I also think she may have indirectly got woman's rights movements of the 70's going...hearing about her getting mugged in 2001 was probably the saddest story I've ever heard.
Although, and this isn't meant to add humour, there was an Unsolved Mysteries about a man who was slated to inherit an astronomical, life-changing sum of money, who ultimately wasn't privy to it, as he couldnt be tracked down due to being homeless. That, too, was genuinely depressing.