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Maternal Instinct: The Untold Story of Taylor Parker and the Fake Pregnancy That Ended Three Lives

Maternal Instinct: The Untold Story of Taylor Parker and the Fake Pregnancy That Ended Three Lives

Beckett, Daniel

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Series: Taylor Parker, Maternal Instinct, Book 2

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ISBN13: 9798198480681
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 24 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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On October 9, 2020, a Texas State Trooper pulled over a woman driving erratically on Highway 59. She was covered in blood. In her lap was a newborn infant with an umbilical cord still attached. She told the trooper she had just given birth.

She was lying.

Twenty miles away, in the small town of New Boston, Texas, the body of twenty-one-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock lay on her living room floor. She had been stabbed more than one hundred times. Her skull had been fractured with a hammer. Her abdomen had been cut open, and the baby she had been carrying just weeks from being born was gone.

The woman in the truck was Taylor Rene Parker. She had photographed Reagan's wedding. She had texted with her about pregnancy and baby names. She had been welcomed into Reagan's home as a friend.

She had also spent ten months faking her own pregnancy.

MATERNAL INSTINCT is the haunting true story of one of the most disturbing crimes in recent Texas history-a meticulously constructed deception that ended in murder. With the same literary restraint that made THE CRASH a bestseller, Daniel Beckett traces the path from a single lie told to a hog trapper named Wade Griffin to the unspeakable violence that ended three lives:

- Reagan Simmons-Hancock, a twenty-one-year-old wife and mother who trusted the wrong person

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