WARNING: This story contains graphic details.
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GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A graphic morning of testimony in the Taylor Schabusiness trial.
The jury heard testimony from Dr. Vincent Tranchida, from the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office. Tranchida performed the autopsy on Shad Thyrion after helping to collect and examine the remains from both a house on Stony Brook Lane and a minivan Schabusiness was known to have been driving.
Tranchida testifying in detail about the injuries to the body.
The jury seeing an autopsy photo of the victim’s decapitated head as well as several diagrams, depicting all of the cuts and wounds on the body of Thyrion. Some of the images too gruesome, we’re prohibited from showing them.
Tranchida said, “We have decapitation, we have dismemberment, we have transection of the torso, subsequently internally the body has been eviscerated. In other words, we have entered inside the body through various cuts through the abdomen and between the ribs where the victim’s organs have been removed, largely one by one.”
The doctor telling the jury he believes it would have taken hours to dismember the body – all acts performed after Shad Thyrion was dead.
He said, “In my examination there was extensive postmortem mutilation of the body and I believe this is postmortem mutilation because there is no hemorrhage associated with these injuries.
And while toxicology tests determined Shad Thyrion had drugs like cocaine, meth, and marijuana in his system, the doctor determined the drugs had nothing to do with his death.
“It is my medical opinion that the cause of death of Shad Thyrion is strangulation, and that the manner of death is homicide,” testified Tranchida.
The jury also heard from the Green Bay police officer who took Taylor Schabusiness into custody after the gold van she was known to be driving was located outside an apartment on Eastman Avenue. Bodycam footage captured that arrest.
According to Lt. Tom Buchmann with the Green Bay Police Department, “She appeared to be in shock or very surprised to see us. I’d equate it to a deer in the headlights kind of look or a child caught with their hand in the cookie jar.”
After her arrest, the jury learned Schabusiness was taken to the Green Bay Police Department, the jury seeing pictures of her blood-stained clothes.
A DNA analyst from the state crime lab testifying whose blood was on those clothes.
Kevin Scott, a DNA analyst with the state crime lab said, “Item H4, another swab being of a reddish-brown stain on the right leg of the sweatpants, I developed a single source male profile, and I concluded that Shad Thyrion is the source of that DNA.”
A friend of both Taylor Schabusiness and Shad Thyrion took the stand Tuesday afternoon. AJ Gannon told the jury he was drinking with the two, at the Eastman Avenue apartment the night Thyrion was killed.
On Wednesday the jury could hear from Taylor Schabusiness herself, prosecutors expected to show portions of Schabusiness’ interrogation.
