Reality show contestant found dead in Canada motel
HOPE, British Columbia – Police said Monday they have identified and are investigating a woman who allegedly helped a former reality television show contestant hide from authorities in his native Canada after his ex-wife was found dead in the U.S.
Sgt. Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police did not release the identity of the woman who checked Ryan Jenkins into a remote motel in British Columbia days before he was found dead there Sunday of an apparent suicide.
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Jenkins, a contestant on VH1’s “Megan Wants a Millionaire,” was accused of killing his ex-wife, a model whose body was so badly mutilated when found in a trash bin outside Los Angeles it had to be identified by her breast implants’ serial numbers.
This is a horrible story, of course, and I feel for the victim and her family. Even if we can’t be surprised at her husband’s actions, given his crass and bestial line of work, we can still be appalled. On the other hand, I can’t be the only one absolutely transfixed by that last detail, can I? A model’s corpse is savagely disfigured to try and hide her identity, and they figure out who she is because her fake boobs have serial numbers in them? You know that’s going in CSI next year, right? It’s like zomething out of Zoolander, where everyone underestimates the cunning of a model. Or even worse, the cunning of a baggie full of silicone.
One shudders at the crimes to come once murderers get wise to this.
-ssr