Biological Mother Charged With Cutting Baby From Pregnant Daughter's Body | The Rebecca Park Case
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Tony Brueski
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🗓️ 6 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Then, on November 25th, Rebecca's father — the man who had adopted and raised her — found her body in the Manistee National Forest while searching with volunteers. She was no longer pregnant. The baby was gone.
What prosecutors allege happened is almost beyond comprehension. According to Wexford County Prosecutor Johanna Carey, Cortney Bartholomew and her husband Brad Bartholomew lured Rebecca to their home, forced her into a vehicle, drove her into the woods, stabbed her, forced her to the ground, and cut her baby from her body. Both Rebecca and her baby died. The prosecutor called it "evil personified" and said the couple had conducted research and created a plan before carrying out the attack.
Cortney and Brad Bartholomew now face eight charges each, including first-degree murder, torture, and assault of a pregnant individual causing stillbirth. Both are being held without bond. Brad Bartholomew is a registered sex offender with prior convictions involving minors and is being charged as a habitual offender facing life in prison.
Rebecca's fiancé Richard Falor and her sister Kimberly Park were also arrested on separate charges including drug distribution and lying to police. Neither has been charged with murder.
The baby has not been found. The investigation continues. Rebecca Park deserved so much more than this.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske. |
| 0:03.5 | Here now, Tony Bruske. |
| 0:06.6 | You know, nothing says motherly love and mom of the year qualifier. |
| 0:13.4 | Maybe not quite getting the award, but qualifier. |
| 0:18.6 | Like the mother who stalks her daughter down in the woods, allegedly, |
| 0:24.3 | and then allegedly steals the baby out of her living daughter. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, pregnant, alive, taking the baby out and then running away with it. |
| 0:38.1 | That's mom of the year material right there. |
| 0:42.1 | I don't know what the hell kind of material that is. |
| 0:43.7 | That seems like shit from the walking dead. |
| 0:47.3 | But it's real. |
| 0:50.4 | And we're about to talk about it. |
| 0:53.1 | A 22-year-old woman, three weeks from her due date, or Becca Park, walks out of her biological mother's house in rural Michigan. |
| 1:02.9 | She gets in a car, and for the next 21 days, hundreds of people search for her volunteers with drones, dogs, horses, off-road vehicles, combing through |
| 1:11.9 | dense forest, walking grid patterns, printing flyers, posting on social media, hoping she's |
| 1:18.2 | alive, hoping she ran away, hoping she's hiding somewhere safe with her baby. |
| 1:25.2 | Her biological mother goes on camera, tells investigators she doesn't know who picked her daughter |
| 1:31.7 | up she says some stranger in a black sedan with tinted windows showed up and took her she says |
| 1:36.7 | rebecca told her hold on mom i got somebody coming to me says the car drove off slowly then |
| 1:43.2 | sped away she says she has no idea what |
| 1:45.4 | happened after that. Twenty-one days later, Rebecca's body is found in the Manistee National Forest. |
| 1:53.7 | She's no longer pregnant. The baby is gone, and according to prosecutors, the people who did this |
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