Buena Park, August 21: Police on the hunt for a reality TV contestant charged with the gruesome murder of his ex-wife were continuing to search the US-Canadian border after 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 yesterday 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, a former swimsuit model, and Jenkins were briefly married after a quickie Las Vegas wedding this year, and had been fighting in recent months.
–PTI