410: Part 1: She is BEYOND Unhinged! | The Barbaric Case of Reagan Hancock & Taylor Parker

I made an ambulance 'cause I started to happen about that baby. - Who just baby comes from? - It's mine! (coughing) - Something's just not right.

- When she go front at Taylor about it,

“she's at Taylor gotten mad and went silent”

and grabbed her own head and shook it. - Things got super weird. - She's in there. She refuses to have a vaginal check to make sure she's not hemorrhaging.

- How do you hear her out of these? My wife just had it. What was wrong? - We're a demon like her. Hell would be easy.

- Hey, true current besties. Welcome back to an all new episode of "Serial Isle." (upbeat music) - Hello, hello, hello, and welcome back to an all new episode of "Serial Isle"

with me, your host, and your true current bestie, Annie Elise. It's Monday, which means we are in for a deep dive of an episode today. And when I tell you, I know I've told you before

that I go through every internet rabbit hole into like the trenches of the internet and go down, you know, the dark twisted corners, everywhere. This case is the Mecca, okay?

I first covered this case back when I first started

my true crime YouTube channel years ago. And there was so much information back then, and there's even so much more now. So I actually think we may break this out into a two-part episode for my podcast listeners,

“only because I think it's gonna be a longer thing,”

but don't worry, we'll release both episodes the exact same day. So you can binge it, you're not gonna have to wait. I'm not gonna do you dirty like that. We'll probably release just one supersized episode on YouTube,

but we'll see how it goes as I get through this and as I edit it. But my point in coming back on here, there's actually a couple reasons. So first, if you watch Netflix regularly

or if you're on TikTok or Instagram reels, you may have noticed that a few days ago there was a documentary released on Netflix called Maternal Instinct. Now, I've seen a lot of clips going viral,

like I said, I know this case backwards and forwards, I have for years, but I don't know how viral the documentary itself is going personally because I think that the name they chose is a little bit not good,

but it is one of the most disturbing cases that I've covered to date. And it's actually my highest performing YouTube video that I've ever done, which this way I had done this years ago.

And it's just because it is that twisted and that many like shocks and hard lifts along the way where it's like, you think you know where it's going, but you don't, and then you find out the backstory of this person is totally different.

And unfortunately, like in true Netflix fashion, they left out so much more than I could ever even explain. Now not only did they leave out so much,

“but I think a lot of it is because they couldn't even”

get their hands on so much of the very important information that funnels into this case. Because like I said, we covered it years ago

for the very first time, we FOIA.

We did all of our due diligence, everything we need to do. But the attorney general recently, like over the last couple of years, restricted FOIA releases on this case. Now luckily not only did we already have a ton of the information,

but we also found a workaround because you know we don't take no for an answer. To where we were able to get not only all of the exhibits that were shown in the trial of this case, we got the 911 calls, we got the body cam footage,

we got the full unedited interrogation video, we got so much actual unedited uncut raw body cam images that I and body cam footage that I can't even show on here because of how graphic it is. And you know YouTube would not allow me and I also just don't think

that it needs to be put out there some of it. But my point is there is so much more than Netflix ever covered than anybody ever knew and we have our hands in all of it. We've got all of it for you guys. So what I wanted to do today is I wanted to throw it back

to the Reagan Hancock and Taylor Parker case. And like I said, get ready, buckle up. This is going to be a mega episode. Now if you've ever listened to one of my reopen episodes

on my second true crime feed, 10 to life,

you know how it goes. Sometimes I'll pull bits and pieces from my old episodes and they're just to give you the full story along the way, rather than like a full new rerecord. So because my equipment has changed over time,

you may notice slight differences in audio here and there, although we'll do our best to clean it up. But just, you know, if you're watching the video version of this, you'll see my old little young Annie pop up on screen, then I'll come on and it'll be present day Annie.

the full comprehensive case as best as we possibly can.

“All the information and like I said, this is a very twisted one.”

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- Ma'am. - Ma'am. - Ma'am. - I don't know if anyone told her to be smarter. - I don't have phone.

- I don't know if somebody got it or help me. - Ma'am, I don't know. - Okay. - Okay. - Okay.

- In October of 2020, Reagan Simmons Hancock was living something pretty close to a fairy tale. She had a beautiful toddler little girl named Kinley who she absolutely adored. She was married to her very loving husband,

Homer Hancock, and best of all, she was pregnant with a new baby girl on the way. A little sister to Kinley. Now, Reagan could not have been happier. She was over the moon.

She was so excited about everything that was to come and her life just blooming and flourishing. But then, in literally the blink of an eye, all of it was ripped away from her. Literally in a way that no one could have ever even imagined.

Now, when we cover these cases, a lot of the times people immediately look at the inner circle, right? Statistically speaking, it's generally the husband, a family member, a coworker, a friend,

but it's very, very rare for in acquaintance to do something this brutal. Yet, that's exactly what happened here. That's exactly what happened to Reagan. Reagan was targeted by someone she only knew

as a photographer that she had enlisted to help her out a little bit. Another woman named Taylor Parker. And once you find out why Taylor went after this beautiful innocent pregnant woman,

guys, if you haven't heard this case before, your jaw is going to be on the floor. Not just because of the motive and all of this, but because of how far Taylor was willing to go to get exactly what she wanted.

And not only what she did to Reagan, but her history, things that Taylor had also done in the past. Now, as I mentioned at the top of this episode, Reagan and Taylor's case is one that I have talked about before.

I've done the deep dive. I've done so much research into this case.

“And I think that really just says a lot about how unbelievable”

this case truly is with how fascinated people are and how much more there is to uncover below the line.

When I first dug into it back in 2022,

I covered exactly what Taylor did to Reagan, why. And I also followed Taylor's time in the legal system, her past, her lies, her air to an oil industry. They're so much. And now we're going to put everything we've learned,

especially over the last year, 'cause I've been still researching it for literally the last year into one episode, this episode, because we really have left no stone unturned. Our team was able to get in contact directly

with the police departments. We've been able to work with them and partner with them on this. We got all the footage, which means that I'm going to give you today, the full behind the scenes look into the truth of this case.

And everything that Netflix didn't show you. And again, just a quick disclaimer for all of my podcast listeners, I would encourage you even after you listen to this episode to go watch it on YouTube, because I think you will want to see a lot of this footage

that I'm referencing.

“I think it's incredibly important to also have the visual aid.”

So just want to throw that out there. Taylor Parker is a 29-year-old woman from Texas, and she has two children. She has a daughter and a son and her son being the youngest. Both of her children have different fathers,

and Taylor was looking for stability and for a family to love and call her own. Her relationship with her son's father, Tommy, however, didn't work out, and the two of them ended up divorcing. Shortly after that relationship ended,

Taylor met and married a man named Hunter. However, that relationship was reportedly also a roller coaster and it ended in divorce in April 2019. Literally weeks after the divorce,

Taylor was thinking, you know, third time is a charm.

When she met this man, it named Wade Griffin. Wade was a country man, and in true fashion, they met at a rodeo. The relationship took off, and it moved very quickly, and very early into their relationship,

Taylor actually confided in Wade that she was pregnant, but she unfortunately had lost the baby.

and that Taylor really leaned on a Wade for support. But as the relationship progressed,

“and Wade began learning things about Taylor,”

and who she really is, Taylor started sharing some details about her life that would make anybody raise an eyebrow. Or in my case, I guess like raise a huge eyebrow

and may never come down, I don't know.

So Taylor told Wade that she was actually inheriting millions of dollars, all in oil and gas royalties. She went on to say that her mom's son, who she also referred to as fake shana,

had put a hit out on her. So she told Wade how scared she was, and him being the nice guy that he is allowed her to move into his home for safety. But this quickly escalated.

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(upbeat music) Now at the time, wait worked for a hog business where they bought hogs from people and then killed and used the hogs to make money.

I don't know the inner workings guys and I'm not even gonna pretend to know because I don't. But pretty quickly, Taylor started convincing wait to use that money to buy more things. So he bought a side-by-side, a truck, and even cows.

But he didn't just outright buy them. He took loans out on all of these things. With the promise of being paid back from Taylor's millions of dollars in these oil and gas royalties.

Now, wait's family were initially completely taken by Taylor. They thought that she was sweet and just a great woman for wait to be with. However, they quickly began seeing red flags about Taylor and the outlandish stories that she was starting to tell.

And one of the first and the biggest red flags about Taylor was that she didn't have custody of her two kids.

And it only got worse from there. Taylor also told the family about the royalties that she was set to inherit from her grandfather's oil business but she said that she was having difficulty getting the money. Sounds a lot like Tinder Swindler, right?

“If you saw that and if you didn't, you should.”

Now another big red flag was that in many ways, wait's family noticed that Taylor seemed to be more into wait than he was into her. Taylor wanted to move fast and she wanted to be close but his family didn't see wait in love with her

at least not the same way that she was in love with him. And it was a bit worrisome for them. In the meantime, Taylor got wait super excited about a property called Pican Point. Wait had more heart eyes about this property than ever

and this property lies right alongside the red river in McCurton County, which is right over the Oklahoma border.

It was listed at $4.7 million dollars

and is a phenomenal hunting property. Taylor reached out to the agent Rusty Lowe about buying the property and she told him that she was the heir to the black burn syrup fortune and therefore definitely could afford the property.

But I'm a little confused because wasn't it gas an oil? Now syrup, like pancake syrup. In any event, Taylor placed an offer for $3.5 million

“and the deal was made that Taylor would pay $200,000”

up front as an earnest deposit payment, which is a very standard practice one purchasing property. So it Christmas Taylor and Wade told the family about this property and they made this big announcement.

They got everybody accorded with Picans stuck to it to drop this news. Taylor explained to the none of them whatever have to worry about finding a hunting lease again. And that was just so exciting for all of them

because they are avid duck hunters. So Taylor was the hero and all of those red flags that they perhaps saw earlier were now in the rearview mirror and in my opinion, probably for selfish reasons, but that's just my opinion.

What appear to be an absolute dream come true for Taylor, Wade and even Wade's family soon began to unravel. And over time things went awry with this land deal. First off, when signing the contract for the property,

Taylor signed her name as Taylor Parker Griffin, Griffin as in, Wade Griffin. But she and Wade weren't married. So it was interesting that she hyphenated her name like that, especially on papers

that were such a big deal and legal documents. But that's just the very beginning of this mega facade that buying this property turned out to be. Initially Taylor was supposed to have a $7 million wire transfer coming in for her black burn inheritance

that syrup cash money, or whatever. She was supposed to use that money to verify the funds that she could qualify for this property purchase.

But that wire never came in.

So she said that she would just use money from her oil and gas leases.

“But that money also never came in, big shocker, right?”

So even with this glaring problem, apparently by this point, she had her heart set onto other properties as well. And the properties in total added up to almost $20 million.

But she still had not verified having the funds to afford it. So she told the agent Rusty that she also had an Uncle Butch Uncle Butch who would give her the money for the properties. And you know, don't worry about it.

He's got the money. It's fine if the wires didn't come in. I'm good, we're set. So Rusty was obviously becoming a bit suspicious. And he had his team continue looking into this

to try to get it all sorted out. Typically when people are going after such high-priced properties, they have their finances in order. And are ready to close the deal. As this was happening, behind the scenes,

Wade was frequently calling Rusty for status updates, leading Rusty to believe that Taylor was actually not keeping Wade in the loop at all in the slightest. He had no idea that these wires were not coming in. And by this point, Taylor had written two separate checks

worth $150,000 each. But after writing them and handing them over, she quickly asked for them right back. So obviously things were starting to get pretty concerning at this point. These properties were a lot of money.

And Rusty was not and could not get this deal done without the finances to make it happen.

Taylor finally provided him with oil and gas lease paperwork.

So Rusty had a landman in Tyler's Texas go over all of it. But it didn't take long for the landman to realize that they were falsified at documents. Not only that, but Rusty was given paperwork that allegedly was from Shell, Western, and Global.

The paperwork was a claim to verify the existence of wire fund transfers totaling to nearly $370 million. But the email attached to the document was an AOL email. For a lady named Shelley Links.

Now for such a professional company, having an AOL email absolutely made no sense. And when Rusty decided to email this Shelley Links person,

He then tried to reach out to Taylor's rich Uncle Bush.

“And that's when things began to get very heated.”

She sent Rusty a text saying, "After talking to my dad and attorney, whom have bought land for more than this, it was stated to me that the seller can ask, "but you don't have to ask to verify what we have in the bank.

"Wait in myself, both weren't okay with that request.

"My Uncle Bush is a multi-million-dollar landowner."

And he says, "He has asked and been denied." After that, Rusty got a follow-up email, from the Shelley Links AOL email. Stating banking information is completely confidential. The buyers were not under the assumption

of verification letter was required until you requested it in your office. I am sending this verification form since I will be providing the funds. Funds and where they come from is not of importance

as long as the seller is paid for my understanding. The clients are not okay with the seller calling their bank and are firm on their decision in that matter. But all of that came to a halt in April of 2020. When Taylor contacted Rusty and told him that the deal was dead,

“which meant he had no chance of getting that $1.15 million”

in commission. And Taylor told him that her mom had actually lied about everything. There was no oil and gas lease. There was no syrup royalty and there was no Uncle Bush. Taylor claimed that all of these people,

including Shelley Links, were apparently made up by her mother. Now rewind a couple of months to December 2019 during everything starting to fall apart with these properties.

Taylor announced that she and Wade were expecting a child and that she was pregnant. And the family and Wade were all very excited. The things continue to be suspicious with Taylor. When Taylor bought Wade's mom Connie, her dream car.

Connie loved this gray Nissan Altima platinum. She had looked for this car for a long time prior without any luck. Then, Taylor bought her the car and was once again the hero. But just a few weeks later, Taylor called Wade

and told him to have Connie come drop the car off in the driveway. She told him that the car had a recall on it

“and that the dealership would be picking it up.”

This did not sit right with Wade's mom Connie, but she hesitantly drove it over but not before telling her husband

that they would never see the car again.

Her husband told her that she didn't know that for sure what she replied, yeah, I do know it, I do know it. Dealerships don't just pick up vehicles on recall. It didn't make any sense. So a couple of weeks went by and she hadn't heard anything

about the car, so she went ahead and called the dealership. The dealership informed her that there was no recall on the car. But instead, that the car had never been paid for. And as this slide was unraveling, Taylor had also been promising Wade's dad a new barn

to replace the one that he lost in a fire. But obviously, that was not going to happen because clearly, Taylor didn't have any of the money for any of these things. Everything was fallen apart.

So then in March of 2020, Taylor publicly announced her pregnancy on social media, just as the world began shutting down due to the pandemic. She proudly shared that she was due on September 22nd, 2020. And apparently, she wasn't wasting any more time

on those minor money issues anymore since she now had to start planning for this baby. But there was one major red flag for Angela Pate, who was related to Wade by marriage. Angela and Taylor had apparently gotten close.

And Taylor often vented to her about her relationship issues with Wade and how she was worried that Wade would leave her. In addition to that, apparently, Taylor had confided in Angela that she had a prior hysterectomy.

Taylor told Angela that before telling Wade that she was pregnant, she should take another pregnancy test to really confirm this is true. Taylor assured her that she was pregnant and told her that this pregnancy was intended by God.

Taylor was excited. She was showing all of her family and friends, her son, a grand picture, as her test results, everything, relating to the baby. If it was related to the baby, she was sharing it.

Even year-end test results. Like TMI overkill, but she was excited and she was proud. And in April of 2020, Taylor sent a pregnancy confirmation to Angela, saying, you know, here's the confirmation from my nurse.

I am pregnant. I know you were worried, but there's nothing to worry about. But there is just one problem that Angela noticed with the letter. The name of the nurse who signed the letter

had the same name as the patient of the letter that it was confirming to be pregnant.

So basically, the letter said that the nurse was pregnant,

not Taylor. So when Angela told Taylor about that, she got very defensive and upset and told her that there was a mole that her mother had hired at the clinic and that they must have done that,

which Angela knew that she had to play this smart. She already had her doubts about Taylor and this was just really sealing them for her. Previously, when Taylor told everybody about the alleged hit that her mom had on her, started hanging out

But then she actually ended up telling Angela

“that her mother actually took her own life”

but that she didn't want to tell her grandparents. And eventually, her mother was seen at a Christmas party, which massively confused everyone who had thought she was dead. Taylor is just like a walking red flag. The story after story after story.

So right as this pregnancy stuff was all going down in April of 2020, Angela received an email from a person named Mandy Body, who was allegedly actually Taylor's mother. And the email said, "Listen, you don't know nothing about Taylor.

Don't try to be a mother figure to her. I did an amazing job making her look bad. It took time and accurately planning my every step of the way. She brought you to the bank and made herself look like she was lying to get a check cached.

I had already arranged everything. My helper knew she was coming with you because she called making sure.

You wasted your time on her because that check was never good.

Let her fail in life. Let her see what it's like to have nothing. I've worked it out perfectly. I've arranged this all so there are no cracks you see. Things won't add up and she will look even more like a liar.

I stole numbers to make her think people were calling and doing things for her and it was never them. This will not end well for her. No matter where she turns or what she says, there will always be a lie to fall back on her.

See, I'm going to send her in such a deep depression she will probably try to take her life like she has tried before. But if not, then making way to leave her will do the trick. See, he will have no choice but to leave because nothing will be true.

I've made his family turn on them from pretending to be people like a dealership that didn't get paid. Does it click now to you people? Just let her fall into a hole and not get out.

She will go crazy thinking she did the right thing for a certain reason, but in reality, I made her think that way. She has a way of wanting to protect everyone.

“Well, that's what got her into this mess.”

If you want to be her mom, good luck. She is like the child we should have terminated in the beginning because she was the accident I didn't want. Maybe you will get the big picture and enjoy the mess. She's looking for someone to love her

and when way to leave because I've made her out to be a liar, well, she'll come running to you, just watch. Nice website and Facebook. Maybe you can pop some sense into her because she has none.

Okay, guys, whoo. Vemil is long. It's confusing and it's really questionable. Who would even said that? Send that to a stranger or acquaintance at most.

And whoever go to those lengths to ruin somebody, it made no sense. It's almost as though whoever's writing it is trying to justify all of the lies that Taylor has had and take the blame off of her

and put them on to herself saying they orchestrated it. It is so weird. At this point, Angela was also still doubting the pregnancy

“and she took Taylor to Walgreens and got a bunch of tests.”

In no real surprise, most of them came back negative. But one was questionable and it left her pretty indecisive. So Angela and Taylor decided to go to a clinic for a year in test as that would surely be more accurate. They decided to go to a different clinic

this time called health express. Because remember, according to Taylor, there was some hired mole at the last clinic to ruin her results. So Angela obviously wasn't going into the clinic with Taylor

because it was prime pandemic time and you couldn't go in with anybody. So Taylor went in alone and she says that Taylor came out with a weird look on her face and a paper similar

to the first one that did show proof of pregnancy.

Taylor had only gone in with her wallet and the paper wasn't folded at all. So that can minst Angela. These results were real and had been freshly printed and that she was indeed pregnant.

Wade's mom Connie, however, was not convinced that she was pregnant and it caused a lot of friction between her and her son. The two of them argued many times over the next several months and at one point she even considered hiring a PI

to follow Taylor around so she could show her son that she didn't think Taylor was being honest. Connie and Wade had already had a massive blow up fight about financial issues after Taylor's ex-husband had contacted her and that left them

not on speaking terms for nearly four months. So that left Connie treading on very thin ice with her son. Despite her feelings and doubts, she did decide to attend Wade and Taylor's gender reveal party because she had gone to her other sons the week prior.

She's clearly a supportive mom and didn't want Wade to feel unloved and it was announced there that they would be having a baby girl and they decided that the baby's name was going to be Clancy Gale.

But not long after the gender reveal party, Wade went to Connie telling her about all the stuffed Taylor's mom allegedly was doing. He even told her he thought that her mom had set up cameras in the backyard because in an email

who he thought was from her mom, she mentioned sitting on the back porch and drinking coffee that morning and the emails were coming from a shadow account with the name Mandy Body.

That same account that emailed Angela.

so she loudly said,

“I don't know who wrote these but whoever wrote this is pure evil”

and she said all of that while looking in Taylor's direction. But that didn't phase Taylor. She was pregnant was in a loving relationship and was determined to have her happy ending. Throughout the summer she continued to be very active

on social media sharing her excitement about her pregnancy and upcoming birth of their daughter just posting away. She was ordering baby items and even created a baby registry for things for the upcoming baby. But once again, there was a detail that was not matching up.

The registry said that her duty was September 28th instead of the 22nd, like she had previously announced. So could it be a typo? Sure, but it would be a weird one for someone who seemed to be so organized.

On July 2nd, she posted about medical appointments for the baby and the way she made it sound was as if she was having some sort of pregnancy issues. However, luckily things seemed to be okay and in August, she and Wade and her growing baby belly

took maternity photos together. Despite all of this and despite the photos, despite everything, as this pregnancy continued, people were getting suspicious and Wade was unable to get any sort of information

from the clinic that she was going to because due to COVID, he couldn't attend the appointments that she had. And when he called the clinic, he wasn't able to get any of the information due to patient privacy laws.

So essentially, he was at the mercy of Taylor for updates. This baby wasn't planned, and apparently at this point, he had also made it clear that he wasn't in love with Taylor and he made it clear that he also was not prepared for this baby.

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was due to arrive and surely things would get better

“between them once they were a happy family”

and they had their new bundle of joy. So as family and friends got more nervous and it doubts continued to grow, they were kind of expecting the news to break of a miscarriage.

And on September 2nd, Wade even made a Facebook comment acknowledging that people did not believe that Taylor was pregnant. Around September 15th, Tommy Taylor's ex sent text messages to Wade over multiple days

telling him about Taylor's previous history rectomy and told him that she was using sonograms from her previous pregnancy. He also told him that hospitals were on high alert. Tommy sent Taylor the screenshots of his messages

to Wade, which angered Taylor. And according to her, Tommy was trying to ruin her life and was just lying. She was pregnant and she was about to give birth and nobody was going to get in the way of that.

Taylor was feeling stressed and she needed a friend to lean on. So she reached out to a friend while maybe more of like an acquaintance named Reagan Hancock. Taylor was an amateur photographer

“and had photographed Reagan and her husband”

Homer's wedding a year earlier. Reagan and Homer loved her work and Reagan even recommended her business on Facebook. Taylor and Reagan had stayed in contact via Facebook

and Reagan was now pregnant with her second baby.

Her first daughter, Kinley, it was with her ex. But she and Homer were raising Kinley together and were over the moon about the new addition on the way. They also had already decided on a baby name as well. Little, baby, Bracksland.

Taylor took a baby gift over to Reagan and the two of them continued to text back and forth for the next week or so. On September 22nd, Taylor reached out to a man about selling a trailer full of hogs

for a little over $6,000. But Taylor didn't seem to know or understand licensing and transport rules for hogs. So the man assumed that it was a scam and said he wasn't interested.

On December 27th, she reached back out telling him that she got everything organized in regards to licensing and the transfer, but he still refused. On September 30th, Taylor went to her scheduled OB appointment but when she got there, she started hysterically crying

and when employees checked in on her, she told them that she wanted to reschedule as her husband was in the military and had just died and her mother had also canceled on her. So of course, employees were more than willing to reschedule

for her, but they did offer her a sonogram to cheer her up. Taylor declined the sonogram and rescheduled for the very next day. It was odd to them because most moms would be absolutely delighted

for the sonogram to see their baby, but what was even more odd to these nurses was seeing Taylor sitting on a bench outside the clinic afterwards, sitting for quite some time, all while watching pregnant women coming in and out of the clinic.

On October 5th, nearly a week had passed and still no baby, and I mean, thank God because Wade's house caught fire. This fire was an intentional fire and it knocked out the power and the plumbing.

It was later determined that the fire was actually started by a lighter and was technically an act of arson. But at that time, everyone was unsure who would start this fire. So Wade and Taylor went over to Connie's house,

Wade's mom's house to shower. While Wade was showering, Taylor told Connie that she was set to be induced at that day, but that it was canceled because a bomb threat had been called into Titus Regional Medical Center.

100 people actually had to be evacuated and all inductions and procedures had to be canceled that day. And this was real. But Connie was just overtaker. So she said, yeah, you called it in.

She also showed Taylor a photo she found on Facebook of Taylor's mother with Taylor's kids in Colorado. And she said, I see your mom has the kids and they're having a great time up in Colorado, just completely overtaler and her BS stories.

“And who even knew what the truth really was at this point?”

Because Taylor was moving forward with this pregnancy, having maternity shoots, doing the registry. I mean, who knew what the truth was and what wasn't it? So next, it was Taylor's turn to take a shower. And while she was showering, Connie and Wade

got into a very big argument. Because Taylor was due a little over two weeks earlier on September 22nd, Wade had taken time off work under FMLA and Connie told him that she was worried that he could lose his job if it turned out

that Taylor wasn't even pregnant and that a baby never came.

She told him that he should go back to work and that he would get a call. If the baby came, she told him, Wade, she has not pregnant. She had a hysterectomy when tray was born. He's five years old.

She's not pregnant. And Wade did not take that well. And when Taylor got out of the shower, he stormed out of the house. Although he wasn't in love with Taylor anymore,

this was his child. And he was furious that his own family was doubting that, doubting his child, doubting his judgment. On October 8th, Taylor went over to her friend Reagan's house in the morning.

She sat outside of the house in the morning in the driveway for a bit before driving away. She then returned back to Reagan's, but this time had a baby gift and Starbucks. She and Reagan hung out for a while

and Taylor left around 10 p.m. after she left, Reagan posted on Facebook about their night together. And it seemed like a nice little visit

bonding over the upcoming baby bliss.

As Taylor's new induction dates, since the bomb scare, was scheduled for the very next afternoon. So on the morning of October 9th, Taylor sent Wade off with that trailer full of hogs to sell them to the buyer that she had previously talked to.

The plan was to head to the hospital for the induction once the sale of the hogs was complete.

“But remember, that buyer had backed out and didn't want the hogs.”

So did he have a change of heart? Because Wade had text messages of somebody agreeing to buy them for $6,100. So he showed up at 7.35 a.m. to the buyer's ranch in Oklahoma

after driving for almost four hours.

At 6.46 a.m., Taylor got $10 worth of gas at the local easy mart and stopped in McDonald's. Then just after 9.30 a.m., Taylor was pulled over into Cobb Texas after an officer saw her driving fast and erratically.

While the trooper was behind her, Taylor called 911. New Boston, number one, what's your emergency? I'm, I have a state trip from on me and I need to send you it because I started having my baby. Okay, say I'm on, I'm going to get you to have that.

Okay, say I'm on sale on? It's going to be okay, say I'm on.

“Tennessee told you over me, I'm okay, just stay calm.”

It's going to be okay. It's real emergency. What's your address? I'm more concerned about the road. The dispatcher asked where she was and Taylor said she was trying

to get to Idabell, crying, that's where my doctor is. I'm started having my baby. I have to get there and Idabell is in Oklahoma about 35 minutes from to Cobb Texas where Taylor was stopped. When the officer trooper went to her window, he saw a newborn baby

in distrust and an umbilical cord protruding from Taylor's pants. Taylor started doing CPR, but the baby wasn't showing any signs of life. For whatever reason, the trooper also was absolutely no help,

despite being fully trained in first aid,

but luckily, an off-duty nurse happened to walk by the scene and they jumped right in. She's not breathing. Are you an nurse? Hey, this woman is the right shoe.

Taylor had blood on her legs.

“Her hands, her face, shoes, clothes, and feet.”

Most of the blood was dried and there was no blood on her driver's seat, which the officer initially thought was strange. Taylor was absolutely hysterical. The main priority at this point was to get them both to a hospital and get them checked out.

So he was talking to dispatch as Taylor was screaming in the back. We got to get to it about that's where my doctor is. I'm not going to saint Michael's. Okay, the CRD. She's already on the phone with a different EMS.

It sounds like it's okay. But this is, the baby's not breathing. She's trying to do CPR on the baby right now. The officer asked her how old the baby was. And Taylor said it was only like maybe 35 minutes old.

CPR was being performed and Taylor could be heard saying, "Come on, Clancy, come on." She was begging for the officer to just put them in his car. She told the trooper that she's being seen by a holistic midwife in Oklahoma, and then the nurse gave her what paper towel the white

per face in her hands. She told them that she was at Walmart in New Boston when she felt pressure and then left and got in the car. She says that she felt that she had that urge to push and then the baby came out while she was driving. So as this horror fest was taking place in unfolding, Wade had been at the ranch owner's home for a couple hours and was trying to strike

this deal after showing up with a hundred and fifty hogs. And the ranch owner was beyond frustrated since he wasn't expecting him. So Wade showed him the text messages and one text said, "Wait, this is Scott. I will see you both in the morning around 6.30 to 7." Taylor said the check was "should be made out to Wade Griffin,

totaling to $6,100." I have seven groups of hunters this weekend. I need those hogs tomorrow for sure. I already turned two guys away with hogs. Drive safe. I'll send the address for GPS. Thanks, man.

and it quickly started to click when he saw Wade's last name was Griffin.

“As he had also talked to a Taylor Griffin a couple weeks prior.”

So Scott told Wade, "This is not for me. This is a bogus deal. I didn't want him. I didn't order him. I'm not doing this deal." He told his ranch manager to show Wade out and went back to his lodge. But then the ranch hand came back and asked if he would reconsider for a good deal. Scott said he wasn't interested and wouldn't touch them without proper licensing. But Wade was really just trying to get rid of these 150 hogs,

and the sun was starting to shine and it was heating up. So Scott and Wade ended up agreeing to $2,500.

Wade left with an empty trailer around 9.30 pm, having absolutely no idea what was happening at home. And no one imagined what would come next. A couple hours earlier, at 7.22 am, while Taylor had just left with a McDonald's or, you know, at, after Taylor had gotten gas and gotten McDonald's, Taylor's friend Reagan got a text from a Google app number. She got another text at 7.49, and she responded at 7.52.

By 8.30 am, Reagan's husband Homer received a series of very weird text messages from Reagan's phone. The text were saying things like, "She just wants to be happy and it's just not working." So they continued texting, but Homer was concerned because it didn't sound like Reagan usually sounds.

He texted her 8.33 saying, "I love you, but Reagan never responded."

At 9.34 am, a neighbor sent Homer a Facebook message that he and Reagan's puppy had escaped the house. So he tried calling Reagan at 9.36, just a couple of minutes later, to see what was going on. The neighbor said that the garage door was up, which was weird because it would never was up. And Reagan didn't answer the phone. He tried calling again at 9.58, 10.02, 10.04, 10.06, and 10.20, but she was not answering.

So he started calling the people closest to them, but before ultimately leaving work to go check on Reagan and the dog. The neighbor put the little black lab over the fence into Reagan's backyard before heading out to run errands for the morning. At 10.15 am, Jessica Brooks, Reagan's mom arrived at Reagan's house to check on her. When she walked in, she saw her 34-week pregnant daughter laying face-down in a pool of blood.

“Need a glass to melt the wine water emergency? Man, man. I don't know if anyone told her, but her daughter's been murdered. They'll be okay. Stay on the lawn with me, okay?”

Six forty-one, six-one, six-one, six-four-one, six-one. Man, can you tell me what happened? I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened. I don't know if I'll see if it's going to work. All units are headed to 200 officers for a hospital. I don't know what happened to her, ma'am. Okay, okay, what is your name? Okay, what's your daughter's name?

Reagan, what's her last name? Okay, do you have officers in my other room to you, okay? Okay, stay on the lawn. Stay on the lawn with me, okay? I'm going to put you on it.

“Okay, stay on the lawn with me. I'm going to put you on me, so I can contact with you, okay?”

Okay, I'll put you on the lawn with me, okay? In the 911 called Jessica was crying out to her husband Marcus. yelling, "Did they hurt her? I can't do this. My baby. My baby. My baby." She then asked if Ken Lee was, "Alright, before saying, I can't tell what happened. Did they just hurt her? What did they do? There's so much blood. There's so much blood. Marcus found Ken Lee in the other room, and three minutes into the 911 call, Ken Lee asks, "Where's Mommy?"

I've got an ambulance. I'm out to you, I'm police sir, and I'm out to you. I'm police sir, and I'm out to you, okay?

Okay, what is your daughter's last name?

“Ken Paul. Ken Paul. Is she okay? Oh, my daughter. What have I got her to do anyway?”

Okay, mom, then we're out to you right now. Can you see that? Can you tell what happened to her? I don't know. Can you tell what happened? I just told her. Did they just hurt her? What did they do? No, no, we can't. They're so rich and alive. Okay, so rich and alive. Are you seeing her here? Yes, mom, okay. They should be pulling up now, okay? Police quickly arrive and turn Regan over, unveiling a gruesome discovery that her baby was missing.

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There was a bloody handprint on the refrigerator right below ultrasound photos. A child's bathing sue who I assume is kinlias was soaked in blood on the living room floor. There was a urine soaked a diaper on top of a pool of blood in the living room next to the couch. There was a large bloodstained on the edge of the couch with clumps of what appeared to be Regan's blonde hair in it as if her head was leaning against it at some point during this savage attack. A blanket on the living

room floor was soaked with blood and what is believed to have been amniotic fluid. Regan had a circle indentation mark on her forehead that matched the bottom of a four-pound mason jar with a monogrammed age, a jar from their wedding that was filled with pink and blue sand. There were bloody swipes by the front door with more patterns suggesting bloody hair was smeared against it. It indicated that Regan was pushed against the wall sliding toward the front door and down

to the floor. The wall near where Regan was found was absolutely splattered with blood in all directions. Some of it was even dripping down at the walls, just truly horrific, barbaric and uncomprehensible. There were also watery blood stains on the kitchen and hallway bathroom sink, as if somebody had tried to wash something bloody. And while going through all of this discovery, they noticed a white crock shoe that was left inside the house. By this point Homer had arrived

home to the crime scene tape and, too, canly in the driveway. He wasn't allowed in the house and he called his neighbor at 1035 AM. This is the same neighbor who found the dog. He told her that his

wife was dead and it was a very quick 30-second call because clearly he was an absolute shock and

distress. While Regan's family wasn't absolute shock about her death and mourning the loss of their daughter, wife, grandchild, baby, you name it. The hospital crossed town was trying to figure out what the hell happened to Taylor who just gave birth in her car. Taylor was adamant that she

safety. I mean, after all, giving birth is incredibly strenuous. It takes entremendous toll on a woman's

“body. So, of course, they wanted to make sure that she was okay. But once Taylor finally got the”

exam results, they were able to blow this case wide open. That was enough to make the detectives look at the entire situation differently. If the baby girl and Taylor's car didn't come from her, they were starting to think that she was actually connected to the horrific crime scene that was over at Regan's house. And now, they were ready to confront her about it. I'm just going to be out front with you. I've been talking to the big eight-down of Booty County

and they've been working on a case down here. And we know that you had a history of

me sometime back and they had you planning to be ready for a while, but they really weren't. So,

“we're trying to figure out who the baby came from. But she didn't get birth this morning.”

What do you mean? So, as you said, you didn't get birth this morning. I don't know what we want to know where this baby came from. Let's walk in here. Oh, so that happened. I just told you what happened. The information I've got, she thought it was correct to me with that.

Yeah, it's correct to me, it can't be correct. And it came into a hospital with a new one.

One of the more willing I was just a new one. Okay, okay, okay. So, he's still saying it came from you. Dennis. He's winning the day on it and we can be able to play it all three quick. Essentially, what we have is we have a big one that takes us. And you took the baby out of it.

“So, I was here to die. And my question is, is Taylor of Uploaded Murderer?”

What was it something else? Sometimes people had, you know, they go through depression. And, you know, some mental issues, some of the things causes things, causes good people to make bad choices. And that's not a where I'm here at today. I think that's not a thing, I have a fact that he's right. I have an already new one. There are a lot of, a lot of things I have starting on the answer to you before I had this. But one thing I'm trying to figure out is,

why did this happen? What's going on? You know, is it something like, you know, but you're going through some depression. And you're going through some, you know, some emotional things. They, you know, and just, you know, you're whatever reason, you know, make it, make some choices, right? Or is it because you set some woman up, targeted her, to kill her as the old baby. Okay. I tell you, most of the people are going to send the lawyers. They're going to send me

an equal person. And then you just butcher this lady, left her to rot on the side of the rug. And so you're still about eating. I don't think that was the case. I mean, you don't seem like that type of person with. I didn't kill anybody. We're just baby come from. We're past all of that, and we're past that. I did not kill anybody. I didn't kill anybody. So was she alive any less? I wasn't with me. I wouldn't with her. But by that point, it really didn't matter how much

Taylor wanted to deny. All of the evidence was starting to come together. She couldn't have possibly delivered the baby and Reagan's baby also be missing. So that left the horrifying reality that Taylor had literally kidnapped Reagan's baby from her womb, taken her as her own, trying to pass her off as her own. In the process, she had killed Reagan. And even worse, sometime after Reagan's baby was born alive, by the way, she unfortunately stopped breathing. At 122pm, the baby that Taylor had

claimed was hers, was taken off life support and pronounced dead. Dr. said that this little baby would have been viable, but she had suffered a lack of oxygen. That meant that Taylor not only murdered Reagan, but she also murdered her baby to little baby, Braxlin. Police connected everything

murder for the murder of Reagan, and she was also eventually charged with capital murder and kidnapping

“for Braxlin. Reagan's mom Jess posted a photo and announced her daughter and granddaughter's death”

on social media the very next day. Her family also did a media interview a few days later.

Never quit smiling, never quit trying and moving on and tackling the next hurdle.

The most beautiful person, her spirit, her personality, everything about her was beautiful. A piece of us is gone now. She became a mother early. But after she had Ken Lee, she went on to get her hospital diploma, and she was aspiring to eventually get and she was going to start taking

“classes again in the spring, and she wanted to go into nursing eventually. It's just such a tragedy”

to think about Reagan's life and how quickly it was taken away from her. And a little Braxlin, her life was taken when she was just minutes old. She was about to be a new baby sister, born into a loving family, and that was ripped away from her. And as for Reagan's other daughter, Ken Lee, will her biological father passed away shortly after Reagan. Thankfully, her stepdad and Reagan's widow were Homer stepped up, and he raised her. But can you imagine that child and

“what she's had to go through? Homer is also in a new relationship. And Reagan's family is very”

happy for him. Her mom said that he's still in his 20s, and he deserves happiness.

Homer never went back to that house, besides once, to collect his things, and he is obviously

still grieving this terrible loss. Now guys, there is still so much more to cover. We have barely scratched the surface here. We need to get into the rest of Taylor's absolutely unhinged hospital interview footage that not many people have access to the entire uncut interrogation and even the hospital interview, because we haven't even gotten into the most unbelievable part yet. If you can imagine that. As investigators began confronting her with all the things that didn't

add up, Taylor chose not to come clean. But instead, she came up with a whole brand new version of events that somehow makes even less sense than the ones before it. Plus, there's an investigation

that ultimately exposed the truth and brought this true monster to justice. Because Taylor,

she definitely was not the kind of person who went to jail quietly. Because apparently, even after all of this, she still had plenty of chaos left in the tank. However, her web of lies, they finally started to unravel. Now before you go, quick reminder, merch, right now, anti-elease.com and get it before it is completely gone. So if you're listening to this on the podcast version, go ahead and hop on over to part two. If you're watching this on the YouTube version,

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