On February 23, , Shad Thyrion , a year-old American man, was murdered and dismembered by his lover, Taylor Schabusiness. Thyrion's severed head was discovered by his mother, Tara Pakanich, in a bucket in the basement of their family home in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Other severed body parts, including Thyrion's bisected torso in a storage tote, were later discovered by police.
Schabusiness, who was involved in a sexual relationship with Thyrion, admitted to strangling him to death during sexual intercourse while they were both intoxicated with methamphetamine and prescription drugs.
She continued to have sex with Thyrion's body before dismembering, removing internal organs from, and mutilating it. Schabusiness was arrested and charged with murder , mutilating a corpse, and rape. On July 26, , a jury convicted her on all three counts. Sentencing took place on September 26 with Schabusiness sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.
On February 21, , at around p. The couple, joined by a friend, went to an apartment on Eastman Avenue and smoked cannabis. Schabusiness stated in her interrogation that she and Thyrion also smoked methamphetamine , and injected Trazodone at the apartment after the friend left. Pakanich and her boyfriend, Steve Hendricks, were away at the time. They then went down to the basement and began engaging in sexual intercourse.
Schabusiness claimed that they had engaged in erotic asphyxiation in prior encounters and on this occurrence, they had used metal chains. She continued until Thyrion was deceased which took around 3 to 5 minutes. Schabusiness then proceeded to perform oral sex and use sex toys on the body for several hours afterwards. Schabusiness positioned the body on the bed and beheaded it over a bucket and a storage tote to contain the blood.
