1277: Dan Rodimer

Dan Rodimer was a Trump-endorsed Congressional candidate in 2020. In 2021, he ran in a special election Republican primary in Texas and got 3% of the vote. He also lost his 2018 race for the Nevada State Senate. He is a former professional wrestler with a history of at least three violent incidents, all at restaurants or clubs. He pled guilty to a misdemeanour on one of those cases and took anger management classes. They seem not to have worked as he got into another altercation on Oct 29, 2023. This time the person he is alleged to have attacked died from blunt force trauma.

The fight occurred at a Halloween party. People did not immediately call 911, when asked, they said he slipped and fell, but subsequent investigation interviewed people reported seing Rodimier beat the man and threaten him. Rodimer’s wife texted him saying, “Nobody should have to watch their husband murder somebody.”

The man he is charged with murdering served more than twenty years in prison for a crime he did not commit. He was cleared by the Innocence Project and the real murderer confessed. He had only been out of prison three years.

• New York Times: Former Republican Candidate for U.S. House Is Charged With Murder
• 6 News Now: Ex-congressional candidate accused of killing man in Las Vegas hotel room dressed as ‘Ken,’ court records allege witness coverup