{"product_id":"fatal-maternal-instinct-randall-fuquay-9798198677722","title":"Fatal Maternal Instinct: A Mother's Deadly Lie: The True Crime Story of Obsession, Deception, and Murder","description":"As featured in the explosive June 2026 true crime documentary, this is the full, chilling story behind one of America's most disturbing crimes.\u003cbr\u003eShe could not get pregnant. So she decided to steal someone else's baby.\u003cbr\u003eFor ten months, Taylor Parker convinced her boyfriend, her friends, and her entire community that she was expecting a child. She hosted a gender reveal party. She posted ultrasound photos. She let people touch her belly and celebrate with her. Every word of it was a lie.\u003cbr\u003eOn October 9, 2020, Reagan Simmons-Hancock, twenty-one years old and thirty-four weeks pregnant, opened her front door to a woman she recognized and never opened it again.\u003cbr\u003eWhat followed was a crime so calculated, so methodically planned, and so psychologically disturbing that it left seasoned investigators speechless, stunned a courtroom for three weeks, and set a landmark legal precedent that will shape how Texas prosecutes fetal abduction for years to come.\u003cbr\u003eFATAL MATERNAL INSTINCT: A Mother's Deadly Lie is the complete, deeply researched account of a case that raises questions no one wants to ask and answers every single one of them.\u003cbr\u003eInside this book you will discover: \u003cbr\u003eThe ten-month fake pregnancy, including the silicone belly, the forged ultrasounds, the gender reveal party, and the bomb threat Parker called in to cancel a hospital examination that would have exposed her.\u003cbr\u003eThe psychology behind fetal abduction and what drives a woman to plan a crime of this kind, including expert psychiatric testimony from the trial and clinical research on perpetrators across two decades of documented cases.\u003cbr\u003eA minute-by-minute reconstruction of the morning of October 9, 2020, built from cell phone geolocation data, surveillance footage, 911 call recordings, and crime scene testimony.\u003cbr\u003eThe traffic stop that broke the case open and the press-on fingernail embedded in the placenta that placed Taylor Parker at the scene beyond any reasonable doubt.\u003cbr\u003eThe three-week capital murder trial, the born-alive legal battle, the psychiatric testimony, and the jury deliberation that lasted less than one hour before returning a unanimous death sentence.\u003cbr\u003eThe landmark appellate ruling that legally recognized baby Braxlynn Sage as a person under Texas law and what it means for fetal abduction prosecutions across America.\u003cbr\u003eThe warning signs that were present from the beginning and what communities, families, and medical professionals can do to prevent the next case.\u003cbr\u003eThis is not just a crime story. It is a study in obsession, deception, and the terrifying distance between a social media pregnancy announcement and a murder planned in cold blood.\u003cbr\u003eReagan Simmons-Hancock was twenty-one years old. She carried sunflowers at her wedding. She texted her mother good morning every day. She was so ready for her daughter to arrive.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is for her.\u003cbr\u003eIf you read one true crime book this year, make it this one. Scroll up and grab your copy now.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Randall Fuquay\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798198677722\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 182\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d","brand":"Randall Fuquay","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48852914733311,"sku":"9798198677722","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/fatal-maternal-instinct-randall-fuquay-9798198677722","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}