US woman arrested after police find her mother’s remains in the oven and body in the yard

Authorities arrested a Kentucky woman after someone found a dismembered body in her mother’s backyard and officers later found human remains in a pot in the home’s oven that was “still warm.”

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A man hired to work on the property in Mount Olivet, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) southeast of Cincinnati, called authorities on Wednesday (local time) after finding the body in the backyard, Kentucky State Police said . Officers saw the dismembered body in the grass, a bloody mattress nearby and blood stains on the back porch and back door threshold, according to an arrest certificate.

Police obtained a search warrant for the home and called a SWAT team, but a woman inside the home, 32-year-old Torilena May Fields, refused to leave. Police distributed gas inside the home and spoke to Fields using a robot. She left the home late that night without further incident, state police said. According to the citation, she had blood on her face, hands and clothing.

Fields is charged with abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence and obstructing government operations, and she could face additional charges, state police said in a news release. It was not immediately clear Friday whether she already had an attorney who could speak on her behalf. There is no record of her in court records. She is scheduled to be arraigned next week.

While searching the home, officers found a steel pot containing human remains in the oven, and the pot “was still warm to the touch,” the citation states.

The man who called police said he saw Fields and her mother, Trudy Fields, who owns the home, during his visit Tuesday evening. He said there was no one else there. The man told police that before he left the house that night, Torilena Fields treated her in a “spellbound and confrontational manner,” according to the arrest certificate, which indicated she may have been using drugs.

The man said when he found the body, he believed it was Trudy Fields because he found a “bunch of her hair,” the arrest memo states. Police wrote in the citation that the victim was Torilena Fields’ mother.