Margaret “Mae” Sweet, 38
Margaret “Mae” Sweet had a secret life and an alias.
The Colorado Springs woman, who was 38, occasionally went by the alias Shelby Jamison when she was meeting people online.
It’s as much a mystery to her family as to anyone.
“There’s a lot about her life that I didn’t know about,” said Jim Egger, her father.
Whether the alias and her secret life had anything to do with her murder on Christmas Eve, 2008, is part of the cold case murder investigation.
On that night at 11 p.m., a neighbor on the 1300 block of Fosdick Circle in Colorado Springs heard an argument around 11 p.m. A man was yelling obscenities, the neighbor later would tell police.
Then a shot rang out. The neighbor did not call 911.
The next morning, Egger drove home after spending the night at the hospital with his wife.
He and his daughter had been taking turns staying with his wife Penny Egger, who was Sweet’s stepmother. Penny was recuperating at a hospital following surgery.
When Egger drove home in the darkness he spotted something odd beyond a white picket fence.
His daughter, who had been staying with him and his wife, was crumpled on the side of the porch with one leg in a basement window well.
Egger, who is a retired U.S. Air Force, ran to her body. Her skin was cold. Blood had pooled in the window well.
It was 5:50 a.m., Christmas day.