MOUNT OLIVET, Ky. — The Kentucky woman police arrested after finding a body in her mother's yard and human remains in the home's oven faces new charges. 


What You Need To Know

  • Torilena Fields faces charges of murder and torturing of dog with serious physical injury or death, according to an indictment 

  • She is also charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and obstructing government operations 

  • Police arrested the 32-year-old after finding a body in her mother's yard and remains in the oven 

  • The indictment said Fields dismembered her mother's corpse, placing her body parts in the oven and heating them until they were "charred" 

According to an indictment filed Monday in the Robertson Circuit Court, Torilena Fields, 32, faces charges of murder and torturing of dog with serious physical injury or death. She is also charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence and obstructing government operations. 

The indictment said between Oct. 8 and Oct. 9, Fields caused the death of her mother, Trudy Fields, by shooting her in the head with a firearm and stabbing her multiple times. At the time, “she was not acting under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance for which there was a reasonable explanation or excuse” and the force she used was unlawful.

Fields then allegedly dismembered her mother’s corpse, placing “her head, hands, feet and forearms in a pot in the oven” and heating them until they were “charred,” the indictment added. She is also accused of torturing and killing a dog without legal justification. 

Kentucky State Police said a man who was hired to work on the Mount Olivet property, about 50 miles southeast of Cincinnati, called authorities Oct. 9 after finding the body in the backyard. Officers saw the dismembered corpse in the grass, a bloody mattress nearby and bloodstains on the back porch and the back door, according to an arrest citation.

Police got a search warrant for the home, located at 3510 Brierly Ridge Road in Mount Olivet, and called in a special response team. After initially refusing to come out, they had to use gas inside the house and talk with Fields using a robot before she came out later that night, state police said. She had blood on her face, hands and clothing, according to the citation. 

The man said when he found the body, he believed it to be Trudy Fields’ because he found a “pile of her hair,” the arrest citation said.

Fields is being held at the Bourbon County Detention Center. Her bond is set at $1.5 million. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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