REBECCA PARK CASE TIMELINE
Law Enforcement Releases and Public Statements

November 1, 2025

• Evening dinner held at 30 S 21½ Rd, Boon Township.
• Present according to statements:
• Rebecca Kay Park
• Kimberly Sue Park
• Cortney Marie Bartholomew
• Cortney’s son Bentlee
• Bradly Bartholomew was allegedly present but hiding in a truck, per later statements.
• After dinner, Cortney and Bradly allegedly drove to Richard Lee Falor’s residence to drop off items Rebecca had forgotten earlier.
• Envelopes allegedly given to Rebecca and Kimberly. Later described as empty.

November 2, 2025

• Rebecca experiences possible labor symptoms.
• Rebecca, Cortney, and Bradly go to Munson Hospital in Cadillac.
• Rebecca is examined, found not to be in labor, and released.
• Bradly drives the Ford F-150.
• Cortney drives the Ford Escape while transporting Rebecca and Richard Falor home.
• Rebecca reportedly whispers to Cortney that Richard Falor is “acting aggressive.”
• Plans made for milkshakes and conversation the following day.

November 3, 2025

• 6:30 PM to 7:00 PM Cortney picks up Rebecca from 1531 N 41½ Rd, Falor’s residence.
• Cell phone data later confirms Rebecca arrives at 30 S 21½ Rd at approximately 7:16 PM.
• Evening: Rebecca appears stressed and tired.
• Cortney gives Rebecca an envelope containing $2,000 cash.
• Discussion about baby shower and CPS fears.
• Rebecca texts on her phone, possibly deletes messages.
• Rebecca tells Cortney someone is coming to pick her up.
• 11:00 PM A dark vehicle arrives.
• Rebecca leaves Cortney’s residence.
• Cortney later admits the “black car” story was fabricated.

November 4, 2025

• 12:44 PM Kimberly Sue Park reports Rebecca missing to Wexford County Central Dispatch. Rebecca last seen around 11:30 PM on November 3.
• Morning: Kimberly sends Cortney GPS coordinates showing Rebecca’s phone location.
• Cortney and Bradly recover Rebecca’s phone near a two track off W 26 Rd, less than 200 yards from 30 S 21½ Rd.
• Phone is turned over to Richard Falor.
• Throughout the day: Wexford County Sheriff’s Office issues a Missing Person press release. Rebecca entered into LEIN as missing.

November 5, 2025

• Kimberly Park meets with detectives.
• Provides Rebecca’s Blu View phone.
• Plays voice messages from Cortney involving speculation about third parties.
• Kimberly states she does not fully trust Cortney.

November 6, 2025

• Search warrant obtained for Rebecca’s phone.
• Phone submitted to Michigan State Police Computer Crimes Unit.

November 8, 2025

• Multi agency ground search conducted near last known location and phone recovery area.
• No evidence recovered.

November 11, 2025

• Recorded interviews conducted with Cortney and Bradly Bartholomew.
• Cortney discusses relationship history involving Richard Falor.
• Bradly initially denies being present, later admits to lying due to sex offender status.
• Phone records later contradict portions of these statements.

November 13, 2025

• The Wexford County Sheriff’s Office issued a public message directed to Rebecca.
  
• They asked her to contact them.
  
• They said they understood she might be scared or hiding.
  
• They assured her she was not in any trouble and encouraged her to reach out so they could confirm she was safe.

November 19, 2025

• Sheriff’s officials publicly addressed widespread misinformation circulating online.
  
• They stated that rumors, speculation, and hostility on social media were hindering the investigation.
  
• Due to the volume of false claims, authorities said they were unable to release further case details at that time.

November 22, 2025

• Kimberly Park posts allegations during a social media livestream accusing Bradly and Cortney Bartholomew.
• Later interviewed by detectives regarding those statements.

November 25, 2025 (daytime)

• 2:16 PM 911 call reports a body found off Federal Forest Service Road 9784.
• Deceased female identified by tattoo as Rebecca Kay Park.
• Body shows:
• Sharp force injuries
• Abdomen cut open
• Fetus missing
• Search warrants executed at 30 S 21½ Rd.
• Investigators overhear Cortney and Bradly discussing burned vehicle seat covers.

November 25, 2025 (evening)

• Sheriff Trent Taylor held a press conference following the discovery.
  
• He declined to comment on whether investigators believed the body had been moved.
  
• He declined to state how long the body had appeared to be deceased.

November 26, 2025

• Rebecca’s fiancé and sister were arrested and arraigned following the recovery of the body.
• Richard Falor
  
• Charged with two counts of delivery or manufacture of a controlled substance.
  
• Also charged as a habitual offender, fourth offense.
  
• Bond set at one million dollars.
• Kimberly Park
  
• Charged with tampering with evidence.
  
• Charged with lying to a peace officer.
  
• Charged with filing a false report of a felony.
  
• Bond set at seven hundred fifty thousand dollars.

November 29, 2025

• Authorities confirmed through autopsy that the body found in the Manistee National Forest was Rebecca Park.
  
• Officials announced that Rebecca’s baby was not with her when she was found.
  
• Sheriff Taylor stated that determining the location and condition of the infant had become a top priority.
  
• He explained that the investigation was active and information that could be shared was very limited.
  
• Recognizing the intense public interest, the sheriff urged the community to remain patient as investigators worked toward answers.

November 30, 2025

• Second search warrants executed.
• Vehicles seized:
• Red Ford Escape
• White Ford F-150
• Bradly and Cortney taken into custody.
• Autopsy findings confirm:
• Multiple stab wounds
• Placenta present
• Fetus removed prior to death

December 2, 2025

• Kimberly Park charged with:
• Lying to police
• Obstruction
• False report of a felony
• Bradly Bartholomew charged with:
• First degree murder
• Felony murder
• Torture
• Conspiracy
• Assault on a pregnant individual
• Removal of a dead body
• Cortney Bartholomew charged with parallel homicide and assault offenses.

REBECCA PARK – INVESTIGATION TIMELINE
Based on Affidavits and Felony Complaints:

• Bradly Bartholomew Affidavit (18 pages) Source
• Kimberly Park Affidavit (3 pages)  Source
• Cortney Bartholomew Affidavit (18 pages) Source
• Kimberly Park Complaint (4 pages) Source
• Cortney Bartholomew Complaint (3 pages) Source
• Bradly Bartholomew Complaint (3 pages) Source

INVESTIGATION TIMELINE

October 3, 2025, Friday

• 8:43 pm: Rebecca Park’s Blu View phone shows a missed video call from [email protected]
• This is the last video call activity seen on the device.

October 21, 2025

• Time unspecified
  Bradly Bartholomew says he had been driving the white 1992 Ford F 150 until October 21, 2025, when the license plate expired.

October 28, 2025

• Cortney texts her sister Candis Freeman claiming she has given birth at 28 weeks to a baby boy, Ashton Lee Bartholomew, in the NICU in Grand Rapids, and asks for baby items.

November 1, 2025, Saturday

• Evening, exact time not given
  Kimberly and Rebecca come to Cortney’s residence at 30 S 21½ Road for dinner. Present are Cortney, Rebecca, Kimberly, and Cortney’s son Bentlee. Bradly is hiding in the truck because “the girls” do not like him.
• Cortney says she realized she had forgotten to give Rebecca some baby items, contacted her, and drove to Richard Falor’s house to drop those items off.
• 7:00 to 7:30 pm: Cortney later reports that the dinner ended around 7:00 to 7:30 pm.
• Later that night, time unspecified: In a separate interview, Bradly tells investigators that during this dinner Kimberly privately asked him about the two tracks behind the house and said she needed to get Rebecca “out of the picture.”

November 2, 2025, Sunday

• 6:30 pm: Cortney says she was supposed to pick Rebecca up for milkshakes at Dairy Queen and to get laundry soap. She reports that she waited until about 6:30 pm when Rebecca called and said she was headed to Cadillac Munson Hospital because she thought she was in labor.
• later that day Cortney and Bradly both visit Rebecca and Richard at the hospital. Medical staff confirm Rebecca is not in labor, she is only dilated to one, and she is released. Cortney drives Rebecca and Richard home from the hospital.
• Bradly brings Cortney her wheelchair to the hospital, driving the white Ford F 150. He stops at the Meijer gas station to get gas for the truck while Cortney later drives Rebecca and Richard home in the Ford Escape.
• Cortney reports she spoke with Rebecca that night about getting shakes on Monday, that Rebecca asked about two thousand dollars Cortney had given her, and that Rebecca said Rich was upset about something.
• 9:14 pm – Phone records on Rebecca’s Blu View phone show the last call as an outgoing call to “Courtney Bartholomew” at 9:14 pm.

November 3, 2025

• 2:52 pm – Candis texts Cortney asking if she is able to bring “the baby” home. Cortney replies, “No he did a back slide but still hoping this week.” Between 6:30 and 7:00 pm
  Cortney says she went to Richard Falor’s residence at 1531 N 41½ Road to pick up Rebecca, sometime between 6:30 and 7:00 pm.
• 7:00 pm – Location data from Rebecca’s phone shows her arriving in the area of 30 S 21½ Road shortly after 7:00 pm, with a specific recorded location at 7:16 pm at 30 S 21½ Road.
• 6:12:56 pm – T Mobile call detail records show a 2 minute 2 second outgoing call from Bradly’s device to Cortney’s device at 6:12:56 pm. Network records show both devices near 30 S 21½ Road at that time, before Rebecca’s device is recorded arriving in the area.
• 7:29:55 pm – Call records show a 57 second call from Bradly’s device to Cortney’s device at 7:29:55 pm.
• 7:33:39 pm – Call records show a 54 second call from Bradly’s device to Cortney’s device at 7:33:39 pm. At this time, both devices are again near 30 S 21½ Road, after Rebecca’s phone shows arrival in that same area.
• Evening hours, multiple occasions – Carrier records show Bradly’s device moving and lingering in areas consistent with where Rebecca’s phone was recovered and where her body was later found, on several occasions during the evening of November 3.
• About 11:00 pm – Cortney tells investigators that at about 11:00 pm she reached out to Kimberly to obtain Rich’s number.
• About 11:30 pm – Cortney reports that at about 11:30 pm she tried to call Rich, then sent him a text message stating that Rebecca had left with someone. This is also the time reported in the missing person report as the last time Rebecca was seen at 30 S 21½ Road.
• 11:17 pm – Cortney texts Candis, “My son passed away.”

Arrival and confrontation inside the residence

• Rebecca arrives at the Bartholomew residence. All three defendants confirm her presence before the incident.
  
• A verbal argument begins between Rebecca and others inside the home.
  
• The confrontation escalates into a physical altercation.
  
• Bradly admits direct involvement.
  
• Cortney changes her story several times, later acknowledging involvement.
  
• Kimberly states she was not present during the assault.
  
• Rebecca becomes unresponsive during the altercation. All defendants acknowledge she showed no signs of life afterward.
  
• Bradly and Cortney move Rebecca’s body inside the residence. Kimberly says she learned of this after it occurred.
  
• Cleanup begins inside the home. Defendants describe wiping blood and removing items.
  
• The defendants discuss what to do next, expressing fear of police discovery.
  
• Communications or contact with additional individuals are referenced, including Richard Falor and Austin Nowland.
  
• Planning begins to remove the body from the residence.

Late Night, November 3, 2025
Body removal and disposal

• Rebecca’s body is prepared for removal. All defendants acknowledge awareness of this plan.
  
• The body is placed into a vehicle. Interviews vary on who assisted and who drove.
  
• The vehicle travels to a remote outdoor area during the night.
  
• Rebecca’s body is left in a forested or rural location to avoid discovery.
  
• The group returns to the residence.
  
• Cleanup continues. Items used in the assault or cleanup are removed or hidden.

November 4, 2025
Coordinated story planning and continued evidence disposal

• Defendants communicate about how to keep their statements consistent if questioned by law enforcement.
  
• Statements describe high anxiety and fear that the body might be found.
  
• Additional cleaning and disposal efforts occur inside the home.
  
• Some defendants mention calls or messages involving Falor or Nowland, but details vary.
  
• All discussions revolve around avoiding detection now that Rebecca is missing.

November 5, 2025
Missing person report and law enforcement response

• Rebecca’s family reports her missing.
  
• Law enforcement identifies Bradly, Cortney, and Kimberly as the last people known to have seen her.
  
• Police search the residence and vehicles.
  
• Signs of recent cleaning are observed.
  
• Evidence suggests the body was moved inside the home.
  
• Interviews with defendants begin:
  
• Bradly’s statements shift from minimizing involvement to admitting greater responsibility in both the assault and disposal.
  
• Cortney provides the most inconsistent series of interviews, eventually admitting to actions she previously denied.
  
• Kimberly admits to post incident cleanup and participation in discussions after the death, but denies witnessing the assault.
  
• Evidence collected at the scene matches several elements of the later statements from the defendants.

December 2, 2025: Arraignment Announcement

• Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced that Cortney Bartholomew, 40, and Bradly Bartholomew, 47, of Boon, Michigan, were arraigned before Judge Corey Wiggins in the 84th District Court in Cadillac. Source
• Both defendants are charged in connection with the murder of Rebecca Park, 22, of Manton, who was approximately 38 weeks pregnant.
• The Wexford County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is leading the prosecution with assistance from the Michigan Attorney General’s Office.
• Charges Filed. The Wexford County Prosecutor charged both defendants with the following:
• First Degree Murder, potential life sentence.
• Felony Murder, potential life sentence.
• Torture, potential life sentence.
• Conspiracy to Commit Torture, potential life sentence.
• Assault on a Pregnant Individual Causing Miscarriage or Stillbirth, potential life sentence.
• Conspiracy to Commit Assault on a Pregnant Individual Causing Miscarriage or Stillbirth, potential life sentence.
• Unlawful Imprisonment, 15 year felony.
• Removal of a Dead Body, 1 year misdemeanor.
• Prosecution Statements: Attorney General Dana Nessel stated that Rebecca “had everything to live for” and expressed commitment to working with Wexford County Prosecutor Johanna Carey to pursue justice. Prosecutor Johanna Carey stated that the case reflects “a truly horrific homicide” involving “unimaginable suffering.” She emphasized that while the charges are allegations until proven in court, the evidence indicates severe brutality.

Alleged Incident Summary

• On November 3, it is alleged that the defendants lured Rebecca Park, who was Cortney Bartholomew’s biological daughter, to their residence in Wexford County.
• It is further alleged they tortured her in an attempt to remove the unborn infant, resulting in the death of both Rebecca and the unborn child.
• Following an extensive search, Rebecca’s remains were located in the Manistee National Forest on November 25.

Jurisdiction and Investigation

• The Wexford County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office is leading prosecution efforts with support from the Department of Attorney General.
• Authorities have reminded the public not to interfere with the investigation or approach active investigation sites.