A former gay-for-pay adult film star who worked for sites like Sean Cody, Cocksure, and Mormon Boyz has been found guilty of murdering his rich older lover in the hopes of inheriting his fortune.
26-year-old David Enrique Meza appeared in several Sean Cody clips as “Francisco” and also went by the aliases Mario Romo, Rick Romo, and Gonzalez.
According to The San Diego Tribune, he was convicted on Monday of killing 52-year-old Jake Clyde Meredino in Mexico back in May 2015.
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According to reports, Meza took his partner to the side of a road in the state of Baja Californica and stabbed him 24 times, slashing his neck and dumping him in a ravine.
The men had been in some sort of relationship since 2013. Meza would’ve inherited the Texan’s $3 million estate, and he was the only named beneficiary of a $275,000 oceanfront condo purchased the day before the murder.
Meza also had a pregnant fiancé, Taylor Langston. She was captured on video re-entering the US with Meza shortly after the murder.
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The couple was arrested in December 2015 and claimed they’d been visiting their friend “Joe” in Tijuana. That alibi was proven false in court.
According to Attitude, the case was built solely on circumstantial evidence. No DNA evidence was found at the crime scene.
Meza’s lawyer argued it would’ve been difficult for the small-sized Meza to move Meredino’s body, since the victim weighed about 310 pounds.
After his first alibi proved false, Meza claimed he’d invited his boyfriend to the murder scene to steal his stereo equipment, but then changed his mind and ran away on his bike.
On the second anniversary of Merendino’s death, and after a week of deliberation, jurors found Meza guilty of murder and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
In a statement, Acting US Attorney Alana W. Robinson said, “David Meza took the life of a man who cared for him, lavished him with expensive gifts and who wanted to create a life with him.”
“On this day, the second anniversary of Jake Merendino’s death, we salute the jury for delivering justice to a greedy killer who will now have to answer for his cruelty.”
His fiancé was charged as as accomplice, and in February pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice as part of a plea deal. She’ll be sentenced next month.
Sentencing for Meza has been scheduled for August 7.
Stilinski26
There’s a porn site name Mormon Boyz ? lmao
Steverino2
Yeah , They spell it with a “Z” so the real Mormon Boys can not sue them??
sylvialucas444
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tdh1980
These guys act like they’re contractually obligated to be felony criminals.
Donston
Yet, there are still many gay men who worship these dudes. The problem with scant, mostly low-profile, unvaried “representation”.
Donston
Considering his effeminate speech and persistent gay face and these extreme actions I doubt the dude was “gay 4 pay” , “sometimes gay for fetish reasons” or genuinely bi. More than likely an extremely self-hating/female-obsessed/f-ed in the head ‘mo.
You gotta have enough sense to know that a sex worker thirty years younger than you that has a girlfriend is probably out for your coin. Of course, no one deserves to be murdered. And we all know what loneliness and desperation does to people.
ChrisK
Don you’re just jealous and bitter that he found a hottie 30 years younger. This is love and I’m so happy for the…oh wait. I thought this was another MayDec romance post. Never mind.
captainburrito
You know I think he probably knew he was after his coin and thus lavished him with gifts, bought him a home as well as made him the beneficiary to his wealth. He just didn’t bank on the dude’s impatience and greed which mean he wanted to inherit it all NOW.
Donston
There are some with enough cynicism and self-awareness to understand the deal. However, people who are after your money can be very skilled at making you think that they care about you first and foremost. (My former best friend was fantastic at manipulating these dudes). And yes, some of these guys are naive enough to buy into it and are desperate to believe they’re loved. Of course, “the giver” is often a butthole/headcase himself. Ultimately, it’s all about feeding into each other’s ego… until someone get killed in Mexico.
Chris, I know you were being sarcastic. But, me: 29 Husband: 34
And yes, the onslaught of May-December “love stories” from this site… Must be Queerty’s new agenda.
winemaker
Hope this worthless bastard does a long prison sentence and doesn’t get off on a technicality, which would be a miscarriage of justice. It’s hard when you’re older and financially secure. One thing I’ve learned over the years, don’t be open about your finances, live a decent lifestyle, not flashy and be careful about the people you bring into your life, ’cause you never know their possible hidedn agenda.
Curtispsf
Sometimes you DON’T get what you pay for. I think castration, to start, is what’s called for.
winemaker
One more thing, in prison, he’ ll make a great shower buddy and he’d better watch his back 24-7.
ChrisK
His tight bubble butt and dimples will make him very popular I’m sure.
Captain Obvious
And yet many people still act like this isn’t a ridiculously seedy industry full of scumbags who are simply too lazy to work.
Juanjo
Says the guy who has calluses on his finger and palms from all the quality time he spends on Porn Tube watching these scumbags who are simply too lazy to work, engaging in sexual acts produced by a ridiculously seeding industry. It is obvious to any one that she who eats meat cannot scorn the butcher. Right Miss Oblivious?
Captain Obvious
Uh I haven’t watched porn in a very long time and barely find any of it even mildly arousing anymore. You’re also awfully defensive so I guess you think this song is about you. Those calluses you have from being on your knees got your panties in a knot reading my post? Get a real job and maybe you won’t feel so defensive any time you get called out for being a lazy sex worker.
ChrisK
“Uh I haven’t watched porn in a very long time and barely find any of it even mildly arousing anymore.”
Puleaze. ..eye roll. Yeah, I’m sure you just come to Queerty for the politics as well. LMAO
JoeyRamone
lol. you crack me up.
He BGB
I noticed the writer wrote Baja Californica. A Freudian slip? Some typos are so telling. Lol. Or maybe he was thinking of the tv series with David Duchovny…..
DMRX
You give these writers too many points for intelligence.
Bryguyf69
“Meza also had a pregnant fiancé, Taylor Langston. ”
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Although “Taylor” is an androgynous name, the pregnancy conforms that she is female. As such, the proper spelling is, “fiancée.” I find it amusing that Queerty was anal enough to place an l’accent aigu over the “e,” yet failed to feminize the word.
MediaGuy
Bryguy, don’t be like that. You need to know that running Queerty is not their full time job. Most of these guys are busy by day teaching nuclear physics at MIT, so get over the spelling problems would ‘ja. Haaahha.
Doughosier
It seems like in every one of these rich, older guys murdered by their lover, you find a guy who identifies as straight turning gay for the money. Any straight guy who’d do that must be extremely desperate to begin with so it’s not that much of a stretch to resort to murder to get money.
Captain Obvious
Gay4Pay is a lie used to exploit a rather pathetic fetish. That guy has gay face for days. I’ve never seen a “gay4pay” guy who isn’t an obvious queen with a fat ass and hungrily bottoming by video 3/4.
batesmotel
If you’re a straight man and can get aroused with another man, then that is called bisexual, regardless if you’re getting paid or not.
da90027
LMFAO! First of all THERE ARE NO PORN STARS ANYMORE! Just a bunch including everyone’s mother who perform for 200 bucks. The old days of porn are over. Only an idiot would pay for it now with all the free stuff online. I love how Queerty keeps using the term porn star though. It’s not 1990 anymore folks.
RobertAZ
Using the word “star” in conjunction with a porn actor/actress has always been a bit of a stretch.
chuck
Unfortunate downside of “some” of the kind of people in this industry. Very sad.
batesmotel
It seems like every month there is some gay porn actor or gay for pay porn actor who has committed some kind of illegal crime, often murder. Some messed up unstable people in that field, yet gay man bow down to them just because they have a hard body.
vegwell
Previous commenters have questioned how the older man could have accepted such an obviously insincere relationship. As a woman, though, I have to wonder how the “fiancee” could seriously consider bringing a child into the world under such sleazy and shady circumstances. Oh the humanity.
Bob LaBlah
Don’t be so sure its his. She had to be just as sleazy as he was and probably had plans to marry him and do him in after the insurance papers were signed. Trash attracts trash.
gary69mike
Didn’t remember him on SC so had to look him up. Someone paid him to be their lover? Not impressed.
Doug
I’m beginning to lose track of how many Sean Cody porn actors have been sentenced to jail for murder. They seem to specialize in hiring rough trade.
Bob LaBlah
When I watch the show Snapped: Killer Couples I some times walk away wondering what made these people think they weren’t going to get caught. Had they looked just a bit closer they would have seen their road map led to a jail cell and not paradise. Harlowe Cuadra and John Kerekes episode became so popular it is now for sale on Google. It no longer airs with the other low-lives featured on the show. I guess by next season these two losers will be featured.
Kenney G
gay for pay LMAO!!!! there’s no such thing as gay for pay, these guys are gay for free
ChrisK
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