The Murder of Rebecca Park - Part One: Cortney Bartholomew | #468
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The Murder of Rebecca Park - Part One: Cortney Bartholomew | #468

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 17, 20261h 5m

Families are complicated, but when Rebecca Park went missing while heavily pregnant with the child of her mother’s ex-boyfriend, it raised eyebrows. Rebecca disappeared on the 3rd November 2025 after going to visit her biological mother Cortney Batholomew. In the weeks and months that followed a web of lies, inheritance and manipulation bubbled to the surface through Facebook livestreams and cryptic interviews with police. Join us in part one of a two part series on the murder of Rebecca Park and her unborn child, as we try to untangle a generationally complex web of deceit. --<...

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Let's party! The world is a world, modern architecture and art is a world that is ...and the only way to get out of the car is to get out of the car. But...it's a bit of a mess.

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And I've already seen the video of the ...and the other car. When 22-year-old Rebecca Park vanished, her family were terrified. She was 38 weeks pregnant.

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She could have literally gone into labour any day. And she had seemingly taken nothing with her. Some people reported that the last they had seen of Rebecca was on 3rd November 2025, as she climbed into a mysterious blacked-out sedan.

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