Episode Details

A woman is pulled over on a Texas highway with a newborn baby in her lap, covered in blood, claiming she has just given birth behind the wheel. But when Taylor Parker reaches hospital, the story begins to fall apart. 

In part one of the Taylor Parker case, we follow the strange and escalating trail of fake pregnancy claims, inheritance lies, family sabotage, burner phones, alleged threats, arson, a multimillion-dollar ranch deal and a relationship with Wade Gryphon that becomes tangled in one impossible story after another. At the centre of it all is Parker’s need to keep the people around her believing that her fantasy life is real. 

But while Taylor and Wade are counting down to the arrival of “Clancy Gale”, another young woman, Reagan Hancock, is preparing for her own baby. And by the time the truth emerges, this true crime story has already crossed into something far darker: a foetal abduction case that no one around Parker saw coming. 

Topics Included 

• Taylor Parker and the fake pregnancy claim
• Wade Gryphon and the relationship at the centre of the story
• The alleged Blackburn Syrup inheritance
• Shona Prior and the mother-daughter sabotage narrative
• Fake documents, messages, phone calls and threats
• The Pecan Point ranch deal
• Pregnancy doubts, ultrasounds and the gender reveal
• Reagan Hancock and her connection to Taylor
• The roadside birth claim on Highway 82
• The discovery that the baby was not Taylor’s

Resources and Further Reading 

• Parker v. State of Texas - Justia
• Taylor-Parker-Probable-Cause-Affidavit - Document Cloud
• Texas woman sentenced - CNN

Host & Show Info

• Hosts: Kyle Risi & Adam Cox
• Intro Music: Alice in dark Wonderland

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