The Fake Pregnancy That Ended in Murder — The Taylor Parker Case

Taylor Parker faked a pregnancy for 10 months using a silicone belly and a fake ultrasound — despite having had a hysterectomy years earlier. When she ran out of time, she went to the home of her friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock, who was 35 weeks pregnant, and brutally murdered her before cutting the baby from her body with a knife. Neither Reagan nor her unborn daughter Braxlynn survived. Taylor showed no remorse at trial — even wearing a sunflower face mask, Reagan’s favorite flower, to one hearing. She is now on death row in Texas. This case is the subject of the new Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct.