SURREY, B.C. — Fugitive Ryan Jenkins, wanted in the murder of his swimsuit model ex-wife, has been found dead in British Columbia, RCMP confirmed Sunday evening at a news conference in Surrey, B.C.
Sgt. Duncan Pound, spokesman for the RCMP’s federal border integrity program said the police force “is able to confirm that a deceased person that was found in a motel in Hope, B.C., is in fact Ryan Jenkins.” He said it appears as if Jenkins took his own life.
Hope is 135 kilometres east of Vancouver.
RCMP confirmed earlier in the day that reality-TV star Jenkins, 32, was hiding out somewhere in Canada but wouldn’t be more specific.
Jenkins, originally from Calgary, was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for the murder of Jasmine Fiore, 28.
Her mutilated body was found on Aug. 15 stuffed in a suitcase and dumped in a garbage bin in Buena Park, Calif., about 30 kilometres southeast of Los Angeles.
An international manhunt has been on for Jenkins, though authorities on both sides of the border had speculated he may have returned to Canada after his speedboat was discovered in a Point Roberts, Wash., marina on Wednesday. That community shares its only land border with B.C.’s Lower Mainland.
Well, he's beyond Hope, now.