(Photo: Brown County Jail)
A criminal complaint filed in connection with an alleged murder in Green Bay reads like the script for a horror movie. Taylor Schabusiness (shay-biz-ness) is charged in Brown County Court with 1st Degree Intentional Homicide, Mutilating a Corpse and 3rd Degree Sexual Assault. Schabusiness is accused of choking and dismembering a man in a Stony Brook Lane home last week. She would face life in prison if convicted.
WARNING: The following details from the criminal complaint are gruesome and may be disturbing
On Feb. 23, at about 3:25 a.m., Green Bay Police were called to a home in the 800 block of Stony Brook Lane. A person who lived in the home reported finding a severed head in a bucket.
Police located the human head in a plastic bucket in the basement of the home. A towel had been placed over it. Dried blood was found on a nearby mattress.
Police searched Schabusiness’s van and on the rear passenger seat, they found a crock pot box with “additional human body parts including legs,” according to the criminal complaint.
Police obtained a search warrant for the home on Stony Brook Lane. In addition to the human head, they found a “male organ” in the bucket. They found “body fluid” and knives.
In a storage tote, they found an upper torso.
Police interviewed Schabusiness, who said she and the victim had been doing drugs and having sex. She said they had used chains while having sex. Schabusiness said she just went “crazy” and started strangling the victim.
“Schabusiness responded that the police were going to have fun trying to find all of the organs as she dismembered the body. Schabusiness stated all of the body parts should be in the basement. 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,” reads the criminal complaint.
“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. Schabusiness stated the knives should be in a black bag along with the body parts in the basement. Schabusiness indicated that she would use whatever bags she found in the basement to place the body parts into. Schabusiness made the comment that at one point, she did get paranoid and lazy and that she thought it was the ‘dope’ that was making her paranoid.”
Schabusiness told investigators she did not mean to kill the victim but she enjoyed choking him and continued to do it.
Police met with the victim’s family Tuesday.
Police, forensic teams and the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office investigated and processed multiple locations associated with the crime.
