'Lazy' girlfriend caught by horror mistake after strangling and decapitating ex
Taylor Schadbusiness was already known to police but no one could predict the sickening act she would comment.
An evil mum brutally murdered and decapitated her ex-boyfriend whilst her drug-dealing husband served time behind bars.
Taylor Schadbusiness was already known to police but no one could predict the sickening act she would comment. The mum to a two-year-old boy lived in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and was married to husband Warren.
The pair had been together since 2017, but by 2022 Warren was serving time in prison for distributing drugs. Whilst Warren was in prison, Schabusiness spiralled out of control developing a drug habit. She'd been in trouble for evading the police and was on probation, The Mirror reports.
Shad who was a kind and compassionate man, reportedly became swept along by Schadbusiness' strong character.
On the evening of February 21, 2022, Schadbusiness picked up Shad from his mum's house, where he lived. The pair then headed off to a friend's house party.
Two days later on February 23 Shad's mum, Tara Pakanich, made a horrifying discovery. She had assumed that her son and Schadbusiness were still in the basement where her son slept.
However, that morning, she heard a door slam and the sound of a vehicle driving away. Tara went down to check on Shad but she couldn't see him. Then, at the bottom of the basement stairs, she made a gruesome discovery - her son's severed head in a bucket.
After a hysterical 911 call, the police arrived at the house just after 3am. They found the plastic bucket covered with a towel. When the towel was lifted, there was Shad's head along with his dismembered penis.
Officers made more gruesome discoveries as they searched the basement. There was blood on a mattress, more body parts and organs stuffed in plastic bags and boxes. Shad's torso was in a tote bag with one of his feet - and a carving knife. It was clear that Shad had been murdered in the basement and dismembered.
Schabusiness was the last person to be seen with Shad and investigators hunted her down to the minivan where she was living. Her clothes were covered in blood, and she had scratches and a cut on her thumb that had been caused by a knife. In the van were more of Shad's body parts, including his leg. Schabusiness was arrested and taken for questioning.
At first, she said she'd blacked out while partying with Shad. When she was asked about Shad's head in the bucket, she responded, "That is pretty f***ed up." Schabusiness was then recorded making a shocking confession.
She said that after smoking cannabis with friends, she'd gone with Shad back to his mum's house where she claimed they'd smoked methamphetamine. She also said she had injected herself and Shad with the sedative Trazodone. In the basement, the couple started to have sex.
She said they'd previously engaged in erotic asphyxiation, so Shad was allegedly a willing participant when Schabusiness put a chain around his neck and tightened it. She told the police that Shad started to cough up blood, but that she could feel his heart beating so she"kept pulling and choking him harder".
She continued strangling Shad for three to five minutes until he was dead. She admitted she had "liked it" and asked officers if they "knew what it was like to love something so much that you kill it".
Hiding his organs Instead of calling the police, or fleeing the scene, Schabusiness continued to perform oral sex on Shad, and use sex toys on his body for several hours. The next morning, she found knives in the house and used them to dismember Shad's body. She said a bread knife was best due to the serrated blade.
Schabusiness described how she'd positioned his body on the mattress and beheaded him over the bucket. She poured blood down a shower drain and removed organs. She admitted enjoying beheading Shad, but went on to say she'd "got lazy" as she had intended to take his body parts to her minivan.
She was calm as she described the killing. At one point she said, "Damn the head. I can't believe I left the head, though." Then she laughed as she said the police were "going to have fun trying to find all of the organs".
Schabusiness would eventually plead not guilty by reason of insanity, but a judge ruled that she was competent to stand trial. At one of her hearings, she attacked her lawyer.
At the trial this year, defence lawyers argued that Schabusiness had suffered from years of drug abuse and trauma, including the death of her mother when she was young, and imprisonment of her dad for sexual assault on a minor. They said her mental illness meant she wasn't capable of understanding her actions.
But the prosecution told the court about the cold-blooded killing. How she'd sexually abused Shad's corpse then mutilated him. In the lead up to the killing, Schabusiness had researched the Wisconsin serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and had admitted to a psychologist that she "had a thing" for him. She even had pictures of him on her phone.
In July, Schabusiness, now 25, was found guilty of murder, third-degree sexual abuse and mutilating a corpse. Two months later, she was sentenced.
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A risk to the public
Shad's uncle Kelly Thyrion insisted there should be no chance of parole. "I will pray that you meet the same fate as your idealistic Jeffrey Dahmer," he said, referring to his murder by another inmate behind bars.
Incredibly, Shad's dad Michael said that Schabusiness should be given a chance.
"I forgive you..." he said. "It does no good to hate you."
Schabusiness was given life in prison without the chance of parole for the murder and an additional 10 and a half years for mutilation of a corpse and sexual assault. She appeared to smile and pull faces from beneath a large white mask, known as a spit hood to prevent spitting or biting.
The judge said Schabusiness was a risk to the public. "This crime offends human decency, it offends human dignity, and it offends the human community."
From prison, Schabusiness' husband Warren made a statement saying he was imprisoned because he'd been framed - and added that he'll stand by his wife "forever".
Schabusiness is behind bars and Shad's murder has become a series of shocking headlines. A young man lost his life in the most senseless and brutal way, while his killer continues to show no remorse.
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