{"id":26567,"date":"2024-04-27T04:42:49","date_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26567"},"modified":"2024-04-27T04:42:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-27T09:42:57","slug":"retired-pro-wrestler-failed-congressional-candidate-indicted-in-vegas-murder-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=26567","title":{"rendered":"Retired pro wrestler, failed congressional candidate indicted in Vegas murder case"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">LAS VEGAS &#8212;&nbsp;A retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate in Nevada and Texas has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of an Idaho man who suffered a head injury during a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/alerts\/Halloween\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Halloween<\/a>&nbsp;Party at a Las Vegas Strip hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Daniel Rodimer, 45, who now lives in Texas, is expected to appear before a Nevada judge May 8 following his indictment Friday in the death of Christopher Tapp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">His defense attorneys, David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld, said Friday that Rodimer \u201cmaintains his complete innocence and looks forward to his day in court.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Tapp, 47, of Idaho Falls, was injured Oct. 29 at the Resorts World hotel and taken to a hospital, where he died several days later, police said. He had served more than 20 years in prison in Idaho in a 1996 killing before receiving an $11.7 million settlement from Idaho Falls in 2022 in a wrongful conviction lawsuit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Investigators initially believed Tapp had been fatally injured in a fall, but they later learned that he had been in an argument with Rodimer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Rodimer, a Republican who lost bids for Congress in Nevada in 2020 and in Texas in 2021, surrendered to Las Vegas police for his arrest March 6 and remains free on a $200,000 bail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/retired-pro-wrestler-failed-congressional-candidate-indicted-vegas-109709915\">abcnews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS &#8212;&nbsp;A retired professional wrestler and former congressional candidate in Nevada and Texas has been indicted on a murder charge in the death of an Idaho man who suffered a head injury during a&nbsp;Halloween&nbsp;Party at a Las Vegas Strip hotel. Daniel Rodimer, 45, who now lives in Texas, is expected to appear before a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[28076,1269,28075,4240,28077],"class_list":["post-26567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-congressional-candidate","tag-failure","tag-professional-wrestler","tag-retirement","tag-vegas-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26569,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26567\/revisions\/26569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}