After a Monday hearing was delayed, both appeared in Wexford County’s 84th District Court on Tuesday, with both being held without bail due to the seriousness of the case.
Indictment Update:
flat nail Bartholomew Fee:
- Count 1: Committing Premeditated Aggressive Homicide Murder in the First Degree
- Count 2: Accused committed the crime of murder, felony murder (life sentence) and DNA taken upon arrest
- Count 3: Allegedly committed the crime of torture (punishable for life)
- Count 4: Alleged felony conspiracy to obtain torture (up to life and $10k)
- Count 5: Alleged crime of assaulting a pregnant person or potentially causing an abortion, giving birth to a stillborn child (life penalty)
- Count 6: Aggravated conspiracy to knowingly commit an assault on a person causing abortion or stillbirth (ordered by any term of life or years and or $10k)
- Count 7: The accused committed the crime of unlawful imprisonment (up to 15 years and or a fine of $20,000).
- Count 8: Felony removal of dead bodies without permission of medical examiner (misdemeanor up to 1 year or $500)
Judge Corey Wiggins said Brad is a fourth-felony offender and will be held without bond.
Courtney Bartholomew Fee:
- Count 1: Committing Premeditated Aggressive Homicide Murder in the First Degree
- Count 2: Accused committed the crime of murder, felony murder (life sentence) and DNA taken upon arrest
- Count 3: Allegedly committed the crime of torture (punishable for life)
- Count 4: Alleged felony conspiracy to obtain torture (up to life and $10k)
- Count 5: Alleged crime of assaulting a pregnant person or potentially causing an abortion, giving birth to a stillborn child (life penalty)
- Count 6: Aggravated conspiracy to knowingly commit an assault on a person causing abortion or stillbirth (ordered by any term of life or years and or $10k)
- Count 7: The accused committed the crime of unlawful imprisonment (up to 15 years and or a fine of $20,000).
- Count 8: Felony removal of dead bodies without permission of medical examiner (misdemeanor up to 1 year or $500)
Judge Corey Wiggins said Courtney will be held without bond.
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“We will go ahead and be ready for arraignment tomorrow. In the meantime the court will hold Mr. Bartholomew without bond. Based on what I have read in the search warrant I feel he is both a threat and a flight risk. So, we will meet again tomorrow to see where we are,” said the Honorable. Corey Wiggins- 84th District Court.
The prosecutor requested that both suspects be held without bail due to the seriousness of the case.
Prosecutor Johanna Carey said, “If ever there was a case where the circumstances justified any kind of delay, it’s this case. As serious as it is, it’s terrible – to preserve the integrity of the case.”
An autopsy confirmed that the body found in the Manistee National Forest on November 25 was that of Rebecca, a woman who disappeared from Boone, Wexford County, just days after giving birth.
In a press release, the sheriff said that the child was not present when volunteer searchers discovered Rebecca’s body.
The official cause of death is still pending.
The Wexford County Sheriff’s Office, Michigan State Police and other law enforcement agencies are trying to locate Rebecca’s child.
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- Due to the investigation, the sheriff said there is ‘extremely limited’ information that can be released at this time.
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