A northern Kentucky woman was arrested Wednesday after police found her mother’s dismembered body in the backyard of their home in Robertson County.
Kentucky State Police said that a witness called troopers to the home at about 12:30 p.m. after he found what he believed to be the body of Trudy Fields in the backyard, WCPO reported. The witness said he had arrived to do some work on the property, but Fields didn’t answer the door when he knocked, so he walked around back.
There, he said, he found a pile of hair, a blood-stained mattress, and drag marks in the grass. When he followed the drag marks, he found the body. He also reported finding a blood-stained stick and another mattress on the back porch.
According to WXIX, the mattress next to the body was folded over with body parts and internal organs in it. The victim’s arms, legs, and head had been removed.
The witness said he’d seen Fields the day before and that she lived at the home with her daughter, 32-year-old Torilena Fields. The man told police that the daughter was “casting spells on them and being confrontational,” a police report said.
State police obtained a search warrant for the home, but Torilena Fields refused to exit, according to WCPO. They removed her from the home with tear gas at about 11 p.m.
Police said she appeared to have blood on her hands, face, and clothes.
When officers searched the home, they found several body parts cooked in a still-warm stainless steel pot in the oven.
Torilena Fields has been charged with obstructing governmental operations, tampering with physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse. The investigation is continuing, police said, and more charges may be filed.
Fields was booked into the Bourbon County Detention Center without bond and is due in court on October 14, WXIX said.
