Reagan Simmons Hancock was born on November 14th 1998 in Hope Arkansas to parents Jessica and Brandon Simmons by 2020 they had divorced and both remarried when rean was nine her mother married her stepfather Marcus Brooks Reagan was part of a big blended family with two sisters Emily Simmons and Destiny Brooks and two brothers Clayton Brooks and Sawyer Simmons Reagan had blonde hair and a sunny smile at the time of our story she was only 21 years old Reagan married Homer Hancock in September of 2018 and became the mother
of two daughters she and Homer bought a home in New Boston Texas about a half hour away from the Arkansas border according to her family Reagan was an amazing mother and a joy to everyone who knew her she belonged to the JC Cowboy Church across the state line in Arkansas she worked in customer service at the Flying burger restaurant in Tex Arcana Texas and was out of the new 2020 Nissan Rogue she had worked so hard to buy Reagan could be tough when she needed to keep customers in line but she could also be gentle and sweet her favorite
flowers were sunflowers she was planning to start attending college classes in the spring even though she knew being a parent working and going to school would be very difficult Reagan was Jessica’s first born child and they had a special relationship they talked and texted each other constantly they texted each other good morning good night every day they said I love you every single day to each other Reagan enjoyed helping people when she trusted someone she loved them with her whole heart she could always make
her friends smile even if things were tough she was a good friend and a good person Reagan was a good friend to a young woman named Taylor Parker Taylor Parker though was not a good friend to anybody around 2011 she wasn’t Taylor Parker yet back then she was Taylor way Casey she was a single mom to a baby girl when she met a man by the name of Tommy way Casey when they got married he raised the little girl as his own the couple soon had a son together around this time Taylor had her tubes tied this is a type of sterilization that is meant
to be permanent there are procedures to reverse it but they don’t always work she also had gastric bypass surgery and lost a lot of weight then in 2015 Taylor had surgery to remove an ovarian cyst while she was sedated surgeons discovered a complication and asked her husband and mother if they could perform a hysterctomy to which they both agreed but when Taylor woke up she was furious with Tommy she blamed him for taking away her ability to carry a child even though she was already unable to get pregnant and even though her mother had
helped him make the decision it didn’t make logical sense but it did place an emotional burden on on Tommy after the hysterectomy Taylor told her friends that she had stage 4 uterine cancer this wasn’t true either but friends felt bad for her in 2016 Taylor claimed she had been diagnosed with multiple sclerosis friend then introduced her to a woman named Caitlyn glass who also had recently been diagnosed with the disease the two soon became close friends bonding over what Caitlyn thought were shared experiences between the two
Taylor told Caitlyn about a stroke she had years ago about her difficult struggle to walk again Caitlyn also had to learn to walk again because of the disease and she felt close to Taylor because of it they even got matching feather tattoos on their collar bones Caitlyn described multiple sclerosis as a hidden disease she had numbness tingling and trouble seeeing sometimes she could not walk but on the outside she looked fine she hated having to convince people she was sick had no reason to doubt Taylor’s claims Taylor
complain to Caitlyn about her husband all of the time she was under the impression that Tommy was a terrible husband so when Caitlyn saw Taylor Flirting with other men which she did often she said it almost seemed okay Caitlyn was a member of a Jeep club called the Pirates off-road Nation she invited Taylor to one of their rides and she liked it so much that she and Tommy bought a Jeep and joined too but Taylor didn’t allow Tommy to attend the club events while he was home with the kids Taylor’s flirting turned into more she
had several affairs with other members on a camping trip she spent the night in another member’s tent at another event Taylor hooked up with a married member and the man’s wife caught the two together still another time Tommy actually went out looking for Taylor he found her having an affair with another man inside of a truck out in bringle Lake Park Caitlyn lived with her two young children and her mother in Tex Arcana Taylor began spending more and more time at their house often bringing her daughter and son when she visited
she could she talked Caitlyn’s mother into watching her kids as well Taylor often accompanied Caitlyn to her doctor’s appointments and even eventually started seeing the same doctor over time Caitlyn became suspicious whenever her disease relapsed and sent her back to the hospital Taylor would visit the ER a few days later but she was rarely admitted and unlike Caitlyn Taylor’s symptoms never seem to get worse after a relapse she never needed to be given steroids and IV treatments instead Taylor went through
bottle after bottle of statal nasal spray and opioid pain medication Caitlyn didn’t take any opioids to manage her disease Caitlyn had other suspicions too she saw Taylor posting selfies on social media in the Selfies Taylor wore a stethoscope and implied she was a nurse or a doctor Caitlyn was a nurse but Taylor had no medical training she also heard from friends that Taylor was telling people they got their tattoos after a terrible car accident this was not true at all Caitlyn had been in a very bad car accident years earlier but
Taylor had not she realized Taylor was stealing real events from her life and turning them into lies that she told other people Caitlyn realized Taylor had been lying to her as well in reality Taylor never had a stroke she claimed that the father of her daughter had died in a car accident he did not not by this time her marriage was in trouble but it hadn’t been when Caitlyn first met her Tommy wasn’t a terrible husband Caitlyn and her husband actually befriended Tommy he was a pretty nice guy when Taylor had an affair with one of
Caitlyn’s good friends Caitlin tried to get Taylor to admit that she was lying and Taylor wouldn’t instead Taylor told Caitlyn that Tommy was abusing her and started showing off fresh bruises but Caitlyn was already skeptical she thought Taylor was causing these injuries running into walls and Furniture Taylor said that she and Tommy had a brutal fight but kayn thought she was lying about that too Taylor used the fight as an excuse to spend the weekend with another man in El Dorado and after that Caitlyn said their friendship fell
apart Taylor’s marriage to Tommy was falling apart as well she had racked up about $440,000 going to doctor after doctor trying to get diagnosed with Ms she was leaving him with the kids for days at a time without telling him where she was or making up stories to explain her absence in 2018 she was fired from her job at a medical clinic for pretending to be a nurse practitioner and lying to get a prescription for pain pills refilled early eventually the children realized what was going on Taylor’s daughter told Tommy that her
mom was sleeping with someone else and his son told him she went to get a tat with her boyfriend when she was supposed to be at work Tommy filed for divorce their 7year marriage ended on March of 2018 they got joint custody of their son despite having raised her from an infant Tommy and his parents could only see Taylor’s daughter with her permission when she got upset with them which happened frequently they could not see their little girl a few months after the divorce was finalized Taylor married Hunter Parker and changed her name to
Taylor Parker she also made two new close friends McKenzie brigh and Abby Bell she told McKenzie that Hunter was a good father she wanted him to adopt her daughter and she wanted to have a baby with him Taylor said her ex-husband Tommy didn’t want anything to do with their daughter Mackenzie had no reason to suspect Taylor was keeping the little girl away from Tommy and his parents though that was exactly what she was trying to do when they married Hunter didn’t know Taylor couldn’t have any more children he didn’t find out until a
doctor mentioned her hysterectomy during ER visit he wants wanted to know why she hadn’t told him earlier but she refused to talk about it later she tried to convince Hunter they should hire a surrogate so she could have another baby together with him at different times she asked both McKenzie and Abby to carry a baby for her she offered to pay $100,000 she told both women her uterus had been eaten up by cancer she also told him her first marriage ended because she had a stroke and Tommy couldn’t deal with it neither statement
was true but the woman had no reason to suspect that she was lying Mckenzie was struggling to get pregnant and Taylor went with her to all of her doctor’s appointments McKenzie said Taylor seemed obsessed with her fertility issues and seemed overly excited when McKenzie finally found out that she was pregnant with a little girl Abby got pregnant around the same time she said Taylor lost interest in her pregnancy after finding out that she was having a little boy tillor also told both women that she had learned to perform a C-section while
working in the C iCal division of a women’s clinic in reality she worked as a receptionist there and never participated in any patient care in December of 2018 Taylor started a side hustle as a freelance photographer she advertised her services on Facebook and offered a buy 1 get one free sale any expectant mother that paid for a maternity shoot could have a free photo shoot the day the baby was born Taylor would come to the hospital and photograph the new mother and Baby there this was the start of a dangerous
obsession with pregnant women and their babies especially newborn baby girls while she was focused on having a new baby daughter she wasn’t taking very good care of her son she wasn’t paying child support and often didn’t show up when she had visitation one time she returned him to his father with a sar on his backside when asked how long he’d been wearing his current pair of underwear he told Tommy’s new wife it had been 5 days the couple took him to the hospital where he was diagnosed with a staff infection eventually Tommy
sought to remove Taylor’s parental rights Taylor did not even show up at court and Tommy was awarded full custody as months went by trouble began to surface in her new marriage when Taylor and Hunter fought Taylor often got sick or had a seizure she also told hunter that if he left it would devastate her daughter she told him she had inheritance money that should be arriving soon in the meantime they could get a loan to pay for a surrogate to prove that the inheritance was real Taylor crafted a story a man named Tim
hi Tower texted Hunter he wanted to meet and deliver the money after he missed the meeting hi Tower texted again he had gotten into a car accident the paramedics who responded stole the bag of money hi Tower included a picture of a blue duffel bag stuffed with money skeptical Hunter Googled blue duffel bag full of cash the first result was an exact match of the image hi Tower had sent he suspected Taylor had created a fake account to send these messages the couple separated in April 2019 less than a year after getting married their
divorce was finalized by that summer and Taylor never legally changed her name from Parker after her separation Taylor dated McKenzie’s brother Bo he was a single father of a 9-year-old girl and he really wanted a mother figure for her Mackenzie did not think it was a good idea she thought Taylor acted like a good mother in public but when no one was watching she thought she was neglectful and uncaring Taylor posted pictures on her Facebook showing her spoiling the little girl she took her to work and out for treat snapping multiple
selfies her own daughter was almost the same age but McKenzie said she didn’t treat her own daughter the same way Bo’s relationship with Taylor only lasted a few weeks Kenzie’s friendship with Taylor Ended as well around that time Taylor befriended Reagan Hancock in July of 2019 Taylor took Reagan’s engagement photos and posted a message on her Facebook page calling them her favorite family in September she was the photographer at Reagan’s wedding to Homer the two were friends but according to Homer they were not close Taylor’s
messages and account have since been removed in July of 2019 Taylor met Wade Griffin at a rodeo he worked as a roofer and also made money trapping Hogs in managing livestock the two started talking on social media and were soon dating her entire relationship with Wade was built on lies big surprise there right away she told him she was supposed to inherit a massive amount of money she showed him some land she said her family owned about an hour away in Brian’s Mills she asked about how much he charged to clean it up and install off
fence and he estimated it would cost about $50,000 she convinced him to hire hire extra workers to help with a Job saying she’d pay his salary Wade hired a friend and Taylor paid him for the first week after that she said her mother Shauna prior didn’t want to pay Wade for the work and cancel the job in August of 2019 she told him she was pregnant with twins a few months later Wade got a text from Taylor’s father Mark Morton in the text Mark said he’d wrecked his bush hog mower he said Taylor tried to help him
tow the broken machine but the winch had snapped the towing cable allegedly whipped into Taylor’s stomach and hurt one of the babies causing a miscarriage Wade didn’t know that Taylor couldn’t get pregnant and he didn’t know he wasn’t texting with Mark around that time Taylor had been fired from yet another job and needed a place to live she had recently befriended the wife of Wade’s boss named Angela p in Angela Taylor used her to manipulate Wade though she didn’t realize it at the time Angela met Taylor one evening when she
and her husband joined the couple for dinner at a local restaurant at that first meeting Angela said Taylor was overly friendly soon Taylor was confiding in Angela she told her about her troubled relationship with her mother Shauna she said her mother hated her she had never wanted her resented her and treated her badly as a child shaa also didn’t like Wade and thought he was using Taylor for her money she told Angela all about about the supposed money oil and gas leases and farmland she was going to inherit but explained
her mother was causing problems Angela asked Taylor how she could have holes in her shoes and ill-fitting clothes if she had so much money Taylor said her parents wanted her to be normal she also said shaa had recently stolen $3 million from her account a little later Taylor revealed a frightening new development she told Angela a police officer named Coburn had given her a serious warning Shauna had used the stolen $3 million to hire a hitman to kill Taylor he said the Mexican Mafia was involved and that Taylor shouldn’t be alone Angela was
concerned Taylor also told Wade about the murder For Hire plot eventually the story expanded and there was an entire hit squad after her villains named maravan Lex Dewey Louie Jace and one omly referred to the reaper around this time Angela received a violent and deranged email from Shauna warning against being a mother figure to Taylor the email said she should let Taylor fail and that Shauna was planning against her daughter to make it look like she was a liar Shauna’s goal was to make Wade leave and make Taylor so
depressed that she would self-c cancel the email also implied that shaa was following Angela online Angela said she and her family feared for the their safety they reported the threatening email to the Tex Arcana chief of police Angela had no way of knowing that Taylor had created this email account and was posing as her own mother Wade was getting similar messages from shaa or at least he thought he was Taylor told him she needed to take his phone so a computer savvy friend could install software to keep Shauna from hacking his
phone reality Taylor blocked the legitimate phone numbers of all her family members so they could not contact him during the relationship Wade would have extensive text conversations with many of Taylor’s relatives her grandmother mother Aunt Katie brother Zachary and Father Mark in all of these text conversations he was really talking to Taylor Wade was still reluctant to let Taylor move in so she increased the danger Coburn texted that they had arrested the middleman Jace and had him in jail on an $800,000 Bond he had given information
indicating the hit on Taylor was going to happen very soon for her safety Coburn said Taylor and her daughter should stay with Wade Wade finally let Taylor move into his cabin where she would be safer which is what she wanted all along Coburn texted to say the police were setting up 247 surveillance of Wade’s home the text tailor showed Wade included details about his neighborhood according to Coburn they had to use night vision goggles to avoid being noticed by a neighbor who was up at 4:00 a.m. in his recliner the next
day Coburn texted it was good that Taylor had stayed with Wade The Hitman snuck in despite their surveillance but police captured good images of them on the camera he said they had damaged the front door of the place she had been staying before moving in with Wade he texted a picture of the damaged door Coburn also reported that police had arrested Shauna there had been a shootout and she had some facial lacerations but she was finally Behind Bars his team had made sure the media didn’t report on the shooting while in prison
Coburn said that Shauna had self- cancelled Coburn of course was really tailor Shauna was not arrested and she was not dead in December of 2019 Wade told Taylor about a property he’ worked on called peam point it was located a couple hours away in mccurtain county and it was for sale the land sat alongside the Red River and came with hog and duck hunting rights which Wade was very interested in it also had a pean Grove and a lot of grazing cattle which both had the potential to generate a lot of money the land was listed at
$4.7 million but Taylor offered 3.5 million she told the real estate agent she was an heir to the blackburns syrup fortune on the paperwork she listed herself as Taylor Parker Griffin even though the couple had not married normally when somebody is making an cash offer on a piece of real estate they need to provide a bank account record to show they even have the money or else they’re not taken seriously so it’s really surprising to me that she was able to offer this money and was taken seriously by the sellers now she needed
$200,000 of earnest money to start the sale as part of the deal they would be able to use the land for hunting as soon as they put the money down she wrote two large checks to the real estate agent but called a short time later to take them back she said her bank preferred she complete the deal through a wire transfer that same December Taylor also met and befriended Stephanie a not long after they met Taylor asked Stephanie to take her to the bank to access some of her inheritance money according to Taylor her grandmother would meet her
there and help her withdraw $200,000 Stephanie waited outside in the car she never saw Taylor’s grandmother Taylor left the bank in a panic and said something went wrong wrong with the deposit she said the bank shredded her money because it was old money she also said the staff had kicked her out after she got angry and yelled at them Taylor wanted Stephanie to call Wade and tell him she had gotten kicked out of the bank when Stephanie refused Taylor made the call apparently Wade believed her because when she hung up she said to
Stephanie that it was easier than she thought it would be she also told Stephanie a secret she claimed that she had aborted the twins way thought she had miscarried because Wade wasn’t ready to be a father Stephanie had no reason to suspect she was lying not just about terminating her pregnancy but about being pregnant period every day Wade was getting dozens of emails full of officiall looking documents about the peak can point deal later a forensic analysis of her phone would show that Taylor was Googling how to fake UPS
tracking numbers and financial documents but Wade believed what he was seeing she ordered checks online that look like they came from the oil and gas company she paid extra to have them delivered quickly once they arrived she texted away a photo of the check made out to the two of them in the amount of $8.
7 million in anticipation of all of that cash the couple financed a number of expensive new items a new heavyduty pickup truck for Wade and a new Nissan Ultima for his mother a brand new ATV and 20 head of cattle well over $100,000 worth of items and animals Wade got an email stating $7.7 million had been deposited into his credit union account but then got a message from the director of account stating the transfer had failed because of a problem with their system supposedly they had switched to a new software system during
the install all of their data had been wiped clean to help fix the problem the director suggested Wade open a joint bank account with Taylor because of the trouble with the wire transfers Taylor told the agent she was going to pay for the pcam point property with money from her oil and gas leases she also expanded the deal saying she wanted to purchase two other nearby pieces of property the total cost of the deal would have been around $20 million she listed an attorney named Shelly Lynx on the new paperwork M Lynx communicated
with the real estate agent via text and email the agent was eager to verify the funding he stood to earn a very large Commission on the property but he was concerned to see that the attorney’s email address was listed as Shelly links. Western Global aol.com it seemed unlikely that an attorney for Global Energy company would have an AOL email address Miss links emailed several times to tell the agent to stop contacting the banks Taylor had listed in an effort to verify funding the agent tried to verify the paperwork
that she sent it was fraudulent when he tried to locate her or figure out where she worked he was unable to do so the real estate agent told Taylor the gas leases wouldn’t work so she said her uncle Butch would provide the payment she was annoyed and told the agent to stop trying to access her banking records she said her uncle had made much larger land purchases and never had to release the information the agent was asking for the imaginary attorney M link soon emailed the agent again again with the same message at Christmas Taylor and
Wade joined her family for a holiday dinner shaa was there very much alive Taylor told Wade that Coburn had lied when he said that she was dead at the get together shaa glared at Wade and barked orders at the couple her demeanor made Wade more sure she was behind all of Taylor’s troubles but in reality Shauna was irritated because Taylor was only planning to stay for a few minutes and she wanted her to spend more time with the family instead of leaving with her new boyfriend by January of 2020 Wade was in serious financial trouble
payments were coming due on all of the purchases that he had financed and there was still no inheritance money Taylor was secretly asking her mother for help Shauna the real Shauna paid for Taylor’s car payment that month around this time Taylor called her ex-husband Tommy to ask if her daughter could come live with with him she told him Wade was probably going to break up with her and kick her out of his home sensing that she was losing Wade in February she started a new con by calling Angela Wade’s boss’s
wife Angela worked as a chiropractor and offered sessions to help her clients listen to their bodies Taylor wanted a session because she thought her body was telling her she was pregnant she said she’d noticed the color of her Aura had changed after the session Angela told her the results were in inconclusive but Taylor acted as if Angela had confirmed a pregnancy Taylor asked for advice about how to tell Wade Angela told her she should take a pregnancy test first Taylor texted back that the pregnancy was intended by God even though it was
impossible due to her hysterctomy she told Wade she was pregnant she also told her friend Stephany Stephanie was excited they talked about baby clothes and baby names she agreed to host a gender reveal party on March 14th soon though Stephanie became suspicious the paperwork Taylor gave her wasn’t written on business letterhead and it was dated 2016 instead of 2020 when she pointed out the errors Taylor said she would check to see what went wrong later she told Stephanie the clinic had a computer error they had sent out 342 gender
reports with misprints on them Stephanie called herself to check and they told her that wasn’t a service they offered they didn’t send out printed gender reveal report reports at all Taylor gave Stephanie an ultrasound image to display at the gender reveal the image was discolored and it looked old but Taylor said it was just damaged from being kept in her wallet she said she’d have the office reprinted but she never did Taylor also posted the old ultrasound image on social media the Northeast Texas Women’s Health Clinic’s name
appeared on the image this Clinic not only handled Taylor’s last pregnancy but also did the tubal liation and hysterectomy surgeries staff there knew she could not be pregnant the manager of the clinic Melissa Mason was very concerned she told Taylor the clinic was not comfortable with their name being associated online with a pregnancy they knew did not exist Taylor explained she really was pregnant but was using the old image because her mother was making trouble she told Miss Mason I’d like for my stuff to be kept Hippa from my family
because they have been snooping when they have been removed around this time Taylor told Stephanie she was having contractions and needed an injection of medication to stop them sounded odd since Taylor was only supposed to be about 8 weeks along Stephanie Googled to see if this was even medically possible she was so concerned she called and asked the clinic about it they said they could not provide information about a specific patient but assured her they would never use that medicine on someone who was 8 weeks pregnant when they told
them Taylor’s name they transferred her to Melissa Mason Mason could not give her any specific information either but encouraged Stephanie to go with her gut Stephanie was deeply concerned but without conclusive proof she didn’t want to cancel the gender reveal when Taylor’s dad grandmother and other family members showed up at the party she thought maybe her suspicions had been wrong all along on March 18th Taylor announced on social media that she and Wade were expecting a girl in September of 2020 Taylor said the baby was the size of a
large lemon and that her name was going to be Clancy Gale attached to the announcement was a picture of a heer calf wearing a big pink bow the picture was snapped at the gender reveal party Taylor’s son and daughter had been in charge of leading the calf out to announce that their new sibling would be a girl on March 31st Reagan made her own announcement on social media she and Homer were expecting their own Lil Peanut attached were three ultrasound images now around that time Wade called the clinic to find out if Taylor was
really pregnant they couldn’t give him any information however concerned that Taylor might try to steal a newborn Miss Mason did notify the local hospitals to be on the lookout for her Taylor started a new job as a payroll clerk at Cooper Tire she did great during her interview but staff there soon realized her job performance was lacking she had lied about her credentials she spent a lot of time in the breakroom conducting personal business on her phone and she never mentioned to them being pregnant on April 9th Taylor emailed Angela a
pregnancy verification letter as she called it and asked her to print it out for her the due date was listed as September 22nd Angela noticed that it listed another woman’s name on it not Taylor’s when she mentioned the error Taylor claimed her mother must have a mole in the clinic she was frustrated that no one believed that she was was pregnant Angela took Taylor to Walgreens and bought several pregnancy tests when those came back negative they bought more test those also came back negative but Angela thought she might have seen a
faint line eventually she took Taylor to a different clinic for an official urine test Angela said Taylor went into the clinic holding only her wallet and came out with a proof of pregnancy form dated the same day later the records at the clinic would show her results were negative for pregnancy but Angela believed Taylor at her request she called Wade and told him that Taylor was pregnant Angela’s husband Roger also believed Taylor was pregnant they both thought they had felt the baby kick on several occasions Angela spoke to Wade
and warned him that too much stress was bad for Taylor and her baby when Wade worried that Taylor did not look pregnant Roger assured him that she was and that he would be a father come September later that month Taylor told Wade that her mother had lied to her about all the money she was going to inherit the millions the oil and gas leases the rich Uncle Butch were all lies made up by Shauna she contacted the real estate agent and told them the same story The pein Point deal was officially over Wade was angry but Angela reminded
him that he needed to stay calm for the sake of the baby now soon Taylor was posting baby bump selfies on social media she post posted about doctor’s appointments to check the baby’s progress but these appointments were imaginary she even posted a brief video that she said showed the baby kicking in her belly she purchased a fake baby belly online in August she and Wade posed for maternity photos in some of the photos his hand rested on the fake belly Taylor positioned her hands above and below his later he would say he had
no idea he said it felt like her real stomach by this time the couple was no longer intimate with each other Taylor complained to Stephanie that Wade no longer kissed her or paid any attention to her whatsoever she said he wasn’t excited about the new baby she made similar complaints to Angela Angela thought it was clear to everyone except Taylor that Wade did not love her and did not want a baby still she and Roger thought she was a sweet girl and whether he wanted a baby or not she and Roger were both convinced that she was going
to have one around that time Taylor got her final warning from Cooper Ty about her performance issues instead of waiting to be fired she sent a text message saying she quit she started a new job at a temporary staffing agency she told no one at her new job she was pregnant co-workers later said that she did not look pregnant Reagan however was more than 6 months along and she looked pregnant on August 16th she posted new ultrasound photos on Facebook she announced the new baby was going to be a girl and she had chosen the name braxon
Sage one of the ultrasound images capture the outline of the baby’s face and her little arm up above her head Reagan was due on November 10th Taylor was supposed to do a maternity shoe for her but she had to cancel she said her doctor told her that she needed to rest because of health reasons Taylor didn’t announce her pregnancy at work but she made sure Wade heard her throwing up in their bathroom every morning she’d often tell him the baby was moving or kicking on multiple occasions she told Wade that her doctor’s visits went well and her
blood work looked normal in midt Taylor’s first husband Tommy texted Wade anonymously he said Taylor was lying about being pregnant he told Wade about the hysterectomy in 2015 he said she was using old ultrasound images from her other pregnancies as proof he told Wade that all the local hospitals were on high alert watching to make sure that she did not steal a baby Wade showed these texts to Taylor in response she created fake text conversations with multiple family members including her mother her grandmother and her aunt
Katie she used screenshots of the fake conversations to prove it was all part of an elaborate lie she convinced Wade that Shauna was again plotting to ruin their relationship in reality Taylor’s mother knew that she could not be pregnant but never confronted her about it when Wade’s mother Connie called and asked if Taylor could be pregnant Shauna told her the truth it was not medically possible Connie tried several times to convince Wade that Taylor was lying but eventually gave up to save their relationship thought Taylor would
eventually fake a miscarriage and that Wade would stop seeing her altogether with her September 22nd due date approaching Taylor began frantically searching online for places pregnant women might gather including local clinics and maternity stores she was also watching birthing videos on YouTube both natural deliveries and C-sections over the next few weeks she made many trips to sites that she found online she visited locations in Idabel Long View Tex Arana Mount Pleasant and shreport she made six trips to Paris
Texas a town over an hour away from Wade’s cabin in Sims Taylor was in Paris on September 30th she had scheduled a new patient appointment at a maternity Clinic there where staff noticed her sobbing in the lobby Taylor said she needed to reschedule her appointment because her mom couldn’t come when they asked why she was so upset Taylor said her husband was in the military and had recently been killed the staff tried to console her they offered to do a quick sonogram so she could see the baby before her scheduled appointment she of
course declined later that day staff saw her behind the clinic she was sitting on a bench near the parking lot later her phone records would show she was logging the license plate numbers of the pregnant women entering the clinic she was looking up the numbers online trying to find out where the women lived near the end of September Taylor was also working on a way to get Wade out of town and keep him busy for at least half of a day she contacted the owner of a ranch in Winnwood Oklahoma the ranch sold hunting trips where clients could pay to
hunt and shoot feral Hogs the owners sometimes bought bought feral Hogs to restock his property but he’d never bought from Taylor a Wade before when Taylor tried to sell him 150 feral hogs for about $6,000 he was interested enough to talk to her but he soon worried it was a scam as Taylor didn’t know how to get the right kind of License to transport the livestock she wanted to bring the Hogs across state lines which is illegal he told her he wasn’t interested 5 days later on September 27th she texted him again
saying she had all the licenses and wanted to make the deal he declined her offer not one to be inconvenienced by the truth Taylor created fake text from the owner using the fake texts she convinced Wade they had an order to sell 150 hogs in October by October she had stopped working at the staffing agency Wade had taken family medical leave starting October 1 he wanted to be there for the baby’s birth and since she was weeks past her original due date he thought the baby could come at any time if she didn’t go into labor before then
Taylor said she was scheduled to be induced on October 5th at the Titus Regional Medical Center in the early morning hours of October 5th a fire started beneath Wade’s cabin the couple got up and put the fire out but not before it knocked out the plumbing and the electricity later a forensic fire investigator would find that the fire had been intentionally set at 5:12 that morning Titus Regional received a bomb threat the streets around the hospital were shut down the hospital’s emergency room had a close and the ambulances were
diverted to other hospitals patients were evacuated to the Civic Center and all procedures for that day were cancelled including tailor later data recovered from her phone would prove she made the call that was responsible for that threat unable to shower at the cabin they went to Wade’s mother’s house to clean up Taylor told Connie her induction had been cancelled because of the bomb threat Connie immediately thought Taylor was the one who was responsible while Wade showered Connie mentioned a post that she had seen from
shaa the real shaa on Facebook Taylor’s mom had taken the kids on vacation from the post they looked like they were having a good time sightseeing in Colorado Taylor did not respond letting the kids travel with her mother didn’t fit the story she made up about her while Taylor showered Connie tried again to convince Wade that Taylor couldn’t be pregnant because of the hysterectomy she had years before she also told him he needed to go back to work she worried he’d lose his job for taking family leave time when there
wasn’t going to be a baby Wade became angry once Taylor finished her shower the couple stormed out however something must have gotten through to him that night he and Taylor argued he told her he’d be going back to work the next week if the baby hadn’t come by then Taylor told him that by Friday everyone would know she wasn’t lying she she was angry at Connie and was Furious that Wade had listened to her as she had many times before she discussed the argument with her relatives via text and showed Wade the screenshots her mother even texted
Wade to say how’s your mom doing I love how you and your family treat her they’re on my side now great job Wade I’ll clap for you this time I win every single time of course all the texts were written by Taylor and sent by spoof accounts Taylor had had found a hospital in Idabel Oklahoma where she wanted to have the baby but she needed a story to explain why she wanted to drive an hour away in cross state lines she told Wade the hospital was out of her mother’s reach more likely they hadn’t gotten a warning that Taylor might kidnap a
newborn Wade was so wrapped up in her stories he did not question her decision she told Wade she’d schedule an induction at muron County Hospital on October 9th the same day they needed to deliver the hog The Ranch in Oklahoma she said the two of them would leave early in the morning to make the 4-Hour drive it would drop off the Hogs and Winnwood and then head down to Idabel to have the baby okay listen I feel like I have to make a PSA here our YouTube analytics say that 80 to 85% of our audience are women but for
all of the men out there watching I know this case is a very extreme example but we all know multiple men who are in relationships like Wade on a smaller scale a lot of men think they can’t do better in life and they have to be with a woman like this or else they’ll be alone forever it’s not true okay it’s not true you are worth more than that I understand family and friends don’t always have the full picture of a relationship but when there is this many people coming at you with proof please don’t let the fear of being alone
paralyze you from doing what you know in your heart is the right thing and leaving that relationship please please let this story I know it’s a very extreme example let this story be an example that you and our fellow Kings deserve far better than relationships like this sometime around the beginning of October Taylor had started texting Reagan again according to her husband Homer the two had been in constant contact for about a week Reagan’s mother was surprised to hear the two were getting together on October 7th
Taylor gave her a gift for the baby and a Starbucks gift card Reagan thanked her via messenger for the sweet gifts on October 8th Taylor and Wade went out to dinner on the way home they stopped at an automotive store to pick up a part for Wade’s truck he wanted to make sure it was running well for the long drive while Wade worked on his truck Taylor visited Reagan at her house in New Boston on the way Taylor purchased two burner phones Reagan and Taylor went into the bedroom to talk Homer figured they wanted privacy perhaps to talk
about Wade about 45 minutes after Taylor got there Homer texted Reagan and said he was tired the women left the bedroom and went down the hall as he went to bed he heard Reagan showing Taylor the nursery the two talked about redecorating and Taylor said she would help she left her around 10: that night and went back to Wade’s cabin Taylor had set up a baby bouncer in Wade’s living room and a crib in their bedroom the crib was full of baby supplies and clothes for a newborn girl she had installed a newborn car seat in Wade’s
truck it is unclear whether Taylor got any sleep that night at midnight her phone was still using data as if she were searching the internet between 3:11 and 3:30 a.m. she used her new burner phone to make five calls of varying lengths to the hospital in Idabel the longest was over 6 minutes Wade got up at around 3:30 she told him she’d been having cramps all night and wouldn’t be able to make the trip he wanted to stay home with her but she told him that she would be fine she also reminded him that they needed the money she told him she
bought burner phone so they could communicate without her mother interfering she gave him the number for her burner he called that phone from his cell phone at around 3:45 a.m. 15 minutes later he was on the road hauling a gooseneck trailer filled with 150 feral hogs in the early hours of October 9th Taylor was watching more videos about how to deliver a baby but for the first time she was looking specifically for videos about pre-term deliveries she looked up how to do a physical exam on a 35 we premature baby
now around 5:30 that morning Taylor left the cabin and Wades Toyota Corolla around 6:30 a.m. Wade called her on the burner phone she was still talking to him when she pulled into the easyart parking lot she got $10 worth of gas and paid inside she was captured on the store surveillance camera she went to the McDonald’s next door and got a coffee and a hash brown around the same time Wade arrived at the ranch in Oklahoma to deliver the Hogs he’d soon find out that the owner hadn’t placed an order for 150 hogs in didn’t want to buy
them as she ate her breakfast Taylor drove to Reagan’s house on the morning of October 9th Reagan’s husband could not find her she wasn’t where she was supposed to be at all she hadn’t dropped her three-year-old off at daycare she hadn’t shown up for her 9:00 a.m. shift at the restaurant she was not answering her phone Reagan had sent home her a few texts that morning they didn’t sound like her he texted I love you she didn’t respond their neighbor messaged him on Facebook saying their garage door was open and their new puppy had gotten out
Reagan’s car was still in the garage the neighbor sent another message she had knocked on the door inside the garage and it was a jar but no one answered something did not seem right here so Homer called Reagan’s mother Jessica to see if she had heard from Reagan or not and she hadn’t Homer told Reagan’s mom he would leave work and head home she said she would meet him there on her way she called her husband Marcus when Jessica arrived at the house on Austin Street she saw streaks of blood in the driveway inside the garage
she saw bloody fingerprints on the door knob when the door opened she saw a shoe print on the kitchen floor frightened but knowing her daughter was in trouble she entered the home she found Reagan face down on the living room floor in a large puddle of blood a blanket nearby was soaked with blood and amniotic fluid she called out to Reagan but got no answer Jessica went back out into the garage her husband Marcus and a family friend named Chris Hughes soon arrived she told Marcus not to look but he went into the house anyways when he came back
out he collapsed in the driveway with chest pains he kept calling his granddaughter’s name at 10:18 a.m. Jessica called 911 screaming for help she told dispatchers her daughter had been murdered there was blood everywhere on the floors walls ceiling furniture and other items she looked for her three-year-old granddaughter but didn’t see her dispatchers heard her ask Marcus if she was okay she sobbed oh my babies oh my God their friend Chris walked around the house to the front door but found that it was locked finally Marcus
heard a faint response from the little girl Jessica and Marcus couldn’t find the strength to go back into the house where their daughter was laying Chris had to walk around Reagan’s lifeless body to get to the little girl he found her hiding under a blanket in her bed once she recognized him as her grandpa’s friend she ran to him he picked her up and covered her with the blanket so she couldn’t see anything on their way out he took her to the front door and 3 minutes into the 911 call the little girl asked where’s Mommy when Homer
arrived a few minutes later Chris and Marcus kept him outside police and paramedics soon arrived body cam footage showed Reagan’s right arm under her forehead and her left arm stretched Ed above her head blood stains and spatter indicated she had struggled with her attacker in several places in the home before falling down in the living room she had been stabbed so deeply in the side that layers of fat were exposed there were no signs of Life initially paramedics stayed outside to preserve the crime scene when Bowie County
investigator Chad Ford asked Jessica about the pregnancy she had told him that Reagan was almost 35 weeks pregnant and due to deliver in about a month concerned that the baby could be viable he brought the medics in when they turned her body over to check they found a large gash across her belly Reagan had been cut from hip to hip the baby wasn’t there investigator Ford issued an alert to every hospital in clinic within a 100 miles a 6 we premature baby was missing almost an hour earlier on some 13 miles away Taylor had also called 911 intent
on getting to the hospital in Idabel Oklahoma she had been speeding and driving erratically she was swerving over the double yellow line and had her hazard lights on she almost hit a pickup truck and moments later she almost hit a cyclist a Texas state trooper pulled her over near D calp Texas she called 911 and told them she was having her baby by the time the trooper approached the car she was talking to emergency dispatchers on her cell phone she changed her story she told them she had just given birth in her car and the baby wasn’t breathing
the trooper saw an infant on her lap it was still connected to the umbilical cord the other end of the cord disappeared into Taylor’s black yoga pants the 911 dispatcher was giving instructions for CPR Taylor held the phone in one hand shaking the other hand was on the baby which did not appear to be breathing the first thing she said to the state trooper was she needed to get to the hospital and Idabel he said she seemed more concerned with getting to Idabel than she did with following the CPR instructions she gave the baby a few
breaths and did a few compressions but then went back to asking him to take her to Idabel he noticed she had blood on her hands face legs and feet however much of this Blood seemed to be dry so it didn’t match her story of having just given birth there was no puddle of blood or amniotic fluid on the driver’s seat of the car and there was no blood whatsoever on the baby seeing the commotion alongside the road two Good Samaritans pulled over to help the baby and Taylor one was a nurse and the other was an off-duty EMT the nurse started
CPR on the baby in Taylor’s lap the baby was cold clammy and slightly blue when the Medics arrived they took over CPR concerned about post-d delivery bleeding the nurse in the off-duty EMT cut off Taylor’s black yoga pants in bikini underwear the baby’s placenta fell out of Taylor’s pants and landed on the floorboards of the car the nurse helped Taylor change into clean pajama bottoms they moved her to the patrol car she walked slowly as if she was weak and in pain through it all Taylor insisted on being taken to mccurtain Memorial
Hospital in Oklahoma instead of a closer local hospital she said she did not want to go to the closest hospital because in her words they had hurt her last baby this was not true she said she needed to get to Idabel because her doctor practiced there she did not have a doctor there she said her husband was meeting her there while Wade was planning to head there he wasn’t going to for a few hours she didn’t say that staff at the local hospitals might have been alerted that she was going to steal a baby potentially instead she
threatened to take the baby and drive herself if they wouldn’t agree to go to Idabel EMTs eventually moved her to a gurnie when they asked what happened she said she was walking around Walmart when she felt pressure so she left and got in her car while she was driving she said she felt like she had to push she said her water broke and the baby came out out she also said the baby was almost a month overdue her story didn’t match what the Medics were seeing the baby was small much smaller than a full-term baby
she looked like she’d been wiped clean there was no verx a white substance that coats babies in the womb and the amniotic fluid on her skin was dry and Flaky which meant she had been born some time before Taylor said she was Taylor did a lot of talking and crying at the scene but she didn’t ask if the baby was okay until they were both in the ambulance on the way to Idabel the baby hadn’t been breathing when paramedics arrived her heart had stopped they gave her a shot of epinephrine and inserted a breathing tube and the baby’s heart
started beating again and they continued to help her breathe on the way to the hospital paramedics quickly realized the two cases were connected a notified the New Boston police who had already received an anonymous phone call letting them know it was medically impossible for Taylor to be pregnant at the hospital Taylor listed the baby’s name as Clancy Gail Griffin on the admission forms she listed herself as the mother and Wade as the father she said she planned to breastfeed and gave the hospital permission to register the
birth in Oklahoma nurses were skeptical they tried to clamp down on her uterus to make sure the bleeding had stopped but they couldn’t find it they did an ultrasound and it showed no signs that she had just given birth she wouldn’t let anyone examine her pelvic area they tested her blood and it didn’t find HCG in her system a hormone created by the placenta that remains elevated for weeks after the baby is born the following interrogation footage was provided to us by our friends that explore with us for those unfamiliar explore with us is
unmatched when it comes to videos on interrogation footage and True Crime content they also have one of the best logos on YouTube links to the main explore with us channel will be in the pin comment and description please show them some love after this video and let them know the misery machine sent you but we can we can do blood on that and prove that it’s not so if she wants to can I help you this is this is a big deal yeah so she shows no signs you won’t you can’t check for hemorrhaging she should be hemorrhaging
now what is HCG it’s a hormone that is secreted by the placent okay and if there’s a baby in there the HCG is what the hormone that mandates going to getting the nutrients and bringing it to baby okay so it’s in Mama’s blood M’s urine Mama’s everything okay and it stays up for 6 weeks okay it’s taken off he don’t want no part huh he don’t want no part of this he took off he’s the OB Joan she’s in there she refuses to have a vaginal check to make sure she’s not hemorrhaging they’ve done an ultrasound and HCG and it doesn’t show that she’s
been pregnant they have the placenta where is she she is in the room she is no she is in the room God she’s on a oh now with her boyfriend so I’ll try to Sidetrack her a little bit just talk with the ER doctor they took blood work HCG levels which is a hormone it’s not showing she was pregnant yeah she said and they’re saying that the placenta they can send the placenta offer test and whether it comes back to her or not what’s your name Taylor Taylor hey my name’s Jaz I’m OSBI aging up here and I heard you brought your baby
in do you give birth on the side of the road or something yes sir oh okay yeah where was that here the curtain cab no it was in decab decab down in Texas yes sir oh okay so so what happened this morning did you just go in the labor on the side of the road or something no man my I was supposed to ride with my fian and we we sell uh we own a hog bu facility and we were going to come through here but I was having contractions and stuff and wasn’t feeling good so I stayed at home and told him we would just meet here after
he dropped the hogs at 7 and he got tied up I mean he’s on his way okay um now how did you get here did you drive yourself no an ambulance brought slet oh okay from decal yes yeah I had a Life Net uh I had a nurse help me a Life Net nurse lady help me MH okay did uh um now what’s your boyfriend’s name or your fianc Wade Griffin Wade okay have you gotten a hold of him yeah he’s on his way he said he was about an hour out oh okay all right once the police showed up nurses convinced her to submit to a pelvic exam for her own good they said she needed to
make sure that the bleeding had stopped the nurses said that you weren’t w’t let the doctor check you to make sure you weren’t hemorrhaging or anything I did an ultrasound the hemorrhaging I I hemorrhaged really bad when I had my the hemorrhaging is the bleeding um whether you’re passing clots or not passing clots they it’s really good to have you checked for that because I know I was passing massive clots and they were about to start giving me blood that’s why they’re wanting to check to check out you know any damage and check
to make sure you’re not bleeding inside internally that’s why they’re wanting to make sure that’s okay that’s fine I didn’t know it was a big deal not to want the guy to do that no I mean if you don’t want to that’s up to you but that’s why they’re wanting to check just to make sure make sure you’re okay yeah I mean I mean that’s a big deal I mean you’ve got blood all over you and all over your fingernails and I mean that’s a that’s a pretty intense thing having on the side of the road yeah it’s scary you want to
make sure you’re okay okay that’s fine I mean it’s fine get yeah mostly concerned about your heal you yeah that’s the big concern too there’s something wrong for them bringing me over here what did you have did you have a boy or a girl a girl a girl okay did have a namey that’s a nice name is I have two how Emerson’s 10 and Trey’s six oh wow so from six to new did I do something wrong no no no no no no no I’m just going to be up front with you I’ve been talking to da down in uh booty County and they’ve been working
on a Case down there and we know that you had a history AC me some time back and that you claimed to be pregnant for a while but that you really weren so trying to figure out where this baby came from but you didn’t get birth this morning what do you what do you mean what just just said you didn’t get birth this morning we want to know where this baby came from that’s why I’m here so what happened I just told y’all what happened okay what’s the doctor going to find when he comes in the chck is he going to find you just
skateboard they can tell when he looks he can tell him about a second you get birth or not okay so is he going to find that you get birth this morning yes okay it’ll be here but the information I’ve got that you’ve had a hysterctomy in the past and you had hysterctomy you can’t be pregnant and he came into a hospital with a newborn we want to know where this newborn okay so you still saying it came from you yes okay we can do DNA on it be able to tell pretty quick it won’t take long at all they have the placenta and they
can see if the placenta okay so you you gave birth to this child yes I we’re just making sure if there’s anything you need to talk us about you can I don’t know what everybody wants me to talk about I found a woman this morning on the side of the road and her baby had been removed from her body and then you show up with a baby and information is you’ve had you’ve had a hisy there’s no way you been pregnant even though you’ve been telling people for a while you’ve been pregnant that there’s no way you could have been
pregnant and I didn’t hurt anybody on the side of the road well I’m not saying you did I’m just saying that there’s a there’s a woman that had her baby removed from her body her body’s found on the side of the road I didn’t say you did I just want to know what happened where this baby came from doctor’s going to be here in a minute who is the lady do you know who she is I don’t know what lady yard talking about okay hi all right let’s see so we’re going to Che you huh all right let me have them set you up then where I can see see what I’m
doing right yes in watch that me get the girls when the doctor examined her he found that she didn’t have a cervix which is sometimes removed during a hysterectomy when he finished the examination the doctor told police it surely doesn’t look like a baby came out of there oh it surely doesn’t look like a baby came out of there what kind of surgery you have and then I had my G appendix uhhuh I doesn’t look like she had a baby it doesn’t no okay does not look like she had a baby there he nothing happened didn’t get birth this yeah
thank that means it’s not your baby so what happened I tell you most of the people are going to assume the worst they’re going to assume you’re an evil person and that you just butchered this lady and left her to ride on the side of the road so you’s still her baby I don’t think that was the case I mean you don’t seem like that type of person but I I didn’t kill anybody where’ this baby come from we’re past all of that t we past that I did not kill anybody I didn’t kill anybody so was she alive when you left I wasn’t with any Ione with
her how’d you get her baby it’s mine can’t you did you mean to hurt the woman you didn’t mean to hurt her pretty sad she’s dead is it a deal you just wanted a baby so bad that that it just kind of overpowered your brain and everybody it’s been Hur when the officer told her he knew she had a hysterctomy and couldn’t have delivered the baby she told him she had a stroke in 2015 and her head had been hurting this was a story she had told before and it still wasn’t true your head’s been hurt I had a stroke in 2015 okay so so what happened today I mean
what I mean how did this how did this all come about I mean when did you first see the woman this today she checked on me is she a friend of yours okay so she come over did she come to your house she told me to come over oh she so you went to her house okay what happened then don’t believe me she that I was alive grab hold up and did uh did you try to fight back F you both fought back yeah we both hit each other
she hit her head on the table she hit her head on the table okay that’s okay he stuff happens sometimes you know stuff happens it’s all right did you put her in the did you put her in your vehicle with that no okay how did she get out on the road out there they said they found her on the side of the road don’t know I didn’t move you didn’t move okay so she was still in her house okay she uh when she hit her head did you think she died didn’t try to baby yeah I really wanted a baby understand eventually she told him she
went to the lady’s house to take a shower the lady attacked her and she defended herself she said she didn’t remember a lot of what happened when they asked her who the lady was Taylor didn’t answer she said the lady called her a liar and stabbed her with a knife and told her that she was going to kill her the lady then stabbed herself in the neck and told her that everyone would think that Taylor had done it once she was hurt badly Taylor said the lady asked her to cut her open to save the baby even though Taylor allegedly
couldn’t remember her name DNA tests proved that the baby’s mother was a Reagan Hancock meanwhile braxel and Sage was taken off life support doctors said that there wasn’t anything they could do I’m sorry it’s really sad she’d Gone without oxygen for too long causing extensive brain damage she died at 1:22 p.m.
on the same day as her mother a nurse stayed with her so she didn’t have to die alone while she was being examined at the hospital investigators were searching the car she had been driving they found a loaded Taurus Judge revolver on the passenger seat they had pulled a syringe filled with an animal tranquilizer from a purse inside the car they found the discarded placenta and umbilical cord on the floorboard they also found the black bikini underwear that had been cut off of Taylor’s Body they had blood on them and according to the Texas Ranger who searched the car
smelled strongly a fees it seems likely that Taylor had perforated Reagan’s bowel contents of the bowel transferred to the placenta and then to the underwear when Taylor stuffed it down her pants the placenta also started decomposing once it was removed from Reagan’s body which would have contributed to the bad odor investigators did not find Reagan’s cell phone they also didn’t find the fake baby belly or the shirt and shoes Taylor was wearing when she was captured on surveillance camera the morning of the attack cell phone data showed that
Reagan’s phone Taylor’s smartphone and Taylor’s burner phone all moved away from Austin Street around 9:14 a.m. she was pulled over and made the 911 call it 936 the distance she traveled would have taken about 17 minutes or less than she was speeding this left roughly 17 minutes unaccounted for she must have disposed of the items at some point during this time police suspected she dumped the items in the Red River the area was searched on land and with diving teams but nothing was ever recovered more importantly the whole
trip took 24 minutes during that time braxlin wasn’t getting help to breathe 24 minutes is a long time for a newborn preey to go without medical care officers LED Taylor still wearing her hospital gown to a waiting patrol car that afternoon she was arrested in Oklahoma on charges of capital homicide and kidnapping she was quickly extradited to Texas where she was held in the by state Justice Center she remained in jail on a $5 million Bond can you grab the sticky deal that’s scratching me what there’s a sticky
deal I on your leg thank you go ahead watch toast okay go that way okay sorry you’re okay I know those rocks hurt they do little have and sit right there on that bench okay sir on October 14th Taylor told Texas police a different version of the crime she’d had a bad headache so bad that she
was driving around New Boston and didn’t really know how she got there this confession she knew Reagan’s name in fact she only went to the house because Reagan called multiple times and asked her to come talk she got to the house Reagan accidentally scratched her Taylor wanted to leave but Reagan shut the garage door Reagan was shaking her and hollering and she pushed Reagan who fell and hit her head on the car Taylor said she knew something bad was going to happen she also claimed to be suffering from some sort of mental or medical
problem just drifting in and out blacking out and couldn’t understand what was going on Reagan tried to help her but also kept hitting her Taylor admitted she hit Reagan but it was always in response to Reagan being violent first she also said Reagan poked her with a knife and hit her over the head none of her stories matched the evidence Taylor’s only injury was a scratch on the chest she said Reagan asked her to help get the baby out and get help for the baby she said the baby wasn’t breathing she said Reagan was
still alive when she left the only part of this confession that was likely true was that the baby wasn’t breathing when discussing motive the detective said Taylor wanted to prove everyone wrong he said this lady trusted you to let you in her house you went into her house with a diaper bag and a scalpel what you needed for the baby you had Wade arranged to go out of town you got your baby Wade believed you you proved to all these people you weren’t lying for the last 10 months you had your aha moment at the
expense of that he pointed to an autopsy photo of Reagan you had your I proved you all wrong moment Taylor went quiet after several seconds with no response she asked to go to the bathroom her trial started on September 12th 2022 and it lasted almost 2 months over 140 Witnesses testified assistant District attorney Kelly cffs call Taylor an actress of the highest order one of the lead detectives lieutenant Andrew venol said it took his team weeks to untangle her Web of Lies he said she lied continuously from the start of the
relationship with Wade to the end the hog sale on the day of the murder was one such lie the ranch owner was Furious when Wade showed him the fake text confirming the deal the owner pulled out his phone and showed Wade the real conversation the one where he told Taylor he wasn’t interested Wayne was so wrapped up in Taylor’s stories he thought Shauna must have hacked his phone and set him up Taylor continued the scheming in prison she wrote two fake confession letters in an attempt to frame someone else for the murder the
first letter blamed a fictional person but the second letter blamed Hannah hollar an addict housed in the Pod next to Taylor one of the letters remained unopen when turned over to authorities only Taylor’s fingerprints were found on that letter the letters told another one of Taylor’s convoluted Stories the real killer in her gang members kidnapped Taylor and took her to Reagan’s house much like the Coburn character she had created earlier these gang members had Taylor Wade and even Reagan under surveillance they also had names like
Jay dog Doughboy and Kodiak the letters were written in the voice of someone trying to sound like a gang member prosecut said Taylor lived the experience while writing in detail about the violent struggle with Reagan she also included details only the killer would know details like the fake baby belly and the black hoodie Taylor was wearing on the day of the murder the letters also mentioned using a crowbar to hit Reagan a detail police Never released to the public Taylor even went as far as to write a message to God in
her prayer devotional asking the almighty to blame the women she want wanted to frame the state’s forensic psychologist said Taylor was manipulative and a pathological liar she continued her manipulation in prison she told guards that Netflix was making a movie about her and convinced one of them to sneak another prisoner into her cell to break her hair shakedowns of her cell revealed an assortment of Contraband items she had mascara and a ring inmates weren’t allowed to have makeup or jewelry she also had more
dangerous items like a razor and a schematic drawing of the Bowie County Jail one Contraband item was a cloth sunflower face mask Taylor knew sunflowers were Ran’s favorite flower she wore the mask during pre-trial hearings Reagan’s family found it hurtful and offensive as they should the medical examiner testimony showed that Reagan fought desperately for her life in the lives of her children Taylor attacked her in at least five different areas in her home starting with the garage where Taylor hit her with a
crowbar blood was smeared on the door in a pattern that suggested Reagan’s blood soaked hair was pressed against it from the blood residue analysts could tell she was pushed against the wall slid to the left and down to the floor DNA testing done on blood samples from the crime scene matched Reagan and braxlin none of the blood belonged to Taylor the struggle continued in the kitchen at some point Reagan fell against the refrigerator leaving another bloody hair print above the print brain’s Al ultasound photos still hung on the
fridge in the living room there was a large blood stain along the edge of the couch during the struggle clumps of Reagan’s blonde hair ended up Stuck In The Blood she was stabbed more than 100 times at least 39 of those stab wounds were focused on her head and neck her nose was broken her skull was fractured in five different places she had an indentation above her left temple it matched the size and shape of a a 4lb mason jar the jar filled with blue and pink sand with a monogrammed H for Hancock it’s from her wedding the same
wedding where Taylor had been her photographer investigators found the blood spattered jar near her body on the living room floor the wall near her body was splattered with blood in some areas there was so much that it dripped down the wall the quantity and the direction of the drops indicated she had been been severely beaten while lying there in addition to the wound from the Mason jar she had wounds consistent with being beaten with a hammer both on the claw end and the blunt side her hands were bruised scraped stabbed and cut one of
her fingers was dislocated the tip of another finger was almost cut off the injuries to her hands were all defensive words Taylor claimed she didn’t bring a knife but she said she always carried a scalpel in her purse to use if the dogs got hurt during hog hunting eventually she admitted to using this scalpel to cut open Reagan’s abdomen she ripped out her uterus from the back meaning she stuck her hand deep into Reagan’s Belly Up near her diaphragm while she was still alive the uterus was damaged during the violent removal once it was
out she cut it open pulling the baby and the placenta from inside in immeasurable pain and bleeding out the last of her life life reikan must have regained Consciousness to fight one more time to protect her baby fragments of her purple glitter press on fingernails were found embedded in the placenta although officers found the syringe of animal tranquilizer in the car medicine strong enough to put a large animal to sleep and certainly strong enough to knock out a person there was no evidence it was used she
could have used it but instead Taylor cut out the baby while Reagan was still alive and awake resulting in significant blood loss this blood loss not only hurt Reagan but also hurt the baby’s oxygen levels had the baby been born in a hospital under normal circumstances doctor said she would have been perfectly healthy braxlin also had a bruise on her scalp that was likely caused by a blow to Reagan’s belly her umbilical cord was also bruised Reagan’s death was ruled a homicide her ultimate cause of death with sharp force and blunt force
injuries she could have also been strangled it was impossible to tell because there were so many deep stab wounds in her neck baby brain’s cause of death was traumatic extraction from her mother’s womb her death was also ruled a homicide during the police interview Taylor said she was pretty much 100% positive that she sat down the scalpel after cutting braxlin free investigators couldn’t find it at the crime scene during the autopsy the scalpel was found buried deep in Reagan’s neck Reagan’s 3-year-old daughter was home during the
attack she was alone in the house with her mother’s body for over an hour after she was killed one of her nighttime pull-up diapers soaked with urine was found on top of a pool of blood in the living room next to the couch and her mother’s body given its placement on top of the blood it was dropped there after the murder there was also urine soaking into the couch cushions near Reagan’s body investigators belied that it came from the little girl she had blood smeared on her arms in several places the bottoms
of her feet were stained from walking through her mother’s blood the jury took less than an hour to find Taylor guilty on October 3rd 2022 sentencing began on October 12th because Taylor faced the death penalty the sentencing portion of the trial was extensive lasting another 25 days Reagan’s mother read a victim impact statement during the stage in it she called Taylor an evil piece of Flesh demon she said my baby was alive still fighting for her babies when you tore her open and ripped her baby from her stomach you watched her die you did not
care about braxlin either spending so much time making sure you would not get caught on November 9th jurors took 90 minutes to as side she deserved the maximum sentence death by lethal injection Judge John tidwell’s last words in the trial were take her to death row a few hours later Taylor was sent to the Mountain View unit at the Texas state prison in Gatesville she joined six other women on death row she’s still there as of the date of this recording Reagan’s death gutted her entire family she was the glue that held
them together years after she was gone her mother Jessica still kept picking up the phone to text her before remembering that she couldn’t Homer and their little girl had to start all over again he moved back home with his parents and tried to make sense of his new emptier life at the trial he said the first time he got to hold little braxlin Sage she was cold and lifeless he never got to hear her say I love you Daddy by the time the trial was over Reagan’s little girl was 5 years old on several occasions her grandmother said
she walked up to a pregnant lady and asked to see her belly she wanted to see if they were hurt or bleeding no one knows exactly how much the little girl saw and heard that day but it was too much Reagan was supposed to be her sister Emily’s maid of honor Emily had to carry a picture of her big sister down the aisle at her wedding of tailor sentence her mother said the family was glad Justice had been served she went on to say everybody says you can have memories well you don’t want to just have memories you want to have your baby
and we never got to meet braxlin we’re in pieces i’ never wish this on anyone it’s hard to feel sorry for much of Taylor’s family particularly those who knew she wasn’t pregnant and didn’t confront her but her children ages 8 and 10 at the time of the murder were victims too Shauna was awarded custody of Taylor’s daughter at the trial she promised to take the girl back to counseling she also told Taylor that she needed to get it together because she was upsetting the girl during phone calls Tommy and his wife Amy still have
custody of Taylor’s son they decided he shouldn’t talk to his mother in jail Tommy said why does she want to be a mom now she wasn’t a mom before so why now why should I let my son talk to somebody that did this on October 17th Reagan and brain’s funeral was held at the trail head Park pavilion in New Boston they were buried together in Reed Hill Cemetery community members raised money for her husband and surviving daughter volunteers sold t-shirts and held car washes they raised money online through Facebook and PayPal people from across
the country and around the world donated when asked about Reagan her mother said she loved Unity she did not like any Discord in any relationship she didn’t like confrontations she wanted Unity and the response of the community would make her so proud all we can ask for is prayer Reagan’s sister Emily said she’s just something you can’t replace the good thing about it is she’s everywhere now she always held Us close and she’s holding us closer now this case is hard to process and it doesn’t even sound real at the beginning of this story it’s
hard to believe that so many people would have believed in a NAB Taylor’s lies but even even for those that saw through her charade nobody thought she could be capable of such an extreme premeditated murder as she had no History of Violence now normally with cases involving a woman who murders another woman to steal their unborn baby out of their womb a mental health component exists or is argued by lawyers as was the case when Lisa Montgomery murdered Bobby Joe stinet to our knowledge Taylor’s lawyers never
attempted this defense and she had no history to even justify def vending her in this way so what do you think possesses someone to do something so unthinkably heinous such as this let us know your thoughts in the comment section down below
