Kentucky Cannibal Cleared for Court: Daughter Who Cooked Mom's Head Faces Death Penalty| Crime Alert 7PM 11.18.2025

A woman who killed, butchered & then cooked her mother's body parts has been deemed fit to stand trial for murder. 

A Missouri teen's final texts expose a "group effort" kidnap horror before the brutal slaying. Plus, is that a parakeet in your pants? Or are you just happy to see me?! Jennifer Gould reports.

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Episode Transcript

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Crime Alart hourly update, breaking crime news. Now, I'm Jennifer Gould.
In a gut wrenching ruling that propels one of Kentucky's
most stomach turning slangs toward a jury, a judge declared
tore Lena Fields mentally fit to stand trial for gunning
down her own mother, hacking her body into pieces, and

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simmering her severed head on the family stove. The decision
by Robertson County Circuit Judge Jay Philpott came after forensic
experts evaluated Fields as fractured psyche, a mind reportedly scarred
by a motorcycle crash years back, and erratic behavior, including
spell casting rituals witnessed just hours before the bloodbath. Now,

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the once devoted daughter thirty six, who chased Hollywood dreams
in California before slinking back home, will answer for the
October twenty twenty four atrocity that left rural Canentucky and
her family reeling. The victim's niece and suspect's cousin, Olivia Brock,
spoke to Fox fifty six news, how do you say,

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I'm so sad and I want justice for my family member,
But I'm so sad because is my other family member
not okay. The horror exploded on Briarly Ridge Road in
Mount Olivet, a tiny Robertson County hamlet, between October eighth
and ninth. The gruesome incident was brought to light when
contractors discovered the victim, Trudy Fields, seventy mutilated torso, laying

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gutted in the backyard dump side amid bloody drag trails
leading from the home, her innerds strewn and discarded like trash.
Kentucky State Police troopers who stormed the property found Fields
barricaded inside, her skin and clothes caked and her mother's
drying blood. Officers had to call a special response team

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and deploy gas to get her out. After several hours,
The air inside the house reeked of charred flesh as
police zeroed in on the kitchen. A steel stockpot on
the stove contained Trudi's boiled and severed head, hands, feet,
and forearms, which were later shoved into a scorching oven.

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Autopsy confirmed Trudy suffered a fatal point blank bullet to
the skull and multiple frenzied knife slashes to the throat
and chest. Fields now faces capital murder, abuse of corpse,
tampering with physical evidence, obstructing justice, and animal cruelty charges
for allegedly torturing a family dog to death the same day.

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Her bond remains at one point five million dollars after
lawyers entered a not guilty plea. A pre trial conference
has been set for December eighth. More prime and justice
snooze after this, A Missouri high school senior's desperate final

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hours were allegedly memorialized in chilling text messages exchanged among
her accused killers, exposing a horrifying quote unquote group effort
to kidnap, rape, and murder the young woman. Three men
now face murder charges in the brutal slang of Canaiah

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Jennings eighteen, a beloved student at Portageville High School, Canaiah
vanished on November three after being lured from her home
in Portageville to a deadly trap in nearby hay Ti.
Her disappearance launched a desperate search that ended in heartbreak
on November fourteenth, when hikers stumbled upon her body in

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a remote wooded area of Pemiscott County. Here's Pemiscott County
Sheriff Joe Bryant speaking with k f U S News twelve.
Just a tragic traged You know, I'm a day head,
a grand da head. I can't imagine how horrible this
is for the family. An autopsy is under way, but
officials immediately confirmed foul play. The Pemiscott County Prosecuting Attorney's

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office wasted no time filing charges that paint a night
marrish picture of calculated cruelty. Keenan Peoples thirty four is
the alleged ringleader, hit with first degree murder, first degree kidnapping,
first degree rape, and tampering with physical evidence. His nephew,
Donald Peoples Junior, thirty eight, is charged as an accessory,

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while Blake Patrick, eighteen, faces accessory to murder, kidnapping, and
rape charges. Probably Cause Affidavits alleged Peoples and Patrick picked
up Kenaiah that fateful night and drove her to a
Haytai residence. Their investigators say the pair sexually assaulted her,
brutally stuffing socks in her mouth to silence her skos,

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and binding her with a blanket over her head. Patrick
confessed to police that both he and Peoples raped the
captive teen. The texts exchanged as Kenaiah was allegedly held
cemented the charges. Keenan reportedly messaged his nephew quote, take
your sweet time getting home. I'm playing with a woman

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tonight end quote. Donald allegedly replied quote do your thing
end quote, before inquiring about Patrick. Keenan's final sickening response
quote it's a group effort end quote. Donald Peoples Junior
has already pleaded not guilty, while bond hearings for Keenan
and Patrick are pending and finally talk about a wild

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goose chase at the O tie may support of entry.
In southern California, thirty five year old Jesse Martinez tried
to make a bird brained border run and now he's
got ruffled feathers for life. CPBE agents noticed a suspicious
bulge in Martinez's pants. He tried to claim he was
just happy to see them, but he was actually winging

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it with two heavily sedated, endangered parakeets stuffed right into
his briefs. Talk about a foul move. The poor birds
were unconscious and stashed in sacks. Definitely not the flight
they signed up for. Martinez has been indicted on federal
smuggling charges and faces up to twenty years. Looks like

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his precious cargo of parakeets will have him cooped up
for quite some time. For the latest crime and justice news,
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app with this crime Alert. I'm Jennifer Gould.