A home in Kentucky where cooked body parts were allegedly found in a steel pot (YouTube/WDKY).
A Kentucky woman is behind bars after pieces of another woman’s dismembered body were found behind her mother’s home earlier this week, police in the Bluegrass State say.
Torilena Fields, 32, stands accused of one count each of obstructing governmental operations, tampering with physical evidence, and abuse of corpse, according to Bourbon County jail records.
Law enforcement says multiple indices of occult practices came up during the so-far brief investigation into the macabre crime scene.
Early Wednesday afternoon, maintenance workers arrived at a residence on Brierly Ridge Road in Robertson County, Kentucky, to “work on a building for the property owner,” according to a citation obtained by Cincinnati-based NBC affiliate WLWT.
After receiving no response at the front door, the workers walked around toward the back of the residence, according to a police release cited by Cincinnati-based ABC affiliate WCPO. There, they allegedly found a pile of hair, a bloody mattress, and drag marks. Then, they followed upset grass until making an even more grim discovery.
At around 12:26 p.m., one maintenance worker called 911 after allegedly finding human remains behind the house — presumably those that belonged to the owner of the house. Kansas State Police arrived and found what the document terms a “dismembered body.”
Along with those human remains, state troopers allegedly found a “blood-stained mattress” as well as tell-tale “blood on the back porch” and on the “threshold of the back door,” according to the citation. Additionally, investigators said they found a blood-stained stick near the back porch — and another bloody mattress there.
State troopers also described “drag marks” in the grass — starting from the residence and ending where the body had been dumped.
The workers said Wednesday was at least the second time they had visited the property owned by Trudy Fields this week.
The maintenance men said he had been to the Fields property the day before where they encountered the defendant “casting spells on them and being confrontational,” according to the citation.
A special response team eventually arrived at the residence and attempted to extricate Torilena Fields. The younger woman allegedly refused — leading to a lengthy standoff that only dissipated at around 11 p.m. after the use of tear gas and a police robot, authorities said.
Troopers wrote in the citation that when the defendant finally left the house, she “appeared to have blood on her face, hands and clothing.”
“This is going to be a long night for our guys,” Kentucky State Police Trooper David Jones told Lexington-based Fox affiliate WDKY.
Inside, the crime scene was revealed to be even more gruesome.
The victim’s body had its arms, legs and head removed with the torso and spine “severed in half and the organs removed,” according to the citation. Investigators also said they found body parts that “appeared to have been cooked” in a steel pot inside the oven.
“The pot was still warm to the touch,” the citation reads.
A spokesperson for the Kentucky State Police told Law&Crime the agency would be confirming the identity of the victim on Friday morning following an autopsy.
The defendant is currently being detained at the Bourbon County Detention Center without bond.
State police said additional charges could be filed pending the results of the ongoing investigation.
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