Jealous Mom Lures 38-Weeks-Pregnant Daughter, Tortures Her, Cuts Her Baby Out While Alive

What this episode is about

The content describes a horrifying event where a jealous mother violently abducts her pregnant daughter and aborts the baby by cutting it out while the daughter is alive. It juxtaposes this brutal act with a detailed explanation of the clinical, typically sterile process of a cesarean section, emphasizing the contrast between medical procedures and extreme violence.

Key takeaways

• C-sections: where surreal meets surgery—your partner's joy turns reality into an unseen horror show.
• Epidurals: the magic wand of numbness that turns massive discomfort into tranquil detachment—ideal for body horror avoidance.
• Dads behind drapes: the unsung heroes of the dad chair—more support, less surgical voyeurism, please.
• Clear drapes for C-sections? For some, a peek at the miracle; for others, a potential fainting spell.
• Unexpected NICU arrivals: because nothing says 'surprise' like a baby at 28 weeks and a text asking for baby gear!

Who speaks in this episode?

• Courtney Bartholomew (Guest) · 21 min speaking
• Becca Park · 5 min speaking
• Bradley Bartholomew (Guest) · 16 min speaking
• Kimmy Park · 10 min speaking
• Rich Fowler · 5 min speaking

What is discussed, and when

1. 0:00 – 10:00: Rebecca Park, Courtney Bartholomew, Ashton Lee Bartholomew, Candace Bartholomew
2. 10:00 – 20:00: Rich Fowler, Courtney Bartholomew, Bradley Bartholomew, Stephanie Park
3. 20:00 – 30:00: Courtney Bartholomew
4. 30:00 – 40:00: Stephanie Park
5. 40:00 – 50:00: Stephanie Park, Bradley Bartholomew
6. 50:00 – 1:00:00: Bradley Bartholomew, Kimberly Park, Manistee National Forest
7. 1:00:00 – 1:10:00: Stephanie Park, Courtney Bartholomew, Rich Fowler
8. 1:30:00 – 1:40:00: Stephanie Park
9. 1:40:00 – 1:43:47: Stephanie Park, GoFundMe

Notable quotes from "Jealous Mom Lures 38-Weeks-Pregnant Daughter, Tortures Her, Cuts Her Baby Out While Alive"

• Courtney informs her sister in a matterofact way. Well, I just gave birth to a baby boy at 28 weeks old, so he's currently in the NICU, but once he's out, he's going to need baby items. So, if you have any, that would be.

  about Ashton Lee Bartholomew · at 4:39

• We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mango to support Rebecca Park's GoFundMe for her surviving children. Links are going to be in the description. This.

  about Rebecca Park · at 7:11

• We've got Courtney right here. This is Courtney Bartholomew. She's a very important person. Her sister Candace is the one that she was texting. And then you've got Courtney Bartholomew's.

  about Courtney Bartholomew · at 8:33

• Fowler, his ex-girlfriend, is having a very hard time feeling any sort of happiness for him. Rich and his fianceé, 22-year-old Becca, are expecting their very first child…

  about Rich Fowler · at 12:17

• In the woods behind their house. They live on the edge of Manasty National Forest.

  about Manistee National Forest · at 28:25

• Stephanie Park's family have started the GoFundMe for Rebecca's sons. Stephanie Park is raising Rebecca's two sons and Kimberly's daughter. We reached out. So, the GoFundMe, we wanted to verify it's the real GoFundMe, but a lot of the.

  about Stephanie Park · at 1:40:29

Who and what is mentioned in this episode?

People

• Courtney Bartholomew — Person · Primary referenced suspect / central figure in case narrative · 6 mentions · first at 5:15
  Biological mother of Becca (Rebecca) and Kimberly; repeatedly described as a key suspect with shifting accounts and alleged involvement in the crime.
• Rebecca Park — Person · Victim / missing pregnant woman at center of episode · 4 mentions · first at 7:28
  22-year-old pregnant woman (often called Becca) who goes missing and is later found murdered; her disappearance drives the investigation and all relationship mapping.
• Bradley Bartholomew — Person · Primary referenced suspect / Courtney’s husband · 9 mentions · first at 8:41
  Courtney’s husband; described as widely disliked and a registered sex offender; provides multiple accounts and is implicated in alleged cleanup and/or direct violence.
  Important person. Her sister Candace is the one that she was texting. And then you've got Courtney Bartholomew's husband, Bradley Bartholomew. And then you have her two…
• Rich Fowler — Person · Referenced fiancé / key witness-suspect figure · 4 mentions · first at 12:14
  Becca’s fiancé and father of her unborn child; described as abusive and a registered sex offender with prior charges; also alleged to have affairs with Courtney and Kimberly, making him central to motive theories.
• Kimberly Park — Person · Referenced sister / reporting party / later-arrested for alleged evidence issues · 2 mentions · first at 8:48
  Becca’s half-sister (same biological mother); reports Becca missing, provides phone coordinates, and is later linked via a debit card at the scene and arrested for alleged tampering/false reporting.
  Husband, Bradley Bartholomew. And then you have her two daughters, Rebecca Park, as well as Kimberly Park. Now, with this, I do want to mention that neither of them are…
• Stephanie Park — Person · Referenced caregiver / adoptive mother figure · 12 mentions · first at 9:01
  Presented as Becca and Kimberly’s adoptive/real mother who raised them and is now raising surviving children; contrasted against Courtney’s role as biological mother.
• Ashton Lee Bartholomew — Person · Referenced infant (alleged) / narrative trigger in early timeline · 2 mentions · first at 4:41
  Named as Courtney’s baby boy allegedly born at 28 weeks and in NICU; his reported death coincides with Becca’s disappearance timeline and is framed as suspicious/circumstantial linkage.
• Candace Bartholomew — Person · Referenced sister / early timeline witness via texts · 2 mentions · first at 4:53
  Courtney’s sister who receives the initial texts about a secret pregnancy/NICU baby and later the message that the baby died; her texts establish the suspicious pre-disappearance timeline.
  Logically, these are all words that make sense in anybody's brain. However, Candace had no clue, nobody had a single clue that Courtney was pregnant, let alone gave birth to a…

Places & events

• Manistee National Forest — Place · Setting · 1 mention · first at 57:31
  The location where Becca Park's body was found, playing a significant role in the case narrative.

Sponsors

• GoFundMe — Product · Sponsor · 3 mentions · first at 7:28
  Mentioned as a platform used to support Rebecca Park's surviving children, indicating community support efforts.
  We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mango to support Rebecca Park's GoFundMe for her surviving children. Links are going to be in the description. This.

Full transcript with timestamps

0:01 Bada bing, bada boom. Typically, the only way that someone is going to cut open your stomach and rip out your unborn baby is if you're really, really, really, really high. Welcome to a C-section. It is a highly orchestrated procedure. You've got to come in a few hours in advance before the scheduled C-section or sometimes it is an emergency, but they will stick you with an IV. They're going to stick you with a urinary catheter because you can't even urinate on your own when you're numb. Then you crawl into this fetal position on the hospital bed.

0:34 That's what they tell you to do. And this is the best and worst part. They're going to stick you with an epidural, which is a very, very long needle. And it's going to go straight around the membrane of your spinal cord. And within minutes, this is where it starts to feel a little better. You get a tingling warm sensation that starts in your feet and then it comes all the way up your legs and then your stomach and then all of that pain and discomfort that you felt previously, you're not even going to feel it anymore. That is the joy of an epidural. You won't even be able to feel or move your legs after all of that.

1:08 Some people will shake and shiver a little bit, but most people are good. And when you're ready, you'll see a bunch of nurses pull in this sterile curtain. It's kind of weird. It's like a curtain that comes and it sits right below your neck, right above your chest. And it means that every time you try to look down, tuck your chin in like you're working out. And you try to look at your stomach, you don't see anything. You just see curtains. And then you see the doctor walk in, you see nurses, and you can hear them. You can see anything above the curtain, but that's about it.

1:39 You cannot see, you cannot feel, which is probably a good thing because they're cutting open your stomach and taking out your baby. There are a lot of moms out there that have actually been advocating for clear drapes. They need to have drapes because it protects the sterile environment, but they want it to be clear. They want it to be transparent so that the near the end of the C-section, the part where they actually pull the baby out, they want to see their baby. One mom said it was heartbreaking to know that she was the last one in the room to see her baby. Some hospitals have started like a live stream camera.

2:10 So, they have a camera that's live streaming the C-section and then the mom can turn on the TV and watch what they're doing from the doctor's perspective. And I will say a small small percentage of people with very strong stomachs want that.

2:26 Most people on Reddit and online have said, "I don't want any of that. I don't want to see anything. What are you talking about?" Even the partners of those giving birth, there are a lot of stories and the nurses will say it's specifically lots of dads. Dads who are allowed to stay seated next to their partner's head behind the drapes. They're there to provide support. I know they're the dad of the baby. No one cares when mom is giving birth, okay? They're nobody. They're told to just do two things. You're here for two things.

2:53 Provide support for your partner. And since your partner doesn't want you to, and there's no reason for you to, trust me, sit in the dad chair and don't get up. That's what nurses tell the dad. Don't do anything else. Just sit in the dad chair. Then the baby comes out and they all get excited and they stand up. And because the drapes aren't that tall, some dads have reported seeing all of their partners' insides, their organs. There have been some reports of dads fainting or throwing up, which go ahead and make this about yourself. Okay. Clearly, there are very strong reasons as to why the general population would rather not feel nor see their own C-sections happening in real time. Like I'm sure it's a very bizarre feeling to see someone cutting into your stomach and taking the baby out of you.

3:39 I feel like that borders on body horror for me specifically, especially if you're not even in a hospital and you're in a forest. It's dark. It's nighttime and the only light that are being used are the headlights of this truck that you were kidnapped in. And the person performing the C-section is not a healthcare provider. It's not a happy camper who's helping you give birth because you're having an emergency. No, this is just a person with a hunting knife and a scalpel and a thing of dental floss to cut the umbilical cord.

4:10 Dental floss. Dental floss. October 28th, 2025, there's a text message exchange amongst two sisters who have both have very unique spellings of their names. You have Courtney without the U. You have Candace without the CE. Courtney texts her sister asking her sister if she's got any leftover items that Courtney can use for an infant, a baby, which is kind of confusing. It's a very confusing question for Courtney's sister. Actually, she's just just like, "What?" Courtney informs her sister in a matterofact way. Well, I just gave birth to a baby boy at 28 weeks old, so he's currently in the NICU, but once he's out, he's going to need baby items. So, if you have any, that would be incredibly helpful. Courtney's sister, Candace, is like, "No, no, no. The question isn't confusing because of the way the question is phrased. Candace understands the concept of that. Like linguistically semantically okay

5:04 logically, these are all words that make sense in anybody's brain. However, Candace had no clue, nobody had a single clue that Courtney was pregnant, let alone gave birth to a baby boy. His name is Ashton Lee Bartholomew. Courtney texts her sister Candace. He's supposed to come home this coming week. as long as he's doing good still, you know, he will. And then nothing. Candace is like, "Okay." 6 days later, Candace with an S texts her sister, the new mom, Courtney, asking her if her son's come home yet. No, he did a backslide, but still hoping later this week. Backslide meaning a dip in health, right? The message is sent of November 3rd, 2025. For the rest of the day, Courtney and her sister Candace, they don't text because Courtney has a very busy day ahead of her. By that night, though, close to midnight, new mom Courtney texts her sister back, "My son passed away." It's also kind of

5:59 vague. Like, all of this is very vague. Courtney's sister wants to know more. She texts, quote, "Was it just that he wasn't strong enough for being born so early, or was it that he had gotten sick? What happened? I don't know what happened. I just know that he wasn't getting air." Then another message is sent. All I know is I watched my child die right in front of me. Candace with an S will soon realize the same day that Courtney's son died in the NICU, a 22-year-old pregnant woman in the area had gone missing. Nobody knew Courtney was even pregnant. She mysteriously gives birth to a baby boy. Same night that the baby boy passes away, a pregnant woman in the area goes missing.

6:38 I mean, it's all circumstantial, but it feels connected in some way, does it not? Especially that last text message from Courtney to her sister. It read, "All I know is I watched my child die right in front of me. Is she talking about the baby boy that nobody knew she was pregnant with that she allegedly gave birth with that was allegedly in the NICU? Or is she talking about her daughter, the missing 22-year-old pregnant woman?

7:25 We would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mango to support Rebecca Park's GoFundMe for her surviving children. Links are going to be in the description. This episode's partnerships have also made it possible to support Rotten Mingo's growing team. And we'd also like to thank you guys for your continued support. As always, full show notes are available at rotteningopodcast.com. A few really big disclaimers. This case deals with third trimester pregnancy loss, alleged grooming, torture, as well as infertility. So, please take care and please take breaks if you need to. On a smaller note, statements and quotes may be condensed for brevity. All the information is from court documents and publicly available information. If any netizen comment or speculation is unconfirmed, we will be sure to clarify it. Though almost everything mentioned has been pulled from legal documents and

8:13 are the reported facts of the case according to authorities. So with that being said, we've got the wall back. The wall is back because this case is there's too many people and all of the relations are very important and I didn't want to just say, "Oh, this is her mom and she's connected to her in this way and that way and then connected to this person." So here is the wall. We've got Courtney right here. This is Courtney Bartholomew. She's a very important person. Her sister Candace is the one that she was texting. And then you've got Courtney Bartholomew's husband, Bradley Bartholomew. And then you have her two daughters, Rebecca Park, as well as Kimberly Park. Now, with this, I do want to mention that neither of them are Bradley's biological children, and they're really only just Courtney's biological children.

9:01 Stephanie Park is the woman that raised both of them. She raised Rebecca since she was one years old. She is really the true mother of Rebecca Park and Kimberly Park.

9:11 H I see the biological still in their lives. So the biom Courtney only came back into Rebecca's life maybe about four years ago. When Rebecca turned 18, she decided to reach out to her biom and they reconnected.

9:27 Okay. So, I I I don't know if maybe biom can get too lengthy every time I try to show the connection. I know a lot of people are like, "Well, then don't call Courtney Rebecca's mom," which she's not. She's undeserving of the title. But I do think in this case, it's a double-edged sword because I think to point out the biological relation also shows you the intensity of the crime that's been committed by all parties. M

9:54 it showcases like okay this is not stranger to stranger or acquaintance to acquaintance type crime. This is a very there's a lot of interpersonal relations. So it's kind of tricky of like how to exactly describe Courtney in relation to Rebecca and to Kimberly. Also Rebecca typically goes by Becca.

10:12 Okay. So with that being said we're just going to get into it. There are a few posts on Reddit where the original posters have decided to be fully transparent with the internet. One post reads, "I am obsessed with my ex-girlfriend's new girlfriend, and I can't stop stalking her. I dated a guy for 10 months last year, he broke up with me, and I took it really, really, really hard." She states that after she's broken up with, they were both postgrad. He goes on winter break and then he meets her, the new girlfriend. I think they must have met a few days after our breakup on a ski trip he went on with the college in February. I stalked his Venmo and I found him and the new girl paying each other for things. I looked her up on Instagram, Facebook, and this girl was everything I was not. She was gorgeous, social, and it made me feel like [ __ ] I figured it was a rebound. But here they are together 7 months later postgrad doing a

11:03 long-distance relationship. What I don't understand is why he doesn't seem to care about me at all. We were so happy at one point and he helped me through a lot of problems. I kept texting him and texting him and texting him this spring, hoping that he would just give me a sign of life. He stopped responding to me altogether. I feel incredibly abandoned. I keep blocking and unblocking them on social media. Whenever I see her post something with him, it sends me into this downward spiral. But I have this odd fascination with her. I stalk her pages daily looking for new pictures. I wonder what she's like. I wonder what they're like together. I wonder what she has that I don't have. I wish I was her.

11:40 I wish you would talk to me to the comments. They read, "Oh, girl." Or another one reads, "Just delete all social media if you can't keep them blocked or therapy. What you're doing is scary. You need to stop. He's moved on. It doesn't matter how or why or when, but you need to do the same." Others have more sympathy, saying that the original poster is pain shopping. It actually has nothing to do with the girl. It actually has nothing to do with the guy. She just wants to feel pain, and she needs to stop and go live her best life. A lot of Redditors claim this is much easier said than done, though.

12:14 And Richard Fowler, aka Rich, Rich Fowler, his ex-girlfriend, is having a very hard time feeling any sort of happiness for him. Rich and his fianceé, 22-year-old Becca, are expecting their very first child together. Wait, that was a post from

12:34 No, these are just like people who have felt these feelings of like, I can't stop stalking my ex's new girlfriend. And that's the case with Rich's ex. Rich's ex is obsessed with the new relationship between Rich and Becca Park.

12:49 Obsessed. And they're expecting their very first child together, a baby boy, Baby Park. Their relationship is alarming for some people. They have a 21-year-old age gap. Rich being in his 40s, Becca is in her 20s. Some say this is not the healthiest couple. Even Becca's biological mom, Courtney, wants to be happy for Becca. I mean, Becca's expecting a baby. What more can other people do than just support her? And it's not that Becca's mom wants to get in the way of Becca's happiness. It's just that she, as Becca's biological mother, knows that Rich Valor is not a good person. Becca's biom would state, "I'm just concerned for my daughter because he's abusive."

13:32 Rich is abusive. Rich is aggressive. And she would know. Courtney would know because she's also sleeping with him. Courtney is the obsessed ex.

13:44 Courtney is sleeping with her biological daughter's fiance. Not every inheritance transfer is very dramatic like the movies. Not every will reading is like Knives Out, where all the strange relatives and their weird interpersonal backstories gather in a wooded office to be read a will by an old man with graying hair who reads too damn slow for anyone to even think. I mean, just reveal it already. Who's going to be a billionaire today? And then it all goes to the random girl in the back that has no blood relation to the deceased. Sometimes it's not that serious. Sometimes an inheritance transfer is just done over lasagna at somebody's house. Courtney Bartholomew invites her two daughters, Becca and Kimmy. So they're half siblings, by the way.

14:35 Ah, but they're both raised by Stephanie Park. Yeah, they're both raised by Stephanie Park. Both of them have the same biological mom, Courtney Bartholomew. Brad is not Bradley Bartholomew is not their biological dad.

14:48 Okay, I see. Courtney and Bradley are married. Yes. Richard and Becca are engaged.

14:57 Yes. Courtney Bartholomew invites her two daughters, Becca and Kimmy, to the house to give them an inheritance. This is money from when Courtney's mom passed away. She left money for her granddaughters. But first, they have to eat the dinner. It's a personal lasagna pan. Everything about this dinner is odd. Okay, perhaps it maybe it is even stranger than Knives Out. Firstly, Courtney and her daughters are very tense. They never really get along. They never really do family dinners. There's tense energy. But on top of that, Courtney's husband, Bradley Bartholomew, the daughters hate him, so he's hiding in the truck outside. I don't even know if he's hiding. Well, that makes the whole thing even creepier and more tense. And the daughters really don't like him. They're also awkwardly eating their personal pan lasagnas, which is an odd element to all of this because who makes three separate pan lasagna dishes.

15:52 The whole point of lasagna is like a one pan meal, is it not? And then you break it up like a pie. But I guess this is a very special day for an inheritance. And maybe if at any point that you make three personal lasagna pans, it's going to be at an inheritance transfer. By the way, it is an overly prepared meal that does not taste great. Lasagna is great, but Courtney's lasagna is ass. Becca will later send this exact voice note about her biological mom's lasagna to a friend. It tastes like gluten-freeing lasagna. It wasn't too bad, though. I ate half of it. I mean, meaning we had our own personal dishes, but I ate like half of it, and that's all I could do.

16:28 Becca tells her friend that after the lasagna, which felt like some sort of sick ritual to get the inheritance. Nevertheless, okay, after that's done, both girls are handed checks. Courtney passes Becca and Kim a check to open up. And Becca is holding her check and she watches her halfsister Kim open up her check. And inside it's not a check. It's nothing. Okay. It's an empty envelope. Becca opens hers up and it's also empty. Nothing at all. So both Becca and Kim are looking at their biological mom, Courtney. And Courtney tells her daughters that she did this on purpose because she feels like her two biological daughters are only here eating this subpar lasagna with her spending time with her because they want a check. They want money. They want their inheritance.

17:20 [snorts] Becca and Kim tell her that's not why they're here. They're not here for the money. Which Becca does confirm with a friend that it is the truth. She just didn't go for the money. She went to see her mom, her biological mom Courtney, and her halfsister Kim. Perhaps she's feeling a bit more sentimental. She's also 38 weeks pregnant. By the way, to give you an idea, 40 weeks is full term.

17:41 Yeah. Yeah. But it's not just about the money. So once Courtney feels reassured that her biological daughters are not just here to get some money, she tells them, "Fine, I'll give you the money, but not today." That night, Becca goes home with the empty envelope. And then within 2 days, she goes missing in the woods. November 4th 2025. 38-week pregnant 22-year-old Becca Park goes missing. Nobody has seen from her. Nobody has heard from her. Some of Becca's friends have come out to say what they think has happened to her. One of her friends even offered herself as an offering to be swapped by a potential kidnapper. It It's just gotten really messy. A lot of people have been utilizing Facebook to really voice out things that maybe they shouldn't have voiced out. It It's just a lot. But some people think,

18:32 "What do you mean by that? they shouldn't voice out. I mean, it's just gotten messy in the sense of like people will say, "Take me instead of Becca because I do the same drugs Becca does." Like, it's just like weird.

18:44 What? Yeah. I I think is that like a joke? What does that mean? Well, I think they're just all very young.

18:53 I think they're all young and I don't think that they understand the implications of what they're saying online.

18:58 And I think maybe I'm giving people the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps they're in such a state of shock that they're not understanding the impact of their words online. Perhaps.

19:10 Huh. So, how how do you know how she was found missing or what happened? How was it reported?

19:18 Her sister Kimmy called the cops and was like, "Hey, my sister's missing. No one's heard from my sister

19:23 and this is unlike her." Okay. So, Kimmy is the one that reported it. Kimmyy's the one that reported it. But I will say, yeah, everyone, okay, the thing about this case that everyone is thinking but doesn't want to say out loud, and perhaps I'll be the one to say it out loud, is kind of everyone has used Becca's disappearance. There are a core group of people that care about Becca, including Stephanie Park, Stephanie Park's family, a lot of Becca's close close friends, and even internet sleuths who don't know Becca like that, but have put a lot of time and effort in trying to locate her. They care a lot about her and it's very sincere. However, there are also a lot of people who knew Becca that seem like they're using this as some sort of dramatic moment to make it about themselves. It's weird.

20:08 Like the whole take me in step. It's a lot. It's kind of weird. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I see. Okay.

20:14 So, Kimmy calls in and reports that her sister is missing and all of these rumors start. Some people are like, "She's been kidnapped." I mean, it's so immediate the rumors on Facebook. All of Becca's friends are like, "She's been kidnapped. Maybe she's being held hostage somewhere until it's time to give birth. Some people were saying that she was being held hostage in a septic tank and that's why nobody can find her. I mean, these are very strong feelings and speculations to have after her friend goes missing. But maybe it goes to show how not normal it is for Becca to go missing. She's not going to run away. She didn't just disappear.

20:45 She's 38 weeks pregnant. I mean, you can barely walk. My sister had two kids. You can barely walk quickly when you're that pregnant. Where do you think that she could have possibly gone? Weeks pass and at this point in the conversation after the first week, the second week, the third week pass, the police still haven't found Becca. Nobody has confessed. Nobody knows what's happened. I mean, keep that in mind for later, okay? And the longer the time progresses that Becca isn't found, the more people start talking, which is unlike most cases. Usually, the longer it takes to find somebody, the case goes cold. In fact, with this case, nobody will stop talking. Everybody keeps talking and they're talking too much. So, let's run through the timeline. November 4th, 2025, Tuesday, 1:00 in the afternoon, 21-year-old Kimmy calls the police to report that her halfsister Becca is 38 weeks pregnant.

21:43 She's about 2 weeks away from giving birth and she's missing. Okay. the Waxford County Sheriff's Office. They have about 26 sworn law enforcement officers in the main law enforcement division. 26. This is a small town. And about three of them are working on this case. So, they're going to work the timeline backwards. They trace Becca's steps the few days before she goes missing. November 1st. That's Lasagna Day. That's weird lasagna inheritance dinner with her biological mom, Courtney, and her halfsister, Kim. Halfsister, you know, that reports her missing to the police.

22:15 Yeah. and the husband Bradley sitting in the car. Yes. So then November 2nd, Becca goes to the hospital. Becca thinks she's in labor.

22:24 She's not in labor. The hospital sends her back out. She's only 1 cm dilated. I think out of like 10 cm dilated, but it's very interesting. People say the timing of the hospital visit right after a suspicious gluten-free nasty tasting lasagna is a little weird.

22:39 Goes to the hospital. hospital sends her back home. November 3rd, one day before she's called to be reported missing, Becca goes out to get ice cream and run errands with her biom Courtney. She disappears November 3rd that night. She's only reported missing the day after on November 4th, but really the last time anybody's seen her is November 3rd. And so everybody's got a different story of the last few days before Becca goes missing. And I will say the more frequently someone or anyone involved with this case opens their mouths to talk, the more suspicious each one of them seems. Obviously with a case like this, everybody knows the statistics.

23:19 The statistics are much higher for a pregnant woman to be abused by her partner. Becca's partner, Rich, who is basically double her age and is also having an affair with Becca's biological mom. He's a very shady guy. I mean, that's putting it very lightly. He also deals death. Okay. The police are definitely looking at him, but also to the last people who saw Becca alive. Deputy Reed is talking to the biological mom, Courtney. You were one of the last people to see Becca alive. Courtney doesn't disagree. She's like, "Yeah, she was." You know, [snorts] she was probably with Becca until maybe like 8:30 p.m. the night before. She picked up Becca from Becca and Rich's house to go get ice cream at Culver, which is surprisingly an underrated spot for ice cream. Then Courtney states that Becca was interested in getting Tide Pods.

24:08 They got to go run errands to buy Tide Pods. Target, Walmart, Kroger, Ralph's. Where do you get Tide Pods?

24:16 Mhm. Biom Courtney is like, "Well, I had Tide Pots." So rather than going to the store to get some Tide Pods, as one would very naturally do, Courtney decides to drive Becca back to her house to go into her laundry room and fetch out some Tide Pods. Maybe she's a Tide Pod hoarder. Maybe there was a sale at Costco. Maybe she didn't want to disrupt the supply chain. I don't know why Courtney is like, "Here, just take my Tide Pods." I mean, Tide Pods aren't even a thing that really expired. It's weird. Was there anything eventful that happened that day? Well, sure. Okay. Becca was complaining about her fianceé, Rich.

24:52 What's new? He was just hounding her. This is like Courtney's perspective. He was just hounding her so that he could get money to fix his truck, but she's so pregnant. Where is she going to come up with this money? She doesn't have a job. Courtney is encouraging Becca. You got to leave Rich. He's not even great. He's not even rich. But Becca seems scared. Or at least that's what Courtney says. Becca said with her own words that she was very afraid of her fianceé Rich. Courtney pulls out an envelope to Becca that night.

25:22 The night she was missing. Yes. This time it has money. It has $2,000 of cash in there. And this is when according to Courtney, she notices something so bizarre and so odd. She said, "I saw Becca using two phones. I don't know why she has two phones for what reason, but two phones? I saw two phones." I imagine

25:42 So this is like a investigation through from the police. Yeah, it was that's from their report.

25:48 Okay. I mean, I imagine she states in a conspiratorial way, as she seems to do in lots of interviews, that she had gone into the house to get laundry soap, tide pods. Becca's outside, and when she brings them outside, quote, "I noticed that she had deleted something." Courtney doesn't know what, nor does she know which phone she was deleting stuff off of. Anywh who, don't ask questions. Courtney's like moving on. In the interview, she's just like, "Okay, well, I saw her delete something." And then all of a sudden, a mysterious black SUV with tinted windows pulls up. How do we know it's a mysterious black SUV with tinted windows? We don't know other than the fact that Courtney is telling us this information. And it's a Chevy. How do we know that? Courtney told us that.

26:32 She could just tell it's a Chevy. And then it pulls up rather dramatically. She can't even see who's driving inside the car. And Becca tells her, "This is something I have to do." What does that mean? Courtney says she doesn't ask further questions. She doesn't press Becca on why she's being so cryptic because she doesn't want to push Becca away. She just watches as her pregnant daughter gets into the passenger seat of this black SUV mystery. And then they drive off. There is this brief idea Courtney says she had where she was like, "I know. I'm gonna get Bradley, my husband, who my biological daughter despises, to get in his car and follow the black SUV. But then Courtney decided, "No, no, no, no, no."

27:16 Because if Becca ever finds out that we followed her, she would be so mad. Which one would imagine that if you feel the urge or the inkling to follow a black SUV that you're suspicious enough to go chase after it, that's a pretty alarming thing. Like, you've got to have a very strong feeling about this SUV. But Courtney does not act. She does not call the police. She doesn't do anything. She just goes to sleep and she realizes the next morning Becca had never gone home. The next morning, November 4th, everyone knows that Becca hasn't gone home. She's pregnant and she's missing. Courtney says she gets a text message from her other daughter, Kim. Becca's halfsister.

27:52 It's just coordinates. What do you mean it's just coordinates? Coordinates? Kim tells her mom this is where Becca's phone is. Courtney types it into her maps, starts walking, and it leads her right.

28:07 This is when they are like, "Where's Becca? Where's Becca?" And Kim just sends a coordinate. That's it.

28:11 Yeah. She has her Find My iPhone. Mhm. Okay. And it leads Courtney and her husband Bradley straight to a phone. Becca's phone. But no Becca.

28:24 Where was it? In the woods behind their house. They live on the edge of Manasty National Forest.

28:31 Okay. Okay. In Michigan, like really close by. Yeah. I mean, they I mean, you could pretty much walk into the national forest from their backyard.

28:38 H the national forest is not like the vibe of Yeusede or like Yellowstone. It's just like lots of densely wooded areas. And there are trails, but they don't live on the side where there's a lot of tourist groups and lots of scenic trails.

28:52 So, just think like densely packed woods. Mhm. Okay. The police now have that phone and they know that Becca wasn't using it to coordinate with some black SUV Uber driver or any sort of black SUV driving friend or anybody. They just there's nothing on that phone. So that means that this SUV driver just materialized out of thin air to take her on to a mysterious location. It doesn't make any sense. The biological mom, Courtney, tells the officer, "Well, that's because, like I said, she had two phones, maybe three, so she could have been using her other phones to coordinate with the SUV driver to get picked up from my house that night." The police are confused by all of this. How would Kim have the coordinates to Becca's phone? And why was Becca's phone found behind Courtney's house if she was picked up in a black van? It doesn't make any sense. Courtney responds, "I don't [ __ ] know."

29:50 Courtney Bartholomew is a woman whose explanations defy logic. She just has a tendency to say things, they kind of make sense if you decide to completely disregard any signals coming from your prefrontal cortex. But if you just think about it for a moment longer, it starts sounding weird. Courtney says before Becca is whipped away in a scary big black van, they were just having a normal biomd daughter date. Like any good mother who is rarely present in her daughter's life until recently 4 years ago, Courtney has this ingenious idea. She's like, "I'm going to plan you a baby shower for your baby, your son that's about to be born." However, she tells the police Becca was not interested. She said that CPS was going to come and take her baby. Do you see why that's weird? Because your baby's not born when you have a baby shower.

30:43 Maybe the fear is that people are going to post the baby shower on social media, thus alerting CPS that Becca is pregnant. But that doesn't seem to be accurate because when you go online, they're all posting frequently about pregnancy. It just kind of doesn't make sense. It feels like that story was thrown in there to be like, "I'm such a good mom. I wanted to throw her a baby shower."

31:03 And also, Becca's bad because CPS would probably take her kid. That's the vibe it was giving. It was It's just It's weird.

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32:43 Now, Courtney thinks specifically if she had to put her money on it, if she had to think about who had something to do with Becca going missing, it's probably a guy named Mike and a woman named Ashley. Who the hell are Mike and Ashley? Courtney says they were the ones that were going to help Becca run away from Richard. She could be in hiding right now. Who is Ashley? Quote, "Oh, Rich's other baby mama." So now she's saying, "You got to look into these two people."

33:21 Mhm. The police look into these two people and they have nothing to do with it.

33:31 What do you mean? Like they're real. They do exist and they have nothing to do with anything. Mike is friends with Ashley is related to Ashley.

33:40 Okay. Okay. Got it. And it just leads them onto this wild goose chase and there is nothing there.

33:48 Okay. So, the police think, "Okay, well, maybe we should just look into Rich then."

33:55 Mhm. Is Becca's fiance and the father of her unborn child, Rich, suspicious? by default based on statistics perhaps I mean amongst other very concrete reasons but a lot of Becca's former classmates family members and more on her real family members later like Stephanie Park but a lot of Becca's friends they don't particularly appreciate Courtney's passionate story and pointing the finger at Ashley Rich's other ex-girlfriend mainly because first of all Ashley and Becca had a very close relationship so it doesn't seem like Ashley would do anything nefarious to Becca and Ashley would not just let Becca go missing and not inform the police if they're on this wild goose hunt for Becca. But also, a lot of people are mad because you've been in your daughter's life for like 2 minutes. Becca was placed in foster care at 1 years old, was adopted by a woman named Stephanie Park. That's her real mom. Becca only reconnected with her

34:53 biological mom, Courtney, at 18 years old. And now Courtney is out here pretending like she's known Becca for her entire life and is supporting her and is fighting to find her. One of Becca's friends takes issue with this. And then Courtney decides she's going to get mad at all of Becca's friends. Courtney goes on social media and she gives a very important message. This is during the very critical time that her daughter is missing. She says, "Fuck you, Ara." Area is Becca's friend who has been trying to figure out what happened to Becca and has naturally become pretty suspicious of Courtney because none of her stories are making sense. She's got two phones, she's got three phones, she didn't want a baby shower. It's just a whole bunch of nonsense that's coming out of Courtney.

35:33 Courtney responds by going on live and screaming, "One, they have searched my property. Two, I didn't touch my daughter. And three, we already know the info that you're telling us." Aria Bradley the husband chimes in

35:47 and we goting cameras watching the road you dumb [ __ ] what what did Aria before this

35:53 that Courtney is suspicious that Courtney doesn't want the cops to search her house

35:57 and these are all happening on Facebook and then Courtney goes back to screaming so you bettering watch it Rusty Rusty is Ara's dad Rusty you better get youring child under control because she's taking a mother's pain and turning it into a goddamn circus you are a you don't haveing kids that actually you take care of I do unfortunately that you don't have yours because youing can't be a mom to yours. So you know what you [ __ ] you're getting an ass whooping you keep it up. I'm not playing with you anymore. I already know the goddamn information. My daughter probably left rich. Y'all can't accept it.

36:42 get over it. If that is what she [ __ ] did, then I'm happy for her. I just want to know where she's at and that she's okay. That's all that counts anymore. [snorts] And you know what? You ever everinging say I laid a hand on my pregnant daughter, a raso help me God, you will not like me. Don't play with me. But just because Courtney hasn't been present in her life, her now missing daughter's life, doesn't mean that Courtney is automatically the most suspicious one, right? In fact, Rich Failure, Becca's fiance, is a very shady person. I mean, that's just factually correct. The police question where he was when his pregnant fiance, Becca, went missing. And he explains from the top that the day that she vanished, her stomach had been hurting all morning.

37:35 So, it was lasagna inheritance day, hospital day, and then the next day, her stomach is still hurting a lot. She's not feeling good. So, they spent the entire day laying in bed and watching movies. She wasn't talking to anyone. She wasn't texting anyone. I mean, she wasn't texting anyone, particularly who drives a big black SUV, a Chevy SUV with tinted windows. But what does Rich know? Rich doesn't know a lot of things. Rich says he had no clue that Becca was even going to Courtney's house. He thought that they were just going to go get ice cream at Culver's because that's what Becca was craving. When Courtney comes to pick Becca up around dinner time, he says, "Becca gave me a hug. We gave each other a kiss." What normal couples would do when somebody's leaving. She said, "Give her about a hour and a half to two hours and then she'd be back." But then he falls asleep 45 minutes later after

38:26 she leaves. He wakes up at 1:00 a.m. He tries to call Becca trying to figure out where she is, but she's not picking up. He doesn't freak out because he just assumed that his pregnant fianceé, who had been at the hospital the night before, is just at a friend's house, even though she states that she's going to be home in 2 hours and it's now many hours. He doesn't think that this is alarming. And then the next morning, he starts calling Courtney cuz he's like, "Wait, Becca's still not home. So, like, where's Becca?" Courtney. Courtney tells him that Becca was picked up by somebody in a black SUV, but Rich doesn't believe her. Yeah. And the way that Courtney says it is really bizarre. She says, "Your old lady left with someone in a black SUV." First of all, Courtney, you're 40. This is your biological daughter and she's 22. I don't know.

39:14 It's weird. Rich does not believe Courtney. He goes from being so trusting. He goes from waking up at 1:00 a.m. I'm sure my 38-week pregnant wife is totally fine to all of a sudden, hey, I am the most skeptical person on the block and I don't believe that Becca would leave in a black SUV.

39:32 I tried to call her a few times cuz I didn't get no messages, call from her, nothing. And it's just not like her.

39:43 But nothing comes of any of this. I mean, this is no clue. There's no hint. There's nothing to lead the police closer to finding Becca. And as the days pass, Becca's friends start coming out to talk about how, hey, this guy sucks. He's not the amazing, attentive fiance that he probably wants everyone to see him as. He is straight up a creep. He admits on a podcast called Steph's Case Files. He's confronted about whether or not he cheated on Becca before, because he clearly did.

40:10 What's a Steph Case File? It's a podcast. Um, I think Steph's case files is fine. Um, no, I think they're really good. It's a podcast name

40:20 and this is after this whole case has happened and they are doing interviews with Rich, right?

40:25 It's when Becca goes missing. But I will say um the reason that I am having like Stephanie Park along with Becca's family, her real family have come out like Stephanie Park's family have come out to say that all of the internet rumors and speculations are getting out of hand and it's impeding with the police investigation before the case goes to trial. I will say that there are lots of different live streamers and podcasts where they'll all kind of dial in and call each other and they will call in Courtney or Richard and there's a lot of rumors that take place in the comment sections that are voiced out loud that then kind of become a life of its own. So I would just be careful with this case in regards to going to but I will say it's complicated because at the same time that these are the podcasts that got the word out. M

41:14 so Steph's case files I think is doing a really good job but there might be other podcasts that are not doing a splendid job is just all I'm trying to say.

41:23 I see. So it seems like Becca's family, her real family are a little frustrated with that.

41:28 I see. Not saying that that's what Steph's case files did, but I'm just saying when you go down the rabbit hole of listening to all these live streams, cuz there were issues with live streamers then going to Courtney and Bradley Bartholomew's house and filming them from outside their house across the street. it it's just a lot. He is confronted about whether or not he's cheated on Becca before because clearly he did with not just anybody but with Becca's biological mom, Courtney. And Rich says, "Yeah, I never lied. Every time Becca came to me and asked me if I talked to a female sexually, I never lied to her about it because why would she come to me asking me about it if she didn't know the truth?"

42:05 Is Rich Corn's ex or or is Corny Rich? So, so who was the ex or was they cheating? Like

42:13 that is very unclear. It seems like he is probably Courtney's ex. They all kind of knew each other. And then he starts dating Becca.

42:24 That is crazy. And then when Becca and Rich are on and off dating and back and forth, he would still be sleeping with Courtney.

42:33 I see. So, he's asked on the podcast if he was abusive or not to Becca because there was rumors that he was violently abusive. And he says, "Verbbally, yes. Physically, I never harmed her."

42:46 Is he proud? Is he like He's just like, he thinks it's normal, I think, to be verbally abusive as this sound.

42:52 Wow. Is it true that you didn't want the baby at all? I wanted the baby at first before she got pregnant. I kept telling her, "Let's wait." Because neither of us were financially stable and I wanted to have a full-time job. But when she came back with the pregnancy test stating she was pregnant, I always wanted it. When asked if he thinks Courtney would harm her own biological daughter, Becca, because I mean, she's already harming her biological daughter, Becca, by having an affair with Rich. Well, Rich is asked about whether or not, and he says, "I feel like Courtney wouldn't harm Becca until after the baby's born.

43:28 H until after the baby's born. Does Courtney have a weird obsession with being a grandmother? Like that's where she draws her moral line. Rich elaborates. A lot of it's got to do with the baby. I know when Courtney first found out Becca was pregnant. She sent threatening messages to Becca's phone. Rich is asked, "I mean, I heard that Courtney has a weird obsession with always liking to be pregnant, but do you think that she's jealous that Becca is having your child?" Rich says, "Yeah, because October of last year when Becca was pregnant, she had a miscarriage, which back then I feel like it was mine, but there was a chance it was somebody else's because she conceived shortly before she quit cheating on me." We've been told that Courtney was pissed off because Becca was pregnant. And then when she found out that she was pregnant, we both said it was mine. And it just so happened when she got

44:11 pregnant this time, Courtney threatened Becca a few times stating she wasn't going to let Becca have my child. It's all making Courtney look pretty suspicious. However, Courtney tells the investigators that okay, fine. She and Rich have been on and off seeing each other when Becca wasn't with Rich. It is bad. Yes. However, however, is it the worst thing in the world? No. Not compared to what Rich does. Courtney is explaining to the officer, like she said, Becca and Rich are not the most stable couple that she has ever witnessed. They're on and off off again.

44:50 And one time earlier in 2025 when they were in their off period, which is a shame, but while they were broken up, Courtney decides the best way to comfort her daughter Becca is to sleep with Rich again. That's not how she puts it, though. She just states that they start dating. And it was evidently very serious because she decides that she is going to go through the logistics of divorcing her husband Bradley. But then she gets pregnant and she doesn't know if it's Rich's baby or Bradley's baby.

45:21 Wait, what? What? This is earlier in 2025. But that's not the baby that she was telling her sister about, right?

45:28 No. No. So, she says that she got pregnant and she didn't know whose baby it was. And because there was a chance that it could be her husband Bradley's, she decided to just stay with Bradley. That's just the plan. She's going to stay married. It's not like she can just ask her stomach, "Who's your dad?" Although, I do think that Courtney would be the type to try. She's like diagnosed with the terminal illness of stupidity. I don't know how else to put it. Okay. She decides to put her family first, stay with Bradley.

45:57 She's no longer going to get a divorce, and Rich is going to go then resume his relationship with Becca. However, everyone is on board. Except Courtney says Rich was not. She tells the police. Rich doesn't want Becca. He wants her, Courtourtney. He's so angered by the fact that he has to be with Becca while Becca's mom, Courtourtney, biological mom, just has a child who may or may not be his, that he breaks into Courtney's house to essay her and that causes her to misaryry. Now, we are typically never ones to doubt someone's account of being essayed, but these people like to make up new things every two seconds, so I can't be sure of anything at this point. But Rich argues that is not at all what happened, and it doesn't even make sense because Courtney has cameras inside and outside her house. If he did come in with a gun and essay her at gunpoint, wouldn't she just turn that footage over to the

46:56 police? To which Courtney then argues, "Well, it's only a live feed. I don't have money for SD cards, so it doesn't actually record anything. I can only watch live. Rich then argues, "Can you really believe anything?" Courtney says, "She's the one during Becca's first pregnancy." So, Becca has two other children, two sons before her third pregnancy. She's pregnant with her third pregnancy when she goes missing.

47:21 Okay. But she has two other sons and they are now being raised by Stephanie Park. They were actually being raised by Stephanie Park even when Becca before she had gone missing.

47:30 How old are they? Do we know? It's like they're like one and three, I believe. Very young.

47:35 Yeah. So, they're being raised by Stephanie. And when Becca was carrying her very first child, so this is not Rich's child. Courtney is still so upset at the idea that her biological daughter is pregnant with her grandchild, she tries to hit Becca on the stomach with a baseball bat.

47:52 How do we know that? That's what Rich is saying. So, what is happening? Like, police is trying to figure out the backstory and all Courtney and Richards are doing just pointing finger at each other. Is that what's going on?

48:03 Yes. I will say that Becca goes missing and the [snorts] police. I don't know if they put a lot of effort into finding Becca.

48:13 There are lots of things that they had recorded interviews with some of the people that seemed the most suspicious. Those interviews have not been released, but in an affidavit, their conversations were recounted in the legal document, but that the video of like the interrogations were not released yet.

48:30 So, they're gathering a few things, but a lot of this is happening online. I don't know. Maybe he also told it to the police. Maybe he didn't because it's not true and he doesn't want to lie to the police. I don't know. But now in Steph's case files, the podcast, Rich asked basically if Courtney did want Becca's baby, her grandson. They're like, "You think that Courtney did something to her own daughter, Becca, for the child that she's pregnant with?" And they're asking, "So, is Courtney possibly trying to take this baby and maybe sell it, or is she is she in like a financial situation, or would she be trying to keep this baby herself? I I don't know.

49:05 I'm speculating, but I can't help it." Rich responds, "It could go either way." Now, Rich points the finger at Courtney, and sure, Courtney has argued that there's no way she could ever feasibly do anything to Becca. considering she is missing one of her legs from the knee down, which she is missing. It is believed that she did use a prosthetic previously, but according to internet rumors, and again, these are rumors. I don't even know if they're verified. Okay, she got her prosthetic taken away because she took off her prosthetic and then tried to hit some police officers with it. I don't know how accurate any of this is. However, that's the allegation online. But I do know she is missing one of her legs from the knee down. She does use crutches and she does use a wheelchair.

49:46 H. But Rich says that's not a valid alibi. He says, "I've seen Courtney and her husband Bradley go at it." And quote, "I mean, it'll go both ways. There's times Bradley would overpower her and times she would overpower Brad." So, this becomes like a battle of the who's the least trustworthy person. We are in a situation, especially when you factor in Rich's criminal history. He has multiple charges against him for essay against minors, against a child who is 13 to 15 years old, against an incapacitated victim. He has committed at least five crimes and he is on this offender registry.

50:22 Wow. But if you ask Shady Rich who he thinks took Becca, his pregnant fiance, he will likely tell you it's going to be Courtney and her husband, Bradley Bartholomew. The cold hard truth for Bradley Bartholomew, Courtney's husband, is that nobody likes Bradley. Courtney's biological daughters, Becca and Kim, don't like Bradley. And even Courtney doesn't like Bradley because just earlier this year, she was trying to divorce him and go run off with Becca's fiance, Rich. So, it makes sense that everyone, if they had to point their finger at someone, that it would be pointed directly at Bradley Bartholomew's face, but everyone has problems with everyone. Bradley argues even Becca and her mom Courtney had problems. They barely got along.

51:04 Courtney felt resentful of Becca because, you know, sure it was Courtney's decision and incompetency that caused her to not be able to raise her daughter Becca for the first 18 years of her life. But now that she suddenly is in her life, she wants to be treated with respect and be treated like a good mom. Becca won't even give her that chance. However, Bradley is adamant that he had nothing to do with Becca going missing. He wasn't even around when Becca was picked up by that black SUV. And when Courtney was inside getting Tide Pods, he wasn't even home the entire day that they were getting ice cream. He was out at his place. He's got his own place. He doesn't live with Courtney. Where does he live? He does live with Courtney, but he also has his own place out in the woods. This is not It's not a shed. It's not a cabin. He just like called dibs on a spot in the woods

51:56 like camping. I don't even know if he has a tent. He just has a spot in the woods that he really really likes and he spends a lot of time there and sometimes he'll sleep.

52:08 Is it like in the back of Cornney's house or No, I think like further further back. I don't think this is like backyard camping. I think this is he's walking to

52:17 just point at the forest and say I I I sleep there. That's my house basically. But is there a a a spot or where he's making this up?

52:27 Nobody knows. Okay. Yeah. But he says he's got a place in the woods and the police like, "Where is it?"

52:36 Yeah. Okay. Okay. Yeah. There's no way to confirm that he was at his place in the woods because he left his phone at Courtney's house. There's no way to track him through the cell towers. I mean, all you can take is his word and someone's word in the middle of the woods. I wouldn't even take it if they were free. Anyway, he's at his place in the woods. When he gets back, he is told that Becca is missing. At which point, Courtney sends him a coordinate and is like, "You need to go find Becca's phone here." He's like, "What?" So Kim had sent Courtney the coordinates.

53:08 This is next morning. Yeah. November 4th, Kim sends Courtney the coordinates. Courtney sends it to Bradley. Bradley's like, "I'm not going to go looking out there alone." The police are like, "Why did you not go alone?" Quote, "I'm not going to be accused of anything." So, when Courtney gets home, her and Bradley both go into the woods together and they find Becca's phone. Bradley has no clue how her phone got there. Mind you, he just got home. He was living in the woods, living off nature. He just got here. How would he know how Becca's phone got here? But if he had to take his best guess and if he had to voluntarily tell the police, he said Becca had walked that trail before.

53:43 I don't know what that means. One would imagine that perhaps Bradley is the safer of the two to trust in this situation between Courtney and Bradley because Courtney is Becca's biological mom. Rich is Becca's fiance. There's a lot of interpersonal relationships there and the potential growth of resentment and some nefarious plots. Bradley kind of has nothing to gain from lying to the police or doing anything to Becca. Well, there might be something to gain. Bradley Bartholomew, Courtney's husband, is also a registered sex offender. And just the year before he was thrown into jail for breaking probation. And according to Courtney, the person who reported him that sent him away, Rich Failure, Becca's fiance sent Bradley Bartholomew to prison last year.

54:30 What happened? He broke his probation and he went to jail. He broke his probation cuz he's a registered sex offender. He can't be around kids. He can't do lots of things. and he broke the probation. Rich allegedly turns him in and he had to spend probably not that long in jail, but he spent some time in jail.

54:50 I will say there's a lot of weird stuff about Bradley being a offender other than the fact that he's a offender. There's insane posts on Courtney's Facebook page that show her absolute lack of self-awareness being at its peak. She complains about how the county parole office won't let her husband Bradley take care of her. And you're like, "That doesn't make any sense. Why?" Right? We can assume it's because Courtney actually has another son, another child who's 14. I don't want to put him on the map because he's not as relevant and his voice is out there and that's like another problematic thing, but she has a 14-year-old son and he cannot be in a house with a 14-year-old boy.

55:28 Right. And she's complaining about the parole office. Right. Right. Right. She's complaining about that rather than,

55:35 you know, Wow. Yeah. So, she would write online on Facebook. So, Wexford County Parole Office refused to allow my husband to care for me. So, I'll sue them and have all of them fired. Spoiler alert, none of them were fired. Nobody was sued. When authorities ask Bradley Bartholomew, who he thinks is responsible for Becca disappearing, he says that he didn't want to say anything. But you know, I saw I saw Kim asking about the trails behind the house. I think it was Kim. Basically saying, I think it was Becca's halfsister. And he says, quote, "I believe she's dead." Saying he believes that Becca is dead and her halfsister Kim is the one that killed her.

56:24 This is what a mess. So Bradley is like, "It's her halfsister Kim. What motive would Kim have in getting rid of her sister? Bradley says he heard Kim say once that she needs Becca out of the picture. Then he says something weird. He says, "You know Courtney, she likes to sleep with scapels next to her nightstand, disposable scaples to drain like some of the cellulitis markings. She has scalpels." And uh something interesting to note is that now one of them is missing. And guess who has access to those scalpels? Kim. There are a few ways to frame somebody for murder. And the easiest, simplest fishb brain one would just be take an item that belongs to the person that you're trying to frame and planted at the scene of the crime. It's easy. It's simple.

57:09 It's clean. November 25th, 2025. 3 weeks after Becca goes missing, civilians stumble upon her body in the Manaste National Forest. They find Becca and they find what appeared to be remains. And when they walk up close, it was very clear that it belonged to a human and not animal remains. And it looked like someone didn't want Becca to be found. She was covered in leaves and she appeared quote gutted. Deputy Jacob goes down into the wooded area and he had seen this human body female with a tattoo above her left eye that matches Becca. And Deputy Jacob reports her stomach had been cut open. There are clear wounds to her stomach. The placenta was hanging out of her open abdominal wound with an attached umbilical cord that appears to have been cut with dental floss. There are stab wounds all over Becca, which later it's confirmed that she was alive when she was stabbed and alive when later her

58:02 stomach was cut open and someone forcibly ripped her baby out of her and cut her umbilical cord before they slit her throat and then dragged her. They hooked her up to a car and then dragged her into the woods and then left her for dead. Whoever did this, they wanted Becca's baby no matter what. They didn't care if Becca felt all of the pain of her baby being taken out. They didn't care if Becca died or lived as long as they could take Becca's 38-week old son. Whoever did this did not just kill Becca and steal her unborn baby. They wanted Becca to suffer. They essentially tortured her. There are two very important details about where Becca's body is found. One, she's found on Federal Forest Service Road 9784. And if you were to clear all of the trees and you were to walk in a straight line two and a half miles, you would make it straight onto Courtney and Bradley's porch. And two, at the crime scene,

58:56 there is a debit card that has been left behind, and that belongs to none other than Kimberly Park, Becca's halfsister. So, was she framed, or was this the dumbest accident to leave her debit card at the scene of the crime? When Kim's mom, Courtourtney, finds out about this, Courtney mentions, "You know what? I did see who was driving the black SUV." And you're never going to believe it, but I I I wanted to protect my daughter, and that's why I didn't say anything. The person who picked up Becca the night that she went missing was my other daughter, Kim. Does she drive a black SUV? Does she drive a Chevy? No, she doesn't. But somehow she got this car and she was driving Becca out of my house. Kim. Kim is questioned and Kim's version of events, they don't make any more sense than the others. She tells the officers that she she knows who took Becca. She knows who killed Becca. It's not her, even though her debit card was

59:50 there. It's that she was framed. The real killers are her biological mom, Courtney, and her husband, Bradley Bartholomew. Kim says she saw with her own two eyes. Courtney and Bradley hit Becca on the head, causing Becca to have a seizure. And when they couldn't revive her, they frantically called a friend who lives upstate, took Becca's body away to She thinks she heard something about a swamp, but I guess they never made it there because Becca was found in the woods. There are social media lives where people related to this case have been coming up sharing information, lots of information. And at one point, someone who has spoken with Kim personally, Becca's halfsister, says on the podcast, I'm just going to paint the picture clear. This is on Steph's case files.

1:00:33 And I don't care the repercussions. Courtney and Kimmy both talk about Becca like a dog. They say she's a [ __ ] She's a Kimmy's out here going around saying that she cares about her sister and misses her. [ __ ] I'm sorry. Okay.

1:00:46 So Ken's statement is that she was there that night. Yes. But I thought there was only Courtney and Rebecca.

1:00:52 Yeah. But now she's saying I was there and I saw them hit her on the head. There's like so many version now.

1:00:59 Exactly. and she's going around online talking about how much she misses her sister. Someone who's spoken with Kim allegedly says she's never liked her sister. She would call her sister Becca like all sorts of derogatory names. She doesn't care about her sister. Kim tells the officers that all of this is very complicated. I mean, obviously it's complicated. Her halfsister is missing and then her body is found and her baby had been torn from her. But it's more complicated because Courtney is having an affair with Becca's fiance, but so is Kim. Kim is also having an affair with Becca's fiance. Rich Fowler somehow is sleeping with everyone. He and Becca are expecting a child on the way. Rich is having an affair with Becca's biological mom. Rich is having an affair with Becca's halfsister, Kim.

1:01:49 Kim says the weirdest thing happened, though. Right after Becca went missing, Rich came up to her and informed her that Becca had been taken care of and she has nothing to worry about. But while they tried to cut the baby out of Becca, something went wrong. She's like, "Wait, what? Who's cutting the baby out of Becca?" And then he wouldn't respond. So now Kim is saying, "Okay, Courtney and Bradley hit Becca on the head. She had a seizure. They had to get rid of her body." But then later on, Rich comes up to Kim and is like, "Hey, Becca's been taken care of. They were trying to cut the baby out of Becca, but then something went wrong.

1:02:22 So Kim tow two different versions already. Yes. So the police are like, "Is it Rich? Is it Courtney and Bradley? Is it all three of them? Is it Kim? Is it all four of them?"

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1:05:28 Stephanie Park is Becca's real mom. She is Becca's adoptive mom, but technically Courtney is just a birther at this point. Stephanie Park is the woman that raised Becca and Kim since Becca was a little baby. Becca and Kim have Stephanie's last name. Stephanie says that she spent a good part of her life trying to shield the girls away from Courtney because just of how a negative experience and an influence that Courtney is to be around. Even when Becca goes missing, Courtney and Bradley and Becca's fianceé Rich, her halfsister Kim, nobody seems to care about Becca.

1:06:01 Truly, like Stephanie Park and her family, even Becca's two other children that she's had before getting pregnant with her third, they were being raised by Stephanie Park. Even Kimmy's daughter is being raised by Stephanie Park. Meanwhile, Courtney is busy pretending to be a mom. She's like the type of person that has a very deplorable Facebook page. She primarily focuses her energy on reposting minion quotes. They're not even quotes from the minions. It's just minions. And then random quotes. Like one, there's a minion quote and it reads, "I'm so good at sleeping, I can do it with my eyes closed." Another one reads, "Rabbits jump and they live for 8 years. Dogs run and they live for 15 years. Turtles do nothing and they live for 150 years.

1:06:42 Lesson learned." She reposted a quote, "Until you've lived my life, walked my path, suffered my pain, and seen what I've seen, I could care less about your judgments." She writes exactly on the repost. She also posts things like, "I'm a proud mother. I gave my children life. They gave me a reason to live. I love my children." I mean, all she did was give her children life because they were raised by somebody else. And it's just ironic. I mean, Courtney is not the brightest bulb. If you were in a room alone with Courtney Bartholomew, it would be pitch dark. One day before Becca is last seen and goes missing, she has a milkshake date with her mom, her biological mom, Courtney, at Dairy Queen. This is the day she goes to the hospital. So, lasagna inheritance day.

1:07:24 And then the day she goes to the hospital, she was actually supposed to get milkshakes with Courtney Bartholomew at Dairy Queen, but she didn't because she ends up going to the hospital thinking that she's in labor, but she's not. And that whole thing has the police very suspicious. The inheritance state, it almost seemed like the idea of the three different lasagna dishes and having your own lasagna. And Becca reportedly told friends afterwards her stomach was not feeling well. The next day she goes to the hospital and Courtney is so adamant like we have to get milkshakes and ice cream. She's like we got to get milkshakes the next day.

1:07:55 And then when she goes to the hospital you would think the next day she'd just be like okay you should probably relax. But instead she's like we got to go get ice cream at Culver's. People think that she had maybe poisoned the lasagna. That's a big speculation that caused Becca to go to the hospital the next day and then to finish the job she keeps begging to take her out to ice cream. That's the speculation. And with that, the police decide to look further into obviously Courtney and Bradley. Everyone also in town thinks that the couple are weird. They would have this truck that's parked outside their house all the time, and it never really moved. They never drove the truck. It just kind of sat there at all points. But recently, neighbors report seeing that truck moved. And not only that, but it doesn't even have seats inside the truck anymore. Courtney says she moved it recently because she wanted to get

1:08:40 access to the porch and the truck was blocking the porch. But why are there no seats in the truck? What does that mean? They removed the chairs.

1:08:47 Yes, they removed the chairs after she was missing or it's always been missing.

1:08:53 It seemed like it wasn't missing until after Becca was missing. I mean, no one can really pinpoint the exact date that it went missing, but Courtney and Bradley confirmed yes, we were taking the seats out. We took the seats out of the truck, but it was just because we were cleaning the truck, and we're going to give the truck to Courtney's other son when he's going to turn 16. He's 14 right now. This is a two-year long truck makeover, which is I mean I guess normally fine, but Courtney and Bradley are not really the type to think ahead. Nobody would ever accuse these two of being forward thinkers.

1:09:25 Then Bradley says that he has no clue about what happened because he was not at his place. He was out in the woods living at his other place that he called dibs on.

1:09:33 He calls dibs on. Yeah. Basically, he left his phone at Courtney's because Courtney's phone was about to be disconnected and so he was going to let her use his phone cuz she wasn't paying for her phone. But when police look into it, there's multiple calls between Courtney's phone and Bradley's phone. So, is she just calling herself? Or did you take your phone? Or maybe you didn't even go into the woods and you guys are calling each other. Which what for would you be calling each other? Would these be butt dials? I thought you weren't even there. I thought you didn't even have your phone.

1:10:04 Are we to assume that Courtney's butt dialing non-stop? It's all very strange, isn't it? But Courtney thinks no, it's not. In fact, she states she has an alibi, an airtight alibi. She couldn't have killed her daughter, Becca, because she was at home with her son. And there is an audio clip that she posts onto Facebook where she forces her 14-year-old son to say that he was with her that night.

1:10:26 What What does it sound like? Just tell people we're with you. Yeah. And then he was like, "So, my mom was with me at this time at this point?" and we did this.

1:10:34 Wow. But by this point, the police know what's going on. That Courtney and Bradley are lying and they are not the brightest and greatest and hardly the smartest. Even when authorities come to execute search warrants on Courtney and Bradley's house the day that Becca's body is discovered, Courtney and Bradley conveniently have a conversation that the officers just happen to be able to overhear. And we don't have direct quotes, but I imagine it's goes something like this. Courtney turns to Bradley, glances over at the police. You know the seat covers in our truck in the driveway. The truck in our driveway. I had to burn the seat covers in our truck. Why would you burn the seat covers in the truck? Because I spilled something on it. That makes sense. If I spilled juice on the seat covers, I would burn it too so we don't get ants or anything.

1:11:24 Yeah, I burned it in a bonfire. Why are they saying that? because they want it to seem less suspicious that they burned it. It's like toddlers lying. They want to make it seem less suspicious that they burned the seat covers for the truck, but they don't want to tell the police outright we burned the seat covers for the truck. So, they're telling the police that they burned the seat covers for their truck. That's how I imagine it going down. I cannot say with certainty that this is the exact conversation, but we do know that while the police were around, they're having this fake conversation of like, "Why'd you burn the seat covers in the trunk?" Oh, well, because I spilled something on it. There are messages of Courtney sending her two biological daughters pictures of an $18,000 check, which she claimed was the inheritance that was going to be split and divided and then given to both of them. So, both

1:12:10 of them were going to receive half of the $18,000 at the lasagna dinner, but there is no such thing as that $18,000 check. So, I guess it was photoshopped or it was AI generated or something. These are just imaginary checks. So, they decide to bring both of them in. The police are like, "Bring in Courtney. Bring in Bradley." And the couple come back in for second questioning. Even this, Courtney's trying to be slick. She tells the officers, according to the affidavit, "Wasn't the first interview enough?" They bring in Bradley, and because Becca's body is found, the officer tells him, "This is a homicide investigation, and there cannot be any more lies." Bradley admits, "Fine, fine.

1:12:49 I knew what was happening. My wife Courtney was going to get Becca and come to the house. I I was there. I was at the house. She was going to come and get Tide Pods. I was at the house, but I lied. And I said that I was in the woods because I was alone with Courtney's son, who is 14 years old, and I'm a registered offender. And I can't be alone with Courtney's 14-year-old son because I can't be alone without with children. That's why I lied to you guys. He says that when Courtney comes back alone to the house to pick up the the Tide Pods, she tells him to go outside and clean up her car. There's blood on the dash. And he's like, "Blood?"

1:13:22 Courtney tells her husband that she got into a physical altercation with Rich and that there was blood on the dash. The dutiful, questionless, brainless husband Bradley goes out there and starts wiping the blood off the dash. But then he remembers that there was no blood on the floors or on the seats, just the dash. Like he does point that out to the police. There was however paint spilled on the seat covers, which is why they burned it. Okay, so Bradley says that Courtney starts talking about how she and Rich did something horrible.

1:13:56 What does that even mean? He's like, "What do you mean?" She won't elaborate. And then the news starts going around that Becca is missing. And Bradley very slowly, maybe a little too slowly, starts putting two and two together very slowly. And then he's like, "Wait, I think they did something to Becca." So he confronts Courtney about it. Courtney freaks out on him and tells him, "If you say anything, I will make your life hell." He states, "You know, I believed her because it wasn't that long ago that Courtney tried to stab him with a pair of scissors and was charged with assault." The case was ultimately dismissed, but still, he doesn't think that she's bluffing. She already tried to stab him with scissors previously.

1:14:34 The only other thing that Bradley can tell the investigators, which he voluntarily told them, is that she's always talking to two people. What do you mean he's she's talking to two people all the time? I mean, I don't know. Neither of those two people are me though. How do you know? I mean, she's always on her phone click clacking away talking to Rich and to Kim. Becca's halfsister and then Becca's fianceé. He doesn't know what they're talking about, but they're always talking. How do you know they're always talking? They just are. He doesn't think that Courtney and Rich are still having an affair, though, because he says, quote, "I just can't see them being together like that. They haven't talked in over 2 years."

1:15:11 Wait, didn't you say that you're talking? Yes. So now I don't know if he means talking as in romantically talking. But you just said all they do is talk, but Bradley says this one. Yeah. I [snorts]

1:15:28 But Bradley claims that he thinks if anyone did anything, it was Kim because Kim was having an affair with Rich and she would have motive to want Becca out of the picture.

1:15:37 But didn't he just say Courtney and Rich had blood in the car and did something horrible?

1:15:42 Yeah. So, where is is Kim coming from? I don't think he knows. I can't tell you.

1:15:48 So, these people don't even think. They're just like talking. They're just talking. I feel like they're

1:15:54 They're just making up [ __ ] as they go. Their thoughts like reset every 5 seconds.

1:16:00 Because where is Kim coming from? What is he saying about Kim? Yeah, he's saying Kim has the most motive because she was having an affair with Rich. He doesn't think that Courtney was having an affair with Rich because they haven't talked in a really long time. Except all they do is talk. remember all they do is text, but they haven't talked in a really long time. So, we don't know a thing that this guy is saying.

1:16:17 But then he goes on to later state, you know, if I really had to answer questions, though. Quote, he believes that Courtney is capable of slicing open her own flesh and blood and taking a baby out. It is a good possibility that Courtney could attack Becca and cut a baby out of her. He thinks that Courtney has more to do with it than what she wants to claim. He said that all the evidence does point to her. So, basically what happens in these interrogations is that Bradley will decide that he's going to pin it on Kim is the vibe that I get. And then the police will be like, "Well, remember the evidence says this? Remember when you said this?" And then he'd be like, "You know what? You're right. I think Courtney did it." And then he just keeps like making up new stories.

1:16:56 He's asked, "Well, what do you think happened? I thought Courtney was jealous of Becca. Courtney wants to have another child, and I think Rich wants to get back in a relationship with Courtney." But he leaves the interview with one big problem. A problem that is bigger than all the other problems, which is he has a ton of motive to lie. He basically admits it himself to the officer. He says, "Well, I do think if Courtney's in the other room talking to the other investigators, she's going to try to pin it on me." In a separate room, Courtney is talking to the officers and she asks, "Can Bradley hear me?"

1:17:32 Oh my gosh. No, he cannot. Well, I think we should back up. I think I need immunity. These are direct quotes. When she's told that the prosecutor is the only one that can give immunity, she's like, "Well, get him down here." The police are like, "It's not that simple." The prosecutor isn't just going to come here because you said so. They're not going to come at the clap of your hands. They're going to want to know what kind of information you can provide for them, and then they'll think about if they want to grant you any sort of immunity. Courtney says she can tell them where the knife was that was used to kill Becca and where the baby is, all of it. She just admitted to being guilty. It's not very bright of her. I think she anticipated this.

1:18:06 She hasn't got anything. She's already saying I can tell you which. Okay. She She's like, I need immunity because I'm innocent, but I know some stuff. By the way, I must be guilty because I can tell you where the baby is.

1:18:19 That is crazy. So, that was used against her then, right? I mean, the police immediately they don't call the prosecutor and they tell her what you everything you just said in that one sentence, you gave us knowledge that you only have if you're guilty. Did they point it out already?

1:18:34 Yeah. And Courtney says, "Well, no. So, I've been threatened. Her child, her 14-year-old son has been threatened. Her home has been threatened, and she is done. She's officially done doing this. She wants immunity, and she wants witness protection." Who does she think she is like ordering this that I mean, you cannot order officers around. That is strictly reserved for really wealthy pedophiles. Sergeant Voss informs her, "Look, we can't give you immunity. Is the baby still alive?" Courtney shakes her head. No. Did Bradley confess?

1:19:02 He told us lots of stuff. I want to talk to a prosecutor. I want immunity. We need to know what you know to take it to the prosecutor. So, for example, you said you'll tell us where the baby is. In the garbage in a blue cooler. Where?

1:19:15 Wow. In the garbage cans. He Bradley said he put him in a black bag. The cooler's gone. The cooler is Bradley's work cooler. He put him inside the cooler. Drove up and down the road looking for like a waste like one of those residential trash cans that wasn't mine. and she refers to it as a GFL, but that's basically the company name, Green for Life. So, it's just like a garbage can. He's just looking for a garbage bin that's not ours, you know. But she says that she's being set up by her husband, Bradley. She and Becca's fianceé are both being set up by Bradley. She's saying her and Rich are the fall guys. Why would Bradley set up his own wife and his wife's daughter's fiance? Well, it has to do with the fact that one, Courtney and Rich were having an affair and Bradley is so jealous because everybody just wants Courtney.

1:20:00 And Courtney explains that last year, remember, Rich sent Bradley to jail. So, this is Bradley getting revenge on Rich. It's a retaliation plot. She says November 3rd, the night that Becca went missing, Courtney and Becca were in the house. Becca did not wait in the car. She came inside the house and they were chitchatting. When Bradley asked Becca, "Can I step outside and talk to you for a second?" They go outside. Courtney says, "I didn't think anything of it." Bradley was supposed to be her stepdad. End quote. But she did ask where they were going to go and he said he was going to get in the car. According to Courtney, Bradley shouts at her, "Don't worry about it and get your ass back in the house." So that's exactly what she does. She goes back inside the house and doesn't worry about it. Near midnight, Bradley comes back home without Becca.

1:20:44 He says he dropped her off at home. Courtney, for whatever reason, suddenly feels this to be untrue information. No, you didn't. Bradley says, "Oh, yes, he did." And Becca is going to call her tomorrow. Courtney asks for her phone so she can call Becca and confirm that she got home safely. Bradley makes up this whole thing about how he left her phone in the shed. So, he went to the shed, comes and gives it to her, and then uh he just admits when he gives her the phone, "Yeah, I she didn't go home. Where did she go?"

1:21:10 Bradley tells her that he took her to a house. Wait, she told me to take her there. Becca wanted Bradley to give Courtney a message though. I never want anything to do with you again. Courtney is so offended she calls Rich Becca's fiance instead of Becca. And Courtney tells him, "Dude, your old lady left with some guy."

1:21:27 So now we're back to the black van theory. So it went from a black van to Bradley did it. Now we're back to the black van cuz she's like, "Dude, your old lady was left with some guy." Which Rich confirms is exactly what Courtney said. So she has to stick with this story. And it's such a bizarre thing to say in general, but also you're the old lady. Whatever. Also, 40 is not old, but you get what I'm saying. Courtney claims that Bradley made her say that on the phone, and when she hangs up, Bradley out of nowhere backhand slaps her across the face. I think she like watches so many Lifetime movies or something. I don't know. At this point, it is clear that Courtney is in version 15.9 of her account of events. What happened to the original black car that we heard so much about? the very, very specific black SUV, the Chevy with the tinted windows.

1:22:13 What happened to that? I lied. I made it up. That never happened. No black SUV ever came to pick up Becca. It was just a lie that Bradley made me say.

1:22:22 Wow. Courtney claims the day that after Becca's body is found, she confronts Bradley about what he did. And he gets in her face and he tells her, "I'm going to tell you once and I'm going to tell you, and you're going toing drop it, and you're going to shut the up. I'm the reason your daughter's not here, and that your life is upside down right now." Riched with the wrong [ __ ] It's like a D-grade movie that airs at 3:00 a.m. on Lifetime. Courtney says that she asks Bradley, "What did you do to my daughter?" He responds menacingly, "I slit hering throat. Deserved it. Rich deserved it.

1:22:52 And it just happened to be your daughter that's going to pay for it." "What about my grandson that she was carrying?" "Oh, I stuck him in a cooler, stuck him in a trash bag, threw him in the trash." Hold on. Hold on. The officers are very confused. They stop Courtney in her story and they say, "Wait, wait, wait, hold on. If Bradley is just doing this to get back at Rich, just killing Becca and their unborn child seems to be the goal. Why cut the baby out of Becca, bring it back, and then dispose of the baby, leaving more evidence?" Courtney responds, "Because if he would have left the baby in there, and somebody found her before the baby could have survived." He would have thought. He would have thought. He would have thought. So now we're just thinking he would have thought. I don't think any of them think much. But then why wouldn't he just take the baby out and kill it and then leave the baby? Why go

1:23:39 through the trouble of taking the baby? He told me that the baby wasn't breathing when he pulled him out again. Why did he take the baby? Because he didn't want Rich to see they were together. Like he didn't want Rich to see them together in death. What What does that What does that mean? The police literally ask her, "What does that mean?" And the affidavit writes, quote, she admitted she didn't know what that meant. [sighs]

1:24:05 This is unbelievable. Like, what does that mean? I don't know. You You're the one that said that. Later, she tries to state that the baby is Bradley's. That's why he took the baby out of Becca because Bradley and Becca were having an affair. But straight up, the police are like, "Wait, so did Bradley essay Becca?" Because you've been telling us that Becca hates Bradley's guts.

1:24:26 Yeah. And then she's like, "Yeah, they do hate each other." So the police just ignore this whole plot line because they know it's not true and they know that she's just lying out of her butt. So then they they just continue asking, "Well, where is the baby now? He put him in a blue cooler in a trash bag and then into the trash." She says that she knows that he used a trash bag from their house because she likes to count their trash bags. And the police are like, "What is happening? Why are you counting your trash bags?" Courtney clarifies that she never went to the location that Becca's body is found. She has no clue how often Bradley had gone back to the location where Becca's body is found.

1:25:00 She's kind of insinuating something there. And they ask her, "You said you knew where the knife was used to kill Becca is." Yes. He threw it in a dumpster at Cadillac Shores. When? It's my hunting knife, but probably like a week after he put the knife in the dumpster. What happened to the scalpel you said he used? I had no clue. I wish I knew. What are you looking for in an immunity agreement? What are you afraid of? You know, you've provided us with a lot of information that's not true. I reassure you that I will cooperate the whole way. Ultimately, Courtney states that it was all Bradley, her husband, and she had nothing to do with it. Rich has nothing to do with it. And as for Kim, she just wants to be involved because she wants to feel important.

1:25:40 That's what Courtney says. She just keeps getting involved cuz she wants to feel important.

1:25:45 Oh my god. I I don't even know what to think. This is Yeah. What a mess. Courtney is the one that alleged that Kim was the one driving the SUV. Bradley told me to say that. He came up with the story. And then the police are like, "Okay, well then how did Kim's ID or debit card end up at the scene of the crime?" Like, what's happening? She states that once Kim went on social media to say that Courtney and Bradley were responsible for Becca's murder because Kim had gone on some lives and was like, "You know what? I think they might be responsible."

1:26:12 Bradley went back to the crime scene and planted Kim's debit card for the police to find for the purpose of framing her. Oh, and two months before all this happened, Courtney did remember seeing Bradley suspiciously look up online how to perform a C-section. So, I don't know if she thought that he was suddenly going to go into med school with his criminal record and history, but she doesn't think anything of this afterwards, and one of her scalpels is of course missing from her nightstand. The police are very messy, and I don't mean like disorganized, but like messy. Because after this conversation, they immediately run right next door to Bradley and they Yeah. They do a second interview with Bradley and they essentially tell him, "Guess what Courtney told us?" Like, literally, that's what they tell him. And the investigators tell Bradley that Courtney says the whole thing was a retaliation

1:26:56 plot. That Bradley is mad that Rich turned him into the police last year. Oh, that's [ __ ] You know, but her story doesn't make sense, Bradley. If you were just trying to get revenge on Rich, why would you cut the baby out, right? Bradley is not picking up what they're putting down, at least not quickly or really at all. So, they spell it out for him. And you know, it's odd because Courtney was the one who told her sister she had a baby in the NICU that she was waiting to bring home, right? And she's the one that kept trying to get custody of Becca and Kim's children.

1:27:30 I'm sure Courtney stabbed Becca because she did have a hunting knife. That knife was dumped, but it might still be in a trash can. And this is where we get what seems to be so far the most believed and the clearest version of events. Hold up. Clearly [clears throat] the police is the police is almost trying to get Bradley to switch his finger from Kim to Courtney.

1:27:51 Yeah. So the police know they have a good idea that it was Courtney and Bradley. So it doesn't seem like they're trying to get a false confession. Although maybe the defense attorneys will use it against them, but

1:28:01 yeah, but why Bradley was so adant on Kim? Like what why why it seems like he still wanted to protect his wife to some degree and Courtney didn't care. She was like, "Take my husband. He's the guilty one." So the police come in and they're like, "Courtney said it was you, just like you expected it to be." And then they're trying to tell him, "But we know that's not the truth because Courtney is also weird."

1:28:23 H Okay. I mean, what? They are weird for sure. That's for sure. But it's just like Okay. Yeah.

1:28:30 So then Bradley starts telling the police. Becca was in the truck with Courtney and Bradley. So after ice cream, I don't even know if they went to get ice cream. It seems like they were just in the truck. He doesn't clarify. I don't think they went to get ice cream, but they're in the truck, all three of them.

1:28:44 This is the final story from Bradley. Yes. And Bradley says that they were going to go drive to get Tide Pots. But before they can leave, he looks and Courtney just starts stabbing Becca in the truck in their driveway. What part of Becca's body did Courtney stab? I don't know. I jumped out the truck. What? What? They're like asking him like, can you explain a little bit more? Courtney just grabbed the knife and started stabbing her. This is a direct quote. just stabbed her in the chest as far as I know, but I can't be sure because I jumped out the car when Courtney starts swinging, so I'm not sure. Eventually, another door to the truck opens and he sees that Courtney brought Becca out bleeding and starts making Becca walk. Becca is stabbed and she's 38 weeks pregnant. She cannot run away and she walks her into the woods essentially. He says that Courtney stabbed Becca and in the woods took the

1:29:35 scalpel that I guess she had already prepared and cut the baby out of Becca. He confirms that Becca is alive when all of this is happening and she's actually begging them to hurry up and take her baby out and save her baby. Once the baby is out, he says that Courtney tries to do CPR on the baby while Becca is again still alive and Bradley walks over and slits her throat. Bradley claims the whole time he's screaming at Courtney, "This is not right. This is not right." Which is like a very bizarre understatement that I've ever heard.

1:30:06 Bradley says instead of calling 911, he and Courtney take the baby. They do hook up Becca onto his truck and they drag her further into the woods. So they like hook her body onto the truck as if she's like an object of that you would move I don't know a tree log or furniture in that sense like a trailer

1:30:25 her up on the truck like the I guess like the truck attachment. Yes. Oh my god.

1:30:30 And they drag her into the woods and they cover her with leaves. He says that he has no clue if Becca is alive or not, but they just leave. They take the baby into the house and that takes approximately 5 minutes. At which point, Bradley doesn't hear the baby breathe or cry for the entirety of the 5 minutes it takes to get back into the house. And when they get back into the house, Courtney walks in, goes into their bedroom, puts a towel on their bed, places the baby down, continues CPR. That goes on for about 15 minutes before she walks out with a trash bag. and the baby is in the trash bag and she just puts the baby out on the porch for the rest of the night because they want to get rid of the baby right before trash pickup day. But she does make one comment the rest of the night that Bradley claims he remembers, which is that killed my baby. And she seems to be referring to her biological

1:31:22 daughter who is the mother of the baby that she killed both of them tortured and killed both of them. Yeah.

1:31:32 Wow. He says that this is like the one of I don't even know. This is so It's so cold bloodooded and she is so blatant [clears throat] about it.

1:31:48 It's so And they're on live streams and they're talking and she's saying like, "Shut the up ora." Like, "How dare you say I would hurt my child?" She even tells the police, according to the affidavit, quote, something along the lines of like, "Why would I [ __ ] I could never do that to my child." They were also on live stream saying crazy things like, "Who could do such a thing to a pregnant woman?" He claims that he saw Courtney put Becca's baby into a cooler and then into the trash bag and they left the baby out on the porch the rest of the night before trash pickup day. Bradley says that he's not the one that burned the seat covers, but it's probably because there was Becca's blood all over the seat covers. He thinks that Courtney is the one that burned it. He did, however, clean the rest of the inside of the truck with bleach and water. So, okay. The officers ask him, "Do you think Courtney planned this?" I have a

1:32:37 feeling she did, but she never told me any of the plans. But why would Courtney kill her own daughter and rip out her unborn child? Is it literally just because of Rich? Is she jealous that Becca is pregnant with Rich's baby? Bradley tells the officers that Courtney just loves having kids. She loves being pregnant. She loves, I guess, the feeling of everyone saying she's pregnant. I could just tell from her Facebook, she loves being a mom in the sense of like moms have the hardest jobs in the world, which is accurate if you're a good mom. You're not a mom.

1:33:10 Mhm. All you did was give birth. Mhm. which like is very annoying because also like out of all the people in the world that want to have children and want to give birth like it's always like people who don't deserve children that are giving birth and Bradley tells officers that Courtney was really into the idea of adopting a baby. So she it does seem like she miscarried a few times and she is incapable of becoming pregnant. It doesn't seem like it was I don't know if it was a health thing or she's just 40 and sometimes age does play a big factor, but they can't adopt a baby because he's a registered sex offender. So, they're not going to just give them a baby on a silver platter.

1:33:49 She can't get pregnant. And so, she thought that this was probably, this is what Bradley thinks, and everyone's connecting the dots, the easiest way to get a baby. I don't know why she wants a baby.

1:34:00 Yeah. But not only that though, like she did that to Becca while she was alive.

1:34:05 Yeah. Wanting a baby, she couldn't even give her the mercy of Yeah. Right. See, that just

1:34:12 cuz I think um that's not just you want a baby then. Yeah. I mean, I think some people would I guess logically maybe Courtney was thinking that if Becca was dead, the baby would die, but I don't know. Um, there's also people speculating that they were both high on meth when this happened, and meth can, I guess, allegedly make you more cruel. But meth does not make you kidnap your own biological child and cut her unborn baby out of her stomach. So, I don't even like to really mention if they were high on drugs because first of all, it's speculative. We don't know. I we do know that they were frequent users of meth and that Rich Failure was a meth dealer at one point. So, there is a lot of that, but I don't think that that is any sort of

1:34:53 Yeah. explanation. But ever since then, it seems that Courtney can't stand the idea of anybody else getting pregnant. Because even when Becca was pregnant with her first child, remember Rich claimed that she was trying to hit her with a baseball bat on the stomach because she just doesn't like the idea of anybody else being pregnant except for her. She needs to be the one being a mom. She needs to be the one having a kid, but she's married to a registered offender, so she can't adopt and she can't get pregnant. Courtney is confronted with Bradley's new version of events. And this is like the version that most people believe happened.

1:35:22 Courtney says she tries her best to lie again and she says that's not true. Bradley just killed Becca in front of me. He was stabbing her. So I had to cut the baby out because Becca was like save my baby. So I cut the baby out because that's my grandson. She said she cut Becca's baby out out of sympathy, out of honor, out of familial ties, out of that was the right thing to do. and she conveniently had dental floss in her pocket to cut the umbilical cord.

1:35:53 So, she did confess to it. Yeah. Okay. At this point, everybody is arrested. So, Kim is arrested. This is her mug shot for tampering with evidence, lying to a police officer because,

1:36:06 but why is she part of this? How is she part of this? She kept lying. It seems like at one point she finally knew what happened, but she was lying. And so she would point the finger at Rich, then she would point the finger at Courtney and Bradley, and then she would just she was sending people on a wild goose chase.

1:36:21 I think that she didn't know the smartest move for her to make. She claims that she was being blackmailed by Courtney and Bradley that they told her that we have your stuff. We have your debit card. If you don't make everyone believe it's rich, we're going to plant your stuff at the scene of the crime.

1:36:35 So she claimed that she was she's been blackmailed. Yes. So she started lying about

1:36:41 Yeah. What? And she was arrested for tempering with evidence lying to a police officer and filing a false police report.

1:36:49 What do you mean? Because they're assuming that she knew that Becca was not missing that she was dead.

1:36:55 Oh. Already the second day. So like her police report that she probably filed out was probably full of lies

1:37:02 cuz I don't know what's going on with the cell phone, too. She's the one that told them the cell phone.

1:37:06 Yeah. She says that she got it from Rich, but no one really knows. And how is Rich Oh, yes. connected now.

1:37:15 He's also arrested. Rich Failure is arrested, but then he's subsequently let go. Um, he's he has no charges right now against him related to this case. I think he has a separate domestic violence charge that's open that has nothing to do with Rebecca, but there's he was briefly arrested.

1:37:34 Okay. But how does Rich like how when did he find out or how did they The general consensus is that Rich has no idea what's going on

1:37:42 really. The general consensus is that Rich is a person. But nizens are actually really mad because they're saying out of everyone in this entire story minus obviously Stephanie Park, her adoptive family, and all of the kids. Out of everyone,

1:37:58 Rich is the best person. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I find that so hard to believe. Yeah. It seems like he is a person but probably not guilty of Becca's murder.

1:38:09 He had a version of the story. Correct. Yes. Did that story line up with what they are saying?

1:38:16 So Becca was picked up. He went to sleep. He woke up. He doesn't care that Becca's not home at 1:00 a.m. Then the next morning he gets a call from Courtney and she's like, "Your dude, your old lady left with some other guy. He thinks it's weird." He starts investigating and like all this stuff is weird. He goes on live streams. He's like, "Hey, everyone says that I hit Becca. I didn't hit that guy, only verbally abuse her. He's like a sex offender, a registered sex offender with multiple criminal essay charges against minors, but ultimately it doesn't seem that he was involved in Becca's death.

1:38:47 Wow. Okay. But I mean, who knows? Maybe he will be charged soon. I don't know. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

1:38:52 And then Yeah. Courtney and Bradley are arrested for first-degree murder, torture, conspiracy to commit torture, assault of a pregnant individual, causing miscarriage or still birth, conspiracy, unlawful imprisonment, and removing of a dead body. I don't know how it's going to go if they're going to charge for two counts of first-degree murder. They're in Michigan,

1:39:20 so I don't know. But I I just don't think that the assault of a pregnant individual causing miscarriage or still birth, people have qualms about that charge because they want it to be like a full separate murder charge for the baby.

1:39:33 And yeah, that is Yeah. So now I mean they're arrested. They did have a brief court hearing. It doesn't seem like I don't know when the trial is going to be. I imagine that they're going to be represented by public defenders. I imagine that the trial will be I I mean I don't like to say a slam dunk case, but I do think it'll probably be a slam dunk case. Just the way that they've incriminated themselves thus far and then everything that will come up in discovery. I don't think that there will be a world in which something unexpected happens during the trial, but we are left purely to speculate. I will say I don't know if the trial is going to uncover the real reason why these two allegedly killed Becca. Is it really just because they want a baby? Is it because they don't care? Is it like a torture element to it? Like it doesn't make sense.

1:40:17 Exactly. And I mean, I don't have answers for that. I don't think we'll ever get answers for that even if there is a trial.

1:40:24 Wow. But with that, I will leave you with Netzen comments. What is Stephanie Parks?

1:40:29 Stephanie Park's family have started the GoFundMe for Rebecca's sons. Stephanie Park is raising Rebecca's two sons and Kimberly's daughter. We reached out. So, the GoFundMe, we wanted to verify it's the real GoFundMe, but a lot of the pictures that people have been using for Becca, it's like very heavily filtered photos. I mean, she looks stunning. She looks beautiful in them. But, they were using a picture that we hadn't seen circulated a lot. So, we just wanted to verify that that is the right GoFundMe and that is a picture of Becca.

1:40:57 And Stephanie Park's family emailed us back and said it's a picture of Becca from high school. And they really like remembering her in that way cuz she was like a natural blonde. And that was when she still had her blonde hair. So this is the picture.

1:41:11 Yeah. And it seems but she hasn't made any comment about no anybody. The only comment that has been made now from the family is that they just want a lot of the internet rumors to slow down because it's interfering with the police investigation and maybe the way that the trial will will resume. I I I can see where it's coming from. It did come one of those cases where the live streams took on a life of its own. I think it has the element where Rich would just call into a live stream. So, of course, like a lot of things are developing very quickly. And I think when you're in a live stream asking questions, especially when you're dealing with such a sensitive subject matter where there's an active police investigation and an active missing person's case at that time, I think it's really hard to on the spot ask questions that you think are helpful but not damaging to an investigation. It just got really messy.

1:42:09 This was before their arrest arrested, right? Okay. And there I will say there are a lot of rumors about Becca as well. I think maybe the family is referring to that more than anything. There were rumors of I don't know alleged drug use during pregnancy, this that and the third, which I don't think really have anything to do with the case.

1:42:29 Yeah. So there were people talking about how she was cheating on Rich. And I just think it's like I don't know how that would even help someone find Becca. I mean, I guess at the time it was under the thing of, "Oh, well, if she was cheating on Rich, maybe there's a different guy that she would have run off to." But

1:42:48 yeah. Yeah, I hear you. We still don't know where the baby is. It's unlikely, I think, that his remains will be recovered. He is presumed deceased and probably in landfill if he were to be placed in trash. One netizen comment reads, "What's the most shocking is that her fianceé isn't even the worst person in her life." Another comment reads, "I can't imagine the terror this girl went through, knowing her own mother was doing this, not only to her, but her grandchild. Beyond horrifying, and everyone just hopes that the criminal justice system, if they don't do anything, then hopefully all of this is settled in prison for Courtney and Bradley is the sentiment. I'm not saying that, but what are your thoughts? Let me know in the comments. And stay safe. I'll see you in the next one.

Questions about this episode

Who speaks in "Jealous Mom Lures 38-Weeks-Pregnant Daughter, Tortures Her, Cuts Her Baby Out While Alive"?

Courtney Bartholomew (Guest), Becca Park, Bradley Bartholomew (Guest), Kimmy Park, Rich Fowler.

What is "Jealous Mom Lures 38-Weeks-Pregnant Daughter, Tortures Her, Cuts Her Baby Out While Alive" about?

The content describes a horrifying event where a jealous mother violently abducts her pregnant daughter and aborts the baby by cutting it out while the daughter is alive. It juxtaposes this brutal act with a detailed explanation of the clinical, typically sterile process of a cesarean section, emphasizing the contrast between medical procedures and extreme violence.

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10 people, works and ideas are mentioned, including Courtney Bartholomew, Rebecca Park, Bradley Bartholomew, Rich Fowler, Kimberly Park, Manistee National Forest. Each one on this page links to its own page with every episode that mentions it.

How long is "Jealous Mom Lures 38-Weeks-Pregnant Daughter, Tortures Her, Cuts Her Baby Out While Alive"?

The episode runs 1 h 44 min; the transcript is about 19,987 words in 238 timestamped sections.

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