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what products I'm using, I'll list them down in the
description box down below. I honestly don't know what I'm doing for my makeup right
now, so good luck to me. I feel like I never know, but sometimes I come in with a plan like, oh, I'm gonna do blah blah blah. But today I am like, I either wanna go scary grungy, scary grungy meaning just like,
I'm not trying to be cute, I'm trying to like scare a little bit, or I can do like pretty
smoky, like a pretty smoky. I think I should go scary
because that's my aesthetic. I just wanna give you the creeps. Okay, so today's story takes
place in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Yeah, Green Bay. Now Green Bay is famous
for their football team, the Packers, and also cheese. I mean there are a lot of
little charming neighborhoods way up in the north country, but low key, just kind of like a lot of
other places in America, everyone is kind of heavily into drugs. I mean not everyone, but you know, sadly there's a very serious
drug underbelly up in Green Bay like many other places, right? They're fucking everywhere,
and it seems like, like there drug of
choice seems to be meth. So, that's the setting, and buckle up, because we're gonna ride the snake. We're gonna get down to some Schabusiness. Here we go. Okay, so it's 3:00 a.m.
February 23rd, 2022, Green Bay 911 gets a phone
call from a very confused man. Now this man's name is Steve. Now on the phone call,
he seems kind of calm, a little slow since he had just woken up, so kind of like brain foggy, but he's calling 911
because his girlfriend, whose name is Tara, is
absolutely losing it. She is in the back, you can
hear her on the 911 call. She's hysterical, she's
screaming, she's crying, she woke him up screaming,
telling him to call 911. So Steve's on the phone kinda like she's, she just told me to call, you know, like he doesn't fully
understand what's going on yet. So the dispatcher's on
the phone asking him like, what's going on, right? What's going on? Tell me what's going on. And he tells them, my girl just woke me up and
she swears that she found a severed head of her son in the basement. The dispatcher asked
Steve to repeat himself. I mean, hello, it's not really common that a head in a bucket
is found, you know? So the dispatcher is like,
I'm sorry, come again. What was that? And the dispatcher then asked Steve if he's gone down to
the basement to confirm that there is in fact a head in a bucket. And Steve says back to
the dispatcher like, I don't know what the fuck's down there, like pardon my language, but I'm kind of a little freaked out here. Which honestly, very understandable. Now the dispatcher
continues to ask Steve like, maybe is your girlfriend Tara
maybe like hallucinating? Like we need confirmation here Steve. So Steve does decide to
go down to the basement and check it out, but his eyesight is apparently really bad, and there isn't the best
lighting down there, so he can't exactly make out what's down there or in the
bucket, but he's definitely, he goes down there and he
checks out and he's freaked out. So Steve goes back to his
girlfriend, he's like, please can you just come
downstairs and like confirm, because I don't know what you're seeing, but Tara just refuses to go downstairs. Fair. I can't blame them. If it is her son's head in a bucket, I don't think I would wanna go back there downstairs and look by myself
alone either actually, yeah, that's a terrible idea. I don't know what I would
do, I've never seen a head, let alone my nonexisting son's head. Oh, damn it Bailey. No, no. So then the dispatcher is
like, okay, let me just, can I speak to Tara directly? Then they ask her, do you know where the rest
of your son's body is? And she answers like, I have no idea. I just saw a head, can you get over here? So the dispatcher asked
her for her son's name, and then that's when Tara
tells 'em it's Shad Thyrion. And the dispatcher tells Tara that they're gonna send
officers out to her immediately, they were already on their way, but she does check one
last time about the head, the dispatcher, and she says like, are you sure it's not a fake head? And Tara says, "It's real, swear." So within minutes the police,
they get down to Tara's house, she answers the door. Now she's really shaken up, so when police ask her to come
in and see what's going on, all Tara can do is really just point in the direction of the basement. She's not really able to say anything. Nothing leaves her mouth. I mean it's her kid for Christ's sakes. I don't really blame her. It's funny how they always
want you to act normal on these 911 calls and stuff, and you're like, just saw a head, kind of hard to act natural
and normal here, ma'am. So one of the officers that shows up, his name is Officer Alex Wanish. He goes down and he takes a
quick glance around the room and right away he can tell it's
a crime scene, no question. When he looks around the room, he sees dried blood all
over a bare mattress, and not far from this bare
mattress covered in fucking blood was a black bucket that was on the floor and it
was covered by a beach towel, but nobody was going to the
beach, you know what I'm saying? So Officer Wanish, obviously
head in the bucket, he hesitates a little bit, but he lifts the towel and sees, it's a head in a bucket. So then he quickly calls for backup. 10-4, I've got a head in a bucket, over. Then the officer, he goes
up to Tara and he's like, can I please get a picture of your son? I just wanna be able to confirm that it is indeed his head in the bucket. So she gives him the picture
and he goes downstairs and he confirms that it is indeed Shad, Tara's son, Shad's head. He's like looking in this bucket, and then he also finds right underneath or like next to the severed head, there was also a penis in the bucket, with two testicles still attached. Huh? Yeah. Huh? Yeah. So the officer is looking around the room, you know it's a crime scene now. And that's where he notices that the blood wasn't just on the mattress. There were also like swishes
of blood on the concrete floor. They looked like swirled
finger paint, excuse me. But it really looked like
somebody kind of had like a towel and was trying to like clean up the blood, but then they gave up. So the killer must have
been like a little bit lazy. So the officer, he's
searching around the room, and while he's looking around he finds two different
blood soaked knives, and immediately he's thinking like, okay, these are probably the murder weapons. But they were not the only
murder weapons lying around. Officer Wanish finds a plastic bag with three more bloody knives. Inside the plastic bag, one of those knives
was like a bread knife. And then there were like
other kitchen knives with it. So it was like either one
or maybe all of these knives had been the murder weapon to kill Shad. Many more bags were found in the basement, and within these bags there were various body parts and organs that once belonged to
Shad, inside of them. I mean it wasn't just
Shad's head and genitals that were found, there was so much more. There was like this big
blue storage container, and Officer Wanish finds Shad's
upper torso inside of it. And to make matters worse, it's like inside of his upper torso, upper torso in the container, inside of the upper torso, gift within a gift. So as in Shad's chest, there was his foot. His foot was put in the,
Lord be with us, Jesus. What? Yes. Shad's chest was being used as storage, I guess for his other parts, and below where his
head was supposed to be, there were like these really stiff cuts, like someone was trying
really, really hard to use one of these kitchen
knives to saw off his head. But like it wasn't
working and I don't know, but it was rough. Alongside in that blue container, there were also just
various bodily fluids. It didn't say exactly what,
but like it wasn't just blood. I think that says enough. So, okay, this officer, Officer W, I think it's Wanish, Officer W, he had pretty much walked into a very brutal, very manic crime scene. Shad's body had been
completely dismembered. Certain parts were missing. Certain parts seemed to
be in the wrong place. So it was like what the
hell is going on, right? Within this murder room there was a glass pipe that was found, and like a gram of some kind
of substance, it was noted, a light colored powdered material within like a bag next to it. And this was just sitting on
the TV stand next to the bed. So to answer like what
the hell is going on? It seemed to be the
answer is meth, you know? So at this point it was
confirmed Shad was murdered. And not only that, brutally
murdered, brutally murdered. So the officer asked Tara, Shad's mom, like who was the last person to see Shad? Who was the who, what? And Tara tells him it was a friend of his, like a friend with benefits you could say. And that was 25-year-old
Taylor Schabusiness. I'm gonna pause for that
last name, Schabusiness. The things you could
do with that last name. Schabusiness? Let's get down to Schabusiness. She could've been, Schabusiness, come on. I couldn't, I couldn't. I was like Schabusiness? Huh? Schabusiness. now I know what you're thinking. Great name, we all thought it. (giggling) Not her birth name. Not her birth name. I could go on and on for hours
about the name Schabusiness, but I won't. She was born as Taylor
Coronado in Evanston, Illinois, on November 23rd, 1997. She's a Sag, but we're not claiming her. She's been removed. So what's up with Taylor? Let me tell you. Taylor had shit life,
let's just be honest. Shit life, thus far. She was raised by her parents, Marla, and her dad is Arturo Coronado, and she also had a
younger brother named AJ. And although they weren't
like a perfect family, which every family is not, they were together and
they lived a somewhat decent middle class life, it was said. Taylor's dad, Arturo, he had been a longtime employee
of a large phone company, I mean back in the dinosaur times when cell phones were like brick phones, and he had been working
for this company forever. So you know, like they did well, they were comfortable, stable, and from the outside looked somewhat good. It was said when Taylor
got into fourth grade, Arturo, he got transferred
to Green Bay, Wisconsin, and that's when he decided
to move the whole family to this new location, right? And put down their roots there. Her mother, Marla, was a severe alcoholic, and the kind of alcoholic that definitely could not make
a super stable household. Marla was really sick. In May of 2009 when Taylor was 11, the whole family was like
watching a movie together, everything's fine and great, but by morning, everyone
went to bed, whatever. By morning, Arturo wakes up, he turns over to greet
his wife, and in bed, that's when he finds her
non-responsive, Marla. So he reached out to touch
her and that's when he said that she was already cold. So Taylor's mom, Marla, she died of cirrhosis from
alcoholism in her sleep at the age of only 41. It's so sad. So very young. Look as a parent, like Arturo is like, I'm just gonna try and hide what happened, because the kids have to go to school. So like in the morning the
kids came into their bedroom, it was Taylor and AJ, and to say like good morning or something. But Arturo decided to
shield them, the kids, from her lifeless body and
send them off to school, like everything was normal. So they wouldn't see anything. It was said like Taylor knew deep down that something was wrong,
but she couldn't tell what, and it wasn't until like later that day when the kids came back
from school and whatnot, that Arturo had broken the news to them that their mom had died. Marla's death obviously took
a toll on the whole family, and it really hit Taylor the hardest. I mean, how could it not? It was her mom, you know? She was so young and she didn't know how
to process her grief. And then on top of that,
Arturo, Taylor's dad, he got married pretty quickly
after her mother's death. So it's like a lot of
change to go through, some trauma, right, that she really didn't get to process. So with all of that, as
Taylor started growing up, you know she started to
act out, you can say, getting into trouble, having like some kind of rage attacks. It was different. It was a different girl,
according to Arturo. It was said that Taylor, at school, she started to like pick
fights with everybody. She was constantly getting in trouble for her behavioral issues. And her dad, obviously he was concerned, but she's a young girl, she lost her mom. She's just acting out. She's being a pre-teen slash teenager. Like he tried his best but he felt like there wasn't much he could do, because she was just a teenager, which is like, okay, fair. But I don't know. But when Taylor turned 12 years old, Arturo, her dad, he had found her trying to end her life, and I guess she had taken
like a knife to her throat, and when he found her it was
just in time to like stop her. And at that point that's
when her dad was like, okay, she needs help, she needs real help. So he immediately got her seen by a doctor for mental health. He took her to a mental
health professional, in hopes that she could
get some kind of real help that he didn't know how to deal with. Unclear if Taylor
received actual treatment or if she just saw a doctor, but either way she was
mainly treated with drugs. She was getting medication for like ADHD, she was getting mood stabilizers, antipsychotics and even
antidepressants as well. Even with all the heavy
medications Taylor was on to help her manage her mental health, it wasn't getting to the root
of the problem, you know? So it still continued on. Up through high school, Taylor
was constantly picking fights and I guess just being a menace
really is how it sounded. Up through high school, Taylor, she just kept picking fights. She kept being awful, but she did meet a nice young man and get a boyfriend named Shad. Yes, this is when she met Shad. So both of them are just up
to no good, being misfits. And after enduring years
of behavioral problems, her school just had enough, and they decided it was
best to expel Taylor. Now at this point, Arturo, her dad, had no idea like what to
do with her anymore, right? She's acting out, he's trying his best. So he thought the best
thing to do with her would be to send her off to Texas to live with her grandparents. And like that's where she would end up finishing school, high school, and she could just kind of get away from her Green Gay issues or whatever was going on back at home. And it was a really good
move because Taylor, she ends up graduating
high school in Texas. She gets her diploma and then
after graduation she turns 18. She's feeling good and proud
of herself or something. I don't know how she's feeling. But it was said she thought
she was doing great, and decided it'd be best to
just go off of her medications, which is very dangerous
because a lot of times the medications will make you feel better. You think you're doing better, then you stop taking the
medications because you're like, I don't need them anymore, because they're working and I feel great. And then they go off and that's not great. So then in 2017, Taylor's now 19, she thinks it'd be best
to move back to Green Bay. She's fully off her medications, she's feeling good and she's ready for her triumphant return to Green Bay. At this point it was so that
Taylor had been self-medicating with like weed, typical
kind of like teenage stuff, and also alcohol. But then she started to
experiment a little bit with something that she called, the bitch. The bitch. And you're probably wondering,
well what's the bitch? Well, the quote-unquote, the bitch, is actually, it's meth. The bitch is meth. Yeah, I know a jump. She went from weed and alcohol to meth. I was like, wow, usually
there's an in-between, but okay, yeah, straight to meth. All right. It was actually quote-unquote the bitch who introduced Taylor to the man that she would go on to
marry, her drug dealer, Warren Schabow, Schabow, Schabow, Schabow. Warren, Dream man, he's in his 20s, he's tall, he has a job. So Taylor's like, wow, all
of the bases are covered. Dream man, and Taylor was smitten. She falls hard for Warren
and the two quickly become, they're inseparable, you know. Plus a two for one for her. She's like, I got my drug dealer
and a lover slash husband, all right, I'm doing good. So their relationship was pretty rough right from the beginning. I mean plus on top of
that they're doing meth so it's like it's not gonna be the smoothest relationship, right? Between the two of them, they were always making accusations
about somebody cheating. They're like, you're cheating. No you're cheating, just messy. Allegedly, Warren was
very controlling of Taylor right from the start, and he started to isolate
her from the family. And Taylor once said that
during a meth-fueled fight, she had run to her neighbor's
house to call 911 for help. But you know, despite all
of this, Taylor and Warren, the two of them got married in 2019. Oh great, just what they
should do is get married. But here's the thing, instead of changing her last
name to Warren's last name, which was Schabow, Warren has Taylor change her
last name to Schabusiness. I guess it was Warren's idea. And she was like, okay, let's do it, and she did, Schabusiness. Meth, I don't know. Now meth a lot of the
times is kind of, you know, it's kind of a joke. Meth, right? Some people talk about meth users as being just erratic and
crazy and all that stuff, but they're some of the most
erratic drug users of all time. It can make people absolutely
just lose their minds, and their teeth fall out,
they pick at their skin. I mean it's awful from what I hear. I've never done meth, I don't plan on it, but it's actually, it's more than that. It's like usually heartbreaking and it's almost an impossible
addiction to break. When a person's on meth, they can experience
hallucinations, paranoia, they can exhibit symptoms of
what looks like schizophrenia. I mean the list goes on. But what I'm getting at is that meth really fucks you up, okay? And then long term, meth actually changes the
literal shape of your brain. It rewires your brain's dopamine system, which is like the pleasure system, so that the only thing
that makes you feel good is meth and only meth. So it's like, it's a demon
and it truly is a bitch. It's just not something people can just stop easily on their own. You know, like sad. Hopefully you don't do meth. In July of 2020, Taylor was high on meth, and she was running around
a Green Bay neighborhood, just knocking on people's doors. She's knocking on people's doors and someone calls the
cops, obviously, right? Because this chick is
just acting kind of crazy. Officers, they find Taylor on the streets and that's when she tells them that quote, "she's on a different planet
right now," end quote, sick. And she ends up showing the officers her fresh track marks on
her arms from her meth use. So at least they knew what they were working
with I guess, I don't know. But they knew what they were working with. So they end up managing
to calm Taylor down. But then another police
officer shows up to the scene, and she's getting all spooked
and kind of like scared. So she starts screaming at the officers, she walks into oncoming traffic, she's popping off and she's
just acting erratic, okay? So the officer, they tried to get her to
come back to the sidewalk, so she's not in traffic, but this time she's getting really angry and she starts to kick them and then they place her under arrest. And they also charge her
with resisting arrest and battery on law enforcement, because she was kicking
and screaming the officers. And because it was her first felony, she only got three years probation, and a mandatory psychological evaluation. I know they're like,
it's your first felony. No more than a month
later, in August of 2020, mind you, this was like peak
pandemic by the way, remember? Yeah, none of us remember
'cause it's been a a blur. But what's Miss Taylor up to? Well she ends up getting pulled over, she's driving, woo woo. So she's like supposed to pull over but instead she floors it. I guess she needed to
handle some Schabusiness. (drum rim shot)
(faux crowd cheering) Thank you. Thank you. I had to do one. Okay, so she ends up flooring it and I guess she ends up sending police on a high speed chase through Green Bay. She runs a bunch of lights,
almost hits a bunch of people. She ends up pulling into
her dad's apartment complex where she then hops outta the car, tries to make a run for it, like an idiot. She gets out the car, she's running, she's trying to get to her
dad's apartment for some reason, like she thinks she's really
gonna escape the police, but they end up snatching her, arrest her. She only gets three months in jail and two more years of probation. I just feel like after this maybe you, you'd spend longer in
jail, not three months. But what do I know? I don't know anything. I just know our legal
system is dumb as shit. But I think we can all agree she's off to a pretty rocky start, right? And at this point in
Taylor's life, she's like, you know what, you know
what I haven't done yet? I haven't become a mother. Yeah, I know what better time
to become a mom than this? Great, this is gonna go well. By the time Taylor is
arrested in August of 2020, she's pregnant. And according to a friend, at this time when she was pregnant, she was still doing drugs. So she decides to end up moving back to her grandparents' house in Texas where she could try and live a clean life while she's pregnant. Meanwhile, Warren, her husband, I guess he had gone to jail, because he got caught dealing meth. So without him around, I think that's when she decided to go back to her grandparents. Makes sense, right? He's a drug dealer. So he was doing his job
and he got caught for it. So he was charged with possession, with intent to distribute, a felony. So he got sent off to
federal prison leaving Taylor to be a single mom and, good luck girl, you know? But this part, like it
didn't make me laugh, it just made me like have
a lot of question marks around my head, because I was like, Taylor got two felonies and
barely had to serve any time, but he got caught and he
had to serve a lot of time. So all right, you know? All right, can't figure that one out. In early 2021, Taylor ends
up, she's 23 at this point, she delivers her baby boy, and Taylor decides to give
motherhood her best shot. During this time she's also
trying to keep her hands busy, trying to keep herself busy so
she doesn't go back to using. She starts her own little small business where she's selling custom-beaded jewelry and
she's selling it on Facebook. She's just doing her thing. But for Taylor, it was still
a daily struggle for her. Like I guess woo, shortly
after her son was born, Taylor had two suicide
attempts back to back. One was in April of like 2021, and then another in May of 2021. Taylor wasn't officially
diagnosed with postpartum, but after these two suicide attempts, Arturo, Taylor's father,
knew that Taylor just, something wasn't right in her mind, and he was really worried about her trying to do it again. So he decides like or suggests that she should be admitted to a hospital, and she goes, and they give
her a new set of diagnoses, PTSD, ADHD, and bipolar disorder. So at this time Taylor's baby goes to live with Warren's side of the family, and it's probably for the best hopefully. But she knows that she fully can't take care of him right now. Now I know to most of us it's like okay, this is probably Taylor's rock bottom. She lost her son, her
husband is in federal prison, her mental health is in the toilet, and this is probably where
she'll make a comeback. But no, so she was in the
hospital for a little bit, and she ends up getting
released or discharged, and she ends up staying with
her dad for a few months. And it seemed like he was really stepping up to
the plate for Taylor. Like he was the one person
who was like stable for her. At least she had somewhere
to go, and it was family. But, the downside, 'cause
there's always a downside, right? A few months later, Arturo,
Taylor's dad, he was arrested. Oh girl, let me tell you, 'cause this is a fucking mess, a mess. He was arrested for
raping a 13-year-old girl. Not great. So back in 2018, it was like three years
prior to his arrest, he committed an extremely
serious statutory rape with a then 13-year-old who was
a relative of his then wife. I don't know if they're, his wife. Yeah, so what the fuck
is up with his family? Green Bay, I guess. I don't know. So he ended up pleading no contest, and he cut a deal for a second degree sexual assault of a child
charge instead of first degree. Yay, I don't know. Anyway, he was sentenced to
12 years and sent to prison. I know, Jesus. We don't know the dynamic of this family. Let's just say Taylor had no idea her dad was like this at all. It would suck for her to
finally have some stability like her dad in her life again. And then he gets arrested
and then you find out your dad's arrested for statutory rape. That would probably cause another rock bottom is what I'm thinking. So she's like, great, now my dad's gone. So now, Taylor is back on her own, and during this time she
found out that Warren, her husband, had cheated on her yet again. I guess she found out that, while he was in prison, she found out that some infidelity had taken place before he went. Or maybe he cheated on her
while he was in prison. Not really clear, but regardless, in January of 2022, Taylor
went to her Facebook. She's like, look, here's the quote. "I got hitched to show them my commitment, loyalty and dedication to them. That I was never gonna
be how I used to be. Then they turn around and fuck on me. There's no way I'll ever go
into another relationship." Hashtag, can't trust no one. Yeah, you tell 'em Taylor, you tell 'em. Hashtag, can't trust no
one, not even yourself. In February of 2022,
Taylor is at a new low, and she's wanting to
get back on the bitch. So she rekindles a friendship with her old high school lover, Shad. Now at this time, Shad
too was really into meth, so they had a lot in common, and he could also get it for her. And in February of 2022
they got back in touch through a mutual friend, which led to Taylor and Shad spending most of their time together, just doing drugs and having sex, because that's what they did on meth. While her husband is in jail, she's like, I need my own buddy. So on the night of February 22nd, Taylor and a friend are looking to party. So the both of them, they jump into Taylor's
roommate's minivan, and they go pick up Shad,
and he's at his house where he lives with his mom,
Tara, and her boyfriend, Steve. So they pick him up and they're driving and they make a pit
stop to get some drugs. They pick up meth, weed and Trazodone, crowd favorites I hear. And they go back to Taylor's
apartment to shoot the shit, smoke some weed, do some drugs. At this point, you know, I guess, I don't really know, I wasn't there, but allegedly everyone
was having a great time. Taylor and Shad, they
want a little bit more, they want, they really
wanna get the party started. So that's when they
break out like the meth, and they start doing the higher stuff. But the high, I guess
when it gets too intense, that's when they take the
Trazodone to like mellow it out. So they're going up, they're
going down, they're going up, they're going down, they're
going down, they're going down, they're going up, they're
just all over the place. Well at some point their friend I guess is a little party pooper, and decides to leave Shad
and Taylor to themselves, decides to go home, right? Shad and Taylor, they hang out at her apartment
for a few more hours. They're waiting for
their drugs to come down, and at that point I guess
they're out of meth. So they decide let's go get more. They're pretty much all
day on just a drug binge. So they leave Taylor's place, they go pick up more
meth and then this time they head back to Shad's house where he lives with his
mom, and they go inside, and they head straight
down to the basement, because the basement is where like is the hangout spot, right? You get a hangout spot. By the time they make
it back to Shad's place, it's already late. Like it's early in the morning
depending on who you ask. But all Taylor knows is
that she is on a good one. So they're down there just doing drugs. She passes Shad the glass
pipe loaded with the bitch, because he wants to be on her level. They settle in for no
more than five minutes. And at this point Shad pulls out, and shows Taylor two silver
chain link necklaces. I know I was thinking like Hot Topic like necklace type of deal, but it's not, it's a dog choke collar, and he's like suggesting that they use it while they're having sexual intercourse and she's like, yeah I'm into that. It was her thing, it was their thing. They both liked it. So they're both into this
kink being choked, you know? And they had done it before consensually, which is always important, right? Consent. Taylor and Shad or no strangers to this, you know, they were like
really into it, allegedly. But this time, Shad I guess really wanted to kick it up a notch, and use the chains and like I guess Taylor was just so down for it. She's like, what? Yeah, that's, yeah. So, just a disclaimer, the following of what I'm going to say is what Taylor said during her confession. So, it's very one-sided, okay? And when she was giving her
confession, she was high. So a lot of it is kind
of wacky and whatever. But this is the information we have, okay? So it's not me saying these things. This was according to Taylor. So Taylor said that Shad had
the chains around his neck and he laid facedown on the bed. Taylor said that she gets on top of him as if like she's gonna ride a horse, and she begins to pull on
the loose end of the chain. She said as she was pulling on the chain, she like watched Shad and
she sees his face turn from red to purple, and
then she notices him going in and out of consciousness. Taylor would say during
her high it was cool, because she was like wow, I
can like change his face color. So she keeps applying
pressure on the chain trying to make him go from red to purple to blue to whatever. And she tells police officers
during her confession that because she was high,
she wanted to make him small. Like when she choked him he
got smaller, I don't know. But according to her,
again because she's high, she was choking him and it was appearing that his neck was rebuilding muscle. So because of this she was
getting more and more frustrated and she was pulling harder
and harder on the chain. She said at one point Shad, he like coughs up blood and she said that she could feel his heartbeat like kind of really slow
down and come to a halt. And that somehow excited her even more, so she pulls even harder. At this point, she said
she was in full ecstasy and she knew Shad was dead
according to his face, because he was purple and he had blood coming out of his mouth. So she knew like something
wasn't right or he was dead. But that didn't stop her, she keeps going, and the police ask her, why the hell did you keep going if you knew he was dead? And she said because of curiosity. She wanted to see what would happen. Yeah, I don't know girl. So Taylor, in her words, quote "accidentally fucks up," end quote, and realizes that she
had just killed Shad. - You said that when you were choking him, he was coughing up blood. You kind of were like,
eh I've gone this far, I'm just gonna keep going. Did you realize that by continuing that, that you'd kill him? Like yeah, because I felt bad. 'Cause I'm like, damn he's gonna be wheezing after this. I'm like might as well just kill him. - But she said that she had no remorse. In her higher self, it was all about chasing
this pleasure feeling, and she was feeling it. So after she's done choking him, she decides to
quote-unquote, play with him. In other words, she takes her sweet time with Shad's lifeless body and his body is like turning her on. In her confession she said
that Shad's lifeless body turned her on so much that she wanted to touch and kiss it and love on it all over. Yeah. This next part kept me up
a little too late at night, because she ends up performing
oral sex on his corpse. A visual I could have done without. She ends up putting different sex toys, she has sex toys on deck. I'm assuming, I couldn't figure this out, but I'm assuming this is
probably where Shad slept is in this basement, and what's her name? Taylor, pulls out some sex toys, and she ends up like
playing with his body, and the sex toys and different
things to his corpse. She's doing it all, and, I don't know what the
fuck that, I don't know. Yeah I was like, what? What girl? Yeah she did that. She did it for hours allegedly,
according to her confession. She ends up playing with
his corpse for far too long until she gets really tired
or her high wears off. Taylor, at this point, when she's playing with the corpse's body, she had been awake for over 24 hours. So after she's done playing
with his body, she's like, I'm tired, and decides to
take a quick little nap. Yeah, I don't know you guys, like what? Huh? She did that. She got down to Schabusiness
didn't she? Wow. So, then she takes a nap. So then when she wakes up
she thinks it would be best to take Shad's body with
her out of the house. But she knows, I can't just like carry his body out of the basement by myself
and then carry him to the van. So this is when she
has a light bulb moment and she decides, oh my God, duh. I could just cut him up into
small manageable pieces, and then I can carry 'em. That's a great idea, Taylor. Yeah, I know. Thanks. And this was her plan. So the first thing I
guess Taylor wants to do is she wants his head. According to her it was like her trophy, she was proud of it, but
also she really liked Shad. She wanted his head, it
was her favorite part. So while Shad's family is
asleep, Taylor creeps upstairs, she goes to the kitchen, she grabs like a handful
of knives to take with her downstairs to the basement. So Taylor pulls Shad's body
to the edge of the bed. So his head is like hanging
off of the edge of the bed, and she puts a bucket
right underneath him, and she starts experimenting
with a few of the knives that she had grabbed from the kitchen. She's trying to sever Shad's head, but none of them were working, so she's getting all frustrated. That is until she busts
out the bread knife. Now I guess this bread knife, it made it very easy to cut
through the skin and muscles. So she loved this knife. She's like, oh this is the shit, and just starts going to town. She goes at it and Taylor successfully is able to remove Shad's head. She had this bucket under his head, right? And it was catching like all of his blood. So she takes that bucket and she pours all of his
fluids down in the shower. There was like this janky
shower in the basement. But she pours his blood
down the shower drain, and then she puts his head in the bucket. The head isn't enough though, she wants to take all
of him home with her. So she continues, she takes that bread knife
again and she cuts off her second favorite
thing, his genitals, yeah. So she got the head, now
she wants the genitals. She cuts it off and she
puts his penis and testicles into the bucket, and then moves
onto the rest of his body. But after this, she needs another nap. So she's like, I'm gonna do the rest, I just need a, I need a nap. Hold on. So she takes another nap. I guess this nap just
gives her some new energy, because she wakes up and
she fucking gets down. And what I mean is like, it's awful, because she wakes up, she
has energy, I don't know. She manages to cut shad in half long ways. Yeah. Not all the way in half but
like opens him up because it, she's able to get inside of his chest, stomach and pelvic area, and
she takes all of his organs out and she puts them in random
like plastic Walmart bags. Yeah. And she just starts going to town. She's taking out everything,
putting them into bags. I don't know, no one
knows what she's doing, she's just doing it. That's when she places Shad's torso into that big blue container. And then Taylor saws Shad's
arms off at the elbows, and puts it in the storage container. But no matter how many
times she saw the arms off, in her mind, because again she's high, she tells police that
they were growing back. - When I said I was tripping out, the body was rebuilding itself. because I already cut off his arm, and his arm came back on. - So she's like tripping out, just like panicking
and like going to town. She's tripping hard. Taylor keeps, just keeps at it though. And she cuts off Shad's left foot, and puts it in the empty chest. She said she put the foot
in the chest for storage, because she was gonna
move it all, you know? So she's like yeah, the
chest will hold the foot. That was a new one for me. Haven't heard that. I was like, all right. I guess at this point,
Taylor was just exhausted. She had done a lot, right? So she slows down a little bit and she starts to dabble
with more delicate work. Like she starts to filet
his back, and right thigh, like cutting off the skin. She goes, she cuts it off
all the way down to the bone. And I was like, oh no,
don't tell me she ate it. She didn't eat it. No eating, that we know of. She said during the
interview that at some point she had a Jolly Rancher with her, and that once she cut
off his head and stuff, and she put it all in the bucket, she took that Jolly Rancher and
she spit it into the bucket. She's like, that's all I
ate was a Jolly Rancher, and I spit it in the bucket. Okay girl, all right, everything seems fine here, total normal confession happening. I mean there's a mess
and blood everywhere. And the bitch was just
making her paranoid. She said she started having
more intense hallucinations. She's hearing footsteps,
she's hearing gunshots, the room begins to make
her very uncomfortable, and on top of that she's
like there was no door, and it's just scary and dark and eerie, and she wants to be done with all this, 'cause she's just really
fucking in her head, 'cause she's high. So with all this being
said, she starts cleaning. She's like, I have to go,
we have to get outta here, we have to go. She starts cleaning like crazy, right? She starts off strong,
clean, clean, clean. But then she ultimately gets lazy and starts to half-ass everything. She's like, I don't wanna
clean anymore, I'm hungry. Where's my Jolly Rancher? Where'd my Jolly Rancher go? She ends up throwing the
towel over the bucket with Shad's head in it and penis. And she said that she threw the towel over with the full intention of
her like taking it home. But she's rushing at this point to get the hell out of there. So she grabs his still
intact, left foot and leg, and forgets all about the bucket. She leaves it behind. Now this should bring us all
the way back to the beginning, 'cause we know what happened next. Tara, Shad's mom, finds
the head in the bucket, and then tells police to go
looking for Taylor Schabusiness. I guess Shad's mom said Taylor and Shad had been hanging out in the
basement for well over 24 hours before she had found his head, that they had come home late Monday night. They had spent all day, they didn't come out of
the basement Tuesday, and they were just doing
their thing down there. And Shad's mom said, "they're
old enough to like hang out. And also I didn't wanna walk in just randomly down in the basement and accidentally see them
having sex or something." Like that was her reasoning as to why she didn't go down there and check. I could see that but you know, okay sure. So with this information, police dispatch a unit of police officers to Taylor's apartment
to locate the minivan that she was driving the
night of Shad's death. And they end up finding this minivan at Taylor's apartment complex. They get her address, they go right to her apartment
complex, there's the van. The officers, they didn't even need to shine their flashlights into the van, because as they approached the vehicle, the van, like the lights
turned on by themselves as if someone was either locking or unlocking the door with a remote. So they're like, okay, weird. So the police officers are looking inside the window of the the van, and they can see like a basket full of what seemed to be dirty laundry. And on top of the laundry
was a crockpot box. So no crockpot, but
like the box it came in. So the officers, they turn their attention to the outside of the car,
and they're looking around and they could see that there
are a few droplets of blood. So they look and they see
that there are footprints, because it's snowing, mind you. So they see blood in the snow
and they also see footprints leading them straight to
the apartment building that this person walked to
with some blood following them. It was like they didn't
have to try that hard, it led them right to her. So they start heading to the building, but before they get there,
Taylor just walks right out. Maybe that's why the
light of the van was on, like maybe she was coming
back to grab something or maybe leave, but she comes right out, so they stop her. This is all on like body cam footage too. And like the second Taylor
sees the police officer, she like stops dead in her tracks. What's she saying? But she doesn't try to
run or like get away. She just stops and just
is kind of like smiling, 'cause she's weird. So the police officers, they approach her, they see that she's wearing like, she's wearing all black. She's got on a black
hoodie, black sweatpants. And when they look more
closely they can see that the sweatpants were caked in what clearly looked like dried blood. Then they take a look at her hands, and they can see like
also stained with blood. And on top of that, one thing Detective
Bailey noticed was that she had on a full face of
makeup, she even had a lash on. I know, I was like,
what is this girl doing? Who puts on a lash to murder someone? Or did she put on the lash after the fact so she could get a nice mugshot? But she had a full beat on. I was like, okay girl, whatever. Her priorities are a little fucked up. So of course, placed under arrest, right? They search her van. They look inside the van, and
inside that crock pot box, that's where they find
Shad's leg and foot. And at this moment
that's when they realize that they've got their killer. So they take Taylor to the police station where obviously they get all their photographs that they need, like her blood stained
hands, her bloody clothes, the rest of her body. After they're done taking the pictures, they give her, you know that jumpsuit, the orange jumpsuit that they
make all criminals where? And then they leave her alone
in the interrogation room where they catch her
on camera saying like, I fucking hate this outfit. - I hate this outfit. Never in my life. (Bailey laughing) - That part made me laugh
because I feel like maybe her concerns seem a little misplaced, but she really fucking hates this outfit. My girl murdered someone, so I don't think the outfit is really what you should worry
about, but I don't know. So she's being interrogated
by a detective named Graf, and he's asking her
all types of questions, where she tells him that Shad was her
ex-boyfriend slash fuck buddy. They let her know that
they found a lot of blood and Shad's head in a bucket
in his mother's basement. to which Taylor responded, quote, "that is pretty fucked up." - Yeah. - When I was watching this I was like, what the is going on right now? What the fuck is going on right now? I could not wrap my head
around her confession. Well the Detective Graf asked Taylor more questions about Shad and like what she did back at the house. It suddenly dawned on her that she had totally
forgotten about Shad's head, and then all of a sudden
like during questioning, she bursts out like, this is a quote, "Damn, the head, I can't
believe I left the head though." - I know I forgot the head. I can't believe I left the head though. - I'm sure they got the
right chick, you know. So detectives ask her the one question that we all wanna know, why? Why did you kill Shad? What happened? You know, why did you do it? And her response to them was quote, "Good question because I
blacked out during that time. But I need to think." End quote. I know, I feel like killers, they always love a good like
blackout moment in their story. They always black out, but then they seem to remember everything. It's so funny, isn't it? They love a blackout. Detectives ask her, okay, well do you think the
whole body's still there? And then she answers to them
like I don't see why not, unless I just like left
it, which I could have. Then they ask Taylor how she
felt when she strangled him, and she tells them in like
a really lower creepy tone. "I liked it. It was very exciting, everything was. You should check my panties." End quote. Not kidding. She said that, this is not okay. This is not okay. I'm not kidding. She said that. Check my panties. No, girl, no. Girl, what are you doing? It gets worse. Like if you think this is bad, it just keeps getting worse and worse. The detectives ask her like,
did Shad try to fight back? And she was like, yeah he did but I won. When they get to Shad's dismemberment, they ask her if it took her all day, and she tells them like yeah it did. And they question if she
had taken any other drugs during that time. And then Taylor answers, no she didn't. But I should have. - I was getting pissed off at the dismemberment process, actually. - Did it take a while? It took a while. - Yeah, because like I was nodding out, - Had you taken any other drugs? - I should've, I should've took drugs. It probably would've helped. - They asked her how she
dismembered Shad's body and she goes into very great detail and tells 'em about the
knives in the kitchen, and that her favorite was the bread knife. - The bread knife works good. - Bread knife? - The bread knife works
really good on him. - I got a snack really
quick 'cause I'm hungry. I haven't eaten yet. Okay, so there. Dismemberment, Bailey. Okay, towards the end of
Taylor's interrogation, that's when she start to like, she's coming down or
off of her drugs maybe, because that's when she's
starting to like apologize. She's telling detectives
that she didn't mean for all this to happen, that she fucked up and that she was sorry. And it's like, yeah girl,
that's what you did. But it's too late, she already
gave her full confession. DNA everywhere. Girl,
you're getting charged. You fucking killed someone, brutally, like what are you doing? You can't just say
sorry and it's all okay. Don't be dumb. I think it's safe to say that meth really kind of ruined
Taylor's brain, right? After her arrest, authorities had a really
hard time deciding if she was mentally healthy
enough to even stand trial. Taylor was assigned a lawyer, and their name was Quinn Jolly. Don't get me started on these names, okay? Quinn Jolly. (laughing) Quinn Jolly, weirdly enough
also represented her dad in his sexual assault case. So it was like a BOGO. So they end up going to her court hearing where the judge would determine if they could delay Taylor's trial to get an expert to evaluate her, because they submitted
a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, which is kind of valid, right? But not really. It's
not, let me tell you why. Now, I don't know if you guys
saw this, but I saw this shit. So I was watching the court
trial, I was like, what? I just, I could not believe the story, just could not believe it. I thought it was fake. And then I also thought like
the whole court trial was like, did you guys watch, "Jury Duty"? I thought it was like that, and it wasn't. It was real because, okay look,
they go to a hearing, right? Taylor ends up losing
her shit at this hearing. So she's sitting right next to her lawyer, Mr. Jolly or whatever the fuck. And the judge is kind of
like having a hard time approving a short delay of the trial, trying to determine, right? Then out of nowhere, Taylor, who was handcuffed by chains at the waist in her orange jumper, she all of a sudden outta nowhere jumps up and leads with her elbow to punch her lawyer. She gets up, she tries
to punch, tries to smack. She full on attacks her
lawyer, it's not funny, but I was like, I've never seen
this before in a courtroom. Wow. Takes him down pretty much to the ground. The deputies in the courtroom,
they were like slow, like, where were they? I don't know. It was a hot mess. They wrestled Taylor to the ground, and they end up clearing the court before continuing with the hearing. It was wild. So many were kind of like, if she wanted to show the judge that she was mentally incompetent, like this is how she would do it. Some really thought that she
was just leaning into this in hopes for the judge to see
that she is mentally unwell. And that was kind of like
the debate for a minute. But then as you continue
watching the court trial, I just think this is
who she is as a person. After that whole ordeal, she was assigned another
public defender, fair. Taylor, she went and got
evaluated in February by a state psychologist
to see if she could take the stand, right, is she fit? Well, this one psychologist
came back and said, no, like Taylor is not
mentally fit to stand trial. She's not, she can't. This psychologist told the court that during one of her
evaluations with Taylor, Taylor had freaked out, got up out of her seat
and started screaming. Then she took herself to
the corner of the room and picked up a chair, which luckily was a plastic chair, and hawked that shit at the psychologist. The psychologist said that in
their 32 years of practice, no one has ever thrown a chair at her. But despite this, the judge ruled that Taylor
was competent to stand trial. It's a very hot take. Taylor's trial started earlier
this year, July of 2023. Do not recommend. I watch a lot of court trials. I wanna work in a courtroom one
day, so I'm always watching. But this court trial was nothing
like I've ever seen before. At the beginning, Taylor's new lawyer asked
the court to exclude Taylor's internet search history before the murder took place, because this happened before
the murder took place, had nothing to do with
what happened, right? And the reason that they wanted
her internet search history to not be shown was because she was making some questionable searches. In court, they had read
them and it was like, oh my fucking girl. She was looking up Jeffrey Dahmer walking into court, all sexy. There was another one, Jeffrey Dahmer's butt. It was like when a kid
first gets the internet. The judge ended up ruling that the evidence could
be admitted to court. So we have a little Jeffrey
Dahmer lover over here, and I don't get it. There's so many fish in the sea. Why? Why? Why Jeffrey Dahmer? The witness stand during
trial was a fricking hot mess. They called to the stand a friend who was, or the friend who was with them
the night of Shad's murder. Remember the friend who was
a party pooper and left? So they call up this friend to the stand and they asked him if he
noticed anything weird with Taylor's behavior that night. And he said no, the vibes were chill. Another person who was called to the stand was Taylor's father, Arturo. Let me tell you, they
bring him into court, he's in his orange jumpsuit, he's also handcuffed because he is serving his sexual assault sentence
situation, his rape. He ends up taking the stand. He tells the court that
Taylor's mental health had been declining ever
since her mom died. And then he goes on to blame
Taylor's husband, Warren, saying that everything was fine until he got out of jail
and fucked everything up. He introduced his daughter to these drugs, and she got involved and
he just, he fucked her up. So he's done with his testimony. They're walking him out of the courtroom, and Taylor's sitting there,
she's looking at her dad. She's like, I love you. And then he's like, I love you, too. They're talking to each other,
which you're not supposed to. And then after they walk
him out of the courtroom, Taylor yells, go Bears. - [Arturo] Love you. - I love you, too. - [Arturo] Go Bears. - Go Bears. I'm smiling because I was like, honey, now's not the time. No. (Bailey munching) I was like, girl. Go Bears? At a murder trial? I mean if you watch the
trial, which you shouldn't, 'cause I'm giving you the whole rundown, but you can tell, or she seems, Taylor seems very mentally unwell. Every time someone's on the stand, she's looking straight
at the court cameras and she's just staring at them. And then she's laughing,
she's giggling all throughout. She can't stop laughing. Girl, you murdered someone. What is your problem? Get it together. She's always making some kind of face like somebody farted, you know? But in court I guess, mental illness brought on by drugs, or a mental illness
that seems to be extreme because of drugs, is not considered a quote-unquote true mental illness because of the drugs. So if you kill someone
while high, you are liable, and that's why she was able
to go through the whole trial. After the whole trial, the jury only took one hour to find Taylor Schabusiness
guilty on all charges. First degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, third
degree sexual assault. And she was facing mandatory life in jail, as she should because what the fuck? Remember Taylor Schabusiness's
husband, Warren Schabow? Well, since her arrest, he really stepped up his husband game. He's still in federal
prison serving his sentence, but I guess they get access
to Facebook in prison. I didn't look this up, I forgot to. Throughout the trial, Warren used Facebook to voice
his support for his wife, like no matter what she did. He was posting like, I'm so blessed to be with Taylor. My wife is locked up, but
like I love her regardless. She is my (indistinct), blah, blah, blah. He would go on and on, like
she would never do this. She was just having a bad day. He was like, boy, shut up. Everyone just needs to shut up. She and Warren are still
in communication often. At least, I don't know
about right this second, but when I was researching all this, like they were writing
letters to each other. She was directing him on like
what to post on his Facebook. Saying like, honey, you need to like post that I'm innocent and that you're standing by me or whatever. Yeah, yeah. But that's mainly it. I think they're still married. Well, Taylor will be spending
the rest of her life in prison for murdering Shad, as she
should be, because it was brutal. I guess today's story really
stuck out for me personally. Like it really was like, what the fuck? I could not wrap my head around it, because of well, obviously
how brutal it is. I think we can all agree
that it was very brutal. And I guess I was really shocked because you don't hear these
types of stories a lot, when it comes to women killing, right? Like this is such mainly a man thing, not to be
sexist or anything, right? But I think we can agree in
these true crime stories, it's always the men who go off like this. Rarely is it a woman. And for the first time I
was like, holy fucking shit. Like she went off and yeah,
probably because of the meth, but still I was like, holy fuck. Never have I ever heard a
horrifying story like this. And drugs are bad. And I'm glad it wasn't
used as an excuse for her to get like a lesser sentence, because she shouldn't
get a lesser sentence. Shad's life was lost
because of this woman, and Shad's mom, forever
traumatized, right? It's just sad. I didn't wanna look up like where Taylor's kid or baby was at, 'cause none of that matters, right? And I don't think we need to know. But what the fuck was that about? I don't know. Go Bears? Need I say more? Anyways, I would love to hear
you guys' thoughts down below. Do you think she should have
got tried as mentally unwell? Obviously she's not mentally well, I think we can all agree on that, but you still murdered someone, and you can't even just murder, girl, like you fucking chopped up. And that is, that's a different type of brain that I don't ever wanna encounter. And yes, you have to be in
jail for a long time, Taylor. Pay for what you did girl. Sorry but, go Bears. Anyways, let me know what
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