MOUNT OLIVET — A Robertson County judge granted a motion for a competency hearing on Monday, March 10, for Torilena Fields.
On Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2024, Kentucky State Police Post 6 received a call around 12:25 p.m. concerning a deceased female in Robertson County on Brierly Ridge Road.
According to KSP Trooper David Jones, Fields, 32, was taken into custody on Oct. 9, 2024, around 11 p.m. and charged with obstructing governmental operations, tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse.
On Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, Fields was indicted for murder, abuse of a corpse, tampering with physical evidence, torturing of a dog with serious physical injury or death and obstructing governmental operations.
According to the indictment, a grand jury alleged that Fields intentionally murdered her mother, Trudy Fields.
“She caused the death of Trudy Fields by shooting her in the head with a firearm and stabbing her multiple times, that at the time she was not acting under the influence of extreme emotional disturbance for which there was a reasonable explanation or excuse, and the force that the defendant used was unlawful,” the indictment stated.
Her bail was set and remains at $1,500,000.
On the morning of Monday, March 10, 2025, law enforcement escorted Fields into the courtroom at the Robertson County Courthouse for a pretrial conference.
Fields’s counsel informed the judge that a motion had been filed for a competency hearing and asked for it to be in person with a psychiatrist, to which the Commonwealth Attorney stated that he had no issue with it.
Her counsel further asked the judge that Fields’s records be kept confidential. The judge then asked her counsel to expand, to which they answered that the records obtained for the competency exam would be kept between the judge and both counsels.
The judge granted the motion and entered an order for an in-person competency evaluation to be conducted by a psychiatrist.
Once the motion was granted, the Commonwealth Attorney briefly noted that an “additional discovery” had been made last week.
Fields’s next court hearing was scheduled for July 14 at 9 a.m.
Leave a Reply