What to Know
By now, we’ve all watched Maternal Instinct on Netflix and can probably all agree that it’s one of the craziest true stories we’ve ever consumed. Taylor Park wove a web of lies so diabolical that she ruined the lives of countless people along the way. And when she couldn’t get what she wanted, she killed another mother and her baby. Parker had already given birth to two children and knew what to expect afterward. We’ll never understand how she ever thought she’d get away with Reagan Simmons-Hancock’s murder. Those who’ve dug even deeper into her history claim the documentary only told the tiniest bit of her story. Spoiler alert: there’s so much more to learn.
Parker was a pathological liar.
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There is no doubt that Parker told many lies. So many that put together, it’s like a Lifetime movie. A Reddit Mega Thread for Maternal Instinct is filled with questions the viewers want answered. One of the biggest holes for viewers is Parker’s other children. She reportedly had two kids who attended the gender reveal for her fake pregnancy.
“I want to know more about her other kids- why is the son not in the picture? Why doesn’t she have primary custody of the daughter? What were her previous relationships like? I would be really interested in getting a family member’s perspective,” someone wrote.
Others questioned her mental health, which didn’t appear well. “I’m interested because I read she was declared ‘mentally competent’. I guess I don’t understand that term as well as I’d like to because at no point in the documentary did I look at this individual and believe she was capable of making healthy choices,” another person asked.
What’s the deal with Wade Griffin?
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Of course, plenty of people can’t get their minds off of Parker’s boyfriend, Wade Griffin. He seems pretty unattached to her and the baby and totally aloof to the entire situation. Many viewers felt he had far more interest in his hogs than in his unborn baby.
“My husband was surprised when I told him I was watching a documentary about a murder, because he had figured I was watching something about the 30 to 50 feral hogs guy,” one person wrote.
This person laid it out very bluntly. “I want the tea about why she didn’t have custody of her 2 kids yet had the nerve to want another one & also why Wade’s Helen Keller acting a– didn’t see that as a red flag to not give her the time of day to begin with. Somebody should have told him she ‘lost 2 hogs’ so he could understand why he shouldn’t be with her if he wanted to have a hog farm because I swear that’s all he seems to have knowledge on,” they wrote.
And what about her physical presence. “Wade could see that there were many red flags, but still decided to side with her, all he had to do was say just let me see your belly, I mean she had a fake belly ????” A comment reads.
The birth story made no sense.
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Anyone who’s had a baby knows that there is a lot of fluid during birth. The fact that she was pulled over on the side of the road with her dry pants pulled up was an immediate red flag.
“If she had given birth in the car while driving, why would she still have her stretch pants on? Seemed like she wasn’t even trying very hard to be convincing,” a Redditor pointed out.
This person agreed, writing, “I don’t even know how she could think that any of what she did was gonna be convincing. A woman is murdered and her baby is stolen, and at the same time you’re gonna show up to the hospital saying you gave birth on the road? There is no world in which she was gonna get away with this.”
Parker will spend the rest of her life in a Texas prison on death row. This isn’t a Lifetime movie, it’s a blockbuster waiting to happen.
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