A 29-year-old Texas woman was sentenced to death for murdering a pregnant friend in October 2020 in order to extract and steal the fetus inside her womb.

According to Court documents, Taylor Parker was sentenced in Texas, following a trial that began in September and lasted several weeks.

Parker had been telling her boyfriend and family about her pregnancy for months. She purchased a silicone belly to dupe her friends and made a social media post about the pregnancy.

Parker went to the home of Reagan Simmons-Hancock, a 21-year-old acquaintance in the final months of her pregnancy, on October 9, 2020, and stabbed her more than 100 times.

She left after cutting open her stomach to take her fetus, leaving the victim’s 3-year-old daughter sleeping in another room.

Parker was apprehended shortly after the murder, while driving her car about 15 kilometers away. The baby was on her lap.

She informed authorities that she had recently given birth. The retrieved baby was admitted to the hospital but died shortly.

Parker was tried in the small town of New Boston, which is located east of Dallas.

According to police testimony at the trial, Parker had began looking for pregnant women in maternity wards a few weeks before the murder.

She had recently watched a number of videos of deliveries and Cesarean sections.

It is believed that she thought to have had enough experience through watching the video clips have putting her evil plan into action by killing her very friend.