Overview
- Residents gathered Saturday evening in Boon Township for a candlelight vigil honoring Park and her unborn son, as donations and a planned fundraiser support her two young children now cared for by her adoptive parents.
- Cortney and Bradly Bartholomew are charged with first-degree murder, felony murder, torture, conspiracy, assault on a pregnant individual, unlawful imprisonment, and removal of a dead body, offenses that carry potential life sentences.
- A judge denied Cortney Bartholomew’s request for release, finding her a flight risk and danger to the community, and both defendants remain held without bond.
- Park’s fiancé, Richard Lee Falor, and her sister, Kimberly Park, were arrested on separate charges and later released on reduced bonds, with Falor’s preliminary exam set for Dec. 9 and the Bartholomews’ set for Dec. 16.
- Investigators confirmed Park’s body was found in the Manistee National Forest on Nov. 25, and authorities have not publicly confirmed the recovery of the unborn baby as forensic work and searches continue.