Wisconsin dismemberment case; Green Bay woman gets life in prison
GREEN BAY, Wis. - A Brown County judge sentenced Taylor Schabusiness on Tuesday, Sept. 26 to life in prison without extended supervision for the first-degree intentional homicide charge. For the two other charges, Judge Thomas Walsh issued the following sentences:
- Mutilating a corpse: 7 ½ years prison plus an additional four years of extended supervision (consecutive with the homicide charge)
- Third-degree sexual assault: 3 years prison plus an additional four years of extended supervision (consecutive with the homicide charge)
Schabusiness was convicted of three charges for the murder, dismemberment, and sexual assault of Shad Thyrion at a Green Bay home in February 2022.
Taylor Schabusiness
Schabusiness strangled Thyrion at the Green Bay home he shared with his mother, sexually abused him and dismembered his body, leaving parts of it throughout the house and in a vehicle, authorities said.
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The case took many twists and turns over 19 months. There were several defense requests for mental competency exams. In February, Schabusiness attacked her then-defense attorney, Quinn Jolly, during a court hearing.
Woman accused in Green Bay dismemberment case attacks her attorney
Taylor Schabusiness, the woman accused in a grisly killing and dismemberment case in Green Bay, attacked her attorney during a court hearing Tuesday morning, Feb. 14. This happened moments after the judge indicated he was going to delay her March 6 trial.
Legal maneuvers continued into this week. On Monday, Schabusiness' current attorney, Christopher Froelich, withdrew a request to postpone the sentencing. Froelich told the court on Friday that he had not been allowed to see his client in the Brown County Jail to prepare for sentencing, but on Monday filed a motion saying he was finally allowed to sit down with her in the jail.