Poisoned to Death? | The Deaths of Reporter Adan Manzano and Harold Allen

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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(7:57) - Poisoning Cases

In this episode of the True Crime Society Podcast, we discuss two cases where men were possibly drugged to death by women.

Sports reporter Adan Manzano (27) was found dead with no signs of trauma in his New Orleans hotel room in February 2025. Adan had been in the city to cover the upcoming Super Bowl. When police began investigating, they discovered Adan was last seen with a female ‘career criminal,' Danette Colbert. Danette has a history of drugging and robbing men. It was discovered that Danette used Adan’s credit card after his death. His cause of death is still pending with the Medical Examiner.

Indiana man Harold Allen died in 2022 from what was initially thought to be natural causes. It was only after his step-daughter, Ashley Jones, staged a robbery that his death was investigated. It came to light that Harold was likely poisoned to death with ethylene glycol by his wife Marsha and Ashley. The women tried multiple times to kill Harold with varying substances before they were successful. After Marsha was questioned by police, she took her own life. Ashley is currently awaiting trial.

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0:14.5	Thank you.
0:35.7	Thank you. What's up, guys, welcome back to the other episode of the True Crime Society Podcast with Stephanie and Olivia.
0:37.8	It is February 13th here, but it is Valentine's Day in Australia.
0:42.9	Do you have any big plans with your husband or anything?
0:47.3	No.
0:48.5	I shouldn't laugh.
0:49.6	I don't think we've ever, ever done anything for Valentine's Day.
0:51.7	I know we've spoken about like that either about, like like differences between holidays. Here, Valentine's Day is really
0:58.3	not too much of a thing. Like you can buy Valentine's Day cards. Some like the supermarket might do
1:03.4	like a few little chocolates or something. But like there's not, it's not a thing at schools. Like I know
1:07.5	their kids make valentines and do Valentine's Day crafts. That is not really a thing
1:12.6	so much here. It's a very minor event. It's actually funny because one of my friends sent out a
1:18.6	group chat message and she's like, does anyone want to go to the pub for a drink on Friday afternoon?
1:22.2	Everyone's like, yep, yep. And I wrote, yeah, Galantines drinks. Because basically no one is doing anything actually for Valentine's Day with their partner.
1:31.4	No.
1:31.7	So no, no, I'm not.
1:33.5	It was funny.
1:34.1	I was in Kmart last night.
1:35.8	So I know Kmart there is basically not a thing.
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