Las Vegas Weekly

August 20, 2009 · 7:20 PM

Exclusive Photos: Manhunt continues for millionaire in murder

By Robin Leach

Jasmine Fiore at Tao.

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For the first time, Jasmine Fiore’s former Las Vegas boyfriend has spoken about her murder. It’s believed that Jasmine sent a text message to local investment banker Robert Hasman over the weekend saying that she’d made a terrible mistake marrying reality TV show contestant Ryan Alexander Jenkins and that she was returning to Las Vegas to see him.

That text, it’s believed, so infuriated Ryan, who recently appeared on VH1’s Megan Wants a Millionaire, that he added his own vulgar message to Robert. Jasmine was not seen again until her body was discovered inside a suitcase in a dumpster in Los Angeles on Sunday.

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Jasmine Fiore.

Now police Lt. Steve Holliday has revealed that the “fingers and teeth were removed” from the Las Vegas dancer and model’s body, which was found stuffed in a large, bloodstained gray suitcase. He added that police are “looking into a motive right now” but cannot share that information at this time.

The Buena Park police chief said that Ryan, a Canadian citizen, is believed to have crossed into Canada in a speedboat and that the U.S. Marshall is working with the Royal Canadian Police to apprehend him. He is considered armed and dangerous, and the U.S. Marshall said that “anybody that assists him, helps him in any way” will be subject to being charged in the case. “There will be no stone unturned, and we will look under every rock for him,” he said at a press conference tonight.

Photo: TVT

Jasmine Fiore at Tao.

Meantime, Robert, who used to date Jasmine, told Entertainment Tonight a short time ago: “Ryan Jenkins is an animal. What he has done to Jasmine is unspeakable.” He asked for the public’s support in apprehending him and added, “Jasmine was a beautiful person. She was a very caring individual. She loved her family and friends. A lot of the information you’re seeing in the news [about her] is not true. She had a lot going for her.”

I went through my old photo files and discovered that I have three never-before-seen photographs of Jasmine from a celebrity bowling event and when a group of us had dinner at Tao in The Venetian.

Robin Leach has been a journalist for more than 50 years and has spent the past decade giving readers the inside scoop on Las Vegas, the world’s premier platinum playground.

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