The sister of a woman accused of cooking her mother’s dismembered body claims their brother pushed the daughter to murder, and is now trying to kill her.
Torilena May Fields, 32, was charged with murder after police found her mother, Trudy, lying in her backyard and body parts being cooked in a pot on October 9.
She allegedly shot Trudy, 68, in the head and stabbed her, and ‘decapitating, dismembering, eviscerating her corpse’ at her home in Mount Olivet, Kentucky.
Fields then ‘placed her head, hands, feet and forearms in a pot in the oven and heating them until they were charred’, court documents alleged.
Trudy’s daughter Telby Fields, 31, now claims her brother Truitt Fields, 42, convinced Fields to murder Trudy, and made threats to kill her as well.
Telby asked for an emergency protective order against Truitt, which was granted with a hearing scheduled for October 29 to decide if it will stick.
‘When my body is found, Truitt Fields murdered me,’ she wrote in the margin of the petition filed on October 11 – two days after Trudy’s body was found.
‘Please give me this order. Without it, I am next… Please help save not just my life, but countless future victims.’
Telby claimed Truitt wanted her dead to ‘claim his birthright’ as the eldest child, and implied he used Fields’ brain injury to convince her to murder.
‘My mother was butchered by my sister under his advisement,’ she wrote.
‘He has threaten[ed] my life, my mothers, my sister, the whole family. He has called [and] made threats to kill me to claim his “birthright” as the first born.’
Truitt was served with an interim order on October 15 in Calipatria, California, where he lives.
The order forced him to surrender any weapons he may have, to stay 500ft away from Telby, and even banned him from Trudy’s funeral.
‘My family has been living in utter fear. I am talking sleeping with guns on their nightstand, knives, just stuff that should not be happening right now,’ Telby told WXIX.
‘All of their fear and everything that is going on is stemmed 100 per cent from off of what [the accused relative] has told one of the sisters, and that sister is related to the rest of the family.’
However, yet another relative said she didn’t believe the claim was true, because Telby ‘likes to exaggerate a lot’.
She said Telby hadn’t seen her brother since 2016.
Truitt, going by the nickname ‘Bear’, was interviewed by a documentary maker last year about life in Slab City, an off-the-grid squatter community near Calipatria.
His social media is full of bizarre, disturbing, and pseudo-spiritual content.
‘Some day the perfect kinky freak will show up in my life,’ he wrote in one post earlier this year.
‘I’m sure it’s not big deal but I have gone 30+ years with out killing any body,’ another from a few months earlier read.
Other family and friends said Fields grew up as a stereotypical ‘country girl’ with loving parents, and they don’t understand how she became who she is now.
They said her problems only started after she moved to California to pursue a career as an actor and singer under the name Naomi Navarre.
Olivia Brock, Fields’ cousin, said she still sees Torilena as a ‘little girl with classic blond curls playing the piano.
‘She was an amazing piano player,’ Brock told Fox 56 News, noting that she grew up with chickens and horses and was a ‘country girl’ with ‘bouncy little blond curls.’
Fields graduated Bracken County High School in 2011, and was a member of the track and field team and the Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America, and was voted the ‘biggest flirt’.
Her parents celebrated her accomplishments in her high school yearbook with baby photos and a religious message.
‘We love you and wish you the best and brightest future,’ it read.
‘Phil 4:-13 I can do all things thru Christ, which strengthens me. Love and prayers always, Mom, Dad and Family.’
Torilena also wrote in her senior spotlight that she aspired to become a ‘famous singer and shock the world’.
‘If I’m not successful, I plan to attend college and go crazy in the fitness industry,’ she wrote.
She included, as her senior quote, ‘Life is what it is. There are two types of people in the world… those who are forgotten and those who are remembered.
‘I choose to be remembered.’
From there, Torilena went to Morehead State University, where she met Brandon Shankle in an English class.
He said he remembered his friend as a fitness enthusiast who was outgoing, funny and friendly.
‘Just nothing really bothered her,’ Shankle recounted. ‘She was very outgoing, energetic, tough, funny.
‘I wouldn’t say we were best friends forever, but you know, we were close enough that when I heard this news, I was just stunned. You know, that’s not the person I knew.’
Shankle told Fox 56 Fields was studying criminology, but he did not pick up on any ‘red flags’ while they were classmates.
‘It’s just one of the things that kind of comes out of left field and shocks you,’ he said of the grizzly murder.
‘It really turned my stomach because I mean, [the allegations are] so barbaric and gruesome.’
Fields moved to California after college hoping to become a model, actress, artist, and singer.
It was there she started going by the name Naomi Navarre, presenting herself as an influencer with 154,000 followers on her Instagram account dedicated to modeling, acting, art, fitness, and nutrition.
Those photos, though, were not of the girl Shankle remembered, he said, describing the pictures showing Torilena donning what appears to be a red wing with bangs as ‘obscure’.
‘I know the character that she was presenting, which I assume that’s like an alternate identity she had,’ he said.
‘You know, when I look at that social media profile of hers, I’m like, “That’s not the Tori I knew in college”.’
Navarre appeared to have some success in Hollywood. IMDB noted she was known for her roles in the 2019 films The Desert Project and A Dance Story.
‘She was an actress and doing her thing out there, and I guess we were told a couple of months ago that she was in a bad motorcycle accident and sustained a brain injury,’ her cousin Olivia said.
‘And [she] was, I guess, wandering around Cali. Didn’t know her name. Didn’t know where she belonged.
‘I guess people were trying to get her help down there, and couldn’t get it done, so that’s when Trudy stepped in to help.’
Shankle also noted that Navarre had not been active on her Instagram since 2022, suggesting she could have been facing some difficult times.
Torilena then returned home in August, which came as a surprise to the family, they said.
Todd Brock, Torilena’s uncle, also said that after the news of his sister’s untimely death, his niece is unrecognizable.
‘I think somebody has lost control of their mind. Satanism or something had her brainwashed, whatever witchcraft is,’ he said.
‘I heard she was into it, but the girl in the mugshot? That’s not the girl we know.’
Kentucky State Police responded to Torilena’s childhood home on October 9, after a man working on the property followed drag marks in the grass and found Trudy’s dismembered body in the backyard.
Trudy’s arms, legs, and head were detached from her body. The worker also discovered a pile of hair believed to be hers.
He told state troopers he was at the property the day before and saw both Trudy and Fields.
‘On [October 8], [the witness] said Torilena was casting spells on them and being confrontational,’ troopers noted in the citation.
Police obtained a search warrant and entered the home after they were unable to contact Torilena.
When she finally came out of hiding, she was covered in blood, they said.
A thorough search of the property revealed a bloodied mattress containing ‘multiple body parts and organs’.
The investigators also discovered a pot in the oven that contained what appeared to be cooked human body parts. The pot was still warm to the touch.
The Brock family is struggling to accept what happened.
‘How do you say ‘I’m so sad, and I want justice for my family member?” But I’m also sad because is my other family member not OK?’ Olivia said.
She and other family members described Trudy as a loving and selfless woman who always prioritized the needs of her family.
Her sister, Diana Brock, said she was a godly Christian woman who upheld the highest moral standards for herself and others around her.
‘She was a hard worker – get on the phone, something’s going on, I don’t care if you lost a tooth and yeah, nothing’s too small,’ she recounted to WCPO.
She also said the family ‘never stopped loving’ Torilena. ‘No matter what, you know?
‘We don’t understand… we don’t disown people, no matter what you’ve done. We love and that’s what God says.
‘You know, you love no matter what, unconditionally, and we just support the family and that’s what we’re trying to do.’
The family said they planned to attend Torilena’s court appearances to remember Trudy and to seek answers on how they could better support their niece and cousin.
She is charged with obstruction, tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse. On Monday, a grand jury added charges of murder and animal torture after she allegedly tortured and killed a dog.
Torilena’s bond was set at $1.5 million, and she remained in custody at the Bourbon County Detention Center.