A Wisconsin woman was found guilty of strangling, beheading, and dismembering her lover in 2022.
According to WBAY, jurors deliberated for 30 minutes before convicting Taylor Schabusiness, 25, of Shad Thyrion’s murder. Schabusiness allegedly confessed to being on drugs when she strangled Thyrion with a metal chain while having sexual intercourse in the basement of his family’s Brown County home. She is accused of hiding his mutilated body parts throughout the home and in a car.
Judge Thomas Walsh said that she was still culpable for Thyrion’s slaying despite a bipolar diagnosis and her use of drugs to treat that condition.
Cops who responded to the residence on February 23, 2022, found Thyrion’s severed head in a bucket. Testimony on Monday revealed that Thyrion’s mother initially believed her son’s head was fake.
Jurors saw pictures of Thyrion’s decapitated head from an autopsy. Dr. Vincent Tranchida, a Dane County medical examiner who performed the autopsy, testified that it would have taken Schabusiness hours to dismember Thyrion.
Last week, Schabusiness was found mentally fit to stand trial. Her first attorney withdrew after Schabusiness attacked him during a court hearing in February.
Schabusiness did not testify during her trial.
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