She was the stand-in (not the body double in the shower scene) for Janet Leigh in the movie
Psycho (1960).
On March 15, 2001, Myra's former neighbor and handyman, Kenneth Dean Hunt, was convicted of her 1988 murder and that of another elderly woman, ten years later, in 1998. The murders were featured in an episode of the documentary show Cold Case Files.
Kenneth Sean ("Sonny") Hunt was convicted of her murder in 1998.