Season 2: Episode 1: The Murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock

This week on The Deadly Tea Podcast, we discuss one of the most shocking true crime cases in recent history—the murder of Reagan Simmons-Hancock by Taylor Parker. After months of faking a pregnancy, Parker carried out a horrifying plan that devastated an entire family and shocked the nation. We break down the timeline, evidence, trial, and the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct. Listener discretion is advised.

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SPEAKER_03 0:00

Hey TDT fans, it's Marie and Amira. And today we're going to be talking about something that is really horrifying and disgusting on all means, but we're just going to go ahead and get into it.

SPEAKER_02 0:14

This week on the Deadly Tea Podcast, Marie and I discuss one of the most terrifying true crime cases: the murder of Reagan Simmons Hancock. After months of faking a pregnancy, Taylor Parker carried out a horrifying plan that devastated an entire family and shocked the nation. We will break down the timeline, evidence, trial in the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct. Listener discretion is advised. I don't know how to even describe it. I really know what happened. And and did you actually know that this happens more often than we think?

SPEAKER_03 1:09

Yeah. This is like the third case I've heard that like something like this has happened, like about a woman doing this to another woman or woman like faking their pregnancy, and like just faking pregnancies in general are is kind of cringe to me because I'm just like, why fake a pregnancy?

SPEAKER_02 1:28

There's so many women that go through like wanting a child and not being able to have a child.

SPEAKER_03 1:34

Yeah. And then you have the most some of the most horrible people that have children. That have children that don't deserve children. Yeah, they don't deserve it.

SPEAKER_02 1:43

But yeah, you have people out there, I will say, like me, yeah. I want to be a mother so bad. And you know this.

SPEAKER_03 1:49

I know.

SPEAKER_02 1:50

So and for years I was never able to.

SPEAKER_03 1:52

Yeah, and that's like I mean, look, it took me like seven years to have my second child. So I mean, I I can't say I totally get it, but I do get it to a certain extent, and I just really hate it for Reagan's family.

SPEAKER_02 2:07

Oh, and that and her husband.

SPEAKER_03 2:09

Yes, and her husband. I saw a video, it was so sad of him going up to the casket and falling to the ground. Yeah. Like I would be the same way if like my like anything ever happened to like you, like my husband, or like my Oh yeah. Like I I could not even imagine being in public. So I really do I pray for them and their family and their kids. And not just that, I just kind of wanted to touch before we even get on like who Taylor Parker is. Um, Reagan was very sweet and like you can tell from the documentary, like she was very kind. She opened her doors to this photographer and let her in like family. Became friends with her. And that shows a lot because for me, like, I'm very reserved. So I mean, it doesn't make me a bad person, but I'm not so easy to let people in. And I feel like Reagan must have just had like such a sweet and kind heart that she just loved everyone.

SPEAKER_02 3:06

So tried to be friends with everyone, basically. And sometimes that can really get you in a very dangerous spot.

SPEAKER_03 3:12

Yeah, I really can. And I just it's definitely not her fault. She just trusted, you know, sadly, trusted the wrong person, but that wrong person is the one that's at fault, not Reagan. Yes. But we'll go ahead and step into it. Um, so the story is of Taylor Parker. You know, it's about a woman who pretty much lies about every single thing in their life, allegedly. Um, which we all know this is true, but allegedly. Um, and she just has a lot of obsessions and desperations that led to a brutal murder of a pregnant young mother and her unborn child. And her unborn child, yeah. And it's very sad, but we'll just go ahead and begin. Please be advised though that this episode does contain discussions of violence, murder, pregnancy loss, and child death. And like Amira said, listener discretion is strongly advised. Our story is gonna begin in East Texas, though. Um, Reagan Simmons Hancock was 21 years old, and she was a wife and a mother, and she was approximately 35 weeks pregnant with her second child and was eagerly preparing for the arrival of her baby. Baby girl at that, Braxlyn Sage Hancock. Reagan was described by family and friends as loving, kind, and excited about motherhood. And you could tell by like all the videos and photos. She was happy, she was so happy, so kind. Like you could she just had a shine to her.

SPEAKER_02 4:42

She just brightened up basically the room.

SPEAKER_03 4:44

And I just saw the video, like we were re-watching it a little bit ago, and I saw the video of them feeding the child an orange, and they were all laughing in the kitchen, and it was just real like I do those things so that made me think of when we gave your son lemon a lemon for the first time, and his face just kind of squinched up. Yeah, he got so mad, but I'm not gonna lie, like it just makes you think, like, looking at those things and how much of that, like, each one of us have done. And like, what if that was like someone else? What if that was like, and it's just so sad it happened to her. But someone in her life was hiding a huge secret and a dangerous secret at that, you know. And this person had spent months pretending to be pregnant despite having undergone a hysterectomy years earlier. She convinced her boyfriend, family members, and even people online that was expecting a baby. But not only were they expecting a baby, they were also given tons of fake baby photos, like maternity photos, ultrasounds, um pregnancy reports, yeah, like wearing the fake belly, created fake medical records, held pregnancy-related events to support the lie, and I don't know, as months passed, Taylor's due date approached, and the problem with that was there was never a baby, and eventually she would need to produce one. But we'll kind of skip to this. Um so the timeline of events, um, Taylor Parker begins dating Wade Griffin in like 2019, and then they kind of like the relationship just kind of went really fast, to be honest. They moved in really quickly from what the documentary said. Um, I think within a few months, right?

SPEAKER_02 6:36

I think it was within a month, yeah. A month or two.

SPEAKER_03 6:40

And there the mom obviously, like Wade's mom was like really skeptical of all of that. She was just like, oh, this is moving like really fast. And all of that was going on, but you know, the deception like really grew throughout 2020. As previously stated though, um, Taylor Parker did fake her pregnancy. Um, years before the crime, Taylor had undergone a procedure, which was a hysterectomy, that left her unable to carry another child. And despite this, she began telling people that she was pregnant with Wade Griffin's child. The documentary shows that many people in her life genuinely believed her because she was extremely convincing. And I mean, it literally shows more than like a hundred thousand lies throughout that documentary. I swear.

SPEAKER_02 7:26

Oh no, she was she was definitely coming spitting out lies, man.

SPEAKER_03 7:32

I swear, and even Stefano was over there, like, really, like thinking. Like, yeah, like how did she think this would go through? And I'm like, especially if a man sees this point of view, like that's kind of crazy.

SPEAKER_02 7:47

I feel like though, I feel like Wade was just so in love and infatuated.

SPEAKER_03 7:52

I think a lot of people this may be an unpopular opinion, but I think at some he does have some fault in at essence of like letting someone treat him poorly and like just I feel like maybe he could have asked more questions in the in the essence of a relationship, and she wasn't even like letting him like be involved in it.

SPEAKER_02 8:15

So like I feel like as a man, to me, if I was a man, I would want to be involved in that. Yeah, you know, I would want to go to all these ultrasounds and stuff, but I I I understand some men out there don't do that.

SPEAKER_03 8:27

A lot of men don't do that, actually.

SPEAKER_02 8:29

But like, I feel like he would have been that person, like he did kind of seem like he really wanted to be there, but like she just kept coming up with these excuses, and apparently he was sitting in the waiting room, but like she just didn't want him going in the back with her.

SPEAKER_03 8:43

And what a lot of people I've heard not really speak on, though, is a lot of people are like, oh, well, what how couldn't he have seen her naked for this long? And I'm like, Do y'all not understand? I I live in the South, and I don't know if it's just the South thing or what it is. I don't think it is, but I've heard so many women and men like over the years since I was like 18, 19, say that their spouse never has sex with them, or that they like they gone years without it, and I'm like never seen them naked or let them touch them, which is understanding because like at one point I I didn't like having sex with the lights on.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

I mean because I didn't like how my body looked, and I hated when I was like with somebody, and I hated when they would just look at my body because like to me it was just like uh flubber, you know.

SPEAKER_03 9:40

After having kids, I was the same way, like after my first child. But I'm not gonna lie, I hear lately I don't mind the last longer.

SPEAKER_02 9:48

Um I hear all about it, yes. Thank you.

SPEAKER_03 9:51

Okay, but uh yes, but I don't know, that's just my unpopular opinion, probably, because I just feel like he has some fault in essence of like not asking enough in his relationship or like things like that, but I don't think he knew about her intentions or what she was doing. I don't think he knew about what she was going to do either.

SPEAKER_02 10:17

No, I definitely don't think he was gonna she I don't think he knew that she would do something so what's the word malicious malicious, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 10:27

And not just that, if you really think about it though, do you know how many people blindly love people? Yes, like I have so many friends that I'll be like, can you not see the red flags? And my eye will be twitching.

SPEAKER_02 10:41

And why are you talking about me like that? I'm right here next to you.

SPEAKER_03 10:44

Yeah, not you, bro. Not you.

SPEAKER_02 10:46

Yeah, me.

SPEAKER_03 10:47

Um, but I'm just saying, not just you, but like even myself and other people in the past. Like, we all have blindly loved people, yes, and we saw the red flags, we saw their lies, and we still went through with it.

SPEAKER_02 11:01

So I think it had to do with like we wanted to be loved. Yeah, like we just wanted that love, and maybe you just saw a really pretty woman and that was country as and did everything for him, yes, because apparently whatever he'd asked, she did. Yeah, so like I mean, if you want a woman going out on the farm and doing all that kind of shit, then yeah, he was definitely love struck.

SPEAKER_03 11:29

Yeah, definitely for sure. I was gonna say, and not just that though, like we did kind of talk about what sh what all she faked, but you know, she wore that fake baby bump, ordered it, shared pregnancy updates online, and the people in the documentary were saying when they would see her, she was skinny, no bump. But when she was in the pictures, it would be a bump. Oh, I'm so many weeks pregnant, everything's so happy, and taking the maternity photos, and um, you know, just showing people like forged documents.

SPEAKER_02 12:01

Yes, you saw the video that apparently the neighbor did, yeah, like where she was supposedly supposed to be not like 10 months pregnant, and like there was no 10 months pregnant.

SPEAKER_03 12:13

When I was nine months pregnant, I went 41 weeks with my son, and I hated being outside. Oh my gosh, it was the summertime, it was horrible.

SPEAKER_00 12:26

I oh you had that muggy, sweaty pregnancy.

SPEAKER_03 12:32

Oh my goodness, like you know, he I'll just kind of go into like my background a little bit, but I almost lost him halfway through, you know. Yes, and the fact that like someone could lie about something so tragic is just crazy to me. But I almost lost my son halfway through, and then towards the very end, he just wanted to stay in. And I'm glad we got him out because I was tired. You don't want to be on your feet, you don't want to be doing nothing, not when you're that many months pregnant and in the summer, hell no. No, but you know, I don't know, just forging a whole bunch of medical documents and ultrasounds and you know, just all the celebrations, which they said were super awkward typically, like with the gender reveal.

SPEAKER_02 13:19

Oh, yeah, that gender reveal was a little weird.

SPEAKER_03 13:22

Like everybody seemed well, I don't know, everybody else just kind of seemed off to the side, and she's the only one.

SPEAKER_00 13:29

And quite yeah, she's the only one screaming, smiling, clapping. Yeah, that's I feel like everybody knew.

SPEAKER_03 13:36

Everybody had to have known something. Not maybe not the extent, but they had to have known something was off, and I think they all sensed it. But they also said in the documentary that she was like always afraid of losing him, that her money wasn't enough, and I don't know, like she had to fake that eight million dollar family, you know, inheritance, inheritance, yeah, inheritance. Um, and all of it was fake. Like, how do you pull off a scheme? And how did you think you were gonna buy all this stuff? A tractor, a new truck, and four million dollars, yeah, and you want to win this man over, but how are you gonna keep him if it all gets foreclosed or don't forget about that mother-in-law's car that she bought three weeks later? Holy miss.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

Oh, I would have been I would have been asking so many questions. She said, I called that dealership because she was like, Why is my car being recalled?

SPEAKER_03 14:34

What's wrong with it? She knew, she knew. I think mothers always know. She knows. Um, yeah. Um, but I don't know, she was just always afraid of losing him, and nothing ever kind of seemed like I guess she felt like she wasn't enough for his family because I saw a lot of text messages about her saying, like, they don't like me, the family doesn't like me. And I'm pretty sure it was her texting herself and the man and the mother and all the friends.

SPEAKER_02 15:06

Didn't they say in the documentary that she had like over 30 phones? Yeah, I'm pretty sure she had like fake identity.

SPEAKER_03 15:13

Yeah, that's crazy. I that's crazy. That that is obsessive.

SPEAKER_02 15:20

And and imagine there's people still out there that do shit like this.

SPEAKER_03 15:24

Yeah, I don't know. I I don't know. That just tears me apart that someone would go to that extent.

SPEAKER_02 15:30

Um yes, the length that she went to just to fake this pregnancy, yeah. Like she could have stopped at any time and was like, she had a miscarriage. True. But like, even when she got into the hospital and stuff, and she was blatantly saying, Yes, the doctor's gonna see that I had a child.

SPEAKER_03 15:47

And not just that though, she literally lied to her co-worker about having a child with brain cancer that passed away. And that I'm like, you are a horrible person. Like, I'm Christian, but and I know it's bad to judge, but to fake something like that, that's so fucked up.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

I don't think I could ever fake that. Like, that's kind of like how on April Fool's how all these women out here do the whole fake pregnancy test as an April Fool's joke. Like, that's that's not funny because like I said earlier, like there's people like me that really want a child and can't have kids.

SPEAKER_03 16:33

I think it's a crazy thing. Like, this girl seemed so pretty, and like I think that's what is catching a lot of people's attention. She was gorgeous, like, you know, she kept up with herself, she made sure she looked like not when she got picked up, yeah. Not that time, but like any other time in all her pictures, she looks very like dressed up, very pretty, had to be center of attention, and I think that's what a lot of them were catching on to is that she had to be center of attention.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

But all eyes on her, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:06

Um, but Taylor wasn't a random stranger to the person that was murdered. She met Reagan Simmons Hancock through photography work and had photographered um Reagan's wedding. And I was a photographer, so like I know how the networking can like you know, you just meet a lot of people, and I mean I never I always checked in on my clients, but I don't know. I feel like the way that she was is just kind of weird with your clients. Like, I don't know, just all the questions and having to know when this, this, and this, and I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 17:45

But that's why her friend cut her off because she was constantly wanting to know everything. Yes, and she wanted to be a part of like she wanted her to send her her information to log into her app about her pregnancy update.

SPEAKER_03 17:59

You're my best friend of like 20-something years, and I have never given you my login information to my medical records.

SPEAKER_02 18:06

Sorry, but I might be like one of your emergency contacts, but like I'm not getting your passwords of stuff.

SPEAKER_03 18:14

Yeah, um, but I don't know. I feel like, you know, they met each other through the wedding, which is kind of normal for photographers to meet people, but the way that it happened, I don't know, like everything after that just kind of seems bizarre. The two stayed in contact a lot, um, which gave Taylor access to information about Reagan's reveal and her, or not reveal, but her real pregnancy.

SPEAKER_02 18:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 18:39

And I know that Taylor's due date was approaching in October 2020, and the date was only days away. Um, family members and friends and her boyfriend were expecting a baby to arrive at any moment. The documentary does show like how the pressure of maintaining the lie was becoming impossible because she like literally lit the bottom half of their house on fire. Psycho! Yeah, she had to like tell her he was she was sick, so she couldn't go into labor almost 10 months pregnant. Like, that's crazy. Yes, then not just that, like all like the the hogs, like the tail of the hogs. Oh my god, oh my god, like him driving that four hours, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:25

You made him drive four hours for your for your lie while you went and did what you did, yeah. Like, oh my god.

SPEAKER_03 19:35

If you kind of look back and watch the documentary twice, you see a lot of her lies as she's saying them in the camera. Yes, like because she was like, Oh, my man's on his way to the hospital, but then later it shows the video cam of her calling her boyfriend or whatever he was to her, and she was saying, Oh, meet me there.

SPEAKER_02 19:55

Yeah. And she had told the deputy, he's already there, he's already there, he's waiting for you.

SPEAKER_03 20:00

He's not there, honey.

SPEAKER_02 20:01

Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_03 20:02

Um, but that is where we begin to get into the nitty-gritty. The setup was on October 9th, 2020. Um, Taylor went to Reagan's home. Prosecutors argued the crime was very planned. Evidence showed that Taylor had spent months researching pregnancy, childbirth, and related topics while maintaining her false pregnancy story. Um, and I'll just kind of go over like what was some of the evidence. Um the evidence discussed in the documentary was fake pregnancy photos, which you can see clearly in the documentary.

SPEAKER_02 20:37

Um, forged medical records, again, fake ultrasound images, fake gender um papers, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 20:46

And social media posts documenting the non-existent pregnancy, witness testimony from friends, family, and Wade Griffin, body camera footage footage from the traffic stocks shortly after the murder, and then she's like, Oh, I gave birth on the side of the road. How are you not bloody?

SPEAKER_02 21:02

How are your clothes not bloody?

SPEAKER_03 21:04

How she looked completely intact at the bottom. How are you walking? Yeah, I mean, I know some women can walk after birth, but to me, it was the most painful shit of my life. Yes. Um so you know, I don't know, body camera footage, you know, and then the medical evidence proving that Taylor had not given birth despite her claims. Um so I just feel like Taylor was very charismatic and caring, and friends would say she just made you feel special and trusted because of that. Very few people questioned her story until everything unraveled.

SPEAKER_02 21:43

Okay, one minute. Let me because I forgot what what I was gonna say earlier. When she called him in the police vehicle to tell him that she was on her way to the hospital, yeah, the way he sounded.

SPEAKER_03 21:57

I know, and it was so difficult.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

Distant and so cold.

SPEAKER_03 22:02

It was very cold because think about it. Like he had just found out that she or someone had set up this hog exchange or whatever, the 6800 deal, and this person didn't even know that he was coming, didn't know anything about him, and was like, that's a fake number that's been texting you. And I mean, he just had found out somebody lied about that, and he had to drop four hours.

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Yeah, I would I would definitely be a little upset because like the customer that he was going to even said, I haven't spoken to her in weeks.

SPEAKER_03 22:38

Weeks, yeah. Well, ding dong, she came back. So she she literally lied about everything, it seems like. And I don't know, it's it's just really sad to think about like the people that had to endure that.

SPEAKER_02 22:54

Um everybody that was involved, basically, not like involved in what she did, but like the people she involved surrounding, yeah, like the hurt, like Wade looked like he was just hurt.

SPEAKER_03 23:09

He was, and you can kind of tell in the documentary, even now, like he won't even look the camera in the eye. And I don't think it's because he's guilty, I think it's because he's ashamed that he didn't see it soon.

SPEAKER_02 23:21

And he didn't listen to anybody that said something to him, like even his mom said something to him.

SPEAKER_03 23:26

And I think he started to kind of believe it, but I don't think he knew what to do. I'm not gonna say he's completely innocent in aspects of, like I said, he should have stuck up for himself better and he should have put his foot down a lot more and asked questions. But sometimes when you're in a relationship and you're really in love with someone, sometimes or he didn't even say he was in love with her, he said that he was just with her.

SPEAKER_02 23:49

So I don't know if he was because his mom even asked her, asked him, like, are you in love with her? And he was like, I'm not in love with her, but like I think she he said, I cared for her.

SPEAKER_03 24:01

Yeah, which you know if you're in love, so the fact that he said that, I don't know why he stayed, but maybe he just felt trapped.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

Um maybe or he just probably felt like he wanted to love her.

SPEAKER_03 24:15

Yeah, I mean, because everybody liked her, so maybe he felt like stuck.

SPEAKER_02 24:20

Yeah, and plus she kind of manipulated him in the moving in really soon.

SPEAKER_03 24:26

Yeah. I mean, I can't speak too much because me and my husband moved in pretty quickly too. But I mean, we we've known each other since like 2010, but we weren't like dating like that. Yeah, and then we all moved in each other body. Yeah. Um it happened all pretty quickly. Um, but on October 9th, 2020, Taylor visits Reagan, Simmons Hancock, at her home in New Boston, Texas. Investigators later determined that Taylor attacked Reagan inside the home. Evidence presented at the trial showed Reagan suffered extensive injuries. Taylor then forcibly removed Reagan's unborn daughter in an attempt to pass the baby off as her own. And tragically, both Reagan and baby Braxlin died. And what's really sad is there was like a pretty sure he said he was an OBGYN in the documentary, but he was basically saying like the way she cut the baby and maneuvered Reagan, like TMI, and I really don't want to go too much into it. You just really have to watch the documentary, but it's just disturbing, and he said he doesn't understand why anyone would ever do that or how she did it, he doesn't understand that either. And looking at the documentary, too, like there was just blood everywhere, and that poor mom. That poor mom.

SPEAKER_02 25:55

The emts had to roll her over, yeah, because she was on her stomach. I know, and they had to roll her over just to see.

SPEAKER_03 26:01

And that poor baby that was in the back room on the bottom.

SPEAKER_02 26:05

Oh, yes, her three-year-old.

SPEAKER_03 26:08

That breaks my heart.

SPEAKER_02 26:10

If you know that baby was terrified. I don't know who was that gentleman that went in with a family friend or an uncle. Yeah, I think it was like a family friend because the dad or stepdad of Reagan couldn't step over her body.

SPEAKER_03 26:23

I mean, I don't think I could do that to my child either. Like I would be hysterical.

SPEAKER_02 26:30

I I I wouldn't, I would be exactly how her mom, Jessica, was outside screaming.

SPEAKER_03 26:36

Yeah. And you know, that's where also like the traffic stop comes into play. After the murder, you know, Taylor drove away with the infant.

SPEAKER_02 26:45

Yes, in hand.

SPEAKER_03 26:47

Yes. And later that day, you know, the Texas State Troopers stopped Taylor after observing her driving erratically. She claimed she had just given birth and that the baby was hers. Officers quickly noticed inconsistencies in her story, though. The body camera footage captured the encounter, which became a key part of the investigation. And honestly, when you look back at the stuff, like I think she had called, I don't think she even planned to have called 911. I think when she saw the trooper behind her, she got scared and freaked out and then called.

SPEAKER_02 27:21

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 27:22

Because if you notice, right when they answered, she said there's a trooper behind, or like basically, like, um, I just had a baby, like, there's a trooper behind me, blah, blah, blah. And I'm like, allegedly. Um, but I'm like, there's no way you just had a baby. That sh and where did the time go? Because I remember someone saying that the time that it took for her to have done what she did to Reagan and then go to the hospital, like there was a gap in the time. Yeah. And people don't understand it. So I'm not too clear on that, so I don't want to speak on it too much. But I'm just curious too, like, if that is true, like, what was she doing in that meantime and if that baby could have been saved?

SPEAKER_02 28:07

I feel like that baby could have been saved.

SPEAKER_03 28:09

That poor baby.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

That is that is a horrifying thing. Like, not only did her husband lose her, but he lost their daughter.

SPEAKER_03 28:18

Yes, I know.

SPEAKER_02 28:20

Which is so sad.

SPEAKER_03 28:22

And you know, we'll kind of touch back on the you know, evidence that was presented. Um you know, like I said, the tons of fake pregnancy photos and social media posts and fabricated, you know, medical records and forged documents and the fake bellies. Yeah, like it's just crazy to me how many things she faked, and how did she even get like signatures? Like, she had to go through extensive work to do all of that.

SPEAKER_02 28:51

Well, because you already like you remember, like her lawyer person was fake.

SPEAKER_03 28:56

Yeah, Jelly back checked all of them.

SPEAKER_02 28:59

Yeah, like everybody was fake. I want to know is how could she have kept up with all the lies? How do you keep up with that many lies? And to be have to have been so close to other people in that area and then have burned them with the same similar lies, like but see she was far enough away from them, but not far enough.

SPEAKER_03 29:24

No, because like think about it, she had lied to her previous friends about having like major diagnosis. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 29:32

Oh, diagnosis, all these health problems that were wrong with her.

SPEAKER_03 29:37

Yes, and I was gonna say, I don't know, there's just so much to this story that we could probably talk about for years on end, and it's just disgusting to me what she did. But prosecutors did argue that the crime was carefully planned and motivated, as said before, and that's so she could maintain the lie that she had built around herself. And even when the detectives asked her time and time again, Is this your baby? Did you give birth? And she kept saying, like, you could tell she was pausing and looking away, and she was like, Yes, but like even after she was examined, they were like, We just wanted to know what happened, where'd you get the baby? And then she tried to blame it on Reagan and say that rape.

SPEAKER_02 30:24

She was fighting, she was trying to push her off of her and stuff.

SPEAKER_03 30:27

Like, how are you gonna come into the girls' home and then say the girl was fighting you? That doesn't work that way. Typically, if someone's gonna fight somebody, they're gonna come to you.

SPEAKER_02 30:35

Yeah, they're not gonna wait for you to come to them, but like I like even just listening to that, I was like, I was shocked when I first watched it this morning.

SPEAKER_03 30:45

I think she's such a pathological liar, and today I saw something, and I hope to God it's not true. But she's literally, if it is allegedly, she's trying to get with the FBI to help solve crime.

SPEAKER_02 30:56

Oh, I hope that's not true.

SPEAKER_03 30:57

To like, I think there was one other thing about her. Um, something along the lines of she was trying to make it seem like the people in prison put her up to it, or I don't know, was how could the people in prison put you up to it when you weren't even in prison yet? She has major problems. I don't know major?

SPEAKER_02 31:18

Oh my god, major.

SPEAKER_03 31:20

But you know, that goes back to in 2022 a jury convicted Taylor of the Capitol Murder. She was sentenced to death. Um she has not been um put to death yet, though.

SPEAKER_02 31:34

Um she needs to.

SPEAKER_03 31:36

Yeah. And not only that, but it was said that she is the youngest um to be put on death row in Texas. Yes. So, I mean, that's crazy. Um, I really hope that they don't make her live out a long sentence on death row because I know there's still some people still alive. Um, but I do feel like um as we're ending up this episode, you know, what makes this case so unsettling isn't just the violence, it's the months of deception that came before it. Every fake appointment, every pregnancy announcement, every lie built toward a horrifying outcome. At the center of the story, though, Reagan Simmons Hancock, a young mother who should have been preparing to welcome her daughter into the world. Instead, her family was left grieving the loss of both Reagan and baby Braxlin. Cases like this remind us that sometimes the most terrifying dangers aren't just in strangers in the dark, but people hiding behind a carefully crafted mask as friends, family, you know, you name it, acquaintances. And I I just wanted to touch one more time before we end this episode. Uh this episode is absolutely it's just disgusting, cringing, yeah, horrifying. And I I think that Reagan was such a beautiful sh like beautiful soul.

SPEAKER_02 32:58

And she was she was beautiful too. She was gorgeous.

SPEAKER_03 33:03

And to have like they looked like they were so happily in love, soulmates, man. Yeah, it's just really sad, and I hate that. And you know, I'll I'll be praying for their family, and they're I'm sure it's gonna be hard because the mom had to walk in on that scene and oh god, be I couldn't imagine being a mother and walking into my daughter's house and just seeing that. Yeah, there's just no way. I feel so bad for all the parents that's ever had to endure that. But we do thank you for joining us today for today's episode of the Deadly Tea Podcast. And if you'd like to discuss this case with us, let us know your thoughts respectfully. You can DM us or comment on our stuff as well. We have submission forms. We'll see you next time, though, for another cup of the deadly tea. Stay safe and take care of yourselves and always watch your back. We love you guys. Love you guys.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

Later, alligators, after a while, crocodiles, teetle. Bye.