PORTLAND, Ore. – The mother of an 18-year-old found dead in a Portland apartment this week claims the man accused in her murder lured the girl into a life of pornography.
Emily Egan was found dead Tuesday in the downtown apartment of 37-year-old Paul Eugene Frizzelle, who is charged with her murder.
Egan’s mother, Terry, said Wednesday that her daughter was on medication for bipolar disorder when she first met Frizzelle, and he offered her a modeling job.
She claims Frizzelle substituted hard drugs for Emily’s medication and then substituted porn for the modeling.
“He started giving her meth,” Terry Egan said. “And had pot. And she had Adderall. And she had Ritalin. The exact opposite type of medication that you would give someone bipolar.”
Terry Egan said she was literally hours from picking up her daughter and finally taking her out of that life when she heard late Tuesday that her daughter had been murdered.
“I was supposed to pick her up (Wednesday) morning,” she said. “She was coming home. She was done … She had been exploited to the point where she was ready to come home.”
Officers went to Frizzelle’s second-floor apartment, 207, in the Empire Apartments in the 1200 block of Southwest 11th Avenue Tuesday after receiving out-of-state calls from Frizzelle’s worried relatives. They found Egan dead inside along with a bloody Frizzelle, whom police said made a suicide attempt.
The medical examiner’s autopsy released late Wednesday only says Emily Egan died from ‘homicidal violence’ without giving specifics.
Frizzelle appeared in court Wednesday wearing a blue suicide smock and with his wrists bandaged from the suicide attempt. He remained jailed on suicide watch, charged with murder under Measure 11’s harsher penalties because prosecutors said this was a case of domestic violence.
Frizzelle’s MySpace account links to a pornography production Web site that lists Frizzelle as the site’s contact. Police aren’t sure yet if that played a role Egan’s murder.
“This idea of pornography, it’s coming up, it’s kind of leaking around, and we’re just trying to get to the bottom of why this young lady was killed,” said Sgt. Brian Schmautz, a police spokesman.