The Taylor Schabusiness Case: Murder, Meth, and a Head in a Bucket

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Shad theory and didn't get tricked into danger by a total stranger.

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He willingly got into a car with someone familiar, someone he'd hooked up with before.

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She'd recently ripped off her ankle monitor, casually tossing aside any thoughts of staying

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sober.

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What happened next defies explanation.

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It was calculated, drug fueled, and unsettlingly deliberate.

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The woman responsible showed zero remorse.

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In fact, she seemed disturbingly comfortable with it.

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This is the story of Taylor Shebusiness, a woman with a criminal record, a troubling

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fascination with Jeffrey Dahmer, and a chilling determination to keep going even after

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murder.

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Let's get into it.

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Shad theory was 24.

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He lived in Green Bay, Wisconsin with his mom, Terra.

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He wasn't some big headline name before this.

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He was just a guy trying to figure life out.

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He liked being around people, had a goofy sense of humor, and according to his family,

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was one of those quiet types who'd open up once you've earned it.

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He helped take care of his grandparents, stayed close with his family, and tried to keep

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the peace in his own way.

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Shad wasn't flashy.

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He worked odd jobs, spent time with friends, smoked a little weed here and there, nothing

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wild.

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People described him as gentle, and maybe that's part of what makes this whole thing hit even

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harder, because the person who killed him knew that about him.

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She knew he wouldn't fight her, at least not right away.

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He'd been spending time with Taylor's ship business, and on again, off again thing.

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They weren't dating, but they were close enough to hang out, hook up, get high together,

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maybe he thought he could trust her, or maybe he didn't see the red flags until it was

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too late.

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The last person Shad saw alive was Taylor, and she had other plans.

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Taylor's ship business was 24 at the time too, but while Shad was mostly under the radar,

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Taylor had already racked up some red flags.

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A month before the murder, she led police on a chase and got slapped with a GPS ankle monitor.

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She removed it casually, went right back to doing whatever she wanted to do.

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That included drugs, violence, and behavior that made people around her uneasy.

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Taylor wasn't just spiraling.

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She was sprinting toward a wall with her foot on the gas.

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She had a known meth problem.

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She was mixing drugs like it was some sort of fun experiment, and if that wasn't enough,

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she had a weird, deep obsession with Jeffrey Dahmer.

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At one point, during a psych of al, she claimed she had a thing with Dahmer just a year earlier,

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which is wild considering Dahmer died in 1994.

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And she meant it.

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She wasn't joking.

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She had photos of him saved in her phone, had read up on his life, and saw something in

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him that she seemed to relate to.

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By all accounts, Taylor's ship business was not well, but she was also violent, and when

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those two things collided, Shad ended up in the middle of it.

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On February 21, 2022, Taylor picked up Shad outside his mom's house.

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They swung by to grab a friend, ended up at an apartment, smoked some weed, and hung

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out.

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Nothing unusual.

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But once the friend left, things took a turn.

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Taylor and Shad didn't stop at weed.

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They injected chrasodone, an antidepressant that's supposed to be taken orally, then smoked

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meth on top of that.

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Settatives and stimulants mixing in their system like a chemical bar fight.

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Later, they went back to Shad's place.

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His mom wasn't home.

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They went down to the basement, they had sex.

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According to Taylor, choking was part of their usual routine.

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But this time, she used a metal chain.

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Not hands, not something flexible, a solid chain, and Shad couldn't break free.

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Taylor kept it around his neck until he coughed up blood.

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He struggled.

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She didn't stop.

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She told police she held it there for five minutes.

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He passed out.

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Then he died.

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Taylor didn't cough or help.

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She didn't panic.

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She stayed.

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Taylor stayed overnight at the house.

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Shad's body was still in the basement.

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She was likely still high.

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Meth lasts the long time, and she had mixed it with other drugs.

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Sleep wasn't happening.

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The next morning, she started what she called clean up.

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She grabbed kitchen knives and began dismembering Shad's body.

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She cut off his head and used a bucket to catch the blood.

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Then poured it down the shower drain.

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She removed his limbs, some organs, and even his genitals.

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She hid the parts throughout the basement in boxes, bags, and buckets.

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Like she thought, no one would find them.

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She even took a few of them with her when she left.

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Two days later, Shad's mom, Tara, and her boyfriend came home.

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Tara went to the basement to check on him and saw a bucket with a towel over it.

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She lifted the towel and found her son's head inside.

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Her boyfriend called 911.

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Tara got on the line and said, "I'm pretty positive my son's head is in the bucket."

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When asked if she was sure, she replied, "I'm not looking at it again."

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The dispatcher was so shocked, they asked if she might be hallucinating.

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She wasn't.

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Officer Alex Weinisch responded to the scene.

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He went down to the basement, lifted the towel, and confirmed what Tara had said.

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A human head sitting in a bucket.

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At first, he only saw some blood in what he thought looked like bits of flesh.

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But as investigators searched the basement, they found the rest.

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Shad's torso, organs, and a foot were stashed in bags and a large tote.

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And it didn't take long to figure out who had done it.

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After police found Shad's body, they started looking for tailor-shab business.

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They didn't have to look very far.

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She was still in Green Bay, parked in her minivan.

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The van was a crockpot box, holding more of Shad's remains.

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Taylor hadn't changed clothes since the murder.

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They were still soaked in his blood.

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She had scratches all over his body, likely from Shad trying to fight back.

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Taylor claimed she did it to herself.

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Which tracks, if you're trying to sound innocent, while also covered in blood?

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When police asked what happened, she said, "That's a good question."

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She claimed she blacked out and didn't remember.

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Then she immediately started offering details.

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She told them they'd "have fun trying to find all the organs."

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Like it was a game.

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Like this was some twisted scavenger hunt.

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Eventually she admitted to killing him.

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She said she went crazy during sex.

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She knew he lost consciousness while she was choking him, but she didn't stop.

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She said she was enjoying it too much.

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She never explained why she dismembered him or why she left his head in a bucket for

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his mother to find.

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She didn't seem to think those parts needed an explanation.

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On March 1st, 2022, Taylor's ship business was formally charged with first degree intentional

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homicide, third degree sexual assault, and mutilation of a corpse.

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A lawyer entered a plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.

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From the start, it was clear this case was going to get messy.

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In February 2023, things hit a new level of chaos.

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During a court hearing, her lawyer asked for more time to evaluate her mental health.

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Taylor didn't like that, so in front of the judge, she stood up and attacked him.

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Started swinging, had to be physically restrained by a deputy.

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The court took a 10 minute break while they dragged her out.

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After that, her attorney quit.

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Not exactly shocking.

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A new lawyer stepped in and immediately tried to get the judge kicked off the case, claiming

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he'd been biased after watching his client throw hands in the courtroom.

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The judge said no.

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Then came the psychiatric evaluations.

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Dr. Diane Litten, a forensic psychologist sat down with Taylor.

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The sessions didn't go well.

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Taylor refused to talk about the murder.

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She threw a chair at Dr. Litten during one of their meetings, and when she did speak,

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it was about weird stuff, like how she claimed she had a thing with Jeffrey Dahmer.

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Not figuratively, she meant it literally like they were somehow involved.

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In 2023.

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Dr. Litten said Taylor was probably experiencing a psychotic break.

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She believed Taylor was hearing voices and having full-blown hallucinations.

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That did not stop the trial from moving forward.

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The prosecution pointed to how methodical the murder was.

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Taylor planned to choke Shat.

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She brought the chain.

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She stayed after he died.

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She mutilated him and hid the body parts.

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That is not blackout behavior.

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That's someone in control, even if they were high out of their mind.

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On July 26, 2023, the jury found her guilty on all charges.

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Two months later, she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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And even then, this story wasn't over.

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You'd think life in prison would be the end of this story, but Taylor's business didn't

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slow down after the trial.

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If anything, she got worse.

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In July 2024, while serving her sentence at the correctional facility, Taylor attacked

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a prison nurse.

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It started over a medical staple.

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A sergeant stepped in and Taylor picked up a metal tray and started swinging.

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She was charged with battery by a prisoner.

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Another court case, another courtroom, same behavior.

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Then in April 2025, during a preliminary hearing for that battery charge, she lunged at

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her new attorney, again, mid-hearing.

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She was tackled by deputies and removed.

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The hearing continued without her.

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Over Zoom.

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And while her appeal went nowhere, her first post-conviction lawyer filed a no-merit brief

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in late 2024, basically saying there was nothing worth appealing.

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Taylor responded by firing him and trying to represent herself.

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She submitted a handwritten motion asking for more time than missed her deadline.

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The court dismissed it.

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The appeal is dead.

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At this point, she has no legal team.

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She's facing a new trial in October 2025 for the prison assault.

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And she's still behind bars, serving life with no chance of parole.

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Taylor's Shebusiness has become her own worst case study.

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A story that started with drugs and violence turned into something much bigger, something

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relentless.

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And no matter how many times the system tries to close the book on her, she keeps ripping

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the pages back open.

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This is from Sarah.

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Hi, Joe.

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Love the podcast.

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Your storytelling style makes even heavy cases easy to digest.

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So thanks for that.

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Curious about your take on something.

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With all these true crime documentaries coming out lately, do you think they're actually

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helping bring attention to cold cases?

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Or are they mostly just entertainment at this point?

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Would love your thoughts.

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Keep up the great work.

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Sarah M. from North Carolina.

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Sarah, first of all, thank you for your email.

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And to answer your question, I think it's both.

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You're not listening to what I'm saying right now because you're researching it for a school

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paper.

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Most of the time, that's not happening.

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It's entertainment.

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What I'm doing here with documentaries are doing.

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It's to entertain you.

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As weird as that is to say, that's what it is.

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However, I do think that it helps solve cold cases.

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So if you're watching a documentary and you see the detectives on the case, they're talking

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about it.

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They're going into detail about what they do know and all that.

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There's a reason they're participating.

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They're not doing it to make themselves famous.

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I hope not.

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Anyway, but they're doing it because they know the value and the power of the media.

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If they put this out there, this is what we're looking for.

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Here are the details that we know.

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How can you help us?

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That helps solve cold cases.

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And for those of us that obviously have zero information to give and to help solve the

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case, we're watching it for entertainment value.

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And I don't exactly like how that makes me feel to say that, but that's the truth of it.

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Alright, so that's going to do it.

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That is your episode for today.

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Thank you so much for listening.