Taylor Parker: Death penalty sought for 'womb raider' who ripped out friend’s fetus and killed her
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DE KALB, TEXAS: A Texas jury was asked by prosecutors to sentence to death Wednesday, October 12, a woman found guilty of murdering a pregnant woman and stealing her unborn child from her womb. It was the final phase of Taylor Rene Parker's murder trial, which began in October 2020 for the brutal slaying of Reagan Simmons-Hancock and the theft of her unborn daughter. Parker had previously been found guilty of capital murder by a Bowie County jury. She has earned the nickname 'womb raider' following the alleged attack about two years ago
Evidence showed Parker, 29, faked her pregnancy and lied repeatedly before killing Hancock, 21, at the latter's New Boston home on October 9, 2020. The unborn child she was carrying also died, prosecutor Kelley Crisp said. Parker's attorneys, however, hoped to convince jurors to spare her life and instead sentence her to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Parker would be presented as mentally ill, defense attorney Jeff Harrelson said.
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A state police investigator testified, during the trial that Parker made thorough research on how to fake a pregnancy convincingly. She watched a video on the physical exam of a premature infant who was delivered at 35 weeks on the day of the killing, Special Agent Dustin Estes said. After committing the murder Parker was stopped by a Texas state trooper in DeKalb, Texas, 12 miles northwest of the crime scene, according to CBS News. An official said that she told the child was hers and that she had given birth on the side of the road but the baby was not breathing. Parker was taken to a hospital in Idabel, Oklahoma, where the baby was declared dead.
MEAWW previously reported that a Brazilian pregnant woman became a part of a ritual sacrifice as her body was found slaughtered with her genitals mutilated and her stomach cut open, police said. Ohana Karolin, 24, was a mother of three and pregnant with her fourth child when she was killed on September 21. Karolin was a resident of the municipality of Mogi Guacu in the Brazilian state of Sao Paulo. Passersby alerted the local authorities after they discovered her disfigured corpse with her womb ripped apart from her body in Portal dos Lagos. The area is reportedly surrounded by evangelical churches of different denominations. A number of coins were found next to her mutilated body and she was wearing a pair of flip-flops and only a T-shirt. Police said they were looking into a theory that Karolin may have been sacrificed as part of some kind of “macabre ritual.”