Margaret Mae Sweet was 38 when she was found fatally shot on the front porch of her father’s Colorado Springs home on Christmas Day, December 25, 2008. Neighbors reported hearing a loud argument between a man and a woman at the house the night before, followed by a single gunshot; no one called 911. Paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene.

Margaret had recently moved back from Nashville to escape a violent relationship with ex-boyfriend Jere Dale Batts. She had shown a friend bruises from a beating, had received a permanent restraining order against Batts in May 2008, and had been receiving counseling. Batts was questioned and gave an alibi that he was on a date the night of the shooting, but he was never charged. Ballistics linked the murder weapon to a prior shooting during a drug deal the year before, though the surviving victim was not connected to Sweet and no arrests were made. Toxicology showed Sweet was sober at the time of death.

The case remains unsolved and cold, with no arrests announced. Did anyone in Colorado Springs remember unusual activity near the Egger home that Christmas Eve or have information about the firearm used?