On the morning of February 8th, 1997, Kelly Gissendaner began making frantic phone calls from her home in Auburn, Georgia.Her husband, thirty-year-old Douglas Gissendaner, had never come home the night before.At first, the possibilities seemed endless.Maybe his car had broken down. Maybe he had been involved in an accident. Maybe he was lying injured somewhere, unable to get help.But thirty-six hours later, deep in the woods of Gwinnett County, investigators discovered a burned-out vehicle. The car belonged to Douglas.Then, less than two weeks later, Douglas Gissendaner’s body was found face down in the dirt, still on his knees.He had been kidnapped, driven to a remote stretch of road, and brutally stabbed to death.Initially, investigators believed it may have been a robbery gone wrong.But as police began digging deeper into Douglas’s marriage, they uncovered a months-long affair, dozens upon dozens of secret phone calls, a carefully constructed alibi, and what prosecutors would later describe as a cold, calculated, and meticulously planned murder plot.And at the centre of it all… was Douglas’s own wife.

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00:00 Case 1 - Lam Luong

28:34 Case 2 - Stanley Metcalf

46:39 Case 3 - Ronald Clark O’Bryan

01:03:12 Case 4 - Nubia Barahona

01:33:57 Case 5 - Mick Philpott

02:14:19 Case 6 - Karl Bluestone

02:27:22 Case 7 - Darcey Freeman

02:53:58 Case 8 - Corey Micciolo

03:37:52 Case 9 - Darren Sykes

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On the morning of October 9th, 2020, a Texas state trooper spotted a woman driving erratically, close to the Texas–Oklahoma border.

When the trooper pulled the vehicle over, the driver was frantic. She was screaming for help, claiming she had just given birth on the side of the road. Sitting in her lap was a newborn baby girl who wasn't breathing. The baby's umbilical cord was still attached, and blood covered the woman's clothing. Everything about the scene suggested that she had only just given birth.

An ambulance was called immediately, and both the woman and the infant were rushed to a hospital in Idabel, Oklahoma.

But once doctors began examining the woman, something didn't make sense. Despite her claims, there were no signs that she had recently given birth.

As medical staff tried to understand what was happening, investigators began piecing together a far darker picture.

Because around 70 miles away, in New Boston, Texas, 21-year-old Reagan Simmons-Hancock had been found dead inside her home. Reagan was 35 weeks pregnant when she was brutally attacked, and her unborn daughter, Braxlynn, had been cut from her body.

The woman back at the hospital, claiming the baby was hers and that she had just given birth was Taylor Parker.

This is the tragic case of Taylor Parker, and how her actions stole two innocent lives and shattered a community forever.

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