Within seconds of the documentary, the full impact of the devastation hits.<\/p>\n
On the morning of October 9, 2020, a police officer had pulled over a woman before opening the driver\u2019s door to a shocking scene.<\/p>\n
When pulled over, Parker appeared distraught with a newborn baby on her lap, umbilical cord still attached. Photo \/ Netflix<\/p>\n
Parker sits behind the wheel, cradling a newborn girl, with her umbilical cord still attached.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s covered in blood. She claimed she had just given birth.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s not breathing,\u201d Parker cries, begging the officer to take them to the hospital.<\/p>\n
Only the horrifying truth is too shocking to believe.<\/p>\n
A short time beforehand, Parker arrived at the home of Reagan Simmons Hancock, a 21-year-old pregnant mother who had hired Parker as a photographer for her wedding a year prior.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, she was warmly invited into the home before she unleashed a premeditated attack, killing her 35-weeks-pregnant friend before cutting the unborn baby out of the womb.<\/p>\n
During her trial two years after the attack, the medical examiner, Dr Melinda Flores, testified that the victim had 113 \u201csharp force injuries\u201d and 39 blunt-force injuries, primarily to her face and head\u201d.<\/p>\n
The brutal scene unfolded while Hancock\u2019s 3-year-old daughter was home.<\/p>\n
Viewers also hear the heartbreaking call made to emergency services by Hancock\u2019s mother, who was the first to find the body.<\/p>\n
\u201cHelp me. My daughter\u2019s been murdered,\u201d Jessica Brookes cried to the 911 operator.<\/p>\n
\u201cSomebody got in the house. She\u2019s dead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Her victim was 21-year-old Reagan Simmons Hancock who had been 35 weeks pregnant. Photo \/ Netflix<\/p>\n
The murder was the result of a long-bubbling lie Parker had been perpetuating to her boyfriend, Wade Griffin, whom she\u2019d started dating in 2019.<\/p>\n
She spoke constantly of her inheritance from her estranged mother, buying Griffin\u2019s mother a car that would be repossessed, and making offers on ranches Griffin had dreamt of owning.<\/p>\n
After a month into the relationship, she\u2019d informed him she was pregnant.<\/p>\n
She wore a silicone stomach, provided scans, health documents, and even had a name picked out for the fictitious baby.<\/p>\n
Griffin\u2019s family were suspicious, but red flags became impossible to ignore when they were informed by Parker\u2019s ex-friend that she\u2019d had a hysterectomy, meaning she was incapable of carrying a child.<\/p>\n
Her boyfriend Wade Griffin said he had believed she was pregnant. Photo \/ Netflix<\/p>\n
As her due date approached, questions continued to mount until Griffin confronted her, but the ruse didn\u2019t break.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no space for him to sit down and realise what was going on,\u201d his mother said in the documentary.<\/p>\n
Parker convinced him she\u2019d scheduled an induction for October 9, 2020 \u2013 the same day she would go on to murder Hancock.<\/p>\n
The morning of the murder, she convinced him to deliver livestock while she made her way to the clinic, providing her with a window of opportunity.<\/p>\n
In court, Judge John Tidwell presided over the murder trial, where he formally sentenced her to death.<\/p>\n
Parker is one of six women currently on death row in Texas. Photo \/ Idabel PD<\/p>\n
\u201cTake her to death row,\u201d Judge Tidwell told the court.<\/p>\n
Appeal proceedings have failed to succeed with an execution date yet to be confirmed; death row prisoners often wait up to 18 years before meeting their fate.<\/p>\n
The case has sent waves of horror through TV screens, with viewers taking to social media to share their shock.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is by far the most insane documentary I\u2019ve ever seen,\u201d one woman said in a TikTok.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you think you\u2019ve seen every wild Netflix true crime documentary, this one challenges that claim. Viewers call it the craziest documentary on Netflix,\u201d a third wrote.<\/p>\n
Another clip warns: \u201cIf you are pregnant, do not watch Maternal Instincts on Netflix. Just don\u2019t for your own mental peace.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you\u2019re pregnant, do not watch this,\u201d another agreed.<\/p>\n
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