The director of the hit Netflix documentary Maternal Instinct is opening up about the deliberate choice she said she made not to include convicted killer Taylor Parker’s side of the story.

“We decided not to interview Taylor,” filmmaker Jessica Dimmock told Oxygen in an interview published June 18, noting she and her production team opted against meeting with Parker, 33, to discuss her disturbing crime and instead told the story from the perspective of her victims and those who witnessed her devious ways firsthand.

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“Obviously, Reagan and her family are the most severe and the biggest victims in this, but [there are] other people that she deceived, other people that she hurt along the way, coworkers, former friends,” Dimmock continued.

Parker is currently on death row in Texas for killing pregnant Reagan Simmons-Hancock, using the 21-year-old as part of her sinister scheme to claim the child was her own after attacking Simmons-Hancock on October 9, 2020, and cutting her fetus from her uterus, leading to the death of Simmons-Hancock and her baby girl, Braxlynn Sage.

According to the doc, Parker committed the crime after realizing her fake pregnancy would soon be exposed when she passed her alleged due date.

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Two days after they seemingly enjoyed a girls’ day together, Simmons-Hancock was viciously murdered by the woman she thought was her friend. Parker then drove to the hospital in a car registered to her then-boyfriend, Wade Griffin, when police stopped her.

After arriving via ambulance, investigators were on the scene and doctors confirmed in a medical exam — after Parker tried refusing to be checked — that she had not shown any signs of giving birth vaginally. (Authorities later learned that Parker had a hysterectomy, meaning she did not have a uterus and could physically not get pregnant.)

Simmons-Hancock’s family members detailed the crime in Netflix’s doc, reminiscing on the tragic and fateful day that changed their lives forever as well as the shock they felt to know Parker was “capable” of such an evil deed. Griffin also broke down while recalling her “unimaginable” crime, noting that “everything was a lie.”

“It felt like, you know, I think as a director, ‘What is she going to say?’” Dimmock elaborated. “From everything that I’ve read, from the way that the trial went, I don’t think she’s remorseful. There doesn’t really seem to be evidence that she’s remorseful. If she said she was remorseful, could I even believe her, and does that matter?”

“I just wasn’t sure that there was anything that she could say that would be additive, or that I could believe,” Dimmock continued, noting, “It felt disrespectful to those that she hurt the most to include her take.”

Maternal Instinct is now streaming on Netflix.