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Mom, stepdad blame each other for killing of pregnant daughter
Mindy Bloom,
Patrick Djordjevic
Updated: Dec 10, 2025 / 06:21 AM CST
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NewsNation) — According to an affidavit, police say the mother of
Michigan woman Rebecca Park, who was killed while pregnant, told them
Rebecca’s stepfather confessed the day after her mutilated body was found.
Park was 22 years old and 38 weeks pregnant when she disappeared Nov. 3. She was found Nov. 25 in a Michigan national forest, stabbed to death with her baby cut out of her body. Prosecutors say the baby is dead, but we still don’t know where it is.
Allegedly, Cortney Bartholomew, Rebecca’s biological mom, claimed Rebecca’s stepdad, Bradly Bartholomew, slit her throat, and when Cortney asked what happened to the baby, he said he put it in a cooler, and then in a trash bag, and threw it in the trash.
When Bradly spoke to police, he allegedly said Cortney stabbed Rebecca, ripped out her baby, and threw it away in a cooler. He said Cortney had Rebecca lie down in the woods while she was still alive, and cut the baby out of her, supposedly because she wanted it for herself.
The only murder charge filed so far is for Rebecca’s murder, not the unborn baby. Both Cortney and Bradly were charged with first-degree murder and torture, and accused of ripping her baby out of Rebecca’s womb.
In a separate affidavit, Rebecca’s sister, Kimberly Park, who was charged with lying to police and obstruction, allegedly told police three days before Rebecca was found that Cortney and Brad killed her.
She said they hit Rebecca so hard on the head that she had a seizure and died, and was carted away. Three days later, Kimberly told police that her dead sister’s fiancé, Richard Falor, confessed that he killed Rebecca.
Falor is facing drug charges unrelated to murder. Before he was engaged to Rebecca, Falor dated Kimberly, as well as Cortney. For most of Rebecca’s life, Cortney was absent, with the pair reconnecting in recent years.
On the same day she accused Cortney and Bradly, Kimberly spoke to podcaster Stephanie Pratt, of “Steph’s Case Files.”
“Cortney told me, if I’d say absolutely anything, me and my daughter are both going down for it. She said it to my face. She said it the day after my sister disappeared,” she told Pratt.
In her affidavit, Kimberly allegedly said she was having an affair with Falor, who previously dated her and Rebecca’s mother.