Two hired hands stumbled upon a gruesome scene when they showed up for work on October 9 in Robertson County in Kentucky.
The men had reportedly been hired to make some repairs on the property and had last seen the homeowner, Trudy Fields, the night before when she walked them out to the gate. They said that as they were talking with Fields, her daughter, Torilena May Fields, 32, was “casting spells on them and was being confrontational,” according to the police report.
When the two men arrived back at the property on Wednesday morning, no one answered the door, so they began to look around and found a pile of hair and a blood-stained mattress on the back porch, along with drag marks leading out of the house. They followed the marks and found what they believed to be the mother’s dismembered body in the backyard.
When the Kentucky State Police arrived, they found that the arms, legs, and head had been removed from the mother’s body, and another mattress folded in half near the body contained severed body parts and organs.
Inside the house, officers found a still-warm pot in the oven that contained cooked human body parts, which were the head, feet, and forearms of the deceased woman, according to police.
Torilena was found in the home, covered with blood, but she was unresponsive to officers. Police used tear gas to drive her out of the house, and she was arrested without incident. She is currently being held in the Bourbon County Detention Center.
Torilena was charged with obstructing governmental operations, tampering with physical evidence, and abuse of a corpse as state police continued their investigation into the woman’s death.
On Monday, Torilena was indicted on a murder charge for allegedly shooting Trudy Fields and stabbing her multiple times. She was also charged with torturing and killing a dog, Lexington WKYT reported. Her bond was set at $1.5 million.