The founder of the popular lifestyle brand, Salt Life, was charged with murdering 18-year-old Grace Duncan in 2020.
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The women, who worked with the teenager Michael "Troy" Hutto is accused of murdering, say he has been following them “staring and glaring.”
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Michael Hutto was one of the co-founders of the prominent lifestyle company Salt Life, which sells gear for surfing, fishing, diving and beach gear.
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“When police arrived, staff helped open the door and immediately, "
there was a strong odor of decomposition from the hallway," the police report read.”(
bbm) Yet “Hutto's legal team claims officers did not observe any suspicious circumstances that would support a reasonable belief that the occupants of the hotel room were having a medical emergency, and that the officer's warrantless entry was not justified under this exigency exception.”
Meanwhile multiple women came forward accusing him of stalking and threatening them, and the judge found their story credible enough to revoke his bond while awaiting trial for her death:
“A man accused of murdering a Lake City teenager has been stalking the girl’s friends and coworkers, according to allegations in court records.
According to restraining order petitions obtained by
First Coast News, Michael "Troy" Hutto has been following the women into stores and gas stations in Suwannee County, “staring and glaring,” and violating a trespass order at the fitness club where they both work. One of the women is a state witness in the murder case…
“In their injunction petitions, the women say they fear Hutto because he was previously committed under the Baker Act, and owns numerous firearms.
“I am terrified of Troy,” wrote one woman, whom First Coast News isn't naming due to the nature of the allegations. “He is mentally unstable, he is a heavy drug user. Her has a big collection of guns, he keeps them in his car, in his home and backpack. his house, car and backpack. I am afraid of what will happen if I don’t get any protection from Troy.”
The same woman wrote that the last time she spoke to Grace Duncan, “Troy took the phone and told me, ‘If you try to make me let you talk to my Gracie again I will kill you.' About 3 hours later that day, on Oct. 27, 2020, he shot and killed Grace.”
Not an otherwise nice person who simply made a tragic mistake IMO. Vile piece of work. So much more happened here, left unsaid. For a strong odor of decomposition to greet responders in the hallway, she was dead for days. Clearly their “gunplay game” had to have occur very close to her last phone call. In another article I read earlier, she had also called her father. MOO this is how her friend knows what time she died, and is also why and where her family knew to send for a welfare check, which even then took days to accomplish
