Speaker 1: On the day I was falling.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday afternoon. The tri State A Bengals kicking off on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: win seven on the next nine, which should be quite
Speaker 2: easy to do when you think about it. And of
Speaker 2: course it begins this Sunday, then Raven's on next Thursday,
Speaker 2: and then a little bit of a break. But until then.
Speaker 2: Brian Hamrick of the Power of Five, Welcome to the
Speaker 2: Bill Cunningham Show. And Brian, first of all, you were
Speaker 2: doing a story a couple of nights ago about Robertson County.
Speaker 2: I guess named after Oscar Robertson, I'm not sure, and
Speaker 2: which this family his engage in behavior including dismembering grandma
Speaker 2: and various other things, which is disgusting. However, the judge
Speaker 2: would not issue a protective order. Can you get the
Speaker 2: party straight? You're reporting in Robertson County. What is happening
Speaker 2: with that family? They're very close to Tony Bender's home.
Speaker 2: He thinks he might know some of the family members,
Speaker 2: hopefully not dismembering anyone. But what is happening in Robertson County,
Speaker 2: which is somewhere south of here.
Speaker 1: Well thanks again, mister Cunningham. It is a bizarre situation
Speaker 1: down there, to say the least, and freaky that it
Speaker 1: all happened. I mean, it literally has a whole Halloween
Speaker 1: kind of feel. If somebody made a movie about this,
Speaker 1: this is when it would be set because it is
Speaker 1: so creepy and there's talk about witches and occults and
Speaker 1: dragons for people turning into dragons and all this kind
Speaker 1: of I mean, unreal kind of things. But it becomes
Speaker 1: in a very real and bizarre crime that is unbelievably disturbing.
Speaker 1: So a woman who lives down in Robertson County, out
Speaker 1: on this rural farm named Trudy Fields, apparently her daughter
Speaker 1: is now charged with murdering her. Not only killing her,
Speaker 1: she shot her, stabbed her, dismembered her, removed her limbs,
Speaker 1: her head, and then parts of the body were found
Speaker 1: boiling or cooking in an oven. When police got there,
Speaker 1: they tried to get this daughter of hers under control.
Speaker 1: They needed two duds to do it. She's screaming at
Speaker 1: them that she's casting spells on them and that she's
Speaker 1: a witch. Well, they finally get her arrested and she's
Speaker 1: now being charged with the murder of her mother. Now,
Speaker 1: what happened in the meantime is the suspect sister, another
Speaker 1: daughter of this victim, is saying that they have a
Speaker 1: brother that is also very dangerous. In fact, they were
Speaker 1: in court yesterday wanting a protection order from this brother.
Speaker 1: They don't want him to be able to go to
Speaker 1: the funeral. They wanted to stay away from family members.
Speaker 1: They say he's displayed issues that are threatening. They said
Speaker 1: that even before this's happened, within recent years and going
Speaker 1: back over years, he had threatened the family, threatened to
Speaker 1: kill the mom, threatened to kill this sister that was
Speaker 1: answering for the tgo. There was another brother who said
Speaker 1: he had overheard these same things, that he had witnessed
Speaker 1: other bizarre activities and a lot of it related to
Speaker 1: the occult. Oh soh yeah, it's a very strange situation.
Speaker 2: And I think the highlight of this you're reporting, Brian Hemrick,
Speaker 2: because the judge did not issue a temporary protective order
Speaker 2: against the guy with a dragon tattoo on his back
Speaker 2: who thinks you can morph into a dragon by putting
Speaker 2: a tattoo on his back of a dragon. So this
Speaker 2: guy is there's no TPO, so he's free to go
Speaker 2: to Thanksgiving dinner with the family.
Speaker 1: Sounds like she's free to come in and go as
Speaker 1: he please. However, however, his content was that he is
Speaker 1: in California and he's been there ever since, and he
Speaker 1: was at this hearing as well. They were all on
Speaker 1: there by zoom, you know, so there were these different
Speaker 1: boxes on one big screen, and you know, when you
Speaker 1: kind of looked at it was a right mind you
Speaker 1: have over the Brady bunch. But it was totally another
Speaker 1: kind of scenario because they're all this whole families looking
Speaker 1: at each other on these boxes on this screen. But
Speaker 1: it was a it was a very bizarre bunch of
Speaker 1: allegations that were made, that's for sure. Anyway, his contention
Speaker 1: is he didn't he didn't have anything to do with
Speaker 1: the mom's murder. He didn't get this woman, his sister,
Speaker 1: to do it, and that he has no idea he
Speaker 1: was trying to get her help. He says he was
Speaker 1: working with the mom. Apparently the judge believed that because
Speaker 1: she did not. Apparently, a protection order had been issued
Speaker 1: and they wanted to extend that, and the judge didn't
Speaker 1: extend it, which I thought was unusual. And she didn't
Speaker 1: ask him, hey, do you do you plan to come
Speaker 1: back to the funeral? Are you going to be in town?
Speaker 1: Is there any reason I shouldn't just extend this order?
Speaker 1: So none of that was asked, although a lot of
Speaker 1: other questions were asked, but she did not keep this
Speaker 1: protection order extended. So, uh, he can, he can come
Speaker 1: and go as he pleases.
Speaker 2: This is a sad Halloween story. I mean, I can't
Speaker 2: think of this family dinner what I might look like.
Speaker 2: But is the is are they Satanists? Do they worship
Speaker 2: the the the darkness? Is there a light? I mean,
Speaker 2: his family looks like they have some a little bit
Speaker 2: of problems going on here, a little bit difficulty.
Speaker 1: Well, I'm told that the mother was about christian The victim, Chris,
Speaker 1: was very disciplined in her Christianity. There you go, but
Speaker 1: very very far you know, dug into that. Uh and
Speaker 1: some of the other family members, the family members as well,
Speaker 1: but that the kids, at least some of them may have,
Speaker 1: you know, rebelled against that. And uh so the the
Speaker 1: daughter who's charged and this brother who the PTEO is
Speaker 1: against We're living in California, apparently involved in these sort
Speaker 1: of dark religious activities of some sort, and the daughter
Speaker 1: even thought she was a witch or was casting spells.
Speaker 1: And you know, we're told that the that this brother
Speaker 1: was also into that sort of thing. At some point,
Speaker 1: the woman that is charged in this, the daughter who
Speaker 1: is charged, had a motorcycle accident was apparently some pretty
Speaker 1: severe brain injury, and it was after that accident that
Speaker 1: she returned. The brother said she didn't even he didn't
Speaker 1: even know she had left California. But all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: she's back in Robertson County now and acting out. And
Speaker 1: we've heard from people who who have some inside information
Speaker 1: and saying she may have been acting out and the
Speaker 1: mother may have been trying to help her get her
Speaker 1: kind of back under control.
Speaker 2: Yes, well, so the other is a Christian, So maybe
Speaker 2: the family went the opposite direction and wanted to rebel.
Speaker 2: That's why mom was dismembered.
Speaker 1: You know whatever. My guess is that whatever happened yet,
Speaker 1: maybe it had something to do with with that. But
Speaker 1: you know, there's such a level of of I don't know,
Speaker 1: disconnection with reality when something like this happened that it's
Speaker 1: hard to you know, say, was there some you know,
Speaker 1: did this closet or was it some kind of mental illness?
Speaker 1: Was it something from the motorcycle crash? Because as bizarre
Speaker 1: as you know, people would look at you know, kind
Speaker 1: of different kinds of religions and sort of things. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that think they're witches that
Speaker 1: never do anything, and they say, we do good, you know,
Speaker 1: but so this would be very you know, an opposite direction.
Speaker 1: But other people would say, is exactly what the dark
Speaker 1: side contendents that they're gonna do. This is what happened.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how far into that police will
Speaker 1: even get. They'll probably say like, look, did you do it?
Speaker 1: Did you know what she was doing? Here are the charges,
Speaker 1: and and you know they will be looking at was
Speaker 1: there some influence from this brother? Was there any reason
Speaker 1: some of the testimony yesterday, one of the other brothers
Speaker 1: said that that this brother that was out in California
Speaker 1: felt like this was his birthright, the land, this farm
Speaker 1: was his birthright, and that they had been told apparently
Speaker 1: over the years, all the whole family had been told
Speaker 1: there was gold buried out there, somewhere, or that there
Speaker 1: was gold on the land. At one point he even
Speaker 1: went back and admitted digging for this gold. And you
Speaker 1: know Robertson County, which I'm not sure you know if
Speaker 1: it's a vein of gold that they thought raised through there,
Speaker 1: or it was buried by a pirate or how it
Speaker 1: got there.
Speaker 2: Well, the thing is so so the brother of Trudy.
Speaker 2: Trudy Feels is the defendant who allegilate dismembered her mother.
Speaker 2: And the brother has a large dragon tattoo on his
Speaker 2: back from California. Does that guy think he's like a
Speaker 2: fire breathing dragon.
Speaker 1: Well, at one point the one brother so so, Trudy
Speaker 1: is the victim and uh uh and the daughter is
Speaker 1: accused in the in the crime. Uh Torolina is the
Speaker 1: daughter accused in the crime. The other daughter. They all
Speaker 1: got teen names, they all but uh Kelby is the
Speaker 1: daughter trying to get a protection order against Truant. And
Speaker 1: Truet is the one who is out in California. He's
Speaker 1: the one two. And then another brother named Titus says
Speaker 1: true he talked to him on the phone out in California.
Speaker 1: I guess the According to his story told in court, yesterday.
Speaker 1: He was trying to talk him down because he had
Speaker 1: this tattoo on his back of a dragon. He thought
Speaker 1: it was turning him into a dragon, and that he
Speaker 1: wanted to kill people when he became the dragon.
Speaker 2: The dragon's killing people. You know, the dragon is killing people,
Speaker 2: not me as the dragon on my back, right, Kay?
Speaker 1: I got him?
Speaker 2: Well, yeah, you covered you know, in thirty five years,
Speaker 2: you cover a lot of stories. I mean, war in
Speaker 2: the hell does this one rank reminds me of John
Speaker 2: John Fryman and Butler County who uh killed I think
Speaker 2: the name is Ronica Lemon and buried her legs in
Speaker 2: their rumkey dump. And I'm thinking, boy, h, this is
Speaker 2: this is to a whole new level. This is unbelievable.
Speaker 1: It is it is a bizarre that are circumstances I
Speaker 1: mean too, I mean you you just run out of
Speaker 1: adjective strange, bizarre, unusual, creepy, disturbing. I mean they all
Speaker 1: go in and so this ranked up in there some
Speaker 1: of the more unusual cases I've covered. The fortunate thing is,
Speaker 1: you know this would be you know, when it has
Speaker 1: already gotten national attention. But fortunately you know this stage,
Speaker 1: you know within you know the family. It wasn't something
Speaker 1: where they decided to go out and start praying on
Speaker 1: people like a Zodiac killer or you know some you
Speaker 1: know others call yes manson these sort of things. So,
Speaker 1: you know, fortunately he caught it as soon as this happened.
Speaker 1: But would anything else have happened. Who knows. But I
Speaker 1: know there are an awful lot of people that are
Speaker 1: in Robertson County who are very afraid of this brother.
Speaker 1: They even brought up stories yesterday about how when he
Speaker 1: was young. I mean, this was testified in court under
Speaker 1: oath that they had said, you know, he was hanging
Speaker 1: he would hang dead animals on fence posts and things
Speaker 1: like this, and whether he did a for effect or
Speaker 1: because there was some you know, he had some issues
Speaker 1: to deal with that. Nobody got into that, but it
Speaker 1: certainly all came out in this family court protection order
Speaker 1: hearing yesterday.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what, this is somewhat peculiar, but I
Speaker 2: wanted to highlight it because Halloween is tomorrow night and
Speaker 2: I want to see what the hell's going on. But
Speaker 2: if I was you, Brian Hamrick, I'd stay out of
Speaker 2: Robertson County for a while. You know what I'm saying,
Speaker 2: got dragons, you got witches, got boiling, and remember it's
Speaker 2: not good, not a good place to be. I don't think.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, I mean, like I said, it all
Speaker 1: happened so strangely, and you know, these these court appearances
Speaker 1: where you're very aware because of the you know, Halloween,
Speaker 1: you know, part time of the season, and you know,
Speaker 1: we drive past all these decorations that are up or
Speaker 1: witches and you know, scenes of death and all that,
Speaker 1: and we take it all. You know, it's sort of
Speaker 1: a joke or our way to look at, you know,
Speaker 1: the inevitable in a lighter way, you know. But when
Speaker 1: something like this actually happens and people have bought into
Speaker 1: some of these darker theories of religion or darker theories
Speaker 1: of of how to live your life, it really gets
Speaker 1: your attention. You know that that some people get sucked
Speaker 1: down a rabbit hole somehow and then start living this.
Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to stay away from Robertson County for
Speaker 2: a while. And what's the next hearing on this thing.
Speaker 2: I guess you got the murder case, you know, you
Speaker 2: got that second.
Speaker 1: I think it's the second Tuesday in November. I can't
Speaker 1: remember the day. I don't want to say it's the twelfth.
Speaker 1: She's gonna be arranged. That's Tordalina. It is going to
Speaker 1: be a rain for the murder. There have been two
Speaker 1: hearings so far, as she hadn't appeared in either one
Speaker 1: of them, so hopefully she'll appear in this one.
Speaker 2: Why doesn't she appear? Didn't she charge the murder well yet?
Speaker 1: She charged with murder, but it was filed in district court.
Speaker 1: And then when they got it the first hearing, she
Speaker 1: had just been served with the murder. They happened with
Speaker 1: tampering with evidence, and then they charged with murder later
Speaker 1: and the day of the hearing was earlier. That morning
Speaker 1: they had charged. They indicted her on the murder charges.
Speaker 1: The prosecutor said, look, she's just been indicted. I don't
Speaker 1: want to have her a peer because she hasn't had it.
Speaker 1: She hasn't been served yet with two charges. Why they
Speaker 1: didn't just invite her on the other ones, I don't
Speaker 1: know anyway, that's the way they did it. And then
Speaker 1: for the second hearing he didn't appear because they were
Speaker 1: taking the charges out of district court and putting them
Speaker 1: in circuit court. So it was just to clear the
Speaker 1: old charges offmos or the distrect court and go on.
Speaker 1: So hopefully here in the next two weeks or so,
Speaker 1: we're gonna we're gonna she's gonna appear in court.
Speaker 2: Well, normally when you charge with murder you kind of
Speaker 2: have to be there, but this is Robertson County. We'll
Speaker 2: see what happens. But Halloween is a real thing, and
Speaker 2: we'll see what occurs. But Brian Hamrick, once again, thank
Speaker 2: you for coming on the Bill Cunningham Show. And Brian,
Speaker 2: you're a great American.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank again, mister Cunningham.
Speaker 2: Brian Hemrick of the Power five ghost Goblems. You have
Speaker 2: witches and dragons and more in Robertson County. I know
Speaker 2: Tony Benner and his family like to trick her treat
Speaker 2: down there. I suggest maybe this year they don't go,
Speaker 2: might be boiled, might have an arm boiling in an
Speaker 2: oven somewhere. Not good. Bill Cunningham seven hundred WLW