Adan Manzano, the sports reporter and anchor from Kansas City who was found dead in his hotel room while in New Orleans to cover the 2025 Super Bowl, hoped to be a good single parent to his daughter after his wife’s death in a car accident.

Police investigating the death of a Super Bowl reporter say the suspect in his case may be linked to the similar death of a Maryland man in December at a French Quarter hotel.

Adan Manzano was in New Orleans to cover Super Bowl LIX, but the sports reporter was found dead in his hotel room before kickoff. Police are trying to figure out what happened and what, if anything, “a career criminal” police say is known to run fraud schemes in the city’s French Quarter had to do with his death.