Two women, both on death row, both convicted of crimes so extreme that the people who investigated them, seasoned detectives, veteran prosecutors, courtroom judges, said they had never seen anything like it in their entire careers. One is in Texas, the other is in Tennessee. One faked a pregnancy for 10 months, then murdered a young mother and cut her unborn baby from her womb.

The other tortured a teenage girl for up to an hour, carved a pentagram into her chest, crushed her skull with a piece of concrete, and then kept a fragment of that skull as a trophy. Both have been sentenced to die. Both are still alive. And before this video ends, you will have to ask yourself the question that no one seems to want to answer directly.

Between these two women, who is the most dangerous? Hit subscribe. Turn on the notification bell so you won’t miss our deep dive drops. And stay with me because the answer may not be what you expect. October 9th, 2020. New Boston, Texas. Population roughly 4,500 people. A quiet rural town in the northeast corner of the state, not far from the Oklahoma border.

 The kind of place where people know their neighbors, where a familiar face at the door means nothing to fear. That familiarity is exactly what Taylor Renee Parker used as a weapon. Reagan Simmons Hancock was 21 years old, 7 and a half months pregnant with her second child that morning. She had a doctor’s appointment scheduled. Her three-year-old daughter, Kinley, was still asleep in the back room.

 Reagan had texted a friend earlier. She was a little tired, maybe a little anxious, but excited. She had no reason to believe anything was wrong. At some point that morning, Taylor Parker knocked on her door. Reagan let her in. There were no signs of forced entry. She had no reason not to trust her. They had met two years earlier in 2019 when Parker photographed Reagan’s engagement and wedding photos.

 They were Facebook friends. They had exchanged messages about babies, about pregnancy, about motherhood. What Reagan did not know, what no one around Taylor Parker fully understood at that point was that the woman standing in her living room had spent the last 10 months building toward this single moment. To understand what happened inside that house, you have to go back to the beginning of 2020.

 Taylor Renee Parker was born on March 12th, 1993 and raised in Bowie County, Texas, near New Boston. By her mid20s, she had two children from a previous marriage and had lost custody of both. Her relationship history was unstable. Her self-image, according to people who knew her, was one she constantly managed through social media, projecting a version of her life that bore very little resemblance to reality.

Then came Wade Griffin, a mechanic from Texarana, and Taylor fell hard. There was just one problem. At some point prior to their relationship, Parker had undergone a full hyctomy. She could no longer conceive. Instead of telling Wade the truth, she told him she was pregnant. And then she built an entire world around that lie.

 For nearly 10 months, Taylor Parker wore a silicone fake pregnancy belly. She printed ultrasound images she found online and passed them off as her own. She called friends and family with updates about the baby. She threw herself a gender reveal party. She posted on Facebook about feeling kicks. She told people she was due in October.

 She bought nursery items, baby clothes, accepted gifts from WDE’s family. And the entire time she knew there was no baby. There never had been. But Parker wasn’t just lying, she was planning. In the months before October 2020, she began researching C-section procedures and induction techniques. She visited maternity clinics in Texarana and Idible.

Presenting herself as a patient. She watched videos of deliveries and cesarian sections online. Investigators later found that in the weeks leading up to the murder, she had been actively searching for pregnant women in stores, in hospitals, in maternity wards. Court testimony revealed she even called in a bomb threat to a women’s clinic reportedly to disrupt an appointment that had nothing to do with her at all.

She had studied, she had prepared, she had selected her target, and her target was Reagan Simmons Hancock. On the morning of October 9th, Parker left her home in Sims, Texas at approximately 6:00 a.m. She told her boyfriend Wade that she was having labor pains and was headed to St. Michael’s Hospital in Texarana.

 She was not going to any hospital. In her vehicle, investigators later confirmed she was carrying a scalpel, a hammer, and a fake hospital ID badge. She drove 30 mi northeast to Reagan’s house. What happened inside that home was documented in graphic clinical detail by forensic investigators and medical examiners during the trial.

 Reagan Simmons Hancock was attacked with the hammer. Her skull was fractured. She was then stabbed more than 100 times in the face, neck, chest, abdomen, and back. Forensic evidence confirmed that Reagan fought back. There were deep defensive wounds on her hands. She was conscious for much of the attack.

 The medical examiner testified that Reagan died fighting. Using the scalpel, Parker then performed a crude, unmedical incision across Reagan’s abdomen and removed the baby. The baby, later named Braxlin Sage Hancock by her family, was alive when taken from her mother’s womb, but she had no medical care, no oxygen, no warmth, no monitoring.

 In the back room, 3-year-old Kinley woke up to the sounds of what was happening. By 9:00 a.m., Taylor Parker was behind the wheel of her gray Nissan Ultima, speeding north toward the Oklahoma border with the dying infant on her lap. Her hands were covered in blood. Her jeans were soaked through. She didn’t make it far. A Texas state trooper clocked her speeding near Eagletown, Oklahoma, and pulled her over.

 Parker jumped out of the car holding the baby, screaming that she had just delivered on the side of the road and that the infant wasn’t breathing. The trooper noticed something was wrong immediately. There was no afterbirth, no umbilical cord properly attached, and Parker, despite her claim of having just given birth, showed no physical signs of having done so.

 EMS rushed both Parker and the infant to McCurten Memorial Hospital in Idal, Oklahoma. There the case broke wide open. Medical staff confirmed that Taylor Parker had no uterus. A hyerectomy made child birth a biological impossibility. And the baby, she had been without proper oxygen for too long, despite every effort from paramedics and hospital staff.

 Braxen Sage Hancock was pronounced dead shortly after arrival. Back in New Boston, Reagan’s mother, Jessica Brooks, had driven to her daughter’s home after Reagan missed her appointment. The front door was unlocked. She walked inside. The 911 call she made from that house is one of the most devastating recordings in the history of that county.

 By 10:20 a.m., Taylor Parker was officially in custody. The trial of Taylor Renee Parker began on September 12th, 2022 inside the Bowie County Courthouse in New Boston, Texas. It lasted 9 weeks. Prosecutors presented Parker’s Google search history. In the weeks before the murder, she had searched for how to perform a home C-section, how to fake pregnancy symptoms, where to buy fake ultrasound images.

 A phone call Parker made from jail to her mother was played for the jury. She never said Reagan’s name. She never expressed grief for the baby. The only thing she said about what she had done was, “I messed up real bad.” The defense argued mental illness, specifically borderline personality disorder.

 But the prosecution reminded the jury that Parker had planned this crime methodically over the course of 10 months across multiple counties involving fake IDs, fake pregnancies, online research, clinic visits, and a calculated selection of her victim. This was not impulse. This was architecture. On October 3rd, 2022, after just over 1 hour of deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of guilty on the charge of capital murder on November 9th, 2022.

Inside that same packed courtroom, the sentence was delivered. Death by lethal injection. Judge John Tidwell looked directly at Taylor Parker and told her she would be remanded to the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to await execution. Parker showed no emotion. In the gallery, Reagan’s mother, Jessica Brooks, stood to address the court.

 Her words were precise and final. My baby was alive. She felt every single pain. She fought for her babies. And you smashed her skull. You ripped her open and took her baby. You deserve to be removed from this earth. Taylor Renee Parker was transferred that same day to the Mountain View unit in Gatesville, Texas, the only facility in the state that houses women on death row.

 She became the seventh woman on Texas death row. As of today, no execution date has been scheduled. In Texas, inmates often wait 10, 20, even 30 years, but the sentence is not in question. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld her conviction and sentence in late 2025 after her legal team challenged the trial proceedings.

 Every appeal has failed. She is 32 years old. She lives in a cell and the state of Texas intends to execute her. Now shift your attention from Texas to Tennessee, from 2020 to 1995, and from a crime built on deception to a crime built on something that many people find even harder to process, pure theatrical violence. And then ask yourself this.

 If Taylor Parker’s crime was cold, calculated, and driven by desperation, what do you call a crime that was celebratory? Christa Gail Pike was born on March 10th, 1976 in Beckley, West Virginia. Her childhood was a documented disaster. Court records filed decades later described an infant crawling through piles of dog feces because no one cleaned the house.

 Her mother, Karissa Hansen, was documented to have struggled with alcohol and drug abuse throughout Christa’s early years, cycling through romantic relationships, leaving her daughter largely without supervision. Christa was abused. Court filings stated she was raped multiple times as a child.

 By age nine, she was using marijuana. By 12, she was consuming alcohol in significant quantities. By her mid- teens, she had attempted suicide multiple times. She failed 9th grade and dropped out. She was sent to a juvenile facility. It was there that she learned about the JobCore, a federal program designed to help low-income young people develop vocational skills and build stable lives. She applied. She was accepted.

 In late 1994, at the age of 18, Christa Pike moved into the Knoxville Job Core Center in Tennessee to study computer programming. It should have been her second chance. At the center, Pike met a 17-year-old named Tadel Ship. They became a couple quickly. Together, they developed an interest in occult practices and devil worship, wearing pentagram necklaces and drawing other students into conversations about Satan and human sacrifice.

 In the same computer programming class as Pike was a 19-year-old named Colleen Sleur, originally from Orange Park, Florida. Colleen had come to the job corps after dropping out of high school hoping just like Christa to build something better. The two women had mutual acquaintances including Tadal ship and that connection became an obsession for Christa Pike.

She became convinced without evidence according to SLM’s friends who flatly denied it that Colleen was trying to take her boyfriend. She fixated on it, talked about it constantly, confided in another friend, Shadala Peterson, that she wanted Colleen dead. Eventually, she told Ship that their occult beliefs required them to escalate, that a human sacrifice was necessary, and she chose Colleen Slmer as the offering.

 Peterson and Ship, after initial hesitation, agreed. On the night of January 12th, 1995, Christa Pike put her plan into motion. The group lured Colleen Slmer out of the job court complex under the pretense of making peace, offering her marijuana as a supposed gesture of goodwill. Colleen agreed, believing the conflict between them was finally being resolved.

 She signed out of her dormatory and walked with the group along 17th Street toward the University of Tennessee campus. She would never walk back. The four of them reached a desolate area near an abandoned steam plant on the university’s agricultural campus. remote, dark, and far from anyone who could hear anything. Once there, Pike attacked.

 What followed lasted between 30 minutes and 1 hour, according to the prosecution’s own timeline, and Christa Pike’s own later admission. Colleen SLMur was ambushed. When she tried to run, Tadel ship chased her down, grabbed her, and dragged her back. She was forced to remove her blouse. A cloth was stuffed into her mouth to prevent her from screaming.

Forensic evidence later confirmed that she fought back. Her arms and hands bore numerous defensive wounds throughout the entire assault. Using a box cutter and a small knife, Pike and Ship slashed her throat at least six times, cutting through fat and muscle. They inflicted deep cuts across her back.

 And then, while Colleen Slmer was still alive, still conscious enough to beg them to stop, Pike carved a pentagram symbol approximately 3 in in diameter into her chest. The medical examiner later described Colleen begging for her life throughout the attack. She pleaded with them to stop over and over. Pike did not stop.

 Finally, Pike lifted a large chunk of asphalt from the ground and brought it down onto Colleen Slmer’s skull with enough force that the concrete shattered into several pieces. Those pieces were then also thrown at the victim’s head, the official cause of death, confirmed by Knox County Medical Examiner Dr. Sandra Elkins.

 Blunt force trauma to the head. After Colleen Slmer was dead, Christa Pike bent down and she took a fragment of her skull. She put it in the pocket of her jacket. She walked back to the job center. Arriving around 10:15 p.m. She went directly to a friend’s room, pulled out the piece of skull, and showed it to her, describing the murder in detail while dancing in circles, smiling, and singing. She felt no guilt.

She expressed no remorse. She was celebrating. The following morning, a University of Tennessee Grounds crew employee discovered SLM’s body near the green houses on the agricultural campus. He later testified that the body had been so badly beaten, he initially thought it was the carcass of an animal. 2 days after the murder on January 14th, 1995, Christa Pike was arrested.

 She waved her Miranda rights and gave a 46-page recorded confession to investigators. At her trial in March 1996, the jury deliberated for only a few hours before returning a verdict guilty of premeditated first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder. On March 30th, 1996, Christa Gail Pike was sentenced to death.

 She was 20 years old. She became the youngest woman sentenced to death in the United States in the modern era. Tadel Ship, who was 17 at the time of the crime, was tried as an adult and convicted, but was ineligible for the death penalty under Tennessee law due to his age. He received a life sentence. His request for parole was denied in October 2025.

Shadala Peterson, who served as a lookout, pleaded guilty as an accessory after the fact and received 6 years of probation. 30 years have passed since that night on the University of Tennessee campus. 30 years on death row. And in those three decades, Christa Pike has not faded quietly. In August 2001, while incarcerated, she attacked a fellow inmate named Patricia Jones, strangling her with a shoelace until she nearly suffocated to death.

 A 2004 conviction for that attack added 25 years to her existing sentence. There was also a discovered prison break attempt that was stopped before it could proceed. For more than 25 of those 30 years, Pike was held in solitary confinement, 23 hours a day, in a space described by her own attorney as roughly the size of a parking space.

 In September 2024, an agreement gave her access to shared meals, a work assignment, and more time outside her cell, bringing her conditions in line with the men on death row. Her legal team has fought for decades, arguing that Pike’s documented childhood trauma, organic brain damage from alcohol exposure in utero, bipolar disorder, PTSD, and severe mental illness should exempt her from capital punishment.

 They point to her age at the time of the crime, 18, as a factor the court should weigh heavily. The courts have not agreed. On September 30th, 2025, the Tennessee Supreme Court issued a death warrant for Christa Gail Pike. Her execution is scheduled for September 30th, 2026, exactly 1 year from the date the warrant was signed.

 If that execution is carried out, Pike will become the first woman executed in the state of Tennessee in more than 200 years. The last woman executed in Tennessee was in 1820. She has challenged the execution method. Her attorneys filed suit in January 2026, arguing that the state’s use of pentabarbatital as a single drug lethal injection protocol poses a specific danger to Pike due to a blood clotting condition called thrombocytoenia, which they claim could cause a particularly agonizing death.

 They also note that Pike, now a practicing Buddhist, objects on religious grounds to being required to actively choose an alternative execution method, arguing it forces her to participate in her own death in a way that violates her faith. The state of Tennessee has moved forward. The Riverbend Maximum Security Institution in Nashville, which houses Tennessee’s execution chamber, is where it will take place if it proceeds.

 Colleen SLMur’s mother, May Martinez, has been waiting 30 years for this moment. She has given interviews, attended hearings, and continued to speak publicly about her daughter. When the execution date was finally announced, she said simply, “I would like Tennessee to finally end this after 30 years. Two women, two death sentences, two completely different crimes separated by 25 years and nearly a,000 m.

” Taylor Parker was 27 when she murdered Reagan Simmons Hancock. Her crime was methodical. 10 months of planning, research, deception, and preparation. She chose her victim. She studied how to cut a baby from a living woman’s body. She constructed an alibi in real time. She got in her car and ran. Christa Pike was 18 when she tortured and murdered Colleen Sleur.

 Her crime was prolonged and personal. She stood over a living, conscious, begging human being and hurt her for up to an hour, not out of desperation, but out of jealousy and the thrill of power. She kept a piece of her victim’s skull. She danced. She sang. So the question stands, who is the most dangerous? The woman who planned a murder to preserve a lie or the woman who committed a murder to feel something? The woman who used a scalpel with surgical precision or the woman who used concrete and seemed to enjoy every moment? There may not be a

clean answer. What we know with certainty is this. Both of them took lives that cannot be returned. Reagan Simmons Hancock was 21 years old. Braxlin Sage Hancock never had a single day outside a womb. Colleen Sleur was 19 years old and had done nothing to deserve what was done to her. These are the names that matter.

 Taylor Renee Parker sits in Mountain View Unit in Gatesville, Texas, awaiting a date that has not yet been set. Her appeals continue. She is 32 years old. Christa Gail Pike sits at the Deborah K. Johnson Rehabilitation Center in Nashville, Tennessee with an execution date stamped on her file. September 30th, 2026. She is 49 years old.

 She has been on death row for 30 years. Two women, two sentences, two names most people have never heard spoken in the same breath. Now you have. If you believe justice matters for Reagan, for Braxlin, for Colleen, share this video, leave a comment, and if you’re new here, subscribe because every week on this channel, we cover the cases that the news cycle moves past too quickly.

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