A Wisconsin woman accused of decapitating her lover during a wild, meth-fueled escapade last year randomly attacked her own lawyer in the courtroom, hitting him in the head.
Taylor Schabusiness, 25, lunged at defense attorney Quinn Jolly after the judge in the gruesome murder case suggested pushing the trial back two months.
Shocking video of the spontaneous, violent outburst shows Schabusiness calmly sitting in the Green Bay courtroom as Judge Thomas J. Walsh recommends starting the murder trial on May 15 instead of March 6, a suggestion he made at Jolly’s request.
Angry at the decision, Schabusiness flung herself at her own attorney, who was sitting beside her and struck him with her elbows and handcuffed wrists.
A nearby guard quickly tackled her to the floor and apprehended her. At one point the guard’s tool belt becomes wrapped around Schabusiness’ toes, which were exposed after she lost her shoes in the tussle.
After several minutes, two other guards help pin Schabusiness down until she is calm.
The bizarre blowup came after Jolly asked Walsh for an extension in order to prove his client was not competent to stand trial for the grisly February 2022 murder of 25-year-old Shad Thyrion.
Schabusiness decapitated Thyrion during sex, continued to perform sexual acts on his lifeless body, and mutilated his corpse with a serrated bread knife. She then stuffed his severed head and penis in a bucket and other body parts in a crock pot, leaving them for his mother to find.
The woman, who is married to another man, was found by police at home covered in blood. She reportedly told cops they would “have fun trying to find all of the organs.”
Schabusiness pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect but reportedly admitted to police that she went “crazy” during the deadly romp.
She told detectives, “Thyrion and I had been smoking methamphetamine before we went to his mother’s house to have sex using chains. I didn’t intend to kill him, but I did sit on him and waited for him to die as I watched him cough up blood.”
“Ya, I liked it,” Schabusiness said about choking Thyrion.
Jolly had told the judge he needed more time for a defense expert to review the case and testify as to his client’s competency.
A court-appointed doctor found Schabusiness competent to stand trial last year, but the defense attorney pushed back against the diagnosis.
Jolly said Schabusiness was previously diagnosed with bipolar disorder and has received mental health treatment since she was a seventh-grader.
Schabusiness faces charges of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and third-degree sexual assault.
