Taylor Schabusiness convicted of homicide, mutiliating a corpse, sexual abuse in Shad Thyrion death

Doug Schneider, Green Bay Press-Gazette
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Taylor Schabusiness, is pictured as Brown County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Walsh reads the jury's verdict on July 26, 2023, in Green Bay, Wis. The jury found Schabusiness guilty for killing and dismembering her friend in February 2022.
Taylor Schabusiness, is pictured as Brown County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Walsh reads the jury's verdict on July 26, 2023, in Green Bay, Wis. The jury found Schabusiness guilty for killing and dismembering her friend in February 2022.

GREEN BAY - A Brown County jury on Wednesday convicted Taylor Schabusiness, 25, of homicide, third-degree sexual abuse and mutilating a corpse in the February 2022 killing of former boyfriend Shad Thyrion, 24.

Jurors began deliberating about 4:50 p.m. and returned to the courtroom about 5:40 p.m.

Bailiffs escorted Schabusiness from the courtroom in handcuffs.

Schabusiness was arrested in February 2022 after police were called to a house on Stony Brook Lane in Green Bay, where Thyrion's mother discovered her son's head in a bucket in the basement. Schabusiness was charged in the death and dismemberment of Thyrion.

Brown County Circuit Court Judge Thomas Walsh instructed jurors to be back in the courtroom by 9:15 a.m. Thursday for the next phase of the trial — to see whether Schabusiness was not guilty by mental disease or defect.

Her former attorney, Quinn Jolly, entered that plea on her behalf in September. Jolly represented Schabusiness until February, when she attacked him during a hearing.

Closing arguments

In their closing arguments Wednesday, prosecutors Caleb Saunders and David Lasee said the case was simple for jurors.

"This is bizarre. This is strange. This is unnatural, but in no way is it unclear," said Lasee, Brown County district attorney. Schabusiness "did cause Shad Thyrion's death."

Saunders, an assistant district attorney, said, "There's one truth in this case: What the defendant did to Shad Thyrion."

But defense attorney Christopher Froelich said the pieces of evidence didn't fit together so neatly.

"This case is a puzzling, unclear collection of facts," Froelich said, adding, "Was this an accidental death? Was there intent to kill Shad Thryion? It's foggy, it's cloudy, it's hard to figure out."

Judge Thomas Walsh speaks during the homicide trial of Taylor Schabusiness, who is charged with killing and dismembering her friend, in Brown County Circuit Court on July 25, 2023, in Green Bay, Wis.
Judge Thomas Walsh speaks during the homicide trial of Taylor Schabusiness, who is charged with killing and dismembering her friend, in Brown County Circuit Court on July 25, 2023, in Green Bay, Wis.

A jury of nine women and seven men was selected. Four of the jurors were designated as alternates when the jury began deliberations.

Timeline of events in Schabusiness case

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