FILE 606 / 20 June 2025 / 73 MIN / express

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Green Bay, WisconsinListen

The town

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we're going to green bay wisconsin... it is in brown county about 0:03:27

History, in brief

1745

The Langlade family arrived around 1745 and were the first settlers in the area.

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1763

In 1763 the British ousted the French and took control of Green Bay.

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1783

In 1783 the Americans won control during the Revolution.

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Town note

Green Bay became home to the state's first newspaper.

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All 7 history facts

1745

The Langlade family arrived around 1745 and were the first settlers in the area.

about 0:04:50

1763

In 1763 the British ousted the French and took control of Green Bay.

about 0:05:05

1783

In 1783 the Americans won control during the Revolution.

about 0:05:12

Town note

Green Bay became home to the state's first newspaper.

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Town note

Green Bay was the first city in Wisconsin to receive mail.

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1918

The Green Bay Packers were founded in 1918 and played their first season in 1919.

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Town note

The Packers are the last remaining small-town team in the country.

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The figures, as told

Money

Median home value$212,700
Median household incomeabout $55,200
All figures and comparisons, as told in 2025

Population

"about 107,000 people"

No direction stated.

As told in 2025 about 0:04:18

Median household income

"about $55,200"

Comparison: "a little less than the national average". Direction: below.

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Median home cost

"$212,700"

Comparison: "lower than the national average". Direction: below.

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The reviews

3.3 / 5 · average of 3

5 stars

“Loves the summer farmers market on Wednesdays and Saturdays, says almost everything is fifteen minutes away, and that game weekends are busy only near the stadium.”
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3 stars

“The city keeps growing but many homes, businesses and communities are left in the dust and need refurbishing.”
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2 stars

“Complains that losers in entry-level jobs steal work from the young, the roads are narrow and the street lights are crap at night, the city looks dull and rugged and the job market sucks.”
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In Wisconsin

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The story

Green Bay, Wisconsin, sits in Brown County on the bay in eastern Wisconsin, about two hours and twenty minutes from Madison, three hours from Chicago and two hours from Pewaukee. James puts the population at about 107,000, the median household income at about $55,200, a little below the national average, and the median home cost at $212,700, also below the national average. The town's history runs from the Langlade family arriving around 1745, through British control in 1763 and American control in 1783, to the state's first newspaper, its first mail delivery, and the founding of the Packers in 1918. Three reviews give it five, three and two stars.

From seventh grade she was on a mood stabiliser, an antidepressant and an antipsychotic, and at about eighteen she stopped taking all of it.

Her own record followed. In June 2020 she was found walking in the middle of the road, high on methamphetamine, told the officer she was on a different planet, kicked him in the shin and was put on three years probation. In April and May 2021 she was hospitalised after two suicide attempts, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorder, and gave birth to a son who went to live with her grandparents in Texas.

On Monday, February 21st, 2022, she picked up Shad Therion, her boyfriend from high school, then twenty-four and working at his family's business. They did drugs and ended up in the basement of his mother's house, where she strangled him with a dog choke chain as part of a sex act. She told detectives he coughed up blood and she kept pulling because she was already halfway done, that it took three to five minutes, that she liked it, and that she asked them whether they knew what it was like to love something so much that you kill it. She then had sex with the body, put a dildo in his mouth and anus, and cut him apart with kitchen knives, a bread knife working best. She put his head and penis in a black bucket, covered it with a blanket, and carried a leg and a foot out to the van in a crock pot box. The rest, including the upper torso and organs, was left in bags in the basement.

Between 2:30 and 3 a.m. Shad's mother, Tara Pankinich, was woken by the storm door slamming. Later that morning she went down to the basement, saw a black bucket that should not have been there, lifted the blanket and found her son's head. The 911 operator asked whether she was hallucinating or had taken mushrooms.

In February 2023 she attacked her defence lawyer at a motions hearing, and in July 2023 a defence psychologist called her psychotic while a court-ordered psychologist and the judge found her competent.

The case

Murder of Shad Therion

Victims

Shad Therion (24). high-school boyfriend, worked at his family's business

Accused and outcomes

As told in the episode, on 20 June 2025.

Accused

Outcome

Other people

Tara Pankinich. Shad's mother, who found his head in the basement and called 911
Steve Hendrix. Tara Pankinich's boyfriend

The timeline

  1. November 23rd, 1997 Denise Coronado is born just outside Chicago to Marla and Arturo Coronadoabout 0:11:53
  2. seventh grade She starts mental health treatment for attention, concentration and behavioural problems and is prescribed a mood stabiliser, an antidepressant and an antipsychoticabout 0:15:05
  3. about 18 She weans herself off all her medicationabout 0:15:43
  4. after high school She moves to Texas with her grandparents to finish school, then returns to Wisconsin to work for a cheese maker and sell beaded items on Etsyabout 0:15:56
  5. February 14th, 2020 marries Warren Shabow and legally takes the name about 0:16:33
  6. November 13th, 2020 Warren Shabow is found with 46 grams of methamphetamine during a traffic stop and faces a federal drug complaintabout 0:32:04
  7. April 2021 is hospitalised after a suicide attemptabout 0:33:36
  8. May 2021 She is hospitalised after a second suicide attempt and diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and bipolar disorderabout 0:33:36
  9. about a month later, 2021 She gives birth to a son, who goes to live with her grandparents in Texasabout 0:34:13
  10. Monday February 21st, 2022 picks Shad Therion up; it is the last time his mother sees him aliveabout 0:38:53
  11. February 21st, 2022 strangles Shad with a dog choke chain in the basement of his mother's house, then has sex with the corpse and dismembers him with kitchen knives (Therion house)about 0:35:28
  12. between 2:30 and 3 a.m. Tara Pankinich is woken by the storm door slamming and hears a vehicle leave (Therion house)about 0:38:06
  13. the next morning Tara Pankinich finds Shad's head in a black bucket at the bottom of the basement stairs and calls 911 (Therion house)about 0:36:11
  14. the same day Police find outside her Eastman Avenue apartment covered in dried blood; body parts are found in her van and in the basement (Eastman Avenue apartment)about 0:40:12

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