Taylor Rene Parker was only 21 when she committed a crime. On October 2020, Parker murdered a pregnant mother by bashing her skull with a hammer and stabbed her more than 100 times. Then, she used a scalpel to take her unborn baby out of the womb. The baby did not survive.
On Wednesday this week, the court sentenced a death row for Parker, for murdering Simmons-Hancock. The victim’s mother described the killer as an “evil piece of flesh demon.” Hancock was found, soaked in blood at her home by her mother. Heartbreakingly, her three-year-old daughter was there at that time.
The next morning, Parker claimed that she just gave birth after being pulled over by a police officer due to speeding. The baby was pronounced dead after being taken to the hospital.
The initial reason for all Parker’s doing was she wanted to keep her boyfriend. She could not conceive after a hysterectomy. Thus, she lied to her boyfriend she was pregnant with a girl. She even held a gender reveal party to convince her boyfriend and the people around her.
Prosecutor, Kelley Crisp revealed that Parker made a lot of research on how to fake a pregnancy. Besides that, she learnt from videos on how to deliver a baby at 35 weeks, which is the same week the baby and mother died.
Hancock’s husband told the jury during the testimony that Parker and his wife were friends. She was the one who took their engagement and wedding photos.
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