Friends: Slain Woman Was 'Amazing'

Margaret Ann "Peggy" Duffy Goldberg, 45, who was found dead Wednesday morning in her Agate Street apartment, was an "amazing" woman, neighbors said Wednesday.

Police believe Russell Goldberg killed his ex-wife Wednesday morning. Later that night, he shot and killed himself during a three-hour standoff on Interstate 15 in Utah.

The pair had recently finalized a long, bitter divorce.

Friends and neighbors described Peggy Goldberg—who went by Peggy Duffy—as an intelligent woman who was devoted to her two children, a 10-year-old son at Jefferson Elementary School and a 13-year-old daughter at Parras Middle School.

"She was the nicest mom ever," said Shari Twidwell, whose former foster son was good friends with Goldberg's son. "She was the block mom … She took in everybody's kids."

Twidwell told Patch that the neighborhood children were often at Goldberg's house, even when her own children weren't home.

Another neighbor, who declined to be identified, told the Daily Breeze that Goldberg "was an amazing woman" who "sparkled."

"She was caring, loving and always optimistic," he said.

According to Goldberg's Facebook page, she is originally from New York and graduated from the New York Institute of Technology.

The rest of her family currently lives in New York.

She worked at Esquire Executive Suites in El Segundo.

"She was a good neighbor. She watched out for her own kids and everybody else's and other people's stuff … She was part of (the community)," Twidwell said.

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