i mean -- >> reporter: one of them was 36-year-old katie gallagher, who was not gay.nd coming fashion designer, who police now say was drugged outside her apartment in what they say was an attempted robbery. >> she was artistic. >> athletic. >> athletic. >> fun-loving. >> reporter: her father is retired high school history teacher, and her mother a retired nurse who live in this suburban pennsylvania neighborhood. >> that's her. >> that's her. she is on the cover. >> reporter: the magazine photos they keep of the clothing she designed for famous names they barely know mean a lot more to them now. >> this is the spring dress. so lady gaga saw this dress. >> she tried it on. >> reporter: over the years their daughter would show her dresses at the world famous new york fashion week. but on the night she died she still had trouble paying her rent and had nothing to steal. >> so katie looked like she was doing okay. >> reporter: but she was trying to make it still? >> yes, she was. but she wouldn't give it up. >> some day your ship will come in. who knows? it might be a li