Absolutely Horrifying: Pregnant Woman Lured By Mom & Found Stabbed To Death with Baby Cut Out?

Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield

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4.6 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Pregnant 22-year-old Rebecca Park disappeared after being lured out by her biological mother and stepfather, Cortney and Bradly Bartholomew. Weeks later, a search team found Rebecca’s body in Michigan’s Manistee National Forest, stabbed to death, and investigators say her unborn baby was cut from her womb and remains missing. Biological mother Cortney Bartholomew and stepfather Bradly Bartholomew are each facing multiple charges: first-degree murder, felony murder, torture, conspiracy, assault on a pregnant individual, unlawful imprisonment, and removal of a dead body. Rebecca’s sister, Kimberly Park, is charged with tampering with evidence and lying to police, and Rebecca's fiancé, Richard Falor, faces drug-related charges. In this episode, Ashleigh Banfield walks you through the grisly timeline, the suspects and charges, and what investigators say really happened in one of the most chilling cases of the year.

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1:04.0	Hi everybody, I'm Ashley Banfield, and this is Drop Dead Serious.
1:10.0	Every once in a while, a case lands on my desk,
1:14.6	and it is so brutal and unimaginably dark that I have to read it twice just to make sure that
1:21.4	it really is what is in front of me, but I didn't misunderstand something. And the case in this
1:27.1	episode is one of those.
1:29.0	A 22-year-old woman in Michigan named Rebecca Park, she vanished on November 3rd. She was 38 weeks
1:37.1	pregnant. So she was only two weeks away from her delivery date, right, give or take. But on November 25th, that's three weeks and one day later, she was found dead.
1:50.1	She was dead.
1:51.0	Her body was in a national forest.
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