Before Taylor Parker was convicted of killing her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock, she acted as a supportive mother during a phone call with her daughter while she was in prison.
In a newly released prison phone call shared by TMZ on Sunday, June 28, Parker 33, spoke to Emersyn and her mother, Shona Prior, as if she hadn’t been accused of a horrific fetal abduction crime.
During the call, Emersyn told Parker that she was standing near a campfire and the two discussed a storm that took place the night before. Emersyn then shared that she received sapphire and diamond jewelry as an early Christmas gift and shared that her younger brother, Trey, got a cross chain.
“Oh, that’s nice,” Parker said in response to the presents.
As the call continued, Parker asked what Emersyn was up to that day and she told her mother about her bedroom at Prior’s home.
While Parker appeared interested in what her daughter had to say, the call was ultimately cut short by the jail’s automated system. The mother-daughter duo then concluded the call by saying that they love each other.
The exact date of the phone call is not currently known, though the outlet reported that the call took place after Parker was arrested and before she was convicted.
Parker shares Emersyn with ex Donald Whiteside, while she shares son Trey with ex-husband Tommy Wacasey. Prior currently has custody of Emersyn, while Trey lives with Wacasey fulltime.
Parker was arrested in October 2020 after she killed her pregnant friendSimmons-Hancock. After she fatally stabbed Simmons-Hancock, 21, Parker performed a C-section on the victim and fled the scene with her baby, Braxlynn Sage Hancock. Parker – who was pretending to be pregnant with her own child at the time and had surpassed her alleged due date – then called 911 to claim that she had given birth to the child.
In the 911 call, Parker frantically claimed she was in labor while on the side of the road and said that a trooper had pulled her over.
When she reported to the hospital, doctors quickly learned that she had not given birth and she was linked to Simmons-Hancock’s murder.
The case went to trial in 2022, where Parker was ultimately found guilty of capital murder and kidnapping. She was sentenced to death and is currently awaiting her execution as the youngest woman in Texas on death row.
Parker’s crimes recently made headlines after the case was featured in Netflix’s June documentary Maternal Instinct.
