Girl orphaned by Super Bowl reporter’s drugging and a deadly Kansas crash is ‘extreme victim’, granddad says
Parents of Eleanor, 3, both died within a year. Her dad’s killer was just convicted. Now a man faces trial in her mother’s car crash death
TL;DR
- Brian Hinck's daughter, Ashleigh Boyd, died in a head-on collision in Topeka, Kansas, in April 2024.
- The driver charged in Boyd's death, Todd W. Armstrong, faces a misdemeanor vehicular homicide charge, which Hinck finds inadequate.
- Hinck's son-in-law, Adan Manzano, a sports reporter, was found dead in his New Orleans hotel room in February 2025 after being targeted in a drugging and robbery scheme.
- Three individuals, Danette Colbert, Rickey White, and Christian Anderson, were convicted or pleaded guilty in connection with Manzano's death.
- Colbert was convicted of negligent homicide and racketeering, facing up to 60 years in prison.
- Hinck is raising his granddaughter, Eleanor, who lost both parents within approximately 10 months.
- Hinck feels the criminal justice system has failed to protect the public and has resulted in his granddaughter becoming an 'extreme victim'.