Reality show contestant found dead in Canada motel

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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 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 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 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 (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.

Walker said the woman paid cash for three nights' stay.

Walker said he never saw the woman 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."

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."

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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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.

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

Wonder if it was Megan, the protagonist of the reality show he was on?

He did, afterall, impress her quite well in the last-aired episode.

[HAL 9000 96]

Offed himself... too bad he didn't think of that before.

[almaty 19]

agreed..prior to butchering that young lady..the chopf##K

[SuperDuper! 230]

This video of Jenkins and his model wife just weeks before her death is eerie, even creepy now in retrospect

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[Chica Yeyé 41]

Offed himself... too bad he didn't think of that before.

WORD.

[Peikko 1,575]

The only question that remains is why did the mystery blond check him in and disappear? Did she have any part in the affair?

As for the rest, it's completely bewildering how anyone could do something like that in the first place and why? However, it's pure speculation at this point, unless he confessed to the publicist.

[SuperDuper! 230]

The only question that remains is why did the mystery blond check him in and disappear? Did she have any part in the affair?

As for the rest, it's completely bewildering how anyone could do something like that in the first place and why? However, it's pure speculation at this point, unless he confessed to the publicist.

The mystery botox blonde was Jenkin's wife. She apparently hooked up with an old bf from las vegas, and Jenkins did not like that.

[Peikko 1,575]

Not the dead blond (which I understood was the wife) but the blond who checked him into the seedy Canadian motel where he hanged himself.