They also began theorizing that Colbert may have drugged Manzano, 26, before his death because of news stories documenting allegations that she had drugged and robbed men in Las Vegas, though the results of tests showing which substances may have been in the late reporter’s body remained pending Friday.
Butler hoped she would receive a stiff punishment: not only had he submitted a statement to the court outlining how Colbert’s actions had “devastated [his] life”, but also, in early 2022, she had been accused of stealing $100,000 in cash, jewelry, upscale luggage and casino chips from the Las Vegas hotel room of another man whom she had allegedly drugged.
Surveillance camera images released by police showed Manzano and Colbert together on Bourbon Street before they walked into his room at a hotel near New Orleans’s airport in Kenner, Louisiana, during the early morning of 5 February.
A man who survived being drugged and robbed of more than $134,000 by a woman linked to the death of a television sports journalist covering the recent Super Bowl in New Orleans said he wants “to see her go to jail for as long as she can” after she was let off with probation in his case.
Butler’s retelling of his costly encounter with Colbert during a night out on New Orleans’ famous Bourbon Street in the fall of 2021 came less than two weeks after Manzano’s death.
