Taylor Rene Parker: Opening statements shock in a trial for a woman accused of murdering a pregnant woman and taking the baby
The trial has begun for a woman accused of murdering a pregnant woman, then removing the baby from the womb to pass off as her own, NBC reports.
After pleading not guilty, 29-year-old Taylor Rene Parker faces murder charges for the October 2020 deaths of 21-year-old Renee Michelle Simmons-Hancock and her unborn child, NBC says.
Simmons-Hancock was seven and a half months pregnant when her killer stabbed her over 100 times, cut her open to steal her baby, and left her for dead in her New Boston, Texas home on October 9, 2020, People Magazine reports. She was found at around 10:20 a.m. after police were called, People adds.
NBC further reports that the mother-to-be’s skull was crushed with a hammer before the killer used a scalpel to remove the baby.
In Monday’s opening statements, Assistant District Attorney Kelley Crisp explained that Parker didn’t want her own baby, but was desperate to keep her boyfriend — so desperate, the woman was willing to fake an entire pregnancy to ensure he stayed with her, NBC says.
Crisp described how Parker disguised herself to look pregnant for ten months, faked ultrasounds, threw a gender-reveal party…
