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NEW BOSTON, TX. (KTAL/KMSS) — It’s been a little over a 12 months since Taylor Parker was once sentenced to dying for the brutal homicide of 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock and her unborn child, Braxlynn Safe, and the police who pieced in combination what took place on that tragic day are sharing their accounts of the scene.
For the primary time out of doors of a court docket, two of the crime scene investigators who processed the homicide are sharing what they noticed, and the emotional toll of fixing those graphic crimes.
In October 2020, Marc Sillivan won a name from New Boston Police informing him that NBP wanted lend a hand because of a crime scene in contrast to another they’d noticed sooner than.
Upon arrival, Sillivan discovered the sufferer, Reagan Simmons-Hancock, was once pregnant. However, investigators had been in for a surprise once they realized the infant was once long gone.
“My remark was, ‘The baby is gone, as in deceased? Or is gone, as in – gone?’ And they said, ‘No, the baby is gone. The baby is missing,’” stated Sillivan, “You start to play a thousand scenarios through your head.”
Sillivan did an preliminary walk-through of the crime scene and he knew he was once going to want lend a hand. He known as his Texarkana Texas PD CSI Partner, Spence Price.
At the time, Price was once on clinical depart along with his spouse and dropped the whole lot to go to the crime scene.
“There’s a lot of times that we get told, ‘Blood is everywhere’. And we doubt it a lot,” stated Price. “This is probably the bloodiest scene we’ve worked [on] in a long time.”
Sillivan stated blood may be very telling and informs investigators about what took place.
“The first thing I noticed at the scene was a lot of bloody footprints. Shoe prints. Shoe impressions,” stated Sillivan.
They had been there for the following 13 hours.
“And I looked at my partner and I said, ‘She was alive when that baby was taken”. And he stated, ‘I feel you’re proper,” stated Sillivan.
They to start with idea Reagan had fought for her existence, alternatively, the blood informed a other tale.
“The victim’s fingernails were broken and things like that. She was covering up. She was ambushed,” stated Sillivan.
Price additionally defined that it takes a lot extra to knock a individual out than films regularly depict; a reality the wrongdoer appeared blind to.
“I think in Taylor Parker’s mind she thought the assault would be like on TV. I hit her in the head once, she’ll go down unconscious. I can do what I need to do and be done and out of here. She didn’t realize that it takes a lot more than that to knock somebody out,” stated Price.
Investigators established Reagan was once assaulted on the storage door and the assault endured all through the home as Reagan attempted to flee.
“Up against the wall, we had the blood spatter on the wall. You could pretty much, with the blood, look at everywhere she had been,” stated Sillivan.
“Once the baby was pulled from her which she fought for her. As she [Parker] was walking off, you could tell she [Regan] was trying to go after her and died,” Sillivan recounts shedding his hand at the desk.
Investigators knew Reagan fought as a result of she was once pulling laborious sufficient all through Parker’s fetal abduction to lose a nail. Regan was once dressed in press-on nails, they discovered 3 on the space and one in the uterus.
Hundreds of hours had been spent figuring out, amassing, and processing the forensic proof.
Their paintings paints a factual image that resulted in a conviction and a next dying sentence for Parker.
Nevertheless, the psychological and emotional burden is carried with them.
Price and Sillivan are each folks and may just no longer believe the phobia Reagan was once going via to struggle for her unborn child.
Price’s voice trembled, “Everyone in our unit are parents – that’s what bugged us the most. And that’s what left a psychological impact on us was knowing that fact, and knowing that, she’s alive during this”
“It’ll never … It’ll never leave my mind. You know as long as I have a sound mind. In this business, I might not have a sound mind for long,” stated Sillivan.
“Fetal abduction murders are so rare. I think there were only two reported cases in the year 2020. One in Brazil and one in New Boston Texas. That’s how rare these kinds of cases are,” stated Price, “I really don’t want to work another one like it … ever again.”
To nowadays, Sillivan says they’ve no longer recovered the sneakers Taylor was once dressed in and her a number of mobile phones.
The main points of how mercilessly Reagan was once attacked are irritating. Sillivan stated she was once overwhelmed with a couple of gadgets and left with a scalpel in her neck, “She was beaten with a 4-pound mason jar full of sand; she was sliced, she was cut.”
Sillivan traced his thumb beneath his left ear, beneath his jaw to the opposite facet of his neck to turn the in depth neck wound. He stated the lower was once the remaining assault and it was once inflicted on Reagan post-mortem.
“I believe she was on her stomach. I believe she walked up to her, raised her head, [and] started here” detailed Sillivan.
Price stated there was once such a lot blood misplaced, that the infant died from the nerve-racking extraction.
They shook their heads and seemed down on the desk detailing Reagan’s three-year-old daughter who ‘saw too much’ pronouncing the trauma that took place to the kid nonetheless clings to them.
“It’s tragic, it’s horrific, it’ll never leave my mind,” stated Sillivan, “as long as I have a sound mind. And in this business, I might not have a sound mind for long.”
Sillivan stated he’s going to all the time empathize with the ‘Crime Scene’ division as they’re the primary ones at the scene.
“I think in this point of my career they don’t ‘pop’ as much in my head especially since this case has been done what three years now,” stated Price, “We’ve had cases that fill the void in that time. Now there are times, I might think about when I’m with my daughter. Just having a glimpse of the terror she went through.”
“As soon as you hear their names it floods back to you,” stated Price.
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