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
Taylor Sanchez, 29, a Wisconsin prison inmate known for maniacally smiling in her mugshots (seen in 2024), admitted to murdering her cellmate after slipping into psychotic delusions
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 (pictured), 68, in July 2023
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.
Sanchez, seen in her previous mugshot in 2022, ‘was hearing voices telling me to kill her’ cellmate, and later admitted that she stopped taking her medications
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.’
