By Philip Rosenbaum
NEW YORK (CNN) — Gail Parker was many things to many people. She was an environmentalist who wrote about Love Canal and gave speeches about America’s polluted waterways.
Gail Parker was 51 when someone killed her for her purse and jewelry and left her body in the desert.
She volunteered at the local hospital, helped the elderly and cancer patients. And she read to the blind. Her good deeds were followed by a harsh end. Parker, who would have turned 67 Sunday, was killed — most probably for her purse and jewelry — and her body was left in the Arizona desert.
PHILIP ROSENBAUM 
