Mom Slept With Pregnant Daughter's Fiancé—Then Allegedly Cut The Baby Out Of Her | Rebecca Park Case

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🗓️ 12 December 2025

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Rebecca Park was 22 years old and 38 weeks pregnant when she disappeared from rural Michigan on November 3rd, 2025. Three weeks later, her body was found in Manistee National Forest—her abdomen cut open, her baby gone. Now her biological mother, Cortney Bartholomew, and stepfather Bradly Bartholomew face eight felony charges each, including first-degree murder and torture. But the allegations in this case go far beyond the killing itself. According to probable cause affidavits, Cortney had been having an affair with her daughter's fiancé, Richard Falor—the same man who fathered Rebecca's unborn child.

Rebecca's sister Kimberly also allegedly told investigators she was in a relationship with Falor. Prosecutors say the murder was premeditated—that Cortney researched it, planned it, and even texted family members claiming she'd given birth to a baby that didn't exist days before Rebecca vanished. According to court documents, Rebecca was lured to her mother's home with the promise of laundry soap and ice cream, taken into the woods, stabbed multiple times, and was allegedly still conscious when her baby was cut from her body.

The baby's remains were reportedly placed in a lunch cooler and thrown in the trash. They have not been recovered. Rebecca's adoptive mother told reporters she spent 18 years hiding her children from Cortney because she knew she was dangerous. She was right. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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0:00.0	is Hidden Killers with Tony Bruske.
0:02.7	Here now, Tony Brewski.
0:06.4	You've ever seen The Hills Have Eyes?
0:09.1	You know, those creepy, weird people that come out of the hills that are like,
0:14.1	mutant-like and have no regard for anything other than their urges and needs.
0:20.0	And you're like, oh's that doesn't exist you
0:22.6	well meet the family of rebecca park a woman who raised rebecca park this is a good one
0:30.7	this is not the the biological family of rebecca park spent 18 years hiding her from her biological mother.
0:39.9	For good reason, she knew Courtney Bartholomew was dangerous.
0:45.4	She told the Detroit News she'd hidden those kids for nearly two decades because she believed
0:49.8	something like this was always a huge possibility.
0:53.8	She wasn't paranoid. She wasn't overreacting. She was right. Right. something like this was always a huge possibility.
0:55.0	She wasn't paranoid.
0:56.1	She wasn't overreacting.
0:57.5	She was right.
1:04.8	And on November 3rd of 2025, Rebecca Park, 22 years old,
1:16.1	38 weeks pregnant, days away from delivering her third child, was allegedly lured to her biological mother's home in Boone Township, Michigan.
1:18.9	According to court documents, the story was simple.
1:21.6	They were going to get laundry soap and ice cream.
1:23.7	Courtney would bring her right back.
1:24.9	Rebecca never came home.
1:31.9	Her phone was found on a two-track road, less than 200 yards from the Bartholomew residents for three weeks. Volunteers combed the Manistee National Forest
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