How Did Taylor Parker Fake Being Pregnant for 10 Months?
Parker wore a fake bump and proceeded to take maternity photos, share updates on Facebook, acquire baby paraphernalia and celebrate at a gender reveal party.
NetflixDid Anyone Suspect That Taylor Parker Was Lying About Being Pregnant?
Angela said in the doc that Parker sent her a medical report confirming that she was having a girl, and she forwarded the email to Codey’s wife, Stephanie Ott.
Stephanie noticed that the date on the report was Nov. 4, 2016, so, as she said in the doc, she called Parker to see if there was a mistake. Parker said she’d call her doctor, then told Stephanie she was told the lab had misprinted dozens of reports that day—but the gender news was legit.
From that day on, Stephanie said, “I knew something was off.”
Northeast Texas Women’s Health manager Melissa Mason said in the Netflix doc that staffers saw Parker’s social media updates and were “very confused,” but they were all bound by privacy laws.
As Parker’s supposed September due date came and went, the clinic went on high alert. “We really thought that, if anything,” the manager said, “she would just try to steal a baby.”
NetflixWhat Happened to Reagan Hancock?
Reagan, 21, was almost 35 weeks pregnant when she was killed at her New Boston, Texas, home on the morning of Oct. 9—the day, Griffin told authorities, Parker said she was going to be induced.
Reagan’s husband Homer testified that Parker was at their house the night before his wife was killed, calling them “somewhat friends.” Before he went to bed, he said, he could hear them talking about Parker helping decorate their nursery.
He went to work early the next morning and, after a text exchange with Reagan that he found unusual, his “I love you” message at 8:33 a.m. went unanswered.
Reagan’s mother testified that, after Homer called to relay his concern, she went to their house and found her daughter face-down in the living room, blood everywhere. When emergency responders arrived and turned her over, they saw a cut across her belly.
Parker later confessed to Texas Ranger Joshua Mason, per an Oct. 13 probable cause affidavit obtained by KTAL News, that she used a small scalpel to remove Reagan’s unborn baby—a girl named Braxlynn Sage Hancock—from her womb.
An autopsy determined Reagan had been beaten, strangled and stabbed repeatedly.
Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation/FacebookWhen Was Taylor Parker Arrested?
Parker was pulled over by a Texas state trooper at 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 9.
She called 911 as the trooper approached her car, as seen in the doc, telling the dispatcher she needed an ambulance because “I started having my baby.”
Body cam footage shows the newborn in her lap. The trooper observed that the umbilical cord was attached and Parker was “performing CPR on the baby.”
Doctors at the hospital, where Braxlynn was pronounced dead, quickly determined that Parker had not just given birth.
She first insisted to Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation Special Agent Chad Dansby that it was her baby, as seen in body cam footage, but Parker soon admitted that she had not been pregnant and had abducted the baby after a physical altercation with Hancock. She was subsequently arrested at the hospital.
