[Stacy Burke] Jasmine loved being at the Playboy Mansion.
And she had the perfect body, perfect smile,
long blonde hair, just your perfect Playboymodel.
Hi, I'm Jasmine, and today we're at sea level.
To be a Playmate, it's a ticket to the high life.
And Jasmine saw that.
[Mark Ebner] You know, the world was pretty much her oyster,
just waiting for her to crack it open.
[Holly Madison] Men want to date a Playboy model,
but they're also simultaneously very, very jealous.
They didn't love each other. He didn't even like her.
And she didn't like him.
She sends a text, "Send a plane for me. Come get me."
I am just like, "What?"
I had to double-take when I found out
that she had been married before.
[Gregory Pelton] I was just like, "No.
No one who loved a human being would do this."
You always think, "Oh, God, what could I have done?"
[Pelton] Our dispatcher received a call.
There was a individual who was out looking for cans early in the morning.
[Sergio Lepe] And they came across this suitcase in a dumpster.
It was unzipped.
And he believed there was a child in that suitcase.
[Pelton] We arrived on the scene.
And I realized immediately it was not a small child.
It was a, uh, small female.
[Lepe] The adult female was, uh, nude.
But you couldn't really see her face
because the way the body was positioned inside the suitcase.
I started looking at, uh, all the fingers,
I realized they were all missing.
Thumbs, uh, fingers.
...and I looked at the coroner.
"Her teeth are gonna be missing, too."
Immediately, that's when I went, "Oh, my God.
Who would've done this?"
The cartel was a possibility.
This is southern California, we're a couple of miles from the border.
This was in a gang area, cartels used the gangs.
She could've been a snitch.
You know, it could've been a serial killer.
[Pelton] She went to the Orange County Coroner's Office for an autopsy.
We need to start trying to identify this female.
We can't do prints,
and her face was too badly beaten
to really try to make a positive identification in any way.
But we had a sketch artist come in.
And we put the sketch on the media
to see if anybody could recognize her.
[Pelton] The killer thought that
they had done everything they needed to do
to conceal the death and/or the identity
of the person they killed.
Bu they forgot one item.
[Lepe] During the autopsy,
they removed her breast implants.
Every prosthetic, including breast implants,
have serial numbers on them.
[Pelton] Her name was Jasmine Fiore.
[Lepe] Jasmine was 28 years old.
We learned that she was a former Playboymodel.
I'm Jasmine, have a good time.
I was watching TV and it came up on the news.
And they showed her picture.
And my jaw dropped.
[Ajay Pathak] It was Jasmine, and it was our Jasmine.
We were stunned.
How could this... who could do something like this?
How could any human being do something like this?
[Burke] It just blew me away. Like, I just talked to her.
Like, it's one of those things when people say,
"Oh, they died. No, I just talked to her. They couldn't be dead."
But she was.
[Ebner] When I heard that
a Playboyparty hostess
had been murdered and dismembered,
that's all I needed to jump on this story.
[Holly] I only knew about Jasmine in hindsight,
but my friend Stacy knew her pretty well.
[Burke] Jasmine came to our fun in the sun parties
at the Playboy Mansion, and that's where I met her.
I used to date Hugh Hefner as one of his girlfriends,
and I lived at the mansion.
When I was a girlfriend, Holly Madison was the main girlfriend.
And it was fun. [chuckles]
Stacy Burke is a close friend of mine,
she'd been going to Mansion parties for a long time,
and even after she stopped dating Hef,
kept coming up there as a friend.
[Burke] Playmates, girlfriends,
or some girls that Hef found attractive
that were allowed to come to fun in the sun,
would come around in their bikinis,
and we would just have a pool party.
The woman who would be invited to the fun in the sun parties
had to fit a certain beauty standard.
Hef looked over Polaroids of women
to see if he thought they were, you know, measuring up
to be a pool party girl.
[Burke] Jasmine loved being at the Playboy Mansion.
She fit right in.
She was tan, she was blonde, big boobs.
Perfect Playboytype.
[Ebner] The camera loved her.
She wanted the world, and she went after it.
[Burke] You would think she'd be stuck up, but she was not.
She was very sweet, very soft spoken,
and very nice and courteous.
In the mid-2000s, Playboywas definitely more than just a magazine.
It was seen as a lifestyle, a brand of parties.
The Playboy golf tournaments were kinda like a regular golf tournament,
but more fun.
There were tons of women hired to work the events,
they were called the Playboy Girls of Golf.
[Pathak] Our girls of Playboy Golf were the hostesses of the event.
And Jasmine became one of our girls of Playboy Golf
in 2004.
We usually had about 35 events across the United States
with several thousand golfers,
and really, thousands of girls.
And the girls were fantastic.
And people could actually get a taste of Hef's life.
When we were on the golf course, we weren't,
[whispering] quiet on the, uh, course.
[in normal voice] We had DJs, we had games and fun.
And there are some guys that never took their golf clubs out of their cart.
Just, like, at every hole, there was, like,
a booth where women were handing out shots.
Jasmine definitely knew that, you know,
she was a very beautiful girl. But she had a smile, right?
And so, with that smile, she could charm you.
And if she's having a great time, all our clients are having a great time.
Everybody's having fun.
After about a year of actually being one of the girls of Playboy Golf hostesses,
we asked her if she would like to help coordinate
the Girls of Playboy Golf for our events in Las Vegas and in LA.
And she jumped right on that.
[Ebner] Jasmine Fiore was brought up
outside of Santa Cruz, California
in a small town called Bonny Doon.
She was an only child.
But she wasn't a silver spoon kid
or a trust fund kid, by any stretch of the imagination.
Her father left her mother when she was nine years old,
leaving her mother with limited resources
to raise her alone.
And she was somewhat of a tomboy.
She went on a racecar expedition across the country.
She rode horses with the best of the cowboys.
She was one ambitious,
fun-loving young woman.
But she had her sights set
far outside of Bonny Doon.
By 2006, she was splitting her time
between Vegas and LA.
But once she was entrenched enough
and savvy enough in the modeling business,
you know, the world was pretty much her oyster,
just waiting for her to crack it open.
Jasmine was probably the type of woman who was told,
you know, since she was an adult,
"You look like you should be in Playboy."
And I think Jasmine, like a lot of other women,
probably saw working the parties or working as a Girl of Golf
as a stepping stone to something bigger,
like a pictorial in the magazine.
[Pathak] To be a Playmate, it's a ticket to the high life.
Jasmine saw that. All of a sudden, things happen.
You meet people. You're doing things that you never would do
if you were from a small town.
All of a sudden, you're getting invited to places.
You're going out at nightclubs.
Places that you'd have to wait in line, you walk right in.
[Holly] Jasmine had the typical California girl look,
she was tall with a beautiful body,
usually that was the type of look that Hef really liked for the centerfolds.
[Pathak] But Jasmine understood that,
you know, a centerfold, it's rare.
It's 12 a year. And that's it.
[Ebner] Nonetheless, she still had ambitions
to become aPlayboy centerfold.
And did submit portfolios of photos.
[Holly] When Jasmine was auditioning to be a Playmate in the early 2000s,
it was a very competitive time.
There were so many women, thousands and thousands a month,
submitting photos to be a centerfold.
And even if Jasmine didn't make it as a centerfold,
there were still a lot of doors open for her within thePlayboy world.
And somebody that they may want to be a brand spokesperson,
yeah, she had all those attributes and traits,
and that possibility was always there.
When Jasmine became one of our coordinators at Playboy Golf,
she'd heard me make this speech before.
"Hey, you're gonna meet a lot of people.
You have to be careful.
You have to be able to understand that,
you know, not everybody's who they say they are.
When you're in the safety of our Playboy party,
we can ensure that you can have the best of times and still be safe.
But if you decide to venture out,
we can't stop you from doing that.
But we can't control what happens.
You can't trust everybody. You can't."
[Steve Holliday] Your question was about mutilation.
Yes, the fingers and teeth were removed.
[woman crying]
As soon as the coroner's office gave us the name of Jasmine Fiore,
we ran in our systems to see if she was reported missing.
And that's when we found out she had actually been reported missing...
...on the Saturday that we found her body.
[Lepe] At that point, LAPD contacts us,
and we learn that she's married to Ryan Jenkins.
[Pelton] According to the missing persons report
that Ryan Jenkins filed,
he made comments to them like,
"She's been missing since August 14th",
the day before we found the body.
As soon as we know about Ryan Jenkins,
and that he is the person who reported Jasmine Fiore missing,
we were frantically trying to get a hold of him.
We get his phone number off the report,
so we know it's his phone and we are calling and calling.
And he's just not picking up the phone for us.
When you're looking at a homicide,
you're always gonna look at the husband.
Doesn't mean it's the husband, but we gotta talk to him.
We gotta eliminate him just like we eliminate everyone else.
The missing persons detective at the LAPD
actually got a hold of Jenkins.
And told them,
"Yeah, I reported her missing, but I gotta get back to Canada
because I have visa issues."
Thought it was pretty strange that
he reports his wife missing,
and now he's leaving because of "visa issues"?
[Lepe] We dug a little deeper,
and we learned that he was in a reality TV show,
Megan Wants a Millionaire.
[jazzy theme song playing]
[Pelton] This was months before the murder of Jasmine Fiore.
The star of the show was Megan Hauserman,
a formerPlayboy model.
[Megan Hauserman] In 2005,
I got discovered by Playboy.
And they made me a Cyber Girl.
If you're a Playmate, you're featured
as a centerfold in the magazine.
If you're a Cyber Girl, you're featured on their website.
Playboy,at that time, had all different kinds of products
that they were trying to promote,
so I did runway shows with their clothing line.
They had a Playboy concierge service,
so they would fly me to different nightclubs.
I needed that to be on the permanent list
to the Playboy Mansion parties,
which was like a golden ticket.
I love the Playboy world. I couldn't get enough of it.
But in 2007, I just got too busy with reality TV
to continue withPlayboy.
- Hi! - [man] Hi, Megan, how's it going?
[Hauserman] So, the concept ofMegan Wants a Millionaire
was that I was single,
I was looking to be in a relationship,
I would prefer that person to have a lot of money. [laughs]
And also be single.
And for us to live happily ever after.
The 17 bachelors had to have
a minimum of a net worth of $1 million.
Oh, my God!
And the casting agents held casting parties
at different nightclubs, and interviewed men
to be on the show.
Fourteen of you are pre-approved.
Three of you will be declined.
[Ebner] Ryan Jenkins lived in Calgary.
It's a big, rich, wealthy oil town
in the provinces in Canada.
And he definitely had dreams of stardom,
whatever it may be, or whatever it took.
I met Ryan Jenkins on the first episode.
Hello, Megan.
[Hauserman] I remember he was wearing a purple shirt
and I had a purple dress on.
And my dog had a purple bow on her neck.
So we all matched.
And I liked him from the very beginning.
Ryan would spend his time writing love letters to me.
[reading] "Hey Baby, I just wanted to tell you
that I'm having a great time on the show.
And it's all because of you.
I always feel a connection with you,
regardless of what we are doing,
as if you and I are the only ones in the room.
I can't wait to have you all to myself,
as I truly feel that a life together with you would be amazing.
Your boy, Ryan."
We had a real relationship happening.
But we had to keep it a secret.
This is an elimination contest show,
called Megan Wants a Millionaire,you know?
Pretty much have to be a millionaire, don't you?
So, he told the, the casting director,
and it went all the way up the chain in production,
that he was worth $2.5 million.
Ryan claimed to be a millionaire,
but it became obvious that
he really didn't have much money.
[Pelton] Ryan's father's a, uh, real estate developer,
has property in Canada.
And he's actually the millionaire in the family.
Ryan's not a millionaire, his father was a millionaire.
Window seat?
[Hauserman] But I didn't care, I really liked him.
When we were down to the last three contestants,
I told a producer that I wanted to pick Ryan.
And she said that was not what they had planned.
And that was the first time
that I was made aware that...
...the decision wasn't up to me.
I had no time to tell him that I was gonna eliminate him,
plus I could not have jeopardized the show and told him
before the elimination ceremony.
Hi, boys.
Ryan was standing in front of me
with the other two contestants, the final three.
And I...
was shaking.
I had a microphone in my ear,
and I was just repeating what they were telling me to say.
And I had to tell him he was eliminated.
And he was just shaking his head
and saying, like,
"No, that's not true."
[Holly] A lot of times, reality shows don't
have a lot of regard for the people involved,
because they want to get the story, that's the first priority.
They want a TV show that's gonna grab eyes
and that everybody's gonna watch.
So they're gonna get the content they want,
they're gonna edit it the way they want,
you know, they're gonna make you say what they want you to say, basically.
[Hauserman] So, after the elimination ceremony,
he got back to his hotel
and he started calling me...
[telephone ringing]
[Hauserman] ...over and over and over again.
[telephone ringing]
And, I mean, I was getting ready
to fly to Mexico to film the finale.
And I had producers with me.
Could not talk to him on the phone.
And then I was planning on calling him
and explaining everything to him, smoothing it all over.
And then we could just go on with our happy plans.
And two days later
he called me,
and before I got to explain to him
what happened, he said...
..."I have met the love of my life,
and I'm married."
I really could not believe it.
Because just two days before that,
he told me he was gonna marry me
and I was the love of his life.
Well, to say it was a whirlwind romance
would be an understatement.
[Hauserman] Ryan told me that
he met her in a nightclub in Vegas.
He asked her for her phone number,
she put her phone number in his phone,
And under the contacts, she put her birthday.
When he looked at the phone,
he saw that it was also his birthday.
They shared the same birthday.
And he thought that that was a sign that she was the one,
and he had to marry her.
[Ebner] And that made Jasmine believe that they were meant to be.
So they met on March 16th,
and two days later, March 18th, 2009,
they're married at the Little White Chapel in Las Vegas.
Ryan...
...thought that if he couldn't be married to me,
he would find another Playboymodel to be married to.
[Holly] I think a lot of men, particularly Ryan in this case,
want to date a Playboymodel,
or to have that kind of trophy on his arm
to get a lot of attention, or reflect that attention back on them.
[Hauserman] He presented himself as a very wealthy millionaire
that was gonna be starring in a TV show
that was gonna make him famous.
She presented herself as a big model,
you know,Playboy.
And they had the idea that they were gonna be this showbiz couple in Vegas.
They seemed like a glamorous power couple, but it was all a facade.
They kinda got married really quick,
without knowing each other that well.
And having some problems,
and she just didn't know how to handle it.
It's starting to look to Jasmine that, uh, oof.
She threw it in for the wrong guy,
this guy doesn't have any money.
He kept promising that he'd have money
and be able to take care of them,
but he couldn't get his money into the country from Canada.
She worked hard for her money, and he was dipping into it.
And she resented that.
He's not the guy he told her he was.
[Hauserman] A couple weeks later, Ryan actually sent me
this message from Vegas.
[reading] "I got caught up after the show
and made a hasty decision with a girl, as you know.
But it's very obvious I am not with my soulmate, here.
If you'd like to see if there could be still something, we should talk."
I just had a soft spot for him,
and I felt like
even if we weren't gonna have a relationship,
I cared about him, and I wanted to help him.
[Sergio Lepe] Ryan was a person of interest,
but we also had to look at others.
But we wanted to speak with anyone that had
any contact with Jasmine,
specifically, you know, days before her murder.
[Greg Pelton] It came back from the coroner's office
that DNA was present on Jasmine Fiore's body,
and when they did the rape kit,
they found semen. Guess what?
DNA's in the system.
Michael Cardosi is a parolee
who had just been released from prison.
[Lepe] And he was a former husband of Jasmine.
I am just, like, "What?"
I had to double take when I found out
that she had been married before.
And we learned that she had been with him
days before being murdered.
[Mark Ebner] On Tuesday, August 11, 2009,
four days before her body was found,
Jasmine went down to San Diego
to greet Michael Cardosi
as he was being released from prison
after serving a lengthy stretch
for drug trafficking.
She did more than, uh, visit.
His DNA was found at the scene.
And it's no surprise that when
the detectives in charge found out,
they wanted to have a look at this Michael Cardosi guy.
Originally, we thought, just got out of prison,
semen's in her.
You know, definitely a suspect.
I don't think there's much room for speculation
as to why Jasmine and Michael Cardosi split up.
He got busted, and went to prison.
Marriage over.
And they divorced in 2005.
[Pelton] He was still in love with Jasmine,
and I think it's pretty clear that she had
very strong feelings for him, too,
because she literally went down to San Diego to see him.
[Ebner] When he was questioned by detectives,
he couldn't have had a more solid alibi.
He had a monitor around his ankle
tracking his every movement.
He definitely wasn't anywhere near
the scene of the murder.
[Pelton] At this point, I was positive
that Ryan Jenkins was our suspect,
and we feel that he's running from us,
so we looked more into his background,
and, you know, we found out
that he has a criminal history.
And he had a prior domestic violence
out of Canada.
[Pelton] He was convicted for assaulting his girlfriend,
and was sentenced to 15 months' probation,
and a sex addiction therapy program.
[Hauserman] Ryan became very jealous, and very angry
to see me even talking to other contestants.
[chuckling] On the show, I had to kiss all of the guys.
It's a dating show.
And he had a hard time watching me
kiss the other contestants.
On March 8, he wrote a message,
"Seeing u kiss my bro was hard to deal with..."
Having been in Playboy,
or working with Playboy, as a woman,
you can encounter men in your relationships
who are really attracted to that,
but they're also, simultaneously,
very, very jealous, and insecure,
and can't handle it.
[Ebner] Ryan Jenkins was
absolutely, fiercely jealous of Jasmine.
If she so much as talked or texted to a guy,
he was gonna be jealous.
He was prone to violence.
[Hauserman] I had no idea that he was previously arrested
for domestic violence.
The show did some type of background checks,
but the background check company missed it.
From what I heard,
he had his previous arrest expunged in Canada.
[Pelton] Apparently, in Las Vegas,
about a month after they got married,
he saw her talking with someone,
he got jealous,
pushed her into the pool,
and he was arrested and forced to remain
on domestic violence in Las Vegas.
[siren wails]
And he wound up spending a night in jail for that.
And that case was still pending,
it hadn't gone to court yet,
when her homicide happened, four months later.
I met my husband, like,
five months before marrying him,
so Jasmine gravitated towards me
because we kind of had the same situation,
in her eyes.
She asked me advice
on how I handle when things get rough,
because she said something like,
"He gets angry.
I don't know how to deal with it."
And I go, "I understand. My husband gets angry as well.
Get him a man cave. Try to keep busy."
Just, basically like girls, like, "I know.
Aren't they terrible? Aren't husbands terrible?"
Just basic girl talk, like that.
I was just thinking it was more like my marriage.
I didn't realize how much she was going through.
Our staff was trying to call her to say,
"Hey, are you gonna be involved this year?"
And we didn't get any return phone calls.
She just stopped coming around,
and generally,
when something happens like that,
you always wonder is somebody okay,
'cause usually people just don't shut you off like that.
[Hauserman] In June, 2009,
Ryan came back to L.A.,
and called me and asked me
if I wanted to go out to dinner with him,
and I agreed.
Ryan looked like he had lost several pounds.
His face was very thin. He was very pale.
He was shaky.
He was paranoid.
He was just not himself anymore.
Ryan told me that Jasmine was ruining his life,
but he's also obsessed with her not leaving him,
because he wants to win.
He just can't accept any, like, rejection.
So, I convinced Ryan to be on season three
of VH1's I Love Money,
for the sole fact that I thought
it would separate him from Jasmine for awhile,
and he really needed to be away from her.
They didn't love each other.
He didn't even like her, and she didn't like him.
I told him, "Leave Jasmine,
and get some space from her,
and just go get away from everything."
Me meeting with him, and her finding out,
set off a big chain of events between the two of them.
Ryan filmed I Love Moneythree
in early July of the summer of 2009.
[Ebner] By the time he went to Mexico
to shoot the second reality show,
I Love Money, part three,
Jasmine dyed her hair.
She just wanted to become a different person,
and she was actively trying
to get their marriage annulled,
kaput, ended.
Producers told me that he was so obsessed
with winning the money
so that maybe he could win back his wife...
[cell phone ringing]
- ...and he would just call her all the time from the show... - [cell phone ringing]
...trying to keep an eye on her.
[Ebner] On July 27, Jenkins sends
this plaintive email to Jasmine.
"I want you back. I'm gonna do better.
I can't live without you. I need you."
Now, how did they end up back together?
Maybe she was giving him one last shot,
or maybe she was just hanging out
until she could be done with him.
It's hard to say.
Everybody wants to look from the outside, and say,
"Well, the first time you saw a red flag,
you should have left,"
and it's not like that when you're in it, at all.
Like, you spend the early part of a relationship
seeing the best of a person,
and you want to move forward in a relationship
thinking it can get better.
You think that the first thing that went wrong
is a onetime thing.
That person apologizes.
It can take a lot for the average person
to get out of an abusive relationship.
[Pelton] So, while the manhunt for Ryan Jenkins is going on,
this case had broken open in the news
on all the celebrity pages.
It was on, you know, ABC, NBC, CBS.
Police say 28-year-old Jasmine Fiore
was strangled.
[Holly] The media coverage surrounding
Jasmine's death was really brutal.
You know, this came at a time when there was
all kinds of new tabloid media
chasing the story.
People were searching for nude photos of her online.
It was, like, one of the top searches.
It just goes to show, you know,
the appetite for how sensational
this case was.
[Pelton] You can't listen to the radio
or turn on the TV without seeing it.
I mean, even I was dumbfounded
by how this became such a big story.
Police have found some key evidence
in the case of murdered model, Jasmine Fiore.
[Pelton] We were doing search warrants.
We put a rush on it.
We got Jasmine's cell phone number,
and we got Ryan's cell phone number.
That immediately gives me
not only photographs and videos,
but it gives me the text messages,
and we found out that the day before she died,
they went to a poker tournament
in San Diego.
We had a team of detectives go to San Diego
to investigate the poker tournament
and the hotel where they stayed.
[Pelton] And it turns out that
the hotel has an extensive video system.
That's the smoking gun.
That allowed us to piece together
Jasmine's final moments with Ryan Jenkins,
and figure out what happened to Jasmine.
On August 13, 2009,
we see them arriving at 3:28 in the afternoon.
We see Jasmine's car pulling up.
They took her Mercedes.
We see them get out of the vehicle.
We see all their luggage
being loaded onto one of those luggage dollies.
One of the pieces of luggage
is the same piece of luggage that her body was found in.
So, they were staying on the ground floor.
They go to their room.
We don't see them again till 6:25,
when they're leaving the hotel room,
and both of them are decked out
for a night to go out to this poker tournament.
[Lepe] So, we learned, during the poker tournament,
she was texting a new person of interest,
a gentleman of the name of Robert Hasman,
who was a former boyfriend.
[Ebner] Robert Hasman was a high-end realtor
in greater Las Vegas.
He showed her the finer side of life,
at the very highest of levels.
On the night she goes missing,
she sends a text to Robert Hasman
saying, "Send a plane for me. Come get me.
I'm coming back to Vegas to be with you.
I am done with Ryan Jenkins."
[Pelton] At the poker tournament,
Ryan and Jasmine started getting into an argument,
to the point where they decided
they needed to go.
[Ebner] They went after hours to this nightclub/hotel
called the Ivy.
They arrived at the Ivy around 12:30 a.m.
Witnesses from the Ivy say they really started
getting into an argument at this point,
and I think it's because he may have discovered
the text messages she had been sending
to her ex-boyfriend, Robert Hasman,
and so Robert Hasman said that the last text message
he received from Jasmine was, "Suck it,"
which was out of characteristics
with everything she had been texting him
up to that point.
And we know who sent that text.
Ryan Jenkins sent that text.
[Pelton] According to witnesses,
they leave the Ivy at 1:30 a.m. in the morning.
They go back to pick up her vehicle
at the poker tournament.
This is the last time anyone sees Jasmine Fiore.
She's not upset. She's not crying.
They left the casino at 2:30 in the morning.
We don't see Ryan Jenkins again
until 4:30 in the morning, roughly those times,
so there's a two hour period missing here,
where I realized something happened
from the time they left where the poker tournament was
to the time we next see him running to his hotel room.
He looks panicked and in a rush.
You can see what the catalyst
for Jenkins' rage and jealousy was,
because when we look at her phone after the fact,
she had been texting Robert all night long,
saying, "I'm coming back to Vegas.
I want to be with you."
[Pelton] And he's just, like, "How could you do this to me?
You're my love. You're my life."
He snaps,
and he beats her.
The video surveillance never shows
Jasmine entering the room,
but we know that the parking lot
is right behind their room.
They have a small patio, and you have access
directly to the patio from the parking lot.
We searched the room.
We didn't find anything in the room.
The room had already been serviced by the maid service,
but on the back patio,
we found slivers of hair, and a little bit of blood,
which matches that of Jasmine Fiore.
We see Ryan running around frantically,
coming into the room.
This indicates to us that
she was not able to walk on her own,
and he didn't want to bring her
through the hotel lobby.
He takes her onto the porch, runs around,
goes into the room with his passkey,
opens the back door,
and brings her inside the room,
and according to witnesses
who were in rooms opposite of theirs,
they're arguing.
He cannot, obviously, convince her
not to press charges, not to call the police,
and he snaps.
[Hauserman] Three weeks into
Megan Wants a Millionaire airing,
there was breaking news on the TV.
[anchor] Police named
a suspect in the brutal killing
of model Jasmine Fiore.
It's her ex-husband, Ryan Jenkins.
I was in the shower,
and my roommate ran into the shower and said,
"Ryan's on TV.
He killed her."
And that there was
an international manhunt for Ryan.
I immediately thought it was an accident.
I didn't think that
he could have purposely killed her.
[Pelton] He strangled her to death,
in the hotel room, in San Diego.
And then, as an afterthought,
he's thinking,
"How do I keep her from being found?
When they find her,
I don't want them to identify her."
I believe he took her into the bathtub/shower area,
and cut off her fingers.
I believe he flushed them down the toilet,
and teeth fragments were still inside of her mouth,
and inside the back.
After killing her, and cutting off her fingers,
breaking her teeth,
he put her into her suitcase,
zips it closed,
takes it out the back of the room,
onto the patio area,
and then, into the vehicle.
We can deduct this
because none of the luggage came out the front.
The next time we see Ryan is at 6:24 a.m.,
and he's leaving the room
with what looks like his clothing,
in his arms, stacked up.
According to our search warrants,
we were able to watch Ryan drive from the hotel
up the freeway.
My theory is he was looking for a place to dump the body.
He can't find one.
Now, he's going northbound on the 5,
and at Beach Boulevard,
he sees a bunch of apartment complexes.
He sees a dumpster.
He opens the dumpster, sees that it's empty.
He takes the suitcase out of his car,
that Jasmine's body is in,
and he heaves it into the trash can.
We now have a warrant
for the arrest of Ryan Alexander Jenkins
for the murder of Jasmine.
[Lepe] We were one step behind him,
and we feel we're getting real close to him,
but I know that he knows that he's on the run.
His reputation is him being a killer, a monster.
That was how he was being identified,
so I could only imagine he was desperate.
[Pelton] Ryan Jenkins went to Vegas.
He went to his storage unit.
He got his wakeboard boat.
[Lepe] We got information that he hitched it to his BMW,
and then, he travels north, to Washington.
We notify the U.S. border,
in case he decides to cross into Canada.
And we brought the Royal Canadian Mounties into it.
[Lepe] We get information
that there was a speedboat speeding
near the Canadian border of the U.S.
The United States Coast Guard
spots Ryan Jenkins in his boat.
It's at night, it's high seas,
Ryan is out in the open ocean in his boat.
They were trying to stop him,
but they literally lost him.
Ryan brought his boat back, and parked it at a marina
half a mile from the Canadian border,
and took off on foot.
[Lepe] He was able to walk into Canada
where there is no border crossing.
There's no fences, no nothing.
[chuckling] It's just a ditch
that separates the U.S. and Canada,
so anyone can just cross it.
And then, his sister came and picked him up,
and she drove him to Hope, Canada,
and he checked in to the Thunder Bird Motel.
I believe he felt
an enormous amount of guilt for what he did.
I think he felt even more guilt
that he couldn't get away with it,
and that his life was ruined,
and he was not gonna spend it in prison,
which is why he hung himself.
[Ebner] So, when they found his body,
they also found his last will and testament.
"I'm sure everyone feels I'm a monster."
"Let me tell you that Jasmine was, in fact,
a far greater monster than I could ever be.
I merely wanted to love someone."
"My heart and love for her was pure and powerful."
"It drove me, and brought out the very best in me."
"I'm sorry for running away from responsibility.
There is just no place for me in this world anymore.
Jasmine was the key to my happiness."
[Burke] You know, you always think,
"But God, what could I have done?"
Like, I wish I had told her to get away from him,
but I didn't know to what level
they were fighting,
or how bad he was.
[Ebner] He stole everything from her.
You know?
He destroyed her.
I mean, how much havoc
can one monster create on this earth?
He's the worst of the worst, and he deserves
every bit of hell that he no doubt made.
[Pathak] Jasmine was robbed of dreams and ambitions,
and there's no excuse for that.
[Hauserman] VH1 canceled the show.
That ended my reality TV career,
that ended my modeling career.
People just didn't want to be associated with murderers,
and
that was the end.
[Holly] This case is an extreme example
of the glamor, you know, that you see from the outside,
it just not measuring up in real life.
[Pelton] Working this case, having found Jasmine Fiore
in the suitcase, and what was done to her,
that's something that stays with me.
[Holly] This was a real woman
that so many people that I know knew and loved,
and it's a tragedy.