‘Bourbon Street Hustler’ sentenced to life in prison after the Daily Mail uncovered haunting surveillance video showing ‘career criminal’ leading Super Bowl reporter to his death

Danette Colbert, known as the ‘Bourbon Street Hustler,’ will spend the rest of her life behind bars after being convicted in the death of NFL reporter Adan Manzano ahead of Super Bowl LIX.Manzano, who worked for Telemundo in Kansas City, was just 27 when he died in the build-up to the Chiefs’ Super Bowl clash with the Philadelphia Eagles in New Orleans.Exclusive CCTV images obtained by the Daily Mail showed Colbert and Manzano arriving back at the Comfort Inn hotel in Kenner, Louisiana at 3.46am on February 5. He was found unresponsive around 12 hours later after colleagues called for a welfare check. The reporter had failed to show up for their afternoon meeting. Colbert was seen leaving the room for the final time at 5.21am. She was recently found guilty of negligent homicide and racketeering and, on Wednesday, Colbert was sentenced to life in prison plus 75 years.The Jefferson Parish District Attorney’s office said a judge decided the 49-year-old ‘career criminal’ should die in prison, handing down a life sentence to run consecutive to the 50 years Colbert received for racketeering and the 25 years she is already serving for unrelated crimes around New Orleans. Danette Colbert, known as the ‘Bourbon Street Hustler,’ will spend the rest of her life in prison Adan Manzano, a 27-year-old reporter and television anchor, was killed before Super Bowl LIX Manzano is seen trailing behind Colbert, in what is the last photo of him alive, in February 2025 The footage – exclusively obtained by Daily Mail – shows Manzano and Colbert entering the Comfort Suites in Kenner, Louisiana , on February 5 at 3.46am  Manzano trails behind Colbert, whose previous arrests including drugging men to steal from them Both Colbert and Rickey White were charged with manslaughter in the death of Manzano. But a jury last month found the so-called ‘Bourbon Street Hustler’ guilty of a lesser charge – negligent homicide – while White was cleared of manslaughter.But both were convicted of racketeering, with the Jefferson Parish district attorney describing them as ‘a prostitute and her pimp.’ It is claimed ‘they and others were engaged in a years-long scheme in which Colbert and other prostitutes lurked in New Orleans’ tourist areas in search of men whom they could lure to their rooms. ‘Along the way, they secretly provided their unwitting victims with sedatives that would cause them to fall asleep. ‘They then would steal their cell phones, credit cards and other items of value, including pricy watches.’Manzano was ‘their last known victim.’An autopsy found that he died from a combination of alcohol, benzodiazepines – depressants that include alprazolam – and ‘positional asphyxia.’ He suffocated with his face in a pillow.  Manzano’s wife, Ashleigh, died in 2024 in a car accident. They are pictured with their daughter  Colbert, 49, was arrested after the reporter was found unresponsive in a hotel room The Jefferson Parish district attorney said that after leaving Manzano’s hotel room, Colbert headed to a convenience store, where she used one of his credit cards to buy a charger for the cell phone she had stolen from him.Colbert also filmed several videos, including from inside Manzano’s hotel room ‘while he lay dying or dead,’ Assistant District Attorney Jenny Voss told the court.Among the videos she took, Colbert ‘recorded herself marveling over the information that Manzano had stored on the cell phone related to his coverage of the Super Bowl, including the hotels where the Kansas City Chiefs and Philadelphia Eagles were staying and where the teams were practicing.’Manzano’s death came less than a year after his wife, Ashleigh Boyd, tragically died in a car accident. The couple’s young daughter is now without both of her parents.