GRETNA, La. (WVUE) – The Slidell woman found responsible for the death of a visiting Super Bowl reporter in 2025 will spend the rest of her life in prison.
Danette Colbert’s extensive criminal history proved her undoing Wednesday (Oct. 14), when a Jefferson Parish judge increased her prison term from 60 years to life plus 75 years, in connection with the death of Kansas City sports reporter Adan Manzano.
Colbert, 49, had been sentenced on Sept. 28 to serve 50 years for racketeering and 10 for negligent homicide. Prosecutors proved that Colbert met Manzano in the French Quarter, returned with him to his Kenner hotel room, and drugged him with a prescription sedative and alcohol in order to rob him while he was passed out…