Remember when Clark County Public Administrators office head Robert Telles murdered longtime Las Vegas Review Journal reporter Jeff German, because Telles blamed German for losing the last election?
German had covered the mob and other dangerous subjects as far back as the '80s, and never suffered as much as a scratch from doing so. Then a civil servant ended up murdering him. Who could've seen that coming?
Well, another Vegas journalist is now dead, and this time it's not related to his work.
Matt Kelemen, a 56-year-old freelance journalist in Vegas, was murdered by his 63-year-old roommate on May 16.
Kelemen had primarily worked for Las Vegas Magazine, which you've undoubtedly seen in Vegas hotel rooms, as they claim that 98% of hotel rooms in the city have a copy of the magazine. It is almost entirely advertorials -- articles meant to look like objective entertainment coverage, but in reality advertising a restaurant, show, or other Vegas venue. The articles are apparently post-dated at least a week, as Kelemen wrote this article dated "May 23, 2025", despite having been dead for 7 days!
His body was discovered in a scene reminiscent of Jeffrey Dahmer.
On May 19, Kelemen's roommate, Joseph Del Rivo, showed up at a business with a large black box, and claimed he or someone else would be back within a week to pick it up. The business was located in downtown LV, and was not identified. It was NOT a storage facility, but rather one which had listed itself on the Bounce app, which allows people to temporarily store luggage or other items at businesses which are otherwise not storage facilities.
Despite claiming he'd be back in a week, Del Rivo sent movers down to the business to pick up the box the following day, May 20. Similar to the Dahmer situation, people smelled the decomposing body and got suspicious, and police were called. The moving company told Del Rivo that the box "could not be moved" (it's unclear what they said to him), which of course raised his suspicion that police were onto him.
Del Rivo was seen speeding that same night, May 20, on I-70 in Utah, in a mostly uninhabited area in Sevier County. This area is roughly north of Capitol Reef National Park and west of Arches National Park. At the time, Utah Highway Patrol authorities did not realize the driver was a murder suspect, but were simply trying to pull him over for speeding, as he was going over 90 mph. When Del Rivo wouldn't stop, they chased him, and he sped up to 140mph to get away. They put down spike strips to disable his car. He hit the first spike strip but was able to keep driving for 3 miles. His car flipped and caught fire when he attempted to avoid the second strip. He was ejected from the vehicle and died instantly.
It is likely he didn't realize he was being pulled over for speeding, and believed the cops were behind him to arrest him for the murder.
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RIP to him however. What happened to him was a horrific case of no good deed going unpunished. He was being nice and allowed someone he got bad vibes from to live with him and he got murdered for his kindness. His Murderer got his justice and karma, dying himself VERY shortly after the murder after fleeing after police were chasing him for an unrelated thing.
Thank you Dan! 
