Few horror schlockmeisters could conjure the bloodbath in Kentucky.
Too over the top. Too unbelievable for the sane to contemplate.
But here we are.
Cops say that late on Oct. 8 or early the next morning, Trudy Fields met her demise and it was horrific.
On Oct. 11, in Robertson County, Kentucky, northeast of Lexington, maintenance workers arrived at a rural home to “work on a building for the property owner.”
The men knocked but there was no response at the front door, so they tried the back.
There, they discovered a macabre scene: A pile of hair, a bloody mattress and tell-tale drag marks. It would get worse.
Investigators say they discovered some flesh cooking in a steel pot.
The path led to human remains, stashed behind the house. Cops arrived and discovered dismembered remains they determined were those of Trudy Fields.
Detectives discovered blood everywhere, from the mattress to the soaked back porch. Further into the yard they found a stick that was bloodstained and another sodden, bloody mattress.
The workers told cops they had been to the house the day before and Fields was still very much terra firma. But there was something twisted going on.
Her daughter was “casting spells on them and being confrontational.”
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Torilena Fields, 32, had aspired to be a movie star and fled her rural Kentucky home for the bright lights of Hollywood when she was young. She adopted the stage name Naomi Navarre and waited for her career to blossom.
She appeared in a 2019 clunker called Dance Story and not much else.
“All I remember whenever I think of her I think of happiness. I think of laughter; I think of positivity; I think of strength,” director Andoni Zorbas told WOWKTV.
“Because she was very tough and was every director’s dream to have to work with on set because there was absolutely no complaint from her.”
The pair played star-crossed lovers in the straight-to-video weeper.
He added: “She loves her mother. These are the things that we were talking about that she has a very good relationship with her mother. Because, you know, I love my mother. And I mean, clearly, she loved her mother. I mean, which is odd to say now.”
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Like thousands of starry-eyed kids looking to become stars in sun-kissed California, Fields hoped to see her name in lights. Her family told local media that her dreams came off the rails when a motorcycle crash left her with a brain injury.
She returned to Kentucky in August and her mother had been caring for her.
“[Fields] 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 [her mother] stepped in to help,” cousin Olivia Brock.
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Now, Torilena Fields’ sister is claiming that it was their older brother who manipulated the former actress into murder.
“My mother was butchered by my sister under his advisement,” Telby Fields wrote in an emergency protective order petition. “He has threaten[ed] my life, my mother’s, my sister, the whole family. He has called [and] made threats to kill me to claim his ‘birthright’ as the firstborn.”
Shading the fringe of an already bizarre investigation are reports that Torilena was deeply involved in the occult.
Cops have been tight-lipped.
Torilena Fields is charged with murder, obstructing governmental operations, tampering with physical evidence, torturing a dog to death, and abuse of a corpse, according to a Robertson County indictment.
Torilena’s sister appears to believe their brother took advantage of her brain injury to drive the unspeakable forward.
“He is on his way as I write this to kill me and take everything he thinks is his,” the protective order petition goes on. “Please give me this order. Without it, I AM next. Please help me save not just my life, but countless future victims.”
Among other charges, the petition claims that the siblings suffered years of abuse, hinting darkly that their brother murdered someone in California.
She added: “When my body is found … [my brother] murdered me.”
The order was granted.
Cops are mum on any involvement the brooding brother may or may not have had in the massacre of their mother.
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In Hollywood, Torilena Fields used the stage names Naomi Navarre and Nao Navarre. On social media she racked up 154,000 followers.
But as the great noir novelist James Ellroy once said to me about L.A.: “People come to Los Angeles to be someone else and when you have that little self-esteem, terrible things are bound to happen.”
Stardom came in the form of two small movies.
“I just cannot digest. I mean, I don’t know. I expect a lot of things to happen in life, but this is the only thing that is the last thing that I could ever expect,” Zorbas said.
“Something had to happen for her to have something in her mind to do such a thing. It’s beyond comprehension.”