Taylor Morton, who also goes by Taylor Parker, is a 27-year-old Texas woman Texas who is accused of killing her seven-months-pregnant Facebook friend Reagan Hancock at her New Boston home and cutting her baby from her womb, KTAL TV reports. Morton, of Simms, Texas, was arrested October 9 in Oklahoma, the. same day Hancock was found dead. The baby did not survive, police said.
Police, have said that Morton confessed to the crime, according to an account in the McCurtain County Gazette-News. Police, according to the newspaper, also said she told them she committed the crime because she lied to her boyfriend about being pregnant and wanted to produce a baby.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation told KTAL that Morton was arrested by Idabel Police and the OSBI at McCurtain Memorial Hospital. Morton had been stopped by a Texas state trooper in De Kalb, authorities said. She told the officer she had delivered the baby on the side of the road and an ambulance was called, the news station reports. The ambulance took Morton to the hospital just over the Oklahoma border in Idabel and a doctor there determined Morton had not given birth, the OSBI told KTAL. Doctors were not able to resuscitate the baby, police said.
Morton, who was identified by police by her former married name, Taylor Parker, but went by Taylor Morton on social media, had posted on Facebook about being pregnant and has been accused by some online of faking her pregnancy before Hancocks murder, according to a number of Facebook posts.
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The McCurtain Gazette-News reported that Morton then fled to Oklahoma, where the baby died. Hancock was stopped by a Texas state trooper for speeding near DeKalb at 10 a.m. on Friday, the paper reported. She told the trooper that she had just given birth and her newborn baby, which was in the car, was not breathing. The trooper tried to perform CPR but could not revive the baby and called for an ambulance. Morton was then taken to McCurtain Memorial, where a doctor knew very quickly that she had not given birth.
When reports came in at 1 p.m. that a woman was murdered and her baby taken, police returned to the hospital, arrested Morton. The paper reported that Morton confessed in custody, to the murder and kidnapping, telling officers she told her boyfriend that she was pregnant in February and they even had a gender reveal party.
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Evil woman.
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