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Kentucky ‘spell-casting’ woman who allegedly cooked her mother’s severed head had alias as aspiring actor: report
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 on Oct. 9 following 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 she emerged covered in blood from the Mount Olivet, Ky. home where investigators found a charred and severed head, hands, feet and forearm in a “still warm” pot in the oven, Fox56 reported.
Drag marks from the back door to the yard led police to the victim’s torso alongside a pile of hair and blood-soaked mattresses — one that covered human organs and other severed parts, according to police.
Fields first allegedly shot her mother in the head and also “intentionally tortured and killed” a dog, according to the indictment obtained by the local Fox station.
A worker hired by Trudy called 911 after he found the body in the yard and said that a confrontational Fields “was casting spells” on him, cops said.
Fields’ family members were shocked and devastated by the gruesome murder and told the news station she had recently moved back to her mother’s Kentucky house after living in California for several years while pursuing a career as an actor, model and singer.
Fields began going by the name Naomi Navarre while living in the Golden State. The alias was revealed in her indictment, obtained by Fox56.
An Instagram connected to the name shows a woman in a bright and long red wig with blunt bangs, posing for photos with editorialized makeup and clothes. The account’s last post 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” in her high school, according to her senior yearbook obtained by the Fox station.
She wrote in the Bracken County High School yearbook from 2011 that she hoped to become “a famous singer and shock the world.”
She appears to have completed one of those goals.
“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,” Fields eerily wrote as her senior yearbook quote.
Her cousin Olivia Brock told Fox56 that the family is in complete shock.
“All of us have been experiencing shock for the first time, I guess you could say,” she said. “That’s a whole different – grief and shock are two different ballgames.”
A friend of Fields from college described her as outgoing and friendly.
“Just nothing really bothered her. She was very outgoing, energetic, though, funny,” Brandon Shankle, who went to Morehead State University with Fields, told the station. “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.”
Brock said Fields was in a bad motorcycle wreck in California and wonders if it was the catalyst of a mental break.
“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,” she told Fox. “And 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.”
After the crash, she moved back home to Kentucky with her mother in August.
“It was a surprise to all of us that she was back here, and we think that Trudy was trying to help her with whatever she had going on mentally,” Brock said.
Fields’ uncle thinks his niece was out of her mind.
“I think somebody has lost control of their mind,” Todd Brock told FOX 56. “Satanism or something had her brainwashed, whatever witchcraft is? I heard she was into it, but the girl in the mug shot? That’s not the girl we know.”
The alleged killer was reportedly under the influence of drugs when police arrested her, according to investigators. The arrest report did not specify what kind of drugs.
Fields is charged with murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, torture of a dog or cat, and obstructing governmental operations. She is being held at the Bourbon Count Detention Center on a $1.5 million bond.
CYNTHIANA, Ky. (WKYT) – WKYT is monitoring an overnight investigation on a highway in Kentucky.
Kentucky Highway 36 West was closed at Poindexter Road for a police investigation in the overnight hours.
It reopened around 5:30 a.m. Monday.
We’re told Kentucky State Police is leading the investigation.
WKYT has reached out to several officials to try to learn more.
This is a developing story.
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‘We gave the crowd a game.’ Indiana All-Stars, Kentucky set girls single-game scoring record in 2OT nail-biter
Boys highlights: Indiana All-Stars 105, Kentucky All-Stars 92
Indiana All-Stars boys completed the series sweep against Kentucky on Saturday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
- Indiana Miss Basketball Maya Makalusky lead the All-Stars with 29 points, but Kentucky got finished off the series sweep Saturday night.
INDIANAPOLIS – After the marathon double-overtime battle between the girls Indiana All-Stars and Kentucky ended Saturday night inside Gainbridge Fieldhouse, Hamilton Southeastern’s Maya Makalusky sat near the scorer’s table to decompress.
Exhausted after Indiana’s 106-103 loss to rival Kentucky in the finale of the two-game series’ 49th running, Makalusky didn’t absorb her team’s sweeping defeat as much as the overall experience.
On Friday night at Lexington Catholic High School, the Indiana All-Stars girls lost 84-73 to Kentucky by the series’ largest single-game margin since 2022.
The next evening back in the Hoosier State, Indiana attempted to stave off Kentucky’s first series sweep since 2012 and 10th all-time since 1977.
Following a buzzer-beating 3-pointer by Laila Abdurraqib (Lawrence Central/New Mexico) at the end of regulation to tie the score 76-76, it seemed Indiana had the momentum on its side.
Indiana’s 11-4 run to deadlock the game countered Kentucky’s 17-5 run that erased an earlier five-point deficit.
However, two five-minute bonus quarters proved enough time for Kentucky Miss Basketball’s ZaKiyah Johnson (Louisville Sacred Heart/Louisiana State) to secure the sweep.
Johnson tied the score in overtime by sinking 3-of-3 free throws in the final seven seconds after drawing contact on a desperation 3-point heave at the top of the key, and she dropped in eight of her game-high 34 points in the double overtime to lock down the win.
Johnson set a new single-game series record for points scored by besting both Kentucky’s Amiya Jenkins (31 in 2022) and Indiana’s Tiffany Gooden (1994) while establishing a two-game record with 62 points to again beat Gooden’s mark of 55.
Makalusky, the 2025 IndyStar Indiana Miss Basketball honoree, had a team-high 29 points. The Indiana University commit finished with 47 points for both games before fouling out with 27.4 seconds remaining in the final bonus period. She was named the Hoosier Shooting Academy MVP.
“Obviously, we have nothing to hang our heads about,” said Makalusky, who posted a team-high 14 rebounds with two assists and three steals. “I mean, we got double overtime. We played hard, and we should be proud of what we gave.”
What the Indiana and Kentucky All-Stars gave the downtown Indianapolis crowd was a historic show.
Marking the series’ first double-overtime game and third overtime contest in history.
Saturday’s game set a new single-game record for combined points scored at 209, while adding new standards for most combined field goals (72) that broke the record of 68 in 1994. Kentucky’s 106 points were the most scored by the neighboring All-Stars in a single game. The previous high was 101 in 2008 and 2022.
“We gave the crowd a game, and it’s all you could ask for,” Makalusky said. “It’s super exciting, and it’s great to see girls sports having their moment and the amount of support. Obviously, we want to go out winning, but at the end of the day, we have nothing to hand our heads about. The energy was up, and we were ready.”
Indiana led 16-15 after the first quarter and carried a 35-32 lead into halftime. Indiana took a 45-42 advantage in the third quarter on an and-1 layup by Makalusky and were up 53-48 entering the fourth.
In the game’s final five minutes of regulation Kentucky’s run created a whirlwind 15 minutes of tug-of-war with 13 ties and 13 lead changes.
Peyton Bradley (Meade County/Louisville) had 26 points, eight assists, five steals and seven rebounds for Kentucky as one of four players in double figures.
Abdurraqib finished with 11 points, four assists and eight rebounds. Indiana had five players with 10 or more points, including Jaylah Lampley (Lawrence Central/Mississippi State) and Addison Baxter (Columbia City/Butler) with 17 each. Monique Mitchell (South Bend Washington/Akron) had 10, while Brooke Winchester (Warsaw/Ball State) had 11 rebounds and eight points.
Kya Hurt (Lawrence North/Illinois State) dished out a team-high seven assists with eight points and three steals.
“I’m just glad I finally got to play on this team with everybody and enjoy this moment,” Hurt said. “We wanted this one really bad, especially because it went to double overtime. I was excited because we got a chance to play again and try to win the game.”
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