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Snapped Linda Fields and Jeromir "Jerry" Palensky

Status: Acquitted 

In season 6, episode 23 the murder of her ranch hand, Jeromir "Jerry" Palensky by Linda Fields is shown. This murder occurred in the state of Nevada. Oxygen describes this episode of Snapped as Linda Fields is accused of taking a life insurance policy out on her ranch hand, then taking him out in December 2003



Linda Fields was convicted of the murder and sentenced to life plus ten years for first degree murder. The Nevada Supreme Court ordered a new trial and she was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter. She appears to have been released since her sentence was only ten years.
Linda and her husband, John Vernon Fields (John), owned the Silver Dollar Bar, a popular bar in Elko, Nevada.   Jaromir Palensky was a frequent customer of the Silver Dollar Bar. In April 2002, Palensky went to prison for a felony DUI conviction.   Prior to going to prison, Palensky contacted Linda and gave her power of attorney so she could take care of his affairs while he was in prison.   During his incarceration, Palensky also instructed Linda to file his taxes, move his trailer so he would not lose it for lack of paying rent, and take out a new life insurance policy with Linda as the beneficiary.

More than a year after his conviction, Palensky completed his term of incarceration.   Approximately three months before his release, the Nevada Division of Parole and Probation contacted Linda to organize Palensky's early release.   After meeting with Palensky's parole officer, Linda and John arranged to move Palensky's trailer onto their property.   Palensky then worked and lived on the Fieldses' ranch until his disappearance in December 2003.   The Fieldses alleged that, prior to his disappearance, Palensky made a will that made the Fieldses his heirs.

A month after Palensky's disappearance, on January 14, 2004, his body was found floating face down in the Jordan River near Salt Lake City, Utah, by the Salt Lake County Sheriff's Department.   Dr. Edward Leis, employed by the Utah State Medical Examiner's Office, performed an autopsy of Palensky's body and concluded that Palensky died of a combination of four blows to the back of his head inflicted by a blunt instrument.   Dr. Leis testified that he could not be certain how long Palensky was in the water, but he could not deny that the body could have been in the water up to 24 days given the water temperature


You can not write to Linda Fields as she has been released.



Linda Fields


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