Two Linked Lives - The Heartbreaking Story of Reagan Simmons Hancock

Reagan Simmons Hancock, 21, is found dead in her New Boston home by her mother on the morning of October 9th, 2020. She was seven and a half months pregnant, had been stabbed over 100 times, strangled, and had her unborn child removed from her womb. The perpetrator is Taylor Parker, a friend of Hancock’s, who had been faking a pregnancy for over 10 months.

In this episode of Body Bags, forensics expert Joseph Scott Morgan and Jackie Howard discuss the blood patterns at the crime scene, the injuries sustained by Hancock, the logistics of performing an at-home C-section, and how Parker may have gone about planning the attack. 

Show Notes:

0:00 - Intro

1:18 - Background and overview of case

3:14 - Blood patterns

4:42 - Two questions: 1. How much blood is in the human body? 2. With blood everywhere, how do you figure out where the murder actually occurred?

7:50 - Stab wounds/strangulation 

10:40 - How Reagan’s pregnancy factored into her murder/death

13:32 - Scalpels, surgical tools, C-sections

17:25 - Langer lines

19:50 - How did the assailant perform the C-section without harming the baby?

23:11 - Finding the perpetrator: Taylor Parker

24:10 - The placenta and Parker faking the baby’s birth

27:35 - Major indicators that a woman has given birth 

30:28 - What ultimately led to the death of the child?

32:30 - Wrap up and final thoughts

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