Cops say car found in West Hollywood could be dead model’s missing Mercedes-Benz

Cops investigate car in model’s murder

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Police have found a car in West Hollywood that matches the description of a vehicle belonging to an ex-model who police suspect was killed by a former reality show contestant.

Buena Park police Sgt. Bill Kohanek said Wednesday that authorities received a tip that the white Mercedes-Benz had been sitting in a parking lot for several days.

Los Angeles County deputies guarded the car before it was loaded onto a tow truck.

Ex-model Jasmine Fiore’s nude body was found in a trash bin on Aug. 15.

Ryan Jenkins, a wealthy reality TV contestant wanted in her murder, was found hanging from a clothes rack in a hotel room in his native Canada on Sunday.

Police have said Fiore may have been killed in her car.

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Associated Press Writer Gillian Flaccus in Tustin, Calif., contributed to this report.