India, June 12 -- As Netflix prepares to release Maternal Instinct on June 12, 2026, one question sits at the heart of the documentary. Why did Taylor Parker murder a woman she once called her friend? The answer begins years before the killing, with a secret Parker kept from everyone close to her.

Parker became a mother at 17. She had a second child during her first marriage. Following complications from an ectopic pregnancy after a failed tubal ligation, she underwent a hysterectomy, leaving her unable to have more children.

Parker created elaborate stories and false identities to convince her boyfriend, Wade Griffin, that she was pregnant. She wore a fake pregnancy belly, held a gender reveal party, and bought sonogram pictures off th...