Allen F. Gage was a 38-year-old gastroenterologist staying in a Phoenix hotel when a man identifying himself as hotel security entered his room on the night of January 24, 1980. The intruder, later identified as Donald Eugene Harding, bound Gage’s wrists and ankles with tape taken from a medical colonoscopy kit, forced a sock deep into his mouth as a gag, rifled through the room, and left him face down; the gag blocked his airway and Gage was found dead the next day. Harding took Gage’s wallet and car and used them while committing further robberies and killings in Arizona, including a linked double homicide in Tucson where similar bindings, gags, and stolen vehicles tied the crimes together.

Harding was arrested days later in Flagstaff; items recovered from him included Gage’s wallet and identification, a .25-caliber pistol, and fake ID portraying him as security staff. Harding was tried for the Tucson killings, convicted, and later received a separate death sentence for Gage’s murder. Does anyone have information about Dr.

Gage’s final days in Phoenix or recall seeing him during that work trip?