Posted on 08/24/2009 10:28:52 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The ex-boyfriend of slain model Jasmine Fiore says he's glad the reality TV star accused of killing her is dead.
"I was happy that Ryan... that he killed himself," Robert Hasman said on the "Today Show" Monday morning, alongside the murdered beauty's mother, Lisa Lepore.
Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a contestant on the canceled VH1 reality show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," was found dead from an apparent suicide in a motel room in suburban Canada Sunday night.
The discovery came after nine days of searching for Jenkins following the discovery of Fiore's mutilated corpse on Aug. 15.
"It brings closure to what's been going on," added Lepore. "We don't have to worry that he's a threat anymore."
"We still have a long process of closure," the distraught mom said.
Hasman discussed text messages and emails he exchanged with Fiore the night before her murder in which she said she wanted to leave Jenkins.
Fiore was considering a sudden trip to Las Vegas to see Hasman, he said. Her last text message early on the morning of Aug. 15 said simply, "I'm coming."
"I can only assume that might have been the cause or his motive," Hasman said.
"This man was a professional con man," Lepore said. "He targeted women, I believe. He wanted to be something that he wasn't."
"He wanted to be and to have what Jasmine had," she said. "She was for real. She earned what she had, and he was a fake."
Police are now wondering if Jenkins had help disposing of his ex-wife, and whether others aided him after she was slain.
Witnesses at the motel told police a mysterious blonde woman accompanied Jenkins.
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.
Jenkins and Fiore were married in March. Lepore said her daughter realized the marriage was a mistake and had it annulled in May.
She was last seen alive on Aug. 13 checking into a San Diego Hotel with Jenkins. An autopsy revealed she was strangled.
Jenkins was last spotted on Wednesday when he led a Coast Guard patrol in a high-speed boat chase across the Canadian border.
Buena Park, Calif. cops charged Jenkins in Fiore's murder on Thursday, revealing he'd chopped off her fingers and pulled out her teeth to conceal her identity.
She was eventually identified by the serial numbers on her breast implants, cops said.
Learn something new every day.
1. How did he outrun the Coast Guard? What, did they turn back when he crossed into Canada?
2. The guy at the hotel said of the woman he arrived with: She was blonde, in her early 20s and “naturally pretty, one of those wholesome little ladies”.
Doesn’t sound like the victim, who was a Hollywood type that had cosmetic surgery and breast implants. I’m thinking maybe she was already dead when he arrived at the hotel with another woman, an accomplice, who helped him dispose of the body.
How’s that for an armchair investigation. I’m probably way off.
How wholesome is a woman who is helping her boyfriend dispose of her predeceesor’s body?
Quite wholesome. I’d say she’s a keeper.
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