Warning: This article contains descriptions of graphic violence which some readers may find distressing.
Police officers in Kentucky have arrested a woman and found what appeared to be cooked body parts in her home.
Kentucky State Police announced in a press release that on Wednesday (October 9) officers received a call about a dead woman in Robertson County.
In their response, they confirmed that the call was accurate and 'attempted to make contact with a female inside the residence but received no response'.
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They then obtained a search warrant and found a woman inside the property and she was 'taken into custody without incident' at around 11pm at night.
32-year-old Torilena May Fields of Mount Olivet, Kentucky, has been charged with obstructing governmental operations, tampering with physical evidence and abuse of a corpse.
Police said there may be further charges filed depending on how the investigation goes.
According to the Louisville Courier-Journal, police officers found a dismembered body and cooked body parts inside the house.
Officials were tipped off by a man who had been hired by Trudy Fields, mother of Torilena, to work on the property and do maintenance.
The man claimed that he'd arrived at the property to find the door locked and nobody answering when he walked around the house and saw a 'dismembered human body laying behind the residence' which he feared was Trudy.
In his call to police, he said that he was concerned that Fields was responsible for Trudy's death.
The man claimed to police that Fields had been 'casting spells on them and being confrontational' when he had last seen mother and daughter together.
When police searched the property, they found that 'multiple body parts and organs' had been removed from the corpse and were found inside a folded up mattress on the property.
They also found blood on the back porch and across the threshold of the back door.
The investigation also found a pot in the kitchen that was 'warm to the touch' which contained human body parts believed to have been cooked in the oven.
Police did find the body the man had said he'd seen, with arms, legs and head removed, as well as a number of bloodstained items and drag marks in the grass outside.
The Courier-Journal also reports that the 32-year-old is due to be arraigned on the coming Monday (October 14).
Kentucky State Police troopers removed an allegedly bloodstained Fields from the property and she is currently being held in Bourbon County Detention Center.
According to ABC News, it also wasn't clear if she had a lawyer who may speak on her behalf.
Joe Harker