The Merry Mutilator

Heather Chantelle Young was born on 20 February 1974 in Cold Water, Michigan, and grew up around Marshall. She married Jeff Cunningham in 1997, when she was 23, and later married Tom Young; both marriages ended in divorce. By 2016 she was 42 and the mother of three: two daughters, aged 24 and 18, and an 11-year-old son. She liked swimming, thrillers and karaoke. Her boyfriend was Terry Gary, 58, a semi-retired mechanic from Traverse City who was 16 years her senior and lived near Onaway in the far north of Michigan. In July 2016 she drove up to stay with him for a few weeks, looking forward to meeting his adult daughter and her family.

She reached Terry's house in Onaway on 14 July 2016. After about two weeks the visit went wrong. Heather and Terry argued, and his daughter, who lived there with her husband and children, told them she would not have the fighting in her house. Terry took his daughter's side and told Heather to leave. Heather said she would go home to her mother and set off on the 300-mile drive south.

Instead of driving straight home she stopped at the Cabin Bar and Grill, a bar in a cabin in the woods where she and Terry had drunk before; there was karaoke that night. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed He said he snapped. He walked to the front room, took a .22 rifle and shot her in the leg. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He said there was no point of return. He put her body in the burn pit outside his door and let it burn for 18 hours, then pulled the charred body out, cut it up with a chainsaw and burned the parts again. The next day he went back to the bar, where two women teased him about picking up a younger woman; he told them nothing had happened and that she had left before he woke.

Heather's family reported her missing after a couple of days without word. this part of the story is covered for now He told them on the telephone that the night had been platonic and that Heather was gone when he woke. They also spoke to Terry Gary, who denied hitting her and had an alibi with his daughter. details of the account remain covered until revealed

The search found a firearm and a significant amount of Heather's blood inside the trailer. In the burn pit outside, police found buttons, pieces of jewellery and bones, and then the cross from a leather necklace she wore, matching one her ex-husband had. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He said no woman would ever do that to him again, and that Heather, who had done nothing to him, had been made to pay for what his wife and girlfriends had done. He led police through tall grass to a field near an electrical tower deep in the woods, where her remains lay in about 10 or 12 pieces. She had been shot twice with a .22 rifle, burned, dismembered and burned again. She was identified by a tattoo and by DNA from her parents.

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed He said it happened in August 2016 at his brother's property on Rainy Lake Road in Millersburg. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now