TAYLOR SCHABUSINESS
A LETHAL COCKTAIL OF KINKY SEX, PSYCHOACTIVE DRUGS AND MENTAL ILLNESS TURNED AN OTHERWISE CHILLED-OUT MONDAY NIGHT IN GREEN BAY INTO A GRUESOME BLOODBATH
Nobody should do drugs. But some people should not do drugs more than others. For example, if drugs make you paranoid, unstable, and physically unwell, then those are all very common, standard reasons not to do drugs. But if drugs make you strangle a friend to death before decapitating, dismembering and disembowelling their body, then that’s a whole other story – and that is precisely what happened when Taylor Schabusiness and Shad Thyrion, two people who definitely should not have done drugs, consumed a whole cocktail of narcotics.
The two had become friends while at high school in the Green Bay area of Wisconsin, USA. They were never formally girlfriend and boyfriend, but they often hung out, sometimes took drugs together and sometimes even had sex. During the period leading up to 21 February 2022, with both now in their mid-twenties, they had been experimenting with sadomasochism, and choking had become part of their sexual “routine”. We’re not about to kink-shame here. What consenting adults do behind closed doors is their own business. The kinky sex wasn’t the problem. The problem, as mentioned already, was the drugs.
That evening, Schabusiness (formerly Coronado) had been hanging out in the apartment she shared with at least one other friend. At about 21:30 p.m., she took her flatmate’s car and drove over to Shad’s mother’s house to pick up Shad. They went back to the apartment and, somewhere along the line, scored some cannabis and some methamphetamine, a potent drug more commonly known as “crystal meth”. Together they smoked a quantity of both drugs, as well as injecting themselves with trazodone, a commonly prescribed anti-depressant. It’s not clear if they took the trazodone for medicinal or recreational reasons.
Later that night the couple went back to Shad’s mother’s house, descended into the basement and began indulging in their usual form of foreplay. According to Schabusiness, Shad took two metal chains out of his pocket, and they wrapped the chains around their necks. The idea was that they would take turns choking each other. Schabusiness went first.
“He didn’t get the chance to strangle me,” she later told police.
“I LIKED IT”
Elaborating further on the topic of mutual strangulation, Schabusiness explained to detectiv
