True Crime with Rachel Shannon
SAVAGE: NBA G-League Player Lures Woman to her GRISLY Death: Maryana Rodgers
22 Dec 2025
Chapter 1: Who was Maryana Rodgers and what happened to her?
Today, we are going to be discussing the tragic, senseless case of Marina Rogers. Marina Rogers was 23 years old, originally from Los Angeles, but at the time, she was living in Edmonds, Washington. She was working as a medical assistant at the time, and according to those who knew Marina, she was an amazing friend.
She was genuine, loving, and concerned for the well-being of others, the most selfless person that you could know. During the week of December 1st, 2023, Marina headed to Las Vegas, Nevada with her boyfriend at the time, Tremaine, and another friend of hers, Garrett, who she had known since she was a child. They had been friends for 15 years at that point.
She was also visiting two other friends there, Gavin and Summer. According to her boyfriend, Morena was a sex worker, so she went to Vegas with the intention of doing services related to that. After arriving to Las Vegas, Morena, Tremaine, and Garrett all stayed together in an Airbnb. By December 5th, Morena asked Garrett if he could drive her to meet up with a friend, 19-year-old Sakari Harnden.
According to friends, Morena and Sakari had known each other for years. Marina took Sakari in and treated her like a sister years prior when she needed someone the most. So that is why they regularly met up and that's why they were meeting in Las Vegas that week. Marina showed Garrett a text message thread where Sakari told her that she was setting up an escort double date.
Apparently, someone was offering $1,000 to Marina for her services. That night, the two were supposed to spend the entire evening together meeting NBA players and were expecting to make $4,000 in one night. So, by around 1am on the morning of December 6th, Garrett drove Marina to meet Sakari at a location that they had previously agreed on.
When doing so, according to Garrett, they met up with Sakari at her Mercedes. In the car, Garrett noticed that there were multiple suitcases and luggage behind the driver's seat of the car. And then sitting in the middle of the back seat was an unknown man. Sakari told Garrett that this man was a customer who was paying for both of their services.
But this stood out to Garrett because typically a customer wouldn't be sitting in the back seat. They would usually be sitting in the front seat. And if there was another sex worker with them, she would be in the back seat. But even though that stood out, it wasn't enough for him to like completely call the thing off. He wasn't that worried. It was just a little bit odd to him.
So by 1.17 a.m., Garrett watched as Marina, Sakari, and the unknown man drove away in Sakari's Mercedes.
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Chapter 2: What were the circumstances leading to Maryana's disappearance?
After her night, Tremaine and Garrett were expecting Marina back to the Airbnb by 9 a.m. that same day, December 6th. but she never returned. Both men knew that it was very unusual for Marina not to return back when expected or at the very least check in with them. They knew that she had no cash on her, she had no debit or credit cards, nothing.
They knew that she wouldn't choose to be out on her own for very long with absolutely no money. So, Tremaine tried to see where Marina was using the Find My iPhone app to track her location as he normally would. But this time, her location was turned off. In fact, none of Marina's friends were able to see her location. So, it's not like she just stopped sharing her location with her boyfriend.
She turned it off completely or shut her phone off. Once again, this was very unusual for her as she would never have her location turned off, especially when she was meeting with a client. Because of this, Tremaine reached out to Sakari because again, he knew that she was last known to be with her.
Sakari ended up telling Tremaine that after the first date that included the both of them, Mirena left Sakari to go on a date of her own. She left Sakari in her own Mercedes, taking an Uber to her new date. But once again, this did not sit right with Tremaine. Morena always used his Uber account for any rides and his account was not showing any recent rides.
He did not think that Morena even had her own account and she would never normally let a client order an Uber for her. So this too was very unusual. It seemed to me that Marina knew the risks of the activities that she was involving herself in, but obviously wanted to make some extra money. She made sure that her boyfriend and friends could see her location at all times.
She used her boyfriend's Uber app so he could see where she was going and so there would be a record anytime she went somewhere. I just want to take this as a moment to say that we are not going to victim blame in this video. We will not judge Marina for her choices. The person who killed Marina is the only person responsible for her death, nobody else.
And even though she was involving herself in these risky behaviors and activities, she was clearly trying to make it so she could do it in the most responsible way possible. Either way, by that point, everyone in Marina's inner circle knew that something just wasn't right. So, Gavin and Summer went to the police station to report Marina as a missing person.
They told police that they were concerned with Marina not showing back up after her double date. They knew Sakari, the person that Marina was last with, and they knew that Sakari hung around some very dangerous, violent people. So, they knew that someone Sakari knew could have harmed Marina.
After taking down the police report from Gavin and Summer, police realized that Sakari had also actually reached out and filed a missing persons report for Morena. However, the details Sakari gave in this report were very vague. All she said was that the last time she saw Marina was around 3 a.m. on December 6th.
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Chapter 3: How did Maryana's friends and boyfriend react to her not returning?
Be safe. A few hours later, Sakari texts Chance again to ask about the status of everything. He said that he told his friend the whole plan and is just waiting on him to run it by his people. Chance had another game that night, so he said that he has to go for a few hours. After that, Chance makes a group chat with a few other people and tells Sakari to run the plan by his buddies.
By 9pm on the 2nd, Sakari texts the group. You can have Shadi pull up to whatever area y'all think is best. Get WhatsApp or something and I'll give you her number to add on. Pretend to be a trick and have come to wherever you at and get her when she show up. For reference, a trick is a client of a sex worker. That's what they call them.
Someone in the chat named Trey responds to the group text saying, I bet. Then he texts, so y'all want her chipped or just the shit took? And Chance replied with a coffin emoji. So Kari replied as well saying, yeah, nah, she gotta. Two hands making peace signs and a dove emoji. They talk about when the best time to do it will be saying, if not today, tomorrow is fine.
And Trey responds to just let him know so he can get things set up. By 3.49am going into December 3rd, Sukari texts the group asking how it's looking. Trey responds by 5.22am saying trying to find a ghost emoji gun emoji. There are no more text messages for the rest of the day on December 3rd. That is until Trey texts the group again at 4.22 a.m. on December 4th.
He said, After this text, police were only able to extract text messages from Chance's phone to Sakari. They said that the texts from Sakari may have been deleted or something, but no matter the reason, they weren't able to see the texts from her.
So the conversation is obviously going to be one-sided, but you can still get the idea of what they're talking about just based on Chance's text messages. So by 1pm on December 4th, Chance texted, Chance sends another message saying, He said the person was slow getting back to him this morning, and then this morning he said he can't do it.
I called the family in the morning and broke down how effortless it would be. All the little ins and outs. I told him ask the dude and any of his homies how much it would cost because it's an easy bread for real for real. Chance texts again, I'm not saying do it yourself, but if it's that easy, why not knock it out? By 1.41, Chance said, hold up, have you already linked with Shawty?
Like, while she been out there. Need to get that bitch drunk and mix rat poison or some in her drink. OD her ass. That's if the hitters fall through the door. By 5 p.m., Chance texted Sakari, you got a gun emoji? 40 minutes later, Chance texts her, I can snap her neck or just strangle the bitch.
If you get a nice little thick piece of rope or some sturdy, I can do it from the backseat, like how killers do it in the movies. By December 5th at 9.44 p.m., Sakari texted Chance saying, she posted an ad, you can hit her on there. We see that message because Chance's heart reacted to the message, even though we can only see Chance's message right now.
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Chapter 4: What evidence did police gather during their investigation?
I mean, I shouldn't have let my friend.
Police say that friend, 19-year-old Sakari Harnden, was arrested along with her boyfriend, 27-year-old Chance Comanche, a G League basketball player who was released by the Stockton Kings following his arrest.
Because of this, both Chance and Sakari were charged with murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and kidnapping. As of right now, the prosecution is hoping to have a joint trial for Chance and Sakari. As of right now, Chance was denied bail and Sakari was granted a $500,000 bail, though both of them are still in jail awaiting trial.
Mr. Comanche, do you understand the charges against you? That's fine. Okay, you have a right to a preliminary hearing within 15 days of today's date. A right to a preliminary hearing on these felony offenses. Mr. Guybin informs me that he's talked with you and that you're willing to give up that 15 day period for your preliminary hearing.
You're not waiving or giving up your preliminary hearing completely. You're just waiving or giving up the preliminary hearing within 15 days. I want to make sure you understand and agree with that. That's fine.
The judge and prosecutors discussed consolidating cases around the murder Comanche is accused of. Comanche's defense lawyer also made sure he could file a motion for bail in the future. A preliminary hearing was set for February 8th. Las Vegas court documents say Comanche plotted the murder with Sakari Harnden in between basketball games.
As of right now, we don't know when the trial will take place. We don't know if either of them will plead guilty. This is a very, very recent case, as you can tell. I do have a feeling that Sakari is going to ride this one to the end, while Chance might be a bit more likely to plead guilty given that he confessed to the murder.
But as we could see, he was trying to take some of the blame off of himself, saying that Sakari is actually the one who ended her life. But we can see that prosecutors are taking him a little bit more seriously in terms of charging him because he was denied bail and Sakari wasn't. So it's believed that Chance is actually the one who ended her life.
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