A state police investigator testified Tuesday that a lady accused of killing a pregnant lady and eradicating her unborn little one carried out intensive analysis on how you can faux a being pregnant convincingly. The testimony got here within the capital homicide trial of Taylor Rene Parker for the October 2020 killing of Reagan Simmons-Hancock and her unborn little one.
Particular Agent Dustin Estes of the Texas Division of Public Security testified that Parker considered quite a few YouTube movies on delivering and caring for infants.
On the day of the killing, she watched a video on the bodily examination of an toddler delivered pre-term at 35 weeks, he mentioned. Simmons-Hancock had a 35-week being pregnant when she was killed.
Parker additionally ran quite a few Google searches about being pregnant, Estes mentioned.
"She watched all these movies, clicked on all these hyperlinks, and so they have been all at 35 weeks," prosecutor Kelley Crisp mentioned.
"My opinion is Taylor Parker faked her being pregnant. ... She deliberate and carried out the homicide of Reagan," Estes mentioned.
Parker's legal professional, Jeff Harrelson, challenged that opinion, telling Estes, "You'll be able to see anyone appeared them up, however you do not know why. You'll be able to have a principle."
Parker, 29, has pleaded not responsible to capital homicide and kidnapping within the October 2020 deaths of Simmons-Hancock, 21, and the daughter who died after being reduce from her mom's womb.
Authorities say Simmons-Hancock was stabbed and reduce greater than 100 instances and had her cranium crushed with a hammer in her New Boston, Texas, dwelling earlier than a scalpel was used to take away her unborn child. Parker can also be charged with non-capital homicide in reference to the child's loss of life.
Parker was stopped by a Texas state trooper in DeKalb, Texas, 12 miles northwest of the crime scene, CBS DFW reported. She informed the trooper she had given beginning on the aspect of the street and that the child was not respiration, an official mentioned.
The station reported Parker was then taken to a hospital in Idabel, Oklahoma, the place the child was pronounced useless.
In her opening assertion Monday, Crisp informed the Bowie County jury that Parker acted not as a result of she wished a child however to maintain from shedding her boyfriend. Crisp mentioned Parker disguised herself to make her look pregnant for practically 10 months, faked ultrasounds, had a gender-reveal celebration and posted about her faux being pregnant on social media whereas trying to find a attainable sufferer, Crisp mentioned.