Chance Comanche, a former NBA G League player, is said to have admitted to killing a lady in Las Vegas earlier this month.
According to the New York Post, Comanche, 27, allegedly admitted to detectives that he strangled Marayna Rodgers, 23, with an HDMI cord on December 6 after enticing her to have "kinky sex" with him and his 19-year-old ex-girlfriend Sakari Harnden. According to the Las Vegas police report, Rodgers flew to Vegas with a buddy "to engage in prostitution" from her home state of Washington.
Both Harnden and Rodgers were employed in the Las Vegas area as prostitutes. Drama apparently broke out between the women when they connected in Sin City a few days before the murder. According to the Post, they got into a furious argument over a Rolex. This escalated after Harnden accused Rodgers' boyfriend of committing a double homicide in California, for which he was taken into custody.
After the two failed to find a hitman willing to pay $3,000., Harnden allegedly recruited Comanche to assist in Rodgers' death. According to reports, the ex-couple talked about a variety of techniques, such as gunplay, strangulation, and poisoning. In the end, they resolved to strangle each other to death.
Comanche and Harnden enticed Rodgers to her murder by saying there was a "trick" out to get money for "kinky sex." That "trick" turned out to be Comanche. Harnden allegedly informed the victim that he would "pay them for their services" and that he intended to tie up both ladies before engaging in sexual activity.
More from the New York Post is as follows:
"(Rodgers) consented and started taking off her clothes. According to the police reports, "(Harnden) undressed, climbed over the center console, and straddled (Rodgers') lap." Comanche then took a bag of plastic zip ties that was already in the car and gave two of them to Sakari.
As Comanche wound a cord around Rodgers' neck and Harnden, still straddling Rodgers, put her hands on the helpless woman's neck, Rodgers voluntarily had her wrists tied together. Comanche testified before police that he choked Rodgers for "ten seconds" with an HDMI cord, stopping when he heard his victim gasping for air, but Harnden persisted.
Comanche and Harnden killed the woman and then disposed of her body in a ditch in Henderson, Nevada. Her body was discovered earlier this month by investigators.
When Comanche was arrested and charged with first-degree kidnapping last week, he was in Sacramento, California.
Following his alleged theft of a Rolex, Harnden was charged with felony first-degree kidnapping and felony theft on December 14, according to media.