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Taylor Schabusiness, 24, admits she ‘choked lover to death during sex while high on drugs, used a bread knife to dismember him, then dumped his head and genitals in a bucket and his legs in a crockpot’

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Taylor Denise Schabusiness who is married, is accused of decapitating a male lover and placing his head in a bucket in the basement of a home in Green Bay, Wisconsin

She admits that she ‘choked Shad Rock Thyrion, 24, to death during sex while high on drugs, used a bread knife to dismember him, then dumped his head and genitals in a bucket and his legs in a crockpot’

Schabusiness left Shad Thyrion’s head in a bucket by the stairs in the basement where his mother discovered it and called cops 

Schabusiness, 24, was charged Tuesday with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault

The graphic details released Tuesday in a criminal complaint states that responding officers found the victim’s head early last Wednesday morning 

Officers searched the suspects home and van and found body parts, including the victim’s legs, in a crockpot box   

Schabusiness, a known associate of the victim and the last person seen with him, allegedly admitted to killing and dismembering her lover

Schabusiness allegedly, admitted to doing drugs and having sex all day with the victim before she choked him to death with a chain

She admitted performed sexual acts after killing her victim, for about two to three hours, including performing oral sex on his corpse 

She’s charged with one count each of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault

She faces a sentence of life imprisonment if convicted of the class A felony

Her bail was set at $2 million cash and she remains in custody at the Brown County Jail

Taylor Schabusiness, 24, [photo], was accused of killing and decapitating a Green Bay man at a home after smoking methamphetamine with him. She was charged Tuesday with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault.

A 24-year-old woman from Wisconsin has been charged after she allegedly killed a man while having sex and dismembered him before stashing the body parts indifferent locations in the victim’s house and some in her van parked near the home.
The victim has been identified as Shad Rock Thyrion, also 24.
The alleged killer, Taylor Denise Schabusiness who is married, allegedly taunted the team of police investigators that they were ‘going to have fun trying to find all of the organs.’
According to police Schabusiness admitted giving oral sex and using a sex toy on her victim after he was dead.

Victim: Shad Rock Thyrion’s mother found his severed head in a bucket at the bottom of her basement stairs

Schabusiness was charged Tuesday with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault.
Reacting to her her psychopathic act of choking her partner to death during sex, before decapitating and dismembering his body, Schabusiness has been described as ‘a monster’ by the victim’s family.
The victim’s own mother discovered her son’s severed head in a bucket, covered with a towel, in her home.
She’s accused of choking the Shad Rock Thyrion to death during sex and before she used a bread knife to dismember his body.
Schabusiness then placed her victim’s head and penis in a bucket, while she dumped other body parts in a large crockpot box, according to a criminal complaint.

The gruesome discovery was made inside a Green Bay Home, on February 23, by the victim’s own mother when she returned home.
The criminal complaint states that the mother told police that her son and Schabusiness were in the basement during the day on Tuesday while she – the mother – and her boyfriend were out of the home. Thyrion’s mother, Tara Pakanich, 47, called police to her home in Green Bay shortly after 3am on Tuesday February 23. She said she woke up between 2:30 a.m. and  3:00 a.m. because she heard a storm door being slammed.
Hearing a vehicle, she assumed Schabusiness had left. Pakanich said she checked the basement and did not see anyone, so she started to walk back up the stairs and that was when she noticed a bucket next to the bottom of the stairs.
Pakanich stated she removed a blanket that was over the bucket, and she discovered the head of her son.
Thyrion’s mother told police that Schabusiness had picked her son up around 9.30pm on Monday February 21, which was when she last saw him alive.
Pakanich and her boyfriend were out for much of the following day, and she did not hear her son and Schabusiness return but she believed they had spent the day in the basement as she heard Schabusiness talking.

Schabusiness arraigned in Brown County Court on Tuesday, where her bail was set at $2 million. She remains in custody at the Brown County Jail

Responding officers ‘observed the plastic bucket on the floor…[with] a shower/beach towel over the bucket.’ Lifting ‘the towel, [I],observed a human head inside the bucket,’ officer Alex Wanish reported.
He also noted ‘what appeared to be dried blood on a nearby mattress.’   
A search of the home led police to also find several other body parts, including a ‘male organ’ in the bucket and an upper torso in a tote bag.  
Schabusiness, who was ‘a known associate of the victim,’ was believed to be the last person to be seen with the victim, which led investigators to her.
It didn’t take long for police to locate Schabusiness. They found her at a home on Eastman Avenue.
Police found the suspect with blood still on her sweatshirt and sweatpants, scratches on her arms, a cut on her left thumb and what appeared to be blood on her hands.
Admitting to her acts, Schabusiness told investigators she did not mean to kill the victim but as she was choking him, she liked it and kept doing it, the complaint alleges.

Posting on Facebook on February 24, the day after Thyrion’s gruesome death, his uncle revealed, ‘Yesterday we were given some devastating news. Our nephew Shad Thyrion was taken from us by what I can only assume is a monster’

Schabusiness who has a husband, Warren, and recently became a mother to son, Mateo, admitted that she knew Thyrion. The pair were also Facebook friends.
She claimed that they had been doing drugs – including smoking methamphetamine – earlier in the day. She said she had also shot herself and Thyrion up with Trazadone, a powerful sedative.
Police recovered evidence of drug-taking, including a glass pipe and bag containing light colored powder, from the scene.
Cops searched her van and uncovered a crock pot box with more body parts, including legs, according to court records.
When told by detectives that police had found Thyrion’s head in a bucket Schabusiness responded, ‘that is pretty f***d up.’ When asked what had happened in the basement she replied, ‘that is a good question’ and initially claimed to have blacked out.

The alleged killer Taylor Schabusiness is married to husband Warren Schabusiness [photo]. The couple recently welcomed their son, Mateo

She went on to tell 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. She said he put his chain around his own neck as strangulation was something they had used during intercourse before.
According to the complaint Schabusiness then suddenly blurted out, ‘Damn the head. I can’t believe I left the head though’ before telling officers they were ‘going to have fun trying to find all of the organs as she had dismembered the body.’
She then told them that most of the body parts were in the basement but that ‘there should be a foot or a leg’ in her minivan.

Schabusiness who is married, claimed that all day they had been doing drugs and having sex, including smoking methamphetamine, earlier in the day. She said she had also shot herself and Thyrion up with Trazadone, a powerful sedative

With apparent calm Schabusiness told detectives that after Thyrion put the chain around his neck, which she compared to a dog choke collar, then 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.’
She told how she sat on top of him, choking him while he lay face down on the bed and how she watched as he coughed up blood and ‘waited for him to die.’
At some point, she admitted, she knew that he was dead as his face was purple and blood was coming from his mouth. Still, she told detectives, that she was ‘already this far’ so she did not stop.

Cops were called to the home on Stony Brook Lane in Green Bay around 3:25 a.m. on February 23 after the victim’s mother stumbled upon the grisly scene in her basement

When police searched her van parked on Eastman Avenue, they found a crock pot box with ‘additional human body parts including legs,’ according to the criminal complaint.  
Schabusiness was taken into custody and when police asked her what happened, she replied, ‘That is a good question,’ according to the complaint. 
Schabusiness claimed she went “crazy” while having drug-fueled sex with the victim. In the complaint, Schabusiness told police that she and the victim were together all day Tuesday and had been smoking methamphetamine while having sex, prosecutors said.


According her, Thyrion put a chain around his neck as part of a sex act.
She said she did not intend to kill the man but that she liked choking him and kept doing it, the court records say.
She allegedly described the killing as random, that she blacked out at one point and just went ‘crazy’ and started strangling the victim with a chain, and then with her hands. 
She told police, she could feel the victim’s heart beating as she was choking him, so she kept pulling and choking him harder. At some point she realized the victim was dead when his face turned purple and blood came out of his mouth, but she kept choking him anyway. 

A search of the home led police to also find several other body parts, including a ‘male organ’ in the bucket and an upper torso in a tote bag. Schabusiness told police that she and the victim were together all day Tuesday and had been smoking methamphetamine while having sex,

The complaint alleges that she also asked detectives if they knew what it was like to “love something so much that you kill it.”  – The complaint also contains graphic details of sexual acts Schabusiness said she did to the victim’s body after he died, admitting she played with his body for ‘two to three hours’ after his death. 
‘Schabusiness stated she sucked the Victim’s penis, that she had a dildo that she put in the Victim’s mouth and then in the Victim’s ***,’ according to the complaint.
She said that Thyrion had fought back as she strangled him and went on to tell detectives that she had decapitated and dismembered him with knives taken from Thyrion’s mother’s kitchen.
She told them they would find the knives she had used in same black bags as she had put the body parts into. Ultimately, she said, she had preferred a bread knife because the serrated edge made it more effective for the grizzly task.
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. His upper torso was found in a storage tote along with a carving knife and several internal organs.
His legs and other body parts were found in a crockpot box on top of a laundry basket of clothes in the rear passenger seat of the suspect’s minivan.
Schabusiness told detectives that she had planned to take all the body parts with her when she left in her minivan but that she had ‘got lazy’ and was ill-prepared because the murder was random and not planned, and only ended up putting the “leg/foot” in the van and she forgot the head.  
“I can’t believe I left the head though,” she added, referring to the victim’s head in the basement. .
When asked if she believed she had done the right thing, Schabusiness responded I ‘did it anyway.’
She faces imprisonment for life if convicted of the class A felony.
Schabusiness appeared in Brown County Court on Tuesday. Her bail was set at $2 million and she remains in custody at the Brown County Jail. 
She is scheduled to be back in court in three weeks.
The victim’s family has launched a GoFundMe page with the stated aim of helping his mother pay for housing, transportation and funeral costs. So far it has garnered more than $3,000 of its $20,000 goal.

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