Authorities charged a woman and her husband with murder Tuesday in the death of her pregnant biological daughter, whose body was found in a Michigan forest three weeks after she disappeared.

Rebecca Park, 22, was in the final days of her pregnancy when she was last seen Nov. 3. The baby had been cut out of her when her remains were discovered last week, prosecutor Johanna Carey said in court.

Cortney Bartholomew, 40, and Brad Bartholomew, 47, were each charged with murder, torture and other crimes in Wexford County, about 200 miles northwest of Detroit.

"This is, frankly, evil personified," Carey said. "Mr. Bartholomew brought Rebecca to their home, forced her into another vehicle and took her into the woods where they stabbed her, forced her to lie on the ground while they cut her baby

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