This Feels Criminal: A True Crime Podcast (Formerly Killer Queens)

After the guilty verdict, most people wait quietly. Taylor Parker wrote a confession to the murder — and signed it as someone else.
Part 2 is the half the Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct never showed. After she was convicted of capital murder, Taylor Parker ran a months-long jailhouse operation to frame other people for the killing of Reagan Simmons-Hancock — forged confessions, fabricated co-conspirators, the works. Then came the penalty phase and one question: was Taylor Parker calculating, or was she sick? Tyrella and Nikita break down the dueling experts, the 2022 death sentence that landed her on Texas death row, the appeals that have since run out, and where Taylor Parker is now.
You'll hear the forged confessions, the jail calls, just how rare fetal abduction really is — and why the hosts chose to end on Reagan and her baby, Braxlynn, not the woman who killed them.
Missed Part 1? Start there for Reagan's story and the years of deception that led to October 9th.
Content warning: graphic violence, the death of an infant, and discussion of suicide. If you're struggling, call or text 988 (Suicide & Crisis Lifeline).

Before she was a Netflix documentary, Reagan Simmons-Hancock had a name, a daughter, and a baby due in weeks. This is the part the cameras skipped.
The Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct tells the story of Taylor Parker, who faked a pregnancy for nearly a year — fake ultrasounds, a silicone belly, even a gender reveal — before committing one of the rarest and most disturbing crimes there is: fetal abduction. In 2020, in the tiny town of New Boston, Texas, that lie ended in the murder of her friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock. Tyrella and Nikita walk through how a con artist with a fabricated oil-and-gas fortune slowly escalated toward the unthinkable.
Part 1 traces Reagan's life and the years of deception by Taylor Parker that led to October 9th: the cons, the fake inheritance, the invented villains, and the warnings no one could legally act on.
Part 2 covers everything Netflix left out — what Taylor did from behind bars. Patrons have it now; everyone else, it drops Thursday.
Content warning: this episode discusses graphic violence and the death of an infant.

Caysen Allison stabbed a classmate more than once and got 10 years. Karmelo Anthony stabbed Austin Metcalf once and got 35. Both said it was self-defense.
Part 2 opens at Anthony's sentencing in Frisco, Texas — including the victim impact statement from Austin's mother that reframes the whole debate — then sets the case beside a strikingly similar one out of Belton: same self-defense claim, very different ending.
Tyrella and Nikita break down the 35-year sentence, the data on sentencing disparities, the jury and the Batson challenge, the online firestorm, and the appeal — built on the record, not the noise.
Start with Part 1 for the trial and the verdict.
Content warning: fatal violence involving minors, and a racist remark (quoted and condemned) in the context of public reaction to the case.

A handcuffed 17-year-old corrects the officer reading him his situation: "I'm not alleged. I did it." Behind him, 17-year-old Austin Metcalf is dying under a track-meet tent.
In April 2025, Karmelo Anthony and Austin Metcalf — two teenagers from rival Frisco, Texas high schools who'd never met — ended up under the same tent at a district track meet. Four minutes later, one of them was gone, and the case split the internet long before it reached a courtroom.
Tyrella and Nikita walk through the confrontation, the arrest, the closed trial, and the jury instruction that may have decided everything — reported out from the courtroom, because no recording exists.
This is Part 1. Part 2 — the sentence, and a second Texas case nobody's talking about — is on Patreon now and drops Thursday.
Content warning: fatal violence involving minors.
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In 2005, Wade Robson swore under oath that Michael Jackson never touched him — and helped win the acquittal. In 2026, he's asking a different jury to believe the opposite.
Part 2 picks up where Netflix's "The Verdict" stops. Tyrella and Nikita get into what the documentary left out: the $20M+ Jordan Chandler settlement, the Robson and Safechuck lawsuits against Jackson's companies, and the credibility questions on both sides — a memoir he didn't disclose, a Grand Canyon trip his own mother contradicts, and staff who say they saw things they never reported. It's the messy, gray-area aftermath of a not-guilty verdict — and a civil trial set for later this year.
This is Part 2. Start with Part 1 for the 2005 trial itself.
Content warning: discusses child sexual abuse allegations, grooming testimony, and mental health.