REMEMBER Heather
Heather Lee Grimshaw
45 YEARS OLD ·
East Naples,
Florida
Heather Lee Grimshaw was 45 and lived in East Naples. She worked for Collier County for nearly a decade and later delivered flowers, where a former employer remembered her as private, dependable, and good with customers.
Heather worked for Collier County beginning in 2004, first as a code enforcement investigator and later as a citizen liaison in the county’s communication and customer relations office. She left county employment in 2013. Before her disappearance, she was delivering flowers for The Flower Spot; the shop owner remembered her as private, excellent at her job, and great with customers.
THE RECORD
Heather Lee Grimshaw, 45, died on August 26, 2015 in East Naples, Collier County, Florida. The Violet Thread research record classifies the case as IPV Homicide. The recorded relationship to the perpetrator is Boyfriend. The recorded method/weapon is Unknown / Not reported.
RELATIONSHIP CONTEXT
Boyfriend
Available research records identify the relationship to the perpetrator as Boyfriend.
PATTERNS DOCUMENTED IN AVAILABLE RECORDS
These indicators reflect what could be established from available sources. Absence from this list does not establish that a behavior did not occur.
LEGAL / SYSTEM RESPONSE
Heather’s remains were found in Picayune Strand State Forest in August 2015 and identified through fingerprints that December. The medical examiner later ruled her death a homicide, although the cause of death was undetermined. Michael Zutten, her live-in boyfriend, was arrested in 2018 and charged with second-degree murder. A jury found him guilty in 2021, and he was sentenced to life in prison in May 2022.
SOURCES
CCSO: 2015 Skeletal Remains Case Is Homicide, Arrest Made
Collier County Sheriff's Office
Collier County man sentenced to life in prison for 2015 murder of girlfriend
Gulf Coast News
INFORMATION LIMITATIONS
Fields marked UNKNOWN were not established by the available coded record and do not mean the behavior did not occur.
TRANSPARENCY / RECORD NOTE
Collier County Sheriff’s Office records and State Attorney reporting identify Michael Zutten as Heather’s live-in boyfriend. Public reporting also documents prior domestic incidents involving the couple; those records require behavior-specific review and should not be generalized beyond what the individual reports establish.
REMEMBER Heather.
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