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LOS ANGELES : Police in the United States and Canada hunted Friday for a television reality show contestant charged with the murder of a model whose mutilated body was found inside a suitcase in a dumpster.
Ryan Alexander Jenkins, 32, was charged with the murder Thursday after days of being a "person of interest" in the gruesome case of 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore's killing.
Jenkins, a Canadian who recently vied with 16 other contestants on the TV show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," is now "the subject of an international manhunt," said Tom Monson, police chief in Buena Park, a suburb of Los Angeles.
Police believe he may have already crossed the Canadian border from a remote area in northwestern Washington state.
Officials said it was Jenkins himself who reported Fiore missing on Saturday, the day the suitcase was found by a man searching the garbage dumpster for recyclable bottles. He has not been seen since.
Police said Fiore appeared to have been strangled and revealed at a press conference Thursday that her teeth and nails had been yanked out, presumably in a hurried attempt to conceal her identity.
According to court documents, prosecutors are recommending Jenkins be held on a 10-million-dollar bail if and when he is arrested.
Fiore and Jenkins had married in Las Vegas earlier this year, after his stint on the VH1 reality show, but according to media reports the marriage was annulled a short time later.
On the TV show, Jenkins, an investment banker, was one of several men vetted by a woman searching for love and fortune.
In the casting process for "Megan Wants a Millionaire," broadcaster VH1 said it was looking for single men with a net worth of at least one million dollars, and said would-be bride Megan Hauserman "would make the perfect arm candy for any man who can afford her."
VH1 said it was no longer airing the show in light of the investigation.
- AFP
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