Matthew Cox | Inside True Crime Podcast
MySpace Heist Gone Wrong! Teen Mastermind Faces 10 Years
21 Oct 2025
Chapter 1: Why is Corbin facing 10 years in prison?
I'm going to prison for 10 years. If I don't laugh about it, like, I'm just gonna break down into, like, uncontrollable tears. The crime is so tied to my childhood, so I actually want to just give a really quick snapshot into... The decision and then we're going to go back and explain why I made that decision.
So when I was 14 going on 15, I was in a health and fitness class, which is just the most bullshit class ever. It's one of those classes where you go in there and you don't really do anything and you're not even really sure why you're there, but everyone's getting good grades. You're kind of just hanging out with your friends the whole time.
So there was this asshole kid, Trevor Vincent, and he basically convinces me to have me draw him a map to help him steal my dad's guns. And so... How does that happen? So that's where we're going to have to take a step back now. Okay. And... Yeah, it wasn't a decision I made lightly. And I think once you understand the context, maybe you can even have a bit of a heart for me.
But, I mean, you're going to have to decide that. And I was definitely a piece of shit. I shouldn't have done that. So it goes without saying.
Chapter 2: What childhood experiences shaped Corbin's decisions?
So I was born in Cleveland. To understand things really well, you really have to understand my mom and my dad also. Every so often when my sister and I are trying to sleep, my mom is like telling us, hey, you have to crook your arm at a 45-degree angle or a 60-degree angle to keep yourself safe from Satan. And so she'd be sleeping. What? What?
Yeah, and see, this is the thing that's weird about it is because it almost wasn't entirely out of left field for her because we were homeschooled, and that's probably in large part due to the satanic panic, and she's constantly listening to Christian radio. So at a very young age, I've consumed these massive amounts of Christian radio.
Right.
Okay. The satanic panic? Yeah. That was when what they were saying that like there were satanic rituals in like kindergartens and stuff like that?
Yeah, in schools or that media was influencing it. She would like take a specific poster for a movie and be like, do you see the devil horns in there? And I'd be like, no. And she'd be like, no, but if you look a little closer. And I'd be like. I guess maybe.
Yeah, if I stare at the clouds long enough, I see all kinds of shit.
Yeah, we weren't allowed to read Harry Potter. And like I was also – I was a good kid since we were homeschooled. I would like get up at 5 a.m. to do math equations. So I think they kind of saw me as like a little bit precocious. But I had like some rough edges. Like I would –
say swear words in my sister's voice and get her in trouble and make them think that she was swearing or um there was like a book thing we had where you went to the local bookstore and you would track the amount of pages you were reading and then you'd get prizes based on how many pages you read and i realized very quickly no one's coming to check if i read these pages so i'm
putting like a hundred pages, a hundred pages, like just getting the prizes. So there's like a cap gun incident where I like put a black marker on the orange barrel of a cap gun to try to make it look real. So we could play cops and robbers and everybody's freaked out. And they're like, what's going on with Corbin?
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Chapter 3: What led to the plan involving Corbin's father's guns?
So there's probably some foreshadowing there, but ultimately I really was a good kid. Like I saw myself, I thought I was going to grow up and become a pastor. Maybe like, I got really into Jesus with my mom and I'd have these like praying episodes where I would extemporize all the things I'm grateful for, and people would just look like, that's a Jesus baby. Like, that's a real Jesus kid.
So I was getting pretty deep into it with them. Well, the kinking the arms shit and the legs, it starts getting out of hand. And we're in Houston, and one night... I was supposed to fucking sleep how? It sucked. Yeah. It sucked. So one day mom comes to us. It's probably like between 1 and 4 in the morning. God only knows. It was like dead of the night.
And she's freaking out because on Christian radio they're talking about how people – or just the radio. I don't remember. They're talking about how people are dying from Taco Bell poisoning. Yeah. And she's saying, hey, it's not safe here anymore. Satan's after us. It's time to get out of Dodge.
So this is the onset of schizophrenia or something, right? Like this has got to be something. Like this isn't normal behavior. This isn't normal. Okay.
Chapter 4: How did Corbin's family dynamics influence his behavior?
I'm just letting you know. Yeah. I don't know if you know. Yeah, well, yeah. You don't seem to be throwing in there that, hey, this is abnormal. You seem to think, no, no, everybody... But once you throw in the Christian... And my mom was very... I was raised Catholic, and we were very Catholic. I mean, I went through CCD, which is for children. I was confirmed Catholic. I went to...
I got my confirmation.
Yeah, I could sleep. I could sleep however I wanted. I know, but there's layers to it. My mom would let us have Taco Bell.
There's layers to it. There's the normal Catholic who's running in the family, and then there's the consuming 15 hours of Christian radio per day. And it takes you to another level. From the outside looking in, yeah, obviously this is some kind of psychosis. But, like, you know, as a kid, it's almost like that movie The Florida Project.
I don't know if you've seen it, but there's the kids in the hotel.
Oh, yeah. They're just running around. They're just doing whatever they want. They're just insane.
They're doing whatever they want. And because they're kids, even though it's deeply traumatic, it kind of doesn't matter. They're just being kids. Right. And so there's an element of like, what the fuck? And this has probably influenced me way more than I realized.
But there's also a big element of like, yeah, I was just like my mom saving me from the devil by making my arm go in a 45 degree angle or whatever. So she puts us in the car and like effectively kidnaps us because we're trying to stay safe from Satan. Like dad's probably asleep or on a business trip. I don't know. So she says, hey, we like Satan's after us. Let's head back to California.
I almost wonder like what other influences might have been there. Like she just didn't like Houston. Her and my dad weren't getting along. There's so many things to really consider that might drive psychosis and motivations. But I digress. We're in the car. We're driving to California. We've got to keep our heads down.
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Chapter 5: What unusual events occur in Corbin's household?
No, it's another left and another left and another left. And Elvis has three butt cheeks right now. And that would make us laugh a little bit. And my dad would get pissed. It would be laughing at my mother's psychosis. And there's a bunch of weird stuff that's happening. So, okay, we're a few months out from me drawing the map.
So this kid just never goes back to school. You draw the map and he just never comes back to school.
I never saw him again. No.
Okay. Okay.
Yeah, and that probably should have been my first sign that this was probably happening. And I remember within a week or two, my sister and I thinking that maybe we heard something in the house. And I went to the poop room and got one of the pistols and like went downstairs and looking around corners because we both heard it, but we couldn't find anybody. And I wonder if maybe that was them.
Right. What I do know is a few months later, I'm getting driven to a guitar lesson with Dan, who's a terrible guitar teacher. And I hate to say that.
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Chapter 6: How does Corbin react to the news about the missing guns?
He had a good heart. I know now some decent teachers, and there's a lot of basics he skipped. I digress. I'm getting driven to Dan's guitar lesson. My dad calls me. And this is like when you hear about 9-11 or something. Like you always remember where you were, what you were doing. And my dad's saying, I went to clean some of the guns and they weren't there. And I'm saying, I just start shaking.
Corbin, are you there? Corbin, I don't see the – Oh, yeah, I think we cut out for a second. No, the guns are gone? I'm just freaking out. Really? Maybe they're in the car. Maybe we forget to shut the trunk and someone could have fallen out or something. I'm starting to think.
You already sound like you did it.
I'm already fucking up. And so I go to this guitar lesson with Dan, and I'm just shaking like a tree the whole time. He has me playing YYZ by Rush. I don't know if you know it. It's this insane technical... And so I'm, like, sitting there, and I'm screwing it up, and he's just looking at me like... Because he was so, like, kind of just... unconstructive criticism.
Chapter 7: What happens during Corbin's guitar lesson?
He would just kind of look at me like, oh, I thought you were getting it. I thought we were making progress. Okay, I guess we're not. So we go back home. The cops are there and they're of course asking, what do you know? Do you know anyone that would have done this? No idea your officer. Oh my God, this is terrifying and weird and scary.
And I just, I wouldn't know the first thing about what could have happened. And just like shaking and Officer Billington is there. Has nothing to do with Trevor. I'll tell you that right now.
Yeah, right. Yeah. If there's a guy. Nothing to do with.
I wouldn't think it would be like Trevor Vincent.
Yeah.
So Officer Billington is there. Yeah. And he already knows me from the garage bullshit. Right. So he's looking at me sideways. And I'm kind of starting to know that. But I'm also like, well, maybe I could do this. Because there was another. Do you remember the movie Thank You for Smoking? Yes. I think there was part of me that just saw myself as that guy. I was like, I was so delusional.
I was like living like a Walmart fantasy of like The Sopranos and The Wire and Thank You for Smoking. Like if they all had a baby. And so basically... A couple days pass. I'm feeling pretty bad about this. I'm feeling pretty torn up, freaked out.
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Chapter 8: What is the outcome of Corbin's confession to the police?
And I think at this point I kind of knew it wasn't coming. No. I think it was kind of. You're checking the mail. Starting to dawn on me. There's another Netflix documentary about some guy that finds, like, I don't know if you know, he, like, finds cocaine on an island and he tries to smuggle it in. And the whole time the CIA knew, like, every step. And he was just helpless.
I feel like that guy in the documentary. Anyways, I hope maybe we could find it. But so a couple of, two or three days later, I go to my dad and I'm feeling pretty bad about the whole thing. So I say... Well, at least you'll probably get some insurance money, so it's like nothing happened, right? Does your dad think? Yeah. He thinks maybe something, maybe you might be involved?
I think this is what happened. So my dad looks at me and says, well, because there's no sign of forced entry, we can't get any money. There has to be a sign of forced entry.
And I look at him and I say, well, what if we found some windows that we don't normally check and that we could have conceivably forgotten to check when the police originally came and we break them or cut a little hole out in the screen or something? And he looks at me like. I think that's when he probably started to have a real clue. And also, I don't know if this is something I glossed over.
I want to backtrack for just a second. Because what happened was very serious. And I feel really bad about it. And I don't know if I included this part. But when Trevor was convincing me to do the scam, one of his arguments was... Because I told him, well, I don't want to be responsible for someone losing their life. And he told me... We have to think about it like this. With the family.
You have to think about it like this.
With the family.
Are you going to be taking someone's life or are you going to be saving someone's life? Because if we're not protected, we might as well be sitting ducks. And, you know, I mean, I'm on drugs and, you know, some of this twisted logic did get to me. But I mean, at this point, it's over. Like the guns are gone. I'm wondering if we could get killed by him. I'm worried about getting caught.
I'm coming to terms with this fucked up thing happening and not getting any money out of it. Just this like huge shame, this massive, massive mistake I made that I can't take back. So when I asked my dad if we should maybe cut a hole in the windows, I think he was starting to get on to me. Right. And...
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