On March 23, 2023, police in Cumberland, Kentucky, responded to a 911 call from Michael Cornett who said he had shot his girlfriend. Officers found 31-year-old Stacy Doranda Houser unresponsive in a School Road bedroom with a gunshot wound; the Harlan County Coroner pronounced her dead at the scene.

Stacy Doranda Houser was born May 29, 1991, in Big Stone Gap, Virginia. A Harlan County High School graduate who played softball and belonged to the Beta Club, she earned an associate’s degree from Southeast Community and Technical College. Family and friends remembered her for a vibrant personality, love of travel and music, and devotion to making memories with her son and parents.

Forty-six-year-old Michael Cornett was arrested at the scene and charged with murder. An autopsy was scheduled with the Kentucky State Medical Examiner’s Office; the legal process against Cornett was beginning. If anyone knew Stacy, her routines, or has information about the night of March 23, please come forward.