"Megan" Contestant Sought in Model's Murder

[Trista]

From Yahoo News/Associated Press

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.

 

[Party_Vixen]

^ Just heard this on the radio... Now we may never know why he did what he did to his ex-wife.

 

[Echoes]

At least it's "Case Closed" with no lengthy, expensive trial.

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ Just heard this on the radio... Now we may never know why he did what he did to his ex-wife.

I know why ... he was crazy and evil.

 

[Party_Vixen]

^ True. But with cases like this I always like to hear their reasoning. As irrational as it may be.

 

[Trista]

Call me cruel, but he took the pansy, ***** way out. A real man would have owned up to what he had done.

 

[adorefaith]

the news was on downstairs a few hours ago.. i think it was cnn.. and they were reporting that apparently she had told him she was planning to leave him, and that that is what sparked this in him. who knows.. i am always wary of the reporting in cases like this where there is so much speculation and curiosity, but i suppose it's very possible. this whole case just makes me terribly sad.. nothing excuses what he did, but a suicide after something like this always makes it devastating, imo.. i can't even begin to imagine how tortured and helpless he felt. it's just a horrible situation on all fronts..

 

[fashionista-ta]

^ It might be nice if I had some sympathy for him, but I don't ... nothing, nada. And I agree with Echoes that it's nice that we taxpayers are going to save a little money for once. Every little bit helps

 

[LetThemEatCake]

Sickening. Heard of this a few days ago. And now he's killed himself. Hmmpf. To evade capture and living in solitary confinement? He's just ruined so many lives. And for what?

 

[fashionista-ta]

Just read that they got married two days after they met in Las Vegas. A little something to file under what not to do ...

 

[adorefaith]

i have sympathy, i suppose.. i find it hard not to. it's sad... imagine the desperation..

tax payers money is the last place my mind would go upon hearing about something like this.. i don't see what that really has to do with anything..

i also find it strange that people seem to think he killed himself to avoid being sentenced.. can you imagine the horror he must have felt? i really doubt his suicide was motivated by the fact that the police were after him.

 

[LetThemEatCake]

i also find it strange that people seem to think he killed himself to avoid being sentenced.. can you imagine the horror he must have felt? i really doubt his suicide was motivated by the fact that the police were after him.

I think it had to be a big part of it...knowing you're going to jail? But that's my reasoning, I suppose, even though I cannot reason what he did to her, I could never do such sick and twisted things to another human being. But we'll never know, and of course anything is possible, but to be able to go THROUGH what he did. Maybe he was coming to 'reality' with it and hated himself, again who knows? I just find it all very disturbing. He must have been mentally ill.

 

[adorefaith]

i agree with you...sick and twisted indeed. i think the self loathing involved is likely to have greatly contributed to his suicide but then again, as you say, that's my reasoning. i can imagine him beginning to come to terms with what he had done and seeing no other way out.. it's sickening, really.. i can't even begin to comprehend.

he apparently has been convicted of assault in the past.. i don't know how stable he was but i wonder what was going on to bring him to such a point.

 

[Echoes]

Motel manager says woman checked in reality star

Aug 24 01:25 AM US/Eastern

VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) - The manager of a motel where police discovered the body of fugitive murder suspect and reality TV contestant Ryan Jenkins says a young woman checked him in on Thursday.

Jenkins was wanted in Orange County, California, on a first-degree murder charge after the mutilated body of ex-wife Jasmine Fiore was found stuffed in a suitcase in a suburban Los Angeles trash bin.

Jenkins arrived late Sunday in a Chrysler PT Cruiser with Alberta license plates, and stayed in the car while the woman checked them in, says Kevin Walker, who manages the Thunderbird Motel, about 100 miles (160 kilometers) east of Vancouver.

Walker says the woman paid cash for three days, and when the couple didn't check out, he unlocked the room and found Jenkins hanging from the bar of a clothing rack.

Copyright 2009 The Associated Press.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9A928KO0&show_article=1


So who was this mystery girl?



Oh, and taxpayer money is a BIG issue right now.

 

[iluvjeisa]

^Probably his last supper or dessert.

I agree it sounds like he was temporarily insane when he killed her and regretted it. Probably had self-control issues, impulsive. It's horrible, but I pity anyone with mental illness.

 

[LUXXX]

Well I hope that girl didn't know him because if she did...she's real stupid. She will get caught.

 

[Katie123]

definitely. why would you accept taking part in this anyway? even if she didn't know him didn't she realize how dodgy it was for a guy to ask a 'stranger' to check in a motel for him

 

[designerleather]

Very sad. Jasmine was stunning

 

[shoesexy]

DOUG ELFMAN: Friend recalls rocky days for Fiore in Las Vegas

Jasmine Fiore was a carefree but very lonely "Vegas girl," before she was brutally strangled and stuffed in a suitcase, found nine days ago; her teeth and fingers chopped off; her body identified by serial numbers imprinted on breast implants.

Drama came at every turn of her tragic and months-long marriage to Ryan Jenkins (a TV reality show actor and the suspect in her murder).

She caught Ryan having sex with another woman in their living room.

And around Vegas, they caused public scenes.

In a nightclub, he once pulled her dress up and down, exposing everything in front of their friends, as she wasn't wearing underwear. Drunk, she did not put up a fuss.

At a Vegas pool, he once threw her in the water after she made out with a man in front of him and friends.

On Sunday, Ryan's body was found in a hotel in Canada, an apparent suicide. His death and her murder ended a shooting-star streak of passion.

"They were always kissing, making out in public -- or they were always fighting. It never seemed to be balanced," says a friend of the model and cocktailer.

Jasmine harbored self-doubt ("the prettier the girl, the more insecure they are"), but she could have been "normal" if "you took away Vegas," the friend believes.

"I think Vegas changed her," the friend says. "She was a good person. She just got out of control."

All of these and the following descriptions of Jasmine and Ryan come from Marta Montoya, a close friend of Jasmine's, a sometimes model and aesthetician stunned and saddened by Jasmine's death. (I have personally known Marta for more than five years; I did not know Jasmine or Ryan.)...

Full article here: http://www.lvrj.com/news/54494862.html

Aug. 24, 2009
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

 

[shoesexy]

And another view:

The Reality of Vegas Types

...This allegedly deadly relationship between Fiore and contestant Jenkins plays out like so many relationships I see in Vegas -- the physical abuse, the public humiliation, and the casual infidelity. Murder is rare, of course. But cases of powerful men having public and embarrassing and sometimes physical confrontations with trophy lovers, wives and mistresses are not uncommon here. Among the recent elect: a local politician, a strip club owner and Suge Knight have all had police arrive to sort out their domestic issues. In fact, watch Sharon Stone's character in the movie "Casino"; her spiritual descendants are all over Vegas to this day, and so are the violent men willing to tangle with them...

excerpt from: http://vegasblog.latimes.com/vegas/...at-he-no-longer-had-problems-once-he-bou.html


Dispatches from Las Vegas
by Richard Abowitz
Los Angeles Times
August 24, 2009
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