Rebecca Park, Vanished at 38-Weeks, Now A Homicide: Family Members Jailed As Baby Still Missing | Crime Alert 6AM 12.03.25
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🗓️ 3 December 2025
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Summary
Rebecca Park, a northern Michigander who was thirty-eight weeks pregnant when she disappeared, is now at the center of a homicide case as new charges are filed following the discovery of her body and the continued search for her missing baby. A Georgia couple now faces criminal charges after investigators say they abandoned their dog just before leaving the state for a Hawaiian vacation. The grinch who stole Thanksgiving dinner takes an 80-year-old volunteer’s car while she serves meals to the homeless in Portland. Drew Nelson reports.
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| 0:00.0 | Crime alert, hourly update. Breaking Crime News now. |
| 0:03.6 | I'm Drew Nelson. Rebecca Park, a northern Michigander who was 38 weeks pregnant when she disappeared is now at the center of a homicide case, |
| 0:11.7 | as new charges are filed following the discovery of her body and the continued search for her missing baby. |
| 0:17.6 | An autopsy confirmed the body found November 25th and the Manistee National Forest was |
| 0:22.8 | 22-year-old Rebecca Park. She vanished from Boone Township in Wexford County just days before her due |
| 0:28.9 | date. The official cause of death remains pending. The Wexford County Sheriff's Office and Michigan |
| 0:34.1 | State Police continue searching for the infant. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has stepped in. |
| 0:40.0 | Sheriff Trent Taylor said, quote, |
| 0:41.7 | the Wexford County Sheriff's Office, along with multiple law enforcement agencies, |
| 0:45.8 | is working diligently to determine the condition and potential whereabouts of the baby. |
| 0:51.1 | The information that can be released is extremely limited at this time. Rebecca |
| 0:55.4 | was last seen November 3rd near her biological mother's home on South 21 and a half road |
| 1:00.6 | in Boone Township. Family members reported her missing the next day. Her cell phone was |
| 1:05.6 | later found near her mother's property. Rebecca's due date was November 18. The hospital |
| 1:10.8 | had sent her home the day |
| 1:11.8 | before she disappeared after she arrived with contractions and was dilated one centimeter. 40-year-old |
| 1:17.8 | Courtney Bartholomew and her stepfather, 47-year-old Bradley Bartholomew, were taken into custody |
| 1:23.1 | Sunday and Monday, respectively. Both appeared in Wexford County's 84th District Court. |
| 1:29.0 | Their arraignment was delayed after prosecutors said the criminal complaint was not ready. |
| 1:33.5 | Judge Corey Wiggins ordered Bradley Bartholomew held without bond. |
| 1:37.6 | The judge called him a threat and a flight risk based on search warrant information. |
| 1:42.3 | Prosecutor Joanna Carey told the court. |
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