Paula Sladewski Murder: Police Scan Surveillance Videos for Clues in Playboy Model's Death

North Miami Police are going over surveillance videos they have acquired in their investigation into the death of Paula Sladewski, the former Playboy model whose body was found burning in a dumpster Sunday night. One video is from a club surveillance camera and another video was produced by Kevin Klym's attorney. According to Fox News, both show Paula Sladewski leaving the Club Space, the popular Miami nightclub where she was last seen alive. Police are hoping the videos produce a lead in an investigation that has thus far produced no suspects and only one person of interest -- Paula Sladewski's boyfriend, Kevin Klym.

The first video came from one of the nightclub's surveillance cameras. It shows the former Playboy model exiting the nightclub at 7:21 a.m. The video, which was posted on a Miami NBC-affiliated television station's website, shows Sladewski leaving the nightclub, perhaps alone. However, she exited while several others left the club as well. Following close behind her was a man in a black suit.

Fox News reported Friday that Kevin Klym's attorney, Marc Beginin, turned over an additional video to North Miami Police that he claims reveals Paula Sladewski leaving Club Space with a man other than her boyfriend. It is not known from what vantage the second Klym-produced video was taped.

Paula Sladewski's burning body was found at 9 p.m. that night, nearly 14 hours later. Police believe Sladewski may have already been killed before her body was set on fire.

Regardless, neither a video showing Paula Sladewski leaving Club Space with another man nor one showing her leaving alone absolves or condemns her boyfriend, Kevin Klym.

But surveillance videos have become increasingly important in investigations, especially in establishing location for timelines. Knowing where a person, especially a person who later became the victim of a crime, was located at a given time can sometimes exonerate someone else from having perpetrated a crime. It can establish that there may have been others involved. When combined with other known pieces of the investigatory puzzle, videos can help solve the case.

A case in point would be the Jasmine Fiore murder in southern California. Buena Park Police were able to place swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore at the hotel she and her husband were staying at in San Diego. A surveillance camera picked up the couple entering the hotel. However, there exists no video footage of Jasmine Fiore leaving.

Her naked mutilated body was found in a dumpster as well. Her fingers and teeth had been removed in order to make identification of her body nearly impossible. Ryan Jenkins, her husband, became a person of interest when police identified Jasmine Fiore's body. The coincidence of the video footage, where Ryan Jenkins was seen leaving the hotel with a large suitcase, and the discovery of the model's body folded inside of a too-similar piece of luggage in the dumpster helped Buena Park Police focus on Ryan Jenkins as the possible murderer of his wife.

Jenkins would later flee to Canada and, just before authorities could close in on him, hung himself in a motel room.

It is as yet unknown how much the videos will help the North Miami investigation into Paula Sladewski's death (the club video reveals only about 8 seconds of the model). Still, every little portion of time accounted for will lead police to a possible solution to the former Playboy model's murder.

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Sources:

FoxNews.com
NBCMiami.com