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Cop Has No Idea She Just Killed a Mom To Steal Her Unborn Baby · Murder Files Unsealed

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  Speaker 1: Usually when we talk about human deception, we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: small things. Right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Like the little things.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly. Like a little white lie to get out
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  Speaker 1: of a dinner party you don't want to go to. Or,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe fudging a resume just a bit
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  Speaker 1: to land an interview.
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  Speaker 2: Sure.
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  Speaker 1: Because there's this boundary line that most of us draw,
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  Speaker 1: like a psychological fail safe where the lie just gets
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  Speaker 1: too heavy or way too complicated. And we just, well,
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  Speaker 1: we just let it collapse.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: You take your medicine and you move on.
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  Speaker 2: You fess up. Right.
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  Speaker 1: But what happens when a facade becomes so massive, just
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  Speaker 1: so structurally impossible to maintain, that a person will cross
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  Speaker 1: like the most horrifying lines of human behavior just to
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  Speaker 1: keep that lie alive?
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  Speaker 2: It becomes a warped survival instinct. I mean, the human
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  Speaker 2: brain is this incredibly powerful rationalization engine. And when someone
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  Speaker 2: is just fundamentally unwilling to face reality, the fabricated world
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  Speaker 2: basically becomes their actual world. So protecting that fiction... It
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  Speaker 2: stops being a choice. It becomes this absolute terrifying necessity.
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  Speaker 1: We are going straight into the deep end today. We
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  Speaker 1: are looking at a staggering, just devastating case of deception
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  Speaker 1: and violence centering on a woman named Taylor Renee Parker.
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  Speaker 2: It really is staggering.
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  Speaker 1: Our mission in this deep dive is to dissect the
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  Speaker 1: psychology of a lethal lie. We're going to examine the timeline,
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  Speaker 1: the specific medical science that finally unraveled the crime, and honestly,
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  Speaker 1: the incredibly intense interrogation tactics that broke the suspect.
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  Speaker 2: And we're doing this because this isn't just a basic
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  Speaker 2: timeline of events. It is a terrifying study in cognitive dissonance.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's a masterclass in manipulation. We're essentially looking
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  Speaker 2: at the catastrophic collision of a completely fabricated reality with
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  Speaker 2: a real vulnerable human life.
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  Speaker 1: Just to set the scene for you listening and to
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  Speaker 1: give you an idea of the totally contrasting images we
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  Speaker 1: are dealing with today, I want you to picture a
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  Speaker 1: woman Throwing this extravagant gender reveal party.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: She's showing off ultrasound photos to her friends. She's putting
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  Speaker 1: together this beautiful nursery and just celebrating the promise of
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  Speaker 1: a new baby.
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  Speaker 2: A completely normal, happy scene.
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  Speaker 1: Exactly. Now picture that exact same woman just a few
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  Speaker 1: months later, frantically pulled over on the side of a
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  Speaker 1: Texas highway by a state trooper with a lifeless newborn
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  Speaker 1: in her lap, like demanding to be taken to a
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  Speaker 1: hospital in another state.
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  Speaker 2: The jarring contrast between those two images. The ultimate symbol
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  Speaker 2: of life and celebration juxtaposed directly with just sheer panic, death,
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  Speaker 2: and this unfolding criminal investigation that is the entire core
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  Speaker 2: of this story.
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  Speaker 1: It's just wild to think about.
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  Speaker 2: It is. And to understand how a human being gets
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  Speaker 2: from that gender reveal party to the side of that highway,
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  Speaker 2: we really have to look at the architecture of how
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  Speaker 2: this lie was built.
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  Speaker 1: So we need to rewind a bit. We're going back
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  Speaker 1: to July 2019 because this is where the seeds of
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  Speaker 1: this elaborate fantasy begin. were first planted in a really
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  Speaker 1: small Texas town.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, set the stage.
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  Speaker 1: So if you look at Taylor's early life, she was
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  Speaker 1: born in 1992, raised in Titus County, Texas. She had
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  Speaker 1: a younger brother, split her time between parents and grandparents.
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  Speaker 1: But as she got older, she distanced herself almost entirely
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  Speaker 1: from her family.
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  Speaker 2: Which is a huge red flag right there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, totally. By the time she was 17, she had
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  Speaker 1: her first child. She actually went on to have two
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  Speaker 1: children and was married and divorced twice before we even
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  Speaker 1: enter the timeline of this specific case.
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  Speaker 2: That background gives us a really important baseline though.
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  Speaker 1: How so?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we are looking at someone who has a history
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  Speaker 2: of severing ties, right? Creating distance from the people who
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  Speaker 2: might actually know her best and just starting over. And
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  Speaker 2: starting over requires a new narrative.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings us to the new narrative.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And the new man. It's July 2019. Taylor meets a
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  Speaker 1: guy named Wade Griffin.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: And Wade is a feral hog trapper. They meet at
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  Speaker 1: a rodeo. Wade later described being drawn to Taylor's, quote,
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  Speaker 1: country lifestyle. It just seemed like a match. But this
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  Speaker 1: relationship moves at light speed.
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  Speaker 2: It's incredibly fast.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, by October of 2019, just three months after meeting,
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  Speaker 1: they are already living together.
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  Speaker 2: Moving quickly is one thing, you know, but the mechanics
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  Speaker 2: of how she secured this relationship are what we really
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  Speaker 2: need to analyze here.
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  Speaker 1: Because it's not normal.
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  Speaker 2: No, not at all. We see immediate glaring evidence of
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  Speaker 2: extreme financial grooming. Taylor just begins to build this wildly
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  Speaker 2: extravagant life for Rovi, essentially out of thin air. Right.
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  Speaker 2: She buys him a truck worth nearly $ 90, 000. She buys
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  Speaker 2: a car for his mother. She's purchasing these off-road vehicles,
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  Speaker 2: just throwing money around like it's meaningless.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on. I want to stick on that for a
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  Speaker 1: second because, I mean, most people are barely splitting the
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  Speaker 1: dinner check at three months, right? What's that? Dropping $ 90, 000
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  Speaker 1: on a truck plus cars for the mother. Where is
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  Speaker 1: this money supposedly coming from? And more importantly, why do it? Like,
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  Speaker 1: why go to those lengths?
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  Speaker 2: So Taylor claimed she was expecting this massive inheritance. That
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  Speaker 2: was the story. As for the why, we really need
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  Speaker 2: to look at the psychology of financial grooming.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, unpack that.
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  Speaker 2: Why overwhelm a new partner with such extravagant gifts? It
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  Speaker 2: isn't just about showing off or being generous. It creates
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  Speaker 2: a profound foundation of emotional and financial debt.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, wow. Like a Ponzi scheme of emotional debt.
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  Speaker 2: That's a great way to put it.
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  Speaker 1: You pay out these massive early dividends... the truck, the cars, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: to secure the long-term capital, which is absolute unquestioning loyalty
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  Speaker 1: from this guy.
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  Speaker 2: That is a highly accurate way to look at it.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, if someone is buying you a $ 90, 000 truck
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  Speaker 2: and taking care of your mother, your prefrontal cortex, the
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  Speaker 2: logical questioning part of your brain, is essentially flooded with
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  Speaker 2: reciprocity and gratitude.
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  Speaker 1: You're just thinking this person is amazing.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. You are far less likely to question their smaller
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  Speaker 2: inconsistencies later on. It blinds the partner. It creates the
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  Speaker 2: shared fantasy of a perfect, wealthy life. Wade's dream was
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  Speaker 2: to own a ranch. So Taylor steps up and says,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I'm going to make that happen.
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  Speaker 1: Because she has this phantom inheritance.
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  Speaker 2: Right. So she starts contacting real estate agents about a
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  Speaker 2: property called Pecan Point.
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  Speaker 1: And Pecan Point isn't just like a little starter home
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  Speaker 1: or a cute little farm. This is a massive Oklahoma
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  Speaker 1: ranch worth millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Millions.
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  Speaker 1: To explain how she can afford this, She's leaning so
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  Speaker 1: hard on this phantom inheritance, telling the real estate agents
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  Speaker 1: and Wade that the money is imminent. Like, it's coming
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  Speaker 1: any day now.
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  Speaker 2: But an inheritance that doesn't exist cannot buy a ranch.
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  Speaker 1: Shocking, I know.
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  Speaker 2: Right. When it comes time to actually close the deal,
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  Speaker 2: the mechanics of the lie just start grinding gears. The
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  Speaker 2: excuses start piling up.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I bet.
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  Speaker 2: The wire transfer is delayed. Her mysterious uncle hasn't sent
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  Speaker 2: the money yet. Oh, there was a banking error. It
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  Speaker 2: is just one excuse after another until the deal inevitably
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  Speaker 2: falls through by the spring of 2020.
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  Speaker 1: What baffles me about this phase is the inherent expiration
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  Speaker 1: date of a financial lie.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: It is just such a short-term strategy. You know the
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  Speaker 1: real estate agents are going to eventually demand the money.
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  Speaker 1: You can only fake a wire transfer delay for so
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  Speaker 1: long before the dealership wants that $ 90, 000 truck back or
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  Speaker 1: the seller pulls the ranch off the market like it's
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  Speaker 1: built on sand.
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  Speaker 2: Because a financial lie is fundamentally brittle. It relies on
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  Speaker 2: third parties. Banks, real estate agents, dealerships who do not
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  Speaker 2: care about your emotional manipulation.
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  Speaker 1: They just want the check to clear.
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  Speaker 2: They just want the math to work. And when the
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  Speaker 2: math doesn't work, the lie collapses. And when money couldn't
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  Speaker 2: secure the relationship anymore, when that pecan point deal totally died,
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  Speaker 2: Taylor needed a new anchor.
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  Speaker 1: She had to pivot.
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  Speaker 2: She needed something that couldn't just be canceled by a
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  Speaker 2: frustrated real estate agent. She pivoted from finance to biology.
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  Speaker 1: Which brings us to January 2020. Right as the real
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  Speaker 1: estate deal is falling apart, Taylor announces she is pregnant
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  Speaker 1: with Wade's child.
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  Speaker 2: This completely changes the dynamic. Wade goes from a disappointed
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  Speaker 2: prospective ranch owner to a man preparing to be a father.
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  Speaker 1: It changes everything.
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  Speaker 2: But almost immediately, rumors begin to swirl around town that
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  Speaker 2: Taylor is faking the pregnancy. I mean, even Wade's own
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  Speaker 2: family reveals their suspicions to him.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I would imagine Wade's family wasn't blinded by the $ 90, 000
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  Speaker 1: truck in the same way he was, you know. They
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  Speaker 1: could probably see a bit clearer.
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  Speaker 2: Probably not.
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  Speaker 1: But Wade himself pushes back against the rumors. He stands
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  Speaker 1: by her.
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  Speaker 2: The sunk cost fallacy is incredibly powerful here. Think about it.
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  Speaker 2: He has rearranged his life. He moved in with her.
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  Speaker 2: He envisioned this grand, wealthy future.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's fully bought in.
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  Speaker 2: Admitting she is lying about the pregnancy means admitting the
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  Speaker 2: entire foundation of their life together is a fraud. That
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  Speaker 2: is a psychologically devastating thing to accept. So it's just
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  Speaker 2: much easier for him to reject the rumors.
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  Speaker 1: While Wade is defending her against his family, Taylor has
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  Speaker 1: started this photography side business. She's waiting for this fake
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  Speaker 1: inheritance to clear, supposedly. So she's taking pictures.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: She is hired to photograph a wedding. And this is
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  Speaker 1: where she meets Reagan Simmons Hancock.
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  Speaker 2: This introduction is a massive turning point. Reagan's family noted
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  Speaker 2: that at the wedding, Taylor acted much more like a
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  Speaker 2: guest than a hired professional.
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  Speaker 1: Like she was overly familiar.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she was aggressively inserting herself into the event. But
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  Speaker 2: after the wedding, Reagan and Taylor actually stayed in touch.
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  Speaker 2: Reagan welcomed Taylor into her life. And the most vital
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  Speaker 2: detail here is that Reagan was actually pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: So you have Taylor, who is faking a pregnancy, befriending Reagan,
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  Speaker 1: who is legitimately pregnant.
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  Speaker 2: Yes.
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  Speaker 1: And they bond over being expectant mothers. Yes.
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  Speaker 2: If we look at the psychological mechanics of this, the
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  Speaker 2: bizarre proximity Taylor kept to a truly pregnant woman serves
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  Speaker 2: a very dark dual purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what's the first purpose?
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  Speaker 2: First, it's about mirroring. Escaping cognitive dissonance requires constant reinforcement
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  Speaker 2: of the lie. By watching Reagan, Taylor literally learns how
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  Speaker 2: to act pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: That is so creepy.
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  Speaker 2: It is. She learns the physical milestones, the specific physical
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  Speaker 2: complaints you have in the second and third trimesters, the
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  Speaker 2: timeline of prenatal appointments, she has a real-time biological model
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  Speaker 2: to study.
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  Speaker 1: She is basically like an understudy learning the role by
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  Speaker 1: watching the lead actor on stage. It makes her own
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  Speaker 1: lie look authentic to everyone around her because she's perfectly
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  Speaker 1: mimicking a real pregnancy.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. But the second purpose is much more sinister. It
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  Speaker 2: keeps her ultimate target within arm's reach.
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  Speaker 1: It's chilling. I mean, as the months go on, Taylor
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  Speaker 1: is doing absolutely everything to maintain this illusion. She's showing
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  Speaker 1: off fake ultrasound photos. She claims they're having a baby girl.
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  Speaker 1: They're setting up a nursery in their house.
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  Speaker 2: Going through all the motions.
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  Speaker 1: But a pregnancy, much like a real estate closing, has
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  Speaker 1: a hard deadline. There's a ticking clock and that's the
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  Speaker 1: due date.
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  Speaker 2: And that clock is relentless. A biological lie cannot be
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  Speaker 2: delayed indefinitely. You either produce a baby or the lie ends.
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  Speaker 1: Kaler tells everyone she is due in September of 2020. Well,
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  Speaker 1: September comes and goes. There is no baby. Shocker. So
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  Speaker 1: Taylor pivots again and tells Wade that she needs to
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  Speaker 1: be induced into labor. But the lengths she goes to
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  Speaker 1: in order to delay this supposed induction are just staggering.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, this part is wild.
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  Speaker 1: On the morning she's supposedly scheduled to be induced, Wade's
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  Speaker 1: house erupts in flames.
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  Speaker 2: We really need to pause and examine the psychology of
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  Speaker 2: escalation here. A house fire is a completely chaotic distraction.
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  Speaker 1: And if that wasn't enough, right after the fire, The
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  Speaker 1: hospital where she is supposedly going to give birth receives
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  Speaker 1: a suspicious bomb threat. It literally causes an entire evacuation
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  Speaker 1: of the building. She is burning her world down, quite literally,
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  Speaker 1: just to buy a few more days of this fantasy.
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  Speaker 2: This is what the absolute panic of a collapsing reality
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  Speaker 2: looks like. We talked about escalation of commitment earlier. She
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  Speaker 2: is so deeply trapped in the corner of her own
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  Speaker 2: lie that she is willing to commit multiple felonies arson,
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  Speaker 2: calling in a bomb threat to a medical facility and
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  Speaker 2: Just to pause the ticking clock.
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  Speaker 1: Just for a few days.
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  Speaker 2: Because of these, quote unquote, events, her new induction date
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  Speaker 2: is pushed to October 9th, 2020.
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  Speaker 1: So October 9th arrives. But instead of wanting Roe v.
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  Speaker 1: Wade by her side for the birth of their child,
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  Speaker 1: which you'd expect, she encourages him to attend a hog
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  Speaker 1: sale that she supposedly arranged for him in Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: She needs him out of the picture. She sends him
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  Speaker 2: hours away for a business deal that when he finally arrives,
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  Speaker 2: he discovers never actually existed.
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  Speaker 1: Another phantom deal.
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  Speaker 2: It was a complete phantom, much like the inheritance.
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  Speaker 1: With Wade out of town, the lie is officially out
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  Speaker 1: of time. October 9th, 2020 becomes the day this fantasy
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  Speaker 1: violently collides with reality. And we are brought right to
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  Speaker 1: the highway where this illusion just shatters.
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  Speaker 2: On the morning of October 9th, Taylor is parked on
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  Speaker 2: the side of the road in DeKalb, Texas. A Texas
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  Speaker 2: Department of Public Safety trooper, Trooper Shavers, pulls up behind her.
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  Speaker 2: Taylor is on the phone with 911, and she is
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  Speaker 2: just frantic.
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  Speaker 1: The 911 dispatcher asks what the emergency is, and Taylor says,
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  Speaker 1: I have a state trooper behind me, and I need
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  Speaker 1: an ambulance because I started having my baby.
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  Speaker 2: Right.
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  Speaker 1: When the trooper approaches the car, he finds Taylor in
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  Speaker 1: the driver's seat. She has a newborn baby in her lap,
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  Speaker 1: and the baby isn't breathing.
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  Speaker 2: The dispatcher is instructing her on how to perform CPR
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  Speaker 2: on the infants. The trooper gets on his radio, noting
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  Speaker 2: that he's with a woman who just had a baby,
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  Speaker 2: the umbilical cord is still attached, and she is demanding
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  Speaker 2: to go to a hospital in Adabel, Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: Let's look at the geography here, because it is a massive,
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  Speaker 1: immediate red flag. She is pulled over into Cald, Texas.
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  Speaker 1: There are much closer hospitals right there in Texas, St. Michael's,
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  Speaker 1: or the hospital in Titus.
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  Speaker 2: Significantly closer.
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  Speaker 1: But Taylor is begging, literally demanding, to be taken to Adabel, Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 1: which is about a 40-minute drive away. The trooper tells
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  Speaker 1: her they need to go to St. Michael's, and she says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to St. Michael's. They're my last baby.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going there.
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  Speaker 2: It's nonsensical.
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  Speaker 1: She begs the trooper to just put her in his
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  Speaker 1: car and drive her to Idabel, because that's where she
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  Speaker 1: claims her husband is.
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  Speaker 2: If we analyze her behavior during this absolute crisis, it
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  Speaker 2: contradicts every known biological imperative.
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  Speaker 1: Right, because any mother would just want the closest doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. If you have just given birth on the side
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  Speaker 2: of the road and your newborn is not breathing, your
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  Speaker 2: singular overriding instinct is to get to the absolute closest
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  Speaker 2: medical facility. Minutes, even seconds, dictate whether that child lives
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  Speaker 2: or dies. You do not care what state the hospital
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  Speaker 2: is in, and frankly, you do not care where your
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  Speaker 2: husband is. You just want a doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Are we thinking she was just trying to buy time
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  Speaker 1: in the ambulance? Or was she deliberately avoiding Texas hospitals
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  Speaker 1: that might have her actual medical records on file? Like
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  Speaker 1: they would know she wasn't actually pregnant.
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  Speaker 2: The medical records issue is highly probable. A Texas hospital
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  Speaker 2: would likely have access to a shared regional medical database
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  Speaker 2: that would instantly reveal her history.
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  Speaker 1: That makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: An out-of-state rural hospital in Oklahoma might be slightly less connected,
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  Speaker 2: giving her a small window to establish this new reality
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  Speaker 2: before anyone could verify who she actually was. Furthermore, look
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  Speaker 2: at the chaotic environment she's deliberately creating. Waving frantically, hazard
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  Speaker 2: lights flashing, passing on the shoulder before stopping.
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  Speaker 1: She's putting on a show.
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  Speaker 2: She wants the chaos of a roadside emergency to mask
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  Speaker 2: the granular details of her story. She needs everyone distracted.
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  Speaker 1: A passing nurse actually stops on the highway to help.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to save this baby, who Taylor claims is
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  Speaker 1: named Clancy Gale and was born just 35 minutes ago.
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  Speaker 1: While all this is happening, Trooper Shavers gets weighed on
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  Speaker 1: the phone. And the contrast between the scene on the
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  Speaker 1: highway and Wade's reaction is just chilling.
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  Speaker 2: The trooper calls Wade and says, you know, I'm out
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  Speaker 2: here with Taylor. She's had a baby. The baby's not breathing.
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  Speaker 2: He explains they're working on the baby and paramedics are
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  Speaker 2: on the way.
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  Speaker 1: The trooper asks Wade how long ago he spoke to Taylor.
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  Speaker 1: Wade says they talked earlier, but she hadn't had the
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  Speaker 1: baby yet. Then Taylor gets on the phone with Wade. Right.
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: She tells him they are taking her to Titus Hospital
• 15:49
  Speaker 1: in Mount Pleasant, Texas, because it's the quickest. Mm-hmm. Wade asks,
• 15:52
  Speaker 1: what's the status on the baby? Taylor says, they didn't say.
• 15:55
  Speaker 1: They just said they had to get to Titus. They
• 15:57
  Speaker 1: took me on one ambulance and the baby on the other.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: And Wade's response is what we really need to examine here.
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: Instead of the absolute panic you would expect from a
• 16:05
  Speaker 2: father hearing his newborn isn't breathing, he literally says, all right, well,
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: let me finish what I'm doing and I'll call you
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: right back.
• 16:11
  Speaker 1: Okay. I have to push back on Wade here. Go ahead.
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: Let me finish what I'm doing. His fiance just gave
• 16:16
  Speaker 1: birth on a highway. The baby is literally dying. She's
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: being rushed to a hospital. And he's at a fake
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: hog sale saying he'll call her back. Is it possible
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: he suspected something? Or does the cognitive dissonance run so
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: deep that his brain just completely rejected the crisis?
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: It's a vital question. It likely speaks to a profound
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: desensitization to her manufactured crises.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Desensitization.
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: Remember the timeline we just went through? The failed multi-million
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: dollar ranch, the house fire, the bomb threat at the hospital.
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: When you are subjected to constant, high-level, adrenaline-pumping drama by
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: a partner, you eventually develop alarm fatigue.
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: Like the boy who cried wolf.
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Subconsciously, his brain might have categorized this as just
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: another Taylor emergency rather than an actual life-or-death reality. It's
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: also possible that deep down, the doubt his family planted
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: was festering, making him emotionally detached from a pregnancy he
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: subconsciously knew was false.
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: Ultimately, despite the paramedics wanting to go to Titus, the
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: decision is somehow made to take Taylor in an ambulance
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: to the hospital in Idabel, Oklahoma, like she wanted.
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: But while she is speeding toward Oklahoma in that ambulance,
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: attempting to cement her illusion in a new state, the
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: true devastating cost of Taylor's lie is just being discovered
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: a few miles away back in Texas.
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: Yeah, just a few miles away in New Boston, Texas,
• 17:38
  Speaker 1: a 911 call comes in from a woman named Jessica Brooks.
• 17:42
  Speaker 1: It is Reagan Simmons Hancock's mother.
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: This part is so tough.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: Reagan's husband hadn't been able to get in touch with her,
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: So he asked Jessica to go check on the house.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: The audio from that call is just devastating. Jessica is screaming,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: help me, my daughter's been murdered. She tells the dispatcher
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: there is blood everywhere on the floor.
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: When the first responders arrive at Reagan's home, the scene
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: is horrific. And they quickly realize a terrifying biological reality.
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they figure it out fast.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: First responders note on the scene, she was pregnant, did
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: they say 36 weeks? There's no baby in there. They
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: realize Reagan was brutally attacked. but her unborn baby has
• 18:18
  Speaker 2: been removed from her body.
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: This is the exact moment the two isolated events connect.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Law enforcement has a gruesome crime scene in New Boston
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: with a missing 36-week fetus, and simultaneously they have reports
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: of a woman miraculously giving birth to a 36-week premature
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: baby on the side of a road just a few
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: miles away in DeKalb.
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: It's undeniable.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: The timeline, the geography, and the physical realities just snap
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: together for the investigators almost instantly.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: But there is one detail from the crime scene in
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: New Boston that highlights the sheer psychological horror of this act.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: When Reagan's mother found her, Reagan's three-year-old daughter was in
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: the house.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Oh, my God.
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: She was physically unharmed, but she was there walking around
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: during and after the murder.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: If you're listening to this right now, your brain is
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: probably buffering trying to process that.
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: It's almost impossible to grasp.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Think about the hyper fixation required to do what Taylor did.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: She was so completely consumed by the prize, the unborn
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: baby that would supposedly save her relationship and validate her
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: sake life, that she completely ignored a toddler walking around
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the house.
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: It's a terrifying, psychopathic tunnel vision.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: She wasn't there to eliminate witnesses. She was there on
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: a grotesque harvesting mission. The toddler didn't factor into her
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: fabricated reality, so the toddler was practically invisible to her.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: The objectification of the victim here is absolute. To Taylor...
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: The only things that existed in the house were herself,
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: Reagan as a physical obstacle, and the baby as the objective.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: Everything else, including a traumatized three-year-old, was just outside her
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: field of vision.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: It just shows how sick this whole thing was.
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: It shows how deeply entrenched she was in her delusion.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: The humanity of the people involved had been completely erased.
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: The physical evidence of the crime in New Boston is devastating.
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: But it's the biological evidence waiting at the hospital in
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: Oklahoma that is going to finally trap Taylor.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: She can't lie her way out of biology.
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: The ambulance doors open in Oklahoma, and Taylor is finally
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: surrounded by the one group of people she cannot manipulate. Obstetricians.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: By the time Taylor arrives at the Idabel Hospital, the baby, tragically,
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: has been pronounced dead. But the medical staff immediately senses
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: something is drastically wrong with Taylor herself.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: The ER doctor and the OBGYN are trying to treat her.
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: But Taylor is flat out refusing a vaginal exam.
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: Huge red flag.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: The doctors want to check her to make sure she
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: isn't hemorrhaging, which is standard life-saving procedure after a roadside birth.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: But she will not let them near her.
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: And this is where medical science entirely dismantles the facade.
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: Because she refuses the physical exam, the doctors have to
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: rely on internal chemistry. They run blood work and an ultrasound.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: They specifically test her HCG levels.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: Okay, she refused a physical exam, but surely there's a
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: biological footprint left behind by a pregnancy. Like, how do
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: the doctors actually prove she didn't just give birth an
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: hour ago?
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: They look for HCG, which stands for human chorionic gonadotropin.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: It is a hormone produced primarily by synstetic trophoblastic cells
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: of the placenta during pregnancy.
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: Great. Fits a mouthful.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: Its job is to stimulate the corpus luteum to produce
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: progesterone to maintain the pregnancy. But the important part is
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: it is present in massive quantities in a pregnant woman's
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: blood and urine. And crucially, it has a half-life.
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: So it sticks around.
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Exactly. It stays in the mother's system for up to
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: six weeks after giving birth, slowly tapering off.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: So the doctors run this test on Taylor, who claims
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: she gave birth literally an hour ago, and her ACG
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: levels are completely negative. Zero.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: Non-existent.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Furthermore, the hospital has the placenta that arrived with the baby,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: and it does not match Taylor's biology.
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: The medical staff is bewildered. The ER doctor noted she
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: showed zero physiological signs of having had a baby. No swelling,
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: no tearing, no hormonal markers. And then investigators uncovered the
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: piece of medical history Taylor was likely trying to hide
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: by demanding to go to Oklahoma. Taylor had a past hysterectomy.
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: Just let that sink in for a second. She had
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: a hysterectomy. It was biologically, physically impossible for her to
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: carry a child.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: Physically impossible.
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: She planned this for nearly a year. She orchestrated bomb threats,
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: bought $ 90, 000 trucks. mirrored a pregnant woman but silicone bellies,
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: knowing with 100 percent biological certainty that she didn't even
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: have a uterus. It's astounding. How does a human brain
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: hold those two realities simultaneously without just breaking?
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: It speaks to the absolute extreme of pathological lying. She
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: compartmentalized the medical truth of her own body away from
• 22:53
  Speaker 2: the social truth she was creating for Wade and her community.
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: She just walled it off.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: But it also highlights the profound limits of her planning.
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: She was a master of social manipulation. She could lie
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: to laypeople like Wade and her friends perfectly, but she
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: had zero understanding of medical science. She assumed the visual props,
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: the baby, the blood on her clothes, the umbilical cord
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: would be enough to convince trained doctors. She believed her
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: own narrative so fiercely she thought biological reality would just
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: bend to it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Picture the hospital staff right now. You have nurses and
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: doctors who are just trying to resuscitate a newborn. Then
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: they get a call from Bowie County, Texas. about a
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: murdered pregnant woman with a missing baby.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: It's a nightmare scenario.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And they look in exam room three, and there sits Taylor,
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: refusing an exam, with negative pregnancy hormones, holding a placenta
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: that isn't hers.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: The realization in that hospital must have been horrifying. You
• 23:46
  Speaker 2: have medical professionals realizing they are in a room with
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: someone who just committed a profoundly violent extraction. The hospital
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: staff essentially form a barricade. They communicate to law enforcement
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: she can't leave. Do not let her out that door.
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: With the medical science completely disproving her story, law enforcement
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: steps in. And this brings us to the interrogation room.
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: This is where we see the psychological dismantling of her narrative,
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: piece by piece.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: The primary investigator who confronts Taylor at the hospital is
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: OSBI agent Chad Hansby. And his approach is a phenomenal
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: example of what we call tactical empathy.
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Walk us through how he opens this. Because he doesn't
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: just kick the door down and scream, we know you're
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: a murderer.
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: No, if he does that, her fight or flight response
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: kicks in, her cortisol spikes, and she shuts down entirely. Instead,
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: he walks in and introduces himself calmly. He says he
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: heard she brought her baby in and asks her to
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: simply walk him through her mourning.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: He plays dumb.
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: He is establishing a baseline. He lets her tell her
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: lie first, completely uninterrupted.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: Taylor tells him she was supposed to ride with Wade
• 24:51
  Speaker 1: to Idabal, but she stayed home with contractions.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: Yes.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: She claims she gave birth on the side of the
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: road in DeKalb.
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: Once she commits to the lie on record, Agent Hansby
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: starts gently poking holes. He asks why she didn't want
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the doctor to check her for hemorrhaging. He normalizes the
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: medical procedure, saying things like, I know they're wanting to
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: make sure you're not bleeding internally.
• 25:12
  Speaker 1: Right, like he's just worried about her.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Exactly. He frames his probing as concern for her health.
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: That tactical empathy lowers her defenses. He makes her feel
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: like he's an ally looking out for her well-being. But
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: then he drops the hammer. He tells her up front,
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: we know you had a hysterectomy some time back. You
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: can't be pregnant. We want to know where this baby
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: came from.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: And her initial response is pure reflexive denial. She says,
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: I just told y'all what happened. I gave birth to
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: this child. Even when Hansby explicitly states that the doctor
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: will be able to tell in a second she didn't
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: give birth, she sticks to it.
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: She doubles down.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: This is lie number one, the roadside birth. It is
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: completely shattered by the medical evidence. But her brain is
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: desperately clinging to the primary script.
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: So Hansby pivots his strategy. He introduces the crime scene
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: in Texas. He says, I found a woman this morning
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: on the side of the road and her baby had
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: been removed from her body. Now, why does he say
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: side of the road instead of in her house?
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: It's a calculated move to protect holdback evidence details only
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: the killer would know. If she corrects him and says, no,
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: it was in her house, she immediately implicates herself. But
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: it also gauges her reaction.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: And then Hansby does something really brilliant. He offers her
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: a psychological out. He says, I know sometimes there's very
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: evil people, cold-blooded murderers, but you seem like a nice person.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I think you may be a little bit confused. Sometimes
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: people go through depression. It causes good people to make
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: bad choices.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: This is a classic interrogation technique, often part of the
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: Reed technique called minimization.
• 26:44
  Speaker 1: Minimization, okay.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: He is artificially lowering the moral weight of the crime
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: to make confessing more palatable to her ego. He is
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: giving her a multiple choice question. Are you a cold-blooded
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: monster or are you just a sad, depressed woman who
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: made a mistake?
• 27:00
  Speaker 1: Nobody wants to be the monster.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Exactly. Nobody wants to be the monster. He frames the
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: confession as her only opportunity to prove she isn't evil.
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: And it absolutely works. She slowly abandons the roadside birth
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: story and moves to lie number two. She admits she
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: was at Reagan's house, but in her version, Reagan invited
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: her over.
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: Listen to her language here, though. Throughout the interrogation, Taylor
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: never refers to Reagan by name. She calls her the
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: lady or a photography client.
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: That's so cold.
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: This is linguistic distancing. It is a subconscious defense mechanism
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: to dehumanize the victim, making it easier to discuss the
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: violence without absorbing the crushing guilt of murdering a specific
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: person she knew.
• 27:40
  Speaker 1: Taylor claims they got into a fight. She says Reagan
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: hit her with something heavy. And they fought over a knife.
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: Taylor claims Reagan fell on the knife because Taylor shoved her.
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: And this is the most absurd part. Taylor claims that
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: as Reagan was bleeding out from the neck, Reagan grabbed
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: the knife and started hitting herself with it to frame Taylor.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: It is a desperate real-time calculation. She knows there is
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: massive physical trauma to Reagan's body. She is trying to
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: fit that physical evidence into a narrative where Taylor is
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: the victim of a bizarre suicidal setup.
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: She admits to taking the baby out of Reagan, but
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: she frames it as a rescue mission. She says, I
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: just remember trying to save the baby.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: This is where the cognitive dissonance reaches its absolute peak.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: She admits to the mechanical act of cutting a baby
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: out of a woman's body, but completely refuses to admit
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: to the murder.
• 28:30
  Speaker 1: It's insane.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Her brain simply will not allow her to accept the
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: label of murderer. She still wants to be seen as
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: a rescuer, a mother fighting for a child.
• 28:38
  Speaker 1: She admits to hitting Reagan with a mason jar. She
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: admits to using a scalpel to take the baby. but
• 28:43
  Speaker 1: she absolutely refuses to admit to the fatal stab wounds.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: After this hospital interview, she is arrested. But four days later,
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: on October 14th, they bring her back into the interrogation room.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: And this leads to lie number three.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: The evolution of the lie is fascinating. In this third version,
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: Taylor claims Reagan invited her over to take pictures of
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Taylor's bruises from wrestling with Wade. Taylor claims Raiden confronted her, saying,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: you're telling everybody you're pregnant, but it's obvious you're not.
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: Which, ironically, is probably the truest thing Taylor said in
• 29:16
  Speaker 1: the entire interrogation.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 29:18
  Speaker 1: Reagan very likely did confront her about the fake pregnancy,
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: and that might have been the catalyst for the violence.
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: But then Taylor immediately spins it back into fantasy. She
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: claims Reagan willingly offered the baby to her. Taylor says
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: Reagan rolled over and specifically said, take her because I
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: feel like I'm done.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: It is a grotesque attempt to manufacture consent for a
• 29:36
  Speaker 1: kidnapping and mutilation.
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: It really is.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: But Agent Hanselman... corners her with physical evidence. He actually
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: attended the autopsy. He tells her the scalpel was found
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: in her neck. And she was also stabbed several times
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: with a scalpel in other places. Her body is open
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: from the cut on her abdomen before that scalpel was stuck.
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: In her neck. That sequencing is the fatal blow to
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: her story. Hansby proves through the autopsy pathology that the
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: scalpel was used to cut Reagan open first, and then
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: it was used to stab her in the neck, where
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: it was left embedded. This completely ruins Taylor's line number
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: two and three, where she claims she just used the
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: scalpel to save the baby at the very end of
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: a fight. The physical mechanics of the murder prove it
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: was an extraction followed by an execution.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: Hansby pushes her to admit to the premeditation. He brings
• 30:24
  Speaker 1: up the bomb threat, pointing out it was linked back
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: to her phone. He says, your intent was wanting a baby.
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: Why did you kill her and take her baby? And
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: Taylor's final defense mechanism is just shutting down entirely. She says,
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: I don't know why I did it.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: She pries. She says she's sorry. But the interrogator doesn't
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: buy the performance. He asks if she's really sorry or
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: just sorry she got caught. Because you don't drive away
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: from a bleeding woman leaving a three-year-old behind if you
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: are truly acting out of a confused desire to save
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: a baby. Right.
• 30:52
  Speaker 1: You'd call an ambulance.
• 30:53
  Speaker 2: Exactly. The interrogation proves she committed the act. But it's
• 30:57
  Speaker 2: her digital footprint that ultimately proves it was a premeditated,
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: calculated nightmare.
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: Let's talk about the trial in September of 2022. The
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: defense tried to argue that Taylor suffered from mental illness,
• 31:09
  Speaker 1: that her head wasn't right. During the interrogation, Taylor even
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: mentioned having a stroke in 2015, clearly laying the groundwork
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: for a medical excuse for her behavior.
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: But the digital footprint obliterates any claim of an accidental
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: spur-of-the-moment fight or a sudden mental break. The prosecution showed
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: the jury her online search history. You can lie to
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: your partner, you can lie to the police, but your
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: Google search history is a direct window into your true intentions.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: She was searching for things like ordered cheap pregnancy silicone belly,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: newborn adoptions, how to find a birth mother, and, most chillingly,
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: video of C-section. That last one? That last search, video
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: of C-section. That shows she wasn't just daydreaming. She was
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: actively studying how to physically extract a baby from a
• 31:55
  Speaker 1: human body. That isn't a mental break in the heat
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: of an argument. That is cold, calculated premeditation.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: The prosecution argued successfully that this entire fake pregnancy was
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: an elaborate, long-term scheme to keep Wade from leaving her.
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  Speaker 2: When time ran out, she executed a plan to steal
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  Speaker 2: Reagan's baby to produce the physical evidence Wade required. The
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  Speaker 2: premeditation shown by that search history heavily outweighed the mental
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  Speaker 2: illness defense in the eyes of the jury.
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  Speaker 1: The jury didn't buy the defense for a second. In
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  Speaker 1: October 2022, Taylor was found guilty of capital murder and
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  Speaker 1: kidnapping for both Reagan and her unborn daughter Braxlin. A
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  Speaker 1: month later, she was sentenced to death.
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  Speaker 2: It is also crucial to note the conclusion regarding Wade Griffin.
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  Speaker 2: He was never charged with any crime. Investigators found zero
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  Speaker 2: evidence that he knew about Taylor's plan. He was deemed
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  Speaker 2: completely deceived by her throughout the entire relationship, blinded by
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  Speaker 2: that early foundation of financial and emotional manipulation we discussed.
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  Speaker 1: And that brings us to the present. As of May 2026,
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  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court denied her request for a review of
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  Speaker 1: her case. Taylor Renee Parker remains the youngest woman on
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  Speaker 1: Texas' death row, currently held at a state prison in Gatesville, Texas.
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  Speaker 2: It is the severe final conclusion to a tragedy that
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  Speaker 2: started with mundane lies about an Oklahoma ranch and escalated
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  Speaker 2: into a double murder.
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  Speaker 1: We've covered the devastating trajectory of this deep dive, how
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  Speaker 1: a web of lies about wealth and status metastasized into
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  Speaker 1: one of the most horrific crimes imaginable. It destroyed a family,
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  Speaker 1: all to serve a single person's fabricated reality.
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  Speaker 2: This case forces us to look at the absolute extremes
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  Speaker 2: of human deception. It shows us how fragile the social
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  Speaker 2: contract of trust really is. We are wired to believe people,
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  Speaker 2: especially when they overwhelm us with gifts or mirror our
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  Speaker 2: own life experiences.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we want to believe the best in people.
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  Speaker 2: But it also shows that while human words can lie
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  Speaker 2: and people can be manipulated, digital footprints and medical science
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  Speaker 2: are the ultimate truth tellers. The HCG test and the
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  Speaker 2: search history were the immovable facts that broke the fantasy.
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  Speaker 1: And that leaves me with a final lingering thought for
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  Speaker 1: you to ponder long after this deep dive ends. This
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  Speaker 1: entire tragedy was built on a foundation of polite lies,
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  Speaker 1: fake inheritances, unverified claims of wealth, a forced friendship at
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  Speaker 1: a wedding. It makes you wonder, how well do we
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  Speaker 1: truly know the people who aggressively insert themselves into our lives?
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  Speaker 1: And at what point does turning a polite blind eye
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  Speaker 1: to someone's harmless delusions make us vulnerable to their most
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  Speaker 1: dangerous ones?