Ryan Jenkins on Video: Jasmine Fiore Checks into Hotel but Does Not Check Out

TMZ reported Friday that their sources indicate that the Buena Park Police Department are now in possession of video surveillance that shows Ryan Alexander Jenkins leaving a hotel in San Diego last Friday morning without Jasmine Fiore, his wife. Not that that in itself would be unusual except for something that is missing -- Jasmine Fiore. Not only is she missing from the surveillance tape when Ryan Jenkins left the L'Auberge Del Mar near San Diego but she's missing from all surveillance footage leaving the hotel. In short, swimsuit model Jasmine Fiore checked in to the hotel but did not check out.

Technically, neither did Ryan Jenkins. He simply left, luggage in tow. Of special note about the luggage Jenkins had with him when he left, sources told TMZ that it matched the luggage inside which the mutilated and strangled body of Jasmine Fiore was later found, although police have not officially confirmed that that was the case. Jasmine Fiore, the wife of Ryan Jenkins, was last seen by people at a Hilton poker party, where it was reported that Fiore publicly insulted Jenkins. The video surveillance footage later shows Jasmine Fiore and Ryan Jenkins coming into the L'Auberge Del Mar. Jasmine Fiore was not seen again, by human or mechanical device, until her body was found naked and stuffed inside a piece of luggage that had been thrown in a dumpster in Buena Park, California, a small city just south of Los Angeles.

TMZ sources informed them that Ryan Jenkins drove off in a white Mercedes. That vehicle has yet to be found. Police now believe that Jenkins killed -- she was strangled -- the former swimsuit model in the hotel room, stuffed her into the luggage he was videotaped leaving the hotel with, and stopped somewhere to remove the body's teeth and fingers -- presumably to hamper identification -- before dumping the body in Buena Park.

TMZ also reported that Jasmine Fiore's cell phone is still missing. It is known that Jasmine Fiore had plans to see an ex-boyfriend in Las Vegas that same weekend and had texted Robert Hasman several times Thursday night and early Friday morning to tell him just that. Then here were no calls until Friday night, when Robert Hasman received the text message "suck it." Police believe Ryan Jenkins sent the final text on record for Jasmine Fiore's cell phone.

Ryan Jenkins would later report his wife missing to the Los Angeles Police Department. Unable to identify the body at first, the Buena Park Police would use Jasmine Fiore's breast implants to positively identify her as the LAPD tracked their missing person to Buena Park's Jane Doe. By this time, however, Ryan Jenkins was "in the wind."

At first a person of interest, Ryan Jenkins' behavior and certain evidence prompted Buena Park authorities to obtain an arrest warrant for him for second-degree murder. It is now believed that Ryan Jenkins is in Canada. An unidentified man thought to be Jenkins was arrested at the Toronto airport Friday but later released.

Although much of the evidence is circumstantial, the video surveillance footage seems to be the most damning. When police later searched the room in which Ryan Jenkins and Jasmine Fiore stayed, they found nothing. But it is Jasmine Fiore's arriving at the hotel but not leaving that is most interesting.

Back in April, Boston authorities arrested a 26-year-old Boston University medical student for a murder committed at a Boston hotel and an armed robbery and kidnapping at another hotel. Philip Markoff, who the press had dubbed the "Craigslist Killer," was the focus of an intense multi-state manhunt (because of a similar crime committed in Rhode Island). After tracking him via his computer address through his Craigslist account, where Markoff would set up his "massages," police arrested him, identifying him through video surveillance footage obtained at the places of the attacks.

Authorities in the United States and Canada are currently looking for Ryan Jenkins.

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Sources:

TMZ.com