A mother, her pregnant teenage daughter and her 12-year-old son were bound with zip ties and slaughtered inside their Wilmer, Alabama, home — a triple homicide so brutal investigators believe more than one killer carried it out, and one the surviving husband insists was committed by someone the family knew well.
Lisa Gail Fields, 46, Keziah Luker, 17, and Thomas “TJ” Cordelle Jr., 12, were discovered in separate rooms of their home on Auble Moody Road, just west of Lott Road, around 2:30 a.m. Monday, April 20, 2026. Keziah, about seven to eight months pregnant and due to give birth in June, had been shot. Her mother had been stabbed multiple times and her throat cut. TJ’s throat had been slit so deeply he was nearly decapitated. All three had their hands bound behind their backs with zip ties or flex cuffs.
Keziah’s 18-month-old daughter was found alive and unharmed inside the home.
A Welfare Check Turned Nightmare
The killings unraveled into public view through a phone app. Keziah’s boyfriend, working offshore, saw her phone start moving on Life360 and grew alarmed when his calls went unanswered. He phoned his father and asked him to drive to the house. Once inside, the man found the bodies, scooped up the toddler and called 911, Mobile County Sheriff Paul Burch said.
There was no forced entry. The house had been ransacked, drawers and rooms left in disarray, suggesting the intruders were hunting for something specific. Burch said the methodical nature of the crime — three victims subdued, restrained and executed in different rooms — points to multiple suspects.
“At this point, we do not suspect any domestic- or family-type situation,” Burch said, according to authorities at the scene.
Husband Speaks From Alaska
Nathan Fields, Lisa’s husband and stepfather to both children, was working on the Alaskan pipelines when the murders occurred. He last spoke with his wife at 6:21 p.m. Sunday. Roughly 20 minutes later, his calls began rolling straight to voicemail.
“I was supposed to protect them. I was supposed to be there for them. They killed our babies. They killed my wife,” Fields told News 5/WKRG in an exclusive interview after returning to Wilmer on Wednesday.
Fields, who said he and Lisa had known each other for more than 30 years, used the interview to push back against rumors swirling online — speculation linking the killings to his 2018 arrest in Texas and his admitted past affiliation with a cartel. He said the slaughter was not a retaliation hit, not a debt collected in blood. It was, he believes, deeply personal, carried out by someone who had eaten at his table.
“Whoever it was was someone that came over to the house on a regular basis. Someone who was jealous of the progress in life that we were making,” he said.
Fields told WKRG he has been in contact with both the Mobile County Sheriff’s Office and the FBI. He spoke of TJ growing into “such a little man” and praised Keziah, who had earned her GED and was preparing to enroll in college as she awaited her second child.
A Family Convinced the Killer Was Welcomed In
That suspicion — that the killer crossed the threshold as a guest — is shared by Lisa’s younger sister, Shannon Corry. She told The U.S. Sun that the family dogs allowed the intruders to come and go, and that Lisa unlocked the door herself.
Investigators have echoed the theory in their own way. The zip ties and flex cuffs were brought to the scene, indicating premeditation. The ransacked rooms suggest the intruders expected to find something inside.
Charges, Leads and a Pregnancy
No arrests have been made. No person of interest has been publicly identified. Burch said deputies are following leads, but Fields said there are no significant new ones (https://www.foxnews.com/us/mom-pregnant-teen-12-year-old-found-bound-murdered-police-hunt-multiple-suspects).
Because Keziah was pregnant, the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office will determine whether anyone charged in the case faces three counts of murder or four. Alabama law allows for the unborn child to be counted as a separate victim.
Family friends have launched a GoFundMe to help cover funeral costs for Lisa, Keziah and TJ. Nathan Fields, meanwhile, returned to a home he no longer recognizes — the rooms emptied of the people he had known almost his entire adult life, the toddler granddaughter the only living link to a household that, eight days ago, was preparing for a June birth.