Editor’s note: This story contains details that some readers may find disturbing.
A Mount Olivet woman accused of murdering and dismembering her mother had a “not guilty plea” entered on her behalf by her attorney Tuesday afternoon.
Torilena Fields, 32, is accused of shooting her mother, Trudy Fields, in the head and stabbing her before “decapitating, dismembering, disemboweling her mother’s corpse and removing her head, feet and forearms placed in a pot in the oven and heated until charred,” according to the indictment filed Oct. 14 by a Robertson County grand jury.
She is charged with murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, torturing a cat or dog and obstructing government operations.
Fields appeared with her lawyer Laura Fitzer during a hearing in court on Tuesday. Her bail remains at $1.5 million.
Fitzer said she and her co-counsel, Chris Tracy, look forward to sharing more details about the case.
“We’re just looking forward to being able to tell Torilena’s story and it will take some time to do that,” Fitzer said.
Both the suspect and the victim’s family, who are from Indiana, were present at the proceedings. They described Torilena, who appeared on a video call, as “conscious.”
“It doesn’t seem like anything is wrong,” said Todd Brock, Trudy’s brother.
“She was alert; she paid attention. I didn’t see anything about her being psychotic or mental. She talked to the judge like a human being. I thought she was going crazy.”
On trying to navigate where the victim is his sister and his niece is the suspect, Brock said, “I feel sorry for the girl, but my sister is my sister. Children don’t do that to their mothers.”
He wants to know what happened. Bock said they were “waiting in the wind” for answers. The family has been unable to make funeral arrangements for their sister and has no idea when they will be able to do so.
Diana Brock, Trudy’s younger sister, said the circumstances of the case would “never be credible.”
Torilena Fields’ next performance is scheduled for March 10 at 9 a.m.
Which led to the accusations
According to police, two men Trudy Fields hired to work at her home on Brierly Ridge Road in Mount Olivet called them on Oct. 9 after they went to the house and found the dismembered body, a pile of hair and a bloody mattress behind it. the house.
The men said they had seen Trudy Fields at the house the night before, and Torilena Fields had been there too, “charging them” and “confronting them.”
When police removed Torilena Fields from the home, they said she had blood on her face, hands and clothing.
Police found a hot pot in the oven containing human body parts that appeared to have been cooked, court records show.
Fields also tortured and killed a dog, the complaint said.
In October, prosecutors filed a motion asking the court to require several banks and a life insurance company to produce records for Trudy Fields’ accounts. They will “provide evidence concerning the death of Trudy Fields and the defendant’s commission of the crimes” for which she was charged, prosecutors said.
Other details related to the case
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Torilena Fields’ sister blamed a third sibling – a brother – for the mother’s death in a request for a temporary restraining order against him. The accusation was made by Telby Fields, the 31-year-old daughter of Trudy Fields, against her 42-year-old brother Truitt Fields. A judge later refused to extend the emergency order, citing that the family feared Truitt but that there was no “direct evidence” that he posed a threat or had anything to do with Trudy Field’s murder.
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The complaint says Torilena Fields also goes by the name Naomi or Nao Navarre.
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According to media reports, before her arrest, she was an aspiring actress who until recently lived in California. A profile for Naomi Navarre on imdb.com says she had roles in two 2019 films, “The Desert Project” and “A Dance Story.”
