PPEcel
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Left: the murderer
Right: the murder victim
From NBC News:
A Texas woman was convicted of capital murder Monday for killing a pregnant woman to take her unborn baby.
A Bowie County jury in northeast Texas deliberated about an hour before finding Taylor Rene Parker, 29, guilty of the October 2020 murder of Reagan Michelle Simmons-Hancock, 21, and the abduction of the daughter cut from her womb who later died.
Over for Simmons-Hancock. From the evidence, she was alive when her friend sliced her open and literally ripped the baby out of her stomach with the knife.
Law and Crime offers more details:
“Injuries on Hancock‘s body included numerous stab wounds and deep incisions caused by a sharp-edged weapon consistent with a scalpel. She was cut open from hip to hip, and her uterus was pulled out and cut,” the report [by crime scene investigator Marc Sillivan] said. “Her hands showed extensive defensive wounds, including bruises, scrapes, stab wounds, and cuts on her fingers and palms. One finger was dislocated, and the tip of another was nearly cut off.”
Dallas County Medical Examiner Dr. Melinda Flores, who performed the autopsy, reportedly provided a gruesome account of Hancock’s injuries, which included “well over 100” stab wounds, at least 39 of which were on her head. She reportedly had her skull fractured in five different places and was likely struck multiple times with the blunt and clawed end of a hammer. A large jar filled with pink and blue sand from Hancock’s wedding is also thought to have been used as a weapon.
Additionally, the murder was likely premeditated. In the days before the murder, Parker conducted online research on pregnancy-related healthcare services, perhaps in an effort to pretend that she was the pregnant one.
I don't know man, but it sounds like Parker here has an amazing personality.