Police Release Photo of Reporter and Suspect Together

Police have released a picture of a Kansas City reporter taken just hours before he was found dead in his hotel room.

4WWL News reports a hotel security camera captured the image showing Telemundo correspondent Adan Manzano and Danette Colbert, 48. They were getting off an elevator at the Kenner Comfort Inn early last Wednesday morning.

They got there about 4:30 in the morning," Kenner Police Chief Keith Conley said. "They both went into the room. She came out, probably about 30 or 40 minutes later, went to a store, came back, was in the room for maybe five or two minutes and then she left."

Manzani, suspect in hotel hall

Manzano was later found unresponsive in his hotel room.

"We can definitely place her in that room, at the time frames she was in that room," Conley said.

Police revealed another video that showed Manzano and Colbert together on Bourbon Street in New Orleans.

So far, she is accused of stealing Manzano's cellphone and using his credit card. Chief Conley called Colbert a career criminal known for drugging and robbing men.

"We do know that in her past cases (victims) have been knocked out either by alcohol and other substances and they have awoken to their property missing. One guy was actually being loaded into a Tahoe or Suburban. We do know that her victims are always incapacitated in some manner."

Conley said she may be linked to a second death at a French Quarter hotel in December.

Now investigators are getting information about a third death possibly involving Colbert in Las Vegas.

Her criminal history includes two arrests in Nevada.  "We want to know everything about her," Conley said. "We want to know everything about her movements, her conduct, her victims. We've got about two more complaints today."

Colbert remains in the Jefferson Parish Correctional Center. The JP District Attorney's Office has asked that she be held without bond based on her prior crimes.