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Missouri Woman Blames Husband For Murdering Ex: “I Was Made Out To Be This Horrible Monster”
“Greg took an innocent man’s life for no reason, but couldn’t just tell the truth,” Tausha Fields Morton said during Snapped: Behind Bars.
Tausha Fields Morton is speaking out after learning her husband and co-conspirator in the killing of Mitch Kemp is due to be released from prison.
“I’ve decided to do this interview, because it is my turn to tell my story,” said Tausha Fields Morton on Snapped: Behind Bars, airing Sundays at 7/6c on Oxygen. “I’ve stayed quiet for a long time.”
Morton is serving a life sentence in the Missouri Dept. of Corrections after being found guilty of first-degree murder in June 2010. She spoke to Snapped: Behind Bars on Feb. 15, 2024, about her story, which was featured on a Season 8 episode of Snapped in February 2011. On the show, she maintains her innocence in the murder of her ex-husband Mitch Kemp and said her husband at the time, Greg Morton, killed Kemp in a premeditated, jealous rage.
“I didn’t know that [the murder] was going to happen. He very methodically and calculatedly planned that whole day, but it was all on me,” Fields Morton said. “Greg’s evil. There was no emotion or feeling. And absolutely no remorse. You wanted to make sure you messed my life up as well. And you did.”
Police investigate Mitch Kemp's disappearance
Mitch Kemp, 39, and Tausha Fields married in August 2003, but only months into their marriage, Fields filed assault charges against Kemp.
“Mitch is a really scary person,” Fields Morton said. “But I’m not trying to portray myself as like, ‘Poor Tausha.’ Because I don’t want anybody to think that. I’m just here to tell you what it is.”
Kemp had been out of jail on an assault charge for four months when his family reported him missing in August 2004 in Boone County, Missouri, after they hadn’t heard from him for a few weeks. Kemp and Fields were in the process of divorcing and going through a child custody battle.
The missing persons case went cold until February 2008, when police reopened the case. When questioning Fields Morton, they learned that a year into her marriage to Kemp, she started an affair with Greg Morton — who she married in August 2004.
"She married Greg, but she was still legally married to Mitch," said Andy Hayes, former prosecutor, on Snapped: Behind Bars. “So, she was married to two men at the same time.”
However, Greg Morton filed for divorce from Fields in the summer of 2006. By the time police questioned her in May 2008, she was living in Alabama and said Greg Morton had killed Mitch Kemp on Aug. 24, 2004.
“If he knows that I told you, he will take me and my baby’s life, you hear me?” Fields Morton said in a police interview at the time.
Fields Morton told police she could take them to where Kemp’s body was buried on Greg Morton’s old farm, but they were unable to recover the body. A few months later, she took them to the farm a second time, and Kemp’s body was located. Greg Morton confessed to shooting Kemp, and prosecutors filed first-degree murders charges against both him and Fields Morton.
“Being arrested never crossed my mind,” Fields Morton said. “I thought it was over. It’s not over. My life had gotten like super normal, you know? And came crashing down pretty quick.”
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Tausha Fields Morton explains from behind bars why Greg Morton shot Mitch Kemp
Tausha Fields Morton told police in 2008 that she was still in contact with Kemp after she married Greg Morton. She claimed the day Kemp was killed, she and Kemp had been riding around town, and then dropped by the home she shared with Greg Morton.
“Greg was waiting,” Fields Morton said. “I think Greg assumed for sure that Mitch and I had something going on, but Mitch was my friend.”
She maintains more than twenty years later that Greg Morton shot Kemp and she didn’t know that he was planning to do so.
“When I saw Greg shoot him six times, time stopped,” Fields Morton said. “The world stopped and it was in slow motion…when Greg buried Mitch it was surreal…and I’m by myself, still, with Greg, in the middle of nowhere. When you know somebody has the capability of shooting somebody six times, you could be next, or you could just go with the flow.”
In June 2009, Morton agreed to testify against Fields Morton as part of a plea deal in which he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 19 years in prison. On the stand, he claimed Fields Morton manipulated him into murdering Kemp by alleging Kemp had raped her, and molested their daughter. Prosecutors argued Fields Morton had Kemp killed to prevent him from gaining custody of their daughter.
“In trial they talked about Mitch was going to take Lexi away from me, which was crazy,” Fields Morton said. “The last time Mitch saw Lexi was on her first birthday. I was her mom. And I was a good mom. And nobody was taking Lexi away from me. They used Lexi in my trial as a pawn.”
Fields Morton didn’t testify in her own defense, but explained now why Morton is the true guilty party.
“You shot Mitch because you wanted to shoot Mitch,” Fields Morton said. “You laid in wait and planned. Somebody that shot somebody six times became a saint. And sat on the stand and told a story that I don’t know where he got it. It’s just that simple.”
Greg Morton is scheduled to be released from prison in 2027 at the age of 58.
“The justice system failed me, very much so,” Tausha Fields Morton said. “So, I’m being held accountable for Greg Morton’s actions. Way more than himself.”
Watch all-new episodes of Snapped: Behind Bars on Sundays at 7/6c on Oxygen.
