Muscly former GOP candidate seen dressed in Ken costume he wore before ripping off fur coat and 'killing man in Vegas hotel room' after the victim 'offered his daughter cocaine'

WWE wrestler-turned-GOP Congressional candidate Dan Rodimer was dressed as Barbie's boyfriend, Ken, and dancing moments before he allegedly beat a man to death.

Rodimer, 45, who ran for US Congress with the endorsement of Donald Trump, is accused of murdering Christopher Tapp, 47, at a Vegas hotel Halloween party last year.

In a video obtained by KLAS, the muscle-bound former wrestler is seen dancing and partying in the iconic 'Ken' outfit featuring a fur coat, a short blonde wig and a hairband, from the Barbie movie.

Rodimer allegedly turned into 'angry Ken,' ripping off his white fur coat and charging shirtless at Tapp after discovering the man was offering cocaine to his stepdaughter Bella Duffy, 21.

Witness Dani Lyons, a close friend of Duffy, claimed to have heard Rodimer say, 'If you ever talk to my daughter again, I'll ***** kill you,' according to documents.

'Immediately after hearing Dan say this to Christopher, [the witness] heard two loud banging noises,' investigators wrote. 

WWE wrestler-turned-GOP Congressional candidate Dan Rodimer was dressed as Barbie's boyfriend, Ken, and dancing moments before he allegedly beat a man to death

Rodimer (pictured in 2020), 45, ran for US Congress with the endorsement of Donald Trump 

Rodimer (pictured left in his mugshot) is accused of pummeling Christopher Tapp (right) to death at the Las Vegas party last October. Tapp was a recently exonerated man who had served 20 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of killing his friend in 1996

The alleged fatal assault unfolded at a Halloween party in the Resorts World suite on the Vegas strip, where event organizers bring 'Instagram models' to a number of parties that are put on for wealthy clients. 

On the night of the fight, the master bedroom became the 'fun room,' where Lyons told cops that several people were taking cocaine. 

She told detectives she had been doing cocaine with Bella and another person with lines of coke already set up on the counter along with a $100 bill to ingest them. 

Lyons said Tapp then joined them. 

She told police that Duffy's dad came in soon after and 'got upset with Christopher,' according to the court papers. 

One party organizer said 'Bella rules' had been discussed before the party got fully underway. One of them was that Bella should not be given cocaine.

Lyons also told police she saw 'Dan knock Christopher to the ground, at which time Christopher's head hit a small table.' 

She then witnessed Rodimer 'punch Christopher throughout his head and body,' documents said.

Lyons (left) was at the Resorts World hotel room with Bella Duffy, 21, (right) Rodimer's stepdaughter 

The alleged fatal assault unfolded at a Halloween party in the Resorts World suite on the Vegas strip, where event organizers bring 'Instagram models' to a number of parties that are put on for wealthy clients

Lyons said Tapp then joined them. She told police that Duffy's dad came in soon after and 'got upset with Christopher,' according to the court papers

The incident unfolded in a hotel room in Resorts World Las Vegas (pictured) on October 29, 2023 after an alleged bust-up with the former wrestler-turned GOP candidate. Tapp later died in the hospital 

Rodimer's wife Sarah can be seen dressed as Barbie in the video. She later ran into the room in the costume in an attempt to calm down her husband, documents say.

DailyMail.com previously revealed that Rodimer and Sarah were caught on a police wiretap agonizing over how to keep Bella and Dani silent, according to an affidavit supporting Rodimer's arrest. 

'Bella told the police she was there with her friends,' Sarah tells her husband during a January 2 phone conversation. 'I'm like why did you have to say anything?' 

Sarah then calls her own daughter 'so f***king dumb,' 'the dumbest girl that ever lived on earth.'

'Ugh,' Rodimer replies, and asks whether Bella has spoken with Dani about the case, and Sarah replies: 'She said she hasn't talked to her about it yet.'

'Yep, well at least just to talk to her, like I know nothing, I didn't see anything,' Rodimer tells his wife.

In text messages between Rodimer and Sarah, she says, 'I watched you nearly murder somebody and I had to take your *** hands off from his neck as he laid there. 

'You ran away and I spent the next two hours trying to take care of him. Nobody should have to watch their husband murder somebody,' she wrote. 

Another message said: 'I watched you murder somebody like let that sink in you psychopath.' 

Rodimer, a married father-of-six, pictured with his wife Sarah. Investigators found chilling text messages after the alleged murder, where she reportedly told him: 'I watched you murder somebody like let that sink in you psychopath' 

Rodimer became a wrestler after winning the 2004 WWE's reality 'Tough Enough' contest

The host of the cocaine-fueled bash is John Odom, 48, a flashy millionaire construction executive who owns a drag racing team and a major Republic doner whose ex-wife accused a former Trump aide of groping her. 

Tapp, who was one of his racing team's major backers, died in the hospital five days after the wild Halloween party at a luxury suite at the Resorts World Hotel last October. 

Odom allegedly waited 30 minutes to an hour to call hotel security after the brutal altercation, according to documents. 

He allegedly told security that Tapp slipped on a pair of slippers, which Resorts World security were not able to recover. 

Odom spent seven years in prison for financial crimes and, according to court records, is facing a new litany of lawsuits from investors, banks and creditors.

His ex-wife Trashelle hit the headlines in 2021 when she claimed top Trump aide Corey Lewandowski had drunkenly groped her and thrown a drink over her at a charity event in Vegas. 

Lewandowski, 50, was charged with battery and fined $1,000, given community service and ordered to undergo impulse control counseling.

Rodimer and Odom became firm friends after meeting at a CPAC event in Dallas earlier in 2021. They often partied together when Odom was in Vegas.

‘They shared a lot of the same vices, drugs, women and the spotlight,’ one insider who has hang out with both told DailyMail.com. ‘They both loved being the center of attention.’

Odom, who has been pictured with Donald Trump and with South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem – who has been accused of having an affair with Lewandowski – was a major donor to Republican Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry. 

Odom, a construction executive, is a major GOP donor and Trump supporter, whose now ex-wife Trashelle (pictured) once accused the former president's Corey Lewandowski of unwanted sexual advances 

Odom himself also thanked Tapp for his support in a Facebook post showing himself revving a metallic blue GT-R for a race in Vegas, a week before the ill-fated event 

Christopher Tapp, pictured right with his public defender John Thomas during Tapp's post-conviction relief hearing at the Bonneville Courthouse in Idaho Falls on March 22, 2017

Tapp's death was ruled a homicide in December, as the medical examiner determined he died of blunt force trauma to his head.

He died not long after he was freed from prison where he was serving time for the wrongful conviction of the rape and murder of his friend 18-year-old Angie Doge in Idaho. 

Tapp was charged in February 1997, roughly eight months after Dodge's nearly decapitated body was discovered at her Idaho Falls apartment.

Tapp initially told investigators he had nothing to do with the crime, but after multiple interviews and a polygraph test, the then 20-year-old confessed to being involved and accused two others.

One of his friends was also charged, but this was later dismissed. Tapp was found guilty in 1998 and sentenced to 40 years.

However, he maintained he had only told police what they wanted to hear and his case was eventually taken up by the Idaho Innocence Project.

Rodimer, who adamantly denies the murder, was only charged in early March, four months after Tapp died, when police got a warrant to search phones belonging to him, his wife, Odom and Duffy.

Rodimer is currently out of jail on a $200,000 bond and is due back in court May 8.