Nothing could have prepared Tara Pakanich for what she encountered in the early morning hours of 23 February 2022. Inside a green bucket covered with a shower towel at her home in Green Bay, Wisconsin, was the mutilated head of her 24-year-old son Shad Thyrion.
Thyrion’s torso, penis and carved-out organs were later found by law enforcement in her basement. The gruesome nature of the murder is now on full display as Taylor Schabusiness faces trial over charges of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilation of a corpse and third-degree sexual assault in Thyrion’s death.
