Still sad ...
From the Toronto Star (April 25):
Local actor killed making 'snuff' film?
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WHITEMARSH, Pa. — A Canadian porn actress found dead last month may have been killed while shooting a film in which a killing is simulated during sex, prosecutors said.
DNA clues and a scrawled note referring to the so-called "snuff" video link photographer Anthony Frederick to the death of Natel King, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce Castor said during a preliminary hearing Friday. King's body was found in a trash-filled ravine last month.
Frederick, 46, was ordered held for trial on first- and third-degree murder charges. His assistant, Jennifer Mitkus, 29, was held for trial on charges of lying to authorities and hindering apprehension.
King, 23, who was from the Toronto area, disappeared Feb. 29 after posing for Fredericks in a hard-core bondage shoot that had been arranged over the Internet, authorities said. Nearly a month later authorities found her naked and slashed body, with bondage devices still on it.
Castor described the note, which police said they found in a camera bag in a house that Fredericks shares with his wife and young son, as a contract between a photographer and a subject. It enumerated various types of videos or photo shoots, Castor said, referring to the phrase "snuff vid," in which a killing is simulated during sex.
Police also retrieved several bloodstained items from Frederick's car and from his apartment in Conshohocken in suburban Philadelphia; the DNA matched that of Frederick and King, authorities said.
Frederick's lawyer, Daniel-Paul Alva, said his client had nothing to do with the "snuff" videos.
"We don't know who killed her," Alva said. "What we do know is that my client is in the unsavoury business of photographing women in very compromising positions. But that kind of business was entered into voluntarily by the victim."
