Another Christmas past, another sordid tale of a porn star with a pregnant girlfriend taking advantage of, and ultimately murdering, an older gay lover who plied him with gifts for sex.
Mario Romo, who definitely can’t be called a porn star after appearing in a handful of scenes for a few studios in the last five years, was living in San Diego with 20-year-old girlfriend Taylor Marie Langston, who recently gave birth to their child. While she was still pregnant, Mario, 25 — his real name is David Enrique Meza — went south of the border with his 52-year-old gay sugar daddy of several years, Jake Clyde Merendino, and ended up allegedly killing him and dumping his body in a ravine near Rosarito Beach, a few minutes south of the border in Mexico.
The Daily Mail has the whole story, which broke after Meza and Langston were both arrested and appeared in court in San Diego on Thursday, Christmas Eve. Langston is believed to have aided Meza in getting out of Mexico in April, the night that he allegedly stabbed Merendino multiple times.
It goes something like this: Merendino had probably found Mario Romo/David Meza the way most 50-something-year-old men find porn models to fuck, via a rentboy site or similar. Romo/Meza appeared in 2010 on Sean Cody in two scenes as Francisco, including a notable one where he got fucked by big-dicked Jess. He was 20 at the time.
He later showed up at Next Door Studios where he did another couple scenes ca. 2012 (catching the attention of The Sword), including a threeway with a young Brian Bonds and Brandon Lewis, and one of his only topping scenes where he fucked Marcus Mojo (a.k.a. Landon Mycles) with his thick uncut dick for MarcusMojo.com. And he made an appearance in Raging Stallion’s Throb as Enrique Romo, fucking JR Bronson.
The NY Daily News says that Meza and Langston “lured” Merendino into a gay relationship, but I’m sure it was a little more complicated than that. Meza and Merendino apparently “met” online in 2013, while Merendino was still living in Houston, where he was from. He was a wealthy heir who also made some money flipping houses, and for a year and a half or two years, he was fucking Meza.
Merendino’s friends say it was the relationship that spurred Merendino’s decision to “retire” to a condo in Mexico, in an upscale beach-front development that was under construction called Palacio del Mar. At some point last December, Merendino and Meza went to check on the condo, which was not yet done, and ended up spending a night at the Hercor Hotel in Chula Vista, south of San Diego. According to a federal indictment, that is where Merendino supposedly scrawled a quick handwritten note that he had decided to leave all his possessions to Meza in the event of his death.
Then, on April 29 of this year, the two traveled to Mexico again — keep in mind that at this point Meza’s girlfriend, Langston, is pregnant.
Merendino and Meza get a room at Rosarito Beach motel called Bobby’s by the Sea. Two days later, on May 1, Merendino is seen in the lobby of the motel asking for a bottle opener between 7 and 8 p.m. Guests at the hotel say they heard Meza’s motorcycle — a gift from Merendino in 2014 — leaving the parking lot around 10:30 p.m. Merendino then is last seen by a security guard at 1 a.m. saying he has to go help a friend stranded on the road.
Between 10:30 and 1, Meza crosses back into the US, which is caught on camera, but his apparent re-entry into Mexico is not seen — he is seen crossing into the US again, though, at 3:57 a.m. and Langston is also seen crossing back at 3:57 a.m. in an SUV with no license plates.
Merendino’s body was found in a ravine with multiple stab wounds to the chest and stomach sometime after 3:30 a.m.
Weirdly, Meza admits that he and Langston were planning to rob Merendino but got cold feet. Also, weirdly, he admits that he made a plan to meet Merendino in the very spot where the body was found.
So yeah, he sounds fucked!
Langston is out on bail because she’s currently nursing their infant daughter, who was born sometime between May and now. And, of course, they had already challenged Merendino’s will, which he’d written in 1998 in Texas, using the little piece of hotel stationary above.
Per the Daily Mail:
Meza faces federal counts of interstate or foreign domestic violence resulting in murder and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
Langston is accused of obstruction of justice, making a false statement to a federal officer and conspiracy to obstruct justice.
He also did a very kinky line of bondage videos for a studio called Abused Dude under the name Hector.
I am insatiable when it comes to sucking dick, and getting fucked, and I always looking for 1 on 1 or group,action and I’m 100% passive, and submissive, a true bottom who believes in making sure everyman gets his nut
Google “porn star stabs” (with your safe search off) and you’ll see a trend.
He’s also been in several scenes from SX, Cocksure, and Sketchy Sex. Still doesn’t make him a porn star, but he’s been around more than you credit him for.
I thought he was kinda hot with his latino look and all but now he is nothing but gay4pay trash to me. And he just looked at gay men as people to use and abuse.
Is it just me or do they always seems to commit these crimes with their girlfriends? Maybe, the problem is the girlfriend???? :)
Could be. Or, *or*, these guys are stupid.
I have to say that the older man hiring the young thing is what saddens me. It seems that as we get old, we’d do whatever we can to get that nice young flesh foolishly.
agreed JJ. because he HAD to have seen signs that the dude was a little OFF. but because he was with a “hot young guy” he was blind to it. really sad.
Thing of it is Francisco wasn’t even that hot. These older people in general need to be careful because a lot of these younger ones are nutso. Men and women. Sadly, Francisco did just like Addison and Nicolay Petrov: killed for money. Or in Nicolay’s case, attempted to kill.
Anyone can be “nutso” old or young. And we all get old eventually.