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The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Kansas judge convicts driver in death of teacher whose husband was killed months later

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Adan Manzano was found dead in his hotel room in the New Orleans suburb of Kenner during Super Bowl week in 2025. Photograph: AP

A Kansas school teacher’s fatal car wreck in 2024 led to a vehicular homicide conviction on Monday for the motorist who crashed into her – a verdict delivered just four days after a Louisiana jury found a woman guilty of the drugging death of the educator’s widower while he prepared to cover the 2025 Super Bowl for Telemundo.

Todd W Armstrong’s one-day bench trial in an 11 April 2024 traffic collision that killed Ashleigh Boyd in Topeka, Kansas, resulted in the judge, Andrew Holmes, finding him guilty of vehicular homicide, driving on the wrong side of the road and speeding, according to the victim’s father, Brian Hinck.

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