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

Summary

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Rotten Mango Podcast Summary

Episode: Jealous Mom Kidnaps Her Own 22 Yr Old Pregnant Daughter, Takes Her Into Forest & Cuts Unborn Baby Out

Host: Stephanie Soo
Date: January 18, 2026

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Episode Overview

Stephanie Soo dives into a harrowing true crime case involving the disappearance and murder of 22-year-old Becca Park, who was 38 weeks pregnant. The story explores twisted family relationships, jealousy, complicated custody, and the depravity of a crime involving a mother, her daughter, and a tangled network of abuse and betrayal. With Rotten Mango’s signature detailed and empathic deep-dive, Stephanie examines the timeline, suspects, and the community’s response, ending with a gruesome crime scene discovery and an unanswered question: Who killed Becca Park and kidnapped her unborn child?

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Setting the Stage: The Body Horror of Forced C-Section

• Stephanie opens with visceral descriptions of C-sections, contrasting clinical procedures with the graphic reality of Becca's fate in the forest.
• Quote:

  “Typically, the only way someone is going to cut open your stomach and rip out your unborn baby is... welcome to a C-section. It is a highly orchestrated procedure... But imagine it's not a hospital—it's a forest, nighttime, headlights the only light, and the 'doctor' is just a person with a hunting knife and dental floss to cut the cord.”
  (Stephanie, 00:51)

2. Introducing the Key Players & Complex Family Web

• Becca Park: 22, pregnant, largely raised by adoptive mother Stephanie Park after her biological mother, Courtney Bartholomew, lost custody.
• Courtney Bartholomew: Becca’s estranged biological mother, who recently re-entered her daughter’s life.
• Bradley Bartholomew: Courtney’s husband, disliked by Becca and her half-sister Kim, also a registered sex offender.
• Kimberly "Kim" Park: Becca’s half-sister, raised with Becca.
• Rich Fowler: Becca’s much-older fiancé (40s), with whom Courtney also had an affair. He has a criminal history, including sex offenses.

3. The Bizarre Inheritance Lasagna Dinner

[Timestamps: 17:09–20:15]

• Courtney invites her daughters for inheritance (her late mother's) over an odd personal pan lasagna dinner.
• The atmosphere is tense, food is bad, and the “inheritance” turns out to be empty envelopes—a test, says Courtney, to see if her daughters care only about money.
• Memorable Moment:

  “Lasagna is great, but Courtney’s lasagna is ass... Becca will later send this exact voice note to a friend: ‘It tastes like gluten-free f***ing lasagna. It wasn’t too bad though, I ate half of it.’”
  (Stephanie, 18:46)

4. Becca’s Disappearance & The Social Media Circus

[Timestamps: 20:17–24:50]

• Two days after the inheritance dinner, Becca vanishes after last being seen with Courtney.
• The small town erupts with rumors, conspiracy theories, and messy Facebook drama (friends offering to swap themselves for Becca, etc.).
• Kimmy (half-sister) reports Becca’s disappearance; Stephanie highlights how the case is quickly hijacked by people making it about themselves.

5. Conflicting Timelines and Last Movements

[Timestamps: 24:50–31:38]

• Stephanie lays out the days:
  • Nov 1: Lasagna night.
  • Nov 2: Becca to hospital, sent home—timing seen as odd.
  • Nov 3: Errands/ice cream run with Courtney. Becca disappears.
  • Nov 4: Kim reports her missing; phone found in woods via “Find My iPhone.”
• Courtney’s account: claims a black SUV picked Becca up, provides convoluted stories about multiple phones and deleted texts.

6. Family Finger-Pointing & Suspect Behaviors

[Timestamps: 33:55–43:13]

• Courtney blames others (Ashley—Rich’s other ex—and Mike), but police call it a dead end.
• Rich is painted as abusive, admits to affairs with both Becca and her mother Courtney.
• On podcast interviews, Rich is dismissive about his own abusive behavior:

  “Verbally, yes. Physically, I never harmed her.”
  (Rich, 43:47)

• Rich admits Courtney sent threats to Becca:

  “Courtney threatened Becca a few times, stating she wasn’t gonna let Becca have my child.”
  (Rich, ca. 45:10)

7. The Web of Abuse, Criminal Records, and Deception

[Timestamps: 46:47–54:43]

• Both Rich and Bradley are registered sex offenders.
• Bradley (Courtney’s husband) claims he was in "his place in the woods" (uncorroborated) when Becca disappeared.
• Stephanie notes the toxic environment, constant lying, and posts about custody struggles involving Courtney’s 14-year-old son.

8. Community Backlash and Social Media Warfare

[Timestamps: 36:56–41:05]

• Becca’s friends and adopted family attack Courtney for suddenly acting like an involved mother after years of absence.
• Courtney responds on Facebook Live, screaming obscenities and threatening Becca’s friends:

  “Fuck you, Araya… You're gonna get an ass whooping you keep it up. I'm not playing with you anymore...”
  (Courtney, 37:16–37:56)

9. The Discovery of Becca’s Body

[Timestamps: 59:03–end]

• Three weeks after she disappeared, Becca’s body is discovered in Manistee National Forest:
  • Covered in leaves, abdomen cut open, placenta and umbilical cord “cut with dental floss.”
  • She was alive during the “surgery” and ultimately killed by having her throat slit.
  • Her body was dragged into the woods by vehicle.
• Two crucial crime scene details:
  • The location is about 2.5 miles (as the crow flies) from Courtney and Bradley’s porch.
  • Kim’s (sister) debit card is left at the crime scene. Was she framed, or did she play a part?

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Notable Quotes & Moments with Timestamps

• On body horror:

  “If you're not even in a hospital, and you're in a forest... the only light being headlights... no healthcare provider, just a hunting knife and dental floss to cut the umbilical cord.”
  (Stephanie, 04:28)

• On toxic relationships:

  “‘Provide support and sit in the dad chair and don’t get up’—that’s what nurses tell the dad [in the delivery room].”
  (Stephanie, 02:00)

• On social media mess:

  “There are core people that care about Becca... but also a lot of people seem like they're using this as some sort of dramatic moment to make it about themselves. ‘Take me instead, I do the same drugs Becca does.’ It's just weird.”
  (Stephanie, 21:09)

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Important Timelines & Reference Timestamps

• 00:51–05:02: Opening analogies and case disclaimers
• 10:06–13:23: Family tree explanation, interpersonal dynamics
• 17:09–20:15: Lasagna inheritance dinner
• 20:17–24:50: Becca goes missing, social media reaction
• 24:50–31:38: Last known movements and conflicting family stories
• 33:55–43:13: Family accusations, criminal history, podcast revelations
• 46:47–54:43: Police interviews, further finger pointing, Bradley’s alibi
• 59:03–end: Discovery of Becca’s body and cliff-hanger ending

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Cliffhanger & Closing

The episode ends with the chilling discovery of Becca’s body, the suggestion of torture and intentional cruelty, and the mysterious finding of Kim’s debit card at the crime scene. Stephanie promises a quick release of Part 2 as listeners are left to speculate on whether Kim was framed or involved, and what motivated such monstrous actions in a family so plagued by dysfunction.

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Engagement & Tone

This episode is raw, emotional, and full of dark humor—typical of Rotten Mango’s “rotten but still a little sweet” voice. Stephanie narrates with both empathy for the victim and biting sarcasm for the web of manipulative, destructive adults surrounding Becca. The summary preserves her direct language and leans into the grotesque, interpersonal, and sadly all-too-real elements of the case.

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For More Information

For court documents, additional disclaimers, and Becca’s children’s GoFundMe, see the show notes at rottenmangopodcast.com.

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Transcript

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Bada bing. Bada 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 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. 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 SP 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 gonna 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 asking, 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 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 on 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. You'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 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. 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.

[C]

Dental floss.

[A]

Dental floss. October 28, 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, 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. Candice understands the concept of that, like, linguistically, semantically, okay. Logically, these are all words that make sense in anybody's brain. However, Candice 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. Six 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 meeting, a dip in health, right? The message is sent afternoon of November 3, 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 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 Kourtney'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. I mean, it's all circumstantial, but it feels connected in some way. Does it not? Especially that last text message from Kourtney 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? 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 Mango's growing team team and we'd also like to thank you guys for your continued support. As always, full show notes are [e-mail] 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 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 since she was 1 years old. She is really the true mother of Rebecca park and Kimberly Park.

[C]

Hmm. I see the biological mom still in their lives.

[A]

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. 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. 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 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 with that being said, we're just gonna 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 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 in 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 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 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 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 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. 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.

[C]

That was a post from no.

[A]

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. This episode is presented by 20th Century Studios. Send help. From the twisted mind of Sam Raimi, director of the Evil Dead and Drag Me to hell starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O', Brien, comes a new film that begs the question, what would you do if you were stuck on an island with your terrible Boss in paradise? HR can't hear you scream. Only in theaters and 3D January 30th. Get tickets now. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. The new Cross Training series balances your workouts with 15 plus workout types for endless movements on and off your equipment. Stay motivated with weekly personalized plans that guide you from beginner to expert and push past your goals with routines tailored to you get the new cross training.

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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 Fowler is not a good person. Becca's bio mom would state, I'm just concerned for my daughter because he's abusive. Courtney is sleeping with her biological daughter's fiance.

[C]

Wait, so Courtney is Richard's ex?

[A]

Yes.

[C]

And so Rich dated Corny.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

And now Rich is dating Becca?

[A]

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 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 gonna 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.

[C]

But they're both raised by Stephanie Park.

[A]

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

[C]

Okay, I see. So Courtney and Bradley are married.

[A]

Yes.

[C]

Richard and Becca are engaged. Yes, I see. Okay.

[A]

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, 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? 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 a 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. Kourtney 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 subpar 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. She 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.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

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 4, 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 avo voice out things that maybe they shouldn't have voiced out. It's just a lot.

[C]

But some people think about that they shouldn't voice out.

[A]

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.

[C]

What?

[A]

Yeah, I, I think.

[C]

Is that like a joke? What does that mean?

[A]

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 they're in such a state of shock that they're not understanding the impact of their words online. Perhaps.

[C]

Huh. So how do you know how she was found missing or what will happen? How was it reported?

[A]

Her sister Kimmy called the cops and was like, hey, my sister's missing. No one's heard from my sister. And this is unlike her.

[C]

Okay, so Kimmy is the one that reported it.

[A]

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 seem 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, it's a lot. It's kind of weird.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I see. Okay.

[A]

So Kimmy calls in and reports that her sister is missing. And all of these rumors start. Some people are like, 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 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 4, 2025, Tuesday, 1:00 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 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 half sister, Kim. Half sister. You know that reports are missing to the police.

[C]

Yeah. And the husband, Bradley, sitting in the car.

[A]

Yes. So then November 2nd, Becca goes to the hospital. Becca thinks she's in labor. She's not in labor. She. She gets turned. The hospital sends her back out. She's only 1cm dilated, I think out of like 10cm dilated. But it's very interesting. People say the timing of the hospital visit right after suspicious gluten free, nasty tasting lasagna is a little weird. 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 bio mom, 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 Culver's, which is surprisingly an underrated spot for ice cream. Then Courtney states that Becca was interested in getting Tide Pods. They gotta go run errands to buy Tide Pods. Target, Walmart, Kroger, Ralph's. Where do you 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 decides to drive Becca back to her house to go into her laundry room and fetch out some Tide pots. 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 pots. I mean, Tide pots aren't even a thing that really expire. It's 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 seemed 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 out 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.

[C]

So this is like a investigation through from the police?

[A]

Yeah, it was.

[C]

That's from their report. Okay.

[A]

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. Anywho, 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 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 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, 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. Kourtney types it into her maps, starts walking, and it leads her. Right.

[C]

This is when they are like, where's Becca?

[A]

Where's Becca?

[C]

And Kim just sends a coordinate.

[A]

That's it? Yeah.

[C]

Oh, it's like she has her Find my iPhone. Okay.

[A]

And it leads Courtney and her husband Bradley, straight to a phone. Becca's phone, but no Becca.

[C]

Where was it?

[A]

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

[C]

Okay. In Michigan, like, really close by.

[A]

Yeah, I mean, they. I mean, you could. Could pretty much walk into the national forest from their backyard. Yeah, I would say. Okay. 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.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

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 fucking know. 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 bio mom daughter date. Like any good mother who is rarely present in her daughter's life until recently, four years ago. Courtney has this ingenious idea. She's like, I'm gonna 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 gonna 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 gonna 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. 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.

[C]

It doesn't make sense.

[A]

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. 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 gonna 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 gotta look into these two people. The police look into these two people, and they have nothing to do with it.

[C]

What do you mean? Like, they're real. So they're Ashley and Mike.

[A]

Yes, they do exist, and they have nothing to do. Who is with anything. Mike is friends with Ashley, is related to Ashley.

[C]

Okay, okay, got it.

[A]

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 1 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 Arraya 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 Kourtney. Kourtney 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, chimes in. We got fucking cameras watching the fucking road, you dumb bitch. What?

[C]

What did Aria said before this?

[A]

That Kourtney is suspicious that Kourtney doesn't want the cops to search her house.

[C]

And these are all happening on Facebook.

[A]

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, then I'm happy for her. I just wanna 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 Failor, Becca's fiance, is. 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. 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 wood 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 gonna 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 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 at a friend's 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 alarm. 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, 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. It's weird. Rich does not believe Courtney. He goes from being so trusting. He goes from waking up at 1am 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. 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 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.

[C]

What's a step case file?

[A]

It's a podcast. I. I think Steph's Case Files is fine. No, I think they're really good. It's a podcast name.

[C]

And this is after this whole case has happened and they are doing interviews with Rich. Right.

[A]

It's when Becca goes missing.

[C]

Okay, got it.

[A]

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, 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. 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.

[C]

I see.

[A]

So it seems like Becca's family, her real family, are a little frustrated with that.

[C]

I see.

[A]

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, because there were issues with live streamers then going to Courtney and Bradley Bartholomew's house. House. And filming them from outside their house across the street. It's just a lot.

[C]

So they're all talking, these people. They're talking on every podcast. Yeah, I see.

[A]

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 talked to a female sexually, I never lied to her about it because she. Why would she come to me asking me about it if she didn't know the truth?

[C]

So is Rich Corny's ex or is Courtney Rich? So who, like, who was the ex or cheating?

[A]

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.

[C]

That is crazy.

[A]

And then when Becca and Rich are on and off dating and back and forth, he would still be sleeping with Courtney.

[C]

I see.

[A]

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.

[C]

Is he proud? Is he like.

[A]

He's just like. He thinks it's normal, I think, to be verbally abusive as the sound.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

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 Kourtney 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 boy until after the baby's born. Does Kourtney 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'd 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 gonna let Becca have my child. It's all making Courtney look pretty suspicious. However, Courtney tells the investigator 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. This episode is brought to you by Peloton. The new Cross Training series balances your workouts with 15 plus workout types for endless movements on and off your equipment. Stay motivated with weekly personalized plans that guide you from beginner to expert and push past your goals with routines tailored to you. Get the new Cross Training Series term.

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A KFC tale in the pursuit of flavor the Colonel despised the word empty. Empty plates, empty tables, empty stomachs. That's why he made the KFC$5 bowls. Like the famous bowl Creamy mashed potatoes, crispy chicken, corn gravy and cheese. Because the only empty the Colonel liked was when you reached the bottom of that bowl. The Colonel lived so we could chicken five KFC bowls for just $5 each. Prices and participation may vary. Taxes, tips and fees extra. Courtney is explaining to the officer, like she said, Becca and Rich are not the most stable couple that she has ever witnessed. 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.

[C]

Wait, what? What?

[A]

This is earlier in 2025.

[C]

But that's not the baby that she was telling her sister about, right?

[A]

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 gonna 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. 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 sa 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 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 police? To which Kourtney 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, 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.

[C]

How old are they? Do we know?

[A]

It's like they're like, 1 and 3, I believe.

[C]

Very young.

[A]

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.

[C]

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?

[A]

Yes, I will say that Becca goes missing, and the police, I don't know if they put a lot of. 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.

[C]

They're just going online, these things online. Richard is saying, like, she's baseball batting.

[A]

Yes. See? Yeah. Now, I. 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 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 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.

[C]

Huh.

[A]

But Rich says that's not a valid alibi. He says, I've seen Courtney and her husband Bradley go at it, end quote. I mean, it'll go both ways. There's times Bradley would overpower her and times she would overpower Bradley. 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. 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. Everyone, Bradley argues. Even Becca and her mom. Courtney had problems. They barely got along. 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.

[C]

What?

[A]

This is not. It's 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.

[C]

Is it, like, in the back of Corny's house or.

[A]

No, I think, like, further. Further back. I don't think this is, like, backyard camping. I think this is. He's walking to just point at the.

[C]

Forest and say, I. I sleep there. That's my house, basically. But is there a. A. A spot or. He's making this up.

[A]

Nobody knows.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

Yeah. But he says he's got a place.

[C]

In the woods, and the police, like, where is it?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Okay. Okay.

[A]

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. 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 it 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 Kourtney sends him a coordinate and is like, you need to go find Becca's phone here. He's like, what? So Kim had sent Kourtney the coordinates.

[C]

This is next morning.

[A]

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? 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 had to take his best guess, and if he had to voluntarily tell the police, he said 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 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 Becky. 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, Becca's fiance, sent Bradley Bartholomew to prison last year.

[C]

What happened?

[A]

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 spent some time in jail. Hmm.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

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.

[C]

Right.

[A]

And she's complaining about the parole office.

[C]

Right. She's complaining about that rather than, you know, wow.

[A]

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, 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.

[C]

This is what a mess.

[A]

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 scalpels next to her nightstand. Disposable scalpels to drain. Like some of the. The cellulitis markings. She has scalpels. And something interesting to note is that now one of them is missing. And guess who has access to those scal. 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 plant it at the scene of the crime. It's easy. It's simple. It's clean. November 25, 2024. Three weeks after Becca goes missing, civilians stumble upon her body in the Manistee 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 the. 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 slit her throat. 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 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 on this case. Be safe and I'll see you in the next one. Ever walk past a place for rent and wish you could just take a peek inside? Maybe even explore the layout? Envision the natural light streaming through the windows or plan where your vinyl record collection would go. At apartments.com you can. With tools like their 3D virtual tours, you can see the exact unit you could be living in. Really envision yourself in your new home with apartments.com, the place to find a place prime one day delivery is fast. How fast we talking? We're talking yoga mats and fitness trackers delivered so fast you can kick off your routine tomorrow. Fast. We're talking weights at your door without really waiting. Fast Water bottles and hydration backpacks. Fast and fast. The resistance spans faster than you can say Feel the burn. Fast. More jump ropes just a hop, skip and a jump away. AKA Fast. That was actually a good workout. Fast Fast one day delivery for all things fitness. It's on Prime.