Orphaned toddler lost mother in car crash… then TV reporter dad was killed a year later by evil woman during hotel room tryst
A three-year-old girl, Eleanor, lost her mother in a 2024 car crash and her father, Telemundo reporter Adan Manzano, in a separate incident in February 2025. Her maternal grandparents are raising her after adopting her, and say they are considering how to explain her father’s death as she grows older.
The article reports that Ashleigh Boyd, 24, died when a pickup truck driven on the wrong side of the road struck her car in Kansas; the driver, Todd W Armstrong, was convicted of vehicular homicide and related offences and is due to be sentenced in November. Manzano, 27, died in a New Orleans-area hotel after taking alcohol and benzodiazepines, with the cause recorded as positional asphyxia. Danette Colbert was sentenced to 60 years in prison for negligent homicide and racketeering, while co-defendant Rickey White received 45 years for racketeering.
- Eleanor lost both parents within a year.
- Her maternal grandparents adopted and are raising her.
- Two defendants were sentenced over her father’s death.