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VANCOUVER, Canada: A reality-TV contestant suspected of killing his swimsuit-model ex-wife in the United States was found dead in a Canadian hotel room, media reported.
Ryan Alexander Jenkins, 32, was charged in the US with murder last Thursday after days of being considered a "person of interest" in the gruesome killing of 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore of Los Angeles.
The model's mutilated body was found inside a suitcase in a dumpster more than a week ago.
Her fingers and teeth had been removed, and authorities had to identify her with the serial number on her breast implants.
Jenkins, a Canadian who recently vied with 16 other contestants on the VH1 television show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," was the subject of an international manhunt, according to Tom Monson, police chief in Buena Park, a suburb of Los Angeles.
Police believe he may have crossed the Canadian border from a remote area in northwestern Washington state, abandoning his black 2003 BMW SUV and an empty boat trailer in Blaine, Washington, and traveling over water to Point Roberts, then on foot into Canada.
Authorities believed he had fled to Canada to escape the death penalty.
The media report said Jenkins had been found dead this afternoon in a hotel room in Hope, British Columbia, and that it appeared he had taken his own life.
He said hotel staff discovered the body and alerted local authorities.
- AFP/yb
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