Rebecca Park’s Fiancé Accused of Infidelity with Household Earlier than Tragic Homicide

New particulars concerning the homicide of Rebecca Park and the function her members of the family are suspected of enjoying in that crime are being revealed in a sequence of possible trigger affidavits and prison complaints filed in a Michigan court docket and obtained by PEOPLE.

These paperwork allege that Rebecca, 22, her sister Kimberly Park, 21, and her organic mom Cortney Bartholomew, 40, have been all romantically concerned with the identical man — who was additionally the daddy of Rebecca’s unborn little one.

Kimberly and Cortney each informed investigators with the Wexford County Sheriff’s Workplace (WCSO) that they have been in a relationship with Richard Falor, 43, in accordance with their possible trigger affidavits.

These three people, together with Cortney’s husband Bradly Bartholomew, have all been arrested and charged with felony offenses over the previous two weeks.

Kimberly is charged with tampering with proof, mendacity to a police officer and submitting a false report. She is at present on home arrest after her bail was diminished from $750,000 to $5,000 final week.

She allegedly informed a detective investigating Rebecca’s homicide that she was in a relationship with Falor on Nov. 24, the day earlier than her sister’s physique was found within the Manistee Nationwide Forest.

The affidavit filed in her case said that this admission got here two days after Kimberly was contacted by a detective when she claimed to have details about Cortney and Bradly’s alleged involvement in her sister’s homicide.

In an interview simply hours after she made that declare, per the affidavit filed in her case, Kimberly informed a detective that Rebecca had died from a seizure after being struck on the pinnacle by Cortney and Bradly, 47, who she alleged then known as a good friend who took her sister’s physique and dumped it in a swamp.

That allegation is what led prosecutors to file costs in opposition to Kimberly just some days after she allegedly informed police that she had supplied false info to guard Falor, who she alleged was concerned within the demise of Rebecca.

The affidavit states that after being arrested and Mirandized following the invention of her sister’s physique on Nov. 25, Kimberly informed detectives that Falor had informed her on Nov. 4 that “he killed Rebecca Park and that he wished to guard Kimberly by not sharing particulars along with her.”

Moreover, she alleged that Falor informed her in a separate dialog that “one thing went fallacious whereas making an attempt to chop the child out of Rebecca,” which is why just some hours after Kimberly was booked into custody, deputies then arrested Falor on an open homicide cost.

Investigators in the end discovered no proof to substantiate Kimberly’s claims, nonetheless, and Falor was arraigned on a drug cost and launched from jail as soon as Cortney and Bradly have been charged with Rebecca’s homicide.

In her interview with investigators, Cortney claimed that she additionally had an affair with Falor.

Cortney mentioned that after Rebecca and Falor broke up, she started relationship her daughter’s ex, in accordance with the affidavit. She informed investigators that she was making ready to go away her husband for Falor, however in the end had a change of coronary heart at which era Falor reignited his relationship with Rebecca.

She additionally alleged in her interview with investigators that after they break up, Falor got here to her dwelling “with the intention of taking pictures Bradly” and “raped her forcefully, inflicting her to have a miscarriage of the child she was carrying,” in accordance with the affidavit.

Authorities wrote within the affidavits that they discovered over the course of the investigation that Cortney had allegedly despatched Rebecca a photograph of an $18,000 verify on the day she went lacking and knowledgeable her it was an inheritance from her lifeless grandmother.

Additionally they found textual content messages Cortney had despatched claiming to have given beginning to a son who was hospitalized attributable to an early supply however could be returning dwelling quickly, per the affidavit.

She then allegedly wrote that the kid had died just some hours after Rebecca’s homicide.

These texts and mobile phone information which positioned Cortney and Bradly within the space the place Rebecca’s physique was found led to their arrests, in accordance with investigators.

Wexford County Prosecutor Johanna Carey described the homicide as “evil personified” at a court docket listening to arguing in opposition to Cortney and Bradly being provided bail.

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“Mr. Bartholomew introduced Rebecca to their dwelling, [he and Cortney] pressured her into one other car and took her into the woods the place they stabbed her, pressured her to lie on the bottom whereas they minimize her child out, and in the end precipitated her demise and the demise of the child. They then left Rebecca within the woods,” Carey mentioned in court docket.

She known as it a “case of premeditated torture and homicide,” alleging that the Bartholomews “created a plan” and “carried out analysis.”

Each face one depend every of first-degree homicide, felony homicide, torture, conspiracy to commit torture, assault on a pregnant particular person inflicting miscarriage/stillbirth and conspiracy to commit assault on a pregnant particular person inflicting miscarriage/stillbirth.

Every of these six costs carries a potential life sentence in jail.

They’re additionally charged with one depend every of illegal imprisonment and removing of a lifeless physique.

Public defenders for each Kimberly and Falor didn’t reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.