June 7, 2022 • 34 mins
Todays guests are true crime producers Lisa DiGiovine, Tim Hamilton and Jeff Shane.
This week we look at the story of a reality star and his beautiful wife who became embroiled in a shocking and senseless murder; proving that the truth really is stranger than fiction.
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Falling in love is the best feeling in the world.
You see stars, you feel giddy, but sometimes that makes
you do crazy things, and sometimes that means murder. Just
because the story starts out with once upon a Times
doesn't mean it ends happily ever after. Welcome to Crazy
and Love, a production of Katie Studios and I Heart Radio.
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Today's guests are true crime producers Jeff Shane, Tim Hamilton's
and Lisa d. Giovine. Episode thirty The Case of the
Bikini Model, The Reality Star and the Gray suit Case.
Twenty eight year old Jasmine Fury was an attractive blonde
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who made a good living as a model. She was smart, ambitious,
and gold driven. Jasmine lived in Los Angeles and worked
in Las Vegas. She was a small town girl from
northern California and she had big dreames. On March sixteenth,
two thousand and nine, Jasmine was in a casino on
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the strip when she met Ryan Jenkins. It was literally
love at first sight. Ryan was a charismatic reality star
when he made a name for himself when he was
cast on the VH one dating show Megan Wants a Millionaire.
Thirty two year old Ryan was described on the show
as quote a smooth operator, and according to the show's producers,
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he was worth a cool two point five million dollars.
Ryan was one of the contestants vying for the love
of the blonde beauty Megan Houserman. When Megan didn't choose him,
the overly confident Ryan was shocked. At that point, he
went to Vegas to lick his wounds and flaunt his
newly minted celebrity status. Jasmine immediately caught his eye, and
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within just two days of meeting, the couple tied the
knot at the Las Vegas Little White Chapel on the Strip.
Here's Jeff. Jasmine Fiore grew up outside of Santa Cruz, California,
in a town called Bonnie Doon. It's a very small
town with a population of just above three thousand people.
There's a few wineries, but no city center or anything
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like that, and she came from a divorced family. Her
parents broke up when she was eight and she was
raised by her single mom. Lisa, described as a great
kid who was lots of fun and always had her
own agenda. Her nickname growing up was General Jasmine. Jasmine
was kind of a tomboy who loved nature and horses.
She also had a really strong work ethic, clocking it
at a local grocery storecture school. She was even so
driven that at sixteen, she opened up her own retirement account. Tim,
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what can you tell us about Jasmine as she got older, Well,
it didn't surprise me at such a young age she
opened up a retirement account because she's always been really
business oriented and always trying to put back into herself
what she wants from life. So she wanted to be
a model, so early in her modeling career she invested
in herself and got breast implants and it did help
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her get jobs. In two thousand six, she moved from
Lay to Las Vegas and worked as a car dealer,
bikini model, and body paint model. She made casino appearances
and appeared in commercials. She modeled for Playboy. She often
worked their golfing events, and her former manager Ken Henderson
described her lovingly as he said, Jasmine was energy when
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she walked in the door. Every picture that you see
with her with that big smile, that was her and
you could just feel it. It was real. It wasn't phony,
It was who she was unquote. Jasmine didn't feel defined
by the blonde stereotype that many blondes feel weighs them down.
She had ambition, and she had obtained a real estate license,
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and she wanted to open a gym. She also planned
to start a body care and clothing line. People who
knew her described her as a wholesome, fun loving, vibrant
and she would often surprise people with gifts because that
was her heart. She was a really sweet, wonderful, kind person.
According to her friends, every man who Jasmine met would
instantly fall in love with her. She just had that
thing about her. So, Lisa, in your research, what do
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we know about Ryan? Well, Ryan fell head over heels
with Jasmine, and Jasmine found him handsome, charismatic, and sexy.
He was everything she wanted in a guy. Ryan was
Jasmine's second marriage, she married when she was younger, and
that marriage fell apart win her husband landed in jail. Now.
Ryan was from Canada, but he resided in both Vegas
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and l A and he was described on the reality
show Megan Wants a Millionaire as an architect, a property developer,
and an investment banker. Now Megan Wants a Millionaire. The
reality show was a spinoff of the popular Rock of
Love with Brett Michaels. You know, everybody's vuying tou get
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with Brett Michaels. So Megan was this blonde bombshell who
the producers loved and Brett dumped in a previous season,
so they gave her her own show. Megan and Ryan
kind of hit it off to such an extent that
Ryan was super confident that he would be chosen as
Megan's love interest and even flew his dad out for
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the show. I mean, he was confident he had Megan
in the bag. So in real life, they're little Teta
Tay went on unbeknownst to the producers, but the producers
did not want them to choose Ryan because they didn't
find him as charismatic as the guy they wanted her
to pick, so she had to pick someone else. Ryan
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came in third, and in fact, Megan even contacted Ryan
after the show was done, but by then he was
married to Jasmine. The Flavor of Love Rock of Love
shows on v H one were so popular for a
moment in time that I think everyone remembers characters from them,
and Megan definitely stood out, like I remember her, She
held a puppy, issue had the big boobs, the big
blonde hair, and so it's no surprise she got her
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in spinoff where she was trying to find millionaires. It
always amazes me how people think they're going to come
on a reality show and five find love in five minutes. However,
according to all of the information we know about Ryan,
he really did find love in two days and married
her in Vegas. That just seems a little fast, you know,
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but if it goes with his being on TV looking
for for love on TV, I guess it's not so shocking.
He would think he could find it in real life
after two days. And if you did a side by
side of Jasmine and Megan, they look very similar. They
both have similar body type, similar faces, similar hairstyles, and
so he clearly has a type. Maybe his confidence got
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a little tested and he decided to step out there
in a big way. Jasmine, you know, was really driven
her whole life, as we know, and so she probably
was attracted to Ryan's confidence and his success too. You know,
he's a very financially successful man who has had an
air about him apparently, so that probably drew her to him.
In a big way. Yeah, I'm sure always. And he's handsome,
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he's a good looking guy. I mean, he was just
on television and they make a cute couple. Ryan wanted celebrity.
This guy found reality shows as a kind of entrance
point into show business. And I think he was that
guy that liked being the center of attention, leading the life,
getting pointed at, getting pointed out. And when he saw Jasmine,
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Jasmine was a head turner. I mean she was super attractive,
and I think he liked pairing up with somebody who
would also sort of match that thing in him that
he craved, which was, look at me, look at me.
I think you're right. I do think somebody goes on
reality television to find love after only a few days
because they're thirsty for fame and notoriety. And you know,
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he gets to flaunt his things and what he has
and his two point five million dollars in the bank
and his good looks, and you know, I think you're
totally right. He was attracted to what he was himself,
a good looking, attention seeking young guy. According to Jasmine's mother,
the couple flought constantly due to Ryan's jealousy. He didn't
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like Jasmine's male friendships, including some of her exes, and
by June of two thousand and nine, only three months
into their marriage, Ryan hit Jasmine on the arm and
pushed her into a pool in a jealous rage. This
was all witnessed by Travis Heinrich, Jasmine's x fiancee. Ryan
was arrested and had a court date set for December.
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In the middle of this chaos, Ryan headed off to
shoot another reality show, I Love Money three. On the show,
he won the two d and fifty thousand dollar prize.
Even though he was not supposed to talk about his
win because the show had not aired, he confided in Jasmine.
By August, the pair smoothed over their differences and attends
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at a celebrity poker tournament together. On August thirteenth, two
thousand and nine, the newly brunette Jasmine and her husband
Ryan checked into an upscale hotel in San Diego. Here's
Jeff Yeah, Jasmine's ex fiance This guy Travis, So she
maintained a good friendship with after the breakup. Later told
the press that Ryan was extremely jealous. He would go
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through Jasmine's phone at night, even at some points Travis
also said that Jasmine once confided into him that she
and Ryan were done and she was in over her
head in the relationship, but that she didn't know how
to get out. That probably was a really horrible feeling. Yeah,
on the outside, everything kind of looked great, right, It's
all the optics of it, But there was a rumor
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starting to circulate that things beneath weren't so great. Friends
of the couple said there was a deal made so
that Ryan's visa could be extended, remember he was from Canada,
so that if he married Jasmine he could stay in
the country. The rumor also stated that he promised to
give Jasmine a ten thous dollar a month stipend if
you would if she went him, but he never paid it,
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and she was quite upset about that. Jasmine was all
so paying for more than her share of expenses, and
it seemed that his money was always kind of tied up,
and that he wasn't flipping the bill, he wasn't paying
for the dinners, he wasn't really flaunting the money that
he said on television he had. It's interesting because around
this time Ryan went on the show I Love Money
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three and the executive producer for the show, This guy,
Mark Cronin, described his behavior while they were in production
as kind of weird. Apparently, during filming, he kept telling
Jasmine over the phone that he was going to win
the whole show and that he was going to give
her the life he always promised with this money, and
then he would flip up from the excitement of that
to this kind of jealousy, asking her where he where
she was last night, what she was doing. He wanted
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to know her whereabouts when he was in Mexico shooting
the show. Well, the folks on the reality show noticed
all of this, and if there's something going on, they
want to use it in the show, and so they
started incorporating this storyline of his jealousy right onto the show,
and it became about Ryan's obsession with Jasmine. You know,
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I don't people understand when you go on a reality show,
you're twenty four hours a day being recorded. Your audio
is being recorded, there's cameras everywhere, and there's no privacy.
There's everything you say, everything that comes out of your mouth,
it's constantly being recorded. So the fact that Mark was
going to turn this into a storyline doesn't surprise me.
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I bet though it would surprise Ryan to find that out,
because little does he know that they can hear everything
the whole time, and that he is going to become
a center figure of the show. And I was going
to say just the opposite, that Ryan knew exactly what
he was doing, because you get more screen time and
everybody would watch him because reality shows love when you cry,
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when you get mad, it's a car accident you can't
look away from. And so if something's actually happening in
their midst, I bet you he was amping it up
a little bit to kind of give the production company
a bit more because remember he actually he won the show.
It's actually a very good point. We're going to take
a break. We'll be back in just a moment. Aggression
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is never a good thing, especially when you got married
after knowing somebody for two days. That, right, there is
a red flag. Getting married after two days is a
red flag. And then jealousy asking where you are every
minute of the day, that's another red flag. It doesn't
seem like it's the honeymoon that they were hoping it
would be. Right, she's in over her head. She feels
a little trapped with this guy, which is never a
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good feeling, especially that early in a relationship. I just
think that maybe she got swept away in his confidence,
in his excitement. I think they were in lust. Well. Also,
you know, she wanted to be in entertainment, as we know,
and Ryan was just coming off of one of these
shows which at the time we're extremely popular, and so
he probably seemed like a good catch because he was
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her way into the world of Hollywood. On August fifteen,
two thousand and nine, a man discovered a gray suitcase
in an apartment complex dumpster in Buena Park, California, about
thirty miles south of Los Angeles. The man contacted the
apartment manager, and the manager found what appeared to be
a female child's body stuffed into a suitcase. The body
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was nude and lying in a fetal position. The woman
was actually in her late twenties with dark hair. The
body was not fully decomposed, and the fingertips had been
cut off at the joint. The teeth were missing, and
the face was swollen from a beating. The Orange County
corner said that she had been strangled to death. Now
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the police had to figure out how to identify the
woman on this very same day, August two thousand and nine,
Ryan reported his wife Jasmine missing. Here's Lisa So Brian
filed a missing person's report and told police Jasmine left
the house to get a manicure and run errands and
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that he hadn't heard from her. He also said she
does this all the time, and he added that they
had been to San Diego who came back to l A.
He also told police he was on his way to
Canada to fix an issue with the visa. The whole
thing didn't make any sense, and the responding officers said
that Brian didn't seem all that concerned over his missing
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wife and why was he leaving town. That's a good question, Lisa.
And while all that is happening back in Buena Park,
officials are trying to identify this body that they found.
They don't have fingerprints because remember the fingers have been
cut off, and they don't have dental records because the
teeth have been pulled out, So they're trying to figure
out how are they going to identify this woman. And
what they figure out is that she actually had breast implants,
and all implants have serial numbers, So what they're able
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to do is pull the implants out and actually look
up the serial number on the silicon implant, and the
police contact the manufacturer, who gave them the surgeon and file,
which then led to identify the body. This all happened
over the course of three days, and by August eighteen,
three days after finding the body, the serial numbers on
the rest of the the fans were identified as Jasmine Fior.
Once they had that information, though, the cops circle back
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to Ryan and tell him his wife was found dead,
but he didn't answer his phone and now they wanted
to talk to him, but first they had to find him.
They searched his apartment and discovered his car was gone.
They looked at surveillance video and saw him loading a
suitcase into his car and then driving away. Police also
found out that he had storage unit in Vegas where
he kept his boat. When they checked in on the
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storage unit, the boat was gone. Ryan also had a
history of violence. Unfortunately, he had not only assaulted Jasmine,
but had also assaulted an ext girlfriend in Calgary, Canada
in January of two thousand seven, and the victim did
file a restraining order against him. He was convicted, but
he only received fifteen months probation. He was ordered for
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counseling for his anger management, his domestic abuse, and his
sex addiction. So how do you have a conviction and
end up on a reality show. I have worked on
reality shows, and the applications are not they're dizzy ng
They look like bibles of epic proportions. You have to
fill out everything, where did you live like fifteen years
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ago and who did you live? With so much detail.
But I guess maybe things were a little different back then.
They did hire a Canadian company, they outsourced it to
do the security check on Ryan, but obviously nothing came up.
I believe that that case actually was a precedent setting matter,
and that's why contestants right now have this bible to
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fill out before they can appear on a reality TV show.
That's fascinating. After they figure out Ryan's domestic violence background,
the authorities are continuing to investigate a lot of different leads.
With Ryan missing, the police decided to meet with some
other potential suspects around San Diego in Las Vegas. One
of the people they contacted was Jasmin's first husband, a
man named Michael Cardosi, who was also Intendegal on the
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same night as Jasmine and Riot. Could it be possible
that a jealous X actually murdered the young woman? Lisa,
do you know what happened with the X husband? Well,
I mean they were friends, and Jasmine had been to
San Diego before that trip that where the two of
them went down together. But Pardosi is an interesting guy.
He had recently been released from jail, was drug trafficking,
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and he was on parole, and well, he violated his
parole and he ended up back in jail. So the
police located him pretty easily, and they thought he was
a person of interest, but when questioned, he broke down
and he was a mess. He cared for Jasmine, and
he was quickly cleared because his GPS placed him at
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another location and his parole officer also vouched for well.
Once that kind of went cold, police didn't stop searching.
Of course. They also met with Robert Hassman, Jasmine's wealthy X,
who lived in Las Vegas and dated her until the
time she married Ryan. Police also discovered that Jasmine had
been texting him from San Diego from a poker game,
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saying that she wanted to get back together. She asked
Robert to send his private jet and pick her up.
When police questioned him, Robert was very upset and said
he had a solid alibi and he was in Nevada
the entire time when Jasmine was killed. So there's a
lot now going on that doesn't really seem to make
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sense or have answers. It's interesting to him that you
talk about Jasmine asking her ex to pick her up
from San Diego because in my research I found that
Jasmine and Ryan actually had a big public fight the
night of the poker game. Remember that's the last night
she's seen alive. A witness said that Jasmine was playing
poker and was being very rude to Ryan, putting him down,
and he was getting very upset, which totally set the
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tone for the evening. After the poker game, the couple
went to the Gaslight District in San Diego, which is
an area in the town with a lot of bars
and restaurants, and they went out to a nightclub, but
they were seen on camera kind of fighting the entire night.
We've covered a lot of cases, a lot of crazy
twists and turns, but I have never heard in my
life of an investigation that used an implant to identify
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a body like that is some crazy police work and
really resourceful. When I first read that, I was like, boy,
that coroner was clever to even think about that, because remember,
you know, you have a dead body there and they're
dissecting it, and she wasn't in the best of shape,
and to even think about that as as a means
to identify her, I thought that was very smart on
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their part. It's also striking to me that she was
still mutilated, Like whoever did this to her really went
to great length to try to make sure she couldn't
be identified. I mean to pull her teeth out and
to cut off her fingers like that is very gory
when they go after your face in any way, and
that kind of means like a big hate and a
big crime of passion. There's like a big emotional like
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this a response when people's faces are shot at or damaged.
Often when that happens, there's a personal hatred towards the
person being murdered. It's like there's a vendetta, and it
tips it off for police that they should be looking
at somebody who's close to the victim. But it was
very clever detective work on the coroner's part. At this point,
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her husband is seemingly the last person to see her
alive and is now missing. Like I would imagine that
the police we're probably just really focused on him. He
certainly seems like the most likely candidate for the crime.
I telling another curious thing. She left when she left
the excess behind. They all liked her, nobody had anything
bad to say about her, and they were all pretty
much a mess over her death. So she she seems
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to have had good relationships with people, even the ones
that you know loved her she loved you know, didn't
work out for one reason another, but there wasn't any
bad blood there. So I find that interesting of note
for her character too, because sometimes it's a very thing
to do. Very good point. That's a great point, right,
because it's it speaks more to maybe Ryan has the
problem in that relationship and not Jasmine. Michael Cardosi was
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in San Diego and the story was that she had
met up with him before that card game, so meaning
like a few days she went back to l A,
then she and Ryan drove back to San Diego for
the Celebrity Poker tournament. While she's sitting at the Celebrity
Poker tournament, she's texting, and she texts Robert Hasman and
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she says to him, she's not happy. Can you send
your private jet to pick me up? So imagine yourself
sitting there right You're with your new wife. You're not
getting along right now, We've already talked to Michael Cardosi,
who is not a great guy, just released from jail.
He's in San Diego. At the same time, your wife
is texting somebody else. You're Ryan, a narcissist, not getting
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all the attention that we know he loves and thrives on.
So he's just stewing and stewing and kind of when
you add alcohol to the mix, because I'm sure they
were drinking, it's all coming to make up the perfect storm.
In my opinion, Well, she sounds like she wasn't too
happy with Ryan, the fact that they were arguing all
night long and witnesses saw it. I mean, maybe she
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was baiting him, maybe, you know, because she was just
pissed and wanted to get out. You know, some people
do that, They start an argument so that you'll just
say leave and then you have this reason like, well
you should leave, and I left. But it does seem
like we're dealing with people that are on this sort
of higher emotional plane, and he was awfully possessive in
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in a very uncomfortable way. Detectives retrays the couple of
steps and examine their San Diego hotel room. At this
point it had been cleaned, but on the back patio
please found a bloodstain and a long black hair normally
a blonde, Jasmine had dark hair at the time of
her death, and DNA confirmed the hair belonged to Jasmine.
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Authorities also reviewed surveillance video from both the Hilton Hotel
where the poker game was held and the hotel where
the couple were staying. Here's tim close captain footage from
Ryan and Jasmine's hotel shows their initial arrival together with
a gray suitcase on the luggage rack, the same gray
suitcase that would later we would police would find her body.
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When the couple left the Hilton, they headed to the
nightclub at the Ivy Hotel for more drinks, but that
was not captured on surveillance. It was just witnesses actually
saw them there. By four thirty am. Their surveillance video
at Leberge shows Ryan running into his hotel room alone
and then again leaving the room for ice, just to
return to the room always without Jasmine. So if the
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time stamps on the closed circuit television showed a time
stamp of two thirty when we first see Ryan and
four thirty the last time we see Ryan, my question
has to be what happened to Jasmine during that time?
Could that be the time he was in the room
killing her? Well, what we know is that at six
am Ryan is seen exiting the room with a handful
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of clothing and toiletries and then returns empty handed thirty
minutes later. He then leaves the room again for a
few hours, and by nine am he's back wearing different clothes,
and he enters and leaves the room for the last time.
He ends up checking out at nine am with no
luggage and drives home alone. It makes me wonder that,
you know, when he's leaving the room, you know, with
his all his possessions like in his hands, all the
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toiletries and the clothes, is he not using his suitcase
because he needs that suitcase to put a body and
we know he had the great suitcase earlier. Where is
that suitcase now? Why would he not be using it?
It seems very suspicious they had video of the two
of them with the suitcase going into the hotel upon chicken,
and then now we only have Ryan into suitcase walking out.
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Remember the room is a back patio, which means that
there are two entrances to the hotel room. But at
least do we know what happened next? You know, the
police really want to find Ryan. They have not been
able to question him since they identified Jasmine. And so
it's August eighteenth now, and it's three days now after
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discovering the body. At this point, the story hit the media.
I mean, after all, he was on TV. She was
this beautiful model, And it not only hit the media
here in the US, but also in Canada because now
there's an international manhunt for this guy. Where is he?
Even after talking to all the witnesses and interviewing friends
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and family, the only person that they keep circling back
to is Ryan. He is the person of interest in
this case. It's not surprising. I mean, his actions seemed
highly suspicious. The getting back to the hotel without her,
leaving without her, on the back and forth with the
without the bags, like everything he's doing seems very suspicious.
It's super suspicious. But you know, the hard thing to
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understand here is for a man who's drawn to the
spotlight and likes attention and is always everywhere, and he's
a kind of omnipresent. Now we can't find him at all,
Like he's just disappeared. No one knows where he is.
Everybody knows where he always is. He's on television, he's
in the spotlight, he's he's flashing his stuff. And now
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all of a sudden radio silence. That still makes the
question why why he was maddenly in love with this woman?
Why why would he do it? I mean? And even
if they were a marriage of convenience, right, and he's
seeking a visa, well, he just killed his meal ticket,
So why would you do that? You know? I mean,
And it did seem like remember her ex husband, her
ex husband served in jail time. Not not not to say
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anything bad about Jasmine, but maybe she kind of had
a little bit of a liking for the bad boys.
And was there another bad boy in the picture that
the police aren't looking into. Was it really Ryan? I mean,
that's the question right here. Let's stop here for another break.
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On August two and nine, Ryan called his father from
Birch Bay Washington, the northernmost point of Washington State. His father,
Dan Jenkins, was the one who told him that Jasmine
had been murdered. According to his father, Ryan broke down
and wept. Dan claimed that Ryan was in shock and
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that he panicked and fled thinking he might be a suspect.
In fact, Ryan was a suspect, the only suspect. Here
is an excerpt from a press conference held by the
Buena Park Police sheaf Tom Monson on August two and nine.
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I can now announce that, as of this afternoon, we
now have a warrant for the arrest of Ryan Alexander
Jenkins for the murder of Jasmine. Last night, officers from
the Blame Police Department in the state of Washington recovered
one of the vehicles that we had previously announced. That
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vehicle is the black two thousand and three bmw X five.
The white two thousand and seven Mercedes Bends c LS
with paper plates is still outstanding and we continue to
ask the public's support in the assistance in locating that vehicle.
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At this time, it is our belief that the suspect
has crossed the border in the Canada and we are
currently working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in our
attempts to locate them. So it's clear that the public
is turning on Ryan at this point. He's a very
wanted man. At the very least, police need to question
him about you know, Jasmine's last known whereabouts, because if
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he didn't do it, he might know who did. Well.
It's interesting because the tables have turned so quickly on him.
From using television for his satisfaction and for everybody to
love and adore him and him to be flashy and
seen as this really cool guy, now all of a sudden,
he's one of the FBI's most wanted and you know
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they're talking about his his cars that he's driving, and
they're looking for him. This this many big news. All
the entertainment news franchises just went berserk over this story,
and I think they had everybody looking for him. They
interview people that were on the show and said he
was a great A couple of couple, couple of guys
who were with him on one of the reality shows
said he was a great guy. They really liked him
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and thought it. You know, they couldn't imagine that he
would have done something to Jasmine. He was a charming guy,
and he seemed like somebody who you'd want to hang
out with, but it seems to have been a performance
for television. A man matching Ryan's description would seen piloting
a boat in the border town of Point Roberts, Washington,
where Ryan's step mom lived, and this was a peninsula
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in Washington only accessible by boat. From there, he was
able to walk across the border right back into Canada.
So could it be at this point he really is
out of the United States and authorities need to be
looking in Canada. Well, the Canadian authorities were all over it,
and they were getting a lot of tips to Ryan
was close to his dad, and the cops knew it,
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and they detained Dan at the Vancouver airport because they
suspected that his dad wound have been meeting up with
him and maybe planning to help him. And the family
did own a private plane. They were a wealthy family
and they owned a place in Honduras. Now not to
say that the dad was gonna take him on a
private plane and fly him down to Honduras, but that
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does give reason for the cops to detain him until
they find out where Ryan is um. Meanwhile, a man
matching Rain's description, arrived at the Thunderbird Hotel in Hope,
British Columbia in a silver pet Cruiser and it was
driven by a young blonde Now the woman hopped out
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of the car, she booked a room. She stayed for
twenty minutes, and then she left. The hotel manager ended
up seeing a man who he thought was Ryan walking
around outside the hotel, and he remembers thinking that this
guy looked really exhausted. On the third day of his day,
which was August nine, the man didn't check out, so
the manager and his nephew knocked on the door and
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no one answered. They used their spare key to enter
the room, and to the horror they found the guests
dressed in a T shirt and jeans hanging from a
clothes rack with a belt around his neck. He had
committed suicide. They obviously called the police right away, and
when they came, they were able to positively identify the
man in the hotel room who had committed suicide as
Ryan Jenkins. Does anyone know about this mystery blonde woman
who drove him to the hotel? It was a mystery
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at first, Jeff, but after police investigated it they discovered
that it was his nineteen year old half sister, Elina Jenkins,
who actually drove him to the motel and booked the
room for him, but authorities never actually charged her for
aiding and a bidding. It's always sad when these stories
ended suicide. It definitely feels like justice isn't properly served.
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And you know, obviously the bad guy is not with
us anymore. But you know, we don't ever know what
happened to Jasmine, what led up to her death. Plus
there's never closure for the family and for him to
do what he did, and she had a single mom
and she was kind of left without any answers. It
was a real tragedy. It's a tale to say, just
be careful who you get involved with, and you know,
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take the time to actually get to know somebody. Ryan
Jenkins left behind a suicide note entitled will and Testament.
It was typed on his computer and he simply wrote, quote,
Jasmine was the love of my life. He added that
he was upset that she was cheating on him. He
never admitted to murdering Jasmine, However, he did apologize to
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his own family for his quote actions. Two days after
he was found dead. VH one canceled Megan Once a
Millionaire and I Love Money three, which had yet to premiere.
In a final disturbing detail, Jasmine's white Mercedes was finally
found in a parking lot in West Hollywood, about a
mile from the pent how she shared with Brian. The carpet,
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the door panel, and the backseat were soaked in blood.
Jasmine went down with a fife. Shameless plug. If you're
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Stay safe, lovers,
Falling in love is the best feeling in the world.
You see stars, you feel giddy, but sometimes that makes
you do crazy things, and sometimes that means murder. Just
because the story starts out with once upon a Times
doesn't mean it ends happily ever after. Welcome to Crazy
and Love, a production of Katie Studios and I Heart Radio.
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Today's guests are true crime producers Jeff Shane, Tim Hamilton's
and Lisa d. Giovine. Episode thirty The Case of the
Bikini Model, The Reality Star and the Gray suit Case.
Twenty eight year old Jasmine Fury was an attractive blonde
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who made a good living as a model. She was smart, ambitious,
and gold driven. Jasmine lived in Los Angeles and worked
in Las Vegas. She was a small town girl from
northern California and she had big dreames. On March sixteenth,
two thousand and nine, Jasmine was in a casino on
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the strip when she met Ryan Jenkins. It was literally
love at first sight. Ryan was a charismatic reality star
when he made a name for himself when he was
cast on the VH one dating show Megan Wants a Millionaire.
Thirty two year old Ryan was described on the show
as quote a smooth operator, and according to the show's producers,
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he was worth a cool two point five million dollars.
Ryan was one of the contestants vying for the love
of the blonde beauty Megan Houserman. When Megan didn't choose him,
the overly confident Ryan was shocked. At that point, he
went to Vegas to lick his wounds and flaunt his
newly minted celebrity status. Jasmine immediately caught his eye, and
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within just two days of meeting, the couple tied the
knot at the Las Vegas Little White Chapel on the Strip.
Here's Jeff. Jasmine Fiore grew up outside of Santa Cruz, California,
in a town called Bonnie Doon. It's a very small
town with a population of just above three thousand people.
There's a few wineries, but no city center or anything
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like that, and she came from a divorced family. Her
parents broke up when she was eight and she was
raised by her single mom. Lisa, described as a great
kid who was lots of fun and always had her
own agenda. Her nickname growing up was General Jasmine. Jasmine
was kind of a tomboy who loved nature and horses.
She also had a really strong work ethic, clocking it
at a local grocery storecture school. She was even so
driven that at sixteen, she opened up her own retirement account. Tim,
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what can you tell us about Jasmine as she got older, Well,
it didn't surprise me at such a young age she
opened up a retirement account because she's always been really
business oriented and always trying to put back into herself
what she wants from life. So she wanted to be
a model, so early in her modeling career she invested
in herself and got breast implants and it did help
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her get jobs. In two thousand six, she moved from
Lay to Las Vegas and worked as a car dealer,
bikini model, and body paint model. She made casino appearances
and appeared in commercials. She modeled for Playboy. She often
worked their golfing events, and her former manager Ken Henderson
described her lovingly as he said, Jasmine was energy when
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she walked in the door. Every picture that you see
with her with that big smile, that was her and
you could just feel it. It was real. It wasn't phony,
It was who she was unquote. Jasmine didn't feel defined
by the blonde stereotype that many blondes feel weighs them down.
She had ambition, and she had obtained a real estate license,
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and she wanted to open a gym. She also planned
to start a body care and clothing line. People who
knew her described her as a wholesome, fun loving, vibrant
and she would often surprise people with gifts because that
was her heart. She was a really sweet, wonderful, kind person.
According to her friends, every man who Jasmine met would
instantly fall in love with her. She just had that
thing about her. So, Lisa, in your research, what do
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we know about Ryan? Well, Ryan fell head over heels
with Jasmine, and Jasmine found him handsome, charismatic, and sexy.
He was everything she wanted in a guy. Ryan was
Jasmine's second marriage, she married when she was younger, and
that marriage fell apart win her husband landed in jail. Now.
Ryan was from Canada, but he resided in both Vegas
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and l A and he was described on the reality
show Megan Wants a Millionaire as an architect, a property developer,
and an investment banker. Now Megan Wants a Millionaire. The
reality show was a spinoff of the popular Rock of
Love with Brett Michaels. You know, everybody's vuying tou get
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with Brett Michaels. So Megan was this blonde bombshell who
the producers loved and Brett dumped in a previous season,
so they gave her her own show. Megan and Ryan
kind of hit it off to such an extent that
Ryan was super confident that he would be chosen as
Megan's love interest and even flew his dad out for
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the show. I mean, he was confident he had Megan
in the bag. So in real life, they're little Teta
Tay went on unbeknownst to the producers, but the producers
did not want them to choose Ryan because they didn't
find him as charismatic as the guy they wanted her
to pick, so she had to pick someone else. Ryan
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came in third, and in fact, Megan even contacted Ryan
after the show was done, but by then he was
married to Jasmine. The Flavor of Love Rock of Love
shows on v H one were so popular for a
moment in time that I think everyone remembers characters from them,
and Megan definitely stood out, like I remember her, She
held a puppy, issue had the big boobs, the big
blonde hair, and so it's no surprise she got her
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in spinoff where she was trying to find millionaires. It
always amazes me how people think they're going to come
on a reality show and five find love in five minutes. However,
according to all of the information we know about Ryan,
he really did find love in two days and married
her in Vegas. That just seems a little fast, you know,
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but if it goes with his being on TV looking
for for love on TV, I guess it's not so shocking.
He would think he could find it in real life
after two days. And if you did a side by
side of Jasmine and Megan, they look very similar. They
both have similar body type, similar faces, similar hairstyles, and
so he clearly has a type. Maybe his confidence got
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a little tested and he decided to step out there
in a big way. Jasmine, you know, was really driven
her whole life, as we know, and so she probably
was attracted to Ryan's confidence and his success too. You know,
he's a very financially successful man who has had an
air about him apparently, so that probably drew her to him.
In a big way. Yeah, I'm sure always. And he's handsome,
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he's a good looking guy. I mean, he was just
on television and they make a cute couple. Ryan wanted celebrity.
This guy found reality shows as a kind of entrance
point into show business. And I think he was that
guy that liked being the center of attention, leading the life,
getting pointed at, getting pointed out. And when he saw Jasmine,
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Jasmine was a head turner. I mean she was super attractive,
and I think he liked pairing up with somebody who
would also sort of match that thing in him that
he craved, which was, look at me, look at me.
I think you're right. I do think somebody goes on
reality television to find love after only a few days
because they're thirsty for fame and notoriety. And you know,
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he gets to flaunt his things and what he has
and his two point five million dollars in the bank
and his good looks, and you know, I think you're
totally right. He was attracted to what he was himself,
a good looking, attention seeking young guy. According to Jasmine's mother,
the couple flought constantly due to Ryan's jealousy. He didn't
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like Jasmine's male friendships, including some of her exes, and
by June of two thousand and nine, only three months
into their marriage, Ryan hit Jasmine on the arm and
pushed her into a pool in a jealous rage. This
was all witnessed by Travis Heinrich, Jasmine's x fiancee. Ryan
was arrested and had a court date set for December.
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In the middle of this chaos, Ryan headed off to
shoot another reality show, I Love Money three. On the show,
he won the two d and fifty thousand dollar prize.
Even though he was not supposed to talk about his
win because the show had not aired, he confided in Jasmine.
By August, the pair smoothed over their differences and attends
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at a celebrity poker tournament together. On August thirteenth, two
thousand and nine, the newly brunette Jasmine and her husband
Ryan checked into an upscale hotel in San Diego. Here's
Jeff Yeah, Jasmine's ex fiance This guy Travis, So she
maintained a good friendship with after the breakup. Later told
the press that Ryan was extremely jealous. He would go
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through Jasmine's phone at night, even at some points Travis
also said that Jasmine once confided into him that she
and Ryan were done and she was in over her
head in the relationship, but that she didn't know how
to get out. That probably was a really horrible feeling. Yeah,
on the outside, everything kind of looked great, right, It's
all the optics of it, But there was a rumor
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starting to circulate that things beneath weren't so great. Friends
of the couple said there was a deal made so
that Ryan's visa could be extended, remember he was from Canada,
so that if he married Jasmine he could stay in
the country. The rumor also stated that he promised to
give Jasmine a ten thous dollar a month stipend if
you would if she went him, but he never paid it,
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and she was quite upset about that. Jasmine was all
so paying for more than her share of expenses, and
it seemed that his money was always kind of tied up,
and that he wasn't flipping the bill, he wasn't paying
for the dinners, he wasn't really flaunting the money that
he said on television he had. It's interesting because around
this time Ryan went on the show I Love Money
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three and the executive producer for the show, This guy,
Mark Cronin, described his behavior while they were in production
as kind of weird. Apparently, during filming, he kept telling
Jasmine over the phone that he was going to win
the whole show and that he was going to give
her the life he always promised with this money, and
then he would flip up from the excitement of that
to this kind of jealousy, asking her where he where
she was last night, what she was doing. He wanted
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to know her whereabouts when he was in Mexico shooting
the show. Well, the folks on the reality show noticed
all of this, and if there's something going on, they
want to use it in the show, and so they
started incorporating this storyline of his jealousy right onto the show,
and it became about Ryan's obsession with Jasmine. You know,
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I don't people understand when you go on a reality show,
you're twenty four hours a day being recorded. Your audio
is being recorded, there's cameras everywhere, and there's no privacy.
There's everything you say, everything that comes out of your mouth,
it's constantly being recorded. So the fact that Mark was
going to turn this into a storyline doesn't surprise me.
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I bet though it would surprise Ryan to find that out,
because little does he know that they can hear everything
the whole time, and that he is going to become
a center figure of the show. And I was going
to say just the opposite, that Ryan knew exactly what
he was doing, because you get more screen time and
everybody would watch him because reality shows love when you cry,
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when you get mad, it's a car accident you can't
look away from. And so if something's actually happening in
their midst, I bet you he was amping it up
a little bit to kind of give the production company
a bit more because remember he actually he won the show.
It's actually a very good point. We're going to take
a break. We'll be back in just a moment. Aggression
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is never a good thing, especially when you got married
after knowing somebody for two days. That, right, there is
a red flag. Getting married after two days is a
red flag. And then jealousy asking where you are every
minute of the day, that's another red flag. It doesn't
seem like it's the honeymoon that they were hoping it
would be. Right, she's in over her head. She feels
a little trapped with this guy, which is never a
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good feeling, especially that early in a relationship. I just
think that maybe she got swept away in his confidence,
in his excitement. I think they were in lust. Well. Also,
you know, she wanted to be in entertainment, as we know,
and Ryan was just coming off of one of these
shows which at the time we're extremely popular, and so
he probably seemed like a good catch because he was
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her way into the world of Hollywood. On August fifteen,
two thousand and nine, a man discovered a gray suitcase
in an apartment complex dumpster in Buena Park, California, about
thirty miles south of Los Angeles. The man contacted the
apartment manager, and the manager found what appeared to be
a female child's body stuffed into a suitcase. The body
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was nude and lying in a fetal position. The woman
was actually in her late twenties with dark hair. The
body was not fully decomposed, and the fingertips had been
cut off at the joint. The teeth were missing, and
the face was swollen from a beating. The Orange County
corner said that she had been strangled to death. Now
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the police had to figure out how to identify the
woman on this very same day, August two thousand and nine,
Ryan reported his wife Jasmine missing. Here's Lisa So Brian
filed a missing person's report and told police Jasmine left
the house to get a manicure and run errands and
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that he hadn't heard from her. He also said she
does this all the time, and he added that they
had been to San Diego who came back to l A.
He also told police he was on his way to
Canada to fix an issue with the visa. The whole
thing didn't make any sense, and the responding officers said
that Brian didn't seem all that concerned over his missing
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wife and why was he leaving town. That's a good question, Lisa.
And while all that is happening back in Buena Park,
officials are trying to identify this body that they found.
They don't have fingerprints because remember the fingers have been
cut off, and they don't have dental records because the
teeth have been pulled out, So they're trying to figure
out how are they going to identify this woman. And
what they figure out is that she actually had breast implants,
and all implants have serial numbers, So what they're able
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to do is pull the implants out and actually look
up the serial number on the silicon implant, and the
police contact the manufacturer, who gave them the surgeon and file,
which then led to identify the body. This all happened
over the course of three days, and by August eighteen,
three days after finding the body, the serial numbers on
the rest of the the fans were identified as Jasmine Fior.
Once they had that information, though, the cops circle back
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to Ryan and tell him his wife was found dead,
but he didn't answer his phone and now they wanted
to talk to him, but first they had to find him.
They searched his apartment and discovered his car was gone.
They looked at surveillance video and saw him loading a
suitcase into his car and then driving away. Police also
found out that he had storage unit in Vegas where
he kept his boat. When they checked in on the
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storage unit, the boat was gone. Ryan also had a
history of violence. Unfortunately, he had not only assaulted Jasmine,
but had also assaulted an ext girlfriend in Calgary, Canada
in January of two thousand seven, and the victim did
file a restraining order against him. He was convicted, but
he only received fifteen months probation. He was ordered for
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counseling for his anger management, his domestic abuse, and his
sex addiction. So how do you have a conviction and
end up on a reality show. I have worked on
reality shows, and the applications are not they're dizzy ng
They look like bibles of epic proportions. You have to
fill out everything, where did you live like fifteen years
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ago and who did you live? With so much detail.
But I guess maybe things were a little different back then.
They did hire a Canadian company, they outsourced it to
do the security check on Ryan, but obviously nothing came up.
I believe that that case actually was a precedent setting matter,
and that's why contestants right now have this bible to
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fill out before they can appear on a reality TV show.
That's fascinating. After they figure out Ryan's domestic violence background,
the authorities are continuing to investigate a lot of different leads.
With Ryan missing, the police decided to meet with some
other potential suspects around San Diego in Las Vegas. One
of the people they contacted was Jasmin's first husband, a
man named Michael Cardosi, who was also Intendegal on the
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same night as Jasmine and Riot. Could it be possible
that a jealous X actually murdered the young woman? Lisa,
do you know what happened with the X husband? Well,
I mean they were friends, and Jasmine had been to
San Diego before that trip that where the two of
them went down together. But Pardosi is an interesting guy.
He had recently been released from jail, was drug trafficking,
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and he was on parole, and well, he violated his
parole and he ended up back in jail. So the
police located him pretty easily, and they thought he was
a person of interest, but when questioned, he broke down
and he was a mess. He cared for Jasmine, and
he was quickly cleared because his GPS placed him at
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another location and his parole officer also vouched for well.
Once that kind of went cold, police didn't stop searching.
Of course. They also met with Robert Hassman, Jasmine's wealthy X,
who lived in Las Vegas and dated her until the
time she married Ryan. Police also discovered that Jasmine had
been texting him from San Diego from a poker game,
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saying that she wanted to get back together. She asked
Robert to send his private jet and pick her up.
When police questioned him, Robert was very upset and said
he had a solid alibi and he was in Nevada
the entire time when Jasmine was killed. So there's a
lot now going on that doesn't really seem to make
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sense or have answers. It's interesting to him that you
talk about Jasmine asking her ex to pick her up
from San Diego because in my research I found that
Jasmine and Ryan actually had a big public fight the
night of the poker game. Remember that's the last night
she's seen alive. A witness said that Jasmine was playing
poker and was being very rude to Ryan, putting him down,
and he was getting very upset, which totally set the
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tone for the evening. After the poker game, the couple
went to the Gaslight District in San Diego, which is
an area in the town with a lot of bars
and restaurants, and they went out to a nightclub, but
they were seen on camera kind of fighting the entire night.
We've covered a lot of cases, a lot of crazy
twists and turns, but I have never heard in my
life of an investigation that used an implant to identify
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a body like that is some crazy police work and
really resourceful. When I first read that, I was like, boy,
that coroner was clever to even think about that, because remember,
you know, you have a dead body there and they're
dissecting it, and she wasn't in the best of shape,
and to even think about that as as a means
to identify her, I thought that was very smart on
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their part. It's also striking to me that she was
still mutilated, Like whoever did this to her really went
to great length to try to make sure she couldn't
be identified. I mean to pull her teeth out and
to cut off her fingers like that is very gory
when they go after your face in any way, and
that kind of means like a big hate and a
big crime of passion. There's like a big emotional like
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this a response when people's faces are shot at or damaged.
Often when that happens, there's a personal hatred towards the
person being murdered. It's like there's a vendetta, and it
tips it off for police that they should be looking
at somebody who's close to the victim. But it was
very clever detective work on the coroner's part. At this point,
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her husband is seemingly the last person to see her
alive and is now missing. Like I would imagine that
the police we're probably just really focused on him. He
certainly seems like the most likely candidate for the crime.
I telling another curious thing. She left when she left
the excess behind. They all liked her, nobody had anything
bad to say about her, and they were all pretty
much a mess over her death. So she she seems
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to have had good relationships with people, even the ones
that you know loved her she loved you know, didn't
work out for one reason another, but there wasn't any
bad blood there. So I find that interesting of note
for her character too, because sometimes it's a very thing
to do. Very good point. That's a great point, right,
because it's it speaks more to maybe Ryan has the
problem in that relationship and not Jasmine. Michael Cardosi was
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in San Diego and the story was that she had
met up with him before that card game, so meaning
like a few days she went back to l A,
then she and Ryan drove back to San Diego for
the Celebrity Poker tournament. While she's sitting at the Celebrity
Poker tournament, she's texting, and she texts Robert Hasman and
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she says to him, she's not happy. Can you send
your private jet to pick me up? So imagine yourself
sitting there right You're with your new wife. You're not
getting along right now, We've already talked to Michael Cardosi,
who is not a great guy, just released from jail.
He's in San Diego. At the same time, your wife
is texting somebody else. You're Ryan, a narcissist, not getting
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all the attention that we know he loves and thrives on.
So he's just stewing and stewing and kind of when
you add alcohol to the mix, because I'm sure they
were drinking, it's all coming to make up the perfect storm.
In my opinion, Well, she sounds like she wasn't too
happy with Ryan, the fact that they were arguing all
night long and witnesses saw it. I mean, maybe she
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was baiting him, maybe, you know, because she was just
pissed and wanted to get out. You know, some people
do that, They start an argument so that you'll just
say leave and then you have this reason like, well
you should leave, and I left. But it does seem
like we're dealing with people that are on this sort
of higher emotional plane, and he was awfully possessive in
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in a very uncomfortable way. Detectives retrays the couple of
steps and examine their San Diego hotel room. At this
point it had been cleaned, but on the back patio
please found a bloodstain and a long black hair normally
a blonde, Jasmine had dark hair at the time of
her death, and DNA confirmed the hair belonged to Jasmine.
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Authorities also reviewed surveillance video from both the Hilton Hotel
where the poker game was held and the hotel where
the couple were staying. Here's tim close captain footage from
Ryan and Jasmine's hotel shows their initial arrival together with
a gray suitcase on the luggage rack, the same gray
suitcase that would later we would police would find her body.
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When the couple left the Hilton, they headed to the
nightclub at the Ivy Hotel for more drinks, but that
was not captured on surveillance. It was just witnesses actually
saw them there. By four thirty am. Their surveillance video
at Leberge shows Ryan running into his hotel room alone
and then again leaving the room for ice, just to
return to the room always without Jasmine. So if the
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time stamps on the closed circuit television showed a time
stamp of two thirty when we first see Ryan and
four thirty the last time we see Ryan, my question
has to be what happened to Jasmine during that time?
Could that be the time he was in the room
killing her? Well, what we know is that at six
am Ryan is seen exiting the room with a handful
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of clothing and toiletries and then returns empty handed thirty
minutes later. He then leaves the room again for a
few hours, and by nine am he's back wearing different clothes,
and he enters and leaves the room for the last time.
He ends up checking out at nine am with no
luggage and drives home alone. It makes me wonder that,
you know, when he's leaving the room, you know, with
his all his possessions like in his hands, all the
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toiletries and the clothes, is he not using his suitcase
because he needs that suitcase to put a body and
we know he had the great suitcase earlier. Where is
that suitcase now? Why would he not be using it?
It seems very suspicious they had video of the two
of them with the suitcase going into the hotel upon chicken,
and then now we only have Ryan into suitcase walking out.
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Remember the room is a back patio, which means that
there are two entrances to the hotel room. But at
least do we know what happened next? You know, the
police really want to find Ryan. They have not been
able to question him since they identified Jasmine. And so
it's August eighteenth now, and it's three days now after
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discovering the body. At this point, the story hit the media.
I mean, after all, he was on TV. She was
this beautiful model, And it not only hit the media
here in the US, but also in Canada because now
there's an international manhunt for this guy. Where is he?
Even after talking to all the witnesses and interviewing friends
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and family, the only person that they keep circling back
to is Ryan. He is the person of interest in
this case. It's not surprising. I mean, his actions seemed
highly suspicious. The getting back to the hotel without her,
leaving without her, on the back and forth with the
without the bags, like everything he's doing seems very suspicious.
It's super suspicious. But you know, the hard thing to
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understand here is for a man who's drawn to the
spotlight and likes attention and is always everywhere, and he's
a kind of omnipresent. Now we can't find him at all,
Like he's just disappeared. No one knows where he is.
Everybody knows where he always is. He's on television, he's
in the spotlight, he's he's flashing his stuff. And now
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all of a sudden radio silence. That still makes the
question why why he was maddenly in love with this woman?
Why why would he do it? I mean? And even
if they were a marriage of convenience, right, and he's
seeking a visa, well, he just killed his meal ticket,
So why would you do that? You know? I mean,
And it did seem like remember her ex husband, her
ex husband served in jail time. Not not not to say
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anything bad about Jasmine, but maybe she kind of had
a little bit of a liking for the bad boys.
And was there another bad boy in the picture that
the police aren't looking into. Was it really Ryan? I mean,
that's the question right here. Let's stop here for another break.
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On August two and nine, Ryan called his father from
Birch Bay Washington, the northernmost point of Washington State. His father,
Dan Jenkins, was the one who told him that Jasmine
had been murdered. According to his father, Ryan broke down
and wept. Dan claimed that Ryan was in shock and
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that he panicked and fled thinking he might be a suspect.
In fact, Ryan was a suspect, the only suspect. Here
is an excerpt from a press conference held by the
Buena Park Police sheaf Tom Monson on August two and nine.
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I can now announce that, as of this afternoon, we
now have a warrant for the arrest of Ryan Alexander
Jenkins for the murder of Jasmine. Last night, officers from
the Blame Police Department in the state of Washington recovered
one of the vehicles that we had previously announced. That
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vehicle is the black two thousand and three bmw X five.
The white two thousand and seven Mercedes Bends c LS
with paper plates is still outstanding and we continue to
ask the public's support in the assistance in locating that vehicle.
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At this time, it is our belief that the suspect
has crossed the border in the Canada and we are
currently working with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in our
attempts to locate them. So it's clear that the public
is turning on Ryan at this point. He's a very
wanted man. At the very least, police need to question
him about you know, Jasmine's last known whereabouts, because if
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he didn't do it, he might know who did. Well.
It's interesting because the tables have turned so quickly on him.
From using television for his satisfaction and for everybody to
love and adore him and him to be flashy and
seen as this really cool guy, now all of a sudden,
he's one of the FBI's most wanted and you know
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they're talking about his his cars that he's driving, and
they're looking for him. This this many big news. All
the entertainment news franchises just went berserk over this story,
and I think they had everybody looking for him. They
interview people that were on the show and said he
was a great A couple of couple, couple of guys
who were with him on one of the reality shows
said he was a great guy. They really liked him
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and thought it. You know, they couldn't imagine that he
would have done something to Jasmine. He was a charming guy,
and he seemed like somebody who you'd want to hang
out with, but it seems to have been a performance
for television. A man matching Ryan's description would seen piloting
a boat in the border town of Point Roberts, Washington,
where Ryan's step mom lived, and this was a peninsula
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in Washington only accessible by boat. From there, he was
able to walk across the border right back into Canada.
So could it be at this point he really is
out of the United States and authorities need to be
looking in Canada. Well, the Canadian authorities were all over it,
and they were getting a lot of tips to Ryan
was close to his dad, and the cops knew it,
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and they detained Dan at the Vancouver airport because they
suspected that his dad wound have been meeting up with
him and maybe planning to help him. And the family
did own a private plane. They were a wealthy family
and they owned a place in Honduras. Now not to
say that the dad was gonna take him on a
private plane and fly him down to Honduras, but that
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does give reason for the cops to detain him until
they find out where Ryan is um. Meanwhile, a man
matching Rain's description, arrived at the Thunderbird Hotel in Hope,
British Columbia in a silver pet Cruiser and it was
driven by a young blonde Now the woman hopped out
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of the car, she booked a room. She stayed for
twenty minutes, and then she left. The hotel manager ended
up seeing a man who he thought was Ryan walking
around outside the hotel, and he remembers thinking that this
guy looked really exhausted. On the third day of his day,
which was August nine, the man didn't check out, so
the manager and his nephew knocked on the door and
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no one answered. They used their spare key to enter
the room, and to the horror they found the guests
dressed in a T shirt and jeans hanging from a
clothes rack with a belt around his neck. He had
committed suicide. They obviously called the police right away, and
when they came, they were able to positively identify the
man in the hotel room who had committed suicide as
Ryan Jenkins. Does anyone know about this mystery blonde woman
who drove him to the hotel? It was a mystery
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at first, Jeff, but after police investigated it they discovered
that it was his nineteen year old half sister, Elina Jenkins,
who actually drove him to the motel and booked the
room for him, but authorities never actually charged her for
aiding and a bidding. It's always sad when these stories
ended suicide. It definitely feels like justice isn't properly served.
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And you know, obviously the bad guy is not with
us anymore. But you know, we don't ever know what
happened to Jasmine, what led up to her death. Plus
there's never closure for the family and for him to
do what he did, and she had a single mom
and she was kind of left without any answers. It
was a real tragedy. It's a tale to say, just
be careful who you get involved with, and you know,
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take the time to actually get to know somebody. Ryan
Jenkins left behind a suicide note entitled will and Testament.
It was typed on his computer and he simply wrote, quote,
Jasmine was the love of my life. He added that
he was upset that she was cheating on him. He
never admitted to murdering Jasmine, However, he did apologize to
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his own family for his quote actions. Two days after
he was found dead. VH one canceled Megan Once a
Millionaire and I Love Money three, which had yet to premiere.
In a final disturbing detail, Jasmine's white Mercedes was finally
found in a parking lot in West Hollywood, about a
mile from the pent how she shared with Brian. The carpet,
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the door panel, and the backseat were soaked in blood.
Jasmine went down with a fife. Shameless plug. If you're
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