Jealous Mom Kidnaps Her Own 22 YrOld Pregnant Daughter, Takes Her Into Forest & Cuts Unborn Baby Out

Better being better boo. 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 schedule C-section, or sometimes it is an emergency, but they will stick you with an IV. They're going to stick you with the 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. That's what they tell you to do. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. So 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 livestream camera. So they have a camera that's livestreaming 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. 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. We're here for two things. 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 inside their organs. There have been some reports of dads fainting or throwing up, which go ahead and make this by 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 very bizarre feeling to see someone cutting into your stomach and taking the baby out of you. I think it would just, 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. 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 just just like what? Courtney informs her sister in a matter of fact 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, logically, these are all words that makes 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 Ashden Lee, birth alumnus. 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, six days later, Candace with an S texts her sister, the new mom. Courtney, asking her for her son's come home yet. Now he did a backslide, but still hoping later this week. Backslide meeting a dip in health, right? The message is sent afternoon of November 3rd, 2025. For the rest of the day, Courtney and her sister, Candace, they don't text because Courtney has 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 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 nickel. A 22 year old pregnant woman in the area had gotten 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. 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 nickel? Or is she talking about her daughter, the missing 22 year old pregnant woman? We would like to thank today sponsors who have made it possible for Rotten Mingo to support Rebecca Parks go find me for her surviving children. Links are going to be in the description. This episode's partnerships 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 RottenMingoPodcast.com. If you 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 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. Stephanie Park is the woman that raised both of them. She raised Rebecca and she was one year old. She is really the true mother of Rebecca Park and Kimberly Park. Hmm. I see. But the body is still in their lives. So the bio mom Courtney only came back into Rebecca's life maybe about four years ago. When Rebecca turned 18, she decided to reach out to her bio mom and they reconnected. Wow. Okay. So I don't know if maybe bio mom 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. It showcases like, okay, this is not stranger to stranger or acquaintance to a 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. Okay. So 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 talking 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 post-grad. 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 up on Instagram, Facebook and this girl was everything I was not. She was gorgeous, social and it made me feel like shit. I figured it was a rebound, but here they are together. Seven months later, post-grad doing a 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 her signing 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. I wish she 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-chopping. 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 editors claim this is much easier said than done though. 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 fiance, 22-year-old Becca, are expecting their very first child together. That was opposed from the kids. 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. Obsessed. And they're expecting their very first child together, a baby boy, baby park. It's time to get your hands dirty at Little's Garden event. Where it's potting and planting week, with all sorts from just 249. From walking greenhouses to potting benches. Ah, gardening might just grow on you. Little, more to value. While Stocks last selected stores GB only in store for the 12th of the 36. 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 Becca's happiness. It's just that she, as Becca's biological mother, knows that Rich Fowler is not a good person. Becca's mom would state, I'm just concerned for my daughter because he's abusive. Courtney is sleeping with her biological daughter's fiance. Wait, so Courtney is Rich's ex? Yes. And so Rich dated Courtney? Yes. And now Rich is dating Becca. Becca, yes. Okay. 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. Not every inheritance transfer is very dramatic like the movies. Not every will reading is like knives out where all the strange relatives and they're weird interpersonal backstories gather in a wooded office to be read a will by an old man with graying hair who reads two 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. 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. Okay, I see. And they're half siblings. So Courtney and Bradley are married. Yes. Richard and Becca are engaged. Yes. I see. Okay. 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 lasagna, which is an odd element to all of this because who makes three separate pan lasagna dishes? 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-free fucking 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. 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 half-sister 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 sub-par lasagna with her, spending time with her because they want a check. They want money. They want their inheritance. 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. Becca just didn't go for the money. She went to see her mom, her biological mom, Courtney, and her half-sister, 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. 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 two 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'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's just a lot. But some people think they should have voiced out. I mean, it's just gotten messy in the sense of people will say, take me instead of Becca because I do the same drugs. Becca does. It's just weird. What? Yeah, I think... Is that like a joke? What does that mean? No, I think they're just all very young. I think they're all young and I don't think that they understand the implications of what they're saying online. And I think maybe... I'm giving people the benefit of the doubt perhaps in such a state of shock that they're not understanding the impact of their words online, perhaps. So how... Do you know how she was found missing or what happened? How was it reported? Her sister Kimmy called the cops and was like, hey, my sister's missing. No one's heard from my sister. And this is on my car. Okay, so Kimmy is the one that reported it. Kimmy'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 seemed like they're using this as some sort of dramatic moment to make it about themselves. It's weird. Like the whole take me in step, it's a lot. It's kind of weird. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I see. Okay. 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 a 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. 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 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 o'clock in the afternoon. 21-year-old Kimmy calls the police to report that her half-sister Becca is 38 weeks pregnant. She's about two weeks away from giving birth. And she's missing. Okay. The Wexford County Sheriff's Office, they have about 26 Swingline 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 half-sister Kim. Half-sister, you know, that report started missing to the police. And the husband Bradley sitting in the car. Yes. So then November 2nd, Becca goes to the hospital. Becca thinks she's in labor. She's not in labor. She gets turned, the hospital sends her back out. She's only one centimeter dilated, I think, out of like 10 centimeters 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. Goes to the hospital, hospital sends her back home. So November 3rd, one day before she's called to be reported missing, Becca goes out to get ice cream and run errands with her biomom 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. 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 meth. 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, she was probably with Becca until maybe like 8.30pm the night before. She picked up Becca from Becca and Rich's house to go get ice cream at Culverse, which is surprisingly an underrated spot for ice cream. Then Courtney states that Becca was interested in getting tide pods. They got to go run errands to buy tide pods. Target, Walmart, Kroger, Ralph's, where to get tide pods? Bio mom Courtney is like, well, I had tide pods. So rather than going to the store to get some tide pods as one would very naturally do, Courtney decided 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 expires weird. Was there anything eventful that happened that day? Well sure, okay. Becca was complaining about her fiance, Rich. 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 gotta 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 fiance, Rich. Courtney pulls that an envelope to Becca that night. 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. So this is like an investigation from the police. Yeah. That's from their report. 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, tightpots. 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. Anywho, don't ask questions. Courtney's like moving on in the interview. She's just like, okay, why is our 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 shabby. How do we know that? Courtney told us that. She could just tell it's a shabby. 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. Who's 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 going to 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, 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 half sister. 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. Wait, this is when they are like, where's Becca? Where's Becca? And Kim just sends a coordinate, that's it. Yeah. Oh, it's like she has her five mile iPhone. Okay. And it leads Courtney and her husband, Bradley, straight to a phone. Becca's phone, but no Becca. Where was it? In the woods behind their house, they live on the edge of Manistine National Forest. Okay. In Michigan. Like really close by? Yeah. I mean, you could pretty much walk into the National Forest from their backyard. Yeah. I would say, okay, the four, the National Forest is not like the vibe of Yosemite 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. So just think like densely packed woods. 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. Any response? I don't fucking know. Courtney Bartholomew is a woman whose explanations defy logic. She just has the tendency to say things. The kind of makes 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 biomom daughter date. Any good mother who is really present in her daughter's life until recently four 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. I mean, maybe the fear is that people are going to post the baby shower in 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. And also Becca's bad because CPS would probably take her kid. That's the vibe it was giving. It's just, it's weird. Yeah, it doesn't make sense. It doesn't make any sense. 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? He 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. The police look into these two people and they have nothing to do with it. What do you mean? Like they're real. Ashley does exist. And Mike, yes. They do exist. And they have nothing to do with anything. Mike is friends with Ashley. He's related to Ashley. Okay, okay. Got it. And it just leads them onto this wild goose chase. And there is nothing there. Okay. So the police think, okay, well maybe we should just look into Rich then. 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 two minutes. Becca was placed in foster care at one years old, was adopted by a woman named Stephanie Park. That's her real mom. Becca only reconnected with her 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, Araya. Araya 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 to baby shower. It's just a whole bunch of nonsense. Let's coming out of Courtney. Courtney responds by going on live and screaming. One, they have searched my property. Two, I didn't touch my fucking daughter. And three, we already know the fucking info that you're fucking telling us, Araya. Bradley, the husband, chimed in. We got fucking cameras watching the fucking road you dumb bitch. What would the Araya said before this? That Courtney is suspicious that Courtney doesn't want the cops to search her house. And these are all happening on Facebook. Yeah. And then Courtney goes back to screaming, so you better fucking watch it. Rusty? Rusty is Araya's dad. Rusty, you better get your fucking child under control because she's taking a mother's pain and turning it into a goddamn circus. Fuck you, Araya. You don't have fucking kids that you actually take care of. I do, unfortunately. You don't have yours because you fucking can't be a mom to yours. So you know what? Fuck you bitch. You're gonna get 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. Get over it. If that's what she fucking did that 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. And you know, whatever you fucking say, I laid a hand on my fucking pregnant daughter, Araya. So help me fucking God. You will not like me bitch. Don't play with me. Wow. 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 Faler, Becca's fiance is a very shady person. I mean, that's just factually correct. The police questioned where he was when his pregnant fiance Becca went missing. Any explains from the top that the day that she vanished, her stomach had been hurting all morning. So it was lasagna and heradins 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 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 Culverse because that's what Becca was craving. When Courtney comes to pick Becca up around dinner time, he says Becca gave me a hug. He gave each other a kiss, what normal couples would do when somebody's leaving. She said, give her about an hour and a half to two hours and then she'd be back. But then he falls asleep 45 minutes later after she leaves. He wakes up at 1am. 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 fiance who had been at the hospital the night before is just out of friends house. Even though she states that she's going to be home in two hours and it's now many hours, he doesn't think that this is alarming. And then the next morning, he starts calling Courtney because 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, you're 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. It's weird. Rich does not believe Courtney. He goes from being so trusting. He goes from waking up at 1am. I'm sharing 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. But nothing comes of any of this. I mean, this is no clue. There's no hint. 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 attempt to 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. What's a Steph's case file? It's a podcast. I think Steph's case files is fine. No, I think they're really good. It's a podcast name. And this is after this whole case has happened and they are doing interviews with Rich, right? It's when Becca goes missing. Okay. Got it. Yes. But I will say the reason that I am having like, I don't know, I guess people, Stephanie Park along with Becca's family or 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 comments 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. 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. It's just all I'm trying to say. I see. So it seems like Becca's family, her real family are a little frustrated with that. I see. I'll say 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 because 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's just a lot. So they're all talking. These people, they're talking on every podcast. Yeah. I see. Yeah. Now, 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'd talk 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? So is Rich Courtney's ex or is Courtney rich? So who was the ex or the cheating? 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. And then when Becca and Rich are on and off dating and back and forth, he would still be sleeping with Courtney. 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 verbally, yes. Physically, I never harmed her. Is he proud? Is he like you? He's just like, he thinks it's normal, I think, to be verbally abusive as the sound. Wow. Is it true that you don'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. And as 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 is born. Until after the baby is 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 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. 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. Wait, what? What? This is earlier in 2025. But that's not the baby that she was telling her sister about. 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, whose 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. 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 Courtney. He's so angered by the fact that he has to be with Becca while Becca's mom Courtney 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 miscarry. 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 gun point, wouldn't she just turn that footage over to the police? To which Courtney then argues, well it's only a life 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. But she has two other sons and they are now being raised by Stephanie Park. They were actually being raised by Stephanie Park even one Becca before she had gone missing. How old are they doing now? It's like they're like one and three I believe. Oh very young. 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. 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 Rich's are doing just pointing finger at each other. Is that what's going on? Yes I will say that Becca goes missing and the police I don't know if they put a lot of effort into finding Becca. 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. So they're gathering a few things but a lot of this is happening online. They're just going online. They're saying these things online. Rich are saying like she's baseball batting. Yes. Yes. Now 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. So 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 don't know 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 that to Becca considering she is missing her 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. 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 shitty 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 sexual crimes and he is on the sex offender registry. 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. He'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. She 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 tied pots 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 a shed. It's not a cabin. He just like called dibs on a spot in the woods. 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. Is it like in the back of Courtney's house or no? I think like further further back. I don't think this is like backyard camping. I think this is his walk and he was just at the forest and say I sleep there. That's my house. Basically. But is there a spot where he's making this up? Nobody knows. Okay. Yeah. But he says he's got a place in the woods. And the police like where is it? Yeah. 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 the 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. 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. Might 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's at Becca had walked that trail before. I don't know what that means. One would imagine that perhaps Bradley is the safer of the two to trust in the 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, Rich Faler, Becca's fiance sent Bradley Bartholomew to prison last year. What happened? He broke his probation and he went to jail. He broke his probation because he's a registered sex offender. He can't be around kids. He can't do lots of things. And he broke that probation. Rich allegedly turns him in and he had to spend probably not that long in jail, but he's spent some time in jail. Hmm. Hmm. Wow. I will say there's a lot of weird stuff about Bradley being a sex offender other than the fact that he's a sex 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. And I 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. Right. And she's complaining about the parole office. Right. She's complaining about that rather than, 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 fuck. 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 Kim asking about the trails behind the house. I think it was Kim basically saying, I think it was Becca's half sister. And he says quote, I believe she's dead. Saying he believes that Becca is dead and her half sister Kim is the one that killed her. This is what a mess. So Bradley is like, it's her half sister 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 scapples next to her nightstand, disposable scapples. To drain like some of the cellulitis markings, she has scapples. And something interesting to note is that now one of them is missing. And guess who has access to those scapples? Kim. There are a few ways to frame somebody for murder and the easiest, simplest, fish 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. It's clean. November 25th, 2025. Three weeks after Becca goes missing, civilians stumble upon her body and the man is too 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'd 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 stomach was cut open and someone forcibly ripped her baby out of her and cut her umbilical cord before they slither throughout 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, there is a debit card that has been left behind and that belongs to none other than Kimberly Park, Becca's half sister. So was she framed or was this the dumbest accident to leave her debit card at the scene of the crime? And that is where I leave you with part one. Part two will be up very quickly and let me know your thoughts so far in this case. Be safe and I'll see you in the next one.