Baby Ripped From Murdered Mom's Womb in Northern Michigan Was Disposed of In a Cooler

Bradly and Cortney Bartholomew (Wexford Co. photo)

The case of murdered pregnant mom Rebecca Park, 22, of northern Michigan has taken some twists and turns.

Last week, the Wexford County Prosecutor's Office charged Park's biological mother, Cortney Bartholomew, 40, and her husband, Bradly Bartholomew, 47, with murdering Park and her unborn baby.

Authorities allege the couple from Boon, Mich., took Park, who was 38 weeks pregnant, to the Manistee National Forest, where they forced her to lie on the ground while they cut her baby out.

Park and the baby died, authorities said.

Park's body was found in the forest on Nov. 25, about three weeks after she had disappeared. The baby was nowhere to be found.

Now, TV station 9&10 News in northern Michigan reports that Courtney Bartholomew claims her husband, Bradly Bartholomew, killed Rebecca Park as revenge against Park's fiancé, Richard Falor, for reporting Bradly for a crime that led to his imprisonment, according to court documents.

Courtney admitted to investigators that she cut the baby out of Park's body after she had died, and that Bradly then placed the baby in a cooler and disposed of it in a random trash container, the station reports.

The baby has still not been found. 

According to court documents, Bradly has claimed that Cortney was jealous of Park having another baby. Park had two sons, ages 2 and 3 and was about to have a third child.  

Stephanie Park, Park's mother who adolpted her at a young age, told the media that she is caring for the two boys.