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Episode Date: October 9, 2023

Wisconsin is no stranger to high-profile cases and horrific murderers, from the notorious Jeffrey Dahmer to the perplexing Ed Gein. But on a cold night in February 2022, a new name was added to the list of Wisconsin’s worst: Taylor Schabusiness. From the outset, the details of the case shocked even the most hardened detectives and traumatized young rookies. Using Law&Crime Network’s gavel-to-gavel coverage, Severed Affair provides an in-depth narrative of the disturbing case. The Law&Crime original podcast uses exclusive audio and court footage to piece together the gruesome story. You can listen to severed affair exclusively and ad free on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery app or on apple podcasts.LISTEN HERE: https://wondery.com/shows/severed-affair-the-gruesome-murder-of-shad-thyrion/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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The mother of two was compelled to get up to make sure everything was okay. Entering the kitchen, she noticed that the basement light was left on and she wondered if her sun was down there. The woman descended the stairs to the silent basement and was greeted by a strange sight. A five-gallon bucket sat on the floor, covered in a towel. The woman slowly moved toward the bucket. This is severed affair. The gruesome murder of Shad Theerion brought to you through law and crime's extensive gavel-to-gavel coverage. At about 3.25 a.m. on February 23rd, 2022, police officers were dispatched to a residence at 829 Stony Brook Lane in Green Bay, Wisconsin,

after dispatchers received a bizarre call from one of the residents. If I just woke me up, swear that you're covered ahead of her son. After the caller identified himself as 49-year-old Steve Hendricks, he was asked to explain what was happening at the house. I had no clue what's happening. My girl swears that she's found her severed head of her son at the basement. Did she go down there? In a bucket.

I went down, I can't tell what the... I just part of my head was up. I'm kind of a little freaked out. Okay. Did she just wake up and say that? Yeah. And who is, who's head is it? He's claiming it's a son.

Oh, it's his son? 24, 25? Is he missing or? No, he was here yesterday with some chick, and then all of a sudden nobody's here? Steve said that his girlfriend, Tara Pachanak, woke him up with a shocking revelation. She had found her 24-year-old son's head

in a bucket in the basement of their house. Green Bay Police officers Alex Wanish and Ethan Plonkey were dispatched to a house on Stony Brook Lane. Body cam footage captured their journey from their patrol vehicle along the dark and snow-covered sidewalk to the driveway of the residence at 3.37 a.m. A bright porch light illuminated the side door where the officers were met by Tara and Steve. The couple had been waiting at the kitchen table just inside. That's when Tara told Officer Plonkey that she discovered her son's head in the basement. Directly at the bottom of the staircase sat a five-gallon bucket neatly draped with a towel. I went downstairs at the bottom of the stairs to the right.

There was a green bucket with a shower towel on top of it. Just to verify we had an actual head in a bucket, lifted the towel off, and there was, in fact, a human severed head in the bucket. Investigators immediately began searching for a woman named Taylor, knowing she was the last person known to have seen Shad alive. Brown County dispatchers searched for any records of Taylor Coronado and discovered that her real name was Taylor Shibusiness. The then-24-year-old woman was last known to live in an apartment on Eastman Avenue in Green Bay.

The tension was palpable when the apartment door opened and she business herself walked outside. Officers recognized her immediately. Hi. Hi, Taylor, how's it going? Officer Russell with the pre-bed police department. Just make sure you ain't got nothing on you here.

You got it right? You got... You're on your hands. Okay, yeah, we're going to have to. What apartment are you? What apartment are you? news of tailorship business's arrest spanned more than just the confines of green bay wisconsin spreading across the country in the days that followed i was surprised in that you

don't expect somebody that you knew to be capable of that in any circumstance like i would have expected her to you know beyond meth and like go to jail and like do that kind of thing and be on that path, but I never would have thought that she would be capable of what she did. That's insane. I don't think we ever think that somebody who we grew up with is capable of that. I think a lot of people were kind of shocked, stunned that someone in the community happened to dismember a person in their mother's basement. I think that was really hard for people to wrap their head around and imagine how this family must be feeling. As the case kind of started unraveling and we started to learn more details, I think that

shock value increased quite a bit. It seemed like every new detail that we learned from police from the investigation was more alarming or shocking than the one previous. Using law and crimes, gavel to gavel coverage and exclusive interviews, we've woven an in-depth narrative of the case. I've covered Shibisness in court, man, I would say half a dozen times now. Every time I see her in court, she's silent, she is motionless, she's straightforward, very little emotion, in and out, no big deal. So this is not something that even I expected, and everybody was really shocked when they heard the commotion, and then you see what was happening, and we kind of just all just watched.

You went off on your attorney, Taylor. You went crazy on your attorney. Severed Affair is a Law and Crime Original podcast. that uses exclusive audio and court footage to piece together the story. Listen to Severed Affair on Wondery Plus.