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

Episode Date: January 18, 2026

Cortney texts her sister, Candis, asking if she has any hand-me-downs she can use for a baby. Which is a confusing question for Candis because she had no clue her sister was pregnant. No one did.  Nonetheless, Candis learns of her new baby nephew, born prematurely, and still in the NICU.  About a week passes and the sisters don’t text until new mom Cortney breaks the news to Candis...   “My son passed away... Idk what happened. I just know that he wasn’t getting air. All I know is I watched my child die right in front of me.”  Candis will soon realize that the same day Cortney’s son died in the NICU, a 22 year old pregnant woman had gone missing.  It’s all circumstantial but it has to be connected in some way, right?  Especially that last text message from Cortney: “All I know is I watched my child die right in front of me.”  Is Cortney talking about the baby boy nobody knew she was pregnant with that she claims was in the NICU? Or is she talking about her daughter? The missing 22 year old pregnant woman.     Full show notes available at RottenMangoPodcast.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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

That's what they tell you to do. And this is the best and worst part. They're going to stick you with an epidural, which is a very, very long needle, and it's going to go straight around the membrane of your spinal cord. And within minutes, this is where it starts to feel a little better. You get a tingling, warm sensation that starts in your feet, and then it comes all the way up your legs and then your stomach.

And then all of that pain and discomfort that you felt previously, you're not even going to feel it anymore. That is the joy of an epidural. You won't even be able to feel or move your legs after all of that. 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 live stream 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 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 inside their organs. There have been some reports of dad's fainting or throwing up, which go ahead and make this about yourself. Clearly, there are very strong reasons as to why the general population would rather not feel nor see their own sea 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 health care 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 scapple 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 both have very unique spellings of their names. You have Courtney without the U, you have Candice without the C.E. 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, Candice is like, no, 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, Candice, he's supposed to come home this coming week as long as he's doing good. Still, you know, he will.

and then nothing. Candice is like, okay. Six days later, Candice with an S, text her sister, the new mom, Courtney, asking her if her sons 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 3rd, 2025. For the rest of the day, Courtney and her sister, Candice, they don't text because Courtney has a very busy day ahead of her.

By that night, though, close to midnight, new mom Courtney, text 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 Nick you, 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 Courtney to her sister. It read, all I know is, I watch 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 Parks GoFundMe for her surviving children. Links are going to be in the description. This episode's partnerships have also made it possible to support Rotten Mingo's growing team,

and we'd also like to thank you guys for your continued support. As always, full show notes are available at Rotten Mingo Podcast.com. A few really big disclaimers, this case deals with third trimester pregnancy loss, alleged grooming, torture, as well as infertility. So please take care and please take breaks if you need to.

On a smaller note, statements and quotes may be condensed for brevity. All the information is from court documents and publicly available information. If any netizens 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, Candice, 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 one years old. She is really the true mother of Rebecca Park and Kimberly Park. Hmm, I see. The biological mom. 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 biomomom. Wow. And they reconnected. Okay. So I don't know if maybe biomomom 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 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 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 stocked his Venmo and I found him and the new girl paying each other for things. I looked her up on Instagram, Facebook, and this girl was everything I was not. She was gorgeous, social. And it made me feel like shit. I figured it was a rebound. But here they are together seven months later postgrad 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. 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 stock 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 you would talk to me. To the comments, they read,

oh, girl, or another one reads, just delete all social media if you can't keep them blocked. Or therapy, what you're doing is scary. You need to stop. He's moved on. It doesn't matter how or why or when, but you need to do the same. Others have more sympathy saying that the original poster is pain shopping.

It actually has nothing to do with the girl. It actually has nothing to do with the guy. she just wants to feel pain and she needs to stop and go live her best life. A lot of Redditors claim, this is much easier said than done though. 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 fiancee, 22-year-old Becca, are expecting their very first child together. A baby boy.

So that was a post from 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. 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. 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 fiancé. Wait, so Corny is Richer's ex. Yes. And so Rich dated Corny? Yes. And now Rich is dating 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 their weird interpersonal backstories gather in a wooded office to be read a will by an old man with graying hair who reads too damn slow for anyone to even think.

I mean, just reveal it already. Who's going to be a billionaire today? And then it all goes to the random girl in the back that has no blood relation to the deceased. sometimes it's not that serious. Sometimes an inheritance transfer is just done over lasagna at somebody's house. Courtney Bartholomew invites her two daughters, Becca and Kimmy. So they're half siblings, by the way. Ah, I see.

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. Bradley Bartholomew is not their biological dad. Okay, I see. So Courtney and Brally are married. Yes. Richard and Becca are engaged.

Yes. I see. Okay. Courtney Bartholomew invites her two daughters, Becca and Kimi, 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 at an inheritance transfer. By the way, it is an overly prepared meal that does not taste great. Lasonia's 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 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. 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- What do you mean by that? They shouldn't voice out. I mean, it's just gotten messy in the sense of like people will say, take me instead of Becker. because I do the same drugs. Becca does, like, it's just, like, 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 they're in such a state of shock that they're not understanding the impact of their words online, perhaps.

So 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 unlike her. Okay, so Kimmy is the one that reported it. Kimmy is 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 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 the same. Instead, 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 could, 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

have possibly gone? Weeks pass. And at this point in the conversation, after the first week, the second week, the third week passed, 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 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 LaZan.

day. That's weird lasagna inheritance dinner with her biological mom Courtney and her half-sister Kim. Half-sister, you know, that reports her missing to the police. Yeah, and the husband Bradley sitting in the car. Yes. So then November 2nd, Becca goes to the hospital. Becca thinks she's in labor. 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. 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 8.30 p.m. the night before. She picked up Becca from Becca and Rich's house to go get ice cream at Colverse, which is surprisingly an underrated

spot for ice cream. Then Courtney states that Becca was interested in getting tied pots. They got to go run errands to buy tidepots. Target, Walmart, Kroger, Ralph's, where do you get tie pots? Bio mom, Courtney is like, well,

I had tied pots. So rather than going to the store to get some tide pods, as one would very naturally do, Courtney decides to drive Becca back to her house to go into her laundry room and fetch out some tidepots. Maybe she's a tidepot 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 tidepots. I mean,

tidepots 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 got to leave rich. He's not even great. He's not even rich. But Becca seems scared, or at least that's what Courtney says. Becca said with her own words that she was very afraid of her fiance rich. Courtney pulls out an envelope to Becca that night. The night she goes 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. Mm-hmm. 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, tied pots. Beck is 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 SUV with tinted windows pulls up. How do we know it's a mysterious black SUV with tinted windows? We don't know other than the fact that Courtney is telling us this information and it's a Chevy. How do we know that? Courtney told us that. 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 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. This is when they are like, where's Becca, where's Becca? And Kim just sends a coordinate, that's it. Yeah. It's like she has her find my iPhone?

Mm-hmm. 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. Hmm. 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. Okay. The police now have that phone and they know that Becca wasn't using it to coordinate with some black SUV Uber driver or any sort of black SUV driving friend or anybody.

They just, there's nothing on that phone. So that means that this SUV driver just materialized out of thin air to take her on to a mysterious location. It doesn't make any sense. The biological mom, Courtney, tells the officer, Well, that's because, like I said, she had two phones, maybe three. So she could have been using her other phones to coordinate with the SUV driver to get picked up from my house that night.

The police are confused by all of this. How would Kim have the coordinates to Becca's phone? And why was Becca's phone found behind Courtney's house if she was picked up in a black van? It doesn't make any sense. Courtney responds, I don't fucking know. Courtney Bartholomew is a woman whose explanations defy logic. She just has a tendency to say things. It 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 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 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 was, 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 pull.

her money on it. If she had to think about who had something to do with Becca going missing, it's probably a guy named Mike and a woman named Ashley. Who the hell are Mike and Ashley? Courtney says they were the ones that were going to help Becca run away from Richard. She could be in hiding right now. Who is Ashley? Quote, oh, Rich's other baby mama. So now she's saying you got to look into these two people The police look into these two people And they have Nothing to do with it

What do you mean? Like they're real So they're Ashley Does exist Yes They do exist And they have nothing to do Who is Mike? Mike is friends with Ashley

It'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 fiancé 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, Area. Area is Becca's friend who has been trying to figure out what happened to Becca and has naturally become pretty suspicious of Courtney because none of her stories are making sense. She's got two phones. She's got three phones. She didn't want a baby shower. It's just a whole

bunch of nonsense that's coming out of Courtney. 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, Area. Bradley the husband chimes in. We got fucking cameras watching the fucking road, you dumb bitch. What did Aria 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 Area's dad. Rusty, you better get your fucking child under control because she's taking a mother pain and turning it into a goddamn circus, fuck you, Area. 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 going to 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 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, Area, 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 Failure, Becca's feet, 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 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 Culvers 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 1 a.m. He tries to call Becca trying to figure out where she is, but she's not picking up. He doesn't freak out because he just assumed that his pregnant fiancee, 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 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 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 1 a.m. I'm sure my 38-week pregnant wife is totally fine. To all of a sudden, hey, I am the most skeptical person on the block.

And I don't believe that Becca would leave in a black SUV. But nothing comes of any of this. I mean, this is no clue. There's no hint. There's nothing to lead the police closer to finding Becca. And as the days pass, Becca's friends start coming out to talk about how, hey, this guy sucks. He's not the amazing attentive fiancé that he, probably wants everyone to see him as he is straight up a creep he admits on a podcast called

steff's case files he's confronted about whether or not he cheated on becca before because he clearly did what's a step case file it's a podcast um i i think steff's case files is fine um 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, 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. I see. So it seems like Becca's family, her real family, are a little frustrated with that. I see. Not saying that that's what Steph's case files did, but I'm just saying when you go down the rabbit hole of listening to all these live streams, 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 Beck as biological mom Courtney And Rich says Yeah I never lied Every time Becca came to me

And asked me If I talked to a female sexually I never lied to her about it Because why would she come to me asking me about it If she didn't know the truth So is Rich Courtney's ex or is Corny Rich?

So who was the ex or was they 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. That is crazy. And then when Becca and Rich are on and off dating and back and forth, he would still be sleeping with Courtney.

I see. So he's asked on the podcast if he was abusive or not to Becca because there was rumors that he was violently abusive. And he says verbally, yes. Physically, I never harmed her. Is he proud? Is he like, he thinks it's normal, I think, to be verbally abusive is the sound. Wow. Is it true that you didn't want the baby at all?

I wanted the baby. At first, before she got pregnant, I kept telling her, let's wait because neither of us were financially stable. And I wanted to have a full-time job. But when she came back with the pregnancy test stating she was pregnant, I always wanted it. When asked if he thinks Courtney would harm her own biological daughter, Becca, because, I mean, she's already harming her biological daughter, Becca, by having an affair with Rich. Well, Rich is asked about whether or not, and he says,

I feel like Courtney wouldn't harm Becca until after the baby's born. Until after the baby's born. Does Courtney have a weird obsession with being a grandmother? Like that's where she draws her moral line. Rich elaborates. A lot of it's got to do with the baby. I know when Courtney first found out Becca was pregnant, she sent threatening messages to Becca's phone.

Rich is asked, I mean, I heard that Courtney has a weird obsession with always liking to be pregnant, but do you think that she's jealous that Becca is having your child? Rich says, yeah. Because October of last year, when Becca was pregnant, she had a miscarriage, which back then, I feel like it was mine,

but there was a chance it was somebody else's because she conceived shortly before she quit cheating on me. We've been told that Courtney was pissed off because Becca was pregnant. And then when she found out that she was pregnant, we both said it was mine. And it just so happened when she got 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, 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? 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's. she didn't know whose baby it was. And because there was a chance that it could be her husband Bradley, she decided to just stay with Bradley.

That's just the plan. She's going to stay married. It's not like she can just ask her stomach. Who's your dad? Although I do think that Courtney would be the type to try. She's like diagnosed with the terminal illness of stupidity. I don't know how else to put it. Okay.

She decides to put her family first, stay with Bradley. She's no longer going to get a divorce. And Rich is going to go then resume his relationship with Benley. 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 gunpoint, wouldn't she just turn that footage over to the police? To which Courtney then argues, well, it's only a live feed. I don't have money for SD cards, so it doesn't actually record anything. I can only watch live.

Rich then argues, can you really believe anything Courtney says? She's the one during Becca's first pregnancy. So Becca has two other children, two sons, before her third pregnancy. She's pregnant with her third pregnancy when she goes missing. 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. How old are they? Do we know?

It's like they're like one and three, I believe. 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 corny and riches 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. Yeah. 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. 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 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 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 fiancé, he will likely tell you it's going to be Courtney and her husband Bradley Bartholomew.

The cold, hard truth for Bradley Bartholomew, Courtney's husband, is that nobody likes Bradley. Courtney's biological daughters, Becca and Kim, don't like Bradley. And even Courtney doesn't like Bradley because just earlier this year she was trying to divorce him and go run off with Becca's fiancé 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. 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 tight 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. What? 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. Is it, like, in the back of Cornie's house or no?

I think, like, further, further back. I don't think this is, like, back. yard camping. I think this is, he's walking to his place. He just points at the forest and say, I sleep there? That's my house?

Basically. But is there a, a spot or 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. Okay. Yeah. There's no way to confirm that he was at his place in the woods because he's, left his phone at Courtney's house.

There's no way to track him through the cell towers. I mean, all you can take is his word. And someone's word in the middle of the woods, I wouldn't even take it if they were free. Anyway, he's at his place in the woods. When he gets back, he is told that Becca is missing. At which point, Courtney sends him a coordinate and is like, you need to go find Becca's phone here.

He's like, what? So Kim had sent Courtney the coordinates. This is next morning. Yeah, November 4th. Kim sends Courtney the coordinates. Courtney sends it to Bradley. Bradley's like, I'm not going to go looking out there alone. The police are like, why did you not go alone?

Quote, I'm not going to be accused of anything. So when Courtney gets home, her and Bradley both go into the woods together and they find Becca's phone. Bradley has no clue how her phone got there. Mind you, he just got home. He was living in the woods, living off nature. He just got here. How would he know how Becca's phone got here?

But if he had to take his best guess and if he had to voluntarily tell the police, he said, Becca had walked that trail before. I don't know what that means. One would imagine that perhaps Bradley is the safer of the two to trust in this situation between Courtney and Bradley, because Courtney is Becca's biological mom, rich is Becca's fiance. There's a lot of interpersonal relationships there and the potential growth of resentment and some nefarious plots. Bradley kind of has nothing to gain from lying to the police or doing anything to Becca. Well, there might be something to gain. Bradley Bartholomew, Courtney's husband, is also a registered sex offender.

And just the year before, he was thrown into jail for breaking probation. And according to Courtney, the person who reported him that sent him away, rich. Rich failure. 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 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 a sense. 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, right, 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 asked 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 scapals next to her nightstand, disposable scapals. To drain like some of the cellulitis markings, she has scapals. And something interesting to note is that now one of them is missing. And guess who has access to those scapals? 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 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 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 court before they slid her throat and then dragged her, they hooked her up to a car and then dragged her into the woods and then left her for dead. Whoever did this, they wanted Becca's baby no matter what. They didn't care if Becca felt all of the pain of her baby being taken out. They didn't care if Becca died or lived as long as they could take Becca's 38-week-old son. Whoever did this did not just kill Becca and steal her unborn baby.

They wanted Becca to suffer. They essentially tortured her. There are two very important details about where Becca's body is found. One, she's found on Federal Forest Service Road 9784. And if you were to clear all of the trees and you were to walk in a straight line, two and a half miles, you would make it straight onto Courtney and Bradley's porch. And two, at the crime scene, 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.