “She was somebody that you’d want to hang around with.”
Parker was working at a hiring agency when she met Griffin, but—as detailed in the doc and by prosecutors during her 2022 murder trial—she insisted she had a $6 million inheritance waiting for her once some family drama was sorted out.
