Trial Date Set for Glen Burnie Woman Charged in Dundalk Home-Invasion, Murder

A woman charged with murder in connection with a Dundalk home invasion that police say grew out of a dispute over a missing cellphone SIM card professed her innocence in court Friday.

A grand jury indicted Jennifer Lynn Ulrich, 42, of Glen Burnie, on June 23 on charges of first-degree murder, home invasion, burglary, and theft.

According to the indictment in Baltimore County Circuit Court, Ulrich is charged in connection with the Jan. 13 killing of Christopher Stafford, 51, who was found unconscious on the living room floor of his home in the 2000 block of Kelmore Road with severe injuries to his head and face.

Stafford was taken to the University of Maryland Medical Center with life-threatening injuries. He died Feb. 11, and his death was ruled a homicide caused by blunt-force trauma, according to police charging documents filed in the case against another defendant.

Ulrich appeared in Baltimore County Circuit Court by video from jail Friday for a scheduling hearing. Judge Sherrie Bailey set her trial date for March 22, 2027.

Ulrich objected to remaining in jail while awaiting trial.

“I just don't understand why I have to wait in here in jail but I'm innocent,” she said. “I don’t understand waiting in here…I didn't do anything!”

Her attorney, William Porter, said he would request a bail review but told Ulrich there is a probability she will remained jailed until her trial.

Police have also arrested Corey Todd Adams in connection with the case. Adams, 45, of Dundalk, was charged in April with murder, home invasion, burglary and theft and remains in jail without bond. His trial is scheduled to begin Feb. 2, 2027.

Police allege Adams organized and participated in the crime after becoming angry that a SIM card was missing from a cellphone that had been returned to him.

Court records provide little information about Ulrich’s alleged role in the killing. Unlike Adams’ case, Ulrich’s Circuit Court file contains no publicly available police charging documents outlining the allegations against her.

The police account filed in Adams' case describes a complicated chain of events leading to Stafford's death.

The day before the home invasion, Stafford's girlfriend believed another woman had stolen her cellphone. She and a male friend went to the Key Landing Apartments looking for the woman, according to police.

While there, the friend found a cellphone in a flower bed and gave it to Stafford's girlfriend, thinking it might be hers. It wasn't, but they kept the phone anyway, according to charging documents.

Stafford's girlfriend was soon contacted by a man she knew as “Bunk,” whom detectives later identified as Adams. Police said Adams allegedly dealt drugs from an apartment at the complex.

The friend returned the phone to Adams on Jan. 12, but its SIM card was missing.

By the following morning, police said, a message had been sent warning that if the SIM card wasn't returned by 2 or 3 p.m., someone would “kick the door” and hurt everyone in Stafford's house.

Surveillance video from an alley behind Stafford's home showed a dark blue Mazda 3 near the home at 1:08 p.m. and again at 1:54 p.m., according to charging documents. During the second appearance, two people got out of the car and walked toward the rear of the house.

When Stafford's girlfriend and her friend returned around 2:35 p.m., they found the back door open and Stafford unconscious on the living room floor. They called 911.

Investigators found evidence that someone had forced their way through the rear door. An electric bicycle, shotgun and handgun were missing from the living room, police said.

Detectives later interviewed a woman who said she drove Adams and another man to Stafford's house.

The woman told investigators that Adams was angry because his SIM card was missing. She said she drove Adams to his sister's house in Baltimore City, where they picked up another man she did not know, then drove both men to the rear of Stafford's home.

According to the witness, Adams and the unidentified man knocked on the door and, when no one answered, kicked it in and went inside. Adams emerged a short time later, followed by the other man, who was carrying an electric bicycle and shotgun, the witness told police.

The items were placed in the trunk of the Mazda, and the woman said she drove the men back to Adams' sister's house.

The woman also told detectives that she took Adams to a hospital several days later because she believed he had injured his hand while banging on the door during the break-in.

The publicly available records do not establish whether Ulrich is the woman described in Adams’ charging documents as the driver.

When detectives later interviewed Adams, they noticed his right hand was bandaged. Adams told them he had broken his hand sometime in January, according to the charging documents.