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A reality TV contestant wanted for the brutal murder of his model ex-wife in California has been found dead in a motel near Vancouver, Canadian police said.

Ryan Jenkins, a Canadian who was the subject of a manhunt in the United States and Canada, apparently took his own life while hiding at the motel in Hope, British Columbia, according to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.