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 What is GoFundMe? ||||| Police continue to investigate how a 61-year-old woman suffered fatal injuries at the Livermore Premium Outlets. Jodi Hernandez reports. (Published Tuesday, Dec. 23, 2014) 
 
 Police continue to investigate how a 61-year-old woman suffered fatal injuries at the Livermore Premium Outlets. 
 
 Arizona-resident Marjorie Hillerman was found lying unconscious and suffering from head injuries in the parking lot of the outlet mall earlier this month. 
 
 "What I fear happened is someone wanted something she had or they hit her with a car and left out of fear," said Pamela Olmstead, a friend who worked with Hillerman as a fellow mystery shopper. 
 
 Livermore police said they are not sure how Hillerman got the fatal injuries. Police said a four-door sedan was seen leaving the area, but so far they have been unable to locate any witnesses. 
 
 "It's my hope somebody's going to be watching this and say "I saw that incident, I saw what happened" and come forth and tell somebody so we can find out what happened," Olmstead said. 
 
 The Independent Mystery Shopper Coalition on Tuesday sent out safety warnings to other mystery shoppers. 
 
 "If it happened to her it could happen to all of us," Olmstead said. 
 
 Olmstead said Hillerman was one of the best in the business -- her ability to shop and rate businesses without being detected earned her the nickname "the master of disguise." ||||| LIVERMORE -- She made her living as a mystery shopper -- lauded by colleagues as "The Master of Disguise" -- but now a bigger mystery is stumping police: How did Marjorie Hillerman end up fatally injured in the parking lot of the Livermore Premium Outlets? 
 
 Hillerman, 61, of Mesa, Arizona, passed away at a local hospital on Dec. 16, a week after she was discovered outside the mall in broad daylight with traumatic injuries to her face and back of her head. Investigators remain puzzled, with no solid leads and no evidence pointing to a robbery or violent attack. A public plea for information has so far proven unfruitful. 
 
 "It's been a struggle," said Livermore police Officer Steve Goard. "It could have been a fall or an assault; it could be any number of things. ... It's baffling." 
 
 According to Goard, Hillerman's rental car was left untouched, all of her belongings were still with her, and indications are she never even made it into the mall, where she was scheduled to work. Though security guards were on duty at the time, Goard added, none of them witnessed the incident. No surveillance footage exists either, he said. 
 
 "There's nothing that leads us in any one direction," Goard said. 
 
 Meanwhile, convinced her death was the result of foul play, Hillerman's friends and colleagues are asking the public for help to cover the woman's funeral expenses. 
 
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 Members of the Independent Mystery Shoppers Coalition, a trade organization Hillerman was active in, have set up a crowdfunding page asking for $8,000 to cover the cost of cremation and transporting the ashes home, as well as a proper memorial service. As of Monday afternoon, the page had generated more than $1,800. 
 
 Pamela Olmstead, a friend of Hillerman's and president of the organization, said the secret shopper community is soliciting the donations to assist Marjorie's husband Alan and the Hillerman family, who were already struggling financially before her untimely death. 
 
 "She deserves the best service that can possibly be given to her," Olmstead said. "Her smile is what she left us with. She became family to everybody. ... Christmas is definitely darker this year." 
 
 A highly respected mentor for other mystery shoppers, Hillerman was a regular speaker at trade conferences and earned the nickname "The Master of Disguise" for her ability to quickly, and drastically, alter her appearance, Olmstead said. She traveled across the country for her job and was working for one of the mall's high-end stores at the time of the incident. The puzzling circumstances and nature of Hillerman's injuries, she said, has led colleagues to speculate she may have been the victim of an attack. 
 
 "We don't believe she just fell," Olmstead said. "She wasn't that type of person. She was just too on top of things." 
 
 Not taking any chances, the organization has issued a warning, cautioning mystery shoppers across the country to be alert and keep their purchases and belongings well hidden. The group will also begin safety training sessions at its next convention, Olmstead said. 
 
 "It has frozen our community," she added. "That's the impact she had on us." 
 
 Representatives from the Livermore Premium Outlets declined to comment on whether or not the mall had security cameras in operation at the time but did issue a statement expressing condolences to the Hillerman family and encouraged anyone with information to contact police. 
 
 Mall spokeswoman Chelsey Allodi also wouldn't say if the mall plans on increasing security during the holiday season. 
 
 The Alameda County Coroner's Bureau completed an autopsy, but the cause of death is pending results of a toxicology report, according to the Sheriff's Department. 
 
 Anyone with information should contact Detective Glen Robbins of the Livermore Police Department at 925-294-7568. 
 
 Contact Jeremy Thomas at 925-847-2184. Follow him at Twitter.com/jet_bang.
– Mystery is swirling around the death of a mystery shopper earlier this month in the San Francisco Bay area. Marjorie Hillerman, 61, of Mesa, Ariz., was "one of the best in the business," as NBC Bay Area puts it, that business being mystery shopping; some colleagues called her the "Master of Disguise," the San Jose Mercury News reports. On Dec. 9, she was supposed to work at the Livermore Premium Outlets—she traveled across the country for her job—but police say she may never have made it inside. She was found in the parking lot in broad daylight with traumatic injuries to the back of her head and her face, and a week later, she died of those injuries. Baffled police are asking the public for any information. There were no witnesses and there is no surveillance footage; it's not clear whether Hillerman was assaulted or fell, but there were no signs of robbery. One of the only clues: A four-door sedan was spotted leaving the area at the time of the attack. The Independent Mystery Shoppers Coalition (Hillerman was a member and would often speak at conferences) issued a safety warning following the incident, and some of her friends and colleagues think foul play was involved. "We don't believe she just fell. She wasn't that type of person. She was just too on top of things," says the president. A GoFundMe account aims to help Hillerman's husband with the cost of returning her remains to Arizona. (Another mystery in Pittsburgh: A hospital recently saw its second death from cyanide poisoning.)