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A married woman who killed and dismembered her ex-boyfriend in a meth-fuelled attack has been sentenced to life without parole for the twisted slaying.
Taylor Schabusiness, 25, appeared to smile beneath the large white mask as she appeared in Brown County Circuit Court in a prison-issued orange jumpsuit with handcuffs around her wrists.
Judge Thomas Walsh handed her the life sentence for the murder of Shad Thyrion, 24, who she choked with a chain in February 2022 before beheading him and chopping up his body.
He ruled that she was a risk to the public, and was handed life without extended supervision for murder, plus an additional ten and a half years for mutilation of a corpse and sexual assault.
She refused to address the court, and repeatedly shook her head and pulled faces as the judge described her heinous crimes.
Kelly Thyrion, Shad’s uncle, addressed Judge Walsh by calling her ‘S***business’ before asking him to refuse her parole.
‘After Judge Walsh sentences you today, I will pray that you meet the same fate as your idol Jeffrey Dahmer,’ he said. ‘So have a great life S***business’.
Taylor Schabusiness, 25, appeared to smile beneath the large white mask as she appeared in Brown County Circuit Court in a prison-issued orange jumpsuit with handcuffs around her wrists
Thyrion’s penis was found in the same bucket as his head while other body parts were found in a variety of bags in the basement including plastic shopping bags
He added: ‘I don’t see no reason why you should have parole. You did the most cowardly, weakest thing possible.’
Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was handed 15 consecutive life sentences in jail, but only served two before he was beaten to death by fellow inmate Charles Sarver.
Thyrion’s father, Michael, told his son’s killer that he forgave her and asked the judge to give her ‘a chance’, despite her drug-fuelled rampage.
He said: ‘I forgive you, and I’m going to ask the judge if you can see the streets again sometime. I believe that everybody makes bad choices – maybe not on this scale.
‘I think there is a lot of hope for you to be a better person, and I think you will do great things yet. I wish you no harm and I hope things to well for you.’
But Judge Walsh felt that Schabuisness was a threat to the public, despite her defense team arguing she was addled by years of drug abuse and trauma.
‘In a place where this kind of offense, kind of actions, kind of crime, is possible, with no advanced warning signs – absolutely anything is possible,’ the judge said. ‘The public needs protection.’
He added: ‘This crime offends human decency; it offends human dignity; and it offends the human community.
She laughed and smiled throughout the trial as she bragged about the disturbing details of how she killed Shad Thyrion, 24, in February 2022
She killed Thyrion in his mother’s basement, telling the court that she ‘liked’ the killing and enjoyed cutting her lover’s head off
Body cam footage that was shown in court during the trial showed Pakanich telling police something about a ‘severed head’ and pointed to the basement of their home
Schabusiness said he put his chain around his own neck as strangulation was something they had used during intercourse before
She strangled Thyrion at the Green Bay home he shared with his mother, sexually abused him and dismembered his body, leaving parts of it throughout the house
‘When life is taken from a person in the fashion that it was in this case – where the victim’s remains are cut up and packaged in containers – it’s difficult to identify a human nature in those activities. It really is. It’s very troubling
‘These actions are foreign to all of that community. And they shock the community beyond the ability to adequately express in words. That’s the gravity of the offense.
‘That is the gravity of this offense. There aren’t superlatives for it. There aren’t really words for it. You can get a sense of it. You can get a sense of it and a feel for it.’
Schabusiness, from Green Bay, Wisconsin, laughed at footage of herself talking about how she choked Thyrion with a chain as they had sex before mutilating his corpse.
Schabusiness told officers in an interview that she had injected herself and Thyrion with Trazodone, a powerful sedative
The sick killer was found guilty of homicide, third-degree sexual abuse and mutilating corpse in July after the trial.
She killed Thyrion in his mother’s basement, telling the court that she ‘liked’ the killing and enjoyed cutting her lover’s head off.
‘I was sucking and cutting at the same time,’ Schabusiness said in the video. ‘I liked it. I didn’t know what to do.’
Her grandmother, Esther Coronado, issued a plea in court that Schabusiness should be given parole and extended supervision before being sentenced by Judge Thomas Walsh.
‘I know that she committed a crime and they want her to pay for it,’ Coronado told the hearing. ‘But I believe she should have the opportunity to come back to society one time and be with her son.’
The Brown County jury deliberated less than an hour before convicting Schabusiness, who scattered his body parts at the home he shared with his mother and in a vehicle.
Thyrions severed head and penis were found by his mother, Tara Pakanich, and her boyfriend, Steve Hendricks, in a bucket in the basement of her home.
Other body parts were found in various bags in the basement as officers searched the property, including plastic shopping bags.
Other body parts were found in bags in the basement of his mother’s home, including plastic shopping bags
Green Bay Police Officer Alex Wanish reported how he found a plastic bucket on the floor. The officer ‘lifted the towel and observed a human head inside the bucket
Schabusiness said she ‘got lazy’ after dismembering her lover and intended to take his body parts with her in her minivan
His upper torso was found in a storage tote with a carving knife and several internal organs in the basement
Photos of knives found at the scene were shown to the jury in court. Schabusiness was found guilty of the offenses in July
His upper torso was found in a storage tote along with a carving knife and several internal organs, with Schabusiness telling cops that she had planned to take the body parts with her.
Hendricks called 911 and told the dispatcher that his girlfriend ‘swears that she found the severed head of her son in the basement.’
Body cam footage that was shown in court during the trial showed Pakanich telling police something about a ‘severed head’ and pointed to the basement of their home.
‘I opened the towel,’ Hendricks is heard telling police. ‘I picked up the towel and dropped it because I don’t know what the f*** it is, man. I have bad vision, and she’s like: ‘Is that what I think it is?’ I don’t f****** know.’
Schabusiness said she ‘got lazy’ after dismembering her lover and intended to take his body parts with her in her minivan.
However, she claims that she was ill-prepared to dispose of the corpse because the murder was random and not planned.
Arriving on the scene, Green Bay Police Officer Alex Wanish reported how he had ‘observed the plastic bucket on the floor…[with] a shower/beach towel over the bucket.’
The officer ‘lifted the towel and observed a human head inside the bucket,’ and also noted ‘what appeared to be dried blood on a nearby mattress.’
Officers found Schabusiness, still covered in blood moments later, with scratches on her arm and a cut on her left thumb from the knife she used to dismember Thyrion.
Schabusiness, who is married to a convicted felon and recently became a mother to a son, admitted that she and Thyrion had been doing drugs – including smoking methamphetamine – earlier in the day.
She told officers in an interview that she had injected herself and Thyrion with Trazodone, a powerful sedative.
Schabusiness gave disturbing details in the police interrogation video about choking her ex-boyfriend Shad Thyrion, 24, to death, and how much she liked it
Body camera footage shown in court on Monday reveled the moment cops found Thyrion’s head and penis in a blue bucket covered with a towel
Schabusiness initially claimed to have blacked out during the attack, and when asked about why the head was in a bucket, she responded ‘that is pretty f****d up’
She said that she could feel his heart beating, ‘so she kept pulling and choking him harder,’ claiming that he would not die as he just kept ‘rebuilding into muscle’. Pictured: A bloodstained mattress
Green Bay Police Department Detective David Graf told the court that the twisted murderer told officers that she cuddled Thyrion’s headless corpse after the killing
Pakinich called authorities to her home in Green Bay shortly after 3am, and she revealed that she was woken at the time by the storm door slamming and the sound of a vehicle driving away
Police recovered evidence of drug-taking, including a glass pipe and bag containing light-colored powder, from the scene.
Schabusiness initially claimed to have blacked out during the attack, and when asked about why the head was in a bucket, she responded ‘that is pretty f****d up’.
She told police that she and Thyrion had been going to have sex and that he had produced two metal chains, one for him and one for her.
Schabusiness who has a husband, Warren (pictured together), and recently became a mother to son, Mateo, admitted that she knew Thyrion
The killer claims that he put his chain around his own neck as strangulation was something they had used during intercourse before.
But she then shocked investigators with her next comment, as she blurted out ‘Damn the head. I can’t believe I left the head, though.’
According to the complaint filing, she then told officers they were ‘going to have fun trying to find all of the organs as she had dismembered the body.’
Remaining calm, Schabusiness told detectives that after Thyrion put the chain around his neck — which she compared to a dog choke collar — she just went ‘crazy’ strangling him.
She said that she could feel his heart beating, ‘so she kept pulling and choking him harder,’ claiming that he would not die as he just kept ‘rebuilding into muscle.’
Green Bay Police Department Detective David Graf told the court that the twisted murderer told officers that she cuddled Thyrion’s headless corpse after the killing.
He said: ‘She described how she had sexual contact with the body in terms of playing with his penis.
Taylor Schabusiness, 25, is seen attacking her attorney, Quinn Jolly, in court on February 14 2023
Following her brutal attack, three sheriff’s deputies were eventually able to get Schabusiness to calm down, and sat her against a door
Wisconsin attorney Quinn Jolly quit the case of an accused killer who violently attacked him in court in February
‘Also, she described that she had a dildo that she placed into his mouth … And that she had also cuddled the body.’
Following her arrest, Schabusiness had a not guilty plea entered on her behalf by the court and a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity entered by her former attorney.
Brown County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Walsh ruled in March that Schabusiness was competent to stand trial.
In February, Schabusiness attacked her previous attorney during a hearing before a deputy wrestled her to the courtroom floor.
Brown County District Attorney David Lasee called the case ‘bizarre’, telling the jury that Schabusiness also had sex with the corpse.
During a previous hearing, a jury ruled that she was responsible for the murder of Thyrion and was not suffering from mental illness at the time of the incident.
Her father told the jury during the trial that her mother died in her sleep, and the death took a toll on everyone in the family, with a psychology’s claiming that she was not competent to stand trial.
Dr Diane Lytton added that she felt Schabusiness was psychotic and had visual and auditory hallucinations, but the jury disagreed and ruled that she should be sent to prison instead of a secure facility.
