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The Mother Told Her Son to Be a Man, Then He Posed With Her Beheaded Head in Front of The Mirror

The tragic case of Tanya Byrd

Lioness Rue
6 min readDec 20, 2023
Tanya Byrd (L) and her son Bahsid (R) — image from reddit.com

Side note: The killer, in this case, stated, “If you don’t have the stomach to cut them up after killing them, then you’re a coward.”

It was in the early morning.

Investigators scoured through piles of trash in the South Bronx neighborhood.

They discovered the body parts one by one. A decapitated head on Cauldwell, a right leg on Eagle, and a torso on Eagle, all near 158th Street.

Then, there was a phone with photos of a man posing in front of the bathroom mirror holding a decapitated head.

“A man convicted of stabbing his mother and taking a selfie with her severed head

Her body was found chopped up in bags.” — Reporter

Tanya Was a Fifty-Two-Year-Old

Tanya McLean Byrd was a fifty-two-year-old mother from New York, USA.

She had three children: Porsche Lovett, Bahsid, and Nasyr McLean.

Tanya gave birth to Porsche, followed by Bahsid when she was struggling with drug addiction and alcohol abuse.

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