"CUTTING & SAWING" LOVER DISMEMBERED, MOM FINDS HEAD IN BUCKET
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 25 July 2025
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Appalling new details of a 25-year-old son's disassembled body discovered by his own mom. Shad Thyrion, 25, is killed and dismembered in his mother's basement. Authorities allege, Taylor Schabusiness, took advantage of Shad during rough sex and violated his body afterwards during a drug fueled state.
Schabusiness later allegedly brags to police she enjoyed the entire ordeal. She leaves Thyrion’s mutilated head in a bucket for his mother to find and law enforcement later discovered the victim’s dismembered torso, penis and carved-out organs in the basement.
Joining Nancy Grace today,
- Chief Chris Davis - Chief of the Green Bay Police Department since 2021, 30 Years in law enforcement. Served previously in the Portland, Oregon Police Bureau and the Arizona State University Police Department.
- Derek Smith - Criminal Defense Attorney, website: dwsmithlegal.com
- Dr. Shari Schwartz - Forensic Psychologist (specializing in Capital Mitigation and Victim Advocacy), www.panthermitigation.com, Twitter: @TrialDoc, Author: "Criminal Behavior" and "Where Law and Psychology Intersect: Issues in Legal Psychology"
- Dr. Thomas Coyne - Chief Medical Examiner, District 2 Medical Examiner's Office, State of Florida; Forensic Pathologist, Neuropathologist, Toxicologist; X: @DrTMCoyne;
- Dave Mack - Investigative Reporter for CrimeOnline.com
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:04.7 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:10.1 | Breaking news tonight. |
| 0:12.2 | Cutting and sawing. |
| 0:15.1 | A lover is dismembered. |
| 0:18.3 | The mom finds a head in a bucket. Good evening. This is crime stories. I'm Nancy |
| 0:27.0 | Grace. I want to thank you for being with us. A head in a bucket. Let me just start with that. |
| 0:34.5 | Straight out to veteran trial lawyer, criminal defense attorney, Derek Smith, |
| 0:41.6 | joining us. And you can find him at d.w. Smithlegal.com. Derek, thank you for being with us. You know, |
| 0:48.3 | when we were in law school, Derek, at your law school, me at my own, we had all these lofty legal |
| 0:54.0 | thoughts like all sorts of constitutional arguments and |
| 0:59.1 | theoretical back and forth about the meaning the founding fathers really intended. |
| 1:06.7 | I never really thought through to the logical conclusion that I would be talking about a head in a bucket. |
| 1:13.7 | Did you? |
| 1:14.6 | No, Nancy. |
| 1:15.6 | Or else I'd have probably picked a different profession. |
| 1:18.7 | You know, not something that you're aspiring to be when we're in law school, looking about all the constitutional law, all the ways we're going to change the world for the better. |
| 1:26.9 | Never thought we'd be the one on the other end, right? |
| 1:28.8 | No, I never did think I would be discussing a head in a bucket. |
| 1:33.0 | But, you know, a special guest joining us. |
| 1:35.8 | We're very proud to have Chief Chris Davis, Chief of the Green Bay PD, |
| 1:41.5 | served previously in Portland, Oregon, Police Bureau and Arizona State University PD. |
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