A 24-year-old Wisconsin woman is behind bars after allegedly killing a man and dismembering him before taunting police that they were “going to have fun trying to find all the organs.”
Taylor Schabusiness, 24, was charged Tuesday with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and third-degree sexual assault.
She is accused of choking the man to death during sex, then using a bread knife to dismember his body.
Schabusiness then placed his head and penis in a bucket, while she dumped other body parts into a large crock pot, according to a criminal complaint.
The gruesome scene was discovered by the victim’s own mother when she returned home.
Schabusiness told investigators that she did not mean to kill the victim but was choking him, enjoyed it and continued to do so, according to the complaint. The victim’s identity was not released.
Taylor Schabusiness, 24, was charged Tuesday with killing and decapitating a Green Bay man in a home after smoking methamphetamine with him
Schabusiness appeared in Brown County court Tuesday. Her bail was set at $2 million and she remains in custody in the Brown County Jail
Police were called to the home on Stony Brook Lane in Green Bay around 3:25 a.m. Feb. 23 after the victim’s mother came upon the gruesome scene.
The victim’s mother told police she heard the door slam between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m., and when she went to check, 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 find several other body parts as well, including a “male organ” in the bucket and the upper torso in a tote bag.
Schabusiness, who was “a known associate of the victim,” was reportedly the last person seen with the victim, according to the complaint.
Police were called to the home on Stony Brook Lane in Green Bay around 3:25 a.m. on Feb. 23 after the victim’s mother came upon the gruesome scene.
When police searched her van parked on Eastman Avenue, they found a crock pot containing “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’s 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 smoked methamphetamine during sex.
Schabusiness said she passed out at some point and went “crazy” and began choking the victim with a chain and then with her hands.
She stated that she could feel the victim’s heart beating as she choked him, so she continued to pull him and choke 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 continued to choke him. It is unclear from the complaint when the victim stopped breathing.
A search of the home led police to find several other body parts as well, including a “male organ” in the bucket and the upper torso in a tote bag.
The complaint also contains graphic details of the sexual acts Schabusiness said she performed on the victim’s body after his death, admitting she played with his body for “two to three hours” after his death.
The complaint alleges she also made comments to detectives, asking if they knew what it was like to “love something so much that you kill it.”
Schabusiness said she used knives she obtained from the residence kitchen and that a bread knife worked best because of the serrated blade, according to the complaint.
She also said the plan was for her to bring all the body parts with her, but she got lazy and only ended up putting the leg/foot in the van and forgot the head.
“I can’t believe I left the head,” she added, referring to the victim’s head in the basement.
Schabusiness appeared in Brown County court Tuesday. Her bail was set at $2 million and she remains in custody.
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