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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

DESPERATE SEARCH FOR BABY AFTER YOUNG MOM REBECCA, 22, FOUND DEAD IN WOODS, INFANT CUT FROM STOMACH

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace

iHeartPodcasts and CrimeOnline

True Crime, News

4.28.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Feeling contractions at 38 weeks pregnant, Rebecca goes to the hospital on November 2, even though her due date is not until November 18.

An exam reveals she is not in labor, and Rebecca goes to pick up her biological mother to run errands. Rebecca has $2,000 cash she receives as an inheritance from family in preparation for her baby. 

Rebecca Park's fiancé, Richard Lee Falor, is trying to get in touch with Rebecca, but she is not answering or replying to text messages.

Knowing Rebecca has been shopping with her biological mother, Falor calls Cortney Bartholomew, who says Rebecca got into a black-colored sedan with tinted windows just before midnight and left.

Falor reports Rebecca missing with the Wexford County Sheriff's office. Searches organized for the 22-year-old mom-to-be, who is 38 weeks pregnant, are done with a sense of urgency.

Michigan State Police find Rebecca's phone alongside the road near her mother's house.

On a trail directly behind the home of Rebecca's mother, Cortney Bartholomew, a volunteer finds the body of Rebecca Park.

Investigators are not releasing information about the condition of the body or if a newborn baby has been found.

Joining Nancy Grace:

  • Randolph Rice - Former Prosecutor and Current Criminal Defense & Civil Attorney at Rice Law, website: ricelawmd.com, IG, FB, X: @ricelawmd
  • Dr. Shari Schwartz - X: @TrialDoc, Author: "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology" 
  • Dan Murphy - Former NYPD Detective-Sergeant, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Former Chief Security Officer, US Bancorp, Co-Host of "Gold Shields" Podcast, Author: “Workplace Safety: Establishing an Effective Violence Prevention Program”
  • Joseph Scott Morgan - Professor of Forensics: Jacksonville State University, Author, "Blood Beneath My Feet," and Host: "Body Bags with Joseph Scott Morgan;" Instagram @JoScottForensic
  • Allan Lengel - Editor of Deadline Detroit -(an online daily publication), Former Washington Post reporter
  • Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter, ‘Crime Stories’ 

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Transcript

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0:00.0

This is an I-Heart podcast.

0:02.3

Guaranteed Human.

0:04.8

Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

0:10.1

The desperate search goes on for a baby.

0:14.7

After a young mom to be, Rebecca, just 22 years old, is found dead in a heavily wooded area. Her infant cut from her stomach.

0:28.4

What ghouls would do this? Can you say death penalty? Because I can. I'm Nancy Grace. This is

0:36.0

crime stories. I want to thank you for being with us.

0:38.5

Rebecca Park, a 22-year-old mother from Wexford County is eagerly anticipating the arrival of her

0:43.2

third child. She is a devoted mom of two young boys. But as her due date approaches, Rebecca

0:48.8

misses the birth of her baby and vanishes. It's overwhelming. It's overwhelming to me.

0:56.0

A 22-year-old mom to be just days away from giving birth disappears.

1:02.0

Her body found in a heavily wooded area.

1:05.0

At first, all we knew was the baby wasn't there.

1:10.0

Now we know the baby has been cut from her stomach, leaving the mom to die, bleed out in the woods.

1:19.8

Where's the baby?

1:21.3

Straight out to Professor Forensics Death Investigator, Joseph Scott Morgan, joining us.

1:26.7

Professor Forensics, Jacksonville State

1:28.0

University, author of Blood Beneath My Feet, and Star of a Hit podcast, Bodybags with Joe Scott

1:33.0

Morgan. Joe Scott, this is not the first time we have seen this scenario. And you and I both remember

1:41.2

the first time it came to the forefront of national headlines,

1:46.1

and it was in the Scott Peterson case when one of the theories that defense attorney

1:52.8

Martin Gere goes floated out there, I believe he first put it out there on the Larry King's show

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