Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan: Two Linked Lives - The Heartbreaking Story of Reagan Simmons Hancock
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🗓️ 4 December 2022
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
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.
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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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| 0:00.0 | We're body bags with Joseph Scott Morgan. |
| 0:20.0 | There are certain days in your life that mark you in for me. |
| 0:25.2 | Those days were the birth of my kids and also the birth of my grandchildren. |
| 0:30.3 | I'll never forget it as long as I live because you know people it's kind of wrote to say |
| 0:35.6 | it I know. |
| 0:36.6 | But it is truly a miracle when you're there and you watch this happen. |
| 0:41.3 | This thing that just occurs and brings life into the world and it's so beautiful. |
| 0:47.3 | And it's something that you never forget, at least for me, I'll never forget it till |
| 0:51.8 | my dying day. |
| 0:54.2 | Like today, we're going to talk about a case involving a young mother and a baby who |
| 1:04.7 | never had a chance at life. |
| 1:08.5 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan and this is Body Bags. |
| 1:18.6 | Joining me is Jackie Howard, executive producer of Crown Stories with Nancy Grace, Jackie |
| 1:24.1 | Howard. |
| 1:25.1 | I don't know probably for me as a death investigator if there were any sadder cases than those |
| 1:32.7 | involving kids and particularly babies. |
| 1:36.4 | It hurts your heart and bruises you. |
| 1:38.1 | It's something that you carry with you for the rest of your life and the case that we're |
| 1:42.2 | going to be discussing today is such a case like that that I don't know that anyone could |
| 1:48.0 | ever get over this beyond it past it and certainly never forget it. |
| 1:53.2 | No, Joe, and I think for me what made this case as bad as it was, what made it one degree |
| 1:59.6 | worse is that the young lady who died, her mother was the one who found her body. |
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