A 24-year-old Wisconsin woman is behind bars after she allegedly killed a man and dismembered him before taunting police that they were ‘going to have fun trying to find all of the organs.’
Taylor Schabusiness, 24, was charged Tuesday with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault.
She’s accused of choking the man to death during sex and then allegedly used a bread knife to dismember his body.
Schabusiness then placed his head and penis in a bucket, while she dumped other body parts in a large crockpot box, according to a criminal complaint.
The grisly scene was discovered by the victim’s own mother when she returned home.
Schabusiness told investigators she did not mean to kill the victim but as she was choking him, she liked it and kept doing it, the complaint alleges. The victim’s identity has not been released.
Taylor Schabusiness, 24, was charged Tuesday with killing and decapitating a Green Bay man at a home after smoking methamphetamine with him
Schabusiness appeared in Brown County Court on Tuesday. Her bail was set at $2 million and she remains in custody at the Brown County Jail
Police were called to the home on Stony Brook Lane in Green Bay around 3:25 a.m. on February 23 after the mother of the victim stumbled upon the gruesome scene.
The victim’s mother told police she heard the door slam between 2am and 3am, and when she went to check it out, she found her son’s severed head in a bucket and dried blood on a nearby mattress.
A search of the home led police to also find several other body parts, including a ‘male organ’ in the bucket and an upper torso in a tote bag.
Schabusiness, who was ‘a known associate of the victim,’ was believed to be the last person to be seen with the victim, the complaint alleges.
Police were called to the home on Stony Brook Lane in Green Bay around 3:25 a.m. on February 23 after the mother of the victim stumbled upon the gruesome scene
When police searched her van parked on Eastman Avenue, they found a crock pot box with ‘additional human body parts including legs,’ according to the criminal complaint.
Schabusiness was taken into custody and when police asked her what happened, she replied, ‘That is a good question,’ according to the complaint.
In the complaint, prosecutors say Schabusiness told police that she and the victim were together all day Tuesday and had been smoking methamphetamine while having sex.
Schabusiness said she blacked out at one point and just went ‘crazy’ and started strangling the victim with a chain, and then with her hands.
She stated she could feel the victim’s heart beating as she was choking him, so she kept pulling and choking him harder.
She told police she knew the victim was dead when his face turned purple and blood came out of his mouth, but she kept choking him. It is unclear from the complaint when the victim stopped breathing.
A search of the home led police to also find several other body parts, including a ‘male organ’ in the bucket and an upper torso in a tote bag
The complaint also contains graphic details of sexual acts Schabusiness said she did to the victim’s body after he died, admitting she played with his body for ‘two to three hours’ after his death.
The complaint alleges that she also made comments to detectives, asking if they knew what it was like to ‘love something so much that you kill it.’
Schabusiness stated she used knives that she obtained from the kitchen of the residence and that a bread knife worked the best because of the serrated blade, according to the complaint.
She also stated that 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.
‘I can’t believe I left the head though,’ she added, referring to the victim’s head in the basement.
Schabusiness appeared in Brown County Court on Tuesday. Her bail was set at $2 million and she remains in custody at the Brown County Jail.
She is scheduled to be back in court in three weeks.
