Just days after Taylor Parker killed her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock, she claimed to investigators that the victim told her to perform a C-section and save her baby.
In a new interrogation video shared by TMZ on Wednesday, July 1, Parker, 33, spoke to detectives about her version of events that took place during the October 2020 killing.
Parker claimed she and Simmons-Hancock, 21, got into a physical fight. Simmons-Hancock suffered multiple injuries from their altercation, including stab wounds, but Parker said she only remembered hitting her in the head with a mason jar. She then claimed that it was Simmons-Hancock’s idea for Parker to cut out her unborn child because Simmons-Hancock knew she was dying from her injuries.
She claimed that she told Simmons-Hancock that she didn’t know how to remove the baby, and Simmons-Hancock allegedly responded, “Get her out of me!”
She went on to say that she cut about six inches on Simmons-Hancock’s midsection before the victim allegedly took the scalpel from her and cut even further. Parker claimed that they then saw “a sack” coming out of Simmons-Hancock’s stomach.
Parker added that Simmons-Hancock’s 3-year-old daughter, Kynlee, was present for the horrific situation, and she alleged that Simmons-Hancock screamed for her to get her daughter out of the hallway because the toddler was crying during the ordeal. Parker said she told Kynlee name to go back to her room..
She then broke down in tears stating that she didn’t want to talk about what happened anymore.
At the time of the attack, Parker was pretending to be pregnant with her boyfriend Wade Griffin’s child. Her alleged September 2020 due date has passed weeks earlier, which sparked many doubts from Griffin’s loved ones about her pregnancy.
After Parker killed Simmons-Hancock and performed the C-section, she fled the scene with the victim’s baby, a daughter named Braxlynn Sage, and called police to claim that she had given birth on the side of the road.
Once she arrived at the hospital, doctors quickly learned that Parker had not given birth and she was arrested in connection to the deaths of Simmons-Hancock and Braxlynn.
In bodycam footage from the hospital obtained by TMZ, one police officer told Parker that he was aware she was involved in the killings. While Parker initially denied her involvement, she later admitted to killing the expectant mother.
Parker claimed that Simmons-Hancock confronted her about lying about her pregnancy, and she said they “both hit each other” before the murder.
The case went to trial in 2022 and Parker was found guilty of capital murder and kidnapping. She was then sentenced to death and is currently awaiting her execution as the youngest woman on death row in the state of Texas.
Parker’s case has earned interest among the general public after the crimes were documented in Netflix’s June documentary Maternal Instinct.
