A Wisconsin woman and inmate at the Taycheedah Correctional Institution who thought her cellmate used her toothbrush to scrub the toilet before killing her will spend the rest of her life in prison.
Fond du Lac County Circuit Judge Tricia Walker handed Taylor Sanchez, 29, a life term in prison without the possibility of parole for the brutal beating death of her cellmate, 68-year-old Cindy Schulz-Juedes. Though Sanchez had initially pleaded not guilty due to insanity, she later pleaded no contest to first-degree intentional homicide, according to CBS News.
On July 19, 2023, officers at the Fond du Lac prison responded to cell 410, where both Schulz-Juedes and Sanchez were cellmates, after they found the body of the victim in a pool of blood. According to investigators, the defendant claimed she stopped taking her meds and started hearing voices again. As a result, she thought Schulz-Juedes was using her toothbrush to scrub the toilet before beating Schulz-Juedes to death.
An autopsy report showed the victim had too many skull fractures to count and 37 rib fractures with bruises to the arm, chest, and abdomen.
"Every victim matters, regardless of their status or if they are serving a criminal sentence. This defendant brutally murdered her cellmate and created dangerous risks for other inmates and correctional officers. We will continue to protect our correctional officers and all those within our community, regardless of where they reside. We hope this sentence sends a strong message to inmates that there are consequences for committing crimes in our prisons,” said Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney, reported FOX 11 News.
Schulz-Juedes had been convicted of her husband’s murder in 2022 and was serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. Meanwhile, Sanchez was serving an 18-month sentence before the fatal incident. The defendant had been convicted of a threat to law enforcement in Kenosha, in addition to two years for battery to another inmate.
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