Add The New York Post on Google The baby-snatching Texas killer at the center of the Netflix true crime documentary “Maternal Instinct” hysterically claimed the pregnant pal she was convicted of murdering ordered her to take her unborn child out of the womb.
Taylor Parker, now 33, sadistically recalled how she bashed Reagan Simmons-Hancock with a mason jar before carrying out a botched C-section, claiming it was at her “dying” friend’s request, according to video from a Bowie County, Texas court interrogation, days after the October 2020 killing.
“She was screaming [to] take her out,” Parker told an interrogator in video obtained by TMZ, before clarifying that “her” referred to Simmons-Hancock’s unborn child, Braxlynn.
“She said, ‘I’m dying.’ She was talking to me.”
Parker – the focus of “Maternal Instinct,” which premiered last month – was probed on how Simmons-Hancock, 21, was covered with stab wounds, but she could only remember hitting her with a mason jar.
“That’s all I remember doing until I got the scalpel and she was telling me, ‘Get her out,'” she said.
“She pulled her pants down and said she was having her and she was not.”
Parker, the youngest woman on death row in Texas, said she cut a wound, which she said was a “good six inches” into her friend’s stomach – even though she didn’t know how to perform a C-section.
“I told her, ‘Just push.’ If you thought she’s coming out, just push her out,” Parker said through tears.Parker claimed Simmons-Hancock, who was 35 weeks pregnant, cut further into her stomach using the scalpel.
“I don’t want to talk about this anymore,” Parker suddenly said as she became overwhelmed with emotion.
Parker also claimed she was a “good person” – despite being later convicted of the murder.
“I can’t sleep, I can’t think,” she said through tears. “I’m a good person.”
Parker crushed Simmons-Hancock’s skull with a hammer and stabbed her more than 100 times in her New Boston, Texas, home on Oct. 9, 2020.
The heinous attack left Simmons-Hancock with five skull fractures, suggesting she had been bashed at least five times.
Parker, who faked her own pregnancy in the 10 months leading up to the killing, murdered Simmons-Hancock after telling her partner, Wade Griffin, she was going to the hospital.
Parker peddled the narrative — even though Griffin’s relatives were wary of the pregnancy story.
She left the mom to die before being arrested while driving the dead infant to an Oklahoma hospital.
Parker planned to tell hospital staffers she had given birth on the roadside before being nabbed near De Kalb, located near the Oklahoma border.
During her trial, prosecutors said that her fake pregnancy scheme was a bid to stop Griffin from leaving her.
Parker — who could not conceive after a hysterectomy — wore pregnancy disguises, faked ultrasounds, posted about her pregnancy online and even threw a gender reveal party for the fake baby.
Dustin Estes, a special agent with the Texas Department of Public Safety, testified Parker watched YouTube videos on how to deliver and care for babies.
Pre-trial, Parker grumbled about not being able to wear make-up in court and sobbed she wouldn’t be able to see her children in jail calls with her mom, Shona Prior.
Parker even apologized for the killing, but her mom hit back, “I know you did not think about the consequences of your actions.”
“Take her to death row,” Judge John Tidwell ordered after announcing the sentence.
