His name is Adan, not Adam, FYI. Anyway, he was in New Orleans to do Spanish-language Super Bowl coverage, and was found dead in a hotel room. He was widowed last year - his 24-year-old wife, a schoolteacher, died in an auto accident - and they had a baby he had been raising on his own. In the meantime, a sex worker with a long history of drugging and stealing from her male clients has been arrested.
It probably wasn’t the first time he’d done this, but he still didn’t deserve his fate, and their daughter certainly does not deserve the fallout she will experience when she and her peers are old enough to know how he died.
More than three years before a Louisiana woman was arrested last week in the death of a TV reporter in New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl, a man visiting the city from out of state accused the woman, Danette Colbert, of drugging him, robbing his savings and leaving him for dead.
Colbert, 48, was convicted in October of computer fraud, theft and illegal transmission of monetary funds, and David Butler said in a victim impact statement he shared with NBC News that her “continued disregard for others” should have resulted in a maximum prison sentence.
The judge suspended a combined sentence under which she would have spent years behind bars and instead ordered Colbert to pay restitution and remain on probation for five years, court records show.
So a very light sentence.
Possibility she killed someone else the same way:
John Jenkins, 55, was found dead on December 15 after traveling to New Orleans from his home in Gambrills, Maryland. An autopsy found he died from cocaine and ethanol toxicity and his demise ruled accidental - but that is now being reevaluated…
Conley said evidence suggested Jenkins’ case could be related to Colbert and his officers were investigating with state police and Attorney General Liz Murrill’s office.
According to police, Manzano had an anti-anxiety drug commonly sold as Xanax in his system at the time of his death.
This surprises me. While previous articles said she drugged her victims, I expected a much more dangerous drug.That is I knew Xanax could cause drug term dependency problems I was unaware it was so dosage critical.