The Kentucky woman accused of killing and dismembering her mother and then cooking her severed head and other body parts was an aspiring actor in California who went by a different name, according to a report.
Torilena May Fields, 32, was arrested Oct. 9 after an 11-hour standoff with state police after a worker found a disemboweled human torso in the backyard of her mother’s home.
Fields has since been charged with the murder of her mother, Trudy Fields, after emerging covered in blood from the Mount Olivet, Kentucky, home, where investigators found a charred and severed head, hands, feet and forearm in a “still warm ‘pot. in the oven, Fox56 reported.
Trail marks from the back door to the yard led police to the victim’s torso next to a pile of hair and blood-soaked mattresses — one that police said covered human organs and other severed parts.
Fields allegedly first shot her mother in the head and also “intentionally tortured and killed a dog,” according to the criminal complaint obtained by the local Fox station.
A worker Trudy hired called 911 after finding the body in the yard and said a confrontational Fields was “casting spells on him,” police said.
Fields’ family members were shocked and devastated by the gruesome murder, telling the news station that she had recently returned to her mother’s home in Kentucky after living in California for several years while pursuing a career as an actor, model and singer .
Fields started going by the name Naomi Navarre when she lived in the Golden State. The alias was revealed in her complaint, obtained by Fox56.
An Instagram account associated with the name shows a woman wearing a brightly colored, long red wig and blunt bangs, posing for photographs wearing editorial makeup and clothing. The last post from the account was in September 2022.
“Navarre” aka Fields starred in two 2019 films, “The Desert Project” and “A Dance Story,” according to her IMDb page.
Fields had always dreamed of making it in Hollywood and was voted “biggest flirt” at her high school, according to her senior yearbook obtained by the Fox network.
She wrote in the 2011 Bracken County High School yearbook that she hoped to “become a famous singer and shock the world.”
It looks like she accomplished one of those goals.
“Life is what it 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 from her senior yearbook.
Her cousin Olivia Brock told Fox56 that the family is in complete shock.
“We all experienced shock for the first time, you could say,” she said. “That’s a completely different thing – grief and shock are two different ball games.”
A friend of Fields from college described her as outgoing and friendly.
“There was just nothing that really bothered her. She was very outgoing, energetic, but also funny,” Brandon Shankle, who attended Morehead State University with Fields, told the station. “I wouldn’t say we were best friends forever, but you know, we were so close that I was just stunned when I heard this news. You know, that’s not the person I knew.
Brock said Fields had a bad motorcycle accident in California and wonders if this was the catalyst for a mental break.
“She was an actress and out there doing her thing, and I think a few months ago we learned that she had been in a bad motorcycle accident and suffered a brain injury,” she told Fox. “And he was, I think, wandering around Cali. Didn’t know her name. I didn’t know where she belonged. I think people down there were trying to get her help but couldn’t, so that’s when Trudy stepped in to help.
After the crash, she moved back to Kentucky with her mother in August.
“It was a surprise to all of us that she was here again, and we think Trudy was trying to help her with whatever she had going on mentally,” Brock said.
Fields’ uncle thinks his niece was crazy.
“I think someone lost control of their mind,” Todd Brock told FOX 56. “Satanism or something brainwashed her, whatever witchcraft is? I heard she was into it, but the girl in the mug shot? That’s not the girl we know.”
According to investigators, the alleged killer was under the influence of drugs when police arrested her. The arrest report did not specify what type of drugs were involved.
Fields is charged with murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, torture of a dog or cat and obstructing government operations. She is being held at the Bourbon Count Detention Center on a $1.5 million bond.
