Model Jasmine Fiore (L) is shown with reality TV star Ryan Alexander Jenkins in the pool at a hotel in Las Vegas in this image taken August 3, 2009 and released by celebrity website TMZ.com. California authorities on August 20, 2009 charged Jenkins with murder in the death of pin-up model Fiore, as they continued a manhunt for him begun soon after the Fiore's body was found stuffed in a suitcase.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>

    BEIJING, August 24 (Xinhuanet) -- Murder suspect Ryan Jenkins has been found dead at a motel in Canada. Jenkins had been sought by Orange County police from California in the United States for first-degree murder following the discovery of his former wife Jasmine Fiore who was found stuffed into a suitcase in a suburban Los Angeles garbage bin.

    According to reports Jenkins arrived at the motel in a Chrysler PT Cruiser with Alberta license plates. He apparently and stayed in the car while a woman checked the two in. Kevin Walker, who manages the Thunderbird Motel near Hope in British Columbia, around 160 km east of Vancouver, said the woman traveling with Jenkins paid cash for three days. But when the couple didn't check out, he unlocked the room and found Jenkins hanging from the bar of a clothing rack. The identity and whereabouts of the woman has not been revealed.

    Last week gruesome details emerged concerning the murder of 28 year old Playboy model Jasmine Fiore. Police said the model's teeth and fingers had been removed, perhaps in an effort to prevent identification of the body. Ryan Alexander Jenkins, 32, who was married to the former swimsuit model for a short time, had been charged with her murder, and was believed to have fled to Canada.

    Fiore's ex-boyfriend, Robert Hasman, last week urged Jenkins' friends and family to help police find him calling Jenkins "an animal" and describing the killing and mutilation of his former girlfriend as an "unspeakable" act.

    Jenkins who was a contestant on the VH1 reality TV show "Megan Wants a Millionaire" met Fiore in a Las Vegas casino. They were married on March 18 but had the marriage annulled only a few months later. Court records show that Jenkins was charged in June in Clark County, Nevada, with a misdemeanor count of "battery constituting domestic violence" for allegedly hitting Fiore on the arm and was due to be tried in December.

    (Agencies)