Tausha Morton listens as public defender Paul Hood makes his closing argument
in her first-degree murder trial.
(By Joshua A. Bickel/Columbia Tribune)

 

 

Tausha Morton listens to the prosecutor’s opening statement at the Boone County Courthouse. In her
opening statement, assistant prosecutor Andrea Hayes said Morton lied to her then-husband Gregory
Morton to get Morton to kill Kemp on property that Morton owned in southern Boone County.
(By Joshua A. Bickel/Columbia Tribune)

 

 

Tausha Morton

 

 

In 2008 Tausha led investigators to the remains of her estranged husband Mitch Kemp
that were buried on a Boone County farm.

 

 

Evidence

 

 

Evidence

 

 

Gregory Morton

 

 

Gregory Morton

 

 

Gregory Morton gets emotional during his testimony in the first-degree murder trial of
Tausha Fields on June 23, 2010 at the Boone County Courthouse.
(By Joshua A. Bickel/Columbia Tribune)

 

 

Gregory Morton pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2009 and has agreed
to a 19-year prison sentence as part of his plea agreement.

 

 

Gregory Morton

 

 

The victim

 

Mitchell Wayne Kemp, 40.

 

 

Mitchell Wayne Kemp

 

 

Mitchell Wayne Kemp and Tausha Morton