In late March 2004, the body of Natel King, a 23-year-old Canadian pornography model, was found face-down in a wooded area beside the Schuykill River in Conshohocken, PA. Last seen at a porn photo shoot, she'd been missing for three weeks.

Shortly after her body was discovered, photographer Anthony Joseph Frederick was arrested and charged with first- and third-degree murder, possession of an instrument of crime, unsworn falsification to authorities, and abuse of a corpse. He was held without bail. Frederick's assistant Jennifer Mitkus, was charged with lying to authorities and hindering apprehension.

Authorities found multiple stab wounds to Natel's chest, neck and hands. A red ball was stuffed in her throat and attached to a leather strap fixed around her head. Her body was wrapped in a two dark drape backdrops often used by photographers, and secured with duct tape.

"She put up a terrific fight because her hands showed multiple defensive slash wounds," District Attorney Bruce Castor said.

Natel's car was still parked at Frederick's Eagleville, PA house, the site of the porn shoot. A search of his home turned up shackles, duct tape, blood-stained equipment and a handwritten poem that read: "Cut with a knife/Blood does flow/You may bleed out/Death coming on slow."

Natel King worked under the name Taylor Sumers, and was an Ontario native taking psychology classes at Memorial University in Newfoundland. Her father said she worked in porn to pay for her studies.

The last person to talk with Natel was her roommate in Canada, whom she called to say that she was "weirded out" by the Frederick photo shoot. According to the roommate, Natel said Frederick "was kind of weird, and that she was worried. I asked if she was worried about not getting paid or getting killed, and she said, 'I don't know. Both."

Fellow porn model Autumn Rayne remembered meeting Natel at a bondage photo shoot seven months ago and described her as "very confident, very professional, very responsible."

"I told her it wasn't a safe thing to be traveling alone," Rayne said. "I don't travel alone, and if someone tells me they have a job and they tell me my husband can't come, I say, `Sorry, I can't do the shoot for you.'"

Anthony Frederick denies having anything to do with Natel's murder. Questioned by police, he said he took 20 digital photos of her naked and in bondage on Feb. 29, paid her $900, gave her directions to a local restaurant, and never saw her again.

The photos, recovered by police, show Natel wearing the same gag device that she was buried in.

At first, District Attorney Castor told reporters that Natel may have been killed when the bondage session "went horribly wrong." Later, he announced that the "photo shoot" may have actually been a snuff film. In an affidavit, Castor said her death might even be caught on camera. If convicted of her murder, Frederick faces either life in prison or the death penalty.

"I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy," Natel's father Daniel King said after learning of her death. Her mother, Jackie King told reporters she had warned Natel about getting involved in porn.

"We had told her that this is an area that is very dangerous and she may not have the control she thinks she has," King said.

Sources: CNN, FoxNews, and CNews