In the quiet community of Security-Widefield in unincorporated El Paso County, Colorado, a tragedy unfolded on the morning of May 16, 2024, forever altering the lives of a local family. Responding to a welfare check just after 9 a.m., deputies from the El Paso County Sheriff's Office arrived at a residence on Cottonwood Drive. Inside, they discovered the bodies of 25-year-old Hispanic female Esmeralda Contreras-Mata and 31-year-old Thabiso Makhafola.
The initial investigation by the sheri
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