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- 0:05Speaker 1: Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. A gorgeous young mom to
- 0:16Speaker 1: be found murdered, her unborn baby gone. How can that be?
- 0:23Speaker 1: The mommy's found murdered, the unborn baby is missing because
- 0:29Speaker 1: the baby has been surgically cut from mommy's stomach. It
- 0:36Speaker 1: sounds like a sci fi novel, a horror story, but
- 0:41Speaker 1: it's not. I Nancy Grace, this is Crime Stories. Thank
- 0:45Speaker 1: you for being with us here at Fox Nation at
- 0:47Speaker 1: Serious Sex sim one eleven. Take a listen to this.
- 0:50Speaker 1: Polis are investigating after a woman was found dead in
- 0:53Speaker 1: her home after her unborn child was removed from her
- 0:57Speaker 1: womb Friday morning. Belisa New Boston, which is about twenty
- 1:00Speaker 1: four miles west of Texas, Arcana, say they responded around
- 1:04Speaker 1: ten twenty in the morning. The woman was found dead
- 1:06Speaker 1: inside the home. Right now, details are limited, but the
- 1:09Speaker 1: New Boston Police Department and Texas Rangers are investigating. Jess
- 1:13Speaker 1: Brooks makes a nine one one call to Texas Police
- 1:15Speaker 1: around ten twenty on a Friday morning in October. Brooks
- 1:19Speaker 1: has just found her daughter, Reagan Simmons Hancock, lying face
- 1:22Speaker 1: down in her bloody living room. According to police, there
- 1:26Speaker 1: is blood throughout the house on the floor, furniture, walls, appliances,
- 1:30Speaker 1: and other items. Hancock is found with a large cut
- 1:33Speaker 1: across her abdomen. Twenty one year old Hancock is nearly
- 1:37Speaker 1: eight months pregnant with her second child, but the child
- 1:40Speaker 1: is gone. Hancock's three year old daughter, however, has been
- 1:44Speaker 1: left alone with her dying mother. You were just you
- 1:47Speaker 1: and our friends at CBS eleven in Dallas Fort Worth
- 1:50Speaker 1: and our friends at crime online dot com who jogged
- 1:54Speaker 1: my memory? I forgot that little tidbit. The three year
- 1:59Speaker 1: old daughter is left in the home with dead mommy.
- 2:06Speaker 1: Mommy's tummy cut open and the baby gone. Was the
- 2:14Speaker 1: three year old daughter there at the time of the murder?
- 2:19Speaker 1: Did she witness her own mother being murdered and the
- 2:23Speaker 1: baby removed from the tummy? I mean, I can't remember
- 2:27Speaker 1: things at age two. This child could be close to four.
- 2:32Speaker 1: We know she's three. What did she see and what
- 2:35Speaker 1: was she remember? But back to the case in chief,
- 2:39Speaker 1: the murder of the victim, Reagan Simmons Hancock with me
- 2:43Speaker 1: an all star panel to make sense of what we
- 2:45Speaker 1: know right now. First of all, to Jack's Miller, writer
- 2:49Speaker 1: with Oxygen dot Com, true crime author one book hell
- 2:52Speaker 1: In the Heartland murder, meth and the case of two
- 2:55Speaker 1: missing girls. Okay, with that said, Jack's Miller, I'm thinking
- 3:00Speaker 1: about Reagan Simmons Handcock. This takes place in New Boston, Texas.
- 3:07Speaker 1: What can you tell me about New Boston, Texas? Well,
- 3:10Speaker 1: New Boston's kind of like your typical Eastern Texas town.
- 3:13Speaker 1: There's Chili, there's rodeos, there's Jesus, it's it's everything. Whoa, whoa,
- 3:17Speaker 1: whoa Wait wait, wait a minute. No offense to anybody
- 3:22Speaker 1: talking or listening, but I for one do not want
- 3:26Speaker 1: to hear Jesus Christ thrown in with a rodeo in
- 3:30Speaker 1: Chili's restaurant. Okay, not kidding. So I was just back
- 3:34Speaker 1: it up, Jimmy about New Boston, Texas. So it's just
- 3:38Speaker 1: talent Eastern Texas. It's about five thousand people, you know. Sorry, Jackson,
- 3:42Speaker 1: I'm actually really not trying to give you a hard time.
- 3:45Speaker 1: It just sounds that way. What do you mean it's
- 3:47Speaker 1: a typical East Texas town. I mean, I've been to Texas,
- 3:54Speaker 1: but I certainly have not been all over Texas. That
- 3:57Speaker 1: would take a long time. What's typical Eastern Texas town? Well,
- 4:04Speaker 1: I was just basing it on my own experience driving
- 4:06Speaker 1: through eastern Texas. You know, New Boston is a town
- 4:10Speaker 1: with rodeos and chili cookoffs and former markets. It's about
- 4:13Speaker 1: five thousand people. That sounds pretty good to me. Yeah.
- 4:17Speaker 1: I love a good rodeo and I love a good
- 4:19Speaker 1: chili cookoff. That's one of the reasons I belong to
- 4:22Speaker 1: my little United Methodist churches. We have chili cookoffs all
- 4:25Speaker 1: the time. So what's the population? I mean, I'm sorry,
- 4:30Speaker 1: you just said about five thousand. So this is a
- 4:34Speaker 1: small town. I'm asking for a reason. I'm not just
- 4:37Speaker 1: giving you a hard time. Cheryl McCollum joining me, forensics expert,
- 4:41Speaker 1: founder of Cold Case Research Institute. You can find her
- 4:44Speaker 1: a cold case crimes dot org. This is not a
- 4:47Speaker 1: cold case, but Cheryl and I go way back. We
- 4:51Speaker 1: have different accounts of how we first met. She claims
- 4:54Speaker 1: it was at three am, not at a bar, but
- 4:56Speaker 1: at a crime scene. Cheryl McCollum. The reason I'm grilling
- 5:00Speaker 1: Jack's miller on where the incident happened, and we're talking
- 5:05Speaker 1: about a young pregnant mom dead, whether stomach sliced open,
- 5:11Speaker 1: it's because the smaller the population, the easier it should
- 5:17Speaker 1: be logically speaking, to find the perp. Explain, well, your
- 5:21Speaker 1: suspect pool is going to be very small. If you've
- 5:23Speaker 1: only got five thousand people and half for women, you're
- 5:26Speaker 1: already down to only twenty five hundred people. And then
- 5:28Speaker 1: you've got to take the age you know, eighty and
- 5:31Speaker 1: above and you know maybe a sixteen and below. You're
- 5:34Speaker 1: looking at a very small group of people that might
- 5:37Speaker 1: be involved here. What we're also looking at is where
- 5:41Speaker 1: the home was located. If it was way out in
- 5:44Speaker 1: a rural area, or was it in a neighborhood. Is
- 5:47Speaker 1: that neighborhood known for break ins or anything like that,
- 5:49Speaker 1: or was it a really safe place to be? How
- 5:52Speaker 1: active was she in the community, church, work, friends, things
- 5:57Speaker 1: of that nature. So again, your suspect pool here is
- 5:59Speaker 1: going to be very small. You know what about Yes
- 6:03Speaker 1: you can, but I want to give cherylle I think
- 6:04Speaker 1: the last time she was with us, I coota might
- 6:06Speaker 1: not once but twice. I agree with everything you just said,
- 6:11Speaker 1: especially about church and work because let's just say she
- 6:16Speaker 1: worked at the mall. Okay, I used to work at
- 6:18Speaker 1: the mall. At Sears, you come in contact with a
- 6:21Speaker 1: lot of people and a lot of people see you
- 6:23Speaker 1: that you don't realize are seeing you. And another thing
- 6:27Speaker 1: about New Boston that Jackson Miller from Austin dot Com
- 6:30Speaker 1: is telling us, Yes, it's a small town of five thousand,
- 6:35Speaker 1: but how do I know how many people in the
- 6:37Speaker 1: metro area come there to go to o' charlies and
- 6:43Speaker 1: Chilies and Applebee's and the mall or whatever else might
- 6:47Speaker 1: be there. I know in my county seat, Bib County
- 6:52Speaker 1: making we lived far far outside of the county seat,
- 6:55Speaker 1: which is making out in rural Bib County, unincorporated Bib
- 7:00Speaker 1: and we had a thirty minute drive just to get
- 7:01Speaker 1: to McDonald's. So that was for you and far between.
- 7:05Speaker 1: But when you take into account there's five thousand people
- 7:08Speaker 1: living Indy Boston all around it, people could be coming
- 7:11Speaker 1: in and depending on where she went to church and
- 7:14Speaker 1: where she worked and her involvement in the community, like
- 7:16Speaker 1: Cheryl McCollum was just saying, many more people could have
- 7:19Speaker 1: seen her and identified her. And then we've gotten the Internet.
- 7:22Speaker 1: On top of that jump in dodgr Bethany, let me
- 7:24Speaker 1: ensure you, Bethany, doctor Bethany Marshall joining us renowned psychoanalyst
- 7:30Speaker 1: joining us out of LA. You can find her at
- 7:33Speaker 1: doctor Bethany Marshall dot com. She's a star in the
- 7:35Speaker 1: new Netflix showed Bleeding Empire. Hit me, Hey, Nancy, you
- 7:39Speaker 1: already stole my thunder. I was about to mention the internet.
- 7:42Speaker 1: This is a twenty one year old mom, and so
- 7:45Speaker 1: we have to include in the suspect pull her internet presence.
- 7:49Speaker 1: Did she have Facebook, did she have Instagram? Did she
- 7:52Speaker 1: have Twitter? And what were her relationships outside of that
- 7:56Speaker 1: small community. I know a lot of young people who
- 8:00Speaker 1: grew up in small communities are desperate to have a
- 8:02Speaker 1: broader reach. They want to know about the big cities.
- 8:05Speaker 1: They want to know about um celebrity life. They want
- 8:09Speaker 1: to know who lives in other counties. And so we
- 8:12Speaker 1: don't know was she married, was she single? Um? Was
- 8:17Speaker 1: she eating? Was she eating somebody online? Had she met
- 8:21Speaker 1: somebody online? So these are other factors we would want
- 8:24Speaker 1: to look at. You know, you said that if you
- 8:26Speaker 1: work like a Charlie's or fears that other people might
- 8:29Speaker 1: camp come in and know, oh Charlie's, oh, oh Charlie Okay,
- 8:33Speaker 1: hey oh, I'm gonna just put you and Jack's Miller
- 8:37Speaker 1: in the same pot and let you stew. Okay, Jesus
- 8:42Speaker 1: Rodeo and Chilies. Yeah, I'm on you. I am on
- 8:46Speaker 1: you like a cheap suit girl. The two eli in
- 8:50Speaker 1: Southern Charlies. Well, if you have never been to a Charlie's,
- 8:54Speaker 1: you're missing the best yeast rolls ever made. So what
- 8:57Speaker 1: were you saying about Oh Charlie. Well, what I was
- 9:01Speaker 1: saying about Oh Charlie's is that it is a good
- 9:03Speaker 1: point that if you work in an establishment like that,
- 9:06Speaker 1: if you hang out there, people might come in and
- 9:09Speaker 1: know you and recognize you, but you do not remember them.
- 9:12Speaker 1: But sometimes it's the same with the Internet. If you're
- 9:14Speaker 1: accepting every single friend request, if you put your photos
- 9:18Speaker 1: and your videos out there, a lot of people may
- 9:20Speaker 1: have become attached to her where she had no relationship
- 9:24Speaker 1: with them. Okay, you know, doctor Bethany, when you were
- 9:27Speaker 1: talking about the Internet, you mentioned Facebook, you mentioned instant
- 9:32Speaker 1: I think you did. I know you mentioned Twitter, but
- 9:36Speaker 1: you know what you didn't mention? Be real? Be real,
- 9:42Speaker 1: be real. I get all my Internet knowledge from my
- 9:45Speaker 1: fourteen year old twins. That's the new thing. Be real. Okay,
- 9:50Speaker 1: you take a quick video or picture of yourself and
- 9:54Speaker 1: supposedly without any hair and makeup in real life, and
- 9:58Speaker 1: you post it. You gotta get on that, doctor Bethany.
- 10:01Speaker 1: You know Del Carson joining me, high profile lawyer out
- 10:03Speaker 1: of Jacksonville and former fed with the FBI, author of
- 10:08Speaker 1: a rest proof yourself. You can find him Adel carsonal
- 10:10Speaker 1: Law dot com. Dell what we're doing right now, it
- 10:14Speaker 1: reminds me so much of my years as a prosecutor.
- 10:19Speaker 1: I like to go up to the Appellate Division where
- 10:22Speaker 1: the brain trust was. I actually got to write appeals
- 10:25Speaker 1: for many years as well, and taught at lunch or
- 10:31Speaker 1: they'd always be sitting around at a big long table
- 10:36Speaker 1: and in the DA's office. We had our own set
- 10:38Speaker 1: of you know OCGA Official Code of Georgia Annitated, the
- 10:42Speaker 1: Georgia Supreme Courts, Southeastern case Law, the Georgia Appellate Court rulings,
- 10:49Speaker 1: so they could do their research sitting right there instead
- 10:51Speaker 1: of going to the law library. I would love going
- 10:54Speaker 1: up there and getting into it with them about whatever
- 10:58Speaker 1: case I was getting ready when I had time. What
- 11:01Speaker 1: we're doing right now, talking about the area, the Oh Charlie's,
- 11:06Speaker 1: the Chili's where she worked, where she went to school,
- 11:10Speaker 1: the crime rate, the location, all that matters. It's not
- 11:15Speaker 1: just idle chit chat. It's how you work a case
- 11:19Speaker 1: if you got any brains anyway. But the most important
- 11:22Speaker 1: thing we're all kind of missing, and that is that
- 11:25Speaker 1: ed child is missing. And there's only in my book,
- 11:29Speaker 1: there's only one way this actually happens. And as an
- 11:33Speaker 1: agent and as a police officer, I've handled cases just
- 11:37Speaker 1: like this, and it can only mean one thing. Somebody
- 11:41Speaker 1: wanted that child. They didn't necessarily care whether the mother
- 11:45Speaker 1: died or not. They wanted the child. That's the trail
- 11:49Speaker 1: you have to follow. Hey, Dale Carson, everybody jump in. Also,
- 11:54Speaker 1: I mean doctor Michelle Dupree, pathologist, medical examiner and author
- 12:00Speaker 1: Homicide Investigation Field Guide. Everybody jump in. I remember sitting
- 12:05Speaker 1: out in It's like a church in a courtroom. Sometimes
- 12:09Speaker 1: you've got all the state's witnesses and state supporters, victims
- 12:13Speaker 1: family supporters on one side, and all the defendant's family
- 12:16Speaker 1: and supporters on the other side, and the press somewhere
- 12:20Speaker 1: in the mix. Like in a church at a wedding,
- 12:22Speaker 1: the bride side is on one side and the grim's
- 12:26Speaker 1: relatives are on the other side. I will never forget
- 12:29Speaker 1: in the Scott Peterson trial when Mark gary Goes blurted
- 12:33Speaker 1: something out about maybe Lacy was kidnapped by a woman
- 12:38Speaker 1: who wanted to cut up in her stomach and steal
- 12:41Speaker 1: baby Connor. I nearly fell off my chair. I got
- 12:45Speaker 1: I really mean look from the sheriff too. She was
- 12:48Speaker 1: just dying to throw somebody out of the courtroom. I
- 12:51Speaker 1: remember thinking how far fetched that was, and actually it's
- 12:56Speaker 1: highly statistically unlikely. And of course Connor was found with
- 13:01Speaker 1: Lacy in a twenty four hour cycle when they washed
- 13:04Speaker 1: up on the San Francisco Bay. Sure, so that didn't
- 13:08Speaker 1: happen in that case. But Garagos was not half wrong, right.
- 13:14Speaker 1: I gotta give the devil's due because we are seeing
- 13:17Speaker 1: this more and more and more where a mother is
- 13:19Speaker 1: actually murdered and sliced open to get the baby. Take
- 13:26Speaker 1: a listen to our friends at Katie a l New
- 13:29Speaker 1: evidence suggest the victim was not killed the way investigators
- 13:33Speaker 1: originally believed. Originally, twenty one year old Reagan Simmons Hancock
- 13:37Speaker 1: was believed to have died from massive blood loss due
- 13:40Speaker 1: to slashing and cutting. A scalpel was later recovered from
- 13:43Speaker 1: her neck during an autopsy. According to an examiner hired
- 13:46Speaker 1: by the state. Hancock died from being strangled rather than
- 13:50Speaker 1: being cut. Okay, hold on straight out to Jack Smeller,
- 13:54Speaker 1: our special guest joining us from Oxygen dot com. She's
- 13:57Speaker 1: a true crime author. Acts. You see a mom lying
- 14:02Speaker 1: in the floor with her dad covered, the whole area
- 14:06Speaker 1: covered in crime, saying, her three year old little girl
- 14:09Speaker 1: sitting with mommy god knows how long, and her baby
- 14:14Speaker 1: having been cut out of her stomach. Zam, we are
- 14:18Speaker 1: just learning a scalpel was later recovered from her neck
- 14:24Speaker 1: daring an autopsy. I mean, I would have thought the
- 14:27Speaker 1: scalpel would be used to cut her tummy open, but
- 14:30Speaker 1: her net was sliced as well. It's it's it's really
- 14:33Speaker 1: a really horrific her ricks to crime. There's there's blood everywhere,
- 14:37Speaker 1: you know. Now they're saying that she was strangled. You know,
- 14:40Speaker 1: she had the scalpel in her neck, and you know,
- 14:43Speaker 1: just just to put it a little bit in a context, here,
- 14:48Speaker 1: we have a killer who's out there. But remember New
- 14:50Speaker 1: Boston's very close to three state borders. It's not far
- 14:53Speaker 1: from Oklahoma, it's not far from Arkansas, and it's not
- 14:57Speaker 1: far from Louisiana. So so That's another thing to consider too,
- 15:00Speaker 1: that whoever did this, it might be out of the
- 15:01Speaker 1: seat by now. Okay, Jack's miller just changed the whole
- 15:07Speaker 1: equation right there. When you were talking about Eastern Texas
- 15:11Speaker 1: before I got off on my chili, your ant wasn't
- 15:15Speaker 1: thinking about the significance of what you just said. I
- 15:18Speaker 1: mean to me, East Texas. Texas is so big. I
- 15:21Speaker 1: didn't realize how close to the border it was to
- 15:24Speaker 1: three states. And you know, and no fault of theirs.
- 15:29Speaker 1: Police normally don't like the Texas police are going to
- 15:32Speaker 1: be looking. They're not going to call Arkansas and Oklahoma
- 15:35Speaker 1: go hey, this just happened. It's the cross border communication
- 15:41Speaker 1: between law enforcement is not great through no fault of
- 15:45Speaker 1: their own. And I can't stress that enough. Cheryl, jump
- 15:48Speaker 1: in on that. Nancy. Here's the thing that just leads
- 15:51Speaker 1: out at me more than anything else, and that's when
- 15:53Speaker 1: law enforcement and their affidavit put there were blood on
- 15:56Speaker 1: the floor, furniture, walls, and appliances. The word appliance. Nobody's
- 16:04Speaker 1: going to keep their toaster in the living room, which
- 16:06Speaker 1: is where the victim was found. That means this either
- 16:09Speaker 1: started in the kitchen or another room. And went throughout
- 16:12Speaker 1: the house. She was stabbed over one hundred times, baby
- 16:17Speaker 1: was cut out of her, A hammer was used to
- 16:21Speaker 1: bludge in her head. Any one of these things, the
- 16:25Speaker 1: scapel in the neck, the hammer blodge into her head,
- 16:28Speaker 1: the hundred stab wounds, the baby being cut from her,
- 16:32Speaker 1: any of those things would have killed her. This was
- 16:35Speaker 1: not a quick, clean easy I'm going to knock her out,
- 16:39Speaker 1: cut the baby, and I'm out. You know what, Cheryl,
- 16:41Speaker 1: the way you just described that, really, I'm just thinking, Cheryl,
- 16:45Speaker 1: Remember and I was pregnant. Remember you threw me that
- 16:47Speaker 1: big baby shower in Atlanta, And there at the end,
- 16:53Speaker 1: I mean I could barely walk. I didn't realize what
- 16:57Speaker 1: because I couldn't breathe. I didn't realize what bad shape
- 17:00Speaker 1: I was with all those blood clots. And I'm just
- 17:03Speaker 1: thinking of this mom, she's eight months pregnant. Describe that
- 17:08Speaker 1: same one more time, Sharyl McCollum. Blood was on the floor, furniture, walls,
- 17:13Speaker 1: and appliances. So there was blood throughout the house. So
- 17:18Speaker 1: that tells you we'd like cast off patterns, maybe chasing
- 17:22Speaker 1: her with a weapon that already had blood on it.
- 17:25Speaker 1: It paints a very sinister picture, because again, this was
- 17:29Speaker 1: not fast. This was a horrific scene. Time stories with
- 17:47Speaker 1: Nancy Grace. One hundred stab wounds, a scalpel still in
- 17:55Speaker 1: the victim's neck, removed at autopsy, and now we find
- 17:59Speaker 1: out all the stabs are not even the cod cause
- 18:04Speaker 1: of death. Doctor Michelle dupre joining me, pathologist, medical examiner,
- 18:09Speaker 1: author of Homicide Investigation Field Guide. Okay, doctor Dupree, jump
- 18:14Speaker 1: in Andancy, this was absolutely overkill. I mean, there's just
- 18:18Speaker 1: no other way to explain it. Three different types of
- 18:21Speaker 1: manners or causes of death, you know, strangulation, the bludgeoning
- 18:26Speaker 1: with the hammer, and the hundred stablins. This is crazy.
- 18:30Speaker 1: This was frenetic. This was just absolutely overkill. And you
- 18:34Speaker 1: know what else is interesting to you, Doctor Bethany Marshall, psychoanist,
- 18:39Speaker 1: turning us out of LA. I know this isn't your
- 18:42Speaker 1: normal rodeo drive patient worried about her lubitans. But now
- 18:50Speaker 1: that I hear doctor Michelle Dupree and Michelle Cheryl McCollum
- 18:55Speaker 1: describing the crime scene and Jack's as well from oxygen,
- 19:01Speaker 1: there's no way this little girl, the three year old,
- 19:04Speaker 1: didn't say probably the whole thing, Mommy, running from room
- 19:07Speaker 1: to room, screaming. Blood in the back of blood in
- 19:11Speaker 1: the kitchen, on the appliance's, blood on furniture in the floor. Nancy,
- 19:16Speaker 1: I had kind of like a fantasy or a daydream,
- 19:19Speaker 1: or a guess hypothesis, whatever the right word is about
- 19:23Speaker 1: how this happened. Whoever killed this poor twenty one year
- 19:27Speaker 1: old pregnant mom with little three year old and ran
- 19:31Speaker 1: after her from room to room must have been romancing
- 19:35Speaker 1: this mother in some way. I don't mean in a
- 19:38Speaker 1: sexual romantic way, but I mean must have befriended her.
- 19:41Speaker 1: Must have come to the front door with an agenda,
- 19:44Speaker 1: sat down, had tea, head coffee, whatever was chatting with her.
- 19:49Speaker 1: And whoever did this was either extraordinarily angry or was
- 19:54Speaker 1: an amateur and was just desperate for any way to
- 19:58Speaker 1: kill this mom and get access to the fetus. So
- 20:02Speaker 1: when you think of chasing her from room to room,
- 20:05Speaker 1: the scalpel and the neck over one hundredth stab marks.
- 20:08Speaker 1: This was a crime that was preplanned from the standpoint
- 20:14Speaker 1: that the perpetrator wanted to kill another and gain access
- 20:17Speaker 1: to the baby. But this person, the perpetrator, did not
- 20:21Speaker 1: know how to kill a human being. The perpetrator will
- 20:26Speaker 1: try one thing, if they tried another and then another.
- 20:29Speaker 1: This poor pregnant woman is running from room to room,
- 20:33Speaker 1: and this is a late stage pregnancy, and the perpetrator
- 20:37Speaker 1: is just you know, it's thinking about one way to
- 20:39Speaker 1: kill her, and when that doesn't work, she thinks about
- 20:41Speaker 1: another way, you know, grabbing appliances, throwing her against the wall,
- 20:45Speaker 1: stabbing her. Not only is it brutal, but it does
- 20:49Speaker 1: I talked to Duprea's right. The word frenetic, overkill, ill strategized, amateur.
- 20:58Speaker 1: It has a very razy quality. I think more of
- 21:02Speaker 1: a frenzy, of a frenzy, That's what I'm thinking about. Guys.
- 21:09Speaker 1: Killer and disorganized. Killers are not organized. They don't plan things.
- 21:14Speaker 1: The only thing that happened here is they've gotten away.
- 21:18Speaker 1: That's the one thing that's happened. And if you're going
- 21:21Speaker 1: to take a child from a mother's womb, you want
- 21:25Speaker 1: to keep the mother alive as long as you can
- 21:27Speaker 1: to secure the life of the child. And that did
- 21:30Speaker 1: not happen here, because, as you point out, anger and
- 21:34Speaker 1: hostility was at a maximum level when this event transpired.
- 21:39Speaker 1: You know, I got to jump in. Okay, it does
- 21:43Speaker 1: appear amateurs to me, because again, this killer left behind weapons,
- 21:48Speaker 1: left behind the victim's body, and left behind a witness.
- 21:51Speaker 1: A three year old can give a lot of information. Furthermore,
- 21:56Speaker 1: whoever did this had to have some pre planning. We're
- 22:00Speaker 1: going to show up somewhere with a newborn. There's a backstory,
- 22:04Speaker 1: so there was premeditation. You're absolutely right, it's still disorganized,
- 22:08Speaker 1: and disorganized means that very thing that they leave evidence
- 22:12Speaker 1: that there's no there maybe preptraining. Actual course, there's disorganization,
- 22:20Speaker 1: which is clearly evident from the scene that we hear about. Guys,
- 22:24Speaker 1: when you are analyzing any case, you're trying to put
- 22:26Speaker 1: all the pieces of the puzzle together. The main piece
- 22:28Speaker 1: of the puzzle. It's not necessarily the crime scene, but
- 22:33Speaker 1: it's the victim that is the main piece of your puzzle.
- 22:38Speaker 1: Take a listen to our friends at k SLA. The
- 22:41Speaker 1: twenty one year old was wife to Homer Hancock and
- 22:44Speaker 1: mom to three year old Kenley Greece, and she was
- 22:47Speaker 1: also expecting another baby, girl, who she named Braxlin Sage.
- 22:52Speaker 1: She became a mother early, but after she had Kenley,
- 22:56Speaker 1: she went on to get her high school diploma and
- 22:58Speaker 1: she was aspiring to eventually get in. She was going
- 23:02Speaker 1: to start taking classes again in the spring, and she
- 23:05Speaker 1: wanted to go into nursing eventually. Never quit smiling, never
- 23:09Speaker 1: quit trying and moving on and tackling the next hurdle.
- 23:14Speaker 1: The most beautiful person, her spirit, her personality, everything about
- 23:20Speaker 1: her was beautiful. A piece of us is gone now,
- 23:26Speaker 1: Emily Simmons says, her sister Reagan is the glue that
- 23:30Speaker 1: keeps her family together. She always held us close and
- 23:36Speaker 1: she's holding us closer now. For now, the family is
- 23:39Speaker 1: leaning on their feet. Just prayers. All we can ask
- 23:42Speaker 1: for is prayer. Everywhere I look, I see her our
- 23:46Speaker 1: friends at KSLA speaking to family members in their grief.
- 23:52Speaker 1: And you know, doctor Bethany, it's not just grief. It's
- 23:55Speaker 1: not just suddenly losing someone so young. And you know,
- 23:58Speaker 1: doctor Bethany, you got a hand to this lady victim. Reagan.
- 24:03Speaker 1: She has a baby, she chooses to keep the baby,
- 24:07Speaker 1: She team mom, and she goes after having the baby,
- 24:11Speaker 1: goes back and finishes her high school degree and then
- 24:17Speaker 1: is starting nursing classes in the spring. I mean, this
- 24:22Speaker 1: woman is amazing, Nanthy, She's remarkable, and in terms of
- 24:29Speaker 1: the family and the aftermath, of this tragedy. You know,
- 24:32Speaker 1: one of the definitions of trauma is when the unimaginable happens.
- 24:37Speaker 1: As much as we're talking about this and trying to
- 24:39Speaker 1: make sense of it, it's still the unimaginable. There's no
- 24:43Speaker 1: way for this family to process. And as I said
- 24:46Speaker 1: so many times on your show, grieving, it's not just
- 24:49Speaker 1: recognizing the loss of the present in the past. It's
- 24:53Speaker 1: realizing that you'll never have a future with this person.
- 24:56Speaker 1: They'll never see her mother, the unborn baby, raised her
- 24:59Speaker 1: three years world go on to become a professional nurse.
- 25:02Speaker 1: They'll never see her get married, they'll never see her graduations.
- 25:06Speaker 1: So they have to come to terms with the future.
- 25:08Speaker 1: And you know, Nancy, this perpetrator not only stold the
- 25:12Speaker 1: life of a mother and an unborn baby, think of
- 25:15Speaker 1: all the patients that this young mother was going to
- 25:20Speaker 1: help as a nurse. She's robbed society of a very
- 25:23Speaker 1: important person as well. So the search is on, police
- 25:26Speaker 1: make public, the name of the victim. In the community
- 25:30Speaker 1: is in shock and a reeling. Women are afraid. No
- 25:34Speaker 1: one knows how to make sense of it. Hey does
- 25:37Speaker 1: anybody on this panel? Of course, you do remember that
- 25:40Speaker 1: Timothy mcveig case, Okay City bomber. Okay, he murdered yea
- 25:48Speaker 1: volumes of people. I remember it was in the Alfred
- 25:51Speaker 1: Murra building in Oklahoma City and there was a nursery
- 25:55Speaker 1: in that building by the way that he bombed. And Cheryl,
- 26:01Speaker 1: do you remember the coinkie dink? The coincidence of how
- 26:05Speaker 1: he was caught? Do you remember how he was caught?
- 26:07Speaker 1: Please say no, I can never stump you woman. Go ahead.
- 26:12Speaker 1: I believe it was a traffic style. Yes, it was.
- 26:15Speaker 1: Tell light, Tell light, Tell light. You know, I'll tell
- 26:18Speaker 1: lights are made up of like five, seven, eight little
- 26:21Speaker 1: pieces of red and one of those little pieces was
- 26:27Speaker 1: out and they pulled him over and they found all
- 26:33Speaker 1: sorts of evidence of the bombing. So the search is
- 26:38Speaker 1: on for the killer of this young mom, Reagan Simmons, handcocked,
- 26:42Speaker 1: just twenty one years old. And then what a coinkie dink?
- 26:47Speaker 1: A coincidence? Take a listen to our friends at crime Online.
- 26:51Speaker 1: A Texas State trooper pulls over a car for speeding
- 26:54Speaker 1: and inside he finds Taylor Parker giving CPR to a
- 26:57Speaker 1: newborn Barker tells the trooper that she has just given
- 27:00Speaker 1: birth on the side of the road, but the baby
- 27:03Speaker 1: isn't breathing. The trooper says he could see an umbilical
- 27:06Speaker 1: cord connected to the infant coming out of the woman's pants.
- 27:09Speaker 1: Parker and the newborn are rushed by life net ems
- 27:13Speaker 1: to McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabelle, Oklahoma, where the baby
- 27:17Speaker 1: dies and it's also where Parker, who has seemingly just
- 27:21Speaker 1: given birth, refuses to be checked out by doctors. Well,
- 27:25Speaker 1: sanalis what we just heard from our friends at Crime Online.
- 27:28Speaker 1: Texas State trooper pulls over a vehicle for speeding, finds
- 27:32Speaker 1: a woman, twenty nine year old Taylor Parker, giving CPR
- 27:38Speaker 1: to an infant. She says she just gave birth on
- 27:42Speaker 1: the side of the road, but the baby's not breathing.
- 27:45Speaker 1: The trooper could see the umbilical cord still connected to
- 27:49Speaker 1: the infant, coming out of Parker's pants. Okay, wait, wait,
- 27:57Speaker 1: I'm taking all this in rush her to the hospital,
- 28:02Speaker 1: where she refuses to be examined by doctors. Jack's Miller
- 28:08Speaker 1: joining me, investigative reporter with Oxygen dot Com and true
- 28:12Speaker 1: crime author, tell me about the treop we're pulling over
- 28:17Speaker 1: this woman. What do we know? So this happened in Dacalb, Texas.
- 28:22Speaker 1: And you know, it's like you said, she was speeding.
- 28:25Speaker 1: And it was around that same time, like within minutes,
- 28:28Speaker 1: that the victim's mother had called policing. I just found
- 28:30Speaker 1: my daughter. She's dead. There's blood everywhere. And then this
- 28:34Speaker 1: is kind of happening simultaneously and pretty much Taylor has
- 28:40Speaker 1: the baby on her lap. She's like, my baby's not breathing.
- 28:43Speaker 1: I just gave birth on the side of the road.
- 28:44Speaker 1: And she went as far as to put the babies
- 28:47Speaker 1: or the mother's placenta down her pants. Okay, walk and stop,
- 28:53Speaker 1: repeat very slowly for us, Chili aiding, Oh Charlie, loving
- 29:00Speaker 1: much am, What did you just say about the placenta.
- 29:03Speaker 1: So when the state trooper found Taylor with the baby
- 29:07Speaker 1: on her lap, she says, I just gave birth. And
- 29:10Speaker 1: of course you know that Taylor had stuffed the mother's
- 29:14Speaker 1: placenta regan placenta down her trousers to keep up with appearances. Okay,
- 29:20Speaker 1: you know, believe it or not, doctor Michelde Free. A
- 29:22Speaker 1: lot of people don't know what a placenta is. Explain
- 29:26Speaker 1: the placenta is actually what nourishes and feeds the baby.
- 29:30Speaker 1: It's attached to the inside of the mother's uterus, and
- 29:32Speaker 1: of course attached by unbecal cord to the fetus, and
- 29:36Speaker 1: that's what delivers blood and everything, all the nourishment. What
- 29:40Speaker 1: does it look like. It looks like a disk, probably
- 29:43Speaker 1: about twelve or so inches in diameter. It's maybe an
- 29:47Speaker 1: inch er inch in a hastick, and it's sort of spongy,
- 29:50Speaker 1: and it's spongey because it's full of blood. This would
- 29:54Speaker 1: be very messy, very very very messy. Where is it
- 29:58Speaker 1: inside the womb? So inside the limit is inside the uterus,
- 30:02Speaker 1: and it is attached usually to the posterior wall of
- 30:05Speaker 1: the uterus itself, and the umbilical core connects to it
- 30:09Speaker 1: or through it, it connects to it. So one end
- 30:12Speaker 1: of the umbilical cord is connected to the baby, one
- 30:16Speaker 1: end of the umbilical cord is connected to the placenta,
- 30:18Speaker 1: and the placenta is attached on the other side to
- 30:21Speaker 1: the posterior wall of the uterus. Time Stories with Nancy
- 30:38Speaker 1: Grace and Jack's Miller from Ocean dot Com. You're telling
- 30:44Speaker 1: me basically, bloody blanket. The placenta is stuffed down Taylor
- 30:51Speaker 1: Parker's pants. That's correct. The feet trooper noted that the
- 30:55Speaker 1: umbilical cord was still in her trier's movement, of course,
- 30:58Speaker 1: that it would still be attached to the placenta, you know,
- 31:02Speaker 1: which would be natural if this was her child. You know,
- 31:05Speaker 1: you deliver baby, you deliver the placenta soon after. But
- 31:09Speaker 1: then they took her to the hospital via ambulance, and
- 31:12Speaker 1: she refused to have an examination. Dodgor Besani Marshall or
- 31:16Speaker 1: psychoanalyst Beverly Hills, don't tune up about insanity, don't because
- 31:21Speaker 1: this woman had the cunning to try to trick the
- 31:25Speaker 1: state traper by shoving the umbilical chord and the placenta
- 31:29Speaker 1: down her own pants. Another woman's child's a millical chord
- 31:35Speaker 1: and placenta to pull off her lie stuffed it down
- 31:40Speaker 1: her own pants. Nancy. He said, this what we see
- 31:43Speaker 1: in all criminals. They don't see in themselves what we
- 31:47Speaker 1: see in them. I mean, she's not psychiatrically, Hills, she's
- 31:51Speaker 1: not mentally ill, but she is really disturbed the fact
- 31:56Speaker 1: that she stuff the placenta into her pants. She's driving
- 32:00Speaker 1: to the hospital. She doesn't think that she'll be subjected
- 32:04Speaker 1: to an examination. She cuts the baby out of the
- 32:08Speaker 1: twenty one year old mother's body with a scalpel I believe,
- 32:11Speaker 1: or a nice some sort of instrument. She doesn't think
- 32:14Speaker 1: she's actually harming the baby, not only the physical harm,
- 32:18Speaker 1: but the psychological harm of that kind of a traumatic birth.
- 32:23Speaker 1: I mean, this is the mother who really I'm sorry
- 32:26Speaker 1: I said mother, I mean a potential mother. This is
- 32:29Speaker 1: somebody who wants to be a mother so badly that
- 32:34Speaker 1: she has this tunneling effect that all she can think
- 32:37Speaker 1: of is getting access to the baby. But she's not
- 32:40Speaker 1: thinking about any other factor in terms of the medical aspect,
- 32:45Speaker 1: the biological aspects, the survival of the infant. Can you
- 32:48Speaker 1: imagine her being a mother in real wife? What a disaster. Actually,
- 32:51Speaker 1: she had children, Believe it or not. This woman had children.
- 32:56Speaker 1: She knows what it's like to be pregnant. So what more.
- 32:59Speaker 1: And I'm glad brought that up, Bethday, because this is
- 33:01Speaker 1: a whole another layer of subterfuge. And to me, it
- 33:07Speaker 1: makes her even more evil because she knows what the
- 33:10Speaker 1: victim was going through into pregnancy. She had children, So
- 33:15Speaker 1: why why this? Why another child? Does she need another
- 33:19Speaker 1: child so desperately? Why a baby? Why murder to get
- 33:23Speaker 1: a baby. Well, take a listen to our friends at
- 33:26Speaker 1: k SLA attorneys said Parker committed the crimes not because
- 33:31Speaker 1: she wanted a baby, but because she did not want
- 33:34Speaker 1: to lose her boyfriend. Parker was not able to carry
- 33:36Speaker 1: a child because of a hysterectomy. Parker offered them a
- 33:40Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to be a Sarahgan mother. Parker ordered
- 33:44Speaker 1: from the Internet a suit which made her look pregnant,
- 33:47Speaker 1: faking that condition for nearly ten months, all the while
- 33:51Speaker 1: hunting for a victim. Okay, I try to let that,
- 33:54Speaker 1: so can let that percolate for a moment. She did
- 33:58Speaker 1: not want to lose her boyfriend, did not tell him
- 34:01Speaker 1: she had had a hysterect to me, offered friends one
- 34:05Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars to be a surrogate mother, and ordered
- 34:09Speaker 1: an internet pregnancy suit, all the while hunting for a victim. Well,
- 34:18Speaker 1: number one, I guess she's lost her boyfriend now. But
- 34:22Speaker 1: Cheryl McCollum, can you imagine a ten month search for
- 34:26Speaker 1: just the right pregnant victim, Nancy, I'm going to go
- 34:30Speaker 1: back to what I started a little while ago, and
- 34:33Speaker 1: that's this premeditation. This person had to lie about being pregnant.
- 34:38Speaker 1: So did she have a fake pregnancy test? Did she
- 34:41Speaker 1: make fake doctor's appointments? At what extent did she go
- 34:45Speaker 1: to again? Doctor Marshall mentioned social media? She took the
- 34:49Speaker 1: social media? Did she gain weight? The thing you just
- 34:53Speaker 1: played said that she had one of those fake baby momps. Oh,
- 34:56Speaker 1: there's so much more, Cheryl Jackson Miller joining me from
- 35:00Speaker 1: Austen dot com. Isn't it true? She is accused of
- 35:03Speaker 1: faking ultrasounds and even having a gender reveal party. It
- 35:11Speaker 1: was no. She went to such great length. She had
- 35:13Speaker 1: this this big gender reveal everything you just said, and
- 35:16Speaker 1: then beyond that, on the day that she went to
- 35:19Speaker 1: the hospital with with this baby, she had her boyfriend.
- 35:24Speaker 1: He was supposed to come because she said, oh, I'm
- 35:26Speaker 1: going to be induced into labor. So he was going
- 35:29Speaker 1: to the hospital thinking that she was going to deliver
- 35:32Speaker 1: her baby. And can he add Danny knows she's been
- 35:35Speaker 1: pregnant for ten months. Well, you know, I guess, I
- 35:38Speaker 1: guess he had believed that. And on top of that,
- 35:41Speaker 1: she allegedly was going to she she had planned to
- 35:44Speaker 1: do this bomb threat at the hospital, and I guess
- 35:46Speaker 1: that was a way to kind of keep up, you know,
- 35:48Speaker 1: with with concealing this big secret, white white, white white.
- 35:52Speaker 1: What bomb threat? Yes, there was a bomb threat that
- 35:55Speaker 1: was just released. She was going to make a bomb
- 35:58Speaker 1: threat to keep this this big baby thing of secrets allegedly.
- 36:03Speaker 1: I mean, when you look at her, I'm looking at
- 36:05Speaker 1: her Facebook photo, she just she's gorgeous. She's just okay.
- 36:12Speaker 1: The evil that can lurk in the mind of a
- 36:15Speaker 1: human is amazing to me. Guys, take a listen. What
- 36:18Speaker 1: more we know about her plotting and scheming. Take a
- 36:23Speaker 1: listen to our cut fourteen our friends from Katie a l.
- 36:27Speaker 1: One friend testified about how Parker was obsessed with her pregnancy.
- 36:31Speaker 1: This afternoon. The prosecution showed numerous posts on Parker's Facebook
- 36:35Speaker 1: page where she claimed to be pregnant and shared a
- 36:38Speaker 1: picture and shared pictures of a baby bump and a
- 36:41Speaker 1: gender reveal party. The jury also saw evidence in her
- 36:44Speaker 1: testimony Sean Parker was Facebook friends went the victim. Aha,
- 36:49Speaker 1: there's a connection. Chela Parker became Facebook friends with the
- 36:53Speaker 1: pregnant mom Reagan Simmons, Hancock and more from Katie a
- 36:58Speaker 1: l Listen. Data from her device in Internet searches showed
- 37:01Speaker 1: she ordered a fake baby belly in a customized fake
- 37:04Speaker 1: ultrasound skin online and posted dozens of baby belly photos
- 37:08Speaker 1: and selfies. She starked ob clinics in East Texas and
- 37:12Speaker 1: Shreveport when investigator head she was looking for places where
- 37:16Speaker 1: she could find pregnant women and even looked up license
- 37:19Speaker 1: plates of patients coming out of clinics as her fake
- 37:23Speaker 1: due date grew closer. She also searched online for information
- 37:26Speaker 1: on private adoptions and out of hospital birth certificates. In
- 37:30Speaker 1: the days before the murder, she watched videos about how
- 37:33Speaker 1: to do a c section, examine a newborn, and search
- 37:36Speaker 1: for where Reagan Simmons lived and the hours before the murder,
- 37:40Speaker 1: cell phone data showed Parker used a spoof cell phone
- 37:43Speaker 1: number to contact Reagan Hancock Okay Deale Carson, high profile
- 37:48Speaker 1: lawyer out of Jacksonville and former FBI agent. That's a
- 37:54Speaker 1: lot of evidence, deal, Carson, ooh, it is, and it
- 37:58Speaker 1: also demonstrates that they were active on the Internet. So
- 38:01Speaker 1: that means that the use of cell phone data, the
- 38:05Speaker 1: use of other mechanisms to establish where people were at
- 38:10Speaker 1: a certain time is going to be an immense value
- 38:12Speaker 1: to the investigation. As you're comment about boys not understanding
- 38:17Speaker 1: that ten months. I had a case years ago in
- 38:20Speaker 1: eighty seven involving a similar matter where a fellow was
- 38:25Speaker 1: both believed that his girlfriend, who actually did what we're
- 38:29Speaker 1: talking about here essentially, was in fact didn't know. I mean,
- 38:35Speaker 1: boys don't calculate like women do when it comes to
- 38:39Speaker 1: those months. So you're just you really don't know and
- 38:43Speaker 1: you don't understand. So these men typically know nothing about
- 38:47Speaker 1: what's really going on, and typically they don't get charged
- 38:50Speaker 1: in these kinds of cases. How this guy, I didn't
- 38:53Speaker 1: notice that that was a fake pregnant seat bump on
- 38:57Speaker 1: Amazon Jump in Doctor Bethany really quickly. I treated a
- 39:00Speaker 1: lady who had what's called pseudosciasis, that means a false pregnancy.
- 39:06Speaker 1: She wanted once in my practice about ten years ago.
- 39:09Speaker 1: She wanted to be pregnant so desperately that her belly
- 39:14Speaker 1: actually began to grow. It's a thing. And she wasn't
- 39:18Speaker 1: in a relationship, she was single, but the desperation to
- 39:21Speaker 1: have a baby actually had a biological impact on her body. Sadly,
- 39:27Speaker 1: these cases, which you said earlier in the show, are
- 39:30Speaker 1: statistically rare, often follow a common pattern. You usually have
- 39:35Speaker 1: a woman who sometimes she has children, sometimes she doesn't,
- 39:38Speaker 1: who needs a love object, wants to hold on to
- 39:42Speaker 1: the love of a man. She imagines that if she
- 39:45Speaker 1: says she's going to have a baby, she'll have a
- 39:47Speaker 1: better chance of securing his love. So what we see
- 39:51Speaker 1: if there's a nine or ten or eleven months pattern
- 39:53Speaker 1: of getting fakes on a grams, going on the internet,
- 39:57Speaker 1: ordering baby, having the gender party, having baby showers, and
- 40:02Speaker 1: all of a sudden, at the ninth months rot row,
- 40:05Speaker 1: they have to produce a baby, and they become extremely desperate, aggressive, ruthless,
- 40:12Speaker 1: and they'll do anything to procure a baby, even it's
- 40:15Speaker 1: like what we're covering today, you know, murdering and attacking
- 40:18Speaker 1: a prating a woman, stalking ob clinics in East Texas
- 40:22Speaker 1: and Shreveport, looking at license plates of patients coming out
- 40:26Speaker 1: of the clinics to jacksonmill are joining us from Oxygen
- 40:29Speaker 1: dot com. Jacks, where does the trial stand now? So
- 40:32Speaker 1: they have done their opening arguments. They say that the
- 40:36Speaker 1: trial is going to be lasting around a month. So
- 40:39Speaker 1: we are learning a lot of new details about the case,
- 40:42Speaker 1: and I think that there's plenty more to come. So
- 40:45Speaker 1: we'll just have to wait and see where this goes.
- 40:46Speaker 1: I guess we wait as justice unfolds in this double murder.
- 40:52Speaker 1: Nancy Grace com story, signing off GOODBYESD