The Kentucky woman charged with murdering and dismembering her mother and cooking her severed head and other body parts was an aspiring actor living in California under a different name, according to reports.
Trilena Mae Fields, 32, was arrested on Oct. 9 after an 11-hour standoff with state police after workers discovered a disemboweled human torso in her mother's backyard. Ta.
Fields was later charged with the murder of his mother, Trudy Fields. After the mother emerged covered in blood from her home in Mount Olivet, Kentucky, investigators found her charred and severed head, hands, feet and forearms in a “still warm” pot. In the oven Fox56 reported.
Police said they found the victim's torso next to a mattress with piles of hair and blood soaked in it after being dragged through the back door and into the yard. Police said the mattress was covered with human organs and other severed parts.
Fields first shot his mother in the head and then “deliberately tortured and killed” the dog, according to an indictment obtained by Fox News.
Police said a worker hired by Trudy called 911 after Trudy discovered the body in his yard and said a confrontational Fields was “under a spell.”
Fields' family is shocked and devastated by the gruesome murder and recently returned to his mother's home in Kentucky after living in California for several years while pursuing a career as an actor, model and singer. he told the news station.
While living in the Golden State, Fields began performing under the name Naomi Navarre. This alias was revealed in her indictment obtained by Fox56.
Instagram connected to the name shows a woman wearing a bright, long red wig with blunt bangs posing for a photo with edited makeup and clothing. This account's last post was in September 2022.
“Navarre” Fields starred in two 2019 films, “The Desert Project” and “A Dance Story.” According to her IMDb page.
Fields always dreamed of making it in Hollywood and was voted “the most flirtatious” in high school, according to a yearbook obtained by Fox Broadcasting.
She wrote in her 2011 Bracken County High School yearbook that she hoped to “become a famous singer and shock the world.”
It looks like she achieved one of those goals.
“That's how life is. There are two kinds of people in the world… those who are forgotten and those who are remembered. I choose to be remembered,” Fields wrote eerily as a quote in his yearbook. .
Her cousin, Olivia Bullock, told Fox56 that the family is in complete shock.
“I would say we are all experiencing shock for the first time,” she said. “That's completely different. Grief and shock are two different ball games.”
Fields' college friends described her as outgoing and friendly.
“There was just nothing that bothered her. She was very outgoing, energetic, but funny,” Brandon Shankle, who attended Morehead State University with Fields, told the station. “I wouldn't say we've been best friends forever, but you know, we were close enough that when I heard this news, I was just stunned. You know, that's what I… It wasn't someone I knew.”
Block said he wonders if Fields had a motorcycle accident in California that triggered his mental shock.
“She was an actress and was out doing her job. I think we were informed a few months ago that she had been in a bad motorcycle accident and had brain damage,” she told Fox. told. “And I think I was probably wandering around Cali. I didn't know her name. I didn't know where she belonged. Maybe people were trying to ask her for help, but… I think that's when Trudy stepped in to help.''
After the accident, she returned to her home in Kentucky with her mother in August.
“It was a surprise to all of us that she came back here. I think Trudy was trying to work through whatever issues she was having mentally,” Bullock said.
Fields' uncle believes his niece may have lost her mind.
“I think someone lost control of their mind,” Todd Bullock told FOX 56. I heard she was interested in it, but what about the girl in the headshot? That's not the girl we know. ”
Investigators said the murder suspect was reportedly under the influence of drugs when police arrested him. The type of drugs were not disclosed in the arrest report.
Fields is charged with murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, torturing dogs and cats, and obstructing government operations. She is being held at the Bourbon Count Detention Center on $1.5 million bail.
