Ex NBA G-League Player Chance Comanche Admits To Murdering Missing Las Vegas Sex Worker With Ex Girlfriend

LAS VEGAS – Former NBA G-League player Chance Comanche has admitted to murdering a missing Las Vegas woman for his ex-girlfriend.

Comanche, 27, confessed to authorities that he was helping his ex-girlfriend, Sakari Harnden, 19, with murdering Marayna Rodgers on Dec. 6, as he was in Las Vegas “between team activates”, according to Las Vegas police records obtained by KCRA.

The former basketball player confessed that he choked Rodgers, a medical assistant and sex worker with an HDMI cord as he lured her to have “kinky sex” with him and Harnden, who allegedly planned the murder.

Rodgers, 23, had traveled to Las Vegas with a friend with “the intent to engage in prostitution.”

That night, Harnden sought out the help of her ex after there were issues between her and Rodgers.

Rodgers and Harnden, both sex workers, had an argument over a Rolex and Rodgers had reportedly threatened to “smoke” Harnden if she didn’t return the watch.

Comanche and Harnden then decided to kill Rodgers after their plan on hiring a hitman for $3,000 failed.

“I can snap her neck or just strangle the bitch,” Comanche wrote in a group chat with Harnden and another man.

Harnden and Rodgers also got into a physical altercation on Dec. 4, after she implicated Rodgers ex-boyfriend in a murder which led to his arrest.

Comanche and Harnden lured Rodgers to her death, after promising her a double date with another man, and told her to meet them at a pre-determined location, according to text messages.

On Dec. 4, Comanche checked into the M Resort and Casino in Nevada, with the Kings, as they were playing a game the following night at the Dollar Loan Center.

After the game, Comanche left and got into Harnden’s car, and they drove to meet Rodgers.

After buying alcohol, the three went to a cul-de-sac, where Harnden told Rodgers that Comanche was her client, with the duo’s male friend from the group chat explaining that Comanche was into “kinky sex” and wanted to tie both women up before having sex.

Both women were naked when Rodgers began straddling Rodgers, as they willingly had their hands tied.

Comanche told police he used an HDMI cord to choke Rodgers from behind for “10 seconds” and stopped when he heard her struggling to breathe, but Harnden continued. Rodgers then became unresponsive with “fluid coming out of her mouth.”

The pair then dumped Rodger’s body on the side of a road underneath some rocks, before returning to the hotel and breaking her phone.

Comanche then went on to play a game the following day (Dec. 7) as if nothing had happened.

Rodgers’ body was found in the ditch on Dec. 15, after Comanche pointed to the location on a map to detectives in his interview.

Harnden was arrested on Dec. 13, and initially charged with felony first-degree kidnapping and felony theft for allegedly stealing a Rolex valued at between $5,000 and $25,000, according to reports.

Comanche was charged with firs-degree kidnapping before their charges were upgraded to open murder and conspiracy to commit murder, which are both felonies.

The deadly duo made their first court appearances on Tuesday.