Suspect in Model's Murder Found Dead in Canada

manhuntformodel.jpg After a manhunt lasting several days and crossing the border into his native Canada, investment banker turned VH1 reality television contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins appears to have committed suicide, according to KTLA. "Officials believe [he] took his own life in the hotel room in Hope, British Columbia where his body was found." Jenkins had been charged this week in Orange County with the murder of his wife and former model Jasmine Fiore, whose finger- and toothless body was discovered crammed in a suitcase abandoned in a Buena Park dumpster last weekend. Jenkins, who filed the missing person report for Fiore, has been on the run since before Fiore was identified by the serial numbers on her breast implants, and escaped to Canada on Wednesday. A warrant for his arrest was issued last week.

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Crap. His reality shows are now definitely never seeing the light of day.

What a fucking coward. Hope he rots in hell.

Fake boobs come with VIN numbers?

Maybe we should hope that doesn't become common knowledge. As it was, Jenkins did a lot of mutilation to try to keep the body from being identified.

deepfry: i was thinking the same thing!

quarrygirl: ditto. I'm kind of wondering why they would announce that fact...

someone mentioned to me that Jenkins "must have watched a lot of CSI" because apparently that sort of stuff has been covered on that family of shows. I'm not a CSI fan (don't remember it being on L&O SVU, which I watch). But it is true that any implanted device (artificial hip, pacemaker, boobie bag, etc) has a serial # on it.

What a bizarre end to a bizarre story!

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