Heather was a daughter, sister, niece, cousin and a dear friend. Her life ended when she was 23 years old in1992, brutally murdered by her husband Michael York. York waited until Heather fell asleep and at approximately 5:30 AM covered her head with a sheet and savagely hit Heather 25 times in the head with a hammers smashing her eye out and fracturing her skull in numerous places and leaving impressions of each hammer blow completely disfiguring her face.