Solved Murders - True Crime Stories - If you DON'T let me BE with HIM, I'LL END YOU UP The CASE of COURTNEY PART2 #38

Episode Date: September 12, 2025

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crime documentary, the kind you watch late at night when you know you should probably be sleeping but can't stop yourself from hitting next episode. It's twisted, it's tragic, and it's one of those cases where you keep thinking, how did things get so bad? How did no one stop this before it got to that point? It starts with a father named Stephen Schulhoff and his. teenage daughter Corny, sometimes written as, Kearney, living in Florida. Stephen was a single dad trying to raise his daughter after a rocky family situation,

and by all accounts, Corny was his world. But anyone who knew them could see things were far from perfect. Actually, far from perfect doesn't even begin to describe it. From the outside, people saw a typical single father-daughter household. But if you scratched beneath the surface, what you'd find was chaos. us, constant fights, screaming matches that had the neighbors shaking their heads and a teenage girl who felt like she was entitled to do whatever she wanted, no rules, no boundaries, no consequences.

And Stephen? He was exhausted. He'd try to put his foot down, but somehow, that only made things worse. It all starts with a slap. One of the first big blow-ups, the one everyone seems to remember, happened during what should have been a normal evening at home. Corny had invited people over, people Stephen didn't approve of, and when he confronted her about it, she threw a bomb at him. This house is mine too. I have every right to invite whoever I want. Now, Stephen, already at his limit, didn't take that

well. In front of everyone there, in a moment of pure anger and humiliation, he slapped her. People gasped. For them, that moment said it all, Stephen was abusive. That's what they walked away believing. Whether it was the truth or a momentary loss of control, that label stuck to him, and Corny used it to her advantage. From bad to worse, after that, things only spiraled downward. Corny wasn't exactly what you'd call a model teenager. She wasn't going to school regularly. She didn't have a job.

She didn't help around the house. In short, she wasn't doing anything productive with her life. Stephen begged her to get it together. He told her, over and over, find a job. Do something. Take responsibility for yourself. But Corny wasn't interested in working at a fast food joint or folding clothes at some retail store. In her eyes, that was beneath her.

Yet she wanted everything, new clothes, makeup, accessories, you name it. And when Stephen refused to hand over cash like an ATM, she didn't ask again politely. She stole his credit card. It became a pattern, she'd take his money, spend it on herself and her boyfriend, and Stephen would be left cleaning up the mess. Sneaking around with Michael, speaking of her boyfriend, this is where Michael Morin enters the picture. If you think things were bad before, Michael made them worse. Most parents don't love the idea of their teenage daughter sneaking boys into the house, but Stephen's situation wasn't just a teenage man's problem. Michael was more like a permanent, unwelcome house guest, except Stephen didn't even

know the full extent of it. Here's how bad it was, Michael was living in Stephen's house, in secret. No, I'm not exaggerating. He'd hide in Corny's closet whenever Stephen was around. He'd wait for Stephen to fall asleep and then come out to raid the fridge, use the washer, watch TV, basically freeloading off the man he was hiding from. Imagine the level of disrespect here. And whenever Stephen discovered Michael there, it turned into an all-out war. Yelling. Threats.

Insults. It was a disaster. The rumors. Now here's where things take an even darker turn. Corny started spreading rumors about Stephen, horrible ones. She told people that her dad wasn't just controlling or abusive, but that he'd sexually abused her as a child. There was zero evidence to support this. None. People close to Stephen swore up and down that it wasn't true. They said he adored his daughter, that he lived for her. But once those kinds of

accusations are out there, they're impossible to take back. Whether she did it out of anger, revenge, or just to play the victim card, it painted Stephen as a monster and isolated him even more. Stephen's breaking point. After months, maybe years, of this madness, Stephen reached his breaking point. He didn't know what else to do. One day, he noticed that his checkbook was missing several pages. And that was it. That was the straw that broke the camel's back. He picked up the phone and called the police. He had his own daughter arrested. It wasn't an easy decision. But in his mind, maybe, just maybe, this was the wake-up call she needed. There's so much rugby on sports extra from Sky. They've asked me to read the whole lad at the same

speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end. Here goes. This winter sports extra is jam-packed with rugby. For the first time we've fed every Champions Cup match exclusively live, plus action from the URC, the Challenge Cup and much more. Thus the URC and all the best European rugby all in the same place. Get more exclusively live tournaments than ever before on sports extra Jampacked with rugby. Phew, that is a lot of rugby. Get Sports Extra on Sky for 15 euro a month for 12 months. Search Sports Extra.

New Sports Extra customers only. Standard Pressing applies after 12 months, further terms apply. Collini, did you know if your age between 25 and 65? Well, you can get a free HPV cervical check. It's one of the best ways to protect yourself from cervical cancer. And you know what? I actually checked only recently when mine was due and no exaggeration. It took me less than five minutes.

You go online to hse.e. Forward slash cervical check. Put in your PPS number. check in the date of birth. And then they tell you when your next appointment is you. Oh my God. I know. And you can check her on the register on the website

so you can phone [phone]. If your test is due today, you can book it today are hsc.i-e-fors-slaugal check. A few nights in jail, some hard consequences, and she'd turn her life around. Right? Wrong. When Corny got out,

she didn't come back humbled or apologetic. She came back worse. Now, Stephen wasn't just the bad dad who didn't understand her. In her mind, he was a full-blown enemy. He'd had her arrested. He'd betrayed her. And she wasn't going to let him forget it. Enter Elaine.

As if things weren't complicated enough, Stephen had started moving on with his life. He'd met a new woman, Elaine Bach. For most people, this would be a good thing, a sign of healing, of starting fresh. But for Corny? It was gasoline on an already raging fire. She hated Elaine. The escape plan. In 2003, Corny decided she'd had enough of her father's rules.

Michael felt the same way about his parents. Together, they hatched a plan, run away. Michael stole his dad's car, and the two of them took off for Maryland. Their goal. Go to Corny's grandparents, beg for money, and start a new life. together. Sounds like the plot of a bad teen drama, right. But halfway there, Michael lost his nerve. They turned around, came home, and promptly got arrested because Michael's parents reported the car stolen. Michael spent 70 days in jail for that little stunt. When he got out, his parents gave him

an ultimatum. If you stay with that girl, you're out of this house. Michael chose corny. Packed up his stuff. And instead of living on the streets like he claimed, he moved in with her. Secretly. Back into Stephen's house. Yep, back into the closet. Probation lies. Here's another layer of audacity. Michael was on probation after jail, which meant he had to provide his address to his probation officer. So what did he do? He gave Stevens address and phone number. In other words, Stevens' house became the official residence of the boy he couldn't stand, and he didn't even know it. Meanwhile, Corny kept stealing from her dad to support Michael. February 9, 2004. Fast forward to February 9, 2004. The neighbors said everything seemed

quiet that night. No yelling. No crashes. No signs of a fight. But sometime in the night, something horrific happened in that house. By early morning, security cameras caught Corny and Michael leaving the apartment. They weren't crying. They weren't panicking. They were calm. They took Stevens car and drove 32 kilometers to a McDonald's. Ate some food.

Drove around aimlessly. Hours later, they came back. Cameras caught them returning. This time, Michael was wearing one of Stephen's shirts. Elaine senses something's wrong. The next morning, Elaine tried calling Stephen. Over and over. No answer.

She knew the tension in the house. She knew about the fights. And when he didn't respond, her gut told her something was off. She drove over. And who did she see walking Stephen's dog? Michael. Wearing Stephen's clothes. Red flags everywhere.

Elaine parked, jumped out of the car, and Michael bolted, running into the apartment. When Elaine tried to get inside, Corny blocked her. Said Stephen wasn't home. Said everything was fine. But Stephen's car was still parked outside. Elaine didn't buy it. She called the police. The horrifying discovery.

When officers arrived, Elaine explained everything, Stephen's history with Corny, the fights, the weird scene with Michael in Stephen's clothes. They got a warrant, broke down the door, and what they found was the stuff of nightmares. The bedroom was covered in blood. The room was trashed. At the foot of the bed lay a bloody baseball bat.

And in a corner, partially stuffed in a garbage bag, was the body of Stephen Shulhoff. He'd been beaten to death. His face was so disfigured that identifying him wasn't easy. One of his ears was nearly torn off. The arrest. The police didn't have to look far for suspects. There's so much rugby on Sports Extra from Sky,

they've asked me to read the whole lad at the same speed I usually use for the legal bit at the end. Here goes. This winter sports extra is jam-packed with rugby. For the first time we've got every Champions Cup match exclusively live, plus action from the URC, the Challenge Cup, and much more. That's the URC and all the best European rugby all in the same place. Get more exclusively live tournaments than ever before on Sports Extra.

Jam-pack with rugby. Phew, that is a lot of rugby. Get Sports Extra on Sky for 15 euro a month for 12 months. Search Sports Extra. New Sports Extra customers only. Standard pricing applies after 12 months for the terms apply. Collini, did you know if your age between 25 and 65? Well, you can get a free HPV cervical check.

It's one of the best ways to protect yourself from cervical cancer. And you know what? I actually checked only recently when mine was due and no exaggeration. It took me less than five minutes. You go online to hse.e. Forward slash cervical check. Put in your PPS number. Check in the date of birth.

And then they tell you when your next appointment is due. Oh my God. It's real. And you can check your own. the register on the website or you can phone [phone]. If your test is due today, you can book it today

or hcc.io.i. 4.slash servical check. Within hours, Corny and Michael were arrested. But when they were interrogated, their stories didn't match. Michael said he didn't even remember the murder at first.

Then, under pressure, he admitted that Corny planned everything. She gave him the bat. Told him to do it. And he did. Corny, on the other hand, flipped the script. First, she blamed Michael entirely. Then she changed her story, yes, Michael killed Stephen, but she helped, a little. Now, here's where the story takes a deeper twist, because as much as the trial seemed to close everything, the aftermath of this whole case still leaves a bad taste in people's mouths. It's one of those

situations where you can't help but think, how did it all go so wrong? And maybe even more importantly, could it have been prevented? Let's pause for a second and think about the relationship between Stephen and his daughter before everything spiraled into tragedy. By all accounts, Stephen wasn't some perfect guy, nobody really is, but people close to him swore up and down that he loved his daughter more than anything. They said he would have done anything for her. He took care of her, provided for her, put up with her tantrums, her attitude, her constant demands, even when she treated him like an ATM. But for corny, none of that seemed to matter. Somewhere along the way, she stopped seeing him as her dad and started seeing him

as an obstacle. And that's what makes this story so chilling. Because this wasn't some random crime of passion. It wasn't a heat of the moment argument that got out of control. This was calculated. Planned. Cold. When the prosecutors laid out their case, they didn't hold back. They wanted the jury to see exactly who Corny had become, manipulative, entitled, and completely detached from reality. They brought up how she spread those horrific lies about her father, telling people he had abused her when there wasn't a shred of evidence.

They showed the pattern of stealing, of bringing Michael into the house secretly, of defrable. defying every single boundary Stephen tried to set. And then, the final act, convincing Michael to actually kill her father. Michael, for his part, didn't do himself any favors either. He came across as weak, easily influenced, someone who would do anything to impress his girlfriend. At first, he denied everything. Then, he threw corny under the bus, saying it was all her idea. He made himself out to be some brainwashed boyfriend who,

didn't know what he was doing. But prosecutors ripped him apart, pointing out that no one made him pick up that bat. No one forced him to go through with it. Still, a lot of people believe that Michael was just a dumb kid in over his head. And maybe he was. But that doesn't erase what he did. The details of the crime scene alone were enough to haunt anyone who heard them. Blood everywhere. The room destroyed. Stephen's body shoves. in a bag like garbage. His face so badly beaten it was unrecognizable. And the bat, just sitting there at the foot of the bed, covered in blood. It's the kind of thing you can't unsee, even if you weren't there. And then, this part makes people's stomach's turn, after killing

Stephen, what did they do? They went to McDonald's. They sat there, eating, as if nothing had happened. Like it was just another day. If that doesn't scream cold-blooded, I don't know what does. The trial dragged on for months. The defense tried to paint Corny as a troubled girl, a product of a broken home, someone who just needed help, not prison. They even tried to argue that Michael acted alone, that she was just a scared teenager who didn't know what to do after the fact. But the jury didn't buy it. When they handed down that life sentence for Corny, there was a sense of relief. Like, finally, some justice for Stephen. But then she stood up and said those words, taking full responsibility, and you could feel the air leave the room. Not because it was

some emotional confession. No. It was the way she said it. Cold. Flat. Like she was reading a grocery list. No tears. No shaking voice. No, I'm I'm sorry. Just, it was me. I accept the verdict, and that's it. People who were there said it was one of the most chilling things they'd ever seen. Michael's sentencing came later, and it was just as harsh, life in prison with no chance of parole.

Now, here's the part that still sparks debate to this day, in 2017, Corny's sentence was reduced to 40 years. Yeah. 40. That means she could walk out of prison in her 50s. And people were furious. Because if someone can beat their father to death, stuff him in a bag, and walk free after just a few decades, what kind of message does that send? On the flip side, there are those who argue that people change. That she was young, impulsive,

and under the influence of a toxic relationship. That maybe, just maybe, she deserves a second chance. But then you hear stories from prison, about how she carries herself like she's above everyone, how she helps with legal work in the library but still has that, I'm smarter than you, attitude, and you wonder, did she actually change? Or is she just biding her time? And that's the million-dollar question, isn't it? Does she regret it? Some people say yes, that living with what she did must eat her alive every day. Others say no, that someone who can say, in a courtroom, admit to murdering their own father without a shred of remorse, is incapable of real regret. And honestly, maybe we'll never know. But here's the thing that really

sticks with me about this case, how avoidable it all felt. If someone had stepped in earlier, if someone had gotten corny real help, if Michael's parents had done more than just ground him, if Stephen had found a way to break through to his daughter, could this have been stopped? Or was it inevitable? Was this always going to do that? to end in tragedy. That's the kind of question that keeps people up at night. So now, after all these years, the story of Stephen Schulhoff still lingers in true crime circles. It's been picked apart in documentaries, dissected in books, debated on podcasts. But no matter how much people analyze it, no one can make sense of how a father's love turned into his ultimate downfall,

or how a teenage girl decided that killing him was her best way out. And maybe that's why cases like this haunt us so much. Because they force us to look at the darkest parts of human nature. They make us wonder, what would I do if my own child turned against me? How far would I go to protect my family? And at what point do you stop seeing someone as your kid, and start seeing them as a threat? And that's the story. Ugly, brutal, heartbreaking. Now I'm curious, what do you think? Do you believe corny feels any real remorse. Was Michael truly just a pawn in her game? Or was he just as guilty, maybe even more? And most of all, do you think 40 years is enough for what she did? Because a lot of people sure don't. The end.