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CBS News
28-07-2025
- CBS News
Wisconsin inmate Taylor Sanchez sentenced to life for beating cellmate to death in 2023
An inmate at Wisconsin's women's prison accused of brutally beating her cellmate to death will spend the rest of her life behind bars. Fond du Lac County Circuit Judge Tricia Walker sentenced 29-year-old Taylor Sanchez to life without parole Monday in connection with 68-year-old Cindy Schulz-Juedes' death in 2023 at Taycheedah Correctional Institution. According to a criminal complaint, staff at the Fond du Lac prison discovered Schulz-Juedes' body in the cell she shared with Sanchez in July 2023. Sanchez later called her mother and told her that she beat Schulz-Juedes to death with her bare hands because she had stopped taking her medication, was hearing voices and thought Schulz-Juedes had cleaned a toilet with Sanchez's toothbrush, the complaint says. Sanchez initially pleaded not guilty due to insanity. Online court records show she changed the plea in June to no contest, a legal construct in which defendants choose not to fight the charges against them but don't admit guilt. The plea results in a conviction the same as if the defendant had pleaded guilty or been found guilty by a jury. Sanchez was serving a two-year sentence for battery at the time of the alleged attack. Schulz-Juedes was serving a life sentence for killing her husband in 2021. Sanchez's attorney, public defender Michael Queensland, didn't return a message Monday.
Daily Mail
28-07-2025
- Daily Mail
Unhinged woman who can't stop smiling in mugshots pleads guilty to appalling crime
An unhinged female prison inmate known for maniacally smiling in her mugshots admitted to murdering her cellmate after slipping into psychotic delusions. Taylor Sanchez, 29, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole this week over the brutal stabbing of her cellmate Cindy Schulz-Juedes, 68, in July 2023. Prison officers found Schulz-Juedes in a pool of her own blood in cell 410 in Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fond Du Lac County, Wisconsin. When confronted over the murder, Sanchez told officers that she 'was hearing voices telling me to kill her,' and later admitted that she stopped taking her medications. She also said that she launched at her cellmate because she thought she was using her toothbrush to scrub the toilet, per Fox6. In a call that Sanchez made to her mother after the jailhouse death, she was heard saying: 'I stopped taking my meds and I started hearing voices again.' After repeating the toothbrush theory, she added: 'I thought she was using my stuff to wipe the floor with and I thought she was messing with me', to which Sanchez's mother replied: 'Oh god.' Sanchez was seen grinning in her mugshot after the murder, the same as she did when she was sentenced to 18 months in prison in August 2022 for battery or threat to a law enforcement officer, and battery of another inmate before her fatal attack on Schulz-Juedes Sanchez was already serving a prison sentence for her battery charges when the attack on Schulz-Juedes occurred, and was set to be freed in August 2024. She has since been handed a life prison term for the vicious attack, which saw Schulz-Juedes beaten so severely that her 'skull fractures were too numerous to count.' She also suffered 34 rib fractures, bruises on arms, chest and abdomen, and other injuries, officials said. Schulz-Juedes was serving a life sentence for murdering her husband Ken Jeudes, 58, in 2006. She was not charged over the murder until 2019, and was three years into her sentence before being murdered by Sanchez. At Sanchez's sentencing this week, Judge Tricia Walker condemned the 'wholly vicious' attack as she denied ever allowing her to be eligible for parole. Fond du Lac County District Attorney Toney stated at the sentencing: '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.'
Associated Press
28-07-2025
- Associated Press
Wisconsin women's prison inmate sentenced to life for beating cellmate to death
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — An inmate at Wisconsin's women's prison accused of brutally beating her cellmate to death will spend the rest of her life behind bars. Fond du Lac County Circuit Judge Tricia Walker sentenced 29-year-old Taylor Sanchez to life without parole Monday in connection with 68-year-old Cindy Schulz-Juedes' death in 2023 at Taycheedah Correctional Institution. According to a criminal complaint, staff at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac discovered Schulz-Juedes' body in the cell she shared with Sanchez in July 2023. Sanchez later called her mother and told her that she beat Schulz-Juedes to death with her bare hands because she had stopped taking her medication, was hearing voices and thought Schulz-Juedes had cleaned a toilet with Sanchez's toothbrush, the complaint says. Sanchez initially pleaded not guilty due to insanity. Online court records show she changed the plea in June to no contest, a legal construct in which defendants choose not to fight the charges against them but don't admit guilt. The plea results in a conviction the same as if the defendant had pleaded guilty or been found guilty by a jury. Sanchez was serving a two-year sentence for battery at the time of the alleged attack. Schulz-Juedes was serving a life sentence for killing her husband in 2021. Sanchez's attorney, public defender Michael Queensland, didn't return a message Monday.
Associated Press
30-06-2025
- Associated Press
Prisoner pleads no contest in connection with cellmate's brutal death at Wisconsin women's prison
FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — A prisoner accused of beating her cellmate to death at Wisconsin's women's prison almost two years ago pleaded no contest Monday to homicide. Prosecutors charged 29-year-old Taylor Sanchez in January 2024 with first-degree intentional homicide in 68-year-old Cindy Schulz-Juedes' death. According to a criminal complaint, staff at Taycheedah Correctional Institution in Fond du Lac discovered Schulz-Juedes' body in the cell she shared with Sanchez in July 2023. Sanchez later called her mother and told her that she beat Schulz-Juedes to death with her bare hands because she had stopped taking her medication, was hearing voices and thought Schulz-Juedes had cleaned a toilet with Sanchez's toothbrush, the complaint said. Sanchez initially pleaded not guilty due to insanity. Online court records show she changed the plea Monday to no contest, a legal construct in which defendants acknowledge there's enough evidence to convict them and will not fight the case in court, but do not admit guilt. A message seeking comment from Sanchez's attorney, listed in court records as public defender Michael Queensland, was left Monday afternoon. Sanchez was serving a two-year sentence for battery out of Kenosha County when she allegedly attacked Schulz-Juedes, Wisconsin Department of Corrections records show. She faces a mandatory life sentence when she's sentenced July 28 on the homicide count. Schulz-Juedes was convicted in Marathon County in October 2021 of being a party to first-degree intentional homicide and other charges in the fatal shooting of her husband, Kenneth Juedes, 58. She was sentenced in June 2022 to life in prison without the chance of parole. Kenneth Juedes, a pharmacist, was shot twice on Aug. 29, 2006, at the couple's home in the town of Hull.
