Sister of pregnant woman allegedly killed by family members who cut baby out of her body walks free — at least for now

Authorities successful Michigan person dropped charges against the sister of a pregnant pistillate allegedly murdered successful a distant wood by her parents who past chopped the babe retired of the victim's body.

Kimberly Park was charged with 1 number each of tampering with grounds successful a transgression case, lying to a constabulary serviceman during a convulsive transgression investigation, and filing a mendacious study of a felony. She was the archetypal idiosyncratic charged successful transportation with the decease successful November 2025 of her 22-year-old sister Rebecca Park successful Manistee National Forest successful Boon Township, a tiny municipality located astir 35 miles owed southbound of Traverse City.

On Friday, a justice dropped each charges against Kimberly Park, the Michigan Attorney General's Office told Law&Crime and Court TV. Prosecutors could refile the charges astatine immoderate time, the AG's bureau said.

The dismissal was archetypal reported by Traverse City-based NBC affiliate WPBN and Cheboygan-based ABC affiliate WTOM. There was nary crushed fixed for the dropped charges.

But the transgression lawsuit remains unfastened for the radical accused of sidesplitting the victim: her parents, 40-year-old Cortney Bartholomew and 47-year-old Bradly Bartholomew.

As Law&Crime previously reported, the Bartholomews allegedly stabbed Rebecca Park respective times successful the back. While the unfortunate sat connected the wood floor, her parent reportedly told her to prevarication back.

"Your babe is gonna die," 40-year-old Cortney Bartholomew told her 22-year-old daughter, according to a probable origin apprehension affidavit provided to WPBN/WTOM.

With Bartholomew's hubby holding a weapon to Park's throat, she allegedly chopped her daughter's tummy and removed the babe boy, who was not breathing. Bradly Bartholomew past allegedly slit Rebecca Park's throat. In total, she was stabbed much than a twelve times, the affidavit stated.

Cortney Bartholomew and Bradly Bartholomew took the babe to their motortruck and tied Park to the backmost of the vehicle, cops wrote. They past allegedly drove the motortruck immoderate 20 feet down a slope with Park's assemblage behind. Per cops, the Bartholomews past covered Park's assemblage with immoderate leaves and drove backmost to their home, wherever they tried to execute CPR connected the baby.

Once those attempts failed, Bradly Bartholomew placed the baby's assemblage successful a cooler and drove to a adjacent dumpster, wherever helium discarded the remains, according to the affidavit.

This each occurred connected the evening of Nov. 3 successful Wexford County, which is successful bluish Michigan. Park, who was 38 weeks pregnant, was reported missing the adjacent day. On Nov. 25, searchers recovered her assemblage adjacent the hiking way successful the Manistee National Forest. The way wherever the assemblage was recovered is astir 2.5 miles from the Bartholomew home.

Authorities person yet to retrieve the baby's remains.

Cops arrested the Bartholomews connected Dec. 1 connected charges including murder, torture, conspiracy to perpetrate torture and battle connected a large person. The astir 20-page apprehension affidavit says that the Bartholomews initially denied engagement earlier pointing the digit astatine each other.

Cortney Bartholomew claimed she wasn't determination and said her hubby admitted to her that helium killed Park.

"I slit her f—ing throat, b— deserved it," she claimed her hubby told her.

She asserted her hubby killed the unfortunate due to the fact that Park's fellow turned Bradly Bartholomew successful to constabulary past twelvemonth for not registering arsenic a enactment offender. But cops told Cortney Bartholomew that would not beryllium a motive to chopped retired the baby.

Confronted with the facts, Cortney Bartholomew allegedly confessed. She lured Park to her husband's motortruck and helium held a weapon to her pharynx and forced her inside, the affidavit stated.

Bradly Bartholomew told cops his woman chopped Park's babe from her tummy due to the fact that she wanted different babe to rise connected her own.

During a enslaved proceeding connected Dec. 2, prosecutors unveiled the horrifying circumstances of Park's alleged murder.

"This is simply a lawsuit of premeditated torture and murder," said Wexford County Prosecutor Johanna Carey, according to a courtroom report from MLive. "These 2 individuals created a plan, conducted research. Mr. Bartholomew brought Rebecca to their home, forced her into different conveyance and took her into the woods wherever they stabbed her, forced her to prevarication connected the crushed portion they chopped her babe out, yet caused her decease and the decease of the baby."

Added Carey: "This is frankly evil personified."

Rebecca Park was past seen alive getting into a conveyance by her adoptive parent extracurricular her location adjacent Cadillac connected Nov. 3 aft she had conscionable received $2,000 successful an inheritance.

After cops recovered Park's body, her fiance, Richard Falor, 43, was arrested connected aggregate cause charges. That's besides erstwhile Kimberly Park was charged. Falor inactive stands accused of 2 counts of delivering methamphetamine.