Police: Evidence found in ex-model’s car
Published 10:53 pm Thursday, August 27, 2009
BUENA PARK, Calif. — Police said Thursday they found blood and evidence of a violent struggle inside a car belonging to an ex-model whose brutal slaying prompted a manhunt for a reality TV contestant that ended in his suicide.
Spatters and swirls of blood “like finger-painting” was on the passenger seat, back seat and rear windshield of Jasmine Fiore’s white Mercedes-Benz, Buena Park police Sgt. Roger Powell said. Fiore’s car was found abandoned in a parking lot in West Hollywood on Wednesday, about a mile from the penthouse she shared with wealthy real estate investor Ryan Jenkins.
Detectives found bloodstains on the patio of their room at the luxury boutique hotel L’Auberge Del Mar and mud stains, weeds and twigs on the undercarriage of Fiore’s car, Powell said.
They also found a letter in the car’s glovebox that was written from Jenkins to Fiore, Powell said. He said the letter had been written some time ago, but was “more evidence to believe … there was a whole lot of jealousy on his part,” Powell said.
Fiore’s nude body was found Aug. 15 stuffed in a suitcase and tossed into a Buena Park trash bin. Her fingers and teeth had been removed — presumably to prevent police from identifying her. Investigators learned her name by tracking the serial number on her breast implants.
