Porn actress may have died in simulated 'snuff' movie

A Canadian porn actress found stabbed to death last month in Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania, may have been killed while shooting a film that was to have simulated the murder of a woman during sex, prosecutors say.

DNA clues and a scrawled note referring to a "snuff" video connect photographer Anthony J. Frederick to the death of 23-year-old Natel King, whose body was found in a trash-filled ravine in March.

Frederick's lawyer, Daniel-Paul Alva, said his client had nothing to do with snuff videos.

"We don't know who killed her," he 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."