27-year-old Kansas City television sports reporter dies while on Super Bowl assignment

[Typist Clerk]

Apologies if I'm misremembering - Google isn't helping me back that far.

But wasn't there a sports columnist from Peoria, Ill., who died in New Orleans, maybe in the airport, back in the mid-1990s?

I remember the Journal-Star running his column sig in its regular place at the top left side of the sports page, then a blank white column below it, as a tribute.

deck Lien, I believe.

 

[Mr. X]

Super Bowl reporter found dead in hotel room had sedative drug in his system, police say | AP News

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

Update: Woman charged with 2nd-degree murder of reporter at Super Bowl — ESPN

 

[franticscribe]

Update: Woman charged with 2nd-degree murder of reporter at Super Bowl — ESPN

This appears to be the key paragraph in that story, and it's inexplicably at the bottom:

"In 2022, Colbert was twice arrested in Las Vegas on felony charges of grand larceny and administering a drug to aid in a felony crime, court records show. In both cases, she was accused of drugging men in their hotel rooms and stealing from them. The charges were dismissed because the victims did not want to testify in court, Colbert's attorney for those cases, Daniel Lippmann, told The Associated Press."

 

[Inky_Wretch]

The victims of this woman have a virtual support group. One of them had warned authorities that she'd wind up killing somebody.

Long Before She Was Charged With Murder, a Group of Men Had Raised an Alarm

“I told the judge, I told the D.A., that she was going to kill somebody,” said David Butler, one of several men who said they had been drugged and defrauded by the same woman in New Orleans.

www.nytimes.com