Mom Who Dismembered Lover with Bread Knife After Sexually Assaulting Corpse Drops Appeal

03/25/2025 12:14 PM

Taylor Schabusiness is currently serving a life sentence in Wisconsin

"This crime offends human decency, it offends human dignity, it offends the human community. "

Those were the words a Wisconsin judge had for Taylor Schabusiness back in 2024 when he sentenced her to life in prison for the murder of 24-year-old Shad Thyrion.

The 27-year-old mother and wife admitted to decapitating Thyrion while the two had sex and then sexually assaulting his headless body before mutilating and dismembering his body with a butter knife, according to a criminal complaint obtained by PEOPLE.

Schabusiness and her lawyer filed an appeal shortly after she was sentenced and convicted, but in a new filing the attorney representing the convicted murderer told the judge that that they are dropping those efforts.

Attorney Gregory Petit said that his client's conviction came after a fair investigation and trial, and that as a result there are no grounds on which they could launch a successful challenge to the ruling, in a no merit order obtained by PEOPLE.

The case will now be closed for good after Petit submits his final order to a judge for the Wisconsin Court of Appeals.

Schabusiness told investigators with the Green Bay Police Department that she and Thyrion had gone to his home after doing methamphetamine, according to the complaint.

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Once at Thyrion's home, Schabusiness said the two started to engage in sexual intercourse, which then turned violent when the convicted murderer said she began to choke her lover.

Schabusiness would black out while choking Thyrion, but when she awoke and saw the victim was already purple, she remarked she was "already this far" and decided to finish the job, noting in a lower tone of voice that she "liked it," detectives wrote in the complaint.

"Schabusiness stated she enjoyed choking him and made comments to detectives asking if they knew what it was like to love something so much that you kill it," authorities wrote.

Once dead, Schabusiness sexually assaulted Thyrion before mutilating and chopping up his body with a "bread knife," per the complaint.

Schabusiness told deputies she had grown tired by that point and did not have the energy to dispose of Thyrion's body, according to the complaint.

"Schabusiness stated the plan was for her to bring all of the body parts with her but she got lazy and only ended up putting the leg/foot in the van and she forgot the head," the complaint reads.

After Schabusiness left the home, Thyrion's mother went downstairs to check on her son and found his head in a bucket, according to the complaint.

At one point in her interview with police, Schabusiness suddenly said "damn the head," followed by, "I can't believe I left the head though."

Thyrion's genitalia was also in a bucket, while the rest of his remains were in scattered bags in the basement and in the van Schabusiness had borrowed from her roommate that day.

A jury found her guilty on counts of intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and sexual assault for the meth-fueled murder in February 2022.

Schabusiness, 27, never denied the charges against her and did not take the stand in her defense, though she did enter a plea of "not guilty" by mental disease or defect.

The jury ultimately found that Schabusiness was of sound mind.