Did Ryan Jenkins kill himself?

It looks like Ryan Jenkins, the 32-year-old real estate developer and investor from Calgary who was found hanging in his room at the Thunderbird Motel in Hope, B.C., on August 23, 2009, was possibly just a scapegoat.

Indicted in the media, Jenkins was accused of killing his ex-wife, a model whose body was so badly mutilated when found in a trash bin outside Los Angeles it had to be identified by her breast implants' serial numbers.

A mystery woman who checked Ryan Jenkins check into a B.C. motel three days before he was found dead by staff is being sought by police.

Kevin Walker, who manages the Thunderbird Motel, said Jenkins arrived in a Chrysler PT Cruiser with Alberta license plates, and stayed in the car while the woman checked them in.

Walker said the woman paid cash for three days, and when the couple didn't check out, he unlocked the room and found him dead.

Kevin Walker, the manager at the secluded budget motel, couldn’t remember the woman’s name and said RCMP have seized the slip of information she filled out for the hotel room. He could see there was a man in the vehicle but thought nothing of the fact he didn’t come in, he said.

After entering unit two, a single room with a double bed, the mystery woman stayed for about 20 minutes, then left.

Walker said he never saw her vehicle again.

In the days following, Walker said he saw a man walk past his own balcony at the motel — a man who would later turn out to be Jenkins.

“But he didn’t look like the Ryan Jenkins I’d seen on TV,” he said. “He looked like a man at the end of his rope, not the muscle-bound macho man you saw on TV.”

The man, he said, had a sunken face and looked thinner than Jenkins looked in the photos released by the police and others that appeared on television news programs.

On Friday and Saturday there was very little activity at the room, with Walker noting that no one seemed to be coming and going.

That "man at the end of his rope" was probably the person who helped the young women set up the secondary crime scene, the assumption that it was Jenkins is obviously not very reliable, since Walker himself said, "he didn't look like Ryan Jenkins." He is probably right, he didn't look like jenkins because it wasn't him. Jenkins was dead when the woman pulled up to the motel with the body in the trunk, and the fact that Walker never saw her vehicle again reflects her single and only responsibility-to drop off the body.

There is no evidence to confirm the claim that he man in the car with the young was Jenkins. Jenkins was probably in the trunk of the car, dead, and the motel room was probably the secondary crime scene, aside from the location where Jenkins and his ex-wife were killed.

Sounds like a jealous boyfriend?

Sure, it's all speculation, but it's the best speculation that the known facts lead to, and unless the police find the woman and extinguish the mystery, we will never know.

Russ Goodine, a permanent motel resident who lives next door to the one where Jenkins killed himself, saw the mystery woman and her companion arrive last week.

“The only thing I thought odd was rather than pull up to the room, they pulled up beside the garbage dumpster,” he said.

Even though he had seen Jenkins’ picture all over the news, Goodine wasn’t suspicious of his neighbour.

“He was too tall, too skinny, too gaunt. Could have fooled me,” he said.

Looks like he fooled everybody, but the fact that they pulled up beside the garbage dumpster is probably a habit that was hard to break. The body of Ryan's wife was found stuffed in a suitcase in a California dumpster, and that's where he would have probably been found, if he wasn't just a scapegoat.

Ryan Jenkins' mother Nada said in an interview Monday she just can't believe her son killed his ex-wife and that she's sure the evidence will eventually prove his innocence.

"He was good, he's kind and we need to clear his name," she said weeping.

But when asked how that could be done she replied: "I don't know. I'm sure the evidence will prove it eventually. I'm praying for that."

It doesn't look like there is any evidence to suggest that Ryan Jenkins murdered his former wife, and as long as that is the case, the man is innocent.

We are now supposed to believe that Ryan Jenkins was a diligent suicide victim who left no stone unturned to convince us that he took his own life. I always thought there was something fishy about that laptop that was conveniently planted in his motel room. It looks like somebody dotted all the i's and crossed all the t's -closure is good, but the truth would be better.