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Oliver Hitchcock Dies After Mother Attacks Him

Oliver Hitchcock was an eight year old boy from Wisconsin who has passed away from injuries he suffered when his mother, Natalia Aleksandrovna Hitchcock., attacked him. According to police reports Oliver Hitchcock was home with his mother and father when the mother suddenly attacked her son. 911 was called while Oliver Hitchcock’s father attempted to save his son. Oliver Hitchcock would be rushed to the hospital where he would later die from his injuries.

Oliver Hitchcock’s mother, Natalia Aleksandrovna Hitchcock., was arrested and initially charged with assault causing bodily harm however it is expected the charges will be upgraded. Oliver Hitchcock’s mother received injuries during the violent assault which police deemed to be self-inflicted. No motive for this senseless crime has been released.

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An 8-year-old boy has died two days after being found unresponsive in a Sheboygan Falls apartment, police confirmed during a Saturday morning news conference.

His mother is in custody and is the only suspect in this case, according to police.

The Sheboygan Falls Police Chief identified the boy as Oliver Hitchcock.

Police said he passed away Friday afternoon.

An autopsy is scheduled next week.

Officers were called to the Plank Trail Apartments in Sheboygan Falls on Wednesday evening.

“The initial response I can say was due to a strangulation,” said Police Chief Eric Miller on Saturday.

Police said the boy’s mother was also taken to a hospital with what they say were “self-inflicted injuries.” She was released on Friday and transported to the Sheboygan County Jail.

WISN 12 News spoke with Oliver’s uncle on his Dad’s side Saturday.

“Oliver was a sweet, smart kid,” said Eric Hitchcock. “He played Minecraft quite a bit and he was into airplanes.”

He also said he enjoyed spending time with his brother.

“It’s horrible that it happened. It just doesn’t make any sense,” Hitchcock said. “I just couldn’t believe it was true. I mean I just talked to his mom two days before and things were normal and we had a good conversation. It’s just unbelievable.”

Hitchcock set up a Gofundme to help support Oliver’s Dad, Jeff.

Jeff is a truck driver and will need to take time off to care for his other son on his own.

“It’s just horrible and it’s hard to get through it,” Eric Hitchcock said. “He’s [Oliver’s dad] just existing trying to get through it.”

You can donate to the family’s GoFundMe by clicking here.

Chief Miller said they will refer charges of 1st Degree Intentional Homicide and Attempted Homicide to the District Attorney’s office.

“The second count is something that came up in the investigative process,” said Miller. “The Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department is the lead agency on that.”

12 News reached out to the Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Department for more information on the attempted homicide charge. They have not responded as of Saturday night.

Police said they will not release the name of the mother until she is formally charged. A criminal complaint will likely be available early next week once she is formally charged.

Oliver was a student at the Sheboygan Falls Elementary School.

“We have some tough days ahead for our families, our students, our staff. Our crisis team is mobilized and will be on site Monday and throughout the week,” said Superintendent Annalee Bennin.

They are asking families to have conversations with their children ahead of Monday to ensure their mental health.

“Age appropriate conversations are really important, so our crisis team has actually been together this morning and they’re still gathering right now to out together the messaging and what that will look like at every grade level, and specific to classrooms that were more closely affected,” Bennin said. “But it will look different for a 12^th grader than it does for a 2^ndgrader or kindergartener.”

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Troy Bierdz Murders Mother With A Bat

Troy Bierdz is known as the brother of actor Thom Bierdz but unfortunately Troy is also known as the man from Wisconsin who beat his mother to death with a baseball bat. According to court documents when Troy Bierdz was nineteen years old he would attack his mother with a baseball bat and proceeded to beat her to death. Troy Bierdz who was diagnosed with schizophrenia would leave the home following the murder however would be arrested soon after. Troy Bierdz would be convicted of the murder and sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for fifty years.

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In 1986, Thom Bierdz catapulted into stardom with his role as Philip Chancellor III in the popular daytime drama The Young and the Restless. The Wisconsin native quickly became a sex symbol, a regular on soap magazines, and won fans around the country and beyond.

Bierdz was in the height of his career when his 19-year-old brother, Troy Bierdz, murdered their mother, Phyllis, with a baseball bat in their hometown of Kenosha, Wisconsin. Now, more than two decades after the horrific tragedy, Bierdz shares his harsh journey to forgiving his brother in his stunning memoir, Forgiving Troy

Bierdz’s debut book is brutally honest, emotionally uncensored, and skillfully brings readers into the aftermath of the murder, surviving Hollywood as a gay man, and the perceptions of mental health before the Americans with Disabilities Act.

“Curiously,” said Bierdz, “Troy’s disputed onset of paranoid schizophrenia in his teens was debated by many doctors. My mom tried to get him help by taking Troy to 40 doctors, but most felt he was only faking symptoms of schizophrenia, while only a few believed he actually was schizophrenic. There is no denying he did become schizophrenic and is today.”

While many blame Phyllis’ death on the Wisconsin court system, as it ignored her multiple pleas for help each time her son threatened to kill her, Bierdz takes a completely different stance. He said, “I do not know how a system can stop killing, since mental ‘illness’ is so variable. Millions of people threaten to kill others – so how can outsiders really know who will?”

“If you asked me on a spiritual level,” continued Bierdz, “do I feel Troy was fated to kill mom, I would say no, that none of us are fated to do anything.”

Still, Bierdz does feel that if the ADA had been around when his mom was seeking mental health services for her schizophrenic son, things may have turned out differently. And while Bierdz does feel medication can help, he wants to ensure that people know pills are only one option for some conditions.

“I cannot dispute that the anti-psychotic meds Troy now takes in prison miraculously take away most of his hallucinations and other symptoms. As a man who is over 50, and not on any pills, I cannot deny Ambien did, in fact, help my insomnia previously, and that medicines can help and cure people. But, I feel that is primarily because the patient’s mindset believes in a cure pill. We all know placebos have a 30 percent cure rate. My intent is to empower the patient, for them to see they deserve perfect health, and they can attain that in numerous ways, pills being only one option,” he said.

Above everything, Bierdz wants people to know that schizophrenics are not necessarily dangerous people and that, statistically, they are less dangerous than people without any mental illness. He does, though, think that people with any type of mental or physical condition would benefit from reducing the stress in their lives and eating whole foods. (He is an especially big supporter of veganism.)

In 2015, Warren Hohmann, from KTLA News in Hollywood, flew to Wisconsin with Bierdz to visit Troy, and captured much of their story through interviews. The clips were later woven into a documentary film also called Forgiving Troy, which shows how Bierdz and his baby brother rebuilt their relationship.

“Troy and I were experiencing similar anxiety challenges – him in prison, me in the prison of Hollywood, etc.,” said Bierdz about the film.

Bierdz still acts occasionally, but now focuses mainly on painting. In fact, he has become Hollywood’s favorite realist painter and is in high demand.

“While I do realism for clients, my best stuff is when I spill my brain and do expressionism,” said Bierdz.

E-book copies of Forgiving Troy may be purchased through all online retailers and paperback copies can be obtained via http://www.thombierdz.com. The documentary may be streamed for free on YouTube.

To learn more about and follow Bierdz, you can find him on Facebook at Thom Bierdz and Thom Bierdz II and on Twitter @ThomBierdz.

Taylor Schabusiness Asks For Competency Exam

Taylor Schabusiness the woman from Wisconsin is asking for a competency exam after she was charged with the brutal murder of a man. According to police records Taylor Schabusiness would choke a man to death during sex than afterwards would perform sexual acts with the corpse before carving up his body and chopping his head off. Taylor Schabusiness would be charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and third-degree sexual assault. Taylor Schabusiness is also charged with two counts of violation of probation. Now Taylor is asking for a competency exam as she is blaming the brutal murder on a meth binge and more than likely going for an insanity defense.

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A judge will review a request Thursday for a competency exam for the woman accused of decapitating a man.

Taylor Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, and third-degree sexual assault for allegedly killing Shad Thyrion Feb. 22 at a west side home.

Her attorney requested the competency exam, saying based on his conversations with her he questions if Schabusiness understands the court proceedings and can assist in her own defense.

The case was assigned to Judge Thomas Walsh, with a hearing set for Thursday, court records show. Such competency exam requests are routinely granted.

Schabusiness also has balance of initial appearance scheduled for March 22, but that is likely to be postponed while the psychiatric review is performed. She is currently being held on $2 million cash bond.

This competency exam is separate from any possible so-called insanity plea of not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. Such a plea would come at a later stage of the case. The only issues for the competency exam are her ability to understand the proceedings and help in her own defense.

According to the criminal complaint, police were called to a residence on Stony Brook early in the morning of Feb. 23. There, police found a severed head inside a bucket in the basement.

Schabusiness said she and the victim were using drugs, including meth, and engaging in sexual play, when the man was strangled. She then sexually abused him, dismembered the body, and placed body parts in various locations in the home and a vehicle, the criminal complaint states.

“Schabusiness made the comment that at one point, she did get paranoid and lazy and that she thought it was the “dope” that was making her paranoid,” the complaint states.

Police say they took Schabusiness into custody later on Feb. 23 at an Eastman Avenue residence.

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Marissa Tietsort Gets 40 Years For Newborn’s Murder

Marissa Tietsort is a woman from Wisconsin who was just sentenced to forty years in prison for the murder of a newborn and the abuse of a eleven month old child. According to court documents Marissa Tietsort would place the eleven week old infant in his car seat even knowing the child had passed away. The mother would find the child and would immediately call 911. Police in Wausau Wisconsin would learn that Marissa Tietsort had brought the newborn, who was already dead, into McDonald’s and had lunch before she put the child into the car seat.

At the hospital doctors would find the eleven week old boy had died from blunt force trauma to the head and that his tailbone had been broken. Marissa Tietsort was already wanted by police for another child abuse incident that took place in 2018 where a 11 month old girl suffered injuries that did not match Marissa Tietsort story that the little girl fell off the couch and suffered run burn to her face. Marissa Tietsort would receive a thirty seven year sentence for the murder and three additional years for the child abuse charge.

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A woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison for abusing one child and killing another in Wisconsin.

Marissa Tietsort was sentenced to 37 years in prison for the death of an 11-week-old boy named Benson and three years for hurting an 11-month-old girl, Wausau Daily Herald reported.

Police said the infant’s mother called police on Oct. 18, 2018, when she went to take her son out of his car seat and found him unresponsive, WSAW reported. Court documents obtained by WSAW indicate the child’s cause of death was blunt force head injuries, and the baby’s tailbone was broken off and displaced.

Investigators said Tietsort knew the child had died in her care, but still bundled him in a snowsuit and hat so his mother wouldn’t notice when she picked him up, WSAW reported.

Investigators say after the baby’s death, Tietsort took him to McDonald’s and ate before returning him to his mother, WFRV reported. In court, the jury was shown surveillance video showing Tietsort and her boyfriend with the dead child in its carrier, another baby, and a small child at the restaurant, Wausau Daily Herald reported. Benson was left in his car seat in the next booth while they ate.

When the 2-month-old died, there was a warrant out for Tietsort’s arrest for child abuse, police said at the time in a Facebook post. The Marathon County district attorney said that Tietsort called the girl’s mother on Aug. 2, 2018, to say the child had fallen off a couch and had a rug burn on her face, Wausau Daily Herald reported. For two years following that, the little girl’s mother said the child didn’t want anyone to touch her head, and missed several milestones, Wausau Daily Herald reported.

Abuse charges were filed two months after the girl was injured, and seven days before Benson’s death, prosecutors told Wausau Daily Herald.

Police said when they went to arrest Tietsort, she was at The Plaza Hotel, where she had gone swimming with her boyfriend.

A judge ordered Tietsort to serve the two sentences consecutively, to be followed by 20 years of supervision after she is released, Wausau Daily Herald reported.

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Taylor Schabusiness Charged In Disturbing Murder

Taylor Schabusiness is a woman from Green Bay Wisconsin who was just charged in the disturbing murder of a man. According to police reports Taylor Schabusiness would choke the victim to death using a metal chain and after the victim had passed Taylor would proceed to chop up the victim’s body. The mother of the victim would find her son’s head in a metal bucket and phone the police. The Green Bay police would go to Taylor Schabusiness residence and find the woman covered in blood. Taylor Schabusiness would make a full confession to police and told them how after the victim was dead she continued sexual activity with the corpse before she began to chop him up using a bread knife. Taylor Schabusiness has been charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault.

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Officers in Wisconsin said they found a severed head at a home and body parts in other locations, according to a criminal complaint made public.

Taylor Schabusiness, 24, is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault, WBAY reported.

A court commissioner set her bond at $2 million cash at a hearing Tuesday afternoon. Schabusiness seemed calm when she appeared in Brown County court via video conference. She said little, only acknowledging that she has the right to an attorney.

The prosecutor called this “one of the most serious offenses we had in this county in some time.”

The state argued Schabusiness has ties to Texas, raising a concern she’s a flight risk. The prosecution also said Schabusiness was on put on probation seven weeks before the crime and supposed to be on monitoring but apparently wasn’t wearing her monitoring bracelet.

“I think the facts alleged are extremely concerning and disturbing and go to the violent nature and grave nature of the offense,” Assistant District Attorney Caleb Saunders said in court.

Green Bay police said they were called to a home around 3:25 a.m. local time Feb. 23. A person who lived in the home reported finding the severed head in a bucket.

Police located the human head in the basement of the home. A towel had been placed over it, and dried blood was found on a nearby mattress.

Investigators learned Schabusiness may have been the last person seen with the victim. They found her at a home and said she had dried blood on her clothing.

Police searched Schabusiness’ van and found a box with “additional human body parts including legs” on the rear passenger seat, according to the criminal complaint.

Police obtained a search warrant for the home. They found multiple other body parts, body fluids and knives.

Investigators said Taylor Schabusiness told them she and the victim had been doing drugs and having sex. She said they had used chains while having sex, and she went “crazy” and started strangling the victim.

A detective said she admitted to hiding the body parts, according to the complaint. She also went into detail about the weapons she used to dismember the body.

“Taylor Schabusiness made the comment that at one point, she did get paranoid and lazy and that she thought it was the ‘dope’ that was making her paranoid,” officials said in the complaint.

Investigators said she told them she did not mean to kill the victim, but she enjoyed choking him and continued to do it.

Police met with the victim’s family Tuesday.

Police, forensic teams and the Dane County Medical Examiner’s Office investigated and processed multiple locations associated with the crime.

https://www.blackhillsfox.com/2022/03/01/graphic-discovery-severed-head-leads-arrest-woman-grisly-wisconsin-killing-police-say/

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A 24-year-old Green Bay woman was charged on Tuesday in the death of a Green Bay man at a west-side home last week.

Taylor Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault.

Green Bay police officers were called about 3:25 a.m. Thursday to a west-side home in the 800 block of Stony Brook Lane where they found the body of a 25-year-old Green Bay man. Police have yet to identify the person who was killed.

Schabusiness was taken into custody Thursday at a home in the 2300 block of Eastman Avenue on the city’s east side and was “a known associate of the victim,” Green Bay police said Tuesday in a news release.

Schabusiness is expected to appear in court at 2 p.m. today for an initial appearance.

https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/crime/2022/03/01/prosecutors-file-charge-death-25-year-old-green-bay-man/6979174001/

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A 24-year-old Green Bay woman was charged on Tuesday with killing and then decapitating a Green Bay man at a west-side home last week after smoking methamphetamine with him.

Taylor Schabusiness is charged with first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse and third-degree sexual assault. In a criminal complaint, Brown County prosecutors accused her of removing parts of the victim’s body, using a bread knife and another knife found at the scene of the killing.

The complaint describes how officers made their grisly discovery in a home in the 800 block of Stony Brook Lane. A police officer went down the basement stairs and saw a plastic bucket on the floor. He “lifted the towel and observed a human head inside the bucket. (He) … looked around the room and observed what appeared to be dried blood on a nearby mattress,” the complaint said.

Officers and detectives found other blood around the home’s basement, as well.

Brown County Court Commissioner Chad Resar on Tuesday set bail for Schabusiness at $2 million. Assistant Brown County District Attorney Caleb Saunders cited the “violent and grave nature of the offense” and said the killing was one of the most serious to have been committed in Brown County in a long time.

Green Bay police officers had been called about 3:25 a.m. Feb. 23 to the home on Stony Brook Lane, where they found the victim’s body. Police have yet to reveal his name.

Schabusiness was taken into custody Feb. 23 at a home in the 2300 block of Eastman Avenue on the city’s east side. She was “a known associate of the victim,” Green Bay police said Tuesday in a news release

In the criminal complaint, prosecutors said Schabusiness and the man first smoked methamphetamine together on Feb. 23. They then began a sexual encounter that included Schabusiness choking the man with a chain, the complaint said, and eventually strangling him with her bare hands.

She also made comments to detectives, the complaint said, “asking if they knew what it was like to love something so much that you kill it.”

It was unclear from the complaint exactly when the victim stopped breathing; Schabusiness estimated that it took 3 to 5 minutes from when she began choking the man, but could not be exact because she had blacked out at some point.

https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/crime/2022/03/01/prosecutors-file-charge-death-25-year-old-green-bay-man/6979174001/