I chatted with AOL News' David Moye Tuesday morning. Here's part of that conversation:
from www.aolnews.com - The death of California porn actor and murder suspect Stephen Clancy Hill, who plunged off a cliff in West Hills on Saturday, is arousing all sorts of comments from adult film industry insiders.
Hill (stage name Steve Driver) allegedly went on a machete-wielding rampage four days earlier, after he was told that he was going to have to move off the Ultima DVD premises, where he had been living for some time while acting in skin flicks and otherwise eking by as a Web designer.
Police say Hill repeatedly stabbed co-worker Herbert Wong (whose stage name was Tom Dong), as well as three other staffers who had come to help. He fell to his death as officers were trying to arrest him.
Wong, who was stabbed while trying to protect others, died later that night in a hospital.
The two appeared in at least six films together, mostly fetish films involving female domination.
Although investigators are still piecing together the details, porn insiders are already saying something stinks about the case, and one of Hill's former co-stars says it's the suspect himself.
Charley Chase [pictured], who worked with Hill in the 2010 adult film "Tea Baggin' Party," remembers the experience as one of the worst in her three-year career in the adult industry, mainly because of Hill's body odor.
"He is the worst-smelling man I have ever come across," Chase told AOL News. "I had to make him shower twice before we could start."
In addition, Chase said Hill had a hard time getting ready for his big scene and, once he was locked and loaded, was unable to finish his scene in a timely manner.
Chase added that Hill lacked all the qualities of a good male performer: He didn't open up for the camera; he couldn't act and he was unable to maintain an erection.
Despite having bad memories of Hill, Chase was still shocked when she heard about his reported rampage.
"I was surprised," she admitted. "I only met him that once and he was just kinda quiet. I can see how a guy like him would live in a fantasy world where he thinks he is a ninja. He really had nothing going for himself. ... He's the quiet guy who finally lost it."
Journalist Gene Ross, who has covered the porn industry for more than 25 years, also thinks something about the Hill case stinks, but he's not referring to Hill's odor.
"The police said they found him hiding in a nearby house in the valley's West Hills neighborhood," Ross said. "The murder happened on a Tuesday and they found him on a Saturday, which means someone was hiding him all those days."
Ross, who edits www.AdultFYI.com, a porn industry news website, says when he investigated why Hill might be in that particular neighborhood, he was told by his sources that there is a house in the area that is used for shooting adult films.
Although the case is getting a lot of attention, Ross fears the police will ultimately cease any investigation.
"It's an L.A. mentality that has been in place since the Black Dahlia murder of the 1940s," Ross said. "Murder cases involving a prostitute or a sex worker get a lot of play at first, but, after a while, they get thrown into the police force's computer recycle bin and they treat it as a court case."
Ross hopes that someone who may know something about Hill's whereabouts during those missing days will step forward.
"I'd like someone to reveal what [Hill] did for those days," Ross said. "I did talk with an actor during that period who mentioned that he had [Hill's] phone number. He said, 'Maybe I should call him and tell him to give himself up.' I told him, 'You don't want to be on his cell phone.' "
Ross knows that the attention is focused on Hill, but, in a perfect world, some of the focus would be on his former co-star, Wong, who was killed trying to protect other people at the crime scene.
The porn industry is noted for promoting the beauty of Asian women while making fun of the sexual prowess of Asian men. Ross suggests that Wong's tragic, yet heroic, death should be inspirational to other Asian guys but, sadly, won't be.
"It's nice to think he'd be a hero, but this business has a short memory," Ross said.
Meanwhile, porn actress Amber Peach, who knew Wong but never worked with Hill, says that focusing on the porn industry aspect of the story completely misses the point of what happened.
"The bottom line is this incident has nothing to do with the industry," she said. "If you haven't noticed, the U.S. economy is in shambles. Porn talent, just like the rest of Americans, are hard pressed to find work.
"The guy snapped and it's very, very sad. I think we should keep all of the victims and their families in our prayers and leave them alone."
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