Police search for murder suspect who 'stabbed newly single mom, 33, eight times and stole her 500-pound safe'

• Amalia Lopez De Mansilla, 33, was found dead in her home October 18 and her safe was missing 
• Police this week said that De Mansilla was stabbed to death eight times
• The murder comes just 10 days after Mansilla  

 

Murdered: Police have not arrested anyone in the death of 33-year-old Amalia Lopez De Mansilla, and investigators have not said if they have identified any suspects. De Mansilla was stabbed to death and her body was discovered on December 19

The Adams County coroner's office says a woman whose body was found in her Broomfield home was stabbed eight times in the chest and torso and suffered blunt-force trauma to the neck.

The Broomfield Enterprise reports police have not arrested anyone in the death of 33-year-old Amalia Lopez De Mansilla, and investigators have not said if they have identified any suspects. She was found dead in her home October 18.

On Oct. 10, Lopez De Mansilla reported a burglary at her home and told officers a large 500 pound gun safe had been tampered with.

Stolen: This 500-pound safe was carted away from the Colorado mobile home 

The safe and Lopez De Mansilla's Michael Kors purse were missing when police found her body.

Police believe the woman was out at the View House restaurant in Denver the night before her body was found.

Police are still trying to figure out who killed Lopez. Authorities revealed her cause of death just this week.

'We do have a couple persons of interest, but ... it's an active investigation and we don’t want to lose any potential evidence or opportunity we have to catch the bad guys,' Sgt. Steve Griebel of the Broomfield Police Department.

One witness reported seeing a man wheeling a large object on a dolly that could have been the safe.

'It was a heavy safe – 450 to 500 pounds,' 

'We do have a witness who saw somebody wheeling a large object that they think could have been the safe down the street. When the witness saw it going down the street, it was being handled by one person and was on a dolly.'

A neighbor also claims to have seen a man leaving Lopez's home the day she was found dead.

Police have not released many details about mom Lopez who was recently separated from her husband.

Police are still trying to find a motive behind the killing. They are not sure if it was related to a robbery or if it was premeditated.

'We don’t know if it was a burglary, if it was a robbery [or] if it was premeditated,' the sergeant said. 

'Really, not until we put more of the pieces together and do more interviews will we have the whole picture of what happened.'