Ex-GOP Congressional Candidate and Former WWE Wrestler Surrenders Over Vegas Murder

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Daniel Rodimer, the disgraced GOP congressional candidate who was endorsed by Donald Trump despite a previous arrest for a Waffle House assault, handed himself in on Wednesday night after being sought by Las Vegas police in connection to a murder.

Rodimer, a former wrestler who performed under the name Dan Rodman in the WWE, lost his campaign to represent Nevada’s 3rd Congressional District in 2020 against Rep. Susie Lee (D-NV). After that, he reportedly moved to Texas to launch another failed bid to make it into Congress—where he was accused of using a phony Texas accent to try and win over voters.

Rodimer, 45, is accused of murdering 47-year-old Christopher Tapp during an altercation inside a hotel room at the Hilton Resorts World on the Las Vegas strip on Oct. 29, police announced Wednesday.

Las Vegas cops did not say what led to Rodimer and Tapp’s violent encounter, nor did they say if the men knew each other. Tapp was wrongfully convicted of a 1996 murder in Idaho, which forced him to serve 20 years behind bars before he was exonerated by DNA evidence.

A month prior to his slaying, Tapp recorded an interview with Dateline at his Idaho home, where he reportedly detailed his time behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. Before that show ever went to air, however, he died in a Vegas hospital, allegedly after being beaten in the head by Rodimer.

Rodimer’s criminal past includes an arrest in 2011, when he was charged with misdemeanor battery for throwing a man to the floor at a Waffle House

 

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Ex-congressional candidate accused of killing man in Las Vegas hotel room dressed as shirtless ‘Ken’ at Halloween party; court records allege witness coverup​

A former Republican congressional candidate and ex-wrestler was attending a Halloween party dressed as a shirtless “Ken” when he allegedly beat another man to death inside a Las Vegas hotel room, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained.

It was initially suspected Tapp died of an “apparent overdose” and “fall” on Oct. 29, according to documents obtained by 8 News Now Investigators. However, after interviews with witnesses, police believe Dan Rodimer attacked Tapp after he allegedly offered Dan Rodimer’s model stepdaughter, Bella Duffy, cocaine during the Halloween party for racecar driver John Odom at the Crocksford hotel inside Resorts World.

It does not appear anyone at the party called 911. Odom allegedly waited 30 minutes to an hour to call hotel security who then alerted paramedics and police, documents said.

According to grand jury transcripts, the witness said [suspect's wife] Sarah Rodimer told her the next day not to say anything if law enforcement asked.

Dan Rodimer’s attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, argued earlier this month that text messages from Sarah Rodimer should not be part of the evidence in the case.

[In one] Sarah Rodimer said, “I watched you nearly murder somebody and I had to take your [expletive] hands off from his neck as he laid there and you ran away and I spent the next two hours trying to take care of him. Nobody should have to watch their husband murder somebody.”