Fashion Designer Kathryn Marie Gallagher Cause of Death Revealed After Eight Months

On July 24, 2022, the New York Police Department responded to a call about an unresponsive woman in her Manhattan apartment. Eight months later, the victim has been identified as fashion designer Kathryn Marie Gallagher. According to NBC New York, her cause of death was acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, p-fluoro fentanyl, and ethanol. Gallagher was 35. 

The night before she died, Gallagher’s neighbor helped her into her apartment. According to ABC7, the neighbor saw that the victim’s door was closed and the key was still inside the lock. The neighbor went inside to check on her and that is when they found Gallagher face up on her bed. 

New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner confirms that Gallagher died of a homicide and that her death was a “drug-facilitated theft.” People reports that authorities suspect Gallagher was the victim of a string of drug-related robberies that have left at least five other people dead. Her manner of death is one of 26 that happened between March 18 and Dec. 8. 

Kathryn Marie Gallagher was an American fashion designer and founder of her own brand. She established her own fashion line called Katie Gallagher in 2010 and completed 26 collections that premiered during New York and Paris Fashion Week. She was working on her 27th collection at the time of her death.