Netflix is set to release Maternal Instinct, a true-crime documentary that investigates the harrowing 2020 Texas crime committed by Taylor Parker. The documentary, directed by Jessica Dimmock, explores a horrifying fetal abduction case that shook the country.
The case centers on the tragic murder of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock in New Boston, Texas, by Taylor Rene Parker, who had faked her own pregnancy for ten months. Parker attacked Simmons-Hancock, an expectant mother, inside her home, murdered her, and performed a crude C-section to steal her unborn baby.
Parker was eventually pulled over for speeding and found covered in blood with the deceased infant in her lap. She claimed that she had just given birth on the side of the road, but her lies kept unravelling after she was taken to a nearby Oklahoma hospital.
Parker was sentenced to death by a Bowie County jury in November 2022 and the sentence was recently upheld in November 2025. The documentary is scheduled to premiere globally on June 12, 2026.
