Taylor Summers - Killed For Snuff Video
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Bloody DNA clues and a hand-scrawled reference to a "snuff video" links a local photographer to the murder of a Canadian porn actress, Taylor Summers, Montgomery County District Attorney Bruce L. Castor Jr. said in a preliminary hearing Friday.
Anthony J. Frederick, 46, appeared in Whitemarsh district court on charges he murdered Natel King, who disappeared Feb. 29 after posing for Frederick in a hardcore bondage shoot arranged via the Internet.
He said nothing during the hearing, and grimaced slightly after seeing a police photo of King's body
King, 23, a platinum-blonde who starred in X-rated media as Taylor Sumers, was found March 23 in a trash-strewn ravine above the Schuylkill River.
Naked and wearing bondage devices, she was repeatedly stabbed and slashed across the throat.
District Attorney Castor, produced a handwritten note detectives found tucked inside a camera bag in the Eagleville townhouse which Castor described as a "contract" for a "snuff vid."
That bolsters Castor's theory that King may have been killed during the making of a so-called "snuff" film, in which a person's killing is simulated during sex.
"You add to that the evidence of the bondage, the ball gag in her mouth, the nipple clips, the ropes. and it leads us to believe that this was a simulated, violent sexual encounter that turned into a real violent encounter," Castor said after the hearing.
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Okay so im sure we all agree that her death was sad however, you do have to question why she was 'potentially' going to be shooting a snuff video in the first place.
Of course it doesnt make the crime any less shocking and saddening but this is sure as hell going to have larger implications on the 'porn' inustry as a whole even though 99.99% of us wouldnt touch snuff with a 10ft pole.
Regards,
Lee
