Reality TV contestant sought in death of CA model

[samanthajane13]

By AMY TAXIN and ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press Writers Amy Taxin And Robert Jablon, Associated Press Writers – 52 mins ago

BUENA PARK, Calif. – Police said Wednesday they want to question a reality television contestant about the death of a former swimsuit model found dead in a trash bin after a stormy relationship with the man.

Police say Ryan Jenkins may be heading to his native Canada after reporting the model, 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore, missing Saturday night to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Jenkins, 32, appeared on the reality TV show "Megan Wants a Millionaire."

Lisa Lepore says her daughter Fiore married Jenkins in Las Vegas in March but had the marriage annulled in May. However, she says Jenkins convinced her daughter to take him back.

Fiore's nude body was found stuffed in a suitcase in a Buena Park trash bin on Saturday. Officials say she may have been strangled.

Fiore, of Los Angeles, was last seen alive with Jenkins at a poker game in San Diego.

"At this point, he's merely a person of interest, simply because of the suspiciousness of his disappearance. We can't find him," Lt. Gary Worral said.

"We find it suspicious that with all the media coverage that he has not made himself available to us," he said.

Jenkins, variously described as an architect, real estate developer and investment banker from Calgary, appeared in three episodes of the VH1 reality series "Megan Wants a Millionaire," about a woman seeking to land a wealthy bachelor by putting suitors through their paces, such as designing a marketing campaign for her Chihuahua.

On the show, Jenkins was identified as an investment banker with a couple of million dollars in the bank.

Lepore says her daughter modeled about two years ago but had left the business. She said Jenkins had his eyes on Hollywood.

"He had stars in his eyes," she said. "He was totally jazzed, like, being a star."

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Jablon contributed from Los Angeles.


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[SaraSidle]

By AMY TAXIN and ROBERT JABLON, Associated Press Writers Amy Taxin And Robert Jablon, Associated Press Writers – 52 mins ago

BUENA PARK, Calif. – Police said Wednesday they want to question a reality television contestant about the death of a former swimsuit model found dead in a trash bin after a stormy relationship with the man.

Police say Ryan Jenkins may be heading to his native Canada after reporting the model, 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore, missing Saturday night to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Jenkins, 32, appeared on the reality TV show "Megan Wants a Millionaire."

Lisa Lepore says her daughter Fiore married Jenkins in Las Vegas in March but had the marriage annulled in May. However, she says Jenkins convinced her daughter to take him back.

Fiore's nude body was found stuffed in a suitcase in a Buena Park trash bin on Saturday. Officials say she may have been strangled.

Fiore, of Los Angeles, was last seen alive with Jenkins at a poker game in San Diego.

"At this point, he's merely a person of interest, simply because of the suspiciousness of his disappearance. We can't find him," Lt. Gary Worral said.

"We find it suspicious that with all the media coverage that he has not made himself available to us," he said.

Jenkins, variously described as an architect, real estate developer and investment banker from Calgary, appeared in three episodes of the VH1 reality series "Megan Wants a Millionaire," about a woman seeking to land a wealthy bachelor by putting suitors through their paces, such as designing a marketing campaign for her Chihuahua.

On the show, Jenkins was identified as an investment banker with a couple of million dollars in the bank.

Lepore says her daughter modeled about two years ago but had left the business. She said Jenkins had his eyes on Hollywood.

"He had stars in his eyes," she said. "He was totally jazzed, like, being a star."

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Jablon contributed from Los Angeles.


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now you know they will get him. I hope they are watching the borders and airports!!!!! IMO sara

[LetsBeConcerned]

now you know they will get him. I hope they are watching the borders and airports!!!!! IMO sara

This is such a sad story. Some of the people think this guy flew completely under the radar. Because when the body was first found in the suitcase, they were looking for a missing child in the neighborhood.

Jasmine didn’t live in that neighborhood. She was also found nude with no I.D. So it took awhile identify the body.

It was Ryan that filed the missing person report. So he wasn’t a suspect until he couldn’t be found. They are also not sure which car he is traveling in.

They are now calling it a worldwide manhunt.

I would be curious what happened first… finding of the body… or the filing of the report~?

They both seemed to happen the same day.

He also bragged about winning a bunch of money, so it is possible that he could afford to be anywhere. I think it was $250,000

[SaraSidle]

This is such a sad story. Some of the people think this guy flew completely under the radar. Because when the body was first found in the suitcase, they were looking for a missing child in the neighborhood.

Jasmine didn’t live in that neighborhood. She was also found nude with no I.D. So it took awhile identify the body.

It was Ryan that filed the missing person report. So he wasn’t a suspect until he couldn’t be found. They are also not sure which car he is traveling in.

They are now calling it a worldwide manhunt.

I would be curious what happened first… finding of the body… or the filing of the report~?

They both seemed to happen the same day.

He also bragged about winning a bunch of money, so it is possible that he could afford to be anywhere. I think it was $250,000

I was wondering about the time line also. and he was supposed to be a wealthy man already working with investments and banking I believe. I am also sure he has a passport. but I am sure LE know that. sara
IMO.l do not understand why she was murdered and stuffed into a suitcase. this is mind boggling to me.

[LetsBeConcerned]

I was wondering about the time line also. and he was supposed to be a wealthy man already working with investments and banking I believe. I am also sure he has a passport. but I am sure LE know that. sara
IMO.l do not understand why she was murdered and stuffed into a suitcase. this is mind boggling to me.

I think the key word would be "supposed" to be wealthy. I question how much of his own money he really had~? :shrug: I believe the show he was on was called “Megan wants a millionaire”… So what was he doing being married TOO~!!! :no:

He wanted to be in the “Hollywood business”… Sounds like he will say anything to get what he wants.

I also heard that he has a criminal record for beating his girlfriend in Canada.:flamemad:

They also don’t think that the crime occurred in their apartment.

They were thought to be in San Diego at a poker party but that has yet to be proven in my eyes. It is a 2 hour drive from Los Angeles to San Diego. Maybe they should be looking at hotels.

So that is a large area to even search for the original crime scene.

They believe Jasmine was strangled so I don’t know what they are looking for~? I think those answers will come when they find one of the cars. His car has Canadian plates that would stand out more. So he may have taken her car. He can’t drive both at the same time.

The distance between where the body was found and her home was reported to be about 40 miles.

So it is hard to put a timeline together.:confused:

[SaraSidle]

I think the key word would be "supposed" to be wealthy. I question how much of his own money he really had~? :shrug: I believe the show he was on was called “Megan wants a millionaire”… So what was he doing being married TOO~!!! :no:

He wanted to be in the “Hollywood business”… Sounds like he will say anything to get what he wants.

I also heard that he has a criminal record for beating his girlfriend in Canada.:flamemad:

They also don’t think that the crime occurred in their apartment.

They were thought to be in San Diego at a poker party but that has yet to be proven in my eyes. It is a 2 hour drive from Los Angeles to San Diego. Maybe they should be looking at hotels.

So that is a large area to even search for the original crime scene.

They believe Jasmine was strangled so I don’t know what they are looking for~? I think those answers will come when they find one of the cars. His car has Canadian plates that would stand out more. So he may have taken her car. He can’t drive both at the same time.

The distance between where the body was found and her home was reported to be about 40 miles.

So it is hard to put a timeline together.:confused:

they should have found at least one car by now.
I agree he was supposed to have money and wanted in with hollywood.
IMO sara

[LetsBeConcerned]

they should have found at least one car by now.
I agree he was supposed to have money and wanted in with hollywood.
IMO sara

The latest is that they think that he is off the coast of Washington trying to enter Canada by boat.

They are also saying that Jasmine may have received or sent a text message to her ex boyfriend from the poker party. The ex-boyfriend said he would talk to the media at a later date.

:seeya:

[SaraSidle]

The latest is that they think that he is off the coast of Washington trying to enter Canada by boat.

They are also saying that Jasmine may have received or sent a text message to her ex boyfriend from the poker party. The ex-boyfriend said he would talk to the media at a later date.

:seeya:

It would be interesting to know why they do not think it happened in the apt. I understand if there is no evidence but he may have cleaned it up. IMO sara

[samanthajane13]

Police: Slain model's fingers, teeth were removed
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer – 54 mins ago

BUENA PARK, Calif. – Police investigating a reality TV contestant in his ex-wife's death say her fingers and teeth had been removed when her body was found in a California trash bin.

Buena Park police Lt. Steve Holliday said the investigation into Jasmine Fiore's death is on-going Thursday while the manhunt for her ex-husband, reality TV contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins, continues.

Fiore's ex-boyfriend, Robert Hasman, told reporters that Jenkins is "an animal," while her friends and relatives hugged and cried.

Jenkins was charged with murder with malice aforethought Thursday.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) — Police investigating a reality TV contestant in his ex-wife's death say her fingers and teeth had been removed when her body was found in a California trash bin.

Buena Park police Lt. Steve Holliday said the investigation into Jasmine Fiore's death is on-going Thursday while the manhunt for her ex-husband, reality TV contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins, continues.

Fiore's ex-boyfriend, Robert Hasman, told reporters that Jenkins is "an animal," while her friends and relatives hugged and cried.

Jenkins was charged with murder with malice aforethought Thursday.


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[SaraSidle]

Police: Slain model's fingers, teeth were removed
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer – 54 mins ago

BUENA PARK, Calif. – Police investigating a reality TV contestant in his ex-wife's death say her fingers and teeth had been removed when her body was found in a California trash bin.

Buena Park police Lt. Steve Holliday said the investigation into Jasmine Fiore's death is on-going Thursday while the manhunt for her ex-husband, reality TV contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins, continues.

Fiore's ex-boyfriend, Robert Hasman, told reporters that Jenkins is "an animal," while her friends and relatives hugged and cried.

Jenkins was charged with murder with malice aforethought Thursday.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) — Police investigating a reality TV contestant in his ex-wife's death say her fingers and teeth had been removed when her body was found in a California trash bin.

Buena Park police Lt. Steve Holliday said the investigation into Jasmine Fiore's death is on-going Thursday while the manhunt for her ex-husband, reality TV contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins, continues.

Fiore's ex-boyfriend, Robert Hasman, told reporters that Jenkins is "an animal," while her friends and relatives hugged and cried.

Jenkins was charged with murder with malice aforethought Thursday.


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had to have been planned if he had the thought to remove all teeth and fingers. that poor family. I wonder where the murder took place. that is probably well planned also.....sara IMO

[BeastofBears]

had to have been planned if he had the thought to remove all teeth and fingers. that poor family. I wonder where the murder took place. that is probably well planned also.....sara IMO

Okay, did he think she could not be identified without those? This isn't the 1940's...:shrug: horrible.

[SaraSidle]

Okay, did he think she could not be identified without those? This isn't the 1940's...:shrug: horrible.

He is Hollywood stupid. She is a model for goodness sake. Like no one would identify her.............:confused: sara

[LetsBeConcerned]

It would be interesting to know why they do not think it happened in the apt. I understand if there is no evidence but he may have cleaned it up. IMO sara

This story is turning just more tragic than most can believe. The words used, as well, were “she was mutilated” The police wanted it to end there, which it did. It started with what was the mix-up with the identity~? ……….The family was there too standing right behind the officers which they did break down crying.

That is where I think that there is more of Jasmine missing. The police didn’t want to say more out of respect for the family.

So some of the things are coming together… As far as making sense, and to why they could clear a scene so fast….

What creeps me out about this “husband” is that he had said, “I turn players into princesses”

Which told my gut that he is nothing but a player himself. Who would say something like that~?:confused:

[LetsBeConcerned]

Reality contestant sought in model’s murder


Husband missing since her body was found in her own suitcase — a ‘red flag’

Ex-reality TV star sought in model’s murder
Aug. 20: Police in California want to question an ex-reality TV star in the death of his wife. The model was found dead earlier this week and her husband is nowhere to be found. TODAY’s Matt Lauer talks with the model’s agency and criminal profiler Pat Brown in a TODAY exclusive.
Today show

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By Michael Inbar
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 42 minutes ago
Big-bucks investment banker Ryan Jenkins loved to ham it up before the revealing cameras of TV reality shows. But now it appears that being seen is the last thing he wants to be after the body of his gorgeous model wife was found stuffed in a suitcase in a Dumpster on Saturday.

Police say Jenkins, 32, is “a person of interest” in the death of 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore, a woman he apparently married on a whim in Las Vegas last March but from whom he had been living apart. In the meantime, Jenkins was competing on the VH1 reality show “Megan Wants a Millionaire,” trying to win the affections of one Megan Hauserman, who’s in search of a sugar daddy.

But now the playboy finds himself wrapped up in a less pleasant reality — one in which he figures as a prime suspect in a murder that has rocked the celebrity world. Jenkins and Fiore were seen together at a poker tournament in San Diego on Friday, and Jenkins reported her missing on Saturday — the same day her strangled body was found in Buena Park, Calif.



Northward bound?
Buena Park Police Lt. Gary Worrall told NBC that Jenkins has not been heard from since, and that “We find it suspicious that with all the media coverage, he has not made himself available to us.”

Police believe Jenkins may have hightailed it back to his native Canada. The celebrity Web site TMZ reported that an eyewitness spotted Jenkins in his black BMW SUV, towing a boat to a marina in Blaine, Wash., Wednesday evening. A short time later, police found the vehicle and the boat abandoned.

According to The Associated Press, the Bellingham, Wash., Sheriff’s Office reported that an eyewitness saw a man matching Jenkins’ description arrive by boat at Point Roberts, Wash. Police believe he then walked across the border to British Columbia.

While police engaged in a manhunt for Jenkins — and VH1 pulled future episodes of “Megan Wants a Millionaire” off the air — criminal profiler Pat Brown told TODAY’s Matt Lauer Thursday that she sees suspicious behavior galore in Jenkins’ actions.

Brown said she was especially alarmed that, when Jenkins reported Fiore missing, he told police she left with her luggage. “Wow, what a convenient thing — she’s carrying her coffin along with her,” Brown told Lauer sarcastically.

“Then you wonder, if she’s leaving with luggage, why are you reporting her missing? Wouldn’t you just think she’s going someplace?”


TODAY
Criminal profiler Pat Brown said that the fact that Jasmine Fiore’s body was found in her own suitcase indicates she was murdered by someone known to her.
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The fact that Fiore’s body was found inside her own luggage is a strong indicator her slayer is someone known to her, Brown added. “That’s a big red flag,” she said. “If somebody is grabbing her off the street and he kills her, he’s usually going to dump her body very quickly; he’s not going to bother to put her in some luggage. Anybody who does that, there’s two reasons: One, they want to hide her very, very well, so that she’s not found quickly. And secondly, often it’s because they live in an apartment building and they have no other way to get the body out of the building. So that usually flags right away it’s somebody she knows.”

A new life
Fiore’s death marked a tragic end for a former pin-up model who was striving to create a new life. The buxom blonde had modeled for Playboy, Las Vegas hotels and swimsuit calendars. But recently she had earned her real estate license and had started a physical training business with a friend.

Appearing live on TODAY Thursday, Fiore’s talent agent, Ken Henderson, said he bumped into his client a month ago at a restaurant and he asked why he she had not been by his office. “She said, ‘I’m really happy, I haven’t been doing a lot of modeling, I’m working on my own business,’ ” Henderson told Lauer.


TODAY
Ken Henderson, talent agent for the late Jasmine Fiore, said she was accompanied by a former boyfriend, not her husband, when he last saw her.
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But ominously, Fiore was accompanied by a former boyfriend, not husband Jenkins, Henderson said: “I didn’t even know she was married, to tell you the truth.”

During what proved to be the last night of her life, Fiore texted her former boyfriend, offering to meet him in Las Vegas, according to TMZ. The former boyfriend received a later text that reportedly said, “Suck it” — which led many to believe Jenkins intercepted the texts.

Jenkins, a Calgary, Alberta native who also competed on the TV reality show “I Love Money 3,” had a reputation as a hothead — he pled guilty to assault charges in 2006 and was accused of assaulting Fiore in June. Appearing live on TODAY, profiler Brown said that track record also has to be relevant to the police investigation.

“He has that domestic violence past,” Brown said. “Apparently, he was in an anger management program to try to help him with that, but people just don’t change overnight. It’s a long process. It’s a very, very dangerous situation.”

Now, friends and family mourn the loss of a vivacious young woman who had big plans for the future. Her mother, Lisa Lapore, who had been staying with Jasmine, told the Los Angeles Times her daughter was excited as she headed out to San Diego last weekend. She left with her “suitcase packed to the gills … probably the same one she was stuffed in.”

Her agent Henderson told Lauer he “was devastated” at the news of her murder. “It’s just horrific what happened to her.”

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[Marian Paroo]

Okay, did he think she could not be identified without those? This isn't the 1940's...:shrug: horrible.

Watching the Larry King repeat on CNN.

This has nothing to do with not identifying the body. Even a school child knows about DNA.

This is sadistic, dramatic, fantasy cr@p -- like Casey Anthony and her oh so 1940s chloroform.

[samanthajane13]

Authorities hunt reality TV star in model slaying
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer – 45 mins ago

BUENA PARK, Calif. – U.S. and Canadian authorities pressed their manhunt Friday for a reality TV contestant charged with killing a former swimsuit model and removing her teeth and fingers. The woman's relatives pleaded with his friends and family not to help "an animal" evade capture.

Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a Calgary, Alberta, native, was a contestant on the VH1 series "Megan Wants a Millionaire," about a woman seeking to land a wealthy bachelor.

Police said Thursday that Jenkins, 32, removed the teeth and fingers of 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore, presumably to impede authorities in their efforts to identify the naked body, which was found stuffed in a suitcase in a California trash bin over the weekend.

Fiore and Jenkins were briefly married in a quickie Las Vegas wedding this year, and had been fighting in recent months. Prosecutors said the two checked into a San Diego hotel last Thursday, and Jenkins checked out the next morning. Fiore was not seen alive again.

Friends and family members, including Fiore's mother, sobbed at a news conference Thursday as a former boyfriend begged for help in capturing Jenkins.

"This message goes out to the family, his mother and father and to the friends that are helping him try to leave this country. Ryan Jenkins is an animal, what he has done to Jasmine is unspeakable and it's just not right and I'd appreciate your help," said Robert Hasman, Fiore's former boyfriend.

Jenkins vanished after Fiore's body was found Saturday stuffed in a bloodstained suitcase and Buena Park police Lt. Steve Holliday said he's possibly armed with a handgun. A preliminary coroner's report indicated Fiore was strangled.

Prosecutors recommended a bail of $10 million for Jenkins upon arrest and said he had significant resources to finance his flight.

On the show, Jenkins was identified as an investment banker who had a couple million dollars.

A resume posted on the professional networking site LinkedIn.com says Jenkins has a license to fly commercial airplanes and worked in investment sales and as president of a boutique development company focused on cutting-edge green technologies.

"Anyone helping Mr. Jenkins hide from the police may go to prison themselves," said Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas.

Jenkins is believed to have driven 1,000 miles to Washington state and then hopped in a boat to a peninsula on the border, where he walked into Canadian territory. A Canadian police official said ground, air and canine units are involved in the search for Jenkins.

"At this time, although we believe he crossed the border, we're not 100 percent sure of that," U.S. Marshal Chief Inspector Thomas Hession said. "There will be no stone unturned and we'll look under every rock for him."

A car and empty boat trailer belonging to Jenkins were found at a marina in the remote northwest Washington town of Blaine.

Whatcom County Sheriff's deputies received a report Wednesday that a man matching Jenkins' description arrived by boat at Point Roberts, Wash., about 10 miles from Blaine at the tip of a peninsula. The point is reachable by land only from Canada, and Jenkins is believed to have walked across the border from there.

Canadian Public Safety Minister Peter Van Loan said police agencies across Canada are on the lookout for Jenkins.

After taping for "Megan Wants a Millionaire" finished in early March, Jenkins met Fiore in Las Vegas casino and the two got married on March 18, said Fiore's mother, Lisa Lepore.

But in May, "they had a big blowout," and fought because he was jealous of her ex-boyfriends, Lepore said. "She had the marriage annulled."

Jenkins then went to Mexico to do another reality TV show, but struggled to get Fiore back when he returned. It was not immediately clear which show he appeared on.

"He convinced her during that month that he was really the guy for her," Lepore said. "He wrote poems and stories, and prayed, and (claimed he) had this huge spiritual awakening."

The federal government was issuing a federal warrant, which would allow Canadian authorities to take Jenkins into custody there, Capt. Ken Coovert said. If Jenkins is arrested in Canada, California can request that he be extradited to the U.S., but only with reassurances from U.S. authorities that he would not face the death penalty.

Farad Emami, a spokeswoman with the Orange County district attorney's office, said her office had not yet discussed whether to pursue the death penalty.

Court records show that Jenkins was charged in June in Clark County, Nev., with a misdemeanor count of "battery constituting domestic violence" for allegedly hitting Fiore in the arm and will be tried in December.

Jenkins also has a criminal history in his hometown of Calgary. He was sentenced to 15 months of probation in January 2007 on an unspecified assault charge, according to the Alberta, Canada Ministry of Justice. No further details were available.

Neal Tomlinson, a partner at the law firm representing Jenkins in the Nevada case, did not return an e-mail seeking comment sent after business hours Thursday. He declined to comment earlier in the week.

Jenkins reported Fiore missing Saturday night to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, police said.

VH1 said it has postponed any future airings of the show. The statement also said that the show was an outside production licensed to VH1, but that it was produced and owned by 51 Minds Entertainment.

51 Minds said in a statement that Jenkins never would have been accepted for its show if the company had known of his past criminal history.

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Associated Press writers Robert Gillies in Toronto, Jeremy Hainsworth in Vancouver, Robert Jablon and Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles and Doug Esser in Seattle contributed to this report.


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[samanthajane13]

Murder suspect raises reality TV questions
By DERRIK J. LANG, AP Entertainment Writer Derrik J. Lang, Ap Entertainment Writer – 56 mins ago

LOS ANGELES – Reality shows have good reason to vet contestants through background checks and by other means, and many do: There are issues of liability, employability and, of course, marketability to consider.

As the producers of VH1's "Megan Wants a Millionaire" are all too aware, even the professionals can miss key details, leaving shows to largely trust that contestants are forthright and honest.

51 Minds, the production company behind the show, said Thursday that it had commissioned a background check on the 17 wealthy bachelors vying for the love of former "Rock of Love" contestant Megan Hauserman — but that it didn't turn up the checkered past of Ryan Alexander Jenkins. According to the Alberta, Canada Ministry of Justice, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months of probation in 2007 on an unspecified assault charge in his hometown of Calgary.

U.S. and Canadian authorities were on the hunt Friday for Jenkins, who was charged with the murder of his ex-wife, a 28-year-old former swimsuit model whose strangled and mutilated body was found Saturday stuffed in a suitcase in a trash bin in Southern California.

Jenkins vanished and may have gone back to Canada after police found the body of Jasmine Fiore, whom he married in Las Vegas in March after production on "Megan Wants a Millionaire" wrapped. Jenkins — worth $2.5 million, according to the show — had appeared in the first three episodes of the kitschy dating series, which VH1 has since yanked off the air.

51 Minds issued a statement Thursday that said it was not aware of Jenkins' record when it cast him on the show and would not have allowed the 32-year-old "smooth operator" — as he's referred to on the show — to participate, had it known.

"The company did have in place what it thought was a thorough vetting process that involved complete background checks by an outside company for all contestants on its shows," it said. "Clearly, the process did not work properly in this case. 51 Minds is investigating what went wrong and taking steps to ensure that this sort of lapse never occurs again."

Along with pulling "Megan Wants a Millionaire" off the air and iTunes, VH1 also eliminated all mention of the show on its Web site. Network spokesman Scott Acord said in a statement that "all outside production companies are responsible for the screening/vetting process of contestants for reality TV shows."

"(Producers) are responsible," said veteran reality TV producer Scott Sternberg. "If we're being given the opportunity by a network who's going to pay us for our work as producers because they trust us, then we've got to do everything we can to do the work appropriately and securely. I think this is a big wake-up call for all of us reality producers."

It's not the first time an ex-convict has appeared on a VH1 reality show. Andre Birleanu, the feisty Russian-American male model who was the runner-up on "America's Most Smartest Model" in 2007, had been to prison several times on charges including assault, harassment, criminal contempt, criminal mischief and trespassing before appearing on the show.

"Different networks and production companies have different tolerances," said Elaine Carey, national director of corporate investigations at the Control Risks Group, which has screened participants for reality TV production companies and cable and broadcast networks for nearly 10 years. "What they're looking for often depends on the type of show."

Carey said standard game shows do not dig as deep as reality shows that isolate groups of strangers in environments where they will have physical contact. Her company typically finds that one out of every 100 contestants submitted for a background check has a criminal record, but she noted that suspicious behavior is often found in civil records, too.

Facts often slip through the cracks, depending on how much networks and production companies are willing to shell out for rigorous record scouring — or how open wannabes are about their backgrounds, such as where they have lived. Carey said if investigators do not know where to look, they often cannot find unsavory details from records or personal interviews.

"Sometimes there may be a fact that surfaces about a person that is considered negative but is not so negative that (producers) won't go ahead and use that person, and they want that fact to come out in the course of the show because it makes it more interesting," said Carey. "Most shows just want contestants to be upfront with them from the beginning."

While casting ex-cons isn't illegal, Douglas Johnson, an entertainment lawyer in Los Angeles who has represented reality TV production companies and contestants, thinks dating shows that involve intimate feelings like "Megan Wants a Millionaire" have a bigger responsibility to ensure the emotional well-being and physical safety of their contestants.

"In these situations, these production companies have a duty not to be negligent," said Johnson. "To be safe, and to make sure you're not putting yourself in a situation where liability would be attached, I would advise them not to put someone on a show that had a criminal background because they have a propensity to not abide by social standards."

Jamie Huysman, a psychologist in Miami who has specialized in treating talk show and reality TV contestants, said background checks and psychological evaluations before production starts are not enough. Huysman believes producers should seek treatment for participants after filming is completed because such an experience can be emotionally volatile.

"Clearly, everyone wants to watch a train wreck, otherwise these kinds of shows wouldn't receive the ratings they do," said Huysman. "However, in my professional opinion, the least producers can do is take care of these contestants, if they are their most precious commodity, after the show."

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[SaraSidle]

This story is turning just more tragic than most can believe. The words used, as well, were “she was mutilated” The police wanted it to end there, which it did. It started with what was the mix-up with the identity~? ……….The family was there too standing right behind the officers which they did break down crying.

That is where I think that there is more of Jasmine missing. The police didn’t want to say more out of respect for the family.

So some of the things are coming together… As far as making sense, and to why they could clear a scene so fast….

What creeps me out about this “husband” is that he had said, “I turn players into princesses”

Which told my gut that he is nothing but a player himself. Who would say something like that~?:confused:


I am sure you are right. I noticed his line on the show. It also broke me up to see her family standing at the microphone as her ex-boyfriend does the talking. IMO sara

[samanthajane13]

Officials: Slain ex-model ID'd by breast implants
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer – 44 mins ago

BUENA PARK, Calif. – An ex-model found stuffed in a bloodstained suitcase without fingers or teeth was so badly mutilated that detectives had to identify her through the serial number of her breast implants, prosecutors disclosed Friday.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Marshals Service offered a $25,000 reward for information leading directly to the arrest of Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a wealthy reality TV show contestant who was charged Thursday with murder in the gruesome slaying of Jasmine Fiore.

Jenkins appeared on the VH1 series "Megan Wants a Millionaire," about a woman seeking to land a wealthy bachelor.

Fiore's body was discovered Aug. 15 in a trash bin in Buena Park, an Orange County city about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles. A preliminary coroner's report indicated she was strangled.

Without fingerprints or dental records, detectives tracked the serial number on her implants, said Farrah Emami, a spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney's office.

Fiore and Jenkins were briefly married in a quickie Las Vegas wedding this year and had been fighting in recent months. Prosecutors said the two checked into a San Diego hotel on Aug. 13, and Jenkins checked out the next morning. Fiore was not seen alive again.

Friends and family members, including Fiore's mother, sobbed Thursday as a former boyfriend begged for help in capturing Jenkins.

"This message goes out to the family, his mother and father and to the friends that are helping him try to leave this country. Ryan Jenkins is an animal, what he has done to Jasmine is unspeakable and it's just not right, and I'd appreciate your help," said Robert Hasman, Fiore's former boyfriend.

Buena Park police Lt. Steve Holliday said Jenkins, a native of Calgary, Alberta, is possibly armed with a handgun. Prosecutors recommended bail of $10 million upon his arrest and said he had significant resources to finance his flight.

"Anyone helping Mr. Jenkins hide from the police may go to prison themselves," said Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas.

On the reality show, Jenkins was identified as an investment banker who had a couple million dollars. A resume posted on the professional networking site LinkedIn.com says he also has a license to fly commercial airplanes.

Jenkins is believed to have driven to Washington state and possibly hopped in a boat to a peninsula on the border, where he walked into Canadian territory.

A car and empty boat trailer belonging to Jenkins were found at a marina in the northwest Washington town of Blaine.

"We'll look under every rock for him," U.S. Marshal Chief Inspector Thomas Hession said.

In California, police detectives have visited the luxury San Diego boutique hotel where the couple had stayed.

Michael Slosser, vice president and managing director of L'Auberge Del Mar, doesn't believe Fiore was killed at L'Auberge, where rooms range from $350 to $3,000 a night.

"It's very unlikely that it happened here. I can't talk about the specifics," he said.

After taping for "Megan Wants a Millionaire" finished in early March, Jenkins met Fiore in a Las Vegas casino and the two got married March 18, said Fiore's mother, Lisa Lepore.

But in May "they had a big blowout" and fought because he was jealous of her ex-boyfriends, Lepore said. "She had the marriage annulled."

There was no record of an annulment in either Clark County, Nev., where the couple was married, or in Los Angeles County, where they most recently lived.

Jenkins then went to Mexico to do another reality TV show but struggled to get Fiore back when he returned.

"He convinced her during that month that he was really the guy for her," Lepore said. "He wrote poems and stories, and prayed, and (claimed he) had this huge spiritual awakening."

The federal government was issuing a federal warrant that would allow Canadian authorities to take Jenkins into custody. California could then can request that he be extradited to the U.S. but only with reassurances from U.S. authorities that he would not face the death penalty.

Emami said the death penalty was not being pursued in the case.

Court records show Jenkins was charged in June in Clark County, Nev., with a misdemeanor count of "battery constituting domestic violence" for allegedly hitting Fiore in the arm and was set to be tried in December.

In his hometown of Calgary, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months probation in January 2007 on an unspecified assault charge. No further details were available.

Neal Tomlinson, a partner at the law firm representing Jenkins in the Nevada case, did not return an e-mail seeking comment.

Reality show producer 51 Minds Entertainment said Jenkins never would have been accepted for its show if the company had known of his criminal history.

____

Associated Press writers Rob Gillies in Toronto, Jeremy Hainsworth in Vancouver, Robert Jablon and Raquel Maria Dillon in Los Angeles and Doug Esser in Seattle contributed to this report.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090821/ap_en_ot/us_reality_contestant_slaying

[wind149]

Now this prick has money, or should I say his family does and if they are hiding him out, then they need to be charged with obstruction and harboring a fugitive!! He also has a pilot's license and you don't have to file a flight plan for a private plane unless you want to, so he could be anywhere at this point. And he is Canadian which will make it hard for the US authorities if they decide to seek the death penalty and boy, this case warrants it IMO as Canada opposes the DP and will not allow extradition back the states unless the DA promises not to seek the DP and I saw an episode of Law and Order SVU, where a serial killer books to Canada and Munch and Phinn and Alex go to Canada and the judge despite the heinous crimes the person committed, was not going to allow them to extradite him if they were going to seek the DP, and while this is just a TV series, their ploy was genius, Alex tells the judge that they only want him on burglary charges and his solicitor sees through this, and protests loudly, but the judge agrees to the extradition and the guy was freaking out and they toss him in the car and head for the states and the minute they cross the border, Munch says to the guy, "You are mine now you scumbag, welcome to your hell" Now the DA could pull this too and I hope if he is captured in Canada, that they will extradite him and seek the DP.

I watched a little of the Megan show and I found her to be as brain dead and vapid as she was on Rock of Love and it seems to me that these VH1 based reality shows are just tossing these broads and these loser guys around and I did see an episode where this creep was on and I thought he was an asswipe and a braggart and I don't think he is good looking at all!! And for them not doing a more stringent background check before they put these people on their stupid shows, shows it is all about the money and the young audience they want to reach and I would not allow any child of mine to watch any of them on VH1 as they are sleazy, sheeit, half the broads on Rock of Love were strippers and celebrity "star f*ckers" and brain dead, out of all of the bimbos on ROL, only one girl actually has brain cells and was using them and I saw an episode where that Daisy, who as you well know got her own show after being "runner up" for Bret Michael, she was spread eagled on a couch and with no panties on, on national TV, this was when the families of all these bimbos where on for "Family Day" and one of the girl's father, looked like he was going to pass out and clearly, he was appalled and told his own daughter that she had better not be thinking about doing that herself!!!

I was totally disgusted when shortly after ROL3 came to an end, VH1 announces that this skank was getting her own ROL series and what a pile of absolute crap, she is a slutbag and a half and has maybe one brain cell in her head and all the guys vying for her "affections" were like this asswipe, either completely weird looking like the one she ended up picking, a no talent guy with a mohawk and no job, or like "Flex" a know it all, with the "tude" that he was a complete hottie and that HE KNEW she was going to pick him and he was the "runner up" And he had also been on "I Love Money" just like this creep was. Ya lose one show, why would you want to be on another one of these crapbag shows??? And then the real "winner" CHARM SCHOOL?? Almost all of the vapid bimbos that had been on the ROL shows were on this one too and I hated this one broad, Ashley, she too, thought that Bret would forget about all the other girls because she was the hottest one and that everyone else was just "lame" her word, not mine and this loser broad was a stripper and had a boyfriend, but wanted Bret too??? He ends up dumping her, but then he picks a skank that was VERY PROUD to be a "beaver" in Hustler and one other men's rag and you could tell right off she was no stranger to a stripper pole either.

SO the whole world knows what kind of woman he prefers, total slutbags who show their hoo ha's to anyone so no one should take him seriously when he says he wants to settle down with a "good girl" He would not know one even if she walked over to him on a stage and had a bible in her hand!!! I saw Poison last month and for the first 15 minutes he blathered on about his injuries and I was like, you had plenty of time to talk about yourself on ROL, just sing will ya??? So I think that VH1 shares some responsibility for this girl being dead, shows like this give people swelled heads and Jenkins came off as being arrogant, self-serving and probably did not really care about Megan, it was the thrill of being on TV, as this guy clearly is a sociopath and very into himself and women are possessions and he has probably been brought up like a lot of rich brats, that they are above the law and everyone has their price.

Now this girl, was no shrinking violet either. She clearly was a bimbo and for them to identify her by her implants does not surprise me, all these bimbos like her think that while they are a size 0, they have to have gigantic fake boobs, she reminds me of Pam Anderson and they think because they have these huge hooters, that they will get far in life and instead, they end up as pin-up girls on a gas station wall, or they get cast on dumb shows like ROL, or they end up as hookers and strippers because all they have to offer is their little girl voice and fake boobs and no one is going to take them seriously as an actor or model and it is sad that this girl's life ended the way it did and when they catch this dirtbag, they do need to seek the DP, ironically, Poison has a song and the title is "Mama's Fallen Angels" and it could have been written for this girl and all the others like her.

[Marian Paroo]

There was a Law and Order epidode like years ago, maybe more than a decade ago, where the victim was identified by the serial number on her fake boobs.

This guy obviously was no fan of crime shows.:rolleyes:

[samanthajane13]

Police scour Canada for millionaire murder suspect
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writers Gillian Flaccus And Rob Gillies, Associated Press Writers – 43 mins ago

BUENA PARK, Calif. – Canadian authorities on Saturday intensified the manhunt for the millionaire reality TV star accused of murdering a former swimsuit model and stuffing her naked, mutilated body in a suitcase.

"We're leaving no stone unturned, but we have to play our cards close to our chest right now," said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Duncan Pound.

The search for Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a 32-year-old real estate developer and investor from Calgary, is centered around Vancouver and British Columbia, said Peter Van Loan, Canada's public safety minister.

The Mounted Police are leading the manhunt for Jenkins, who is suspected of strangling Jasmine Fiore and then reporting her missing the evening of Aug. 15 before fleeing.

Jenkins and Fiore met in Las Vegas in March and they married a few weeks later. The couple separated shortly afterward, but had reportedly recently reconciled.

Fiore's body was found in a trash bin in Buena Park, an Orange County city about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

Her teeth had been pulled out and her fingers cut off, apparently to impede her identification. Investigators used the serial numbers on her breast implants to identify her, said Farrah Emami, spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney's office.

Authorities believe Jenkins fled via car, boat and on foot to enter his native Canada.

The manhunt has claimed widespread attention in Canada where some media carried an erroneous report late Friday that Jenkins had been escorted off a plane arriving at Toronto from Vancouver.

Regional police spokesman Adam Minnion said Saturday that the man resembled Jenkins but was released after tests confirmed he wasn't the suspect.

But the mistaken identity led two newspapers to publish erroneous reports.

"Fugitive murder suspect arrested in Toronto: Jenkins caught," declared the front page of the Calgary Herald's online edition.

A headline on the online front page of the Vancouver Province announced "Jenkins arrested in Toronto."

Both papers yanked the stories after police said the man who'd been questioned was not Jenkins.

Jenkins was recently a contestant on VH1 reality show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," in which wealthy young men tried to win over a materialistic blonde. The network canceled the show Friday.

Jenkins said on the show that he possessed assets of $1 million to $2.5 million, said Tom Hession, chief inspector for the U.S. Marshals Service's regional fugitive task force.

A resume posted on the professional networking site LinkedIn.com showed that Jenkins has a license to fly commercial airplanes and has dabbled in several development enterprises and investments since graduating from college in 1999.

Those include Townscape Development Inc., a condo project in Calgary with his father, prominent architect Daniel Jenkins.

Ryan Jenkins also was a participant in an as-yet-unaired competitive reality series, "I Love Money 3." A VH1 spokesman said no decision has been made on whether or not to run the show.

Jenkins' mother Nada Jenkins lives in a tony Vancouver condo. A neighbor, Bob Snowdon, said he had not seen her in several days. She did not answer her phone on Saturday.

Court records show Jenkins was charged in June in Clark County, Nev., with a misdemeanor count of "battery constituting domestic violence" for allegedly hitting Fiore.

It was not the first time he had been charged with assault. In Calgary, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months probation in January 2007 on an assault charge.

After returning this summer from taping "I Love Money 3" in Mexico, Jenkins succeeded in winning back Fiore, who was living in a penthouse apartment in a modern new building in central Los Angeles.

Prosecutors said Jenkins and Fiore checked into a San Diego hotel on Aug. 13, and Jenkins checked out the next morning.

Fiore was not seen alive again.

In Calgary, Jenkins' former fiancee Paulina Chmielecka said she was engaged to him for 2 1/2 years and never saw a violent side.

"The guy was a great guy, as far as I knew he was very happy," she told the Canadian TV network CTV. "In our relationship, we had our fights — everyone does — but I would never say, 'Well, he could have murdered someone.' There's no way."

___

Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press Writers Jeremy Hainsworth in Vancouver and Raquel Maria Dillon, Derrik J. Lang, Christina Hoag and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles also contributed to this report.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090822/ap_en_tv/us_reality_contestant_slaying

[SaraSidle]

Police scour Canada for millionaire murder suspect
By GILLIAN FLACCUS and ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writers Gillian Flaccus And Rob Gillies, Associated Press Writers – 43 mins ago

BUENA PARK, Calif. – Canadian authorities on Saturday intensified the manhunt for the millionaire reality TV star accused of murdering a former swimsuit model and stuffing her naked, mutilated body in a suitcase.

"We're leaving no stone unturned, but we have to play our cards close to our chest right now," said Royal Canadian Mounted Police Sgt. Duncan Pound.

The search for Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a 32-year-old real estate developer and investor from Calgary, is centered around Vancouver and British Columbia, said Peter Van Loan, Canada's public safety minister.

The Mounted Police are leading the manhunt for Jenkins, who is suspected of strangling Jasmine Fiore and then reporting her missing the evening of Aug. 15 before fleeing.

Jenkins and Fiore met in Las Vegas in March and they married a few weeks later. The couple separated shortly afterward, but had reportedly recently reconciled.

Fiore's body was found in a trash bin in Buena Park, an Orange County city about 20 miles southeast of Los Angeles.

Her teeth had been pulled out and her fingers cut off, apparently to impede her identification. Investigators used the serial numbers on her breast implants to identify her, said Farrah Emami, spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney's office.

Authorities believe Jenkins fled via car, boat and on foot to enter his native Canada.

The manhunt has claimed widespread attention in Canada where some media carried an erroneous report late Friday that Jenkins had been escorted off a plane arriving at Toronto from Vancouver.

Regional police spokesman Adam Minnion said Saturday that the man resembled Jenkins but was released after tests confirmed he wasn't the suspect.

But the mistaken identity led two newspapers to publish erroneous reports.

"Fugitive murder suspect arrested in Toronto: Jenkins caught," declared the front page of the Calgary Herald's online edition.

A headline on the online front page of the Vancouver Province announced "Jenkins arrested in Toronto."

Both papers yanked the stories after police said the man who'd been questioned was not Jenkins.

Jenkins was recently a contestant on VH1 reality show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," in which wealthy young men tried to win over a materialistic blonde. The network canceled the show Friday.

Jenkins said on the show that he possessed assets of $1 million to $2.5 million, said Tom Hession, chief inspector for the U.S. Marshals Service's regional fugitive task force.

A resume posted on the professional networking site LinkedIn.com showed that Jenkins has a license to fly commercial airplanes and has dabbled in several development enterprises and investments since graduating from college in 1999.

Those include Townscape Development Inc., a condo project in Calgary with his father, prominent architect Daniel Jenkins.

Ryan Jenkins also was a participant in an as-yet-unaired competitive reality series, "I Love Money 3." A VH1 spokesman said no decision has been made on whether or not to run the show.

Jenkins' mother Nada Jenkins lives in a tony Vancouver condo. A neighbor, Bob Snowdon, said he had not seen her in several days. She did not answer her phone on Saturday.

Court records show Jenkins was charged in June in Clark County, Nev., with a misdemeanor count of "battery constituting domestic violence" for allegedly hitting Fiore.

It was not the first time he had been charged with assault. In Calgary, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months probation in January 2007 on an assault charge.

After returning this summer from taping "I Love Money 3" in Mexico, Jenkins succeeded in winning back Fiore, who was living in a penthouse apartment in a modern new building in central Los Angeles.

Prosecutors said Jenkins and Fiore checked into a San Diego hotel on Aug. 13, and Jenkins checked out the next morning.

Fiore was not seen alive again.

In Calgary, Jenkins' former fiancee Paulina Chmielecka said she was engaged to him for 2 1/2 years and never saw a violent side.

"The guy was a great guy, as far as I knew he was very happy," she told the Canadian TV network CTV. "In our relationship, we had our fights — everyone does — but I would never say, 'Well, he could have murdered someone.' There's no way."

___

Gillies reported from Toronto. Associated Press Writers Jeremy Hainsworth in Vancouver and Raquel Maria Dillon, Derrik J. Lang, Christina Hoag and Robert Jablon in Los Angeles also contributed to this report.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090822/ap_en_tv/us_reality_contestant_slaying

I wonder what is up with Mom Jenkins?????:shrug:

[One2Snoop]

Police say fugitive reality TV star found dead

1 hr 4 mins ago

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Canadian police say fugitive murder suspect Ryan Jenkins has been found dead of an apparent suicide in a motel in British Columbia. Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police border integrity unit says police responded to a call about a dead person in Hope, east of Vancouver, and then called investigators who were part of the massive manhunt for Jenkins.

The real estate developer and reality show contestant was wanted in California on first-degree murder charges after the mutilated body of his ex-wife was found near Los Angeles.

Jenkins, 32, disappeared last week but his boat was found Wednesday at a marina not far from the U.S.-Canada border south of Vancouver.

Pound says police don't yet know how long Jenkins was at the motel before his body was discovered.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_on_en_tv/cn_reality_contestant_slaying

[samanthajane13]

Cowardly focking beotch!!!

[One2Snoop]

Cowardly focking beotch!!!


Exactly! :flamemad:

[SaraSidle]

Police say fugitive reality TV star found dead

1 hr 4 mins ago

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – Canadian police say fugitive murder suspect Ryan Jenkins has been found dead of an apparent suicide in a motel in British Columbia. Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police border integrity unit says police responded to a call about a dead person in Hope, east of Vancouver, and then called investigators who were part of the massive manhunt for Jenkins.

The real estate developer and reality show contestant was wanted in California on first-degree murder charges after the mutilated body of his ex-wife was found near Los Angeles.

Jenkins, 32, disappeared last week but his boat was found Wednesday at a marina not far from the U.S.-Canada border south of Vancouver.

Pound says police don't yet know how long Jenkins was at the motel before his body was discovered.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_on_en_tv/cn_reality_contestant_slaying

thanks O2S

[old_soul]

He didn't seem like the type to do away with himself, but who knows?

I followed this case, not too closely though. I heard a few people she worked with, say what a go getter and hard worker she was and when she wanted something she got it. They also said she was not a stripper and would never ever do nude modeling and all that...just not that kind of girl.

Below I am posting what I just found on TMZ. It seems there is also another site which has bonafide nude photos of her.....when I clicked on the Vegas video Jenkins took of her in Vegas a couple of weeks ago, I was disgusted. Click on it and click on the Vegas part 2 video. Understand, I've had my 15 minutes in the sun, had a body and a half...but I have never EVER acted like this in public, ok. If this is how she acted , then Jenkins picked his trophy wife for how she looked, and possibly when she did this in public, he got jealous...

Not saying she deserved it, hell, nobody does, but seeing these videos makes me understand what might have set him off, seeing as how he had rage problems already. When will people learn?

http://www.tmz.com/2009/08/23/ryan-jenkins-video-jasmine-fiore/

RIP Jasmine :rose:
Ryan, hope you understand how you threw it all away.

[samanthajane13]

Hunted reality TV contestant found dead in Canada
By JEREMY HAINSWORTH and ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writers Jeremy Hainsworth And Rob Gillies, Associated Press Writers – Mon Aug 24, 7:40 am ET

HOPE, British Columbia – Reality show contestant Ryan Jenkins' life ended in a way that could have been scripted for TV: as police investigated the murder suspect's suicide at a secluded Canadian motel, word came Monday that a mysterious young woman had checked him in there.

Accused of the gruesome death of his ex-wife, a model whose body was so badly mutilated it had to be identified by her breast implants' serial numbers, Jenkins evaded a massive international manhunt for days as he crossed from California into his native Canada.

The dramatic end came at an isolated motel at the edge of British Columbia's mountainous interior, on the outskirts of Hope, a town known for its giant wooden carvings made with chainsaws and as the site of the first bloody Rambo movie.

On Sunday evening, police responded to a call from motel staff about a dead person, and then called investigators who were part of the manhunt for Jenkins, said Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police border integrity unit.

The manager of The Thunderbird Motel and his nephew said they found Jenkins hanging from the bar of a coat rack by a belt. They said a young woman had checked him in to the two-story inn surrounded by trees.

The 32-year-old real estate developer and investor was charged in California with first-degree murder Thursday after the dismembered body of Jasmine Fiore was found in a trash bin in Buena Park, about 20 miles (32 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles.

Fiore's teeth had been pulled out and her fingers cut off, apparently to impede her identification. Investigators used the serial numbers on her breast implants to identify her, Orange County prosecutors said.

Kevin Walker, who manages the Thunderbird Motel, said Jenkins and the mystery woman arrived Thursday in a Chrysler PT Cruiser with tinted windows and license plates from Alberta, Jenkins' home province. He stayed in the car while the woman checked them in, he said.

She was blonde, in her early 20s and "naturally pretty, one of those wholesome little ladies," he said.

Adam Curt, 19, a motel employee and Walker's nephew, said Jenkins "looked stressed out," said. "He wouldn't look anybody in the eye."

Walker said he didn't recognize the man although Jenkins' face had been all over the news.

"In no way shape or form did he look like the man on TV," he said. "He looked spent."

The motel manager said the woman paid cash for three nights and when the couple didn't check out, he unlocked the room and found him dead.

"I cracked the door and there he was, hanging there in front of me, feet touching" the floor, Walker said. "He definitely wanted to die. I smelt death."

Michelle Beck, who lives near the motel, said people who stay there are "kind of seedy — lots of drugs addicts and people down on their luck."

Police carried out bags of Jenkins' belongings, including his laptop computer, Walker said.

Hope is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Point Roberts, Washington state, the last place Jenkins was reported to have been seen before he crossed into Canada.

"The sadness of this all is that Mr. Jenkins will not stand before an Orange County jury for his crime," Buena Park Police Lt. Steve Holiday said at a Sunday night press conference.

Holiday said his department's investigation would continue. The British Columbia Coroner's Service is also investigating Jenkins' death and police are trying to determine how he got to Hope.

After Jenkins disappeared last week, his boat was found Wednesday at a marina not far from the U.S.-Canada border south of Vancouver. Canadian authorities launched a massive border search using helicopters, ground police and dogs.

"The ring was tightening on him," Tom Hession, chief inspector for the U.S. Marshals Service's regional fugitive task force, said at the California news conference. "He obviously was desperate."

Jenkins and Fiore met in Las Vegas in March and they married a few weeks later. The couple separated shortly afterward, but had reportedly reconciled.

A cell phone message left with Fiore's mother, Lisa Lepore of Maui, Hawaii, was not immediately returned.

Friends said Fiore was a model who worked mainly in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, doing gigs such as being bodypainted at parties. She also was an aspiring actress and had a bit part in a small 2008 horror science-fiction movie, "The Abandoned," according to the Internet Movie Database.

Jenkins was recently a contestant on VH1 reality show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," in which wealthy young men tried to win over a materialistic blonde. The network canceled the show Friday.

Fiore's mother told The Associated Press earlier this week that her daughter had the marriage annulled in May. However, there were no court records of an annulment in either Nevada, where the couple was married, or in Los Angeles County, where they most recently lived.

The two were married in a Las Vegas casino after taping for "Megan Wants a Millionaire" finished in early March, Lepore said. Court records show the date of marriage as March 18.

But in May they fought because he was jealous of her ex-boyfriends, Lepore said.

Jenkins also was a participant in an as-yet-unaired competitive reality series, "I Love Money 3." A VH1 spokesman said no decision has been made on whether or not to run the show.

A resume posted on the professional networking site LinkedIn.com says Jenkins had a license to fly commercial airplanes and dabbled in several development enterprises.

Jenkins had been charged with allegedly hitting Fiore in the arm recently, court records showed.

In his hometown of Calgary, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months probation in January 2007 on an unspecified assault charge.

Prosecutors said Jenkins and Fiore checked into a San Diego hotel Aug. 13, and Jenkins checked out the next morning. Fiore was never seen alive again.

___

Gillies reported from Toronto and Associated Press Writers Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles and Ron DePasquale in New York contributed to this report.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090824/ap_en_ot/cn_canada_reality_contestant_slaying

[wind149]

I thought for sure this was going to be a case where little rich boy's parents hide him in Europe like this dirtbag rapist from CT parent's did. They hid him out all over Europe, there were pictures of him in Austria skiing and on a yacht in Greece and many pictures of him with women and this puke had a hate on for women, he was accused of raping three women in Greenwich and was convicted in absentia and received three 20 year sentences and is still behind bars and this happened in the late 80's and his earliest parole date is 2016. Now he was on the lam for 2 years, his parents lied like dogs as to where he was and since they are filthy rich, the DA was "warned" to not prosecute him by the then governor as they were good buddies, you know how rich people are, they think because they have money, they are totally above the law, but this DA was on the women's side and he did not give a rat's ass what the gov thought. He tore these women up, he was very sadistic just like Andrew Luster, another rich brat who raped three women too and thought he too was above the law and he sits for life in prison after Duane Chapman nailed him in Mexico.

He obtained a warrant for mommy and daddy's home based on credible sources that they were in contact with him, something they had denied and nastily at that, and cops searched and found zillions of pictures of their scum son and they are in some of the poses too!!! They were arrested for obstruction and harboring a fugitive and he was arrested by French authorities at their villa and was extradited back to the states and mommy and daddy got suspended sentences and people were pissed, myself included, they should have gone to jail, but they whined and called in favors and got probation and 5 -7 years suspended.

Now I did not think this loser would commit suicide, but in his little pea brain, it hit him that he was going to be arrested for 1st degree murder with special circumstances, the sheer brutality of the crime notwithstanding, he mutilated her for Christ's sakes, trying to make an ID impossible and Thank God she did have those big hooters and as in to himself as this creep was, he was not about to go to prison because he would not be very welcome, probably inmates would have her pin-up on the walls to make themselves very happy??? Sad ending for two very selfish people who would whoredog themselves on reality shows and cheesy pin-up shots and I don't think she was that hot of an actress or model, she looked like a freaking Barbie Doll with her painted on eyebrows and her humongous fake boobs, no one would have taken her seriously as either and she would go to parties and let people paint her naked body too???

And here he is, wanting so bad to be on TV, he went on two of the lamest out there, a show where bimbos and boytoys would compete for money and the other one featured a material girl trying to land a "millionaire" and neither show he won and I am glad VH1 canceled that stupid show as it was even too lame to call mindless entertainment. And now they are both dead. And like I said she was no shrinking violet, there are shots of her with another guy in Mexico and I think toy boy got jealous and she probably was dumping him for good and his rich boy mentality would not allow that and he murdered her and he took the coward way out and it is no great loss.

[samanthajane13]

Police seek missing car in murder of ex-model

BUENA PARK, Calif. – Police who sought a reality show contestant in the Southern California slaying of his ex-wife have still not located the crime scene and believe the victim's missing white Mercedes-Benz could be the key.

Buena Park police Sgt. William Kohanek said Monday the car is part of a "big unsolved puzzle" as they try to determine where ex-model Jasmine Fiore was killed.

Fiore's body was found Aug. 15 in a trash bin. Her fingers and teeth were missing.

Orange County prosecutors charged her ex-husband, Ryan Jenkins, with murder and launched an international manhunt.

Jenkins, who appeared on VH-1's "Megan Wants a Millionaire," was found dead Sunday in a motel room in his native Canada.

The missing car is a white 2007 Mercedes-Benz CL S550 with a black top and black rims.


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[samanthajane13]

Police ID woman with reality TV killing suspect

HOPE, British Columbia – Police say they have indentified and are investigating a woman who allegedly helped a former reality television show contestant hide from authorities in his native Canada after his ex-wife was found dead in the U.S.

Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police did not release the identity of the woman who helped Ryan Jenkins check into a remote motel in British Columbia. He was found dead of an apparent suicide Sunday.

Pound said Monday said they are investigating whether the woman could face charges of being an accessory after the fact to a border violation and evading police.

Pound says the two had a past history. She is not in custody.

The motel manager says Jenkins stayed in the vehicle while the woman checked them in Thursday.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

HOPE, British Columbia (AP) — For Ryan Jenkins, life ended in a suicide in a remote Canadian motel room, and police who had sought the reality show contestant in the killing of his ex-wife hunted Monday for someone new: the mysterious woman who accompanied him to his lodgings.

Jenkins, a contestant on VH1's "Megan Wants a Millionaire," was accused of killing his ex-wife, a model whose body was so badly mutilated when found in a trash bin outside Los Angeles it had to be identified by her breast implants' serial numbers. He evaded a massive international manhunt for days as he crossed from the United States into his native Canada.

Police in California have still not located the crime scene and said Monday they believe the victim's missing white Mercedes-Benz could be the key.

Jenkins' dramatic end came at an isolated motel at the edge of British Columbia's mountainous interior, on the outskirts of Hope, a town with limited claims to fame as the place where the first Rambo movie was filmed and where residents make giant wooden carvings with chainsaws.

On Sunday evening, police responded to a call from motel staff about a dead person, and then called investigators who were part of the manhunt for Jenkins, said Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police border integrity unit.

The manager of The Thunderbird Motel and his nephew said they found Jenkins hanging from the bar of a coat rack by a belt. They said a young woman had checked him in to the two-story inn surrounded by trees.

The 32-year-old real estate developer and investor was charged in California with first-degree murder Thursday after the dismembered body of Jasmine Fiore was found in a trash bin in Buena Park, about 20 miles (30 kilometers) southeast of Los Angeles.

Fiore's teeth had been pulled out and her fingers cut off, apparently to impede her identification. Investigators used the serial numbers on her breast implants to identify her, Orange County prosecutors said.

Buena Park police Sgt. William Kohanek said Monday that Fiore's missing car, a white 2007 Mercedes-Benz CL S550, is part of a "big unsolved puzzle" as they try to determine where she was killed.

Jenkins was recently a contestant on the VH1 reality show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," in which wealthy young men tried to win over a materialistic blonde. The network canceled the show Friday.

Fiore's mother, Lisa Lepore, said Monday that she had a mixed reaction to news of Jenkins' death.

"It brings some closure to what's been going on," said Lepore, who lives in Maui, Hawaii. "We don't have to worry about looking for him anymore or being worried that he is a threat to any other women or men."

She added: "We still have a long process of closure."

Lepore spoke on NBC's "Today" show.

Jenkins' mother Nada, who lives in Vancouver, said in a brief telephone interview that she just can't believe her son killed his ex-wife and that she's sure the evidence will eventually prove his innocence.

"He was good, he's kind and we need to clear his name," she said, weeping.

But when asked how that could be done she replied: "I don't know. I'm sure the evidence will prove it eventually. I'm praying for that."

Kevin Walker, who manages the Thunderbird Motel, said Jenkins and the mystery woman arrived Thursday in a Chrysler PT Cruiser with tinted windows and license plates from Alberta, Jenkins' home province. He stayed in the car while the woman checked them in, he said.

She was blonde, in her early 20s and "naturally pretty, one of those wholesome little ladies," he said.

Walker said the woman paid cash — 140 Canadian dollars ($130) — for three nights' stay.

"He stayed in the car far, far away from the front of the office," Walker said. "I didn't think nothing of it because it's just a couple checking in."

Walker said he never saw the woman or the car again.

"I didn't see her leave, but apparently the tenant in No. 1 (next to Jenkins' room) said she only stuck around for about 20 minutes," he said.


Continued...

[samanthajane13]

Adam Curt, 19, a motel employee and Walker's nephew, said Jenkins "looked stressed out," adding: "He wouldn't look anybody in the eye."

Walker said he didn't recognize the man although Jenkins' face had been all over the news.

"In no way shape or form did he look like the man on TV," he said. "He looked spent."

The motel manager said when the couple didn't check out, he unlocked the room and found Jenkins dead.

"I cracked the door and there he was, hanging there in front of me, feet touching" the floor, Walker said. "He definitely wanted to die. I smelt death."

Michelle Beck, who lives near the motel, said people who stay there are "kind of seedy — lots of drugs addicts and people down on their luck."

Police carried out bags of Jenkins' belongings, including his laptop computer, Walker said.

Hope is about 100 miles (160 kilometers) from Point Roberts, Washington state, the last place Jenkins was reported to have been seen before he crossed by boat into Canada.

Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said that an autopsy was planned.

He declined to comment on the woman who assisted Jenkins but said the investigation was by no means over.

"We're trying to determine as best we can how it is that he came to be in that motel," Pound said.

He also declined comment on what evidence they seized from the motel room.

Jenkins and Fiore met in Las Vegas in March and they married a few weeks later. The couple separated shortly afterward, but had reportedly reconciled.

Friends said Fiore was a model who worked mainly in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, doing gigs such as being bodypainted at parties. She also was an aspiring actress and had a bit part in a small 2008 horror science-fiction movie, "The Abandoned," according to the Internet Movie Database.

Lisa Lepore told The Associated Press earlier this week that her daughter had the marriage annulled in May. However, there were no court records of an annulment in either Nevada, where the couple was married, or in Los Angeles County, where they most recently lived.

The two were married in a Las Vegas casino after taping for "Megan Wants a Millionaire" finished in early March, Lepore said. Court records show the date of marriage as March 18. But in May they fought because he was jealous of her ex-boyfriends, Lepore said.

Local residents were shocked that he was found in Hope.

"This is not the kind of thing you want to be on the map for. I think everybody is kind of shocked and surprised," longtime resident Peter Scherle said. Hope has 6,600 residents.

Jenkins also was a participant in an as-yet-unaired competitive reality series, "I Love Money 3." A VH1 spokesman said no decision has been made on whether or not to run the show.

Jenkins had been charged with allegedly hitting Fiore in the arm recently, court records showed.

In his hometown of Calgary, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months probation in January 2007 on an unspecified assault charge.

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Gillies reported from Toronto and Associated Press Writers Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles and Ron DePasquale in New York contributed to this report.


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[samanthajane13]

Murder mystery ends with suicide in Canadian hotel
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer – 20 mins ago

BUENA PARK, Calif. – Like so many things in Hollywood, Ryan Jenkins' life was not as it seemed.

The wealthy and handsome son of a well-known Canadian architect had recently finished taping appearances on two reality shows when he checked into a luxury oceanside hotel on Aug. 13 in sun-splashed San Diego with a former model in tow.

Less than 48 hours later, the woman was dead and Jenkins had gone from a sweet-talking, suave contestant on VH1's "Megan Wants a Millionaire" to the prime suspect in a gruesome — and mysterious — murder.

The saga culminated Sunday when Jenkins was found dead of a suicide, hanging by a belt from a coat rack in a run-down Canadian motel. Now, authorities on both sides of the border are scrambling to answer questions about the murder of Jasmine Fiore and learn the details of Jenkins' last days.

Authorities have still not recovered Fiore's car, a white Mercedes-Benz, and they believe it could be the place where Jenkins killed Fiore or where he mutilated her, cutting off her fingers and pulling out her teeth.

"We're trying to determine if that vehicle was the crime scene, if it transported the body or if it was where the murder occurred," said Buena Park police Sgt. William Kohanek. "We're not able to just exclude anyone else from being involved. We're just not able to say that yet."

The final months of Jenkins' life were not short of drama.

Jenkins left a real estate job in his native Calgary earlier this year to pursue a Hollywood career and found some success. He was recently a contestant on the VH1 reality show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," in which wealthy young men tried to win over a materialistic blonde. An episode featuring Jenkins aired the same time that police sought him for Fiore's murder.

Jenkins played a prominent role in the episode, renting an Aston Martin and wining and dining the star of the show at a French restaurant. "A sexy car for a sexy girl," he told Megan Hauserman before whisking her off to the high-end restaurant.

"I'm so James Bond and I'm gonna rock it," said Jenkins, who also was a participant in an as-yet-unaired competitive reality series, "I Love Money 3." VH1 said Monday it was canceling the show.

Jenkins and Fiore met in Las Vegas in March, shortly after Jenkins finished taping for "Megan Wants a Millionaire," and they married on March 18, according to court documents. The couple separated shortly afterward, but had reportedly reconciled.

Lisa Lepore told The Associated Press last week that her daughter had the marriage annulled in May. However, there were no court records of an annulment in either Nevada, where the couple was married, or in Los Angeles County, where they most recently lived.

Friends said Fiore was a model who worked mainly in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, doing gigs such as being bodypainted at parties. She also was an aspiring actress and singer and had a bit part in a small 2008 horror science-fiction movie, "The Abandoned," according to the Internet Movie Database.

Her relationship with Jenkins was stormy. Court records from Las Vegas show Jenkins had been charged recently with hitting Fiore in the arm. In his hometown of Calgary, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months probation in January 2007 for assaulting a girlfriend.

Despite their troubles, Jenkins and Fiore were trying to make it work as recently as two weeks ago. They went to San Diego together and checked into a picturesque oceanside resort — the last time Fiore was believed to have been seen alive.

Two days later, Fiore's nude body was found stuffed in a blood-stained suitcase thrown into a Buena Park trash bin. Her fingers and teeth had been removed — presumably to hamper attempts to identify her — and police learned her name by tracking the serial number on her breast implants.

Soon, the 32-year-old real estate executive was making his escape to his native Canada, eluding authorities from two countries in 1,000-mile dash by car and speedboat to the Canadian border.

On Thursday, the same day authorities held a news conference announcing charges against him, a woman checked Jenkins into The Thunderbird Motel in Hope, British Columbia, as he waited in a car with tinted windows.

Motel manager Kevin Walker said the woman paid cash — the equivalent of $130 American dollars — for three nights' stay. Walker said he never saw the woman or the car again.

Adam Curt, 19, a motel employee and Walker's nephew, said Jenkins "looked stressed out," adding: "He wouldn't look anybody in the eye."

The motel manager said when the couple didn't check out, he unlocked the room and found Jenkins dead.

"I cracked the door and there he was, hanging there in front of me, feet touching" the floor, Walker said.

Police carried out bags of Jenkins' belongings, including his laptop computer, Walker said.

Police said Monday they have identified the woman who checked in for Jenkins and are investigating whether she would face charges for helping him. Her name was not released and she is not in police custody, said Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He said the two had a history together.

An autopsy was scheduled Monday in British Columbia to determine the exact cause of Jenkins' death.

"It's a non-suspicious death, all indications are that this will likely be classified as a suicide," said Jeff Dolan of the B.C. Coroners Service.

Hope is about 100 miles from Point Roberts, Washington state, the last place Jenkins was reported to have been seen before entering Canada. Police believe he took a speedboat from Blaine, Wash., across a bay to Point Roberts, Wash., and then walked across the Canadian border.

Jenkins' mother, Nada, who lives in Vancouver, said in a brief telephone interview that she can't believe her son killed his ex-wife and that she's sure the evidence will eventually prove his innocence.

"He was good, he's kind and we need to clear his name," she said, weeping.

Fiore's mother, Lisa Lepore, said Monday on NBC's "Today" show that she had a mixed reaction to news of Jenkins' death.

"It brings some closure to what's been going on," said Lepore, who lives in Maui, Hawaii. "We don't have to worry about looking for him anymore or being worried that he is a threat to any other women or men."

It was a threat that no one picked up on as the smooth-talking Jenkins advanced through the various stages of "Megan Wants a Millionaire." During the dinner date with Megan in the latest episode, Jenkins displayed a sheepish grin throughout the meal, and when Hauserman asked him why he was smiling, he had a pick-up line at the ready: "I smile when I look at you."

The night concluded with a brief make-out session, and Jenkins — who earned the nickname "Smooth Operator" on the show's set — expressed his trademark cockiness and bravado as he assessed his chances with Hauserman.

"She's hot, I'm hot. I got this in the bag."

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Associated Press Writers Jeremy Hainsworth in Hope, British Columbia; Rob Gillies in Toronto; Andrew Dalton in Los Angeles and Ron DePasquale in New York contributed to this report.


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OMG!!!!

What an ARROGANT PIECE OF *****!!!

[old_soul]

Click and Scroll down a little for the story and pics of Paulina, who had a 3 year relationship with Jenkins and was positively identified by the hotel clerk ~ despite denying she was in the vicinity.

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Mystery Woman in Jenkins Case?
Posted Aug 24th 2009 3:23PM by TMZ Staff

UPDATE: Paulina's agent tells us "There's no way it can be her because on Friday she was doing a fashion show and Saturday she was filming a cooking show." The agent added, "She's grieving the loss of someone she used to love."

UPDATE: The RCMP just completed a press conference and while they say they have identified the mystery woman, they are not revealing her identity. They do not feel she is a public threat nor are they appealing for her to come forward. The RCMP also says she could only be charged as an accessory after the fact to crimes committed in Canada -- not to the murder for which Jenkins was wanted.

UPDATE: Cops are saying despite the manager's claim, Paulina is not the woman they are looking for.

The woman who helped Ryan Jenkins run from authorities was his former fiancee, according to the manager of the motel where he committed suicide.

We showed the manager, Kevin Walker, photos of Paulina Chmielecka, who was in a 3-year relationship with Jenkins until earlier this year -- he says he's "100% sure" the woman who drove Jenkins to the Thunderbird Motel and paid for the room was Paulina.

Ryan and Paulina were engaged, until he called it off several months ago. Friends of the former couple tell us she was very much in love with him, though she moved on to another relationship.

[samanthajane13]

VH1 cancels reality shows with dead murder suspect

LOS ANGELES – VH1 will not air the reality shows with a contestant who was found dead Sunday of an apparent suicide at a Canadian motel. Both shows featured Ryan Jenkins, the contestant sought in the killing of his model ex-wife.

A network spokesman said Monday that both "Megan Wants a Millionaire" and "I Love Money 3" have been canceled.

Jenkins had been one of 17 wealthy bachelors vying for the love of former "Rock of Love" contestant Megan Hauserman on "Megan Wants a Millionaire," which the network pulled off the air after three episodes.

Jenkins was also a participant on the not-yet-aired "I Love Money 3," a series featuring contestants from various VH1 reality shows competing for cash.


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[Marian Paroo]

I was watching the Larry King repeat today (of last night's -- to watch it at real time would have meant 4:00 am here, we are EDT+7). Good show.

Horrible, horrible crime. Ironic end. No DP in Canada, so he would have only been expedited had the DP been taken off the table, but he kills himself? Well, maybe he didn't know that. He didn't know fake boobs have traceable serial numbers.

[SaraSidle]

I was watching the Larry King repeat today (of last night's -- to watch it at real time would have meant 4:00 am here, we are EDT+7). Good show.

Horrible, horrible crime. Ironic end. No DP in Canada, so he would have only been expedited had the DP been taken off the table, but he kills himself? Well, maybe he didn't know that. He didn't know fake boobs have traceable serial numbers.

I think he realized he was cornered and could not escape. Gave himself the DP. Easy way out.........sara

[samanthajane13]

"I think he realized he was cornered and could not escape. Gave himself the DP. Easy way out.........sara"

Fast, cheap and easy on the US Court system, too!!!

He did us a favor!!

:seeya:

[Marian Paroo]

I thought it was sad and ironic that someone on Larry King talked about how real and genuine Miss Fiore was, but in the end she was identified by the serial numbers on her falsies.

[wind149]

Marion, she looked like a clone of Pam Anderson, that is how all these bimbos want to look like, trashy, bleached blond hair, painted on eyebrows which I think make women look even more trashier and of course the huge fake boobs are all the rage, and it has to be the fake look too, anyone who is naturally endowed should be happy, but no, they too want the fake look where I think they look like balloons instead of boobs coming out of their tops and they don't even jiggle like boobs are supposed to! They just sit on their chests and no one except for maybe Beth Chapman has the cleavage naturally and I think while they are tad too big for me, don't forget, I had 58DD's myself till a wonderful doctor in Ann Arbor made me into a normal looking woman, it looks good on her!!! And there are two pics of Fiore, one with dark hair and then the bleached hair so who knows what her natural color was??? I dye mine, but I dye it the color I naturally have, medium brown and it looks natural and no one but me knows I dye it because while I am not going really gray yet, I want to prolong long it as long as I can without looking ridiculous like some women in their 60's and 70's do, they have this blond puffy thing sticking out of their heads or they have it dyed dark brown or black and it looks terrible because they have not been blond or a brunette since 1950!!

Or the really old ones rock that poodle look and some even dye that!! My neighbor is one of them. She is a wonderful woman, a kind person who will help anyone, but she commits two of them deadly's. She has the beehive thing going on dyed blond, and painted on eyebrows, a lot of older women rock that here too, and she looks like she is surprised all the time and she uses a reddish pencil to paint them and it looks hideous!!! Now I would never tell her this of course and if she is happy with it, I guess that it all that matters??? I prefer to be as natural as I can without being a tree hugger or hippie. I do wear makeup and my god-daughter picks on me constantly because I still like to keep my hair in the "rock star look" or mullet as it is easy to take care of and it suits me without being too dated a look. But I do laugh at myself over this because another look all the late 50's and late 60's women, often have is that short do, cut right at their neckline and then the teased look on top and here I am not wanting to lose my generation hairdos!!!! And my sister rocks the same do too! My best friend has straight hair but she too went for the spiral perm for years and now she just has a blunt cut and she dyes it red.

But I dress my age because I think some women today try to look like their daughters and in today's fashion, some leave a lot to be desired and they look stupid!! I saw a woman today that looked ridiculous. Her daughter is probably 20 and she had on Daisy Dukes, a halter top and high heeled sandals and she was rocking it, very pretty and here is her momma trying to clone her and I almost laughed out loud!! Now mama is no size O like her kid, and she stuffed her fat ass into these shorts and it was hanging out the sides and she has those big floppies going on and they were hanging out of the side of her very large halter top and she was wearing high heeled flip flops and even the bus driver made a comment when he saw her!!! And her makeup was hideous too!!! Too much eyeshadow makes women look cheap and so does too much foundation and blush and this woman looked like a clown. I put her age at about 55 and she was sashaying across the parking lot like she thought she was a hottie!! A look you would never see me in!!!

[samanthajane13]

Car matching Ryan's last ride is at sister's condo
By JEREMY HAINSWORTH and ROB GILLIES, Associated Press Writers Jeremy Hainsworth And Rob Gillies, Associated Press Writers – 54 mins ago

VANCOUVER, British Columbia – A silver PT Cruiser matching the description of the vehicle seen dropping off reality TV actor and murder suspect Ryan Jenkins at a motel is parked at his half-sister's condominium in Vancouver.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Norm Massie declined to say Wednesday whether Alena Jenkins is the mystery woman who checked Jenkins into a motel in Hope, British Columbia, three days before he was found dead in his room Sunday of an apparent suicide.

A message left with a woman answering Alena Jenkins' phones was not immediately returned. The woman said Jenkins' half-sister was away arranging funeral details.

Police say they have identified the woman who helped Jenkins check into the motel, but have not released her identity. Police have said the two had a history together and they were investigating whether she would face charges. She is not in custody.

Massie said police would need proof the woman knew Ryan was wanted before they could file charges.

Jenkins, a contestant on VH1's "Megan Wants a Millionaire," was accused of killing his ex-wife, a model whose body was so badly mutilated when found in a trash bin outside Los Angeles that it had to be identified by the serial numbers on her breast implants. He evaded an international manhunt for days as he crossed from the United States into his native Canada.

Police in California have not determined where Jasmine Fiore was killed.

Kevin Walker, who manages the Thunderbird Motel in Hope where Jenkins died, said Jenkins and a young woman arrived Thursday in a Chrysler PT Cruiser with tinted windows and a license plate from Alberta, Jenkins' home province. Jenkins stayed in the car, Walker said.

Walker said he never saw the woman or the car again, and another tenant said the woman left about 20 minutes after check-in.

The PT Cruiser parked in Alena Jenkins' parking lot has an Alberta license plate.

"We're not going to confirm or deny anyone involved in the investigation," Massie said. "Our investigation is on two fronts, first we want to find the circumstances around the incident at the motel in Hope and, as importantly, we have yet to determine how Ryan entered Canada from the U.S. and if any one assisted him doing so."

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Gillies reported from Toronto.


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[samanthajane13]

Police to detail findings in model slaying probe



BUENA PARK, Calif. – Police say they will hold a news conference to disclose what they found in the car of an ex-model whose slaying in Southern California prompted an international manhunt for a reality TV show contestant wanted in her murder.

Buena Park police Sgt. Bill Kohanek said Thursday the news conference will be held at police headquarters at 6:30 p.m.

Murder victim Jasmine Fiore's white Mercedes-Benz was discovered Wednesday in West Hollywood, about a mile from the penthouse she shared with reality TV contestant Ryan Jenkins.

Jenkins, who appeared on VH1's "Megan Wants a Millionaire," fled to his native Canada after Fiore's mutilated body was found Aug. 15 in a trash bin.

Jenkins, 32, later hanged himself in a motel room in Hope, British Columbia.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. (AP) — A white Mercedes-Benz found in a parking lot in West Hollywood belonged to an ex-model whose brutal slaying prompted an international manhunt for a former reality TV contestant wanted in the murder, police said Wednesday.

Police received an anonymous telephone tip and found the car belonging to 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore in a parking lot next to a grocery store, Buena Park police Detective Eric Burciaga said.

Police have not found a murder scene and say Fiore could have been killed in the car before her nude body was found stuffed in suitcase in a Southern California trash bin on Aug. 15.

Investigators did not attempt to open the car and were not able to see inside because of its tinted windows. A tow truck transported it from the scene.

The examination of the car "could take quite awhile because they're going to be very methodical going through it," said Tom Hession, chief inspector for the regional fugitive task force of the U.S. Marshals Service.

A witness told police the car had been parked in the lot since the day of the killing. A note slipped under the windshield wiper read, "This is a private parking lot. Unattended vehicles may be towed at owner's expense."

Fiore's fingers and teeth had been removed when her body was found, presumably to hamper efforts to identify her. Police learned her identity by tracing the serial number on her breast implants.

Suspect Ryan Jenkins, 32, her ex-husband and a former contestant on the VH1 show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," was found hanging from a clothes rack in a hotel room in Hope, British Columbia on Sunday after a frantic dash to the border. An autopsy concluded he committed suicide.

In Canada, authorities said a silver PT Cruiser matching the description of the vehicle seen dropping Jenkins at a motel was parked at his half-sister's condominium in Vancouver.

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Cpl. Norm Massie declined to say whether Alena Jenkins is the woman who checked Jenkins into the Thunderbird Motel in Hope, British Columbia, three days before he was found dead.

A message left with a woman answering Alena Jenkins' phone was not immediately returned. The woman said Jenkins' half-sister was away arranging funeral details.

Police have identified the woman who helped Jenkins check into the motel but have not released her name. She was not in custody and police were considering whether she would face charges.

Massie said police would need proof the woman knew Ryan was wanted before they could file charges.

"We're not going to confirm or deny anyone involved in the investigation," Massie said. "Our investigation is on two fronts, first we want to find the circumstances around the incident at the motel in Hope and, as importantly, we have yet to determine how Ryan entered Canada from the U.S. and if any one assisted him doing so."

Jenkins left a real estate job in his native Calgary, Alberta, earlier this year to pursue a Hollywood career and found some success. He was among a group of wealthy young men on the reality show who tried to win over a materialistic blonde. An episode featuring Jenkins aired around the same time police sought him for Fiore's murder.

He was also a participant in a competitive reality series, "I Love Money 3," that was canceled by VH1 after news of the murder.

Jenkins and Fiore met in Las Vegas in March, shortly after Jenkins finished taping for "Megan Wants a Millionaire," and they married on March 18, according to court documents. The couple separated shortly afterward, but had reportedly reconciled.

Lisa Lepore told The Associated Press her daughter had the marriage annulled in May.

On Aug. 13, Jenkins and Fiore checked into a luxury boutique hotel in San Diego. Authorities have said it was the last time Fiore was seen alive. The next day, Jenkins left alone.

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Associated Press Writers Gillian Flaccus in Tustin, Calif., Rob Gillies in Toronto and Jeremy Hainsworth in Vancouver, British Columbia, contributed to this report.


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[samanthajane13]

Police: Blood, evidence of struggle in model's car
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer – 49 mins ago

ORANGE, Calif. – Police in Buena Park, Calif., say they found blood and evidence of a violent struggle inside a car belonging to an ex-model whose brutal slaying prompted a massive manhunt for the reality TV contestant wanted in her murder.

Sgt. Roger Powell said Thursday afternoon that investigators found blood splattered on the passenger seat, back seat and rear windshield.

Jasmine Fiore's white Mercedes-Benz was found abandoned Wednesday in West Hollywood.

Powell says detectives found mud stains, weeds and twigs on the car's undercarriage, which could indicate it went off-road.

Fiore's body was found Aug. 15 stuffed in a suitcase in a Buena Park trash bin. Ryan Jenkins, a contestant on VH1's "Megan Wants a Millionaire," was found dead of an apparent suicide in a British Columbia hotel room Sunday.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

BUENA PARK, Calif. (AP) — Police said Thursday they planned to disclose what they found in the car of an ex-model whose brutal slaying prompted a massive manhunt for the reality TV contestant wanted in her murder.

The information, to be released at a news conference later Thursday, will bring closure to a gruesome and mysterious investigation that has spread over two countries and involved dozens of law enforcement agencies in Canada and the United States, said Sgt. William Kohanek, spokesman for the Buena Park police.

Murder victim Jasmine Fiore's white Mercedes-Benz was discovered Wednesday in a parking lot in West Hollywood, about a mile from the penthouse she shared with wealthy real estate investor Ryan Jenkins. Investigators spent Thursday combing it for clues.

Kohanek said tests for DNA, blood and other forensics, including hairs, fibers and fingerprints, were conducted on the vehicle. Police had been searching for the missing car for days and hoped it would yield clues as to where Fiore was slain, the timeline of Jenkins' flight to Canada and if anyone else was involved in helping him make it to the border.

Fiore's nude body was found Aug. 15 stuffed in a blood-stained suitcase and tossed into a Buena Park trash bin. Her fingers and teeth had been removed — presumably to prevent police from identifying her — and investigators learned her name by tracking the serial number on her breast implants.

Fiore and Jenkins, a contestant on VH1's "Megan Wants a Millionaire," were last seen together on Aug. 13 checking into a luxury boutique hotel in San Diego. Jenkins checked out alone the next day and Fiore was not seen alive again.

Hours after Fiore's body was found, Jenkins walked into a West Hollywood sheriff's station and reported her missing, said Steve Whitmore, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. He told a deputy his wife had gone missing after running errands and that he hadn't seen her since Friday night.

Jenkins, 32, then made a 1,000-mile dash for the border by car and boat before crossing into Canada on foot. He eventually wound up in an isolated motel in Hope, British Columbia, where he was found hanging from a coat rack on Sunday.

An autopsy by Canadian officials indicated suicide.

The motel's manager, Kevin Walker, told the AP that Jenkins was dropped off at the motel Thursday by a young woman in a Chrysler PT Cruiser with tinted windows and a license plate from Alberta, Jenkins' home province. Jenkins stayed in the car, Walker said, and the woman paid cash for a three nights' stay and left about 20 minutes later.

A Chrysler PT Cruiser with Alberta plates was seen parked Wednesday outside the Vancouver, British Columbia condominium complex where Jenkins' half-sister lives. A message left at the home was not returned and police would not confirm if she was the mystery woman who dropped him at the motel.

Jenkins, the wealthy son of a prominent Calgary architect, moved to Los Angeles earlier this year to pursue an acting career. He found some success on "Megan Wants a Millionaire," a reality show where wealthy bachelors woo a materialistic blonde. He also completed filming for "I Love Money 3," but VH1 canceled the show before it aired because of the murder.

Jenkins met Fiore in Las Vegas shortly after he wrapped filming for "Millionaire" the two were married in a quickie Vegas wedding on March 18, according to court documents. Friends said Fiore was a model who worked mainly in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, doing gigs such as being bodypainted at parties.

The two apparently had a stormy relationship: Fiore's mother, Lisa Lepore, told the AP last week that her daughter had the marriage annulled in May. There were no records of an annulment in Los Angeles, where the couple lived most recently, or in Las Vegas, where they wed.

Kohanek, the police spokesman, said Thursday he believed the two remarried sometime between the annulment and Fiore's slaying.

Court records from Las Vegas also show Jenkins had been charged recently with hitting Fiore in the arm. In his hometown of Calgary, Jenkins was sentenced to 15 months probation in January 2007 for assaulting a girlfriend.

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Associated Press Writers Raquel Maria Dillon, Bob Jablon and Thomas Watkins in Los Angeles; Ken Ritter in Las Vegas; Jeremy Hainsworth in Vancouver, British Columbia; and Rob Gillies in Toronto contributed to this report.


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[samanthajane13]

TV show contestant delayed flight after wife died
By GILLIAN FLACCUS, Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus, Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 1 min ago

BUENA PARK, Calif. – A reality contestant wanted in the gruesome murder and mutilation of his ex-model wife didn't start his 1,000-mile dash for his native Canada until 24 hours after her body was found and he moved out of his penthouse and picked up his speedboat, police said.

A detailed timeline revealed Thursday by police showed that Ryan Jenkins, who appeared on VH1's "Megan Wants a Millionaire," drove at least 150 miles after allegedly killing 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore and spent more than a day packing enough clothes and other belongings into his getaway car to fill a rented storage unit.

Fiore's body was found early Aug. 15 in a blood-stained suitcase in a Buena Park trash bin by a person searching for recyclables. Her nose was broken, she was badly beaten and she was missing the last digit of all her fingers and her teeth — presumably to hamper efforts to identify her.

Police ultimately learned her name by tracking the serial number on her breast implants, but not until Jenkins had a three-day head start on his run for the border, police said.

Jenkins, the 32-year-old wealthy son of a prominent Calgary architect, was found Sunday in an isolated motel in Hope, British Columbia, where he had committed suicide. Police were just steps behind, but too late to find him alive.

"He left a path of just nonstop evidence and connecting with people, who all got a chance to talk to us," said Buena Park police Sgt. Roger Powell. "Unfortunately, we were a good couple days behind him all along the way, and it's very unfortunate that it ended the way it did."

Police on Thursday revealed almost all they know about the crime and Jenkins' flight. They said extensive surveillance video from two hotels and the couple's Los Angeles penthouse, as well as cell phone records, interviews and other evidence helped them piece together the gruesome crime.

"It all boils down to a domestic violence situation that went way out of hand as a result of jealousy," said Buena Park police Sgt. Frank Nunes.

Investigators also recovered Fiore's missing white 2007 Mercedes-Benz Wednesday in a West Hollywood parking lot. Inside, they found signs of a violent struggle, with swirls of blood "like finger-painting" on the passenger seat, back seat and rear windshield that indicated Fiore fought for her life, Powell said.

Detectives found blood on the patio of the couple's luxury hotel room and found twigs and weeds in the undercarriage of Fiore's car, indicating it had been driven off-road.

In addition, they found a letter in the car's glove box that was written from Jenkins to Fiore, Powell said. He said the letter had been written some time ago, but was "more evidence to believe ... there was a whole lot of jealousy on his part," Powell said. More letters from Jenkins to Fiore — dozens, all unopened — were found in desk drawers in the couple's penthouse, he said.

The letters indicated "how much he wanted her to follow his wishes" and clearly showed how jealous and possessive he was, Powell said, although they contained no direct threats.

Jenkins moved to Los Angeles earlier this year to pursue an acting career. He found some success on "Megan Wants a Millionaire," a reality show where wealthy bachelors woo a materialistic blonde. He had completed filming for "I Love Money 3," but VH1 canceled the show before it aired because of the murder.

Jenkins met Fiore in Las Vegas shortly after he wrapped filming for "Millionaire" and the two were married in a quickie Vegas wedding on March 18, according to court documents. Friends said Fiore was a model who worked mainly in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, doing gigs such as being bodypainted at parties.

The two apparently had a stormy relationship: Fiore's mother, Lisa Lepore, told the AP last week that her daughter had the marriage annulled in May. There were no records of an annulment in Los Angeles, where the couple lived most recently, or in Las Vegas, where they wed.

Police said Thursday the couple were married when Fiore died and may have remarried after the annulment.

Despite the troubled relationship, however, the two appeared to be trying to make it work.

They checked into the luxury boutique hotel L'Auberge Del Mar around 3:30 p.m. Aug. 13 and had a porter help with a huge cart of luggage at the resort, where rooms range from $300 to $3,000 a night. About 6:30 p.m., the couple left the hotel to attend a poker tournament at the nearby San Diego Hilton and left around 2:30 a.m. on Aug. 14.


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[samanthajane13]

Surveillance video shows the couple at the valet booth at the hotel, the last time Fiore was seen alive.

Two hours later, at 4:30 a.m., Jenkins was seen on surveillance video returning to the L'Auberge alone. He checked out around 9 a.m. without Fiore and without the suitcase in which her body was found.

Police said they believe Fiore was severely beaten in the car after the poker tournament and Jenkins brought her into their first-floor hotel room through a private patio entrance that fronted a parking lot. They believe that Jenkins then put Fiore in the suitcase and took it to Fiore's car through the same entrance.

No security camera was installed there, but other cameras captured Jenkins taking huge armloads of clothing out of his hotel room three times between the time he returned alone and the time he checked out. Police believe he was emptying out the suitcase for Fiore's body.

It isn't clear if Fiore died in the car or in the hotel room, police said.

After checking out, Jenkins drove nearly 100 miles to Corona, southeast of Los Angeles, police said. Although they have not found a crime scene there, they believe he drove off-road and may have removed the tips of Fiore's fingers and her teeth in the area. He then drove nearly 30 miles west to Buena Park, where he dumped her body, and returned to the couple's Los Angeles penthouse by 5 p.m.

Fiore's body was discovered early morning on Aug. 15, and Jenkins filed a missing person's report with the Los Angeles County sheriff's department at 8:55 p.m. that night, said Steve Whitemore, a sheriff's spokesman.

At the same time, surveillance video shows Jenkins gradually moving most of his belongings from the penthouse into his black BMW X5 — a process that took nearly 36 hours to complete as investigators scrambled to identify Fiore's body.

He was later seen leaving the penthouse for the final time around 9 a.m. Aug. 16 — more than 48 hours after police believe Fiore died.

"He didn't expect that body to be located that soon, that was pretty obvious. He had to definitely hasten the pace when he got to LA as to what he needed to do," said Powell.

Jenkins then picked up his speedboat in Nevada, police said. When Los Angeles police contacted him Monday, Aug. 17, he told them he was in Utah and headed to Canada to resolve some immigration issues. He made multiple cell phone calls while on the road and talked at least once to an attorney who said he would try to get him to turn himself in, said Nunes.

Nunes said it was unclear if that conversation happened. Authorities have said that Jenkins traveled to Canada and crossed on foot into British Columbia on Wednesday after taking his boat to a spit of land across from Blaine, Wash.

Powell said Thursday that investigators found a storage unit full of "thousands of dollars" of his belongings, including a suitcase full of clothes, at a storage unit in Washington state.

On Aug. 20, a day after he crossed into Canada, a young woman in a Chrysler PT Cruiser with tinted windows and a license plate from Alberta — Jenkins' home province — checked him into an isolated motel in Hope, British Columbia. She paid in cash for three nights while Jenkins waited in the car and she left after about 20 minutes, motel manager Kevin Walker told The Associated Press.

Police said Thursday they have not found any evidence to indicate that anyone in the United States helped Jenkins to flee. Canadian authorities declined to say if the young woman was Jenkins' half-sister, who lives in Vancouver.

Buena Park police said they did not have details of what Canadian authorities have found in their investigation. Canadian officials declined to comment on the details revealed Thursday until they could review them.

(This version CORRECTS time of arrival at hotel to 3:30 p.m. )


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[SaraSidle]

Surveillance video shows the couple at the valet booth at the hotel, the last time Fiore was seen alive.

Two hours later, at 4:30 a.m., Jenkins was seen on surveillance video returning to the L'Auberge alone. He checked out around 9 a.m. without Fiore and without the suitcase in which her body was found.

Police said they believe Fiore was severely beaten in the car after the poker tournament and Jenkins brought her into their first-floor hotel room through a private patio entrance that fronted a parking lot. They believe that Jenkins then put Fiore in the suitcase and took it to Fiore's car through the same entrance.

No security camera was installed there, but other cameras captured Jenkins taking huge armloads of clothing out of his hotel room three times between the time he returned alone and the time he checked out. Police believe he was emptying out the suitcase for Fiore's body.

It isn't clear if Fiore died in the car or in the hotel room, police said.

After checking out, Jenkins drove nearly 100 miles to Corona, southeast of Los Angeles, police said. Although they have not found a crime scene there, they believe he drove off-road and may have removed the tips of Fiore's fingers and her teeth in the area. He then drove nearly 30 miles west to Buena Park, where he dumped her body, and returned to the couple's Los Angeles penthouse by 5 p.m.

Fiore's body was discovered early morning on Aug. 15, and Jenkins filed a missing person's report with the Los Angeles County sheriff's department at 8:55 p.m. that night, said Steve Whitemore, a sheriff's spokesman.

At the same time, surveillance video shows Jenkins gradually moving most of his belongings from the penthouse into his black BMW X5 — a process that took nearly 36 hours to complete as investigators scrambled to identify Fiore's body.

He was later seen leaving the penthouse for the final time around 9 a.m. Aug. 16 — more than 48 hours after police believe Fiore died.

"He didn't expect that body to be located that soon, that was pretty obvious. He had to definitely hasten the pace when he got to LA as to what he needed to do," said Powell.

Jenkins then picked up his speedboat in Nevada, police said. When Los Angeles police contacted him Monday, Aug. 17, he told them he was in Utah and headed to Canada to resolve some immigration issues. He made multiple cell phone calls while on the road and talked at least once to an attorney who said he would try to get him to turn himself in, said Nunes.

Nunes said it was unclear if that conversation happened. Authorities have said that Jenkins traveled to Canada and crossed on foot into British Columbia on Wednesday after taking his boat to a spit of land across from Blaine, Wash.

Powell said Thursday that investigators found a storage unit full of "thousands of dollars" of his belongings, including a suitcase full of clothes, at a storage unit in Washington state.

On Aug. 20, a day after he crossed into Canada, a young woman in a Chrysler PT Cruiser with tinted windows and a license plate from Alberta — Jenkins' home province — checked him into an isolated motel in Hope, British Columbia. She paid in cash for three nights while Jenkins waited in the car and she left after about 20 minutes, motel manager Kevin Walker told The Associated Press.

Police said Thursday they have not found any evidence to indicate that anyone in the United States helped Jenkins to flee. Canadian authorities declined to say if the young woman was Jenkins' half-sister, who lives in Vancouver.

Buena Park police said they did not have details of what Canadian authorities have found in their investigation. Canadian officials declined to comment on the details revealed Thursday until they could review them.

(This version CORRECTS time of arrival at hotel to 3:30 p.m. )


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Well I guess we will not be hearing much more about this.

[samanthajane13]

"Jenkins, the 32-year-old wealthy son of a prominent Calgary architect, was found Sunday in an isolated motel in Hope, British Columbia, where he had committed suicide. Police were just steps behind, but too late to find him alive.

"He left a path of just nonstop evidence and connecting with people, who all got a chance to talk to us," said Buena Park police Sgt. Roger Powell. "Unfortunately, we were a good couple days behind him all along the way, and it's very unfortunate that it ended the way it did."

The way I see it, he saved the US and Canada a lot of money...

[SaraSidle]

"Jenkins, the 32-year-old wealthy son of a prominent Calgary architect, was found Sunday in an isolated motel in Hope, British Columbia, where he had committed suicide. Police were just steps behind, but too late to find him alive.

"He left a path of just nonstop evidence and connecting with people, who all got a chance to talk to us," said Buena Park police Sgt. Roger Powell. "Unfortunately, we were a good couple days behind him all along the way, and it's very unfortunate that it ended the way it did."

The way I see it, he saved the US and Canada a lot of money...

I agree. we saved money. he went where he wanted. I hope Jasmines family is okay. This is a very awful time for them. sara :rose::rose: