I'm traveling to Seattle/Portland soon so I called this guy, Gene Frizzelle who owned http://www.slitparade.com (now suspended due to what I'm about to tell you).
I had planned on working with Gene in Portland awhile back, so I called him to see if he wanted to set something up during my trip. I left a message. He called back a couple hours later and left a REALLY weird message. He sounded like he was on drugs, so I texted him back, "Haha what drugs are you on?"
So two days later I received an email of a news headline that said that this very same guy has just been convicted of murdering an 18 year-old girl, Emily Egan, who had been living at his apartment and making porn videos with him. Apparentely, he called me and left that message just a few hours before the police arrived at his apartment and found him bloody from slashing his own wrists. They then put him on 24-hour suicide watch. Emily's cause of death, as it stands right now, is homocidal violence.
This shocks me, because Gene seemed like such a nice guy. We had sent dozens of emails back and forth, planning for me to fly out there and shoot. He was going to put me up in a nice hotel and take the train out to meet me and pay for travel expenses. He sent me $300 for the plane ticket, but then cancelled on me, so the shoot was postponed. The trial has not happened yet, so I suppose there is a chance they could find out that he didn't do it, which I HOPE is the case, but then alot of factors wouldn't make any sense. :( It really is a horrible, sad thing.
Of course the media HAS to mention that he was a pornographer and blame the murder on porn, but this obviously had NOTHING do with the fact that she happened to be a porn model. They were obviously involved romantically and I think if anything should be blamed, it's DRUGS. But to these people, porn and drugs are equal evils and MUST go hand-in-hand. Gene is not a MODEL MURDERER as the headlines so boldly state. If he killed Emily, it was most likely due to a relationship spat that was intensified by the use of crystal meth and various other things.
The creepiest thing is that on the message to me, these are the last things he said, when his voice changed and he started crying:
"I'm gonna go sleep with Emily now. I hope you have a good career. You probably don't need to call me back. I'm not going to be answering phones anymore."