Cops Give Graphic Details on Fiore Case

Buena Park (myFOXla.com) - Police discussed the murder of model Jasmine Fiore in graphic detail at a news conference Thursday afternoon.

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32-year-old Ryan Alexander Jenkins, a former VH1 reality show contestant, was charged today with murder in the death of 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore and is now the target of an international manhunt, amid reports he may have crossed the Canadian border from a remote area in Washington state.

"This message goes out to the family, his mother and father, and to the friends that are helping him try to leave this country," Fiore's former girlfriend and family friend Robert Hasman told reporters at Buena Park City Hall. "Ryan Jenkins is an animal. What he has done to Jasmine is unspeakable. It's just not right, and I appreciate your help. Please understand who you're helping leave this country. And we ask for your support to bring Ryan to custody."

Buena Park police Lt. Steve Holliday said Fiore's fingers and teeth had been removed.

According to Orange County court documents, prosecutors are recommending that Jenkins be held in lieu of $10 million bail when he is arrested.

Tom Hession of the U.S. Marshals Service said that although there was no official confirmation that Jenkins was in Canada, local officials were preparing paperwork to send to law enforcement agencies in that country so an arrest warrant could be issued there.

He also warned that anyone who helps Jenkins escape justice would be subject to arrest.

"At this time, while we believe he has crossed into Canada, we're not a hundred percent sure of that, and there will be no stone unturned," he said. "We'll look under every rock for him. He needs to understand that he's now officially wanted, that we don't stop looking for him. The men and women of the task force and the various agencies involved will continue to look for him until we have him apprehended and in custody.

"Given that, anybody that assists him, helps him in anyway, is also subject to being charged as aiding and abetting and harboring a fugitive," he said. "So I would suggest to anybody out there that is looking to assist this individual that they don't, because they are going to be subject to being charged also."

Jenkins was a contestant on the VH1 reality show "Megan Wants a Millionaire," a dating show in which men compete for the affections of a woman looking to become a "trophy wife" for a well-to-do suitor. His profile on the show's Web site lists him as a Calgary investment banker who claims to mold "player girls" into "princesses."

Late Wednesday night, Jenkins was said to have been located in Seattle en route to Canada, but negotiations to detain him apparently fell through at the last moment, sources told FOX 11 News.


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