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    Boyfriend’s mother: There were “red flags” in son’s relationship with Taylor Parker

    By Carolyn Roy
    KTAL

    NEW BOSTON, Texas – Wade Griffin‘s mother says there were red flags early on in the relationship between her son and Taylor Parker, the woman on trial for capital murder and kidnapping in the death of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons Hancock and her unborn baby.

    Connie Griffin testified Monday that she tried to talk to her son about the possibility that Taylor might not be pregnant.

    “But he didn’t want to listen,” Connie Griffin said.

    “This whole thing has been a nightmare,” First Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp said, prompting Griffin to respond, “It’s ruined my life.”

    Connie Griffin says Wade seemed to believe Taylor was pregnant, even though he did ask her if Taylor was not showing as much because she had a “tummy tuck.” She says she told her son that was not the reason.

    “‘Cause he doesn’t know about pregnancy, I tried to talk to him, but he was convinced. I think when he would go to work, his boss would really come down on him really hard if he questioned and made him feel pretty foolish.”

    Connie says she thought Taylor was very personable when she first met her on the day she brought a casserole to her house because she knew she worked long hours and cared for her elderly parents. The whole family was growing to love her, and at first, she thought Taylor was someone Wade would enjoy being with.

    “She just kind of drew you in,” Wade’s mother said on the stand.

    But as time went on, Connie recalls that Taylor and Wade did not seem to be on the same page.

    “She seemed to want a close relationship. I could not tell if he wanted that or was standing back. There were some red flags. One was that she didn’t have custody of her son.”

    And then there were all the issues with Taylor not being able to access her money. Connie Griffin says the talk of royalties, oil, etc. “started pretty early on.” Taylor told them her grandfather had some oil wells, and she was to inherit millions at some point.

    In reality, those wells only generate a few hundred dollars a month, and Parker’s grandfather was no millionaire. But Connie Griffin would not learn that until after Parker’s arrest.

    Over nearly three hours of testimony, Connie recalled how Taylor quickly moved into Wade’s life, managing his finances and his home. There was the multi-million-dollar Pecan Point deal that had Wade over the moon with pride, excitement, and dollar signs in his eyes. The couple excitedly announced the news at the big family Christmas get-together by handing out cards with pecans stuck on them to the fellow avid duck hunters in the family, telling them they would never have to worry about finding a hunting lease again.

    It was such a big moment, Connie got video of it on her cell phone. The jurors watched it in court and heard Taylor detailing the terms of the deal with the doctor who agreed to the sale only if they promised to use the property to its fullest potential. She told Wade’s relatives she had formed an LLC and had already changed the name to Pecan Bend. There were hugs of congratulations.

    The Pecan Point deal dragged on for months before it ultimately fell apart. Connie says it was not until she learned that the car Taylor “bought” for her as a surprise was never paid for that she realized something wasn’t right.

    Connie was shocked, but excited about the metallic gray Nissan Altima Platinum at first. It was the exact color, make, and model she had been looking for. But she only had it a few weeks before Taylor called Wade and told him to have her bring it over to his place immediately and leave it in the driveway because there had been a recall on the brake pedal. The dealership was going to pick it up.“In my mind, I’m thinking dealerships don’t come to your home and pick up a vehicle on a recall. It just doesn’t happen.”

    But she got in the car and headed over.

    “I’m telling you, we’ll never see this car again,” Connie recalled saying to her son on the way. “‘He said, ‘You don’t know that.’ I said, ‘Yeah I know it. I do know that. Dealerships don’t pick up vehicles on a recall. It just didn’t make any sense.'”

    Two to three weeks later, after nobody had contacted Connie about the car, she reached out to the dealership. They told her the money never came through for it.

    “That’s when I realized there was something seriously wrong,” Connie testified.

    Taylor had also promised to build Wade’s father a whole new barn after a fire burned it to the ground the previous winter. That never materialized, because as jurors heard last week, Parker was not a millionaire heiress. She did not have the money for Pecan Point, the car for Connie, or any of the other high-ticket items the couple bought, including a custom side-by-side, a new truck for Wade, and about 20 head of cattle Wade picked up at a special sale in Sulphur Springs. His mother says he expected to have room for them on the ranch they were buying and figured he could afford it.

    When the Pecan Point deal fell through, Taylor blamed her mother for locking her out of the family funds and orchestrating issues with the banks and wire transfers.

    Griffin was testifying about trouble that arose when she got caught in the middle of one of Taylor’s lies over who was paying Wade’s bills when one of the jurors fell ill and had to be assisted out of the courtroom. After a brief break, Judge John Tidwell dismissed court until Tuesday morning. If the juror is still sick, an alternate will take their place.

    Earlier in the morning, jurors heard from Cody Ott, a former co-worker and friend who also says he tried to tell Wade something wasn’t right about Taylor’s pregnancy. Ott and his wife went on double dates with Wade and Taylor. They hunted together and were close friends. Ott says he believed Taylor was pregnant at first, and that she really had all that money. But when checks Wade was writing didn’t go through for the car Parker bought for his mother or his big new truck, and especially when Wade started talking about quitting his job at the roofing company, Ott tried to say something.

    Ott believes Wade must have taken at least some of those questions home because Wade started getting threatening emails from “Mandy Body,” a shadow email account Wade was led to believe was Taylor’s mother, Shona. Prosecutors say Taylor fabricated “Mandy Body” to feed Wade information that seemed to back her claims and create a common enemy in Shona that served to unite them as a couple. The emails offered all the answers Wade needed to dismiss the warnings from his friend.

    “He was buying it,” Ott said. “She was good, for sure. She was a good manipulator.”

    It all came to a head in mid-April, less than a month after the gender reveal party the Otts hosted for the couple in spite of their growing suspicions. Ott says they finally reached out to too many people, family members, and exes. And even though they were not the only ones by that point who had expressed doubts and concerns, Wade was still taking Taylor’s word for it.

    Ott says the couple distanced themselves after that and the friendship is still strained to this day.

    A former co-worker at the clinic where Parker had previously been a patient also took the stand Monday morning, testifying that Parker showed up not long after announcing her pregnancy looking for a copy of her medical records. She told Suzie Ramirez that she had a mass in her abdomen that had a heartbeat and her doctor wanted to do a biopsy to determine whether it was viable.

    Ramirez testified that she knew that was impossible. But she says she did not question her and instead just listened to her story. Ramirez said Parker was particularly interested an ultrasound image from her last pregnancy in 2013 and explained her daughter needed it for a school project. The clinic did not have a copy of that sonogram, however.

    Ramirez says clinic staff continued to monitor Parker’s ongoing social media, where she shared updates about the baby she had already named “Clancy Gaile,” pre-natal check-ups, and health scares. Parker blocked everyone who questioned her pregnancy on social media, except for Ramirez, who found a way to save screenshots of her Snapchat messages without the app alerting the original poster as it is designed to do.

    Ramirez believes that’s why was the only one from the clinic to be invited to the gender reveal party, but she did not go because she did not want to give the appearance of validating Parker’s pregnancy claim. She was especially glad she didn’t go after she found out Parker had been dropping her name in her stories about pre-natal checkups that never happened.

    Ramirez says Parker knew no one at the clinic would be able to out her because of patient privacy laws. Not even to Wade Griffin, who believed he was the father of Parker’s baby and who called the clinic more than once looking for information.

    Instead, the clinic warned the hospital. Still, Ramirez says she and others at the clinic thought it was more likely to end the way they had seen other fake pregnancies end: with a fake miscarriage.

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    Trial for woman accused of murdering expectant mother & her unborn child continues into second week in Bowie Co.

    By Fred Gamble
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    NEW BOSTON, Texas - The trial of Taylor Parker continued Tuesday, Sept. 20 in a Bowie County court.

    Parker is accused of killing Reagan Hancock of New Boston, Texas and removing the woman’s unborn child from her body. In 2020, Parker pretended to be pregnant and according to prosecutors, this was an effort to not lose her boyfriend, Wade Griffin. Parker’s claim apparently misled Griffin and others.

    Without the jury present, prosecutors complained to the judge, saying the defense introduced information that should instead be in the punishment phase of the trial. Prosecutors said the defense is trying to blame Griffin and others who knew about the false pregnancy, asking witnesses why they did not act before Hancock was killed.

    On Tuesday, the mother of Parker’s boyfriend said family and friends were not sure of the pregnancy claim, but became more suspicious when the due date for the baby was pushed back. Griffin’s mother said she tried to convince her son that Taylor was not pregnant. The witness said she was convinced her son was not involved in the murder of Hancock and the forcible removal of the unborn child.

    Also at the trial Tuesday, a supervisor at Cooper Tire and Rubber Company in Texarkana told the jury Parker was hired at the plant in April of 2020. He said Parker “nailed” the interview process, but her job performance did not match with what was on her application. He said Parker worked at the plant from March to August and never indicated she was pregnant.

    A witness from Parker’s next job, which she held from August to September, told the jury Parker did not say she was pregnant, nor did she appear to be.

    Hancock was murdered Oct. 9, 2020.

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    Taylor Parker trial: Prosecution objects to defense putting witnesses on trial

    BY TRACY GLADNEY
    KTBS

    NEW BOSTON, Texas – Day six in the fetal abduction and murder trial of Taylor Parker continued with her boyfriend's mother on the stand.

    The day before, on Monday, a juror fell ill, and court was dismissed at 2 p.m. That juror returned Tuesday morning.

    Parker is charged with the Oct. 9, 2020 death of Reagan Simmons Hancock. She was beaten, hit in the head with a blunt force object, then a knife was used to remove her unborn baby. She has pleaded not guilty.

    Connie Griffin testified she knew fairly early Parker was lying and scheming about her access to millions of dollars and her pregnancy with Wade Griffin’s baby. Connie Griffin said she tried to warn her son numerous times about Parker’s fake pregnancy and strongly advised her son to leave Parker, as she had seen so many red flags.

    This put a strain on the relationship between Wade Griffin and his mother, resulting in several months of the two not speaking despite living down the street from each other.

    Testimony also touched on Wade Griffin's questions about why Parker had not been showing in the beginning of the pregnancy. He was told by Parker it was because she had had a tummy tuck.

    The prosecution and the defense have made it clear in their questioning of the witnesses that Parker made a good first impression, was friendly and outgoing and is usually believable upon meeting her.

    Before the lunch break on Tuesday, in addition to Griffin’s mother’s testimony, the prosecution called Blake Aubrey, a human resources specialist at Cooper Tires where Taylor was employed prior to and during the first part of her fake pregnancy.

    Aubrey testified that Parker had nailed her interview and the HR team felt they had hired someone worthy of promotion from her payroll clerk position for which she had been hired.

    As time passed during Parker’s employment, Aubrey testified of the disappointment HR and her supervisor had in her poor performance, primarily due to her many personal phone calls and texting while neglecting her job duties.

    After a recess during the morning break, prosecuting attorney Kelley Crisp vented her objection to Judge Tidwell that defense attorney Jeff Harrelson and Mac Cobb continued to ask repeatedly if the witnesses had called law enforcement.

    Crisp vehemently objected to the defense’s strategy of “putting the witnesses on trial,” when it was Parker alone who was on trial. Tidwell agreed with the objection.

    Crisp reminded Connie Griffin that none of this was her fault as she began to cry on the stand. Connie Griffin said she had no idea this was going to happen, and she said she thought Parker would fake a miscarriage; not that it would turn out the way it did.

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    Graphic 911 calls played Wed. during trial of woman accused of murdering expectant mother, cutting out baby

    By Fred Gamble and Rachael Thomas
    KSLA

    NEW BOSTON, Texas - Gruesome 911 audio was played for the jury Wednesday, Sept. 21 as the trial for a woman accused of murdering an expectant mother and cutting her unborn child out of her body continued.

    Reagan Hancock’s mother was screaming when she called 911 after finding her daughter dead. She stated in the call her daughter had been murdered.

    The accused, Taylor Parker, also called 911 that day, saying she’d had a baby and the baby wasn’t breathing. This was all after Parker reportedly faked a pregnancy for some time in an effort to keep her boyfriend from leaving her. In the 911 call, Parker told the dispatcher she was on her way to Idabel, Okla. where her doctor practiced. She reportedly would not go to a Texarkana hospital, stating she didn’t want to go there because they’d hurt her last baby.

    Also at trial Wednesday, body and dashcam video were played from the Texas Department of Public Safety trooper who pulled Parker over the morning of the murder while she was on her way to Idabel. At the time the trooper pulled her over, he reportedly didn’t know about Hancock’s murder; Parker was pulled over for alleged reckless driving.

    The bodycam video showed that when the trooper approached Parker, she was on the phone with 911 and was shaking. He reportedly saw the newborn baby, with the umbilical cord still attached, in Parker’s lap. In the video, Parker could be seen telling the trooper she’d just had a baby and needed to get to the hospital in Idabel.

    Video played for the jury also showed a nurse who happened to drive by pull over and offer to help. Parker continued to insist on going to the hospital in Idabel because that’s where she said her husband was.

    Parker reportedly staged a fake business trip three to four hours away in Oklahoma to get her boyfriend out of town on the day of the murder.

    After the trooper got Parker out of the car and the baby was taken by ambulance to a hospital, the trooper reportedly found the placenta in the car.

    Hancock’s husband also testified Wednesday, saying Parker had visited their home the night before his wife was killed and talked to her. He also said he got a text from his wife’s phone on the day of her death, but he said it didn’t seem like something she’d say. He was also contacted by their neighbors that day, who said their dog was out.

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    Taylor Parker’s defense attorneys unusually quiet during testimony Wednesday

    By TRACY GLADNEY
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    NEW BOSTON, Texas – Testimony Wednesday afternoon started moving closer toward the date of Oct. 9, 2020, the day of the murder of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons Hancock allegedly committed by Taylor Parker, who has pleaded not guilty.

    The prosecution stayed busy with questions for their witnesses of that fateful day and the defense attorneys rarely objected to questions or cross-examined witnesses at all.

    Since Parker’s defense attorneys seemingly are not arguing the actual murder of Hancock, rather, during opening statements, Jeff Harrelson had hinted that the jury might be asked to decide if the charge should be murder or capital murder. The latter in the state of Texas can be punishable by death if a defendant is found guilty. And, historically, Texas courts are no stranger to the death penalty.

    Around 11 a.m. the state called Katie Jimenez who was employed by the city of New Boston as a 911 dispatcher on Oct. 9, 2020. Jimenez took two relevant calls regarding the case. The jury heard on audio what was identified as Parker’s voice screaming and crying, “I have a state trooper with me and I just had my baby.” Parker had been pulled over in DeKalb, Texas for a traffic stop due to erratic driving.

    The second 911 call Jimenez testified as taking was also recorded for the jury to hear. The caller was Jessica Brooks, the mother of Reagan Hancock, who understandably sounded hysterical after just having discovered her daughter deceased, and her three-year-old granddaughter walking around unattended while the child's mother lay deceased on the living room floor face down.

    Texas State Trooper Lee Shavers testified that he had pulled Parker over.

    The jury was shown footage from Shavers dash cam and body cam which depicted Parker driving erratically and speeding. Once pulled over, she was found with a cell phone in one shaky hand and an unresponsive newborn in her lap. Shavers saw the umbilical cord attached to the baby and the other side of the cord was seen going down Parker’s pants.

    Parker attempted infant CPR on the baby as did two nurses who stopped to render aid. The baby was taken by ambulance while Parker kept refusing to go to St. Michael Hospital which has an intensive care neonatal unit. Parker also refused Titus County Hospital and insisted on Idabel Okla. where Parker’s then-boyfriend Wade Griffin was trying to sell some hogs that Parker had earlier fraudulently arranged with a witness and ranch owner.

    The two nurses were called to the stand to testify and confirm their assistance with Parker and help with who they thought was her baby she claimed to have delivered while driving.

    Testimony further revealed scissors were used to cut Parker's pants, since they were too tight, and it was then that the umbilical cord and placenta was dropped on the floorboard by Parker.

    Also stated was that Parker had lots of blood on her forehead, pants and shoes as a nurse tried to clean her up as best she could. The nurse also had noticed that the placenta looked particularly dry and unhealthy as did the baby.

    Lastly, 25-year-old Homer Hancock, Reagan Hancock’s husband was called to the stand. Hancock was visibly sad and had to pause a few times to hold back tears in order to answer questions.

    Hancock testified he knew Parker and that his wife and Parker had become friends and that Parker was their photographer for their engagement photos as well as for their wedding.

    Hancock also testified that he had tried to reach his wife earlier in the day to no avail, which was not like her and by the time he arrived home from his work place in Texarkana, that police tape was already up at his home.

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    Jury views photos of Parker’s bloody fingernails, bruises on day of murder

    By Carolyn Roy
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    NEW BOSTON, Texas (KTAL/KMSS) – Jurors in the Taylor Parker trial viewed detailed photographs Monday morning of Parker‘s bruised body and bloodied hands following her arrest on the day of Reagan Hancock‘s murder.

    Parker, who was 27 at the time of the murders on October 9, 2020, is charged with kidnapping and capital murder in the deaths of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons Hancock and her unborn baby girl, Braxlynn.

    The photos were presented to the jury as part of testimony that resumed on day nine of the trial, beginning with nurses and doctors at McCurtain County Memorial Hospital who determined that Parker had not just given birth and EMS and emergency room personnel continued their efforts to save baby Braxlynn’s life.
    <aside>
    </aside>First on the stand was the nurse who felt for Parker‘s uterus to make sure it was not bleeding by pushing on her abdomen and could not feel it. By this time, they knew the baby might not be hers.

    Lorie Gibson called for an ultrasound. McCurtain County obstetrician Dr. William Herron did a vaginal exam and did not see a cervix, indicating there was likely no uterus. He testified he only saw “scant“ traces of blood on her vaginal vault, the expanded region of the vaginal canal at the internal end of the vagina.

    During the exam, Gibson says Parker was asking questions but did not seem excited or especially upset.

    “She was just very stoic. No emotion showed on her face.”

    When the ultrasound confirmed there was no uterus, Gibson ordered a quantitative hCG test run on her blood. The so-called pregnancy hormone can show up for up to 6 weeks after delivery. It came back negative.

    On the stand, Gibson said when Dr. Herron finished the exam and used the phrase, “If she did deliver…“ in speaking to other medical personnel in the room, Parker allegedly asked, “’If’ I did deliver?“

    Dr. Herron detailed his observations of the baby’s condition and how he got a referral to send her to Oklahoma Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City. But because of poor weather, it was expected to take 4 to 5 hours to get her there, even by air.

    They were maintaining a pulse, but barely, and only with medicine and external assistance. It was not enough to keep her blood pumping sufficiently to her organs. They were helping her breathe.

    After consulting again with the doctors at OCH and reviewing the baby’s vitals, they determined that she had likely suffered extensive brain damage from lack of oxygen and that her “condition was not compatible with life.” That was when they made the decision to remove all life-saving measures. She was declared dead at 1:22 p.m.

    Baby Braxlynn weighed 7 pounds and was 18.75 inches long. Dr. Herron, who has been delivering babies in McCurtain County for over 41 years, testified that she would have been viable at that age and size.

    Bowie County First Assistant District Attorney Lauren Richards noted that the jury has heard Parker telling the trooper who pulled her over at 9:36 a.m. in De Kalb that the baby was about 35 minutes old. Richards told the doctor EMS crews got her pulse back shortly after arriving on the scene.

    “If that baby had been dead that entire time, do you believe they would have been able to get that pulse back?“

    “No,” Dr. Herron said.

    “Logic tells you that the baby was alive because they were able to get her pulse back,” said Richards, before turning to a question about whether he has performed cesarean sections on women who were either not medicated or undermedicated. He explained that in cases where that has been necessary, they use ketamine, which he says disassociates the brain from the body, “but you don’t have any memory of pain.”

    “Because the pain would be excruciating to undergo that?”

    “Yes.”

    Parker’s defense did not question any of the assertions from witnesses that Parker did not give birth to the baby, but they did question once again whether the baby was ever alive, as they have with paramedics that have previously taken the stand during the trial.
    <aside>
    </aside>Parker’s co-counsel, Mac Cobb, asked Dr. Herring if he knew that the baby did not get a pulse until EMS crews worked on her. Herron said he did not. He had not assumed that the baby had been found dead, and he does not know what condition she would have arrived in had EMS crews not taken life-saving measures.

    Returning to the question Dr. Herron further, Richards once again went back to the timeline.

    “If paramedics weren’t doing life-saving measures 45 minutes after this baby was born, do you think they could have revived the baby?“

    “No,” Dr. Herron said.

    Jurors also heard from the Idabel police officer who took Parker into custody at the hospital and took detailed photos of her hands, face, and body while booking her into the city jail.

    Officer Jamie Mills processed Parker for booking into the city jail. As part of that process, she took detailed photographs of Parker‘s face, arms, stomach, back, legs, and feet to document distinctive marks and tattoos.

    In addition to several tattoos that included Bible scripture quoting Isaiah 12:2, “God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid,” the photos showed a long scratch on Parker‘s neck and bruising on her shoulder, arms, and legs. They also showed photographs of Parker‘s reddened hands and fingernails crusted with blood, as well as a cut on the crease of her left thumb. There was also what appeared to be a burst and irritated blister type of wound on her left thumb.
    <aside>
    </aside>Photos of Parker’s feet showed dried blood on her toenails in between her toes and splattered up the back of her feet.

    The photos were timestamped as being taken at 3 p.m. that day. Parker’s defense counsel only asked Officer Mills whether it could be known how old those bruises were and what caused them, to which she answered that she could not.

    Most of the day’s testimony was taken up by detailed testimony from an expert in call detail records and geolocation analysis who said Parker’s travels and search activity intensified in the three weeks leading up to the murders, in what prosecutors say shows a clear pattern of planning and intent.

    Det. Kevin Burkleo reviewed geolocation and cell phone data for both Parker‘s Galaxy Note and the burner phone she activated the day before the murder, as well as Reagan Hancock’s and Wade Griffin’s cell phones. He also juxtaposed Parker’s Google search activity with her cell phone location data and mapped it all out on a timeline.

    That analysis shows Parker‘s search activity for pregnancy-related items, information, and locations intensified around September 15 and continued through the morning of the murders. The analysis showed Parker was visiting many of the locations she searched, which included OB/GYN clinics and maternity stores.

    “Would you say these searches are consistent with continuing a fake pregnancy?” Richards asked.

    “It’s consistent with that, yes,” Burkleo said.

    Burkleo testified that he believes Parker did a “trial run” on the day before the murders. He said cell phone location data shows Parker was at the victim’s home the night before and again early the next morning. All of that information helped establish a very clear timeline. He says the murders occurred between 7:52 a.m. at 9:14 a.m. on Oct. 9, and Parker was there.

    What’s more, Burkleo says, both Parker’s primary phone and her burner phone moved away from the scene of the crime on Austin St. around 9:14 a.m., along with Reagan’s phone.

    Police collected Parker’s phone on the day of the murders, but because Reagan’s phone has never been recovered, investigators have not been able to download data that would show the content of messages sent to her phone. They can only see the numbers with which the phone was in contact. That data shows the last time Reagan’s phone connected with the cell phone provider network was at 9:26 that morning, and it was no longer anywhere near her home.

    The last activity on Reagan’s phone before that was at 7:52 a.m. when a text was sent from her device in reply to a number known to be one Parker had purchased and set up using a VOIP app the evening before, just minutes before walking into Reagan’s house for a friendly visit.

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    Shocking Details Emerge at Murder Trial About Death of Pregnant Texas Woman Whose Unborn Baby Was Cut from Her Womb

    By Jerry Lambe
    LawAndCrime.com

    Disturbing new testimony has emerged in the case of a 29-year-old Texas woman accused of murdering her pregnant friend and cutting the unborn baby from the victim’s womb.

    The evidence was revealed Tuesday during the trial of Taylor Rene Parker, who is also known as Taylor Morton and Taylor Waycasey, who is facing capital murder and kidnapping charges in the deaths of 21-year-old Reagan Hancock and her unborn child, Braxlynn Sage Hancock.

    According to a report from KTAL, a crime scene reconstruction expert testified that the evidence showed Parker and Hancock struggled, with Parker allegedly stabbing her in as many as five different areas while the victim’s 3-year-old daughter was in the home.

    “This was not a quick death, was it?” Bowie County Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp reportedly asked Texarkana Texas Police Department crime scene investigator Marc Sillivan, who had just described the significance of a series of photographs from the home.

    “No, it was not,” Sillivan reportedly said in response.

    Photographs of the scene reportedly showed blood spatter on the wall near the victim’s body.

    “Injuries on Hancock‘s body included numerous stab wounds and deep incisions caused by a sharp-edged weapon consistent with a scalpel. She was cut open from hip to hip, and her uterus was pulled out and cut,” the report said. “Her hands showed extensive defensive wounds, including bruises, scrapes, stab wounds, and cuts on her fingers and palms. One finger was dislocated, and the tip of another was nearly cut off.”

    Dallas County Medical Examiner Dr. Melinda Flores, who performed the autopsy, reportedly provided a gruesome account of Hancock’s injuries, which included “well over 100” stab wounds, at least 39 of which were on her head. She reportedly had her skull fractured in five different places and was likely struck multiple times with the blunt and clawed end of a hammer. A large jar filled with pink and blue sand from Hancock’s wedding is also thought to have been used as a weapon.

    Prosecutors further introduced evidence that they say shows that Parker likely performed a trial run of the murder the day before killing Hancock, KTAL reported.

    Texarkana Police Det. Kevin Burkleo reportedly told the jury that Parker’s cell phone data shows a “pattern of life” indicative of planning to kill Hancock.

    Burkleo reportedly testified that call logs and geolocation analysis showed Parker was searching and then physically visiting a number of OB/GYN clinics and maternity stores, and also bought a fake baby belly that was “consistent with continuing a fake pregnancy.”

    She also reportedly went to the same locations at approximately the same times the day before and the day of the murder.

    Additionally, in the hours before Hancock’s death, Parker allegedly watched YouTube videos about C-sections and births at 35 weeks.

    According to a probable cause affidavit reviewed by Law&Crime, the investigation unfolded after Hancock’s mother went to her daughter’s home on October 9, 2020, and found her daughter dead. The mother called 911 at 10:18 a.m.; the local police called the Texas Rangers to assist with the investigation a few minutes after noon.

    “[O]fficers entered the home and found a white female, on the ground, in the living room of the house face down with a large abundance of what appeared to be blood throughout the house,” the document says. “A large amount of what appeared to be blood was located on the floor, furniture walls, appliances, and other items in the home.”

    “Officers learned [Hancock] was approximately 34 weeks pregnant and requested EMS personnel to come to the scene and check on the status of the baby,” the document continues. “The body camera footage from police shows Life Net EMS turn [Hancock’s] body over, which revealed a very large cut across [Hancock] abdomen area. EMS personnel determined [Hancock] no longer had a baby in her stomach area.”

    Authorities say that investigators had inadvertently encountered the baby and the suspected killer less than an hour before the 911 call came in.

    A Texas state trooper pulled a vehicle over in DeKalb, Texas, at about 9:37 a.m. on the date of the killing.

    “Taylor Parker was the driver and was holding a new born infant in her lap,” court documents said. “[T]he umbilical cord was connected to the infant, which appeared to be coming out of the female’s pants, as if she had given birth to the child.”

    “Parker was performing CPR on the infant and LifeNet EMS came to the scene and transported Parker and the infant to a hospital in Idabel, Oklahoma,” the affidavit continued.

    The local police chief eventually learned from staff at the McCurtain Memorial Hospital that Parker had not given birth to the infant.

    Oklahoma’s State Bureau of Investigation became involved on account of Parker’s transport to a hospital in that state.

    According to court documents, Parker admitted what she had done.

    “[D]uring the interview of Parker, she told [a] Special Agent . . . she was in a physical altercation with [Hancock] and abducted the unborn child,” the affidavit said. “Parker admitted to leaving the residence of the assault after the abduction of the child.”

    The affidavit further alleged that Parker staged an elaborate series of lies to convince others she was about to give birth.

    According to the document, Parker’s boyfriend, Wade Griffin, told the authorities “that Parker told him and others that she was pregnant”:

    "Griffin explained to me Parker was supposed to go to the hospital in Idabel and pre-register for labor to be induced for the birth of their child on 10/09/2020. Griffin said he was scheduled to meet Parker at the hospital about lunch time for the birth of their child."

    Griffin even said “they had a gender reveal party in celebration of the upcoming birth of their child.”

    “I interviewed Parker and she told me she was not pregnant and admitted to being in a physical assault with Simmons,” the investigating Texas Ranger said.

    Parker also allegedly admitted that the scalpel she used to carry out the killings was still at the scene. An autopsy in Dallas revealed that “a small scalpel” was “lodged in the neck of Simmons and was not visible…at the crime scene.”

    Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Parker.

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    State, defense rest in Taylor Parker trial; closing arguments Monday

    By TRACY GLADNEY
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    NEW BOSTON, Texas – After 12 days of testimony, the first-degree murder trial of Taylor Parker wrapped up Thursday with the state resting its case and the defense calling no witnesses.

    Parker, 27, waived her right to take the stand.

    She is charged in the Oct. 9, 2020 murder of Reagan Hancock, 21, and the fetal abduction and kidnapping of her unborn daughter. Parker has pleaded not guilty.

    At day's end, the defense moved for an acquittal of the capital murder charge since kidnapping of the baby enhances the murder to capital murder which carries the death penalty. The defense attorney argued the Texas penal code on kidnapping requires a fetus to be born alive. He contended the fetus was not alive and breathing and therefore was not kidnapped.

    The prosecution struck down the argument by saying the baby was born alive. Prosecutors said the baby Parker cut from Hancock's womb and had with her when she was arrested had been breathing before being pronounced dead later at the hospital in Idabel, Okla.

    The judge denied the defense’s request after reviewing the indictment.

    Both sides will return to court Monday morning to present their closing arguments to the jury. If Parker is convicted as charged, the trial moves into the penalty phase to determine if she will be sentenced to death.

    Earlier in the day, jurors heard testimony from Parker's former boyfriend, Wade Griffin. He said her many stories were believable because she backed them up. But he now knows her information, including a claim she was pregnant, was faked.

    Griffin, 37, testified that he met Parker at a rodeo in 2019 and in just a short time her lies began. She said she was due an inheritance and millions of dollars in oil and gas royalties.

    Parker corroborated her stories through made-up characters and by using a spoof phone numbers to text Griffin. He said communication was only through emails and texts. His attempt to reach any of the people because his calls only went to voicemail.

    But Griffin admitted to jurors he believed what Parker was telling him because she provided screenshots of documents, emails and explanations to prove her point. Griffin testified that even friends and family members believed the lies Parker told.

    But money problems developed when Griffin said Parker convinced him to buy a side-by-side, a truck and cows. He took out a loan based on her promise she would reimburse him from her royalty payments.

    Early in their relationship, Griffin said Parker told him she was pregnant. But she said she lost the baby.

    Other falsehoods included Parker’s claim that her mother, Shona, referred to as fake Shona, put out a hit on her and she would not be safe in her home. Griffin said he wanted her to be safe, so he let Parker move in with him.

    In addition, Griffin was told Parker’s mom was hacking into their phones, the Mexican mafia was involved and there was a shootout involving the FBI. Prosecutors asked Griffin if he had seen any news coverage of the alleged shootout. He said he didn't, but Parker explained it wasn't made public because it was an undercover operation.

    Griffin described Parker as believable and very smart.

    Griffin said Parker frequently complained in texts about his lack of affection toward her. But Griffin told jurors his with Parker had become an emotional rollercoaster. He said he was not functioning well at work, was depressed and overwhelmed with his mounting debt while waiting on Parker’s promises of reimbursement.

    Before Thursday's lunch break, prosecutors called a female inmate who was incarcerated with Parker. She testified Parker told her she convinced her boyfriend she was pregnant. But the other details of the murder and confiscation of Hancock's baby were skewed in Parker’s favor and she did not believe her.

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    GRAPHIC: Testimony in Taylor Parker capital murder trial details brutal, violent attack

    By Carolyn Roy
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    CONTENT WARNING: This report contains graphic details of crime scene and autopsy testimony that some readers may find disturbing.

    NEW BOSTON, Texas – Reagan Hancock was brutally slashed, stabbed, and bludgeoned before her baby was cut out of her womb in October 2020, but evidence presented Tuesday to the jury in the capital murder trial of her accused killer trial showed she fought hard for her life.

    Taylor Parker, who was 27 at the time of the murders on Oct. 9, 2020, is charged with kidnapping and capital murder in the death of the 21-year-old New Boston mother and murder in the death of her unborn baby girl, Braxlynn.

    Prosecutors have said they are seeking the death penalty due to the heinous and pre-meditated nature of the crime and because Parker showed no remorse.

    After Judge John Tidwell once again warned observers in the courtroom about the graphic nature of upcoming crime scene photos and testimony, an expert in crime scene reconstruction testified that what he saw at the scene of Hancock’s murder indicates she was beaten and stabbed in four or five areas of the home before she bled out on the living room floor.

    Texarkana Texas Police Department crime scene investigator Marc Sillivan walked the jury through photographs showing different types of blood swipes, spatter, and shoe prints. There was blood spattered everywhere, including on the walls and even on the ceiling.

    “This was not a quick death, was it?” Bowie County Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp asked Sillivan.

    “No, it was not,” Sillivan replied.

    Like others before him who have taken the stand in this trial, Sillivan also testified that it was the worst crime scene he has ever seen.

    There was a bloody hair print on the refrigerator below a series of ultrasound scans of baby Braxlynn. Investigators found a child’s bathing suit on the living room floor, soaked with blood. They believe it might have been used to try to wipe something off. A child’s nighttime pull-up diaper, soaked with urine, was found on top of the pool of blood on the living room floor next to the couch. Sillivan believes it did not end up there until after the murder.

    There was a large blood stain on the edge of the couch, with clumps of what appeared to be Reagan‘s blonde hair in it as if her head was leaning against it at some point during the attack. There was bodily fluid soaking into the couch cushions, which Sillivan believes came from the three-and-a-half-year-old child that was in the home at the time.

    A blanket on the living room floor was soaked with blood and what is believed to have been amniotic fluid.

    A jar full of pink and blue sand from the couple’s wedding on the living room floor, monogrammed with an H, was found spattered with blood near Hancock’s body. Investigators believe the four-pound jar was just one of the items used to bludgeon Hancock in the head, fracturing her skull. They found a semi-circular indentation above her left temple that seemed to match the size and shape of the bottom of the jar.

    Another jar from the wedding was found on the floor in the dining room area, also smeared with blood.

    Sillivan testified that the pattern and direction of bloody swipes by the front door with more patterns suggesting bloody hair was smeared against it indicate someone was pushed against the wall, sliding to the left toward the front door and down to the floor.

    The wall near Hancock’s body was splattered with blood going in all directions, some enough to drip, indicating a significant beating took place there.

    Injuries on Hancock‘s body included numerous stab wounds and deep incisions caused by a sharp-edged weapon consistent with a scalpel. She was cut open from hip to hip, and her uterus was pulled out and cut.

    Her hands showed extensive defensive wounds, including bruises, scrapes, stab wounds, and cuts on her fingers and palms. One finger was dislocated, and the tip of another was nearly cut off.

    Sillivan also testified to finding two distinct sets of prints throughout much of the crime scene. One set was consistent with the crocs Parker was wearing when she was arrested. The other set was consistent with the No Boundaries brand of sandals she was seen wearing in surveillance video at the EZ Mart just a few hours before the murder. Based on the patterns Sillivan identified in the bloody tracks, whoever was wearing the crocs was doing a lot of walking back-and-forth through blood, around the blanket on the floor, and around Hancock‘s body.

    There were watery blood stains on the kitchen and hallway bathroom sink as if someone had tried to wash something bloody.

    While several possible fingerprints were identified at the scene, the CSIs say none of them proved to be clear enough to be useful to the investigation.

    Dallas County Medical Examiner Dr. Melinda Flores also testified for more than two hours Tuesday afternoon about the findings of the autopsy, detailing the extensive cuts, scrapes, bruises, and blunt force trauma Hancock suffered in the attack. Hancock was slashed and stabbed well over 100 times, with 39 of them on her scalp alone. There were also multiple slashes around her neck.

    In addition to a broken nose, Hancock suffered five skull fractures, indicating at least five separate blows. Flores pointed to fractures that showed where Hancock was hit with what was likely the claw of a hammer as well as the blunt end, in addition to fractures consistent with the bottom of the mason jar.

    A scalpel blade used in the attack was found buried in her neck.

    The medical examiner’s testimony was briefly interrupted early Tuesday afternoon when Judge John Tidwell removed the jury from the courtroom in order to “address some issues.” Once the jury was gone, the judge had Parker escorted out. For the first time since the trial began more than two weeks ago, Parker appeared to hide her face from the camera as she left the room. When she returned nearly 20 minutes later, her eyes were red as if she had been crying. Her defense attorney reportedly requested the brief break.

    Back on the stand, the medical examiner testified to her findings that Reagan Hancock died as a result of sharp force injuries and blunt force injuries but concluded that they could not rule out the possibility that ligature strangulation contributed to her death. Flores testified that there were too many deep incisions around the victim’s neck to be sure. The manner of death was ruled a homicide.

    The defense had no questions for the medical examiner before she left the stand.

    The Texas Ranger who searched Taylor Parker’s car and home also took the stand Tuesday, testifying that he found a loaded gun in the car, but none of the weapons believed to have been used in the slaying.

    Texas Ranger Stacey McNeal said he found a loaded Taurus Judge revolver holstered in the passenger seat of the Toyota Corolla Parker was driving when she was pulled over with a lifeless newborn baby girl in her lap.

    The gun had five rounds in the chamber.

    McNeal says he did find a blood-stained blanket and a pillow in the passenger seat, pajama pants, and other bloodied items. Those items were swabbed and submitted for analysis at the crime lab. He also found bloodied paperwork on the dash and noted blood on the driver’s seat and console. On the passenger side, he found a paper sack from McDonald’s, likely from Parker’s purchase that morning.

    McNeal also recovered the black yoga pants and bloody underwear that were cut off Parker that morning by people who thought they were helping a woman who had just given birth on the side of the road.

    The bikini panties appeared to have some blood on them, and McNeal said they had a foul odor.

    “It smelled like someone had defecated,” McNeal said on the stand.

    Crime lab analysis would later show that most of the DNA testing on samples taken from the crime scene and from Parker’s car came from Reagan Hancock and her baby and that none of the DNA in the blood samples came back matching Parker.

    The Texas Ranger also found a diaper bag with some blood on it. Inside, he found newborn baby clothes, some still with tags on them, diapers, and baby blankets.

    McNeal did not find the black jacket with leopard print lining in the hoodie that Parker as seen in surveillance video from EZ Mart on the morning of the murder, nor any of the weapons suspected in Hancock’s murder. There were no hammers, crowbars, or scalpels in the car. He also did not find Hancock’s missing cell phone.

    McNeal went to the crime scene on Austin Street and searched Parker’s home on CR 23 in Simms. Photos taken from outside and inside the cabin showed a fairly typical, if small, home of someone who has a young female child and is expecting a baby.

    There was a baby swing in the living room, a crib and baby clothing in the bedroom, and what appeared to be a children’s play area in the loft.

    The search warrant for the home included Wade’s F-350 super-duty pickup truck. There was an infant car seat in it, the size you would use for a newborn.

    McNeal did not find any potential murder weapons or evidence directly related to the murder.

    The only question Parker’s defense team co-counsel Mac Cobb had for McNeal was whether the play area in the loft contained items consistent with the presence of a 10-year-old girl, in an apparent reference to Parker’s daughter, who was about that age at the time of the murders.

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