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They spoke to his family in Missouri, who said they hadn't seen him since , shortly after he broke up with Fields. The family told him at first they loved Mr Kemp's new girlfriend, but over time they began to see less and less of him, and Fields began to change him for the worse. His brother, Tracy, told CBS: 'There were just things that Mitch and I would do together that would start to take a back seat to things that she wanted to do. She was very manipulative in that whatever she wants she got.

Happy beginnings: Dewayne Barrentine said at first he was head over heels in love with Tausha Fields. Soon after the couple split up, Fields began dating Greg Morton.

After six months, they married and moved in together - along with Mr Kemp's daughter, Lexie. Police then interviewed Fields, in the first of a series of conversations in which she changed her story again and again. She claimed Mr Morton had confessed to her he had shot Mr Kemp, after he found out Fields had still been sleeping with him. But she insisted: 'I wasn't there!

I didn't have anything to do with it! Fields agreed to travel back to Missouri and help find Mr Kemp's body. She told them she remembered a patch of fresh earth Mr Morton had dug by the farm where they lived at the time of Mr Kemp's death. After just half-an-hour of digging, investigators found Mr Kemp's body.

He had been shot six times in the chest. Testimony: Greg Morton admitted in court to killing Mr Kemp and then burying his body on his farm, right. They immediately arrested Morton, and hoped he would tell them about Fields's role in the murder. But he stayed silent for three-and-half months, and police decided to arrest Fields before she fled.

This time, she told police a new version of the story. She admitted to bringing Mr Kemp back to the farm, but said it was to show him photographs of Lexie. She said when they arrived, Morton was at the door - with a gun. Life sentence: Tausha Fields was convicted of first-degree murder last year.

She is appealing against the verdict. She told police: 'He shot him. I saw him take his last breath, and there wasn't anything I could do for him. They asked Fields why she hadn't called She replied: 'Probably would have been the thing to do, but when you watch somebody be gunned down, maybe your thoughts aren't rational.

When asked why she had stayed married to Mr Morton for another year-and-a-half, she had only one answer: 'fear'. Then at last, Morton agreed to talk. He admitted to shooting Mr Kemp - but said he did it because Fields came to him crying hysterically, saying he had raped her.

Morton claimed she gave him the gun and told him she would bring Mr Kemp back to the house. He said when they arrived: 'I raised it, pointed it at him. And then she started yelling for me to shoot him. During her trial last year, prosecutors described Fields as a 'master manipulator' who used Morton because she wanted Mr Kemp dead so she could have sole custody of Lexie.

She protested her innocence throughout, and claimed Morton had manipulated her. But the jury disagreed, and in June last year she was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in jail. Mr Morton pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and agreed to a year prison sentence as part of his plea agreement.

Both Mr Barrentine and Mr Jones testified at her trial, and said they were pleased with the verdict. But Fields continues to claim she is innocent. In a tearful interview with CBS, she said: 'Mitch is gone. That's when Florida police told Wilson the story coming from Keith Jones and Dewayne Barrentine - that Tausha had talked about how she had "lured" Mitch Kemp to the farm so Greg Morton could shoot him.

Wilson continues, "we believed that we may possibly have a homicide. But there was no proof, no body and no witnesses. So that in May of that year, Det. Wilson and his partner traveled south to interview Tausha Fields herself.

Tausha Fields : I have no problem talking to you guys cause I have nothing to hide. Tausha Fields : It doesn't surprise me. It doesn't surprise me at all. At first, detectives didn't let on that they had talked to Keith Jones or Dewayne Barrentine. Tausha insisted she knew nothing of Mitch's whereabouts. Tausha Fields : If I knew, as well as this is wood taps table , what happened to Mitch, I would tell you. And when asked about Greg Morton, Tausha had little to say except that the two had long since divorced and seldom talked.

Detective : When did you leave him? But the more detectives questioned Tausha about her ex-husband, the more her description of him changed. Suddenly Greg Morton was a man to be feared. Tausha Fields : His mind is not right. He lives in a He's a very angry person, know what I'm sayin'?

Detective : So if I thought he had done something to Mitch, it wouldn't surprise you? Do you think he's capable of hurting someone like that? She said there had been a fight; Greg Morton had pulled out a gun. But is this the truth or just another of Tausha's tall tales?

Bit by bit over the course of 48 hours, Tausha Fields revealed to detectives how her ex-husband, Greg Morton, told her that in August , he shot dead another ex-husband, Mitch Kemp.

Tausha says there had been bad blood between the two men ever since Morton suspected she was cheating on him with her ex-husband, Mitch Kemp. Tausha says Morton was a ticking time bomb. I knew what Greg was capable of. Tausha said Morton told her where he shot Mitch Kemp and where he then disposed of his body - Morton's acre farm that he sold six months after Tausha says he killed Mitch.

But Tausha insisted she wasn't at the farm - she was picking up her daughter, Lexie, at daycare. It was something police needed Tausha to repeat: "Look at me in the eyes, look and tell me Tausha Fields : I wasn't there! I didn't have anything to do with it! But was Tausha telling detectives everything? They had their doubts. And so did prosecutors Richard Hicks and Andrea Hayes.

Richard Hicks says there was a glaring omission in Tausha's story. Remember what ex-boyfriend Keith Jones told police: "She went to where he was and lured him back to her house But before prosecutors could prove Tausha "lured" Mitch Kemp to his death, they first needed to prove that he was really dead and that there was a murder. Tausha cooperated with police and agreed to travel from Florida to Missouri to help them search the farm for Mitch Kemp's body.

But once there, she seemed lost. There was some structures that were torn down, a new home was built, a new family living there. At one point on the police video, Tausha zeroed in on an area near where the old farm house used to be. But when detectives returned with equipment, they found nothing. Five weeks later, they questioned Tausha again. This time, they turned up the heat. Detective : I'm one of those who don't believe you're telling us all you know.

It was then that Tausha remembered an old pit Greg Morton had dug on the farm that she says had been freshly covered soon after Morton told her about the murder. Tausha Fields : It's right here David [pointing at a map]. I'm telling you it's right here. After a half hour of digging, detectives found what they were looking for. Blindsided and ambushed. Three weeks after finding Mitch Kemp's body on Greg Morton's old property, authorities arrested Morton and charged him with first-degree murder.

Prosecutor Hicks hoped Morton would turn on Tausha, the person they were now convinced was behind it all. And then, see if he's ready to talk," says Hicks. But Greg Morton didn't talk. So three-and-a half months later - fearing she might run - authorities arrested Tausha without a shred of hard evidence. She was charged with first-degree murder. Tausha Fields : They just jerked me off a motorcycle and told me I was under arrest! Tausha Fields : I didn't hurt nobody!

I think I'm gonna throw up It was then that Tausha laid out yet another version of what happened the day Mitch Kemp died. In this one, she admits she did bring Mitch to the farm, but she said she didn't "lure" him there to have him killed. And I turned around - Greg had come around the corner of the house and had his gun drawn. Mitch had his hands up and he started walking backwards. All Mitch said was, 'It's not what you think.

Tausha Fields : I kept saying: You just killed him! You just killed him! Tausha Fields : I said I have to call for help for him. And Greg slammed me up against the wall and told me I'd been fg around on him. Yet, after the shooting, Tausha stayed with Greg Morton for a year-and-a-half before divorcing him. Why she would stay with a man who killed the father of her child? Fear," she says. Tausha says it was that fear that caused her to lie repeatedly to detectives throughout her interrogations.

He took another person's life," she says of Morton. Three weeks after Tausha Fields' arrest, Greg Morton broke his silence to tell his version of what happened that day. Hicks, I shot that man,'" says Prosecutor Hicks. But, Morton claims it was all Tausha's idea and that she manipulated him into murdering Mitch Kemp.

I took 'em to it. Hicks replies, "It's what I believe. I had no reason to want him dead. The main evidence: The confession of the murderer himself. In return for a reduced sentence to second-degree murder, Morton agrees to testify against his former wife. Asked why Morton is blaming her, Tausha replies, "He faced life in prison without parole.

He was going to be convicted," says Paul Hood, a public defender representing Tausha Fields. Greg buries Mitchell Kemp in a hole that Greg dug. Everything points at Greg Morton. Hood will argue Greg Morton's plea deal has motivated him to concoct his own fanciful story Hood has a simple explanation for why Greg Norton shot Mitch Kemp.

But prosecutors say that Tausha was the mastermind and persuaded Greg Morton to kill Mitch Kemp by fabricating a story that Mitch had just raped her. She's upset We've got to do something. If that man ever comes out to the property, I'll kill him,'" Prosecutor Hicks adds. That's why she's such a good manipulator. According to Paul Hood it's all part of Morton's "concocted" story.

Well it must be that the guy is a rapist. As Greg Morton prepares to testify, the Kemp family sees Mitch's killer for the first time. And then they had to listen as Morton tells the jury just how Tausha convinced him to kill Mitch. Greg Morton : And she's crying. She's hysterical She said Mitch raped her. The next morning, Morton says, Tausha took charge and handed him a gun.

When Tausha brought Mitch back to the farm, Morton says he approached Mitch with the gun in his hand. Greg Morton : I raised it, pointed it at him. And then she started yelling for me to shoot him. Greg Morton : Then she said, "You got to get something to move him. Get something to move him with. You should have had this ready. Morton says he used farm equipment to pick up Mitch's body and then the two buried him in a pit.

Greg Morton : When we were rolling the dirt in on Mitch Paul Hood hopes to challenge Greg Morton's credibility by revealing a darker side of his personality. He calls Jamie Bowden to the stand.

Bowden was a neighbor of Tausha and Greg Morton in the summer of , one year after the murder. Asked how she would describe Morton, Bowden tells Moriarty, "Big, bad. Very short tempered If he tells you to do something, you better do it quick. If he said it, you know, that's what it was. She didn't even question it. But prosecutors call Tausha's ex-boyfriend, Keith Jones, who tells jurors how Tausha, herself, admitted to planning Mitch Kemp's murder.

Keith Jones : What it sounded like to me was she coerced him, lured him back to the house. Prosecutor Hicks : Lured him back to the house, is that what she told you? But if she 'lured' him out there, then it's a conspiracy. She's in on it. Tausha says Keith Jones may have heard the word "lure," but not from her. Tausha says Morton and Jones got to know each other after she introduced them two years after the murder.

Greg loaned him money," she explains. I think he remembers things incorrectly. Over the course of seven days of trial, the jury would also hear from Mitch Kemp's family.

Michelle Kemp : I didn't realize how much he was there until he was gone. Tausha Fields : It's right here David [pointing at a map]. I'm telling you it's right here. Blindsided and ambushed. Three weeks after finding Mitch Kemp's body on Greg Morton's old property, authorities arrested Morton and charged him with first-degree murder.

Prosecutor Hicks hoped Morton would turn on Tausha, the person they were now convinced was behind it all. But Greg Morton didn't talk. So three-and-a half months later - fearing she might run - authorities arrested Tausha without a shred of hard evidence.

She was charged with first-degree murder. It was then that Tausha laid out yet another version of what happened the day Mitch Kemp died. In this one, she admits she did bring Mitch to the farm, but she said she didn't "lure" him there to have him killed.

And I turned around - Greg had come around the corner of the house and had his gun drawn. Mitch had his hands up and he started walking backwards. All Mitch said was, 'It's not what you think. Tausha Fields : I said I have to call for help for him. And Greg slammed me up against the wall and told me I'd been fg around on him. Yet, after the shooting, Tausha stayed with Greg Morton for a year-and-a-half before divorcing him. Why she would stay with a man who killed the father of her child?

Fear," she says. Tausha says it was that fear that caused her to lie repeatedly to detectives throughout her interrogations. He took another person's life," she says of Morton. Three weeks after Tausha Fields' arrest, Greg Morton broke his silence to tell his version of what happened that day.

But, Morton claims it was all Tausha's idea and that she manipulated him into murdering Mitch Kemp. I took 'em to it. Hicks replies, "It's what I believe. I had no reason to want him dead. The main evidence: The confession of the murderer himself. In return for a reduced sentence to second-degree murder, Morton agrees to testify against his former wife.

He was going to be convicted," says Paul Hood, a public defender representing Tausha Fields. Greg buries Mitchell Kemp in a hole that Greg dug. Everything points at Greg Morton. Hood will argue Greg Morton's plea deal has motivated him to concoct his own fanciful story Hood has a simple explanation for why Greg Norton shot Mitch Kemp. But prosecutors say that Tausha was the mastermind and persuaded Greg Morton to kill Mitch Kemp by fabricating a story that Mitch had just raped her.

She's upset We've got to do something. If that man ever comes out to the property, I'll kill him,'" Prosecutor Hicks adds. That's why she's such a good manipulator. Well it must be that the guy is a rapist. And then they had to listen as Morton tells the jury just how Tausha convinced him to kill Mitch. When Tausha brought Mitch back to the farm, Morton says he approached Mitch with the gun in his hand. Greg Morton : I raised it, pointed it at him.

And then she started yelling for me to shoot him. Greg Morton : Then she said, "You got to get something to move him. Get something to move him with. You should have had this ready.

Greg Morton : When we were rolling the dirt in on Mitch Paul Hood hopes to challenge Greg Morton's credibility by revealing a darker side of his personality. He calls Jamie Bowden to the stand. Bowden was a neighbor of Tausha and Greg Morton in the summer of , one year after the murder.

Asked how she would describe Morton, Bowden tells Moriarty, "Big, bad. Very short tempered If he tells you to do something, you better do it quick. But prosecutors call Tausha's ex-boyfriend, Keith Jones, who tells jurors how Tausha, herself, admitted to planning Mitch Kemp's murder. But if she 'lured' him out there, then it's a conspiracy. She's in on it. Tausha says Morton and Jones got to know each other after she introduced them two years after the murder. Greg loaned him money," she explains.

I think he remembers things incorrectly. Defense Attorney Hood : You thought she was cheating on you with another man Is it fair to say you don't like her very much?

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