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    Jury selection begins Monday in capital murder, fetal abduction case

    By Lori Dunn
    The Texarkana Gazette

    NEW BOSTON, Texas -- Jury selection for the capital murder trial of Taylor Renee Parker begins Monday.

    Parker, 25, could face the death penalty for allegedly murdering expectant mother Regan Simmons Hancock and taking her unborn child on Oct.9, 2020.

    More than 500 people previously qualified as jurors in the case. In a death penalty case, prospective jurors will be notified of a time and place to report and they will be questioned privately by both Bowie County prosecutors and by the defense, said Bowie County Prosecuting Attorney Jerry Rochelle.

    "Because this is a death penalty case, both sides can ask prospective jurors all types of questions," Rochelle said. Prospective jurors will also be questioned privately as opposed to the typical juror panel.
    A jury will hopefully be selected in about two weeks, Rochelle said.

    Opening statements are scheduled to begin Sept. 12 at the Bowie County Courthouse.

    A Texas state trooper stopped Parker's vehicle pulled Parker over in DeKalb, Texas, not far from the Oklahoma border, just after 9:30 a.m. the morning of Oct. 9, 2020, according to a probable cause affidavit. Parker allegedly was performing CPR on the infant girl in her lap. The infant's and the umbilical cord appeared to be coming from Parker's her pants.

    An ambulance took transported Parker and the baby to McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Oklahoma, where the baby was pronounced dead and doctors determined Parker had not given birth.

    Approximately 10:20 a.m. the same morning, Hancock's mother discovered her daughter's body in the living room of the home Hancock shared with her husband and 3-year-old daughter in New Boston.

    Parker and Reagan Hancock were friends, according to records. Hancock was nearing her due date, and she and her husband had already chosen a name, Braxlynn Sage Hancock.

    Parker allegedly convinced her boyfriend she was pregnant and often made social media posts supporting her claim. The boyfriend reported to police the couple held a gender-reveal party in advance of Parker's fictitious Oct. 9 due date to celebrate the arrival of a nonexistent baby that never truly existed. The boyfriend reported that he expected to meet Parker, then 27, at noon Oct. 9 at a hospital in Idabel for a planned, induced labor and delivery.

    Parker is also facing kidnapping charges involving the baby and may be tried on those charges later. She is being held without bail in the Bowie County jail.

    Bowie County's last capital murder trial was in 2017.

    Billy Joel Tracy was found guilty in the fall of 2017 in the 2015 brutal beating death of Barry Telford Unit Correctional Officer Timothy Davison. A video of Tracy slipping a hand free of its cuff and attacking Davison was played for the Bowie County jury that found Tracy guilty of capital murder.

    Tracy is on death row but has taken his appeal to federal court, according to a previous Gazette article.

    https://www.texarkanagazette.com/new...apital-murder/
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    Jury selected in ETX fetal abduction, capital murder trial

    By Nancy Cook and Carolyn Roy
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    NEW BOSTON, Texas (KTAL/KSHV) – After two-and-a-half weeks, jury selection is complete in the capital murder trial of a Simms, Texas, woman accused of killing a New Boston mother and the baby she allegedly removed from her womb.

    Taylor Rene Parker, 29, faces the death penalty if convicted in the October 2020 death of 21-year-old Reagan Hancock and the kidnapping of the unborn child, who later was pronounced dead.
    The 12-member, two-alternate jury selection was completed Tuesday afternoon. It was an arduous undertaking by the court that began with 2,000 people receiving summons to report to New Boston High School for jury duty in June. Prospective jurors were then given questionnaires to fill out.

    From those questionnaires, the court, prosecutors, and defense attorneys cut potential jurors for various reasons that included but weren’t limited to age, being a caretaker, knowing the victim or defendant or their families and other matters making them ineligible for jury duty.

    Eventually, there were 500 people who went on to the next phase of the process, voir dire or preliminary examination of jurors by the judge, prosecutors and defense attorneys.

    Unlike other trials where jurors are brought into the courtroom in panels, this voir dire was conducted individually, meaning each prospective juror was brought in and questioned alone.

    Voir dire in a capital murder case is unique in that each juror must be “death penalty qualified,” meaning being able to vote in favor of the death penalty if that juror believes the crime warrants it.

    The voir dire began in earnest on August 1. Individual interviews with prospective jurors went on all day, every day until the 14 jurors were seated.

    With the jury in place, opening statements will begin Sept. 12 in the Bowie County Courthouse and will be followed by the prosecution calling its first witness.

    It is unclear whether the jurors will be sequestered after the trial begins, but they are not sequestered in the leadup to the trial, according to court administrator Deborah Neild.

    Although Parker’s defense attorney filed a motion for a change of venue for the trial, it would only have been considered if an impartial jury could not be found among the pool of prospective jurors from Bowie County.

    The probable cause affidavit on the charges filed in Bowie County describes a gruesome scene discovered by Hancock’s mother, Jessica Brooks, when she went to her daughter’s house on Austin Street on the morning of Oct. 9, 2020, and found her daughter face-down in the living room.

    According to the affidavit, there was “a large abundance of what appeared to be blood throughout the house,” not only on the floor but on furniture, walls, appliances, and other items in the home.

    Officers on the scene learned Hancock was about 34 weeks pregnant and called for EMS to come to the scene and check on the status of the baby. When they arrived and turned Hancock’s body over, they found a very large cut across her abdomen and there was no baby.

    The affidavit also reveals that when a Texas state trooper pulled Taylor Parker over in De Kalb just after 9:30 a.m. that same morning, she had a newborn infant in her lap.

    The trooper told Texas Rangers that “the umbilical cord was connected to the infant, which appeared to be coming out of the female’s pants, as if she gave birth to the child.” The trooper said Parker was performing CPR on the infant. LifeNet EMS came to the scene and took Parker and the infant to a hospital in Idabel, Oklahoma, but the child did not survive.

    The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation was called when doctors at the hospital determined that Parker had not given birth to the baby. When OSBI investigators arrived and interviewed Parker, she told them she was “in a physical altercation with Simmons and abducted the unborn child.”

    Investigators also interviewed Parker’s boyfriend, who told them that she had told him and others that she was pregnant and that she was supposed to go to the hospital in Idabel and pre-register for labor to be induced for the birth of their child on Oct. 9.

    Her boyfriend said he was scheduled to meet Parker at the hospital around lunchtime that day for the birth and that they had even had a gender reveal party in celebration of the baby’s arrival.

    According to the affidavit, Parker admitted that she was not pregnant and that she used a “small scalpel” to remove the unborn infant from Hancock’s body, and that she had left the scalpel at the scene. A small scalpel was found in Hancock’s neck during her autopsy.

    Parker caused the death of Hancock and abducted the unborn child from her body, the affidavit concludes.

    “Parker did not have consent to leave the home with the child and due to the inability to provide necessary care to the child, Parker caused the death of the baby.”

    Crisp and Assistant District Attorney Lauren Richards are prosecuting, while Parker is represented by Jeff Harrelson of Texarkana.

    https://www.arklatexhomepage.com/new...-murder-trial/
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    Capital murder case begins Monday; defendant Taylor Parker could receive death penalty

    By Lori Dunn
    The Texarkana Gazette

    NEW BOSTON, Texas --The capital murder trial of Taylor Renee Parker begins Monday in the 202nd District Court at the Bowie County Courthouse.

    Several weeks of testimony are expected in the case, which is the first capital murder trial in Bowie County since 2017. Judge John Tidwell will preside. Parker could face the death penalty for allegedly murdering expectant mother Reagan Simmons Hancock of New Boston and taking her unborn child on Oct. 9, 2020. The baby died en route to the hospital in Idabel, Okla.

    A jury of six men and six women and two alternates was selected in August after more than 500 people qualified as jurors in the case.
    On Monday morning, the indictment against Parker will be read for the jury, and Parker will plead either guilty or not guilty at that time. She pleaded not guilty at a January 2021 arraignment.

    At that time, Bowie County District Attorney Jerry Rochelle told the court his office would seek the death penalty for Parker in Hancock's death, citing the horror and brutality of the crime, the alleged months of premeditation and planning, as well as an alleged lack of remorse by Parker. Rochelle said the decision was made after careful deliberation among district attorney staff and the surviving family of Hancock and her baby girl.

    A plea offer has never been made to Parker in previous public hearings.

    Parker is being represented by attorneys Jeff Harrelson of Texarkana and Mac Cobb of Mount Pleasant, Texas.

    Parker's alleged involvement in Hancock's death came to light when a Texas state trooper stopped Parker's vehicle in DeKalb, Texas, not far from the Oklahoma border, just after 9:30 a.m. the morning of Oct. 9, 2020, according to a probable cause affidavit. Parker allegedly was performing CPR on the infant girl in her lap. The infant's umbilical cord appeared to be coming from Parker's pants.

    An ambulance took Parker and the baby to McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Okla. where the baby was pronounced dead and doctors determined Parker had not given birth.

    Approximately 10:20 a.m. the same morning, Hancock's mother discovered her daughter's body in the living room of the home Hancock shared with her husband and 3-year-old daughter in New Boston.

    Parker and Reagan Hancock were friends, according to records. Hancock was nearing her due date, and she and her husband had already chosen a name, Braxlynn Sage Hancock.

    Parker allegedly convinced her boyfriend she was pregnant and often made social media posts supporting her claim. The boyfriend reported to police the couple held a gender-reveal party in advance of Parker's fictitious Oct. 9 due date to celebrate the arrival of a nonexistent baby that never truly existed. The boyfriend reported that he expected to meet Parker, then 27, at noon Oct. 9 at a hospital in Idabel for a planned, induced labor and delivery.

    Parker is also facing kidnapping charges involving the baby and may be tried on those charges later. She is being held without bail in the Bowie County jail.

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    Do you guys think Parker will become the next Lisa Montgomery?

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    Absolutely. It has all the same hallmarks as Stinnett's murder and Parker absolutely needs to be needled.
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    Quote Originally Posted by maybeacomedian View Post
    Do you guys think Parker will become the next Lisa Montgomery?
    The two cases are literally identical. Same with Magen Fieramusca, another Texas death row hopeful.

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    Actually, there is one key difference in these cases: the fact that baby Victoria Stinnett survived the murder of her mother and barbaric removal from the womb, while the baby Braxlynn Hancock did not survive the same situation. So actually, this case is even than worse than Montgomery's case since both baby and mother died.

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    Third day in fetal abduction, capital murder trial revealing layers of lies and fraud

    By Tracy Gladney
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    NEW BOSTON, Texas – More is being revealed on the third day of the Taylor Parker trial in New Boston, Texas where she stands accused of fetal abduction and capital murder of her pregnant friend, Reagan Simmons Hancock.

    According to testimony on Wednesday, layers of lies and fraud built up to the day of the murder on October 9, 2020.

    A real estate broker took the stand testifying that Parker claimed she was a Blackburn syrup and an oil and gas heiress to fake the means to purchase a $4 million dollar piece of land via fraudulent wire transfers.

    Parker had told the agent her boyfriend, Wade Griffin, would have a clause in the landowner paperwork for recreational purposes on the acreage, such as hunting and four-wheeling.

    The names of the attorneys given for the purchase of the land that Parker provided were reportedly false as no one could ever reach anyone on the phone for verification.

    The agent testified that in his career, he had never experienced falsifications of this magnitude before.

    Parker’s former mother-in-law testified that the defendant seemingly had normal behavior during her marriage to her son and was able to maintain a regular schedule with work and taking care of a young daughter in 2017 that the prosecution tried to establish, while the defense tried to prove that Parker’s ex-husband’s mother was unaware of Parker’s behavior and mental state in the months leading up to the murder in 2020.

    The former mother-in-law said Parker had lied and said she had completed nursing school and that she was officially divorced from her previous husband which were some of the untruths given by Parker and that she would fabricate whatever worked for her own benefit and thought only of what was best for her own interest.

    Parker’s ex-husband’s mother also stated for the court that Parker had obsessive tendencies with her son and faked a medical condition when he was ready to leave the marriage and went to the hospital despite doctors reporting there was nothing wrong with her. This behavior kept her husband from walking out at that time.

    The defense questioned Parker's former mother-in-law by asking, "And you consider this normal behavior?" And the answer was, "Normal for Taylor."

    The prosecution asserts that Parker’s motive in the murder, abduction and kidnapping, was that she was so obsessed with her boyfriend that she stopped at nothing to try to sustain the relationship as he seemingly was not as interested in her as she was in him.

    Attorneys project that testimony could last another week and a half.

    https://www.ktbs.com/news/third-day-...4c857caca.html
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    Bowie capital murder trial: Prosecution reminds jury Taylor Parker is not insane

    By Carolyn Roy
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    NEW BOSTON, Texas (KTAL/KMSS) – The prosecution in the Taylor Parker trial on Thursday made a point to remind the jury that the woman accused of killing a New Boston mother and cutting her unborn baby from her womb was found competent to stand trial.

    “If Ms. Parker was incompetent, we would not be in this courtroom,” Bowie County First Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp said after Parker’s defense attorney Jeff Harrelson asked Parker’s ex-husband, Tommy Waycasey, whether she ever had a mental evaluation. “Ms. Parker is not insane, or we would not be having this jury trial. So as Ms. Parker sits here today, she’s found competent.”

    Parker, now 29, is charged with kidnapping and capital murder of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons Hancock and her unborn baby, Braxlynn. Parker could face the death penalty if convicted. She has pleaded not guilty.

    So far in the trial, Parker’s defense team has not denied even the most outrageous of the lies and schemes detailed in testimony. Instead, they questioned how anyone believed them. The defense also questioned why no one contacted law enforcement if they suspected Parker was faking her pregnancy. The investigator on the stand pointed out that it’s not illegal to fake a pregnancy, and you can’t arrest someone on suspicion they might commit a crime.

    At times, Harrelson seemed to lean into the suggestion that Parker’s behavior was not normal and asked witnesses questions that prompted them to expand even more on testimony that reflected poorly on Parker’s behavior and actions.

    While on the stand, Waycasey, who was married to Parker when they opted for sterilization in 2014 after the birth of their son and was there when she had her hysterectomy in 2015, recounted how the doctor came to him during her surgery for an ovarian cyst to tell him they found endometriosis and a tubal pregnancy. Waycasey says the doctor asked him to decide whether to go ahead with the hysterectomy and that he told the doctor to do what he would do for their own loved one.

    According to Waycasey, Parker “flew off the handle” when she woke up from surgery and learned her uterus and one ovary had been removed. She wanted to know why they did not wake her up so she could make the decision for herself.

    Waycasey also testified that he used an anonymous number to reach out to warn to Wade Griffin in January 2020 after learning she was claiming to be pregnant. He didn’t want Parker to know it was him because it would have made his life difficult.

    “It’s funny how Taylor is pregnant but every hospital with a 60 mile radius is watching for her because they’re scared she’s gonna come in and steal a baby because there’s no possible way she’s pregnant and they all know that because They got all the hospital records,” cell phone records show Waycasey texted to Griffin on September 11, less than one month before the murders.

    Three days later, Waycasey texted Griffin again to tell him Taylor was not pregnant. On September 16, he texted him again.

    “I’m reaching out to you because I feel like it’s the ethical thing to do. In 2015 Taylor had a hysterectomy. She isn’t pregnant. She can’t get pregnant! She’s a con artist and is lying to keep you around. I’m sure you haven’t been to one Dr appointment with her, for whatever reason.”

    Waycasey went on to tell Griffin that the two sonograms Taylor had been sharing on social media were faked, with one being a scan from her pregnancy with her daughter with her name and the name of the clinic cut off.

    “I don’t do drama, not at all, but because I know for a fact she isn’t pregnant and is running out of time. I had to reach out. Please be careful! She has lied about so much for so long she has her self in so deep she can’t get out. I’m concerned how far she might go with this. All hospitals are high alert because she may go to the extent of stealing a child!”

    Phone records show Griffin sent a screenshot of Waycasey’s anonymous warning to Parker. Fifteen minutes later, data from Parker’s devices show she was searching for information about out-of-hospital births. Prosecutors say it was a pivotal moment in the timeline leading up to the murders, as the evidence shows a clear escalation in the measures Parker was considering as she worked out a plan to come up with a baby.

    Testimony continued Thursday afternoon as the prosecution worked to establish just how massive and layered Parker’s fabrications were in her efforts to make Wade Griffin believe she was a millionaire who just could not get hold of her money because her mother was plotting against them. When some of those elaborate stories began to fall apart, prosecutors say she pretended to be pregnant in increasingly desperate hopes of keeping Griffin from leaving her.

    These motivations are behind the “staggering” layers of fraud prosecutors told the jury in their opening statements they would have to understand in order to understand what happened on October 9, 2020.

    That’s when Hancock was found stabbed, strangled, and beaten in a bloody scene discovered by her mother inside her Austin Street home in New Boston. Hancock had been cut open. Her baby, nearly 35 weeks along, was gone.

    Testimony wrapped up just before 4 p.m. Thursday and will resume Monday morning. Hancock’s mother is expected to take the stand next week.

    https://www.cenlanow.com/crime/bowie...is-not-insane/
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    Prosecutors: Taylor Parker’s lies did double, triple duty

    By Carolyn Roy
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    NEW BOSTON, Texas – The trial of the Simms, Texas woman accused of killing a New Boston mother and cutting her unborn baby from her womb will resume Monday in Bowie County, as the judge has ordered it to take place over four-day weeks with Fridays off.

    Taylor Parker trial, Day 1: Testimony underway in ETX fetal abduction, capital murder trial
    Parker, now 29, is charged with kidnapping and capital murder of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons Hancock and her unborn baby, Braxlynn. Parker could face the death penalty if convicted. She has pleaded not guilty.

    With well over 300 potential witnesses that could be called to the stand for the State alone and reams of evidence and exhibits, the trial is expected to last through the end of September. Judge John Tidwell has said he wants to give each side in the case time to prepare each week. Some of the jurors are also older, so the judge has taken steps to ensure a comfortable pace.

    So far, 17 witnesses have taken the stand, including Parker’s ex-husbands and her former mother-in-law, formerly close friends and co-workers, and investigators who gathered and analyzed digital forensic evidence that shows Parker’s online activities.

    On Thursday, jurors heard from Texas DPS Lt. Andrew Venable, who followed leads and evidence uncovered by search warrants on Parker’s devices and financial records. Venable testified that the seemingly incredible fabrications detailed in previous testimony that include a bogus $20 million real estate deal and a supposed murder-for-hire plot arranged by Parker’s mother do not even begin to scratch the surface.

    “I would say it was continuous from the start of Taylor Parker and Wade Griffin’s relationship through the end,” said Venable, who says his team spent weeks untangling Parker’s web of lies.

    “As one story, one lie, one scheme was presented, additional lies had to be created to support that as each started to unravel to corroborate each lie.”

    Venable said the layers of fraud they found indicate Parker is no amateur and that anyone capable of handling “all these spinning plates at one time” is not someone who is having any difficulty with mental function.

    “Layers of fraud”

    Prosecutors used Venable’s testimony to walk the jury through those layers, lining up Parker’s online activities with key events in the timeline leading up to the murders. They showed apps and services investigators say Parker purchased to spoof phone numbers that allowed her to pose as other people, real and fabricated, to prop up her claims and manipulate the real people she was deceiving.

    These faked people included an entire hit squad, with names like Marquavan, “The Reaper,” Lex, and Douis Louix. Some of them came complete with backstories and motivations, and Parker’s exchanges with them created for Wade Griffin’s benefit were extensive, detailed, and at times, particularly melodramatic.

    Posing as “Cobern,” Parker texted herself to fabricate a conversation with her made-up law enforcement contact who was giving her updates on the hit Parker was telling Griffin her mother had ordered on her.

    Coburn told her that “Jace,” the fake middleman in the murder-for-hire plot, had been booked on $800,000 bond and that police had pinpointed the location of her mother, Shona, “using phone records, small transactions here and there.”

    “I am happy to inform you that Shona will be picked up sometime today, we’re getting ready to work with local police to arrest him on a warrant,” “Cobern” texted Parker, who went on to warn her that she was being followed.

    The fake contact told Parker that banking information had linked her mother to the hit money and that police were monitoring her home. He asked that Griffin stay with her that night, because “today is hit day. This is severe, this is for your own safety, your daughter and Wade.”

    After warning Parker that her social media accounts were being monitored and not to tag locations, Parker thanked “Cobern” and responded with what Veneble says was an example of how Parker used these faked conversations to manipulate Griffin and provide explanations for everything.

    “Goodnight you be safe. But one question: How did you get stuff set up without being seen? Wade’s neighbors are nosey af!”

    “Cobern” told her they set up while it was still dark outside, but he didn’t stop there.

    “Neighbor across street is tricky, up at 4am in his recliner,” “Cobern” told Parker, explaining they used night vision cameras to watch neighbors in their homes to insure no one saw the setup process. “It’s very tedious work. your neighborhood was extremely difficult with the overall setup. It’s a long process but it saves lives. In the end it’s worth the pain in the ass work.”

    Later, “Cobern” sent Parker a photo of her front door appearing to be damaged from a break-in, assured her they got the perpetrators on surveillance camera and told her they were working to identify them. Parker responded with surprise.

    “WTF they came to my home?? Wade wants to know when the hit was ordered on us all?”

    “Sweetie this was why I said to listen to me. We had everyone watching y’all both last night these guys slipped right past us to the house now we have them on camera.”

    He went on to tell her the hit was ordered when she refused to talk to her mother about the money Parker had been claiming was given to her by her grandparents, which she was telling Griffin her mother had pulled from her account and used to finance the hit.

    The next text from “Cobern” to Parker said, “We have picked up your mom and it was ugly, I’m sorry.”

    “Is she okay? anything on the guy yet?”

    “She has some facial lacerations. She’s in custody and can now get the help she may need. Are you with wade?”

    “Glad she’s in custody where she belongs,” Parker responded. “I want to see her Cobern. I told you that I have my last words to say to her before she rots in jail.”

    In reality, Venable said on the stand, Parker had just been fired from her job and needed a new place to live and a reason to give to Griffin why she could not access the family money. He said Parker created a crisis to bring Griffin deeper into the relationship. And it worked. She ended up moving in with him.

    Parker allegedly masterminded this alternate universe in order to make Wade Griffin believe she was a millionaire heiress who just could not get hold of her money to pay for a $5M pecan farm because her mother was plotting against her and there were issues with the banks and wire transfers. The prosecution says the schemes often did “double and triple duty,” uniting Parker and Griffin in their battle against Shona well before the faked pregnancy began.

    Evidence shown to the jury includes a series of emails from the person prosecutors are calling “Fake Shona” to identify communications fabricated by Taylor in her mother’s name. The emails are filled with threats and foul language, warning Griffin to “stop trying to get the money” and claiming to be “behind all of it.”

    Prosecutors say “Fake Shona” made sure Griffin knew no one would believe Parker, telling him, “I did all this to fall on Taylor” and claiming all of the evidence would point to her. The barrage of messages included threats to Taylor’s life, and “Fake Shona” claimed to have video surveillance and access to all of their devices.

    When some of those elaborate stories began to fall apart, prosecutors say she pretended to be pregnant in increasingly desperate hopes of keeping Griffin from leaving her.

    Venable testified about digital forensic evidence showing faked texts and emails sent to Griffin to make him believe funds totaling $7.7 million had been deposited into his credit union account for the purchase of Pecan Point.

    “So Wade will think there’s money in his account, but there will be some problem that Taylor Parker will create another fake person to explain, and the cycle continues,” Venable explained on the stand.

    Sure enough, Venable said, the bank had problems transferring the money because they did not want to lose the family fortune funds. That’s when Venable says Parker brought in the fake manager of the supposedly incompetent fake director of accounts, who told Griffin they bought a new software system to manage direct deposits and that their systems had been wiped clean.

    In the course of these communications, the fake director of accounts suggested Parker and Griffin get a joint bank account.

    Google search data from Parker’s device showed she was searching how to fake USPS tracking numbers around this time and financial documents and ordering business checks online from the oil and gas company Parker was telling him paid her royalties. She paid extra to expedite the delivery of those checks. The next day, she texted a photo to him of one made out to her and Griffin in the amount of $8.7 million.

    Two days later, Parker announced her fake pregnancy.

    “This is something that happens in the movies”

    Testimony wrapped up Thursday with the administrator of the Northeast Texas Women’s Health clinic in Mount Pleasant, where Parker was a patient and worked at one time. Melissa Mason testified that Parker had her last check-in at the clinic in 2016. She was a patient there when she had her partial hysterectomy in 2015. So when she posted a sonogram from the clinic on social media claiming it was her current pregnancy, it raised alarms.

    Mason says she reached out to Parker via text in March 2020 about the Instagram post after someone sent it to her.

    “I know for a fact you are not seeing us for this ‘pregnancy,'” Mason said in texts shown to the jury. “idk what’s going on but we don’t feel comfortable with our clinic name being put on this ‘ultrasound.'”

    “We will take it off we have had an major issue with my mom starting issues, we don’t want her causing issues with our current doctor’s office, so we haven’t put our main stuff out. I have an appointment with y’all Thursday to finalize to use y’all. We will delete it until we have ours from y’all,” Parker responded, adding, “I’d like for my stuff to be kept HIPAA from my family because they have been snooping when they have been removed.”

    Mason assured Parker that they don’t talk to anyone about patients.

    “We are trying to see who keeps causing issues and contacting people is why we posted that info, to see who keeps contacting our doctors offices,” Taylor texted.

    On the stand, Mason confirmed at least two people had called the clinic trying to get information about Parker’s pregnancy. One was an acquaintance, Stephanie Ott, who asked about Parker’s ultrasound. Ott was trying to find out if Parker was really pregnant, but since they cannot violate patient privacy laws, Mason says she told Ott to “go with her gut.”

    The other person who called the clinic was Wade Griffin.

    While the clinic could not violate patient privacy laws by confirming publicly that Parker was faking her pregnancy, Mason said the clinic did warn the hospital and specifically identified Parker. She testified that she believes that did not violate HIPAA laws because it was communication between one provider and another.

    Mason also testified that the clinic terminated Parker as a patient the following month due to repeated no-shows.

    Before Mason left the stand, defense co-counsel Mac Cobb asked whether she or anyone else in the clinic was ever concerned about how the false pregnancy story was going to end.

    “Never in our wildest dreams would we have thought it would end this way,” Mason said. “This is something that happens in the movies and not in Mount Pleasant.”

    Testimony resumes Monday. Hancock’s mother, Jessica Brookes, is among those expected to testify this week. Brookes found her daughter’s body lying face down on the floor of the living room of her blood-spattered Austin Street home on the morning of October 9, 2020, just a few hours after authorities believe she was stabbed, beaten, and strangled to death.

    Parker’s parents and Wade Griffin are also expected to testify during the trial.

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