Canada- Regardless of what’s not being reported in the media, photographer Anthony Frederick looms as the number one suspect in the disappearance of Natel King aka Taylor Summers. Frederick’s name has yet to appear in any news reports relating to the missing Summers other than adultfyi.com. But even Summers best freid Curtis Shears believes that Frederick could be the most logical suspect. Shears, in an interview for the Canadian Press that sounds a lot different than the one which appears in the Philadelphia Daily News today said Summers was “freaked” by the photographer and feared that not only would she not get paid, but also feared for her life.

Summers called Shears, her best friend in Mississauga, Ontario, to tell him she feared for her life after a photography shoot in a Philadelphia suburb.

That Feb. 29 phone call was the last time Shears heard from his roommate, Natel King, who goes by the name Taylor Sumers in the adult entertainment industry.

King has been missing for nearly two weeks and Peel Region and Pennsylvania police are investigating.

The 23-year-old actor and model called her friend Shears on her cellphone from a photo shoot in Conshohocken, Pa., telling him she was worried about “something that was happening” at the shoot.

“She first left me a message, saying that she was kind of freaked out by this guy (the photographer),” Shears said yesterday in the Mississauga basement apartment they shared.

He said he called her back that Sunday and she told him she was “getting kind of weirded out” by the photographer.

Shears said he asked if she was “afraid of not getting paid,” or “getting killed” and she said “I don’t know, both.”

“I was joking about getting killed but she was really worried about herself,” said Shears, who has known King for 10 years.

“I couldn’t get any more details because she said she couldn’t talk because there were other people there,” Shears said. “So she said she would call me back in five minutes but she never did.”

Shears, 23, who also works in the adult entertainment industry, contacted Peel police last Thursday after his roommate failed to return home as planned on Tuesday.

King, who was a second-year student at Memorial University in Newfoundland, was taking correspondence courses in psychology. She dreamed of becoming a psychologist.

“She is not a porn star. She’s very small time,” said Shears.

King’s car, a 1992 red Saturn coupe, was found abandoned in a residential neighborhood in Conshohocken last Friday, according to the Montgomery County District Attorney’s office. Her suitcase and laptop were inside. Police told Shears there was nothing to indicate any foul play.

“It looks like she never got into her car after the photo shoot,” said Shears.

Six detectives from Conshohocken are in Canada interviewing acquaintances, said Bruce Castor Jr., the district attorney of Montgomery County.

So far, King’s family has refused comment to the media, and detectives are looking at cellphone and credit card records, as well as bank transactions, to get a handle on her whereabouts.

“We know that she had come here for a modelling job and we have interviewed the photographer,” Castor said.

King had been hired by Frederick, a photographer working out of Conshohocken, Shears said. Detectives from the Philadelphia suburb, who visited her residence in Mississauga, told Shears they had interviewed Frederick for several hours.

A phone number listed for Frederick on his Web site is now out of service, but Shears said Frederick told him via e-mail he last saw King about 6:30 p.m. on Feb. 29 when he walked her to her car after the photo shoot.

“He said she was going to walk to a pub about a block and half away to get something to eat,” Shears said. “He said she gave him a hug and went on her way.”

King has worked in print and films in the adult industry for about five years.

King left her home on Feb. 27 and drove by herself to the shoot, which Shears said she had arranged through an adult entertainment-booking site on the Internet.

She was supposed to head for Detroit for another photo shoot right after the gig near Philadelphia, Shears said.

It’s not like King to be out of touch.

“I’m her best friend in the world and we usually talk on the phone almost every day, no matter what.”