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A woman who was found dead in her Manhattan apartment eight months ago has now been identified as fashion designer Kathryn Marie Gallagher.fashion designer who dressed Lady Gaga and other celebrities was murdered in her Manhattan apartment with a lethal cocktail of fentanyl and other drugs last year, cops and reports said Friday.On Friday, the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner ruled the death of Kathryn Marie Gallagher a homicide from the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl and ethanol.
A neighbor who had helped Gallagher inside the previous night noticed the door to her Eldridge Street apartment closed with the key still in the lock. The neighbor entered to make sure she was ok and found Gallagher face up on the bed
A neighbor spotted Kathryn “Katie” Gallagher’s keys dangling from the door of her apartment on Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side and entered to check on her — then discovered her lifeless body face up on her bed, a police source said.The promising designer was the victim of grand larceny in what detectives believe could be connected to a pattern of at least 26 recent “drug-facilitated” robberies in areas including the East Village, the Lower East Side and the Bronx, police sources said.
Cops are also probing whether Gallagher’s death is connected to Kenwood Allen, 33, who was arrested in December and charged with murder in the overdose robbery deaths of two clubgoers in the Lower East Side, police sources said.Allen — who has not been charged in connection to Gallagher’s death — is allegedly a member of a vicious gang that has repeatedly drugged inebriated revelers and robbed them. Police are also looking into whether two of his co-defendants are connected to Gallagher’s death.A suspect in two prior deaths in the pattern, Kenwood Allen, has previously been charged with murder. At the time of his arraignment prosecutors said they anticipated additional charges connected to other victims who did not survive.
In all, detectives have been investigating 26 incidents between March 18 and Dec. 8 that include two separate patterns. Five fatal overdoses have been be associated with these patterns.
The pattern is related, but distinct, from a similar group of sometimes fatal drugging/robberies that involved the LGBTQ community.The New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirms with PEOPLE that Gallagher died of a homicide. Her cause of death was acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluorofentanyl, and ethanol.Authorities have not identified any suspects in her death.
Gallagher's manner of death is one of 26 that happened between March 18 and Dec. 8 that local police are investigating, ABC7 reported.
In her obituary published by Rhode Island School of Design, Gallagher was remembered as a skilled "painter and internationally-recognized fashion designer."
