LAS VEGAS (KLAS) -- A journalist, whose body was located in a large container earlier this year, was beaten to death, according to documents the 8 News Now Investigators obtained Monday.

Joseph Del Rivo, 63, killed Matthew Kelemen, 56, sometime before May 15, documents said. Kelemen was a freelance journalist who wrote for “Las Vegas Magazine.”

Nearly a week after the murder, on Tuesday, May 20, Las Vegas Metro police discovered Kelemen’s remains after getting a report of the smell near a business on North 3rd Street in Downtown Las Vegas. A person called police that morning, saying a box dropped off on May 16 had a foul odor coming from it. Police cut off the box’s lock, finding Kelemen’s body wrapped in a tarp.

Inside the box, police located “a music stand, a bottle of ketchup, hat an

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