Meth-Fueled Murderess Taylor Schabusiness Smirks in New Prison Pics (2024)

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CHRIS SPARGO

These are new images of the Wisconsin woman sentenced to life in prison for the meth-fueled decapitation of her friend and sometimes sexual partner.

Taylor Schabusiness, 25, smirks for the camera in the three new photos, which were taken on Friday and obtained by Inside Edition Digital.

These are the first images of Schabusiness since she appeared in court last month for her sentencing after a jury convicted her for murdering 24-year-old Shad Thyrion.

Records from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections show that Schabusiness was transferred from the Brown County Jail to the Taycheedah Correctional Institution earlier this month.

TheTaycheedah Correctional Institution is a maximum-security facility housing only female inmates that is located in the city ofFond du Lac, which is approximately 50 miles north of Milwaukee.

The move to a new facility means that Schabusiness is no longer being housed in the same jail as her father, who had also been incarcerated at the Brown County Jail.

Arturo Coronado Jr. is currently serving a 12-year sentence for second-degreesexual assaultof a child, according toBrown County court records. He was sentenced a week before his daughter after pleading no contest.

Second-degreesexual assault of a childin Wisconsin is classified as "sexual contact or sexual intercourse with a person who has not attained the age of 16 years."

Coronado appeared at his daughter's sentencing as a character witness, arriving in shackles and a jumpsuit just like his daughter.

His mother and Schabusiness' grandmother also appeared at that hearing, where she revealed that she is raising the convicted murderer's child.

Schabusiness meanwhile declined to speak at the hearing, telling the judge there was nothing she wished to say during the proceedings.

The Taycheedah Correctional Institution is where Schabusiness will likely spend the rest of her days after being convicted of first-degree intentional homicide, third-degree sexual abuse and mutilating a corpse back in July, following less than an hour of jury deliberations.

Schabusiness entered a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect to all three charges, and her attorney, Christopher Froelich, filed a notice of intent to seek post-conviction relief one day after her sentencing in September.

There have been no additional filings since that time, court records show.

Schabusiness received a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of extended probation for the murder conviction along with consecutive sentence of 90 months for mutilation of a corpse and three years for third-degree sexual assault.

The criminal complaint filed in Brown County Circuit Court says that Schabusiness allegedly admitted to killing Shad Thyrion when first interrogated by police.

She also allegedly told detectives that she sexually abused his corpse before dismembering his body with a bread knife, according to the complaint.

“Schabusiness responded that the police were going to have fun trying to find all of the organs,” wrote Caleb Saunders, assistant district attorney for Brown County, in the complaint.

“Schabusiness stated all of the body parts should be in the basem*nt. Schabusiness stated there should be a foot or a leg in the minivan. Detective Graf asked Schabusiness what she did with the head, and Schabusiness stated she had put the Victim’s head in a black bucket and put a blanket over it,” the complaint alleges. "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."

At the time of her arrest, a Green Bay police officer observed Schabusinesscovered in a "red substance" and upon close inspection noticed "smeared blood" on her hands and "dried blood on the back of her sweatshirt," according to a search warrant obtained by Inside Edition Digital.

The warrant also revealed that the mother of victim told police her son and Schabusiness were dating, despite the fact that the murder suspect is married with a child.

It is Thyrion's mother who first alerted police to the crime after finding her son's head in a bucket in her basem*nt, according to the complaint.

Schabusiness allegedly told police that she and Thyrion "intended on engaging in sexual relations involving a chain," and that the victim "died as a result of she [sic] tightening the chain around his neck."

The warrant says that Schabusiness "stated she dismembered his body, placing his head in the five-gallon bucket" and "transported two sections of [Thyrion's] body parts."

Schabusiness also "stated she used a 'bread knife' to dismember [Thyrion]," says the warrant.

That interview had been a crucial piece of evidence for police, and one that Schabuisiness and her lawyer fought to keep out of trial by arguing she was high at the time.

During her alleged confession, Schabusiness told police that she had been smoking meth and injecting the powerful sedative Trazadone at the time of Thyrion's death. The judge ultimately ruled that the statements she made to police would be admissible during her trial.

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