Maternal Instinct (on Netflix) - June 2026
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Anonymous
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Has anyone else watched this? Taylor apparently had over 30 different aliases going. I wonder how she kept it all straight in her head with so many! Here are my two remaining questions:
1. Why did she pick Wade? Because he is a simple guy who couldn't see what literally EVERYONE else in his family could? 2. Why did she not have custody of either of her children (and who did)? |
Anonymous
| I wondered about the custody thing too. I would’ve liked another episode to explain her childhood and life before Wade. |
Anonymous
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Ditto about the custody thing. I also thought it was interesting that that also wasn’t mentioned in the end when she obviously was going to death row.
I have heard of similar cases (Savannah grey wind, Bobbi Jo Stinnet) and was surprised that the baby didn’t survive. But also it’s really not surprising. So horrible. |
Anonymous
There are so many unanswered questions. As intriguing as the story was, it really wasn’t a well-made documentary. It really could have been 3-5 episodes, with some more information. I can’t imagine making this and not wanting to at least try to give some more background. I understand not wanting to give too much extraneous information, but where her children were and where were the 2 men she’d married and divorced before this? Had she ever been arrested before? Did she have any history of mental illness? This seems pertinent. I read that the husband of the victim included Wade in a civil suit. What crime could he be guilty of? Unless there’s major information missing, I can’t see how he’s responsible—at least no more than anyone else. I mean -with all of these people who were just gossiping about her, someone could have called her bluff in way that would have put an end to her game. It would have prevented so much pain. |
Anonymous
Well she's nit a surgeon and stabbed the Mom over 100 times to get to the baby. Mom probably bled out before she could get the baby out |
Anonymous
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She was living in her own fantasy world and couldn’t distinguish between reality and fantasy.
The millionaire heiress thing alone was creepy. Didn’t the people close to her notice something? Did the defense ever have her evaluated? |
Anonymous
| This is a must-see on my Netflix watchlist!! |
Anonymous
| I watched and had many of the same questions afterwards. There is a three part podcast, Everything Scary, who did a three part series in 2024 on Taylor. As is often true, the hosts are annoying and have lots of asides but it does answer a lot. (Taylor’s ex husband has the kids. The first husband, with whom she had her second child, wanted to adopt the first child. His family rallied to find the money for the adoption, gave it to Taylor, who spent the money on herself and the legal adoption never happened. But if I recall correctly, he has both kids) |
Anonymous
| I had similar questions coming out of this, and may have missed some details, but what was that part about her texting from the victim's phone? was she trying to establish some kind of alibi? and then, how did she plead? Did she continue to try to say she was innocent? |
Anonymous
| Why didn’t she attend an insanity plea? She murdered a very pregnant woman in the same small town and cut out her baby and thought nobody would connect that with her??? |
Anonymous
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She picked Wade because he was dumb as dirt. Imagine believing even a tenth of her BS - oil leases and Mexican cartels and being a quintessential "good ole country girl" but not having custody of your kids. It took months for him to realize she didn't have any friends. She saw a guy who would be shellshocked to have female attention and locked on.
The only person I feel sorry for is Reagan because she was genuinely young enough and on the fringe of the story enough to not realize things didn't add up. Everybody else was an idiot. And I hope Wade's friend in the camo hat apologized to his wife for telling her to stop investigating Taylor online. I forgot I did like the lesbian neighbor who took a bunch of pictures because she was like NO WAY this lady is pregnant. Very 2026 Gladys Kravitz. |
Anonymous
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I'm glad I'm not the only one who wanted more in-depth coverage--so much available backstory but the doc felt like it didn't dive deep enough.
Aside from the obvious wtf moments, I came away kind of not liking Wade and his friends/family. Like I get that they are speaking about everything after the fact and had context that the viewers didn't, but they kind of came across as greedy and enjoying the benefits of the lies, while still trashing Taylor. Until they got to the actual murder (I purposely didn't read the outcome beforehand), I had a hard time feeling for them as victims. Like oh no, Wade had to enjoy the dream of buying million dollar properties and spending big bucks on ATVs and big boy hunting toys. And then he became a sourpuss when it seemed to be falling apart (but yet, did nothing because he wanted it to be true). Even at the end when each interviewee was reflecting, I was still reeling from the knowledge that the baby had died (since she was alive in the opening footage when the cop pulled Taylor over). But all of Wade's crew, including him, said they are trying to move past the betrayal, the lies, the deception. I realize it's an edited and they very well could have mentioned other things, but as presented, I kept wondering, "...and the baby? And Reagan?" None of them mentioned "And I struggle with the knowledge that that poor baby didn't even get a chance at life..." |
Anonymous
It is incredibly difficult to have a successful insanity defense. You have to show that you did not know right from wrong. To put this in perspective, Jeffrey Dahmer could not mount such a defense! The minute she lied and said that was her baby and continued to go to the hospital and lie and say yes, she just delivered that baby… She wasn’t going to be successful in the insanity defense. To show that you didn’t know right from wrong, you wouldn’t even not to lie about it. You would just say I stabbed her because she had my baby in her belly or something like that. Meaning, you have no concept that what you did was wrong so you wouldn’t be able to lie about it. Add that to the fact that then her lies started to change when she claimed that The Victim asked her to take the baby out. |
Anonymous
In her mind she was not lying when she said it was her baby. That was the fantasy and the reality she was living in and couldn’t understand that it wasn’t true. She couldn’t articulate it I am curious as to what kind of mental issue this is. I know that insanity pleas are at the discretion of the prosecutor and only used when there is very little evidence. |
Anonymous
Of course she knew she was lying…which is why it went from telling the cop and dr she delivered a baby to telling the cop that the real mother begged her to cut the baby out of her. The changing story can mean nothing else but a lie. Same with purchasing a fake belly, sending the outdated ultrasound results for the gender reveal, using voice changers for calls, calling in a bomb threat to the hospital the day she was supposed to be induced, telling her bf that she spoke to the pig purchaser, sending horrid texts to her boyf and self allegedly from her mom, faking the attorney and trustee over her “inheritance,” never going to prenatal checkups, blaming the loss of the OK property on her mom intervening, etc. |