LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A journalist, whose physique was situated in a big container earlier this yr, was overwhelmed to demise, based on paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained Monday.
Joseph Del Rivo, 63, killed Matthew Kelemen, 56, someday earlier than Could 15, paperwork stated. Kelemen was a contract journalist who wrote for “Las Vegas Magazine.”
Almost per week after the homicide, on Tuesday, Could 20, Las Vegas Metro police found Kelemen’s stays after getting a report of the odor close to a enterprise on North third Avenue in Downtown Las Vegas. An individual referred to as police that morning, saying a field dropped off on Could 16 had a foul odor coming from it. Police minimize off the field’s lock, discovering Kelemen’s physique wrapped in a tarp.
Contained in the field, police situated “a music stand, a bottle of ketchup, hat and shoes, and several bags,” paperwork stated.
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The coroner’s workplace later dominated Kelemen’s demise as murder brought on by “homicide violence due to assault,” paperwork stated. Police paperwork the 8 Information Now Investigators obtained in May indicated detectives suspected Kelemen died of blunt pressure trauma.
Del Rivo later died in a high-speed chase in Utah. A press launch matching the date of the crash and age of the sufferer stated that the motive force sped off from a trooper at 140 miles an hour on Interstate 70. After a number of miles, the motive force misplaced management and was ejected from the car.
Toxicology testing revealed Kelemen had alcohol and THC, the psychoactive part of marijuana, in his system on the time of his demise, paperwork stated.
Kelemen’s work appeared in publications comparable to “The Daily Beast,” “Las Vegas Sun” and “Las Vegas Weekly,” based on his Muck Rack profile. His most up-to-date article, printed after his demise, was a evaluate of Janet Jackson’s residency.
