Woman Who Decapitated Ex-Boyfriend Found Guilty In Green Bay Killing: Reports

GREEN BAY, WI — A 25-year-old woman was found guilty Wednesday of killing, decapitating and sexually abusing her ex-boyfriend in Green Bay, according to media reports.

Taylor Schabusiness was convicted of homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual abuse in connection with the death of 24-year-old Shad Thyrion in February 2022, reports said.

Police responded after Thyrion’s mother found her son’s head inside a bucket in the basement of a Green Bay home, the Green Bay Press Gazette reported. Schabusiness later admitted to choking Thyrion with a dog collar he had put on, dismembering him and removing his head, saying she wanted to keep it but forgot it at the home, according to WLUK.

The two had done meth together hours before the killing, WBAY reported.

While Schabusiness has been found guilty, the trial is ongoing because she pleaded not guilty due to mental disease or defect, according to WLUK, which reported the jury must decide if mental illness kept her from grasping the severity of her crimes, in which case she will go to a state mental health facility rather than prison.

Schabusiness received outpatient and inpatient mental health care as a child, WBAY reported. She was committed and given a medication order in 2021, and physically attacked her lawyer earlier in the legal process, according to WBAY.