I'm sorry for this lady. Whatever she did or did not do in life, she certainly didn't deserve to be murdered.
That disclaimer aside, however, I will note this: She didn't extend that same consideration to unborn children -- and made that VERY PUBLIC on her webpage.
(Before anyone flames me for daring to say that, consider this: What would FReepers say if, God forbid, the "beautiful" actress Jane Fonda were murdered? I don't think our comments about her would be all sweetness and light, despite our condemnation of murder.)
I suspect this woman was suffering from the liberal delusion that simply because she was liberal, she was somehow immune from crime.
I've known people like this: They think that by being hip and therefore recognizably liberal, the muggers will notice those wonderful qualities and thus not attack them.
Usually this delusion dissipates after the first mugging. Sadly, in this case, perhaps her first mugging was also her last.
I think she learned in this episode that her view of the world was fundamentally flawed...it wasn't the intrinsically safe place she thought it to be.
Sadly, she never had the opportunity to apply the lesson.