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breaking news tonight. live to l.a., a quiet apartment community reeling after a dumpster is opened to reveal a female body. the mystery as to the identity goes unsolved for days. how she came to be murdered and thrown away like trash. we confirmed the body folded inside that suitcase is 28-year-old swim suit model jasmine fiore. tonight, the murder turned even more heinous.
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brutally beaten, her teeth pulled out of her head, her fingers removed to conceal identity. how i.d. the body? serial numbers on her breast implants. her body that traumatized. and in a bizarre twist, a reality tv star wanted in connection for the murder. bombshell tonight. while california investigators announce an arrest warrant for ryan jenkins, his luxury bmw and boat trailer found abandoned on the u.s.-canadian border. in another stunning development, jenkins takes the coast guard on a high-speed chase. escaping the u.s. by speed boat. we uncover jenkins' history of violence, a pattern of abusing women. with each passing hour, we piece
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together a time line leading up to the murder. a stunning photo surfaces of fiore and jenkins living it up at a luxury las vegas hotel seemingly in love just before her brutal murder. we now know jenkins has a pilot license. he eluded police and county bounties and to him money is no object. where is he tonight? anyone's guess. >> we now have a warrant for the arrest of ryan alexander jenkins. >> a reality tv star on the run.
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>> the question was about mutilation, the fingers and teeth were removed. >> and i don't think anybody is prepared to hear that, but you can hear the gasping and the background of the family members crying. this person obviously didn't want her to be identified or identified quickly. >> police say the prime suspect is a canadian, ryan alexander jenkins. he's believed to have driven 1,000 miles to washington state. and where he could merely walk into canadian territory. >> you need to understand that he's now officially wanted. we don't stop looking for him. there is no stone unturned and we'll look under every rock for him. >> please understand we ask your support to bring ryan into custody. good evening. i'm nancy grace.
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thank you for being with us. breaking news tonight, reality tv star wanted for murder after leading the coast guard on a high-speed boat chase, a $10 million arrest warrant out for the alleged killer of 28-year-old model jasmine. >> ryan jenkins is an animal. >> new developments in the case, a murdered sbim suit model. her body was found stuffed into a suitcase. authorities believe she was strangled to death. >> we now have ap warrant for the arrest of ryan alexander jenkins. >> what he has done to jasmine is unspeakable. >> tonight, they say this man did t right now police are looking for him. >> in another disturbing twist, her teeth and fingers have been removed to, presumably to make it difficult, if not impossible to have her identity revealed. police believe he may have fled to canada on foot and they are
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warning that he may be armed and dangerous. >> he file as missing person's report and then drives 1,000 miles to canada? they found his vehicle and then they say they found his boat registered to him. one other piece of information there, there was a report this morning that one of his relatives was seen dropping off that boat in the area. >> anyone who assists him in any way is also subject to being charged as aiding and abetting and harboring a fugitive. >> straight out to john buried with knx 1070, john, it cannot get any more bizarre than it already has. what can you tell me about a high-speed boat chase. in all of the years that i prosecuted cases, i have never heard, never once, heard of someone actually managing to elude the coast guard in a high-speed boat chase. >> nancy, to be honest with you, the information on this story is changing so fast, i just learned of the high-speed boat chase myself.
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we know that he took the boat across the peninsula. we know that he was spotted in that marina and they are saying that they know that he's in canada. but this is the first i've heard about the -- >> that's incredible. >> the orange county district attorney's office, have you ever heard of someone managing to outrun the coast guard in a high-speed boat chase? >> no, i have not. that's, of course, very unusual. and he has abandoned his boat and got it to shore and he fled on foot after that and hasn't been seen since. this is a very unusual case but, you know, he'll turn up and we'll get him pretty soon. >> you're seeing now at the canadian border, explain to me how he did it. >> how he took off? you're talking about the time line? >> yes. >> basically, they went to san
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diego thursday night, supposedly checked into this upscale reports. there are reports that they had a pretty good blow-out fight that night at the hilton. he checked out the next morning. >> a fight over what? >> my understanding, from the reports i'm seeing, is that he is just very jealous and it has to do with other men. but basically the report i saw said they went back to the hotel, continued the argument. and then the next morning he took off. friday he filed a missing person's report on saturday night. he said the last time he had seen her was friday afternoon when she dropped him off at his apartment in l.a. on saturday night he goes in to file the missing person's report and disappears. but the body was found saturday morning but obviously they couldn't identify it because of the teeth and fingers missing. >> that's in direct
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contradiction to what he said. her body was found that morning. oliver, former deputy medical examiner joining us out of l.a., everyone we are taking your calls live. you are taking a look at reality tv star ryan alexander jenkins, 32, and a now deceased model, jasmine fiore. we know he has a pilot license and he's eluded police and he's left the country. money is no object to this guy. where he is, it's anybody's guess. back to you, dr. oliver. in all of the years that i've prosecuted murders and covered stories, i have never heard of someone's body being identified by a serial number on a breast implant. have you? >> i've heard of bodies being identified on medical devices such as pacemaker or hip
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placement. and it's -- i have heard of instances where people were identified by their breasts. >> you have heard that before? >> i have, yes. >> i have never seen that. crime analyst and the director of a cold case squad, that's a new one on me. >> that's a new one on me, nancy. i've never heard it. ever. >> to dr. leslie, i've had it up to about right here with people on air analysts, analyzing her like she's a piece of trash, just like he allegedly left her because of her occupation. this is not a hooker. this is not a stripper. this is young lady, just 28 years old, who was a model, a swim suit model. and she had gone on to get her real estate license, tried to develop a career as a personal trainer. why is everyone focussing on the
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victim, smearing her in the mud like she is wrong. why is that? >> i don't know. it's easy for people to say, why is she with him if he's so bad. i hold him accountable. by the way, i wouldn't put anything past the plastic surgeons. >> tina in mississippi, hello. >> hi, nancy. how are you tonight? >> i'm good. what's your question? >> i have two quick questions. first of all, number one, just say that they find him in canada or even some other country. can he be tried here in the u.s.? >> is he -- if he is extra died dieted, tina. the problem with canada is they get a whiff of the word death penalty. they very likely will not ex tridiet. that's the problem. it depends on where he goes. back to you, reporter cnn affiliate, what can you tell me about daddy owning apparently an
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enclave in honduras? >> that's what we've heard, that he has a very rich father and it's possible that he could be there. although i just spoke with a bounty hunter on the phone. he says all leads, nancy, lead to canada and that's where they are focusing all of their efforts right now. >> let's unleash the lawyers, gloria all red and gloria, certainly the canadian police put a cap on his parents and family and friends phone up there in canada, right? >> i think the first place that you out their phone and cell phone and i'm sure they are going to check if it's been bounced off any towers in the area. i mean, that's just rudimentary. >> and doug burns, what would stop him from going to an fbo
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fixed base operator and taking off for honduras. >> i heard you say that earlier. in fact, a pilot license makes it a little tougher. but they are going to track him down. you'll see. your question was about mutilation. >> yes. >> and teeth were removed.
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>> investigators say that jenkins was spot in washington t. just south of his native canada. >> it's our belief that is the suspect has crossed the border into canada and we are currently working with the police in our attempts to locate him. >> his black bmw hauling a boat was abandoned near the marina near port roberts. they are part of the u.s. but only accessible from british columbia. jenkins is wanted in connection with the murder of jasmine fiore. the model's body was found in a suitcase. she recently moved to l.a. from las vegas. jenkins was charged with domestic violence for hitting her in the arm earlier this year and previously served 15 months
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probation for a 2007 assault on a woman in canada. >> he's in two different incidents with two girl, one being jasmine. he has a complaint against him for hitting jasmine with his fist in the arm. he's been convicted of in an arm for attacking her and with battery and this charge he had to do domestic violence counseling and sex addiction therapy. >> straight out to sergeant junkin, sergeant, i understand that many authorities believe that he is hiding in the metro vancouver area. why do think believe that? >> well, i believe at this point, nancy, some of the original indicators were that he might be in canada. we haven't confirmed that he's in canada but we're not taking any chances and we're doing a
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thorough investigation to figure out if he's here. >> have you received tips from the public? >> we have received a relative number of tips from the public. there's been media attention and we get calls when people think that they see someone that looks like him. there's been nothing that corroborates that he's here at this time. >> sergeant, i understand that he has a pilot's license. how do you prevent him from going to an fbo, a fixed base operator, a private air strip, and taking off? because there is very little safeguards. you don't even have to show ids to hop on one of those plans. >> absolutely. that's one of the things we're trying to do is being very proactive with the media to get all of the information out there so we can dose policing where the community can assist us in look forge a pirn. >> sergeant, where does he get
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his pilot's license? because i'm wonder fg he wouldn't try to go back somewhere else familiar to escape the country. >> that's a good point, nancy. certainly we have a bunch of things that we're doing on our investigation. we have a lot of people on the ground working on things. at this point, obviously, we don't want to fairly tip our hands at where we are looking or how we are looking because we don't want the information to get back to the wrong people. >> what type of operation are you -- do you have in place to try to locate him? >> the royal canadian mounted police has a command post here in the lower mainland of the vancouver area. we've disseminated the area to all of the surrounding attachments and police forces. we've partnered up for the canada border service agencies. and we've worked very closely with the u.s. marshals. so we have an extensive network right now and we have, based on information provided by the u.s. authorities, i can tell thaw
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there is now a provisional arrest warrant here in canada. >> what is a provisional arrest warrant? what is that? >> that's the warrant that would signal the start of an extradition process. there's been an extradition process where the canadian courts would rule whether or not he's been extradited. >> right now, i'm being joined by carolyn jarvis with the global national report, from cnn affiliate news, she's there at the point roberts border crossing. thank you for being with us. >> thanks, nancy. >> whal can you tell me, was there an alert there posted there at the border crossing where we believe he entered
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canada? >> not that we're aware of. this is a very interesting border crossing because it's an important part of the country. that's washington state. right now i'm standing in the province of british columbia, canada. getting across the border is easier than what you might think and we'll get those details in just a few minutes. >> we're live there at the canadian and u.s. border. is that where this man, wanted for the murder of u.s. swim suit model jasmine fiorie made off on a high-speed boat chase? ?
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he's going to be found. >> he's wanted, armed and dangerous. >> there's information that he's possibly armed with a handgun. in canada and the united states,
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please use caution. we want our brothers and sisters, both citizens and law enforcement professionals to be safe when they take him into custody. we believe he's armed with a handgun. >> he doesn't just have a pilot's license. he was actually an instructor at calgary flight training center. we know that for a fact. that would allow him to fly great distances in a plane, for instance, like a cessna. i want to go to you, crime analyst and director of cold case pilot cd. what about her car? >> her car, nancy, is a big piece of this puzzle. her car could have trace evidence, her blood in it that came off of him. i believe that her car is part of the staging process for him. he dumped that car somewhere to make police believe that she was kidnapped. >> hi, kathy. >> hi, nancy. >> what is your question. >> i was a fan of who wants to
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marry a millionaire and he floored me. one thing that i remember is in the first interaction with megan, ryan made it clear that he could not work in the u.s. and that he was interested in getting a green card. do you think maybe that could have been a motive for maybe jasmine refused to go with that plan? >> that's a great question. what about it? to you, stacy butler. >> it's hard to say if that had anything to do with it. there's a couple of things, nancy. he's armed and dangerous. why do we know that? there is word that that missing handgun may have belonged to jasmine fiore. she's a registered gun owner. police apparently searched her apartment and the information that we have is that they were not able to cover it. 3300 miles of open border, across canada, so if he follow as flight plan, he's going to go on the radar. does he want to do that.
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>> of course that flight plan could be actually opposite of where he flied. we're going back to the canadian-u.s. border. >> jasmine was a beautiful person. she was a very caring individual. she loved her family and friends. (announcer) now skating...jim perdue.
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serial number from her breast implants. her family says this guy is an animal. >> can you imagine smashing a person's teeth out and cutting off her fingers. this guy had no feelings for her other than rage. >> one of the questions that law enforcement may be seeking to answer is did he do this before? this was a planned execution of a woman. i'm sure they are looking in their files to see if there are any unsolved murders in that area. >> there is no such thing as a crime of passion. this guy was a psychopath and when this possession got away from him, he did what he wanted to do to her. >> here's my question out to you. john buried, why do you keep seeing photos of him without a search on? what is that? >> i don't know. i think maybe this is an old english thing. >> it's an old image thing. when i saw this case, the first thing i thought of was the scott
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peterson case. but in event event because women describe him as good looking -- >> how many people do you know that have a head shot from the belt up without your clothes on? i mean, i don't know, john, you're in the cd business. i don't know -- your head shots include from the belt up without your clothes on. >> no, they don't. and that's what it looks like. it looks like modeling photos. >> okay. that's a whole another can of worms. try to focus on the face, if you can. ryan alexander jenkins, 32. daddy has got loads of money. he's got a pilot's license and access to go wherever he wants to. and you've got to remember, once you get on the cessna that you rent, you can veer off your chartered plan. you don't have to fly where you are say you're going. they don't have to do -- once you're in canadian air space, you're on your own.
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i want to go back to carolyn jarvis who is with the cnn affiliate global news. walk me through how this may have happened. i'm already learning from you that there was no posting up or an alert or anything from the canadian border and this woman remains absolutely nothing. it's like, please, come hide in canada. >> there's no indication of him coming to canada. but getting into canada from
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this point it's interesting because it's june 2009, we implemented all of these strict enforcement and everything to beef up security. to cross this international dividing t. there's not even a chain link fence to stop anybody
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here. folded her body in a suitcase and threw her in a come mun nal dumpster. he leads the coast guard on a high-speed chase. we know that. it was the car and empty boat trailer at point roberts border crossing. 1500 some odd residents that say here year round and it booms in the summer months. it's a beautiful oceanside resort community. about 5,000 people here throughout the summer. they walk up, grab a latte, and cross through the bushes. there's a street called zero avenue. the back of their homes, literally back on to a street
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that's the united states. so you can walk through somebody's backyard and you're in canada. a woman said to me, she said, he could be in my garden shed. that's the fear. a lot of people on n the community are senior citizens. it's an older community, shall we say. and they are concerned because they are not necessarily feeling so safe with a man like this. that's a fine sight and tore the teeth out of a woman's head and she couldn't be identified through the kitchen window. nice. we're taking your calls live to jeannie in montana. hi, dear. >> hi, nancy. >> what's your question? >> well, i'm really curious. one of the first statements that ryan made on that reality show, was he wouldn't make her sign a prenup. do you know if jasmine's family knows if he did the same thing with her? >> was there a prenup?
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do we know? >> i have no information on that. >> oh, that would zuk for you. >> me? meet you at home. >> joking. you're cute. >> you're cute. >> so is this the best date ever? >> maybe. >> maybe? >> i'll tell you at the end. >> i don't know if megan and i have had enough time together for her to loosen up and get to
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know me. >> loosen up? i feel like you're manipulating me. >> i want to show her vulnerability to make her more comfortable with me. >> you are seeing sound and video from vh 1's megan wants a millionaire. when you really take a look at that, here's a guy who has got a string of women on the line and we have established a pattern, an abusive pattern of violence towards women. what can you tell me, john
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buried? and then another ex-girlfriend said that he was really into sex. that was one of the reasons that they broke up. >> wait, john baird. you could say that about any man you snatch off the street. why did he have to get counseling for it? isn't that a little bit beyond the norm? >> i would think it's beyond the norm but basically that was in the report. that was in the condition that he get this counseling. so obviously there was some sort of issue with that. >> i've got a feeling, we're going to put him on the thing here. because when tough get counseling for sex addiction, after you've beaten up two girlfriends, and what can you tell me about him into a
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jasmine fiore with her
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husband ryan jenkins last seen in san diego and the building manager found her dead, stuffed maked in a suits case in the dumpster. >> we now have an arrest warrant for the murder of jasmine. >> as you just heard from california investigators, murder charges have been filed in the case of jasmine fiore. they offer gruesome new details as well, about the state of her body found early saturday morning. >> your question was about mutilation. the fingers and teeth were removed. >> shocking details emerge. the suspect removing her teeth and fingers and stuffing her inside a suitcase. >> ryan jenkins is an animal. what he has done to jasmine is unspeakable. >> cops are searching the entire west coast for ryan and a man fitting his description was seen riding a boat in blaine,
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washington. >> he's now officially wanted. we don't stop looking for him until we have him ap prehenlded and in custody. >> we have learned that this past april, which i believe would have been in the 15 months probation, he was charged with bunching, punching this woman, jasmine fiore. >> the probation started january '07, it would have terminated in april of '08. >> and the incident with the now deceased, jasmine fiore, was in april. so now we are seeing a pattern. >> april '09 or '08? >> of '09. a pattern of attacks on women, this young model found folded dead in a suitcase and now the latest, the person of interest, her new husband, his car, his bmw, and his boat trailer found abandoned at the canadian
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border. and my question is, what is canada going to do about it? >> to travis, former fiancee of jasmine fiore, joining us from las vegas, describe her personality to me. she has been slurred in the media and in print. what was she like? >> she was a hardworking business professional woman. she was smart, ambitious. for example, everybody wants to say that she was this model party girl. nobody found a naked picture on the internet anywhere. she never did naked modeling. that was never her thing. she did her thing, she worked. she was happy. but she did it at modeling events or to business people. she was smart. she wanted to be a business owner. she was not born into millions of money. she worked for it. when she first came to vegas,
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she got a job when the club first opened and networked herself in there through playboy golf and the organization. i admired that and with t was great to see -- it was great to see a woman as good looking and ambitious that did her own thing. she was happy. she worked, she worked, she worked. if she wanted it, she worked. she was amazing. we dated, we had fun, we moved in together for a while, and then we -- you know, she was cord cord yell. she never burned a bridge. i mean, i could go on and on about it. she was very definitive. either you're together or you're not. she didn't lie, back stab, or play games. it's unbelievable that another human being could do what they did. >> it is. i want to go to his former attorney, allen hepner. would it be your duty to report
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it to authorities if he tried to reach you in canada? >> no. i would maintain client privilege if he did try to reach me or the family did. so i would deal with it according to the laws i took. >> so he would not report it and that is his duty as a defense attorney, extremely well respected attorney in the area. alain hepner. gloria, what about it? what's the duty here in the u.s. if your guy is wanted for murder and he calls you for help, what do you do? >> no. attorney-client privilege of confidentiality means that anything of a client or even a prospective client tells the attorney is confidential and could not be disclosed, that would be a violation. >> i do agree with that but
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what a week in america's courtrooms. take a look at the stories and more important the people that touched our lives. >> i can now announce that as of this afternoon we now have a warrant for the arrest of ryan alexander jenkins for the murder of jasmine. >> the fingers and teeth were removed. >> jasmine is 28 years old, was 28 years old. she was an aspiring model for a time. >> do we know the cause of death? >> we do know it was strangulation. i checked with the police again a short time ago, and they
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confirmed it was strangulation. >> very stunning development. the police have announced hours ago it was no stranger that snuck into that home and took this little girl? where is haleigh cummings? simple answer, we didn't know. but now this is a major development, t.j. >> one thing, you've got ronald and crystal, no longer suspects. but misty's story has been inconsistent from day one. >> this is kristi cornwell from several years ago when her now teenage son was a baby. each passing day in her disappearance is agonizing for her family who prays for her safe return. >> this is kristi's mother and richard cornwell, her brother. they're asking for your help tonight. what are police telling you? >> well, they're just telling us that they've not found her yet. >> we know she was abducted. there's no question about it. the evidence spells that. >> let's stop and remember army
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staff sergeant robert stanley, 27 from virginia, killed iraq on a third tour, awarded the bronze star and purple heart. served in new orleans after katrina. loved cooking and collecting guns and rocks. favorite author, tom clancy. dreamed of being a cop and starting a family. leaves behind his parents, one sister, widow jamie. robert stanley, american hero. thanks to our guests but especially to you and good night from the new york control room. good night, brett, norm, stacy, evil. and happy birthday to the devoted viewer retired from the justice system personal friend and friend of the show jo horn. and happy birthday to another georgia friend of show, maida, grandmother of nine and great-grandmother of ten. happy birthday. everyone, i'll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp eastern. good night, friend. i'm richelle carey.
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police investigating the death of michael jackson raided a pharmacy in beverly hills friday afternoon. he reportedly got prescriptioned filled there. jackson's doctor is the focus of the investigation. casey anthony teared up friday in court. the defense revealed their strategy for her murder trial. they say anthony could not have killed her daughter. shi claim she was already in jail when her daughter's remains were found. this 17-year-old from ohio claims her father has threatened to kill her because she converted from islam to christianity. that's the stories we're that's the stories we're following. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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