Love ‘em and leave ‘em. Yup, that was Tausha Fields. By age 30, she had been married no less than 5 times.
Now, did Field also love ‘em and kill ‘em? A subsequent boyfriend, Dewayne Barrentine, thought that just might be the case. Snooping on her MySpace page, he was struck by relatives of her 4th hubby, Mitch Kemp, asking if she knew anything about his disappearance. After digging around a little more, he found an ex-boyfriend who claimed that Fields had drunkenly confessed that her 5th, Gregory Morton, had murdered Kemp.
Barrentine went to the cops with his suspicions. They then tracked Fields down to Alabama, where she was living with a new boyfriend.
In her interview with them, Fields first claimed that she knew nothing, then admitted that Morton was behind the disappearance, having killed Kemp during a confrontation. Fields claimed that Morton threatened to kill her and her daughter Lexie (who she had with Kemp) if she uttered a word.
Fields also claimed that the confrontation was over Morton’s suspicion that she and Kemp were having an affair (they had actually been married twice before, and were still friends). Morton, on the other hand, said that Fields told him that Kemp had sexually abused her and her daughter.
Fields would eventually point detectives to a shallow grave on Morton’s farm. The autopsy on the decaying corpse showed that Kemp had been shot 6 times.
n a plea deal, Morton would confess to the crime, but also implicate Fields. He claimed that she arranged the hit (even kicking and spitting on Kemp’s corpse), wanting to have Lexie all to her own. The cops arrested her in Texas, living with a new boyfriend, a sheriff’s deputy.
Morton would get 19 years. Fields would get life without parole.
Their dramatic story has appeared on Snapped and Charmed to Death.
2004, Missouri
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