Reality TV star,murder suspect,dead

The dramatic end came at an isolated motel at the edge of British Columbias mountainous interior,on the outskirts of Hope.

On Sunday,police responded to a call from the motel about a dead person,and called investigators,said Sgt Duncan Pound of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police border integrity unit.

The manager of The Thunderbird Motel and his nephew said they found Jenkins hanging from the bar of a coat rack by a belt. They said a young woman had checked him in to the two-storey inn surrounded by trees.

The 32-year-old real estate developer and investor was charged in California with first-degree murder on Thursday after the dismembered body of Jasmine Fiore was found in a trash bin in Buena Park,about 32 kms from Los Angeles.

Fiores teeth had been pulled out and her fingers cut off,apparently to impede her identification. Investigators used the serial numbers on her breast implants to identify her,Orange County prosecutors said.

Kevin Walker,who manages the Thunderbird Motel,said Jenkins and the mystery woman arrived on Thursday in a Chrysler PT Cruiser with tinted windows and licence plates from Alberta,Jenkinss home province. He stayed in the car while the woman checked them in,he said.

She was blonde,in her early 20s and naturally pretty,he said.

Adam Curt,a motel employee and Walkers nephew,said Jenkins looked stressed out,said. He wouldnt look anybody in the eye.

The motel manager said the woman paid cash for three nights and when the couple didnt check out,he unlocked the room and found him dead. I cracked the door and there he was,hanging there in front of me,feet touching the floor,Walker said.

The ring was tightening on him, Tom Hession,chief inspector for the US Marshals Services regional fugitive task force,said at the California news conference. He obviously was desperate.