Taylor Rene Parker: Trial of woman accused of murdering pregnant friend to steal baby reaches closing arguments
Taylor Rene Parker is closer to learning her fate after the defense and prosecution rested their cases at Thursday’s hearing, reports TXK Today.
The defense called no witnesses during this phase of the trial before a jury of six men and six women, TXK Today says.
Parker, 29-years-old, is accused of murdering 21-year-old Regan Michelle Simmons-Hancock and her unborn child in October 2020 before taking the baby to pass off as her own, NBC previously reported.
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 reported.
Gruesome crime scene photos shocked the court room while crime scene analyst Marc Sillivan called it the worst he’d ever seen, TXK Today says.
Parker allegedly tried to incapacitate Hancock with a jar of sand from Hancock’s wedding, a hammer, and other objects, and used a scalpel to cut the baby from the womb, and it was later found in her neck during the autopsy, TXK Today says.
