Woman slain by ex after she found tracking device on her car
A 21-year-old Pennsylvania woman had told authorities that her ex-boyfriend threatened her and installed a tracking device on her car in the weeks before he apparently killed her and her mother the day after Thanksgiving.
Court records obtained Tuesday show that Victoria Schultz talked to police and testified in court that she had feared Cody Bush might harm her. The records also say that at one point he threatened to blow up her car and sent text messages to her and his mother threatening to kill himself.
After she discovered the tracking device, Schultz told police that she had been trying to end her 3 ½-year relationship with Bush, “but he is being very obsessive and is making the split very difficult,” the state trooper wrote in his report. Schultz told him “she is in fear of what Bush might do once he knows the police are involved.”
Last Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, state police issued a news release that they had charged an unidentified 26-year-old man — presumably Bush — who went to Schultz’s address and threatened harm to an unidentified “victim and her family.” But no charges were filed, according to court officials, and Bush remained free.
On Friday morning, Bush went to Schultz’s house in Osceola Mills, about 90 miles (145 kilometers) northeast of Pittsburgh, and fatally shot Schultz and her mother, Beth Schultz, before fleeing and killing a judge to order a stalker to hand over his guns while it is in effect. Clearfield County Court officials said they do not release information about protection-fromabuse orders.