# Telemundo reporter Adan Manzano, 27, dies in NOLA; sex worker arrested (Super Bowl reporter) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 8, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telemundo-reporter-adan-manzano-27-dies-in-nola-sex-worker-arrested-super-bowl-reporter/1014031 "2025-02-08T00:00:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telemundo-reporter-adan-manzano-27-dies-in-nola-sex-worker-arrested-super-bowl-reporter/1014031/1 "2025-02-08T00:00:25Z")
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. > **[Telemundo reporter Adan Manzano dies in New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl 59](https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/national-international/adan-manzano-reporter-dies-super-bowl/3627492/)** > > Adan Manzano’s colleagues at KGKC Telemundo Kansas City praised him as a “true professional and rising star” in NFL media. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2025, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telemundo-reporter-adan-manzano-27-dies-in-nola-sex-worker-arrested-super-bowl-reporter/1014031/2 "2025-02-12T04:44:43Z")
> 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. > **[Man says he was drugged, robbed and left for dead by woman accused in...](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/super-bowl-reporter-death-new-orleans-rcna191606)** > > Danette Colbert has been charged with fraud and other theft-related crimes in a TV reporter’s death. Police said additional charges are possible.   So a very light sentence. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2025, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telemundo-reporter-adan-manzano-27-dies-in-nola-sex-worker-arrested-super-bowl-reporter/1014031/3 "2025-02-13T22:53:55Z")
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. > **[Bourbon Street Hustler 'may have killed before'](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/nfl/article-14390925/Bourbon-Street-Hustler-Danette-Colbert-second-death-Super-Bowl-reporter-Adan-Manzano.html)** > > Danette Colbert, 48, the was the last person to see Super Bowl reporter Adan Manzano alive and was seen on CCTV outside his room. Police now believe she may have caused a second death. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telemundo-reporter-adan-manzano-27-dies-in-nola-sex-worker-arrested-super-bowl-reporter/1014031/4 "2025-03-19T05:16:15Z")
That woman has been booked for second-degree murder. An accomplice has been arrested for other charges as well. [https://www.khou.com/article/news/national/woman-arrested-kansas-city-reporter-death-faces-murder-charge/289-21711721-4c66-4584-bf72-ca263733959e](https://www.khou.com/article/news/national/woman-arrested-kansas-city-reporter-death-faces-murder-charge/289-21711721-4c66-4584-bf72-ca263733959e) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2025, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telemundo-reporter-adan-manzano-27-dies-in-nola-sex-worker-arrested-super-bowl-reporter/1014031/5 "2025-03-19T13:40:42Z")
> 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. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2026, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/telemundo-reporter-adan-manzano-27-dies-in-nola-sex-worker-arrested-super-bowl-reporter/1014031/6 "2026-09-19T02:36:58Z")
> **[Jury convicts woman of negligent homicide in death of reporter covering Super...](https://apnews.com/article/new-orleans-super-bowl-death-6eebb041f48d144122d42ab2df156990)** > > A Louisiana jury has convicted a woman of negligent homicide in the death of a television reporter who had been visiting New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl.