What did Taylor SchaBusiness do to Shad Thyrion?

Taylor Schabusiness, 25, was convicted of the gruesome murder of 24-year-old Shad Thyrion. Jurors heard in gruesome detail how she choked Thyrion during sex and then proceeded to dismember his body .

What judge sentenced Taylor Schabusiness?

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WLUK) -- Taylor Schabusiness will spend the rest of her life in prison, plus 10 1/2 years -- and will not have a chance for parole. That was the decision of Judge Thomas Walsh , who sentenced Schabusiness Tuesday for the murder and dismemberment of Shad Thyrion.

Why was Taylor SchaBusiness's face covered?

The Brown County Jail told Scripps News Green Bay that the decision was made to put Schabusiness in a hood due to recent behavior issues for the safety of everyone around her . Previously, Schabusiness had attacked her attorney during a court hearing, tackling him before she was removed from the room.

What is Taylor Schabusiness's life sentence?

Schabusiness was sentenced to life in prison with no chance at parole, plus another 10.5 years after that , for the Feb. 22, 2022, murder of Thyrion at a west side home. The jury rejected her insanity defense.

What crimes did Taylor SchaBusiness commit?

A jury had convicted her in July of first-degree intentional homicide, third-degree sexual assault and mutilating a corpse. Schabusiness had pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, but jury also found that she wasn't mentally ill when she killed Thyrion.

Can Taylor Schabusiness ever get out of jail?

The life sentence without parole verdict was handed down today from Judge Thomas Walsh stating that Taylor Schabusiness will not have the opportunity for parole . Schabusiness wore a spit hood during her sentencing.

Why did Taylor Schabusiness' dad go to jail?

The two even mouthed "I love you" to one another as Arturo exited the courtroom. Schabusiness then added: “Go Bears.” Coronado is currently serving a 12-year sentence for second-degree sexual assault of a child according to Brown County Court records. He was convicted just last week after pleading no contest.

Where is Taylor Schabusiness now?

Taylor Schabusiness gets life in prison for Green Bay murder/dismemberment case. Taylor Schabusiness, 25, was found guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and third-degree sexual assault in the death of Shad Thyrion. Picture of Taylor Schabusiness during a court hearing, May 10, 2022.

What did Taylor Schabusiness do to her boyfriend's body?

Prosecutors said Thyrion and Schabusiness had smoked methamphetamine in the basem*nt of Thyrion's mother's Green Bay home before Schabusiness strangled, decapitated and dismembered him . She then left parts of his body throughout the house and in a vehicle, authorities said.

What did Taylor Showbusiness do?

Schabusiness was arrested and charged with murder of the first degree, mutilating a corpse, and third-degree sexual assault. On July 26, 2023, a jury convicted her on all three counts. Sentencing took place on September 26 with Schabusiness sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.

Taylor Schabusiness sentenced to life in prison for killing, decapitating Shad Thyrion of Green Bay (2024)

GREEN BAY - Lawyers in a Green Bay homicide-decapitation case Tuesday debated whether Taylor Schabusiness needed a long prison sentence, or whether she deserved a chance at turning her life around after completing punishment for killing and dismembering her friend in 2022.

Brown County Deputy District Attoreny Caleb Saunders, who prosecuted the case, said Schabusiness told detectives that the killing happened "because she liked it" and that the victim, Shad Thyrion, "was a good and quiet kid. He would always hug his dad."

Saunders said Schabusiness would still have the opportunity to hug her father once he was released from state prison. Thyrion, the prosecutor made clear, would not be hugging family members again.

Schabusiness' attorney said she was the victim of the drugs she began using as she grew older, and did not receive help fighting her dependence on the substances, even when she was in jail.

"She's not a lost cause, your honor," attorney Christopher Froelich told Brown County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Walsh in asking for less than the maximum sentence. "She's going to need some treatment to process all these (addiction issues) ... My client has a history of using mind-altering substances. But she still graduated from high school, had a baby, and held a job."

Walsh expressed some sympathy for Schabusiness' battle with her demons, but said he needed to sentence her to a prison term that would protect the public from harm. He ordered her to spend life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing Shad Thyrion of Green Bay.

"The offense in this case can't be overstated," Walsh said before detailing the sentence. "In this case, you seem to run out of superlatives in describing what happened. ... This crime offends human decency, it offends human dignity, it offends the human community. It really does."

He added, "I think there is a need to protect the public in this case. As I said, this behavior seems so removed from the human community as to be unpredictable. ... Where this kind of a thing is possible, absolutley anything is possible, and from that the public needs protection."

Schabusiness was convicted on July 26 by a Brown County jury that took only 50 minutes to find her guilty of first-degree intentional homicide, third-degree sexual assault and mutilating a corpse. She had pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. The next day the same jury rejected her plea that she suffered from mental disease or defect when she killed Thyrion.

Two members of Thyrion's family addressed the court before sentencing.

Kelly Thyrion, Shad's uncle, ripped into Schabusiness for choosing "the most cowardly thing you could do," — using Shad Thyrion's friendship and "taking advantage" of him. eventually ending Shad's life. "I will pray that you meet the same fate as your idealistic Jeffrey Dahmer."

But the victim's father, Michael Thyrion, was more conciliatory. "Taylor, I forgive you for what you did to my son," he said. "You made a bad choice ... Shad was a wonderful child, too.”

Michael Thyrion added, "I believe everybody makes bad choices, maybe not to this scale. It does no good to hate you. I know you've got a heart, got a mind."