Jasmine Fiore murder suspect found dead

The police manhunt for the husband of Jasmine Fiore, the murdered swimsuit model whose naked body was found in a dumpster in Buena Park, California, has been called off after he was discovered dead in a motel room east of Vancouver. Ryan Jenkins, a 32-year-old property entrepreneur who was a finalist on the American cable TV show Megan Wants a Millionaire, hanged himself, according to police.

Jenkins had been sought on both sides of the border since the discovery of his wife's body last week. She had been strangled to death and her body stuffed into a suitcase. She was identified by the serial numbers of her breast implants, her teeth having been pulled out and her fingers cut off to impede investigators.

Before police went to the Thunderbird Motel in Hope, British Columbia on Sunday, the last confirmed sighting of Jenkins was on Wednesday night when he took his powerboat out to sea from the marina at Blaine, Washington. A US Coast Guard cutter gave chase but was unable to keep up. The powerboat was later found abandoned at Point Roberts, Washington - only a short walk from the Canadian border.

When Jenkins appeared on Megan Wants A Millionaire - the show which attempts to find a suitable partner for its blonde, busty star, Megan Hauserman - he went by the nickname 'Smooth Operator'. So smooth that he named his boat Night Rideher.

It transpires that Jenkins had faced at least two criminal charges for violence against women before he met and married Fiore in Las Vegas earlier this year. In January 2007, after being convicted of assaulting a woman in Calgary, he was ordered to undergo treatment for sex addiction.

In the meantime, the cable channel VH1 has dropped the Megan Hauserman show until further notice. ·