Jessica Dimmock, the director of Netflix's hit documentary Maternal Instinct, revealed why the production chose not to interview Taylor Parker, the woman convicted of murdering pregnant Reagan Simmons Hancock in 2020.
"We decided not to interview Taylor," Dimmock told Oxygen in an interview published on June 18. "Obviously, Reagan and her family are the most severe and the biggest victims in this, but [there are] other people that she deceived, other people that she hurt along the way, coworkers, former friends."
Instead, the documentary used stitched-together pieces of Parker's life, including text messages and videos, along with interviews with Hancock's family members and Parker's ex-boyfriend Wade Griffin, to tell her story without giving her control over how her victims were portrayed.
Dimock explained her reasoning further, saying, "It felt like, you know, I think as a director, 'What is she going to say?' From everything that I've read, from the way that the trial went, I don't think she's remorseful. There doesn't really seem to be evidence that she's remorseful. If she said she was remorseful, could I even believe her, and does that matter?"
She continued, "I just wasn't sure that there was anything that she could say that would be additive, or that I could believe, and it felt disrespectful to those that she hurt the most to include her take."
