Telemundo reporter Adan Manzano, 27, found dead in New Orleans; arrest made

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His name's Adan, NOT Adam - FYI. Anyway, he was a widower - his wife died in a car accident last year - and they had a baby that he was raising on his own. He was in New Orleans to do Spanish-language reporting on the Super Bowl when he was found dead, and a sex worker who has a long arrest record that includes drugging men and stealing their belongings has been arrested.

(Probably not the first time he'd done this kind of thing, and no, he didn't deserve it either, and their daughter sure doesn't deserve what will happen when she and her peers are old enough to find out how he died.)

Telemundo reporter Adan Manzano dies in New Orleans ahead of Super Bowl 59

Adan Manzano’s colleagues at KGKC Telemundo Kansas City praised him as a “true professional and rising star” in NFL media.

www.nbclosangeles.com

 

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Press Conference:

Woman arrested in death investigation of Telemundo KC sports reporter in Kenner

Police say 48-year-old Danette Colbert was arrested in New Orleans and is, for now, only facing fraud and theft charges.

www.wwltv.com

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NFL = National Football League
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Toxicology = Foreign Substances in a Body

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Patrick Murphy, 61, Murdered -
New Orleans >> Louisiana -
Thursday, 28 Feb 2019 -

Deceased:
Patrick Murphy
White / Male / 61 Years Old

Historically:
Cause of Death -- Stab Wound
Manner of Death -- Homicide
Mechanism of Death -- Exsanguination

Suspect:
Megan Hall, 25

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Woman arrested after Super Bowl reporter found dead in New Orleans hotel | FOX 26 Houston

A woman with a history of credit card theft and drugging men was arrested after a reporter covering the Super Bowl in New Orleans was found dead in his hotel room.

www.fox26houston.com

 

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Telemundo Kansas City’s segment on Manzano reported that his mantra had been: “Don’t fear success.”

Battling tears, Telemundo Kansas City anchor Gustavo Jaimes concluded the segment by saying: “The world hasn’t just lost an unrivaled journalist. It also lost a father, a son, and a friend. All our solidarity for the family of Adan Manzano, and to him, a hug wherever he is.”

Woman linked to death of Super Bowl reporter allegedly had similar arrests

Danette Colbert was known to police before meeting Adan Manzano, who died last week in a New Orleans-area hotel

www.theguardian.com

 

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Police investigating whether sports reporter at Super Bowl was drugged before he died

A woman who allegedly had Adan Manzano's cellphone and credit card in her home was arrested on property offenses, police said.

abcnews.go.com

Since her arrest last week, the Kenner Police Department said it has been contacted by people "claiming to be victims or reporting suspicious deaths under similar circumstances."

"All of these complaints will be referred to the appropriate jurisdictions for further investigation," the department said.

Police are aware of two prior instances in Nevada and Jefferson Parish, Louisiana, in which Colbert was accused of drugging a victim and stealing his "access device cards and things of that nature," Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley said at a press briefing last week.

"We're going to let the evidence lead us to the end result and not speculate," Conley said last week when asked whether they considered this a homicide investigation.

 

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Super Bowl Reporter Found Dead in Hotel Room 'Wanted to Be the Best Parent' to Daughter After Wife’s Death (Exclusive)

Adan Manzano was a dedicated father and a passionate reporter, his colleague tells PEOPLE.

people.com

After his wife’s death, Manzano became a single father, and the transition and grief were “hard on him,” Steve Downing, general manager of Telemundo Kansas City, tells PEOPLE.

Through this difficult time, Manzano was surrounded by support from family and often turned to his colleagues for advice on parenting.

"He wanted to be the best parent that he could be, especially under the circumstances of having to raise that daughter without her mom,” says Downing.

“What I know is that the time when he was not on an assignment, he spent with his daughter and that’s what he always wanted to do,” Downing adds.

 

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Man says he was drugged, robbed and left for dead by woman accused in reporter's death in New Orleans

Danette Colbert has been charged with fraud and other theft-related crimes in a TV reporter’s death. Police said additional charges are possible.

www.nbcnews.com

Butler, 52, who did not want to share his location for privacy reasons, said he was among those who reached out to the Kenner Police Department after he learned of Manzano’s death. He had been regularly monitoring Colbert online since 2021, he said, “because I knew she wouldn’t stop.”

In November of that year, Butler encountered Colbert while he was in New Orleans renovating a property he owns. After a long day of work, Butler said, he was going out to a French Quarter bar when Colbert and another woman approached him and asked whether he wanted a drink. He agreed, he said, and after he briefly stepped away from their table, he returned, finished his cocktail and quickly started to feel disoriented.

Butler said he took Colbert up on an offer to help him get home.

“She ushered me into some kind of black Suburban that was literally right there,” he said. “And that’s the last thing I remember that night.”

Butler said he came to hours later on a mattress on the floor of the home he was renovating. He said that had no idea how he got there and that his property manager had to repeatedly yell and shake him to wake him.

Butler soon discovered that his phone and wallet were gone, he said. The device’s “Find My iPhone” feature had been shut off, he said, and his credit cards had been used to charge thousands of dollars at stores like Best Buy and Walmart. More than $80,000 that he had stashed away for retirement in a cryptocurrency account was also gone, he said.

 

[Bounceycat]

Woman arrested in death of Kansas City reporter now faces second-degree murder charge

Danette Colbert now faces a murder charge after the death of Telemundo reporter Adan Manzano in a Kenner hotel.

www.khou.com

Police allege Colbert used Manzano's credit card in New Orleans after his death.
Investigators later recovered the credit card and Manzano's cellphone at Colbert's apartment in Slidell.

According to police, Manzano had an anti-anxiety drug commonly sold as Xanax in his system at the time of his death.

Kenner Police are holding a news conference at 3 p.m. this afternoon to give an update on the Manzano case.

 

[Bounceycat]

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/18/us/super-bowl-telemundo-reporter-death

“Kenner Police Department detectives believe Colbert intentionally drugged Manzano to render him unconscious before robbing him, following a pattern seen in her prior offenses,” police said.

On Tuesday, Jefferson Parish Coroner Gerald Cvitanovich said Manzano died due to the “combined toxic effects” of alprazolam, commonly sold under the brand name Xanax, and alcohol along with positional asphyxia, which means he was found face down on a pillow. Cvitanovich said Manzano’s manner of death remains undetermined.

Law enforcement officials said a man they described as Colbert’s “accomplice” was arrested in South Florida last week. (Rickey White, age 34)

Police found correspondence between White and Colbert, Conley said, and believe “they were working hand-in-hand, in concert with each other on this.”

 

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Mr. Manzano, 27, died from the combined toxic effects of the prescription drug Xanax and alcohol, in addition to positional asphyxia, which is when someone’s physical position prevents them from breathing, according to the results of a preliminary autopsy that were released during a news conference on Tuesday

Woman Charged With Murder in Telemundo Reporter’s Death

Adan Manzano, 27, was in New Orleans to cover the Super Bowl when his body was found in his hotel room.

www.nytimes.com

 

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“The evidence was overwhelming that this woman was a serial fraudster and took advantage of multiple tourists and innocent people over many years in the French Quarter,” Murrill said in an emailed statement.

Woman accused in Super Bowl reporter’s death gets 25 years in unrelated case

A woman facing a second-degree murder charge for the death of a Super Bowl television reporter has been sentenced to 25 years in an unrelated case on Thursday.

nypost.com

 

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On Thursday, May 15, the Office of the Louisiana Attorney General, Liz Murrill, confirmed Danette Colbert — the "serial fraudster" connected to 27-year-old Adan Manzano's death in February — had been sentenced for a previous unrelated conviction that was originally suspended, per a Facebook post.

Colbert, 48, had previously been handed a suspended sentence by an Orleans Parish judge last year "after being convicted of theft and fraud charge.,"

"The evidence was overwhelming that this woman was a serial fraudster and took advantage of multiple tourists and innocent people over many years in the French Quarter," the Office of the Louisiana Attorney General's Facebook post stated

'Serial Fraudster' Accused of Super Bowl Reporter's Death Sentenced to 25 Years for Previous Conviction

A 'serial fraudster' accused in the murder of Super Bowl journalist Adan Manzano has been sentenced to 25 years for a previous conviction, the Office of the Louisiana Attorney General confirmed.

people.com