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Unsolved homicide

Killing of Margaret Sweet

Year
2008
Where
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Source
Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Evidence
1
What the record says

On December 25, 2008, 38 year old Margaret Mae Sweet was discovered by her father on the front porch of their residence on the 1300 block of Fosdick Circle with an apparent gunshot wound. Ms. Sweet w

From the Colorado Bureau of Investigation cold case file. Records change. The source is the authority.

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What does the record establish, and what has never been explained?

  • Read the source and write down every date, place and name it gives.
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  • List what has never been explained. One line each.

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