#323: Pathological Liar Photographs Friend’s Wedding Then Cuts Baby Out Of Her Stomach

25:13One time the couple got into a really nasty fight. Taylor ran out of the house on him and Wade's phone buzzed. He received a text message from an unknown number and it read, where did Taylor go? He was like, what the hell is going on with this family? They're unhinged. He was disgusted at how far Taylor's mom would go for money. He was scared for Taylor's life. Taylor had to hire private investigators to track down her mom, Shauna. And side note, Shauna always had some like really underground connections to the cartels in Mexico. So it was like really hard to trace her and the people that she was working with.

25:48It's really complicated. So Taylor had this unmarked police car that would tail her to make sure that there was no attempt at her life. countless attorneys had to get involved i mean the couple had weird text messages coming in from unknown numbers at odd hours of the day that were basically watching them they would have to get new bankers attorneys i mean new friends would come into their lives and then would cryptically leave because they said that taylor's mom had gotten a hold of them so this taylor's mom is kind of out of this world. And then it all climaxed with a death. Not Taylor's, but her mom Shauna's.

26:26The salt heiress's mom was dead. Even though Taylor probably felt safer now that she was gone. I mean, she's still grieving the loss of her mother, right? And remember how I said Shauna, the mom, was involved in a lot of the shadier businesses in connection with cartels? Well, there was an incident where a few people were killed over a cartel business deal gone wrong. Shauna happened to be there. The lower rank snitched on her and she was thrown in prison. The mom self-exited in prison because of the disgrace and not being able to live a life of luxury anymore. And, you know, she was married to the heir of the Morton Salt Company for crying out loud.

27:02She can't wear orange anymore. And she died. Taylor's boyfriend, Wade, he just felt this tension lift off his shoulders. And he just felt like, okay, now I can just spend some more precious time with Taylor Morton and her wonderful family. He got really close with Uncle Butch, who was helping Taylor with the inheritance transfers, and Wade was really excited to go to the Morton family Christmas gathering and finally meet everyone in person, including Uncle Butch. But right when he walks in through those doors, with presents wrapped up in his arms, he wanted to scream bloody murder. Risen from the dead, standing there in the flesh, was Taylor's mom, Shauna Morton.

27:42What? What? Shana Morton had faked her own death to get the couple to lower their guards. Shana was going to make their lives a living hell. She was going to intercept so many bank transactions that Taylor's personal banks were going to get flagged for fraud. She was going to cause drama between Taylor and the corporate executives at oil companies that Taylor was working with for the property that they had. Shana was a very, very, very spiteful woman. Wade tried to contact Taylor's uncle, Uncle Butch, because he was a no-show at the Christmas party. and he's been one of the only helpful ones so far.

28:14And so he tries to call him, but Uncle Butch doesn't pick up. Instead, he responds by sending an email and it reads, and this is paraphrased for length. Well, Wade Griffin, I can't call either of you right now because I'm not Uncle Butch. You see, it's very simple to pretend to be someone nowadays to make two shitty people look stupid. And that I have done. That's what happens when you ruin someone's life. They can fuck yours up easy. You took everything from me when you started dating that fat little bitch. Are you that dumb to think you would get ahead in life? It's funny she thought she could have dreams with you.

28:51You don't even want her. Do you just say that you're happy to get money, you dumbass? Hope you both have a miserable life and you're not getting any money. Maybe you'll leave Taylor and make yourself look worse. Maybe you'll ruin your life even more. The email goes on to taunt Wade for going into debt when in reality, Taylor's inheritance is going to keep getting blocked. Side note, the email sender writes debit instead of debt, but spelling. The email continues. I hope that fat, worthless bitch enjoys being in debt for someone who doesn't even want her. Congratulations on your awesome life, guys.

29:27This is hilarious. It really is. Now I get to watch Wade leave Taylor, and when he leaves you, Taylor, you will have nothing. Remember that. Wait, so they're trying to reach out to uncle? But instead, the mom responded to him. And turns out they've been talking to the mom whole time. Not Uncle Butch. Oh. Yes. The mom faked the email. Yes. The letter was signed, Shauna Morton. Taylor's not dead mother. And Wade is like, this is like out of an ultimate Disney villain movie. His life feels like it's spinning out of control. Ever since he started dating the Salt Heiress, he's no longer living a normal life.

30:06And he feels like it's all so unhinged. Unbelievable, really. So the mom is so upset with the daughter. Yes. Where's everyone else? What is everyone else doing? We'll get there. It all feels so unhinged. Unbelievable, really. Because it was. It was all an unbelievable lie. Taylor Morton was not the heir to the Morton Salt Company. Her mother never hired a hitman to kill her, never tried to kill her, never went to jail and self-exited. Taylor was a pathological liar. It said that Taylor had two kinds of people in her life. People who didn't know her well and people who knew her long enough to know that everything she said was a lie.

30:48Is everything you just mentioned? Is the boyfriend a lie? No, the boyfriend's real, Wade, but this is everything she lied to him about. Oh, so this is coming from his POV. Yeah. So the email that he got was actually from Taylor? Yeah. Wow. He genuinely thinks it's Shauna, Taylor's mom. Oh my gosh. He's never met the mom or he did? Never until the Christmas party. And the mom is not crazy? No. Oh. The mom is, I mean, I don't know if she's a great mom, but she's not. She didn't do what? She definitely didn't hire a kid man. Are they related to the salt family? Not at all. Okay. Yeah. Wow. Not even a little bit.

31:29They probably own a bottle of that salt. That's probably their relation to this. We probably have just as much relation to that salt company as they do. Yeah

31:49All the kids in elementary school thought Taylor Parker Morton was a bit strange Okay, even nine-year-olds can tell when something just isn't adding up Taylor would come into class on Monday On Monday, she'd be lightheaded and nauseous Tuesday, she'd have full-on crutches hopping around during recess. Wednesday, back to normal as if nothing happened. Look, chronic illnesses do sometimes come and go, but Taylor rarely ever had the same symptoms twice. And then by middle school, her crutches evolved into full-on cancer. She started lying about cancer probably towards the end of elementary school, actually.

32:23It was also around this time, Taylor started telling her classmates that she was having adult activities in the shower. She's nine. We cannot confirm a thousand percent if this is true, the what she said is true or if she genuinely did say that to people i don't know but an acquaintance from taylor's school told youtuber john crimes during an interview that they did that disturbingly nobody reported it and again this is not to blame taylor's acquaintance from that school i'm assuming that she was nine at the time as well but it was never retold to a teacher and if it was it was never reported to the authorities but just keep this in mind later because according to psychologists this pathological lying begins at a very young age and it can stem from some sort of trauma.

33:03By high school, Taylor Parker was perpetually pregnant. She was in a constant cycle of either thinking she's pregnant, being actively pregnant, or miscarrying. She also had this alarming fixation on pregnant bodies. Another girl in her high school was actually pregnant and somehow Taylor got a photo of her with her baby bump out in the open. She cut out the girl's head and started sending it to boys saying that it was her body and that she was pregnant. it was just bizarre Taylor always had this very interesting relationship with boys she would talk non-stop to the girls in class about all the boys that were dating her all of her boyfriends but when the girls asked to see a picture Taylor could not provide one all she could do was show them long threads of text messages as proof that she had a boyfriend it was really odd she told the girls that one of her boyfriends had gotten her pregnant but then she asked one of the girls in class for their nude photos so that she could send it to her boyfriend and trick him into thinking it was her photo.

33:59Which like, I don't know, if Taylor really was pregnant, it would be safe to assume that her boyfriend would have seen her naked and know that this is not her, right? Taylor was considered pretty petite in high school. So she's a bit on the shorter side and she weighed around 250 pounds. So a lot of people assumed that she was asking her classmates to get their nude photos to send to boys because she's catfishing them into believing that she's thinner or something along those lines. And I'm not entirely sure. But I do know that at 16 years old, Taylor was caught by her mom, Shauna, for catfishing a teenage boy online pretending to be a completely other human being.

34:33And allegedly, when this teenage boy found out the truth that he was talking to Taylor instead of who he thought he was talking to, he was so distraught that he wanted to exit his own life. Taylor's mom had to call the boy's parents to explain why their son was so hysterical. So there's a lot going on with Taylor. And more than anything, pathological liars need attention. And Taylor liked a very specific kind of attention. She wanted everyone to believe that she was rich, sick, and pregnant. And the best would be all three at the same time. So Rich Taylor was the heiress to the Morton Salt Empire.

35:08$1.7 billion worth of salt. Or because this case takes place in Texas, she would tell people that her family owned a giant plot of land that had just the most amount of oil underneath. Like probably the oiliest land in all of Texas. and sometimes if she got bored of those storylines she was suddenly the heiress to the blackburn syrup company which is a maple syrup brand that's been around since the since the 20s i think she would always have lawyers accountants representatives from shell the gas company blowing up her phone with text messages about business deals and side note their names were always a little bit ridiculous for example the lawyer she worked with his name was blake lawington the representative from shell gas and oil company was Shelly.

35:55Yeah. And you guessed it. Taylor would purchase fake numbers to text herself. She would have in-depth conversations about oil contracts, like boring oil contracts, for days with herself. And then she would proudly show everyone, look, Shelly from Shell just texted me. Wow. At one point, she kept a total of 11 fake numbers to use for fake messages and identities. And then we have sick Taylor. This is probably her favorite type of attention. Sick Taylor always had some form of cancer and MS. At one point, Taylor was working for a medical center and it's like her patients were contagious. If they were dizzy, suddenly she was dizzy.

36:35If they had slurred speech, suddenly she had slurred speech. Headaches, vision loss, hearing loss. She literally woke up one morning and was like, oh no, guys, I'm colorblind. Magically, the symptoms would disappear overnight if she was distracted or if people fussed over her for a little bit. Sometimes loved ones would take her to the hospital where the doctors would try to provide the absolute best care possible. But they were still reassuring Taylor, you're going to be all right. Like, yeah, you don't, you're going to be all right. You don't have cancer. And then they would walk out of there and Taylor would be posting on Facebook along the lines of, doctors are saying it's not looking good.

37:41She would post,

37:54Now, this is a very, very interesting thing about Taylor's MS diagnosis. Side note, MS is a chronic and unpredictable disease that affects your nervous system. So basically, the ability of your brain to communicate with the rest of your body becomes damaged. Oftentimes, it's life-altering. And the thing to remember here is MS is 100 ,000 million percent not contagious. But Taylor's MS suddenly appeared around the time that she met Caitlin Glass. Caitlin Glass was a new friend of Taylor's who absolutely did have MS. It was something that impacted her daily life. And it was kind of nice to have a friend who understood the exact struggles that she was going through.

38:36The pain in the fingers. So a lot of MS patients will actually experience the coating around their nerves to get damaged. So imagine your nerves are just in your body exposed. It's painful. Like just existing is painful. The coating is, you know, getting damaged. What can you do, right? Some people experience pressure around their eyes that you can barely open your eyes. Muscles that feel so stiff. You lose hearing slowly. You have body shakes. You can barely even hold up your own body weight. When Caitlin's MS got really bad, she couldn't even walk on her own and had to go to the hospital for treatments to calm her symptoms.

39:13Caitlin, Taylor, and another one of their friends, they created this MS support group. And their whole thing was, you know, this is not going to stop us from living. They got matching tattoos. They even joined a Jeep club, which sounds wild, but apparently Jeep clubs in Texas are really cool. So during a really bad snowstorm in 2022, the North Texas Jeep Club called on Jeep owners across the area to tow giant 18-wheeler trucks off the icy highway. So they just came out and volunteered. So all you really need to join a Jeep club is a Jeep. Taylor ended up loving it so much that she bought a$40 ,000 Jeep that was way out of her budget.

39:49But eventually, Caitlin noticed a few things about Taylor that just made her go, Huh. Kind of weird. Like it wasn't like a blaring red flag at first, but just, huh, interesting. So for one, Taylor had the complete opposite symptoms of Caitlyn when it came to MS, but it does affect everyone differently. So maybe it was just that. But whenever Caitlyn had a relapse and had to be hospitalized, all of their Jeep friends would come and visit her in the hospital and show her love and support. And then what do you know? Taylor would relapse and she would be in the hospital and all the Jeep friends would come up and show her love and support.

40:27So for the first few times, Caitlin didn't care. She's so busy focused on the fact that her two daughters and her mom are at home and she needs to hurry up and get better so she can go take care of them. But it was kind of weird, you know? And maybe it was even frustrating. Taylor would come into the hospital stating that she too relapsed and they were together on the same boat. But while Taylor would be discharged after a prescription of strong painkiller opioids and like a toot on the butt, Caitlin would be hospitalized for a lot, lot longer, just recovering. Like I said, at first, Caitlin didn't think too much of it until it happened again and again.

41:02She would be hospitalized. Taylor would come in making all these dramatic Facebook posts about how she's relapsing too, how bad it is. But then all the hospital would do for her is get her on some pain meds and send her home. Caitlin, on the other hand, had to get poked, scanned, had to stay in the hospital with steroids pumping into her bloodstream through an IV until her symptoms went away. which fine you could argue that maybe caitlin's ms is worse than taylor's but everyone remembers taylor complaining about her symptoms and everything that she went through you would imagine that taylor's ms was actually worse than caitlin's caitlin said you know the hardest part about ms is that it's a completely hidden thing like you can't see what's going on i wouldn't wish this disease on anybody it is a horrible disease and it just kind of felt like taylor was exaggerating her symptoms.

41:52Or I mean, it felt like she was faking it. That's what Caitlin thought. Like it was weird. And then there's other examples of things. For one, Taylor wrote in depth on Facebook about a car accident that she had recently been in. Caitlin's reading it and she's like, that's a complete lie. I was the one that was in the car accident. She's literally using my story as if she was in the car accident. Why is she posting about it online like this? Taylor also posted about how she was a nurse and wrote about all of her nurse stories. She wasn't even a nurse. Caitlyn was a nurse. Caitlyn was now realizing that Taylor was a pathological liar and for all she knew, she didn't even have MS.

42:30And on top of that, Taylor was just not a girl's girl. Caitlyn noticed that she was openly flirting with very obviously married men in the Jeep club and was actually caught by one of the wives full-on having activities with one of the husbands in the Jeep. And it just went against Caitlyn's own morals. But also, the Jeep club rules. First rule of Jeep club, have a Jeep. Second rule of Jeep club, no drama. Caitlin tried to be empathetic to why Taylor might be feeling like this. But while on a camping trip with the Jeep club, Taylor had the audacity to openly flirt with Caitlin's husband. Made worse by the fact that Taylor herself was also married.

43:08In 2011, Tommy Wicasey married Taylor Morton, the salt heiress. Wait, that's the husband? Boyfriend? Who is this? We're going to go through three relationships. The last one is the one we just talked about. Oh, this is the first one. This is the first one. She didn't have her$1.7 billion inheritance yet. So Tommy was supporting her in the meantime. And at first, you know, Tommy was kind of impressed by Taylor. She was like a very Southern girl, has a Southern accent. But slowly that turned into resentment. Taylor was not the good girl that she tried to make herself out to be. She prided herself in being so good at cookings, being so maternal, being all these things.

43:45and she's sending naked photos to other men. And they're heavily edited at that. Tommy said that. I did not say that. She would also lie about her income to get food stamps. And then she would lie to her family, primarily her grandma, about how she couldn't afford any food at all. Like, it was kind of weird. So her grandma would become so distraught, other family members had to drive grandma to Taylor's house to show her, look, granny, do you see the food in her fridge? She just wants sympathy from granny? Yeah. There's no consistency. She's like, no, I'm a salterist. Actually, grandma, I'm starving.

44:20Like it was kind of confusing. It seemed like she would stop at nothing for attention from quite literally anywhere that she could get it. In 2014, Taylor went to Mexico for a gastric bypass surgery, which is a type of weight loss surgery. Now, this is clearly an oversimplification, but they go into your stomach and they make it so that your stomach cannot hold as much food. A normal stomach can hold approximately 33 ounces of food. after a gastric sleeve or bypass, your stomach can only hold about two to five ounces of food. Two to five? Yeah. So it makes you feel fuller faster. It restricts the amount of food that you can eat in one sitting.

44:56But it's not really like an end-all cure-all for weight management. Patients still have to spend a lot of time maintaining a healthy, balanced diet. So Taylor goes to Mexico for a gastric bypass surgery. And side note, this is not initially a ploy to get attention or anything like that. Like, that's not what I'm insinuating. You cannot just go and get this procedure done. you have to qualify. And Taylor for once did actually have some serious health problems. In 2014, she was experiencing a lot of these weird symptoms where one side of her face was actually drooping quite a bit. And for Taylor, not saying this is for everyone, but for Taylor, her doctors believe these symptoms were precursors of her having a stroke that was exacerbated by her weight.

45:36So they recommended the gastric bypass surgery. She went to Mexico, got the surgery. afterwards she got a tummy tuck and she went on to delete every single picture of her in existence before the surgery it's kind of like she wanted to erase the pre-surgery taylor act like she never existed i mean to a degree i get it but it just seemed um to a lot of people it just seemed really overboard like she wanted to wipe the past of her tommy said that after this taylor's self-esteem skyrocketed and her need for attention went into overdrive she was constantly cheating with guys from the Jeep club, but if Caitlin or anyone or if any of the married men even confronted her about it because, hey, Taylor, you're also married, you're cheating.

46:20She would spin these wild stories of how Tommy Wacase was abusing her. It said she would even throw herself against walls and furniture to create bruises that she would later go around pouting and showing all the Jeep guys like, look what my husband Tommy did to me. Meanwhile, telling Tommy about how all the Jeep guys are trying to sleep with her. When Tommy secretly followed Taylor around one day He found her with another man And the marriage was over Taylor got engaged to husband number two While she was still married to Tommy She would marry Hunter Parker Just 11 days after her first divorce was finalized This is now husband number two And it seems like with every relationship She's just getting a little bit worse Like the lies are getting a little bit more far-fetched It's like she's like amping up for something Just getting more and more and more evil Until she commits double homicide Right.

47:08Unlike Taylor's first husband, who thought she was the saltiest heiress alive, Hunter thought that she was just kind of a genuine small town nurse that worked in the surgical division of an OBGYN's office. Fun fact. Well, funny fact, I guess. It's not funny at all. Truly. Taylor would always walk around with a medical kit, but not like a first aid kit. She would carry around full on scalpels, like multiple scalpels, spare blades, syringes, which is interesting because I don't even think most doctors just carry around medical kits to Chipotle these days, you know. It was in Taylor's marriage with Hunter, she became obsessed with getting pregnant.

47:47I mean, I think it's less of an obsession with wanting children and more about everyone believing she's pregnant because pregnant women in society, I'm not saying they have it great. I think there's a lot that could be done to benefit pregnant women a bit more. But, you know, there's that energy of like, you're glowing. No, you sit. No, you do this. oh you must be so tired right she wanted that it started about a year into the marriage taylor can feel hunter slipping away and she's like i need to give him a reason to stick around she tells hunter that she's pregnant but when he asks her to go confirm it with the doctor she never spoke about it again it seemed like she would just lie about being pregnant to get attention she wanted or to win a fight not because she's actually pregnant but i guess him asking her to go to the doctor to confirm it spooked her, so she decided to go a different route.

48:33She would turn around and tell all of her friends that she was miserable because she had stage 4 uterine cancer and it had eaten up her womb. She stated that she suffered from two miscarriages, two baby girls that she lost, which is a totally traumatic but also totally false story that she made up. She then offered her friends$100 ,000 each to be her surrogate. The average surrogate in Texas would be paid$55 ,000 on average for their services. So it's nearly double. It was just weird. Why is she doing this? One of Taylor's friends was actually pregnant with her own child, not as a surrogate. And she said that Taylor became obsessed with her.

49:10She would ask to tag along to all of her doctor's appointments. She wanted to know every single intimate detail about her pregnancy. It was creepy. It was obsessive. Taylor knew Mackenzie, the pregnant friend, had struggled to conceive. So this is her rainbow baby. But when Taylor found out at the doctor's appointment that she followed Mackenzie to when she found out that Mackenzie was pregnant with a baby girl, Taylor looked at her and had the audacity with her full chest to pop the question, Mackenzie, will you be my surrogate? What? Of course she said no. When none of Taylor's friends foamed at the mouth to carry a literal baby for her in their wombs for$100 ,000, which Taylor did not have anyway, Taylor does something very strange.

49:54She texts her not dead mother, Shauna, and says, can I have your uterus? She's texting her mom, okay? Shauna, the mom, understandably, is very confused by this random text message and she responds, no. Taylor angrily texts back, WTF, why? Do you think it's detachable? Well, it would be a hysterectomy for you. No more period, etc. The doctor would just take it from you. And yes, it's detachable. Cut here, snip there. What in the world? it's like that's literally what she's asking for she's so entitled she thinks she's entitled to other people's reproductive systems like body parts she's like yeah of course give me your body part yeah just a little chubby little soey and then you're done yeah get over yourself it's so aggressive later taylor would go to the same friends and tell them guys i found a surrogate she stated that she finally found a surrogate but later that story would evolve it would upgrade it would advance, the storyline would.

50:52Hunter, her husband, cheated on her with the surrogate, and the woman was pregnant with their child, ended up miscarrying because of the intimate relations that she had with Hunter. It was a lot. This is what she's telling her friends and her mom. But to Hunter, she had a completely different story. She told Hunter that she finally found a surrogate and her grandma was willing to pay for the surrogate. So her grandma, being some sort of shadowy Texan gangster that Hunter doesn't really know about, Taylor said that the grandma had given this blue duffel bag filled with cash to the brim to a man named Tim Hightower.

51:28Tim was going to now deliver the cash to Hunter. Hunter would just have to wait at the super secret meeting spot, but Tim Hightower never showed up. Hunter texted Taylor and she explained, you'll never believe it. Tim Hightower was driving down the highway with the giant blue duffel bag of cash. He had gotten into a really bad car accident. First responders arrived at the scene. They looked at Tim Hightower. They looked at the blue duffel bag of cash. They looked back at it. They stole the cash. The paramedics stole the cash. Hunter was not buying it. And then he got a text message from Tim Hightower himself apologizing for the situation.

52:04He also sent a picture of a blue duffel bag of cash. He was like, here, I took this earlier as proof of payment, but the paramedics stole it. The picture is a giant blue duffel bag filled with cash and it's filled to the brim with straps of cash. So like, you know how banks are in those organized crime movies? They have straps of cash in briefcases. Did you guys always know the denomination? Denomination? Yes, so side note, it's not always$100 bills. In the US, you do straps of cash with every denomination. It just has to be 100 bills of that denomination. So yeah,$100,$10,$5. So this was all 20s.

52:40Each strap, that means it's$2 ,000. I mean, even just from what I can see in the picture, which is just the top layer of cash, it's like$100 ,000. And the whole bag seems to be filled, so we can only imagine how much is in there. And Hunter thought it was unbelievable how much cash there was. So he Googled blue duffel bag full of money, and it was the first image to pop up. I ran the same search. It was the fourth image for me. Well, Hunter was over these stories. He filed for divorce in 2019. Not too long after the divorce, Taylor starts dating a new guy and starts posting on Facebook again about how pregnant she is.

53:21Hunter knows that something's very, very fishy, but he just wants to create as much distance from him and Taylor as possible. And maybe at first it feels like, okay, fine. Let's try to sympathize here. Perhaps her behavior escalated out of pure desperation to be a mom. You know, not justifying any of her actions, but trying to see that side. She desperately wants a child so badly, she's willing to make up all sorts of lies and delusions to cope with the fact that she cannot get pregnant. But Taylor Parker is already a mother with two children. Actually, this time? So he, I mean, she gave birth to two kids.

53:57Twice, actually, in the hospital. Medical records came out of her genuinely. And where are they? Yeah, they're not really present in this story because Taylor did absolutely everything to not be present in her own children's lives. Meanwhile, crying on Facebook about how much she wants to be a mother again and how excited she is that she's pregnant with her third. Taylor dropped out of high school when she was 17 because she was pregnant with her first child, Emily. This is a fake name. Her real name is out there, but let's stick with Emily. Emily's father was a 19-year-old that was not ready for the responsibility.

54:29So Taylor was kind of on her own with Emily. Taylor told Emily that her dad was dead. Emily didn't really have any father parental figures in her life until Tommy, Taylor's first husband, came around and Tommy was actually a great stepdad. Tommy's whole family cared for Emily a lot, to the point where they encouraged Tommy to formally adopt Emily. So they all chipped in like$500, which is how much it costs to file the adoption papers. They gave it to Taylor and the money disappeared and there was no formal adoption. then in 2014 Taylor had another child this time with husband number one Tommy so this son let's call him Travis and it's so interesting because Taylor wants to be perpetually pregnant she's obsessed with being pregnant and she's obsessed with pregnant woman but she has zero interest in being a mom she would just leave her kids wherever someone would take them sometimes she would meet you and after an hour of meeting you at this party she'd be like can you go pick up my kids like total strangers.

55:25Can you go pick up my kids? Why would you even want strangers to pick up your children? That's like a mom's biggest fear. Tommy's mom had to look out for both Emily and Travis because I mean, that's so dangerous. At one point, Tommy's mom was alarmed because Emily complained to her that a mom kept giving her some sort of medication for non-existent conditions. So instead of feeding Emily the meds that she was supposed to be feeding her when babysitting, Tommy's mom would just mix vanilla with water and lie to Emily and say they were meds so that Taylor wouldn't find out. But she did. And it would result in these massive blowout fights.

56:00So if you see discourse out there of people thinking that she has like Munchausen by proxy I don't know. I mean this was one incident. I mean there's a lot of things that Taylor are that we should be talking about more than that first. But it is alarming for sure. Taylor hated watching her own kids until she needed to use them as props. For example, when Taylor married Hunter, Hunter's parents were asking questions like, why don't you have custody over your own kids? They just thought it was weird. Immediately, Taylor would go to Tommy's mom's house and fetch Emily. And Emily absolutely hated being with Taylor.

56:33She confided in Tommy's parents that she never felt love from her mom, like not even an ounce of it. Even when she went to go spend time with Taylor and Hunter, what Taylor would do is spend all night in the kitchen cooking up these elaborate meals for Hunter. she would throw one on the table for Emily, leave her outside to eat alone, while Taylor and Hunter would retreat into the bedroom to watch TV, to giggle, to have a good time. Emily would be left all alone for hours and hours. She's like eight at this point. And when people stopped asking about her kids, she would just run and drop them back off at Tommy's parents' place.

57:06Once, she dropped off Travis, her son, with his entire backside infected because she did not change his diapers for five days. same diaper for five days no matter how much feces and urine was spilling out of there he had a sore develop because of an infection the poor child had to get on antibiotics and had to deal with the pain every time he was laying down all because his mother was too lazy to change his underwear this is the type of mom that wants to have more children she clearly doesn't like being a mom she just wants a baby she just wants attention yes now have you ever met someone who tells lies that are so ridiculous that you just can't believe that they're not true.

57:46Yeah, yeah, the confidence, right? Yes. You can't say that with a stray face. When Taylor turned 18, she lied to the government and stated that she was pregnant to try and collect supplemental security income, which can be as much as$841 a month. At work, she would fake the death of her sister so that she didn't have to go to work. She doesn't even have a sister. In 2018, she started working for a new company called Express. She told her colleagues that she had two different types of cancers, that she had a stillbirth at 35 weeks, and she feared all her hair was going to fall out within the next few weeks from the chemo.

58:19She also stated that she was too weak to even lift printer paper out of the printer. But the woman who was too weak to lift printer paper out of the printer was also running a scam where she ran a photography business online, would take advanced deposits, and then just ghost clients. Taylor would have a stroke the night before work and then the next day she would come to work slurring her speech and dragging her leg and then after break time she would forget because she's having such a good time and then walk and talk as normal she would dramatically show up to work stating vision's gone in my right eye neurologist did say it would happen but then she would later forget about it she would also like make up really bizarre lies of how she's never had chick-fil-a before?

59:00And people are like, I feel like you've had Chick-fil-A before. But she's like, no, I've never had Chick-fil-A before. And then they would get her Chick-fil-A and then she would get sick from Chick-fil-A. It was just weird. Just weird. She also lied about being a natural blonde, which was just very, very clearly a lie. Taylor would complain too. She would complain about the size of her desk, how she needed it to be larger. She sounds like the worst person to work around. If her boss or supervisor was a man, she would wear low cut cleavage shirts, lean over their desks like a weird comedy movie.

59:33They would have to tell her to stop. Her supervisors eventually had to call others into the room to have witnesses whenever they spoke with Taylor because it was just so obnoxious. Once at work, she learned of a medical emergency that an employee was having and she ran to the common area and screamed, get back. I'm a nurse. She's not a nurse. But she's like, get back, everyone. I'm a nurse. The ambulances arrived, rushed the employee to the hospital. Taylor texted all her friends about it and said, I've been out of the medical field for a bit. That was the adrenaline rush I used to love. It's all prior knowledge and quick thinking.

1:00:10My employee is in the ICU right now. She'd say my employee is in the ICU right now. What? Yeah. She also lied about her job position at work. to other employees at the company, she stated that she was the head of HR. She was a receptionist. She would go to parent-teacher conferences at her kids' schools, and in the middle of a big, giant meeting in the, I don't know if it's in the cafeteria, sometimes it's in the atrium, she would jump up out of her seat and scream, my patient's coding, I have to go, my patient's coding, and just bolt out of there. Sometimes if she straight up did not want to take care of their kids, she would drive her kids to someone's house and then have a few minutes of conversation.

1:00:53Oh, I just came over to check up on you. My patient's coding. I got to go. And then she would leave her kids. And she wasn't just a liar. She was a shitty person. She had a friend who was pregnant and Taylor straight up told her, I wish you would have a miscarriage because the pregnancy is making you so hormonal. I just want my friend back. I mean, I wish I could list out every single lie that was in the court document. It's over 100 pages long. I picked out the most bizarre lies that she told. A lot of her lies were basically financial fraud situations. And I don't want to get too bogged down in those details.

1:01:25but over 100 pages long and like every single sentence is jam-packed with just fictitious statements. And those are the lies we know about. If I listed every fake bank account, fake person, fake email, fake disease, fake medical condition, we would be here for days. And when Taylor met Wade Griffin, the lies only got crazier. Taylor and Wade Griffin met in July 2019 at a rodeo, the Naples Rodeo and Watermelon Festival to be exact. This is just three weeks after her divorce from hunter and okay i've never been to a rodeo but this one to put it simply is jam-packed with activities there is horse riding bull wrangling do you know what that is yeah the one that you don't get shaken off or no yeah which yeah someone who is addicted to adrenaline and has zero fear mounts a bull tries to stay mounted on the bull while it starts kicking and bucking to throw the rider off american bull riding has been called quote the most dangerous eight seconds in sports.

1:02:22Then there's steer wrestling, aka bulldogging. And I've never heard of this before, but it's when you're in this circular arena, you're on a horse and there's a cow in the arena, basically a cow, it's called a steer. And the objective of the activity is to chase the cow around the area. And then when you're close enough, jump off the horse, jump onto the cow and tackle it down, knock it off balance, all the while wearing a cowboy hat. It's actually quite a dangerous sport in many ways to all parties involved. Then there's barrel racing where riders get on horses and make infinity signs around barrels and they have to go really fast like they're an element of brain injury is in all of these games but rodeos are pretty big in Texas and it does seem like a lot of fun a lot of people say it's a place of community and there's a lot of fried southern food and watermelons so side note Naples is known for growing watermelons it's a big part of the rodeo there's like a dedicated watermelon shed it's called the melon shed where everyone brings their biggest their best mullet it's a mullet competition I don't know why it's in the melon shed yeah they all show up with mullet yeah okay to the watermelon shed got it and that's the melon contest yeah that's where taylor and wade griffin met well not at the mullet contest but the naples rodeo and wade wasn't immediately attracted to taylor but eventually he would fall head over heels for the oil heiress taylor parker he even brought her home to mom it was kind of like your hallmark movie lifetime movie storyline taylor was going to inherit all the land that the oil was sitting on top of just by contracting out that land to giant oil conglomerates like Shell and Chevron.

1:03:55She'd be a multi multi-millionaire, if not billionaire, who was also kind of like a nurse, you know? And then Wade was a maintenance supervisor for a roofing company. And on the side, he sold wild hogs to a meat processing plant. So Wade describes himself as a country boy strong. Your hallmark movie heiress meets blue collar worker and falls in love in the small town life. Even Wade's mom, Connie, she felt very drawn to Taylor. She just felt like, wow, she's got this really nice personality. She's very personable. And that's the thing with Taylor. The minute that she draws you in, you get tangled in the most bizarre web, intricate web of lies.

1:04:34My mom's trying to kill me. She hired a hitman from the Mexican mafia. What? Taylor convinced Wade that her mom, Shauna, didn't like that Taylor was becoming the chosen heir of the land from the grandparents and that she was going to get the inheritance of everything that their family was in. So the solution in Shauna's mind was to just off her own daughter. The goal of this lie seems to be so that Wade would be so concerned he would have her move into his house so he could keep an eye on her. Taylor moves in and now Wade is in way too deep. He's slowly getting wrapped up in Taylor's world. She's convinced him that she's going to be an oil heiress very very soon so that he can just use his money to buy things that they want and she'll just pay him back when she's like rich off of liquid gold so they buy a$30 ,000 ATV a$92 ,000 truck and 20 cows which is about$21 ,000 Wade even took out loans from the bank in his own name because he was that sure that Taylor was going to pay him back but would that really matter when they're about to be killed by Shauna all that came were text messages Taylor was constantly texting an accountant, an attorney, a shell executive, private investigators, police, federal agents to track down Shauna and the hitman that she hired.

1:05:50Frustratingly, whenever Wade was getting close to getting any answers about A, where the hell the money was, and B, about their safety because Shauna is still trying to kill them, the federal agent, friend, relative, banker, attorney, executive, accountant would either have to go into hiding, would end up framed and in jail, or they would die. They'd be killed off. just one by one getting knocked off the plot but don't feel bad because none of these people are real taylor spent a good majority of her day having full-blown conversations with herself and with wade taylor would have conversations with herself screenshot them send them to wade and then have conversations about those conversations almost every single person taylor ever told wade about was fake wade himself admits he might have been blinded by love and the idea of an heiress paying for his dream facility, hog processing facility, and he couldn't see straight.

1:06:42But his family and friends could. Connie, Wade's mom, really liked Taylor in the beginning, but there was a situation. Taylor had purchased Connie a Nissan Ultima, a$32 ,000 car. Connie is over the moon. This is like the sweetest gift. But after a few months, like a month, okay, Taylor calls her to tell her, hey, you need to drop the car off at my house immediately. And Connie's like, wait, why? What's going on? There's been a recall on that car. It's so dangerous. I got to bring it back. Connie rushes to give the car back and for weeks she heard nothing. She later calls the dealership directly to ask about it and there had been no recalls on that car.

1:07:16That particular car, they're like that one with that VIN number? Oh yeah, that's been repossessed, not recalled. Meaning they stopped making payments on it. Then there was Pecan Point situation, which really did it for Connie. So Pecan Point is a 6 ,400 acre hunting ground with a lodge. It's about 5 ,000 football fields big. It's a quarter of the size of Disney World. Like it's a huge plot of land. And if you stand on one side, you cannot see the other side of it. It sits along the Red River that divides Texas and Oklahoma. It was on the market for$4.7 million. On Christmas Day, Taylor is spending time with Wade's family.

1:07:55And she starts passing out these little aerial view postcards almost of Pecan Point. And there's a pecan tape to each one. Taylor waited for everyone to look up at her confused and she throws her arms in the air and she says, we're buying Pecan Point. Now Connie's really confused because she was questioning Taylor all this time and now she's like, wait, maybe I doubted her for no reason because this is such a big, bold lie. Like there's no one anyone can fake buying a very real, very real piece of land where you can easily just look up who owns the land, right? Realtor Rusty Lowe had seen some weird clients in his day, but Taylor Parker was probably one of the weirdest.

1:08:34She was the heiress to the Blackburn Syrup Company, and she had just offered$3.5 million on Pecan Point. She said that she was in a rush, so they needed to get the transaction done ASAP. He thought that was kind of weird. People need houses in a rush. Nobody needs a 6 ,500 hunting ground in a jiffy. When Wade and Taylor met up with Rusty to view the property, Rusty noticed their car didn't really match up with their financial situation, but sometimes really wealthy people like to be discreet and weird. Rusty ran Taylor through the numbers and told her that he would need earnest money, about$200 ,000 in advance.

1:09:08It's just a payment to prove that the buyer is serious. It is not uncommon, even in residential settings, and it's not like you lose the money if the deal doesn't go through. Taylor's like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll have my accounts work on it and send the money over right away. She just kept asking for forms to sign. Side note, she kept signing everything. Taylor Parker Griffin, these are legal documents. She's not married to Wade Griffin. they're not even engaged these are legal papers you have to sign your government name on them and she's over here signing them like a middle schooler taylor parker griffin heart heart so you think she did it for legal reasons or she did it for like oh that's my husband i think she genuinely is so like far gone she doesn't care whatever yeah she has no idea of consequences like nothing to even sign a legal document with not your government name.

1:10:01Who thinks like that? Yeah. The earnest money never came through. And Rusty worked on a deal that Taylor never planned on following through with. She just sent him on a wild goose chase or a wild hog chase, if you will. And having him email her advisors, bankers, lawyers, they were just all Taylor. But what's crazy is that Taylor was now going around telling everyone that she was the proud owner of Pecan Point. Taylor and Wade were actually regularly hanging out at Pecan Point as if they owned the place. I mean, I guess when you have that much land up for sale, nobody's going to be there to tell you it's not your land.

1:10:33The couple took pictures of themselves, posted it on Facebook for everyone to see. They brought in Wade's family, Taylor's children to view the property. And this is so sad. But Travis, the son, really wanted to be in the pictures. And Taylor just kept telling him no. Why? She just didn't want her son in the pictures. And he cried. and Connie, Wade's mom, just thought it was just so gross. And then Connie received a mysterious phone call. They wouldn't say who they were, but they warned her about Taylor and they said that she was a pathological liar. But if Connie ever told her son Wade or Wade ever questioned Taylor or made her feel like he was suspecting her, she would resort to her old ways.

1:11:15She would blurt out, I'm pregnant, to end the conversation. And she was. Taylor was pregnant with Wade's child. Or at least she said she was, okay? Connie tried to talk to Wade about all of her suspicions. Taylor doesn't have custody over her children. She treats them so horribly, but you want to have a child with her? And Pecan Point doesn't even make sense. I mean, have you really looked at the papers? Wade would argue that they've been there. They hang out there all the time. What is there to question about something like this? Connie would argue, well, what about her pregnancy? How do you know that she's actually pregnant?

1:11:47Because I have reason to believe otherwise. have you even gone to a doctor's appointment with her it's covid only one person is allowed in the office at a time because of lockdowns what is the purpose of all of this okay then her belly have you seen her belly bump wade would argue no she's not feeling great and is having a rough pregnancy so we haven't been intimate besides it's bad for the baby typically not true but you know and wade's brother at the time had announced that his girlfriend was also pregnant now everyone told Taylor expecting her to be really happy because think about it it's like me and Tiffany being pregnant at the same time we'd both be so excited like our kids are gonna grow up together but Taylor was not she smiled and there was just something in that smile that seemed really terse and she said you guys should put your baby in an incubator I should be the one to have the first Griffin grandchild Connie's like wait think about it what kind of joke is that You don't think that's weird for a mother who's pregnant to be making those types of jokes?

1:12:48Like, it's weird. Wade's mom would continue to argue. I mean, she doesn't even look pregnant. Taylor doesn't even look pregnant. Wade would hit back because of the tummy tuck. She's going to hold pregnancy weight differently because she had a tummy tuck before. To give you a little bit more context, this was not even the first time that Taylor was pregnant in her relationship with Wade. Before this, Taylor was pregnant with twins. but one day Taylor went to go help move some damaged farm equipment for a family friend of hers. A towing cable snapped, hit her in the stomach. She had to go to the hospital and had a miscarriage.

1:13:24It was all a lie. Connie was getting so upset that her son could not see that Taylor was this strange, larger-than-life sugar mama, and she told him, you have dollar signs in your eyes. You can't see the truth. When Connie would bring up things like the car being repossessed, like things that really had no answer, no response, Wade would argue that it's all Taylor's mom. Taylor showed him a text message from her mom to another one of her friends. So Taylor's making it seem like her mom, Shauna, is going out here and trying to ruin her life by ruining all relationships, all friendships. Her mom is this ever powerful, connected to dealerships, connected to everybody, can make things happen.

1:14:01And Taylor is just this dumb little girl who's falling for it. A text message sent to Taylor's friend reads, See, I'm gonna send Taylor into such a deep depression She'll probably try to kill herself like she's tried before But if not then, maybe I'll make Wade leave That'll do the trick I've made Wade's family turn on her From pretending to be people like a dealership that didn't get paid Does it click now to you people? Just let her fall into a hole and not get out Whatever point Connie made Wade seemed to have an argument that he firmly believed in Wade was going to stand by his girlfriend Taylor the mother of his child, and all Connie was doing was pushing her son further away and straight into Taylor's open arms.

1:14:43But the thought of Wade having a family with Taylor made Connie sick to her stomach. You never want to be the one to doubt a pregnant woman. Even Angela, the wife of Wade's roofing boss, thought Taylor was a bit strange. But Angela would fight the feeling for a really long time because she said, quote, you just don't question if a mother is pregnant. But things were getting weird. Angela is a chiropractor and Taylor insisted that she knew she was pregnant before a pregnancy test because her aura had changed color. Side note, if you believe in auras, apparently don't quote me on this. Pregnant aura is silver and orange.

1:15:18But Taylor was like, yeah, I'm pregnant for sure. And then later, Angela would get these really graphic photos texted to her of just like fistfuls of blood. It would be like someone's hand and just blood inside, cupping blood. Taylor would cryptically text her, think it's not looking good now. She explained to Angela she was kicked by a cow and nearly lost the baby. These types of instances just kept happening. She's having early contraction. She's on medication for pain. She's being closely monitored. She had a blood clot in her lungs. She's on blood thinners. The blood clots are affecting her baby's heart.

1:15:51It's like Taylor was constantly on the edge of losing the baby. Angela was so close to calling her out on it, but one incident kept stopping her. One time, Angela had driven Taylor to the local hospital to get tested for the pregnancy. Angela waited in the car. Taylor went into the clinic with no purse, nothing but her tiny little wallet in her hand. When she came back out, she had a pristine piece of paper in her hand. So it had not been crumpled. It had not been folded. And it was proof that she was pregnant. And it was dated the date that she went in. And it confirmed her due date. And it was the hospital that she just walked into.

1:16:25Yeah. How did she do that? I was thinking about it. Maybe she went earlier and hid it in a bathroom or something. yeah yeah i could see that or like you know we are talking about texans were quite nice people maybe she was like can i use your printer for a second right i don't know or she brought in someone else's oh that that's kind of hard yeah yeah i think hiding in there is probably the easiest okay because i was really stuck on this detail too i'm like how like that doesn't make sense like lying is one thing this is like houdini

1:17:06Taylor used Facebook like her own personal journal and diary Just constantly posting about her new struggles with pregnancy Morning sickness How tired and exhausted But how fulfilling creating a human inside of her tummy was Taylor was going to name her baby Clancy Gail Griffin She would post ultrasound pictures Posted about her contractions all of these things she posted about how she wanted to open up a restaurant with her two girls Clancy and Emily one day she said I'd love to teach them all my recipes and pass it down a small town family operation a place anyone and everyone can come to we'll call it pork and pies if the conversation about her baby bump not being that noticeable even though she's pretty far along came up Taylor would laugh and tell people it's because she had a tummy tuck and because she's having a baby girl her stomach isn't as big because if you're pregnant with girls you carry the weight on your hips, not your stomach.

1:17:57My sister had two baby girls and she would beg to differ, but no one could call Taylor out on it because she was just that confident. To give you an example of how confident she was, Taylor kept tagging a specific medical clinic talking about how they were giving her amazing care during her pregnancy journey. She actually used to work as a receptionist at that medical clinic. These are her former colleagues. They know she hasn't been going in for pregnancy related checkups, but they can't publicly say it because of HIPAA patient confidentiality laws. So they message her asking her to take down the post because they don't want their clinic to be associated with this lie.

1:18:33Taylor responds completely disregarding that statement and saying, my mother Shauna is so dangerous. Please don't share my information with my family because they have no business snooping. This is a test post. Somebody has been sharing my information. So I'm sending out fake information to see which information gets leaked. Then the former colleague got blocked. It was just really bizarre. In a single month, Taylor blocked and deleted 76 people from her Facebook friends list. All people who wanted to know a bit more about her pregnancy. But Wade would always back her up. Wade would respond to friends.

1:19:06So there was a friend who is presumably making a gift for the baby. And Wade says, I'm glad you're willing to make something for us. Everyone else thinks we're faking a whole damn pregnancy. With the little one that's not even here yet, some people I once called friends are going to look so stupid in the weeks to come. Taylor commented, couldn't have said it any better than that. Taylor texted a friend about the rumors that she's not actually pregnant and Taylor texted, it isn't anything I haven't already heard. I'm going to pray for that ignorant ass family. God will take care of them. I'm not even getting started on them tonight.

1:19:37I don't have the time or the energy anymore. If people don't have anything better to do with their no working, sitting at home on their ass and gossip and tell people lies, go for it. Some of us are adults, work all day, and they look like complete idiots. If anyone wants to entertain them, by all means, it doesn't bother me. Wade will handle it. Just one word, idiot. Like I said, God doesn't like petty or ugly. If people gossip and do as they do, they are just as shitty as them. After the gender reveal party, Travis told his dad, Tommy. So Tommy is Taylor's first husband. Travis is her son. and he's like, dad, I'm so excited to have a little sister.

1:20:15Tommy looks at him confused and says, you're what? Travis went on to explain the gender reveal party and how Taylor, his mom, was going to have a baby girl and how he's going to be a big brother. Tommy tries to sit him down and explain, you're not going to be a big brother. You're not having a little sister. But Travis is convinced. He's like, what are you talking about? Dad, I've seen her belly and everything i felt the belly move i felt the baby move tommy sits down and explains you're not going to be a big brother because your mom taylor cannot get pregnant it is medically and physically impossible now tommy did not explain this part but taylor no longer had a uterus so medically speaking she could not be pregnant wait what happened had any doctor checked her pregnancy they would have seen two things in her medical record.

1:21:08The first being Taylor had her tubes tied. So after her second pregnancy in 2014 with Travis, Taylor opted for a tubal ligation. Basically, she got her tubes tied, which is a pretty permanent form of birth control. The doctor ties the fallopian tubes together so the eggs cannot pass to the uterus to start a pregnancy. It is reversible in theory, but it's pretty permanent. But okay, fine. If it's possible to reverse the procedure, so maybe, maybe she's pregnant. A year later in 2015, Taylor had her whole uterus removed, which you would need your uterus to get pregnant. A year after getting her tubes tied, Taylor was having these crazy pains in her pelvis area and she was rushed to the hospital.

1:21:47Taylor had a benign cyst as well as endometriosis, which is when tissue that is usually in the womb lining grows outside of the womb. So then when it breaks down, there's really nowhere for the blood to go and it's like just excruciating. Taylor had to be operated on pretty abruptly, but when the doctors went in, they saw a ton of scar tissue and realized that there was a problem with taylor's gastric sleeve and the operation and it was just a lot the doctors called taylor's mom and they said the safest thing to do is a hysterectomy is to remove taylor's uterus technically we could try to do it without doing it but we think this is going to be the safest at this point it was too late to wake taylor up she was already asleep taylor's mom made the decision for her i mean i think shauna thought But well, she already has her tubes tied.

1:22:33So clearly she's not thinking of having any children. And she's not really a great mom. You know, it's not like she's so fulfilled by being a mom that she needs more kids. And this is her daughter's life she's talking about. Maybe she felt like as a mother, I need to protect my daughter. They got to save Taylor and do whatever it takes. Shauna told the doctors, do whatever you think is best for Taylor. When Taylor woke up from surgery, her uterus was gone. Taylor had a hysterectomy, which, yeah, you remove all or most of someone's uterus. And side note, think of the uterus as a big cocoon for the fetus.

1:23:04It can stretch. It's pretty large. So it starts off like the size of a plum. And then six weeks in, it's an egg. And then by week 24, your uterus is like the size of a soccer ball. And your baby is growing inside the uterus while it slowly expands. So you cannot carry a child without a uterus. Taylor was unable to ever be pregnant again. Taylor would actually try to hire a hitman to kill her mom after the hysterectomy. There were a lot of people who knew about Taylor's hysterectomy and saw her post online about her new pregnancies. Tommy, the first husband, knew. Hunter, the second husband, also knew.

1:23:41When Tommy's mom actually confronted her about it, she was just like, oh yeah, it was a total miracle. All my stuff grew back. I mean, it's crazy the way she lies, the way that she's like the stuff grew back. Taylor even told lies to doctors. She went to go visit her old OBGYN and told her that she's pregnant again. Her old doctor is like, yeah, there's no way because her medical charts, I know that she's had a hysterectomy. But she didn't necessarily call Taylor out on it because, you know, childbirth and the ability to give birth to a child is super sensitive, especially if someone has lost that ability.

1:24:12So Dr. Ramirez didn't say anything. And she absolutely could not tell Wade or anyone on Facebook because that would be a HIPAA violation. So Dr. Ramirez just kept tabs on Taylor's fabricated pregnancy over social media. Taylor would even claim to have prenatal exams with Dr. Ramirez that never happened. Dr. Ramirez was even invited to the gender reveal party. If any of these people did try to call her out on it, they would be blocked on Facebook and some of them would even get worse. Taylor once posted on Facebook, don't start a war with me, not even Satan would want that. Taylor's search history tells us a lot about her thoughts around this time.

1:24:49So she is actively pregnant with Wade's baby and there's allegations and rumors by family, loved ones that she's not pregnant. So Taylor starts mass Googling and searching very specific odd things on the Internet. She has grown very, very interested in home births and how exactly to go about registering a baby that's born at home. She's spending hours a day looking at birthing videos on YouTube, C-section videos, and more specifically, births that leave the placenta intact. This is so important, okay? placentas are the organs that develop during pregnancy and to put it very simply if you're not pregnant even if you have a uterus you're not going to have a placenta in your body it forms during the first few months of pregnancy the umbilical cord is attached to the placenta that's where all the baby's nutrients are in the placenta you actually have to give birth to your placenta after you give birth to your baby because a retained placenta aka a placenta left in your body can literally be fatal and kill the mom.

1:25:46So if doctors notice that you have not naturally birthed your placenta, they got to go in there and find ways to remove your placenta from your uterus. They can't just leave it in there. They will get sued for medical malpractice. So that's very interesting. It feels like she's thinking ahead. She doesn't want doctors to go in there and realize she has no placenta. Matter of fact, she has no uterus. She's searching up information about local hospitals and reaching out to pregnant friends to discuss their due dates and their experiences. She was looking at cribs off of Craigslist, even babies for adoption through Craigslist.

1:26:18The search, quote, labs you run after you deliver. Another search, will eye drops make you seizure? Another search, how to make yourself throw up, 10 easiest and fastest ways. Taylor was in a frenzy searching for local maternity stores, OBGYN clinics, baby consignment stores nearby. For a normal pregnant person, maybe it's not alarming. For someone faking their pregnancy, it seemed like she was targeting any area there would be pregnant women or people with small infants. And more alarmingly, in her Google searches was also, quote, when you plan to kill someone charges, quote, conspiracy to commit murder one defense.

1:26:56September 30th, Taylor goes to Paris, Texas obstetrics and gynecology. She walks in bump and all. The receptionist has her fill out paperwork, but Taylor's teary eyed. She's crying. The front desk is like, what's wrong? And she tearfully tells them, my husband is in the military and can't be here. Later, within the span of what I imagined to be like 10 minutes, Taylor changes her story and says, I can't do this right now. My husband is dead and I'm too upset to go through with this appointment because my mom's not even here. The nurse nods at her and offers her a sonogram, an ultrasound. So usually expecting mothers are really comforted seeing their baby and listening to their heartbeat.

1:27:33It makes them feel like they're not alone. Taylor refuses, which is odd. No patient has ever refused a sonogram. in the six years that this nurse has worked here. Taylor seems to calm down, reschedules her appointment for October 1st, the very next day. She exits the clinic, but she sits outside on the bench on her phone. And at first, the staff, other pregnant patients entering, thought that she's texting someone. I mean, it's not really the most alarming thing to see a pregnant woman sitting outside of a pregnancy clinic. The staff think maybe she's too emotional to drive. But she sits there for two hours.

1:28:05She's on her phone and it looks like she's on a mission. She is watching other women enter and leave the clinic, eyeing them like a hawk, furiously typing away at her phone. For two full hours, she was looking up license plates and searching up addresses of pregnant women entering and exiting the clinic. Taylor the Predator was hunting for pregnant women and the Predator was adapting. Once she discovered that many of these women had husbands that lived at home, She switched gears and started searching for support groups for pregnant teenagers. But then she thought that would be too difficult too.

1:28:40She needed an easier target. Someone that would let her in their home. Someone that would trust her. Someone nice and giving. Reagan. Reagan hired Taylor to do her wedding photo shoot. All the big recent milestones Reagan had Taylor be the photographer for. Taking pictures of her engagement, her wedding, and I'm sure through her time with Reagan, Taylor knew how kind of a person she was. And a bit on Reagan, so a few years ago before Reagan's passing, before Reagan's murder, Reagan's stepdad was driving when this driver veers off the road, smashes into the side of his car. Her stepdad had a fractured right left leg and pelvis, but his right leg was completely severed from the accident.

1:29:26Now, I'm not particularly a religious person, but Reagan's family are, and when I hear stories like this, I just have no idea how to even come up with like a non-religious answer. Reagan's stepdad was in the car with a friend of his who was in way better shape than he was. He's desperately trying to save Reagan's stepdad's life. The paramedics are on their way, but they're not here yet. He can't just sit there and do nothing. He's got to help, but he needs more people. And right at that moment, Reagan's mom happened to be driving by, stumbled upon the accident by pure chance, pulled over wanting to help and then realized it was her husband, which one coincidence, fine.

1:30:03But then by another insane coincidence, another one of the family's closest friends happened to be driving down the exact road and they thought, wait, isn't that Marcus's car? They pulled over to help and save Marcus's life. The family said it was like an intervention from God. Marcus was airlifted 90 miles to a trauma hospital and he survived. He did need to get a prosthetic leg though and tons of physical therapy, but the whole family, they just have this really strong, positive outlook on life. Marcus would joke and post pictures of himself in the wheelchair wearing a t-shirt that reads, I'm on my last leg.

1:30:43Like these are the kind of people that Reagan and her family are. They were the epitome of a Texas family. Big personalities, big crawfish boil feast and like kind of big hearts. That's so cheesy, but you get what I'm saying. they were always going on these family fishing trips or going to these car shows together I mean they were just really thoughtful people so Reagan she always made sure to thank the nurses that were helping her stepdad recover and it seemed like whenever anyone in the family was going through something people would just rally together they would push through as a family and somehow at the end they would just find a way to laugh it off that's how it was when Reagan was pregnant and raising her first baby girl, Kinley.

1:31:24When Reagan was younger, I believe she was in her teens. She was rushed to the hospital. She had this very scary medical emergency. I think she was 18. Rushed to the ER. Insane back pains. She felt like she was being stabbed in the back. Perhaps kidney stones? Or at least that's what everyone thought until they discovered she was pregnant with Kinley. And she was so lost. She was so confused. She's like, I'm so young. What are you talking about? I wanted to grow up and be a nurse. And like, what are you saying? Her mom rushed to her side. And the minute that Reagan laid eyes on her daughter through the ultrasound, all of that pain was gone.

1:31:59March 5th, 2017, Reagan would give birth to baby Kinley and the whole family would rally together to help Reagan. Side note, Kinley's biological father is not Homer, but Reagan and Caleb separated. And after their breakup, Reagan was a young single mom who ran into her old teenage sweetheart, Homer Hancock. The two had been on and off throughout their early teens, but this time it just felt right. So they start dating. Homer was just as great of a stepdad to Kinley as Reagan's stepdad was to her. Kinley even called him daddy, but Homer was hiding a secret. He ordered a little t-shirt in Kinley's size and put Kinley in it.

1:32:39he had her rush to find her mom and the words on the t-shirt read mommy will you marry my daddy and how could reagan say no so they started planning their wedding and early on reagan already knew the theme that she was going for which was sunflowers she was obsessed with sunflowers which side note sunflowers represent lasting happiness and reagan just wanted her wedding to feel very bright they didn't focus on the grandness or the fancy venue homer wore a shirt with a pinned sunflower to it. It's not the most classic groom look, but it just makes Reagan shine even more. She was wearing this beautiful strapless white wedding dress covered in these tiny sparkles, her bouquet with sunflowers, all the floral arrangements, sunflowers.

1:33:24The mason jars on the tables with that orange sand had sunflowers in them. When the couple stepped up to the pastor to say their vows, Homer didn't just take Reagan's hand. He took his adopted daughter's Kinley's hand too. And as they walk off, husband and wife, sunflower petals are being thrown up for them. And one person is watching. It's not hard to be teary-eyed and smiley, but she's not cheering or clapping. She's watching. It's the photographer, Taylor Parker Morton. Taylor photographed their engagement photos and later their wedding. Even afterwards, Reagan went out of her way to leave a glowing review for Taylor.

1:34:04She wrote, she's just the best. To which Taylor responded, my favorite family. The two women, they were not close, but they stayed in contact via Facebook. And it wasn't until about 2020, Taylor kept reaching out to Reagan again to be like, oh my god, hey, you're pregnant? I'm pregnant too. And they're both pregnant with girls. Taylor was due September 22nd. Reagan was due November 10th. So Taylor was going to give birth first. and Reagan's telling people about her life and how after giving birth, she's gonna go back to school to be a nurse. I mean, she's got her whole future planned out. Until the week of October 5th, 2020, there was a fire, a truckload of wild hogs, a bomb threat, a kidnapping, and a double homicide.

1:34:474 a.m. October 5th, Taylor is shaking Wade awake. Wade shoots up in bed thinking the baby's coming right now, but no, the house is on fire. The plastic sheeting under the house is up in flames. Thankfully, Taylor was not asleep in the moment because she's so heavily pregnant, or I don't know, maybe God is watching out for them, she says, and their new baby. Wade is waken up by Taylor, and he manages to put the fire out. This fire would later be determined to be arson. And one prime suspect would be lying wide awake. After putting out the fire, Wade goes back to sleep, and once he's knocked out again, Taylor gets up, quietly sneaks off the bed, takes her phone, moves to a place where Wade cannot hear her, opens an app that changes the sound of the caller's voice, picks a low voice that sounds like a man, calls the Titus Reginus Medical Center, the local big hospital, the one that she told Wade she'd be giving birth in.

1:35:37She says seven words before hanging up. There is a bomb in the hospital. What? She goes back to bed and shakes Wade awake again. I'm not going to be induced today. There's a bomb threat at the hospital. So she's past due. She's supposed to go to the hospital today to get birth. She's like, I can't go. the hospital's on lockdown. The police have to evacuate the entire place and scour it for a bomb. Wade could not believe it. It could not be a coincidence that Taylor's mom hated her guts and now so many terrifying things are happening close to her giving birth, an unexplained fire, a bomb threat.

1:36:14All of this when the baby's supposed to be born. I mean, it's got to be Shauna. It's got Shauna written all over it. Wade goes back to sleep and Taylor goes back to her phone and start searching up Reagan. That was all October 5th. October 6th, the very next day, Taylor and Wade would have to go to Wade's parents' house to shower because the fire cut off all their water to their place. Connie confronted her son once more. Wade was taking paternity leave in anticipation of Taylor's birth, but if she turned out to be lying and there was no baby, he's going to lose his job and he's already in debt.

1:36:45Out of frustration, Connie's looking dead in her son's eyes and says, wait, I don't think she's pregnant. He stormed out of the house, but he was getting a little tired of this. I think a part of them realized that his mom had never been like this before in his life. So maybe she's onto something. I mean, he has zero proof that she's actually pregnant. I mean, yeah, he sees a bump. He does hear her throw up when she had morning sickness, but he's never seen her bump without clothes. He's never seen her throw up. and yeah he's seen ultrasound pictures but he never went and saw her get one Wade told her on October 6th I'm gonna stand by you but I'm gonna need some proof that night ended in a screaming match Taylor spit at him in a few days you'll realize I wasn't lying and you'll feel so stupid and sorry she was seething in resentment Taylor stormed off she's sending Wade text messages screenshots of text messages that she's having with someone else it's really weird yeah she's texting her aunt and her aunt says don't worry after tomorrow everything's gonna be fine if wade wants to always go against you you should leave i would not stay with someone who is so against you like that absolute a thousand percent bullshit in my eyes taylor responds back i'm on the fence myself with the whole thing promise you they will give me a big fucking apology every single one of them i'm not even upset quite frankly i don't have anything to say to them.

1:38:07And we now know that Taylor was talking to herself. October 7th, Taylor rekindles her friendship with Reagan. She goes to visit Reagan at her house. Taylor brought 34 week pregnant Reagan a gift and Starbucks when she went to visit her. They spent time at Reagan's catching up. And after Taylor left, Reagan posted on Facebook at Taylor. So glad I got to see you today. Missed you bunches. Also, thank you for the sweet gift and Starbucks. No freaking way. Taylor liked the post and immediately googled, if I delete a whole conversation on Facebook, will the other person still see the conversation? October 8th, the very next day, Taylor came back to visit Reagan, this time at around 8 p.m.

1:38:48Homer, Reagan's husband, was home and so was their three-year-old daughter. So the women sit in the master bedroom for about two hours just joking around. Homer comes in and he jokingly kicks them out because he needs to rest for work. But he did pick up bits and pieces of their conversation. Reagan, his wife, was affectionately jealous of Taylor's smaller baby bump. Even though Reagan was earlier in her pregnancy, she's only 34 weeks, Taylor's overdue. She just looks, you know, so much less bumpy. Taylor told Reagan, I'm so utterly sick and tired of being pregnant. I cannot wait to be induced tomorrow and just get my baby.

1:39:26While looking at Reagan. Yes. Taylor left that night and it's possible she did not sleep at all that night. The very next day, Taylor would send Wade on a wild hog chase so that she could do what she needed to get her baby home. Side note, even though Taylor's due date was supposed to be September 22nd, it's now October 9th. She's over overdue. She's still heavily pregnant and can give birth any day, any second now. Yet, Taylor is making Wade get up at around 4 a.m. and told him to go sell hogs to the farmer that she made a deal with four hours away. He dutifully got up, went to go sell 150 of his porky friends, which side note, it would be a long drive to get to the buyer.

1:40:08But when he gets there, it's going to take a lot of time because there's so much confusion. The man who's supposed to be buying the hogs has no idea that he's buying hogs. And then Wade showed him text messages. And the buyer is like, I feel like I'm losing my mind because I never sent those text messages. And that's not my phone number, but that is my name. And this is my address. I'm confused. It took a while for them to come to an agreement, but he ended up buying the hogs, I think, at like a third of the agreed-upon price because he's like, that wasn't even, that's not even me. The buyer never even planned to buy hogs at this point.

1:40:39It was just really bizarre. By the time that Wade made that four-hour drive all the way back home, Taylor would be in the hospital and had given birth on the side of the road. So while he's out with the hogs, Taylor gets dressed and gets to work. She starts searching up a storm on Google. The topic? C-sections. Preterm babies. She watched a video of a physical exam of an infant born at 35 weeks. The doctor went over how a baby born before their due date can have sensitivity to temperature changes and breathing problems. But the video confirmed a baby born this early can survive. But interestingly, wasn't Taylor's baby overdue?

1:41:16Why is she looking up a baby born at 35 weeks? Because Reagan is 35 weeks pregnant. October 9th, Taylor shows up at Reagan's house at 7.30 in the morning. We're not sure what excuse she uses to show up, but perhaps she has to borrow her shower because her shower was broken. Either way, it seems clear that Reagan would be someone that would graciously extend her hospitality to a friend. Around 8.30 a.m., Reagan's husband, Homer, was at work and he started receiving these bizarre text messages from his wife. Remember, she's like texting him things like, this isn't working, I just want to be happy, but it's not working.

1:41:51I love you. He's confused because it sounds like someone who's trying to exit and it's very clear that Reagan would never do that. He's trying to text her back that he loves her, but she doesn't respond and he starts getting anxious. Like, what if she's giving birth? What if something happened? He calls Reagan's mom to go check up on her and he himself starts driving home. And we know during the span of that car ride back, Homer's entire life would change. He would lose his wife and his baby girl, Braxlin. When Taylor and the baby arrived at the hospital, doctors tried everything to save Braxlin.

1:42:24They were able to get a pulse in the ambulance but the pulse was dying. The pulse was not enough to keep her blood pumping sufficiently to her organs and the baby needed a machine to breathe. Senior doctors concluded Braxlin had suffered severe brain damage and her condition was quote not compatible with life. She passed at 1 22 p.m. with a nurse holding her hand. She was seven pounds and even at just 35 weeks old she would have been a normal, perfectly healthy baby girl. Experts would later state if Braxlin had a normal delivery, she would have had a 99 % chance of survival. Autopsy results determined Braxlin died from, quote, homicide from a traumatic extraction from the uterus in association with maternal homicide caused by blunt force and sharp force trauma.

1:43:10This will be an important distinction later, but experts believe Braxlin was born alive. She was not stillborn. And that would mean that the authorities were looking at one of the worst double homicide cases that they have dealt with in a very long time. Authorities had a murdered mother and baby and now a woman in the hospital claiming that was her child. Officer Dansby takes a very soft approach with Taylor. There is body cam footage of this. He lets Taylor tell her lies about how she gave birth in the car, which side note, he gently asks about how she got to the hospital, if she drove herself, and she gets really triggered and she states no an ambulance brought me life med but officer dansby starts pushing now okay but here's the deal i'm just gonna be up front with you we know that you've had a hysterectomy sometime back and now you've claimed to be pregnant for a while but you really weren't so we're trying to figure out where this baby came from but you didn't give birth this morning what do you mean that's what i said you didn't give birth this morning so what happened I just told y 'all what happened What do you mean?

1:44:13I just told y 'all what happened What's the doctor gonna find when he comes in and looks at you? Because he can tell They can tell in about a second if you just gave birth or not Okay then Taylor, we found a woman on the side of the road And the baby was removed from her body And then you showed up with the baby And you've had a hysterectomy There's no way you could have been pregnant Even though you've been telling people for a while that you've been pregnant Which, side note, the officer did not make a mistake Reagan was found in her home, but sometimes officers will lie about certain details because if you were involved, you'll correct them.

1:44:44If you weren't involved, you don't know if they messed up a detail or not. Wow. Okay. Taylor takes the bait and she passionately says, I didn't hurt anybody on this side of the road. Otherwise, people would be like, what are you talking about? Who's on this side of the road? She's like, I did not hurt anyone on this side of the road. Taylor goes silent for a minute. The officer is gently asking her, who is the lady? Do you know who she is? I don't know what lady y 'all are talking about. The police keep confronting her with the facts. There is a deceased mother and Taylor took her baby out of her, which caused her to die.

1:45:18The police continue. Most people are going to assume the worst. They're going to assume that you're an evil person and you just butchered this lady and left her to rot on the side of the road so that you could steal her baby. I just don't think that's the case. You don't seem like that type of person. I didn't kill anybody. Where did this baby come from? We're all past that, Taylor. We're past that. I didn't kill anybody. I didn't kill anybody. Was she alive when you left? I wasn't with anybody. I wasn't with her. For a while, she sticks to her story some more. And then the police say, look, Taylor, the DA can prove that you murdered that woman.

1:45:51How heinous is that? You know, everyone's happy. She's having baby showers. Then somebody comes along and cuts her damn baby out of her gut. That's what we got right now. That's the point where we're at. We're past this nonsense about I wasn't there. I didn't kill anybody. We're past all that. We know it. We know you did it. There is no doubt whatsoever. Taylor then whispers she didn't mean to hurt her. Are you sad that she's dead? Taylor nods. Is the deal you just wanted a baby so bad that it kind of overpowered your brain and everything? My head's been hurting. I had a stroke in 2015. Taylor tells the officer Reagan told her to come over that morning to use her shower.

1:46:29She said, I remember pulling up. Did she say something that made you mad or something? she grabbed a hold of me and told me I was a liar we fought back we both hit each other and then she hit her head on the table she hit her head on the table that's okay that's okay sometimes stuff happens I didn't move her I just really wanted the baby they took it away from me implying the doctors took it away from her also calling the baby it I understand that well that shows what a good person you are, Taylor. They took it away from me. So you tried to save the baby. So you cut the baby out like a C-section.

1:47:09I don't remember. I just remember trying to save the baby. Taylor starts breaking down and panicking. Oh God. Oh shit. Oh God. Oh God. Shit. Something's wrong with me. I don't know why I did it. I don't know what's wrong with me because I've never been a bad person. Later, Taylor would clean up her story. She was actually a hero. Taylor states that when she showed up at Reagan's house. Reagan was hollering and screaming at her, pulling her out of her car, forcing her, dragging her into the garage. The two get into an argument. Taylor claimed that she can't really remember what it was about, but they're fighting in the garage.

1:47:39Reagan grabs onto Taylor and continues the physical fight into the house. Taylor stated at this point, she's just trying to leave, but Reagan is dragging her deeper and deeper into the home. She said Reagan started grabbing whatever was in grabbing distance and just started hitting herself on the head with it all the while taunting taylor that she's going to be blamed for all of this out of fear for reagan's safety but also her own taylor slammed reagan onto the floor to get her to stop but reagan hit her head on the coffee table on the way down and she was dying and suddenly reagan was dying quietly on the floor and nothing mattered anymore she just looked at taylor and one final act of love.

1:48:18Reagan knew she was going to die. She asked Taylor, get my baby, save my baby's life. She begged, get her out of me, get her out of me. Taylor carried around a medical kit. Remember, she told people she was a nurse. Well, now she's telling authorities that it was because she goes hog hunting. Anyway, she reaches for the scalpel and stated that she cut Reagan's belly open like a C-section video. She took baby Braxlin out, put the scalpel down because she really only brought it in to save the baby anyway. Taylor claimed that Braxlin was not breathing. She turned Braxlin over and pat her on the back like you would a newborn and it was clear the baby needed medical attention.

1:49:00Taylor stated Reagan looked at her and told her to go. Go and get baby Braxlin to the hospital. Taylor stated Reagan was still alive when she ran from the house to save Braxlin's life. It was a tragic accident but Taylor was a hero. doing anything that she could to save baby Braxlin. But the thing is, the scalpel was broken off in Reagan's neck. Authorities obviously do not believe a single thing that comes out of Taylor's mouth. This is their believed version of events. This whole hero story just doesn't make any sense. The injuries to Reagan were beyond extensive. She was hit over the head with both sides of a claw hammer.

1:49:34She had been slashed over a hundred times with a scalpel. She had been beaten with a mason jar full of sand that weighed four pounds. That's as much as five cans of soup. She had five skull fractures and a broken nose. She may have been strangled, but it was hard to tell because her throat had been slit so violently that the scalpel broke off in her neck. She had been cut from hip to hip. Her uterus had been pulled out and cut open. There was blood in five different areas of the house, indicating that Reagan fought back and fought back hard. One of her fingers was dislocated. The tip of another was nearly cut off.

1:50:07when authorities looked at the placenta taylor had shoved into her own pants they found two pieces of reagan's fingernails broken they determined this could only mean one thing that reagan was alive when taylor cut her open and took her baby out and she was holding on reagan had tried everything she had to save her baby taylor is spinning this whole thing as she wanted to help Reagan save her baby. But for at least 35 minutes, Taylor did other things than help save Braxland. She tried cleaning up the house. Water was used to try and clean up some blood. She got in the car, drove a bit away, and it's speculated she texted Homer from Reagan's phone, all those cryptic messages, and then tossed Reagan's phone to dispose of it because it hasn't been found.

1:50:55Cell phone data shows Taylor leaving Reagan's house with Reagan's phone on or around 7.52 a.m. Taylor placed a 911 call at 9.36am. That's a full hour and 42 minutes that Taylor had baby Braxlin and did nothing to help her except possibly give her amateur CPR, which could do more harm than good if you don't know what you're doing. It's clear that Taylor prioritizes covering up her crime over saving Braxlin's life. Even though she tries to claim that this is her baby, it seems like dead or alive, Taylor wanted a baby. She doesn't care about being a mom. She doesn't care at all. She just cares about showing others that she was telling the truth.

1:51:31Another thing to note, the struggle happened in several rooms of the house while three-year-old Kinley was there. Authorities believe that Kinley saw a portion of the attack. Taylor even reported that Kinley came out of the room and Taylor claimed she yelled at her to go back to her room. This would be a death penalty trial. Taylor pled not guilty. She had the audacity to sit there and smile during court proceedings. but even worse than that, she wore a mask during a good chunk of the trial. The mask had sunflowers on them. It is so sickening and so calculated. Reagan's family and friends had to look at Reagan's murder wearing a tribute to the victims that she killed.

1:52:13It's almost like she wanted to be perceived as a victim. She's sticking by her story of, no, I did everything to save Braxlin for Reagan. There was just zero remorse from Taylor. A counselor who spoke with Taylor stated that it's like talking to a brick wall in terms of remorse. Like, no remorse at all. The counselor also stated,

1:52:43There were conversations about her upbringing because Shauna, her mom, would state that Taylor had a perfectly normal upbringing, nothing out of the ordinary, but Taylor and even her brother would argue otherwise. Taylor's brother Zachary would later state that their biological father, Mark Morton, and their mom, all they did was fight. In front of the kids, didn't matter. All they did was fight screaming matches. Mark Morton, the dad, would also allegedly frequent a drug house where you can buy things like fentanyl and cocaine. And if the kids were with him, he would just bring them in. Taylor claimed that she was 13 when she was brought to one of these drug dens and was essayed by a full-grown man.

1:53:19She claims that she was so scared she ran straight to her grandmother, Peggy. Peggy is a nurse at the Titus Medical Center that she did not want to go to. But Taylor said that she felt like she could trust Peggy. She told Peggy, but Peggy being Mark's mom, she's like, okay, do I choose between my granddaughter or my own son's reputation? Peggy, the grandmother, convinced Taylor to not report the essay. We don't know if this story is true, especially because Taylor has been known to be a pathological liar and nobody else has corroborated the story. And it was reported by Taylor after she was arrested for double homicide.

1:53:52so a lot of people actually do cast doubt on this story but I think if this essay story is true I think that the adult and the system failed Taylor when she was a kid and I imagine that it had long lasting impact on her as an adult and probably still does if this is a true story but I think that's a separate story from what she did to Reagan maybe it gives us more insight on someone's development and psyche but I don't think that it can be an excuse to explain away a crime Some studies have shown that there is a link between essay at a young age and compulsive or pathological lying. But again, this is not justifying Taylor's actions, just giving you all the details of what went down.

1:54:30Later, Shauna would state that Taylor's behavior only got strange after her hysterectomy, and it felt like Taylor's morals were, quote, skewed after the operation. I could not find any academic studies on if there were moral changes after a hysterectomy, so we can just consider this an anecdotal story. Now the defense tried to get the death penalty off the table by trying to get the kidnapping charges dropped because Taylor was now being tried for the murder of Reagan, the kidnapping of Braxland, and then the murder of Braxland. The defense argued that Braxland was born deceased and you cannot kidnap someone that is not alive.

1:55:07So much of the trial was surrounding the argument was Braxland alive or not when she was ripped from her mother. When Taylor felt like that wasn't working, she wrote a letter to the FBI. She wrote a letter offering up her services. She claimed that she had skills such as, quote, running the jail, being great at manipulation, and playing sexual mind games with men and women and could consult the FBI. Wow, this is... Yeah. Wow, this is something. The jury determined she was, and Taylor Parker was sentenced to death November 9th, 2020. She is the seventh woman to arrive on Texas's death row. The average time for a death row inmate to wait for their execution is 12 years.

1:55:51And Taylor is keeping very, very, very busy. Taylor Parker was looking for a sugar daddy in prison. She wrote in one email to a friend, basically hunting for loaded inmates that were now released from prison. She wrote, I need a sugar daddy to load me up some money on this damn thing. Like her commissary account. I hate this. I need a pen pal. I need some men to talk to. It's boring as hell and lonely. In prison, Taylor had at least three boyfriends. One of them she sent a lot of explicit notes to. In one she wrote, I thought of that this morning in the shower. Parentheses dirty mind. I'm going to snuggle down with my book if you want to keep me warm at night.

1:56:27I definitely wouldn't mind a poke. Just saying. I'm very reserved and I'm one to leave our private bedroom to us time only. But honey, I'm a freak. Just saying. You and that manly mind. LOL. Another one reads, I told her I was so sexually frustrated that I'd be humping the light poles all the way home. When Taylor wasn't focused on her boyfriends, or I believe she also had girlfriends in prison, she zeroed in on another inmate, Hannah Alexander Hulander. Hannah was an inmate who had a hard time saying no to people. She was in prison for burglary, possession of a weapon, and drug possession, which, yeah, it's not great, but she really wasn't a criminal mastermind.

1:57:04She was actually very easily influenced by people and wanted to feel accepted by whatever shady group of friends that she fell into. then in prison she met Taylor Parker Taylor Parker convinced Hannah to sit down and write a confession to the police that she killed Reagan and Braxland yeah the story goes Taylor was at Walmart when she got a call from Wade her boyfriend to go home and lock the puppy up on the way home quote the bandits I don't know I guess a group of organized criminals knocked Taylor out drugged her next thing she knew Taylor woke up in Reagan's house the bandits had beaten and stabbed Reagan leaving her to die Reagan was awake and begged Taylor to save her baby, so Taylor gave her an emergency C-section using what she learned from raising cattle.

1:57:47Then Taylor held Braxlin up to Reagan's face and said, Look, a beautiful baby girl. Taylor was happy that Reagan got to see her baby before dying, but now Taylor would take the fall while the bandits got away with everything. Taylor made up a long convoluted story of drugs and surveillance to supplement this story. In the end, nobody bought it, but it still seems like Taylor had intention of leaving prison. Guards found a color-coded floor plan of the jail in her cell. She was trying to escape. Yeah. There were memorials set up around Reagan's home. There were sunflowers everywhere. The family held a memorial service for Reagan and Braxland.

1:58:26There were wind chimes sounding in the breeze. There's these bright, beautiful, colorful flowers. So many sunflowers. And it was just so serene and bright. It suited someone like Reagan. Wade and Connie, Wade's mom, they feel guilty even though they technically weren't part of the crime They feel guilty for not being able to see it or stop it Tommy, Taylor's first husband, is raising their son, Travis I'm not sure where Emily, Taylor's daughter is But unverified sources have stated that she's with Shauna Homer Hancock is rebuilding his life with his adopted daughter, Kinley Reagan's little girl In her victim impact statement, Emily, Reagan's little sister, stated to Taylor my only biological sister you need to understand what you took from me and my family no more celebrating her birthday i was barely 19 when i got the call my sister was gone she will never be my maid of honor if i visit my sister i have to go to a graveyard and see a headstone i will never get a text or phone call from her ever again jessica reagan's mom looked at taylor and said she reagan was one of the very few people on this earth who cared about you now who cares about you and that is the story of the youngest inmate on texas's death row please stay safe and i will see you guys on sunday for another episode bye