Woman Sentenced to Life for Cellmate's Murder
- On June 30, 2025, 29-year-old Taylor Sanchez was sentenced to life without release after prosecutors called her attack 'wholly vicious.'
- According to the criminal complaint, Sanchez alleged she had stopped her medication and was hearing voices, believing her cellmate used her toothbrush to scrub the toilet.
- Forensic reports show Cindy Schulz-Juedes suffered skull fractures too numerous to count and 34 rib fractures in cell 410 at Taycheedah Correctional Institution.
- The court also ordered $4,196 restitution, with Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney saying `This defendant caused the death of her cellmate and created dangerous risks for staff and inmates`.
- Following the July 19, 2023 homicide in cell 410, Fond du Lac County District Attorney Eric Toney said `Every victim matters, regardless of their status or if they are serving a criminal sentence`.
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Wisconsin women's prison inmate sentenced to life for beating cellmate to death
An inmate at Wisconsin's women's prison will spend the rest of her life behind bars for allegedly beating her cellmate to death. Fond du Lac County Circuit Judge Tricia Walker sentenced 29-year-old Taylor Sanchez to life without parole Monday in…
Woman sentenced to life in prison for murdering Taycheedah cellmate
FOND DU LAC, Wis. – A woman found guilty of killing her cellmate at Taycheedah Correctional Institution will spend the rest of her life behind bars. Taylor Sanchez said she had been hearing voices when she beat 68-year-old Cindy Schulz-Juedes to death in 2023. Sanchez pled no contest last month to avoid a trial; during the investigation she told authorities she was off her medication at the time of Schulz-Juedes’s death, who Sanchez believed had…


Fond du Lac woman sentenced to life without parole for killing cellmate
FOND DU LAC, Wis. — The woman, who killed her cellmate at a Fond du Lac correctional institution on July 19, 2023, was sentenced to life in prison without eligibility.
Woman sentenced to life for cellmate's murder
A woman convicted of killing her cellmate in a Fond du Lac prison was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.Taylor L. Sanchez was an inmate in the Taycheedah Correctional Institute when she murdered her cellmate in July 2023, according to Fond du Lac District Attorney Eric Toney.According to a criminal complaint, the victim suffered several skull fractures, "too numerous to count," along with 34 rib fractures.The victim, …
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