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Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update breaking crime news Now. I'm

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Speaker 1: Drew Nelson. Rebecca Park, a Northern Michigander who was thirty

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Speaker 1: eight weeks pregnant when she disappeared, is now at the

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Speaker 1: center of a homicide case as new charges are filed

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Speaker 1: following the discovery of her body and the continued search

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Speaker 1: for her missing baby. An autopsy confirmed the body found

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Speaker 1: November twenty fifth and the Manistee National Forest was twenty

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Speaker 1: two year old Rebecca Park. She vanished from Boone Township

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Speaker 1: in Wexford County just days before her due date. The

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Speaker 1: official cause of death remains pending. The Wexford County Sheriff's

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Speaker 1: Office and Michigan State Police continue searching for the infant.

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Speaker 1: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has stepped in. Sheriff Trent

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Speaker 1: Taylor said quote. The Wexford County Sheriff's Office, along with

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Speaker 1: multiple law enforcement agencies, is working diligently to determine the

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Speaker 1: condition and potential whereabouts of the baby. The information that

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Speaker 1: can be released is extremely limited at this time. Rebecca

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Speaker 1: was last seen November three, near her biological mother's home

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Speaker 1: Family members reported her missing the next day. Her cell

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Speaker 1: phone was later found near her mother's property. Rebecca's due

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Speaker 1: date was November eighteenth. The hospital had sent her home

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Speaker 1: the day before. She disappeared after she arrived with contractions

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Speaker 1: and was dilated one centimeter. Forty year old Courtney Bartholomew

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Speaker 1: and her stepfather, forty seven year old Bradley Bartholomew, were

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Speaker 1: taken into custody. Sunday and Monday, respectively. Both appeared in

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Speaker 1: Wexford County's eighty fourth District Court. Their arraignment was delayed

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Speaker 1: after prosecutors said the criminal complaint was not ready. Judge

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Speaker 1: Corey Wiggins ordered Bradley Bartholomew held without bond. The judge

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Speaker 1: called him a threat and a flight risk based on

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Speaker 1: Search Warren information. Prosecutor Joanna Carey told the court that

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Speaker 1: there was ever a.

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Speaker 2: Case where there are circumstances that justify a delay of

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Speaker 2: any type. It's this case. This is as serious as

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Speaker 2: it gets, It's as horrible.

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Speaker 3: As it gets.

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Speaker 1: Rebecca's sister, twenty one one year old Kimberly Park, was

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Speaker 1: arrested November twenty sixth. She was charged with tampering with evidence.

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Speaker 1: Her bond was set at seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

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Speaker 1: Rebecca's fiance, forty three year old Richard Lee Fallor, was

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Speaker 1: arrested the knight Rebecca's body was found. He was charged

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Speaker 1: with two counts of delivering methamphetamine. His bond was set

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Speaker 1: at one million dollars. The charges against Falor are not

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Speaker 1: listed as directly related to Rebecca's disappearance. Search warrants were

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Speaker 1: served at the home where Rebecca and Falor lived in Manton. State.

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Speaker 1: Police seized knives, notebooks, and electronics. The warrant allowed a

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Speaker 1: search for human remains, suspected burial sites, and tools that

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Speaker 1: could be used to dispose of human remains. Authorities have

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Speaker 1: not released what evidence was recovered that directly links to

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Speaker 1: Rebecca's death. Rebecca's disappearance and death have shaken Boone Township.

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Speaker 1: A message reading justice for Rebecca near the edge of

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Speaker 1: the Manistee National Forest, close to where her body was found.

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Speaker 1: Anyone with information has urged to contact wicks Fie County

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Speaker 1: Sheriffs at two three one seven seven nine ninety two sixteen.

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Speaker 1: More crime and justice news. After this. A Georgia couple

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Speaker 1: now faces criminal charges after investigators say they abandoned their

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Speaker 1: dog just before leaving the state for a Hawaiian vacation.

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Speaker 1: Kenneth Bescher's and his wife, Joanna Paine, both seventy three,

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Speaker 1: from Morrow, south of Atlanta, were arrested and charged in

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Speaker 1: Fayette County with animal cruelty and abandoning a dog. That's

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Speaker 1: according to our TV news partners at Fox five Atlanta.

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Speaker 1: Both charges are misdemeanors. The dog's name is Blue. He

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Speaker 1: is now safe at the Fayette County Animal Shelter. Officials

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Speaker 1: say he will be eligible for adoption once the case

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Speaker 1: is resolved. They describe Blue as sweet, well behaved, and

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Speaker 1: the kind of dog quote a family would be lucky

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Speaker 1: to have. The case began when workers with the Fayette

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Speaker 1: County Water and Sewer Department found Blue tied up with

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Speaker 1: food and water.

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Speaker 2: With scanned the dog for a market hip found out

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Speaker 2: who tried to call them just in you know, you

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Speaker 2: never know, sometimes animals are stolen. There was a note

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Speaker 2: left with the dog, so that was odd too.

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Speaker 1: That's Tracy Thompson, director of Fayette County Animal Control on WAGA.

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Speaker 1: The note written as if it came from the dog

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Speaker 1: says quote, my name is Blue. My owner and I

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Speaker 1: spent four and a half years together, but he died.

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Speaker 1: I don't have anyone else to take care of me. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: Investigators reviewed surveillance video. They said it showed a couple

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Speaker 1: leaving Blue with the food, water and the note. Authority

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Speaker 1: said the man in the video matched Bescher's.

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Speaker 2: We were able to do some investigating find out where

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Speaker 2: they lived, which was in Marrow, so the Marshall's Faett

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Speaker 2: County Marshals took over the case so they could make

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Speaker 1: Both Beschers in pain were taken into custody as soon

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Speaker 1: as they returned from Hawaii. This case unfolds in Oregon,

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Speaker 1: where the grinch who stole Thanksgiving dinner takes an eighty

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Speaker 1: year old volunteer's car while she serves meals to the

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Speaker 1: homeless in Portland. The victim's name is Cheryl. She is

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Speaker 1: a long time volunteer at the Union Gospel Mission in

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Speaker 1: downtown Portland. On Thanksgiving Day, she parked her bag nineteen

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Speaker 1: ninety nine Honda Accord in a lot near Northwest First

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Speaker 1: walking to her shift. Cheryl told KOI n she had

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Speaker 3: I always feel safe during the day. I don't worry

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Speaker 3: too much at all about walking around or even parking

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Speaker 3: my cars there. I've always done that.

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Speaker 1: Winter shift ended, she walked back to where she parked.

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Speaker 1: The car was gone.

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Speaker 3: I went up to where I knew I parked it,

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Speaker 3: wondering what's going on. I couldn't figure it out. I

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Speaker 3: was in shock.

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Speaker 1: Inside the trunk her purse. Inside her purse, her bank

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Speaker 3: I had over six hundred dollars on the between my

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Speaker 3: debit and my credit card on there, and so I'm

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Speaker 3: trying to resolve all that now put in fraudulent claims.

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Speaker 1: The theft also ruined her family dinner. The Thanksgiving meals

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Speaker 1: she planned to bring after volunteering was in the car.

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Speaker 3: They called and said, I can't make it. You know,

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Speaker 3: the food's gone and I'm a wreck.

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Speaker 1: Union Gospel Mission confirmed it sends emails to volunteers advising

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Speaker 1: them not to bring valuables and stating the mission is

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Speaker 1: not responsible for lost or stolen items because it was

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Day. Parking was free at the parking garage where

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Speaker 1: she left her car, that allowed the thief to exit

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Speaker 1: without paying to lift the gate. Cheryl filed a police report.

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Speaker 1: Police later confirmed the stolen Honda was recovered in Salem.

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Speaker 1: The condition of the vehicle was not immediately known. Cheryl

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Speaker 1: is a breast cancer survivor who completed treatment earlier this year.

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Speaker 1: Her son, Todd Schulberg, started to gofund me after watching

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Speaker 1: his mother unravel in the hours after the theft. He

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Speaker 1: wrote that she lives in a limited income and depended

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Speaker 1: medical care and volunteer shifts. Quote, she doesn't have the

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Speaker 1: resources to purchase another vehicle, and without a car, she

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Speaker 1: can't get to her medical appointment, her volunteer activities, or

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Speaker 1: even basic errands. The campaign says her accord has been

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Speaker 1: kept in immaculate condition. The GoFundMe lists the immediate needs

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Speaker 1: as a replacement vehicle, recovery of a central items stolen

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Speaker 1: from her purse, and short term transportation. Todd writes, quote,

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Speaker 1: She's worked hard all of her life and does not

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Speaker 1: deserve this. For the latest crime and justice news, follow

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