The Murder of Taylor Behl

The Murder of Taylor Behl What Befell Taylor Behl? Taylor Behl, a 17-year-old green bean at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, left her residence room Sept. 5, 2005 to give her flat mate some security with her sweetheart. She took with her a mobile phone, some money, an understudy ID and her vehicle keys. She was never observed alive again. After fourteen days, her 1997 Ford Escort was discovered a mile and a half from the VCU grounds with taken Ohio tags. Her body was found in a space in the ground 75 miles east of Richmond on Oct. 7. Taylor Marie Behls Childhood Years Taylor Behl was conceived on October 13, 1987 to Matt and Janet Behl (presently Janet Pelasara). By age five, Taylors guardians were separated, and Janet was remarried to a Royal Air Force official. She and her new spouse and Taylor lived in England and Belgium. Taylor turned into a prepared carrier traveler before the age of six, making unescorted global excursions among Europe and the U.S. By the age of 11, Taylors mother was separated again and the two came back to northern Virginia. Really, Popular and Savvy Taylor Behl was really, mainstream and had a demeanor of all around voyaged complexity. She had gone to 15 unique schools abroad by the age of 17 when she moved on from Madison High School in the wealthy Washington, D.C., room network of Vienna, Virginia. She conveyed the outward appearance of having built up an adroit autonomy that would set up her for her next life experience of going to her first year of school at the Richmond, Virginia based Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). Janet Pelasara said Taylor chose VCU due to the decent variety she would discover at the school with its 30,000 understudies. It appeared to be a sheltered decision, found just one and a half hours from both her mom and father. In August 2005, at age 17, Taylor Behl got together her things, as did a great many other school destined understudies, and went to her new home at Gladdings Residence quarters on West Main St. in Richmond, Virginia. Taylors Internet Personality - Bitter One significant part of Taylor Behls life was her cooperation on Myspace.com. The site is planned so people can make profiles for themselves and cooperate with others in a social-type condition. On Taylor Behls profile she made throughout the late spring of 2005, she utilized the name Bitter and posted: I simply moved on from secondary school and now Im off to Richmond for school. Im anticipating meeting individuals that are in Richmond since I just realize a couple of individuals down there. Later in her profile she included, Who might I want to meet? Somebody who is benevolent. Taylor posted consistently on the site and kept on doing as such while at VCU. Taylor Meets Ben Fawley Obscure to Taylors guardians, Taylor met a man in Feb. 2005, while visiting VCU as an imminent understudy. He was Ben Fawley, a 38-year-old beginner picture taker who had a past filled with dating youthful school young ladies. It is accepted that Taylor and Fawley built up an online kinship in the wake of meeting and the relationship got sexual eventually. There are clashing reports concerning when or if Taylor cut off the physical association, however when she showed up at VCU, their companionship proceeded. Taylor Vanishes On Sept. 5, Taylor came back to Richmond in the wake of visiting her family in Vienna over the occasion end of the week. She called her folks to tell them she made it back to VCU securely. She at that point ate at The Village Cafe with a former beau. A short time later, Taylor came back to her apartment, yet left to give her flat mate and her sweetheart security. With her vehicle keys, wireless, understudy ID and a little money, she revealed to her flat mate she was going skateboarding and would return in three hours. Course of events: Taylor Behl was never observed alive again. It was not until Sept. 7, that Taylors flat mate made a missing people report to the VCU grounds police. On Sept. 15, the Richmond Police dominated and a 11-part team, including FBI operators, was framed to help locate the missing understudy. Sept. 17, 2005: Taylors vehicle, a 1997 white Ford Escort, was found bolted and left on a peaceful neighborhood road just about a mile and a half from grounds. The tags had been changed to Ohio plates that had been accounted for taken in Richmond two months sooner. Neighbors in the territory told police the vehicle had not been there the whole time Taylor was absent. A K-9 pooch found two particular trails in the vehicle. One had a place with Taylor and the other to 22-year-old Jesse Schultz. During police addressing, Schultz denied knowing Taylor and denied ever being in her vehicle. He was captured on medicate ownership after police found medications during a pursuit of his home. On Sept. 21, 2005: Police detailed that 38-year-old, Ben Fawley was one of the last realized individuals to see Taylor alive. Fawley told police that Taylor had approached acquire a skateboard and he strolled her back to her quarters around 9:30 p.m. During a police search of his home, police found youngster sex entertainment and he was captured on 16 kid sex entertainment charges. Fawley, a dad of two young ladies, was summoned and requested to stay in prison with no bond. On October 5, 2005: Fawleys ex drove police to a house in a photo showed on one of Fawleys Internet sites. The area was an old ranch situated on her folks property. The police looked through the remote Mathews County ranch and found the disintegrated assortment of Taylor Behl laying in a space in the ground. Taylor Behl was covered on October 14, a day after she would have turned 18. Ben Fawley Convicted of Second-Degree Murder In February, 2006 Ben Fawley was accused of second-degree murder of Taylor Behl. In August he was condemned to 30 years in jail subsequent to entering an Alford supplication for the situation, which implies he didn't concede blame, however acknowledged the way that investigators had enough proof to convict him of the wrongdoing.

Four Criteria for Identifying a Rock

Four Criteria for Identifying a Rock What is a stone, precisely? After some idea and conversation, the vast majority will concur that stones are pretty much hard solids, of characteristic starting point and made of minerals. Be that as it may, to geologists, those models have exemptions. Are All Rocks Hard? Not really. Some normal rocks can be scratched with your fingernails, for example, shale, soapstone, gypsum rock, and peat. Others might be delicate in the ground, yet they solidify once they invest energy noticeable all around (and the other way around). What's more, there is an intangible degree between combined rocks and unconsolidated silt. To be sure, geologists name and guide numerous arrangements that dont comprise of rock by any stretch of the imagination. This is the reason geologists allude to work with molten and transformative shakes as hard-rock geography, contradicted to sedimentary petrology. Are All Rocks Solid? A few rocks are a long way from totally strong. Numerous stones remember water for their pore spaces. Numerous geodesâ empty items found in limestone nation hold water inside them like coconuts. Two shakes that are scarcely solids incorporate fine magma strings known as Peles hairâ and the fine open meshwork of detonated magma reticulite. At that point theres the matter of temperature. Mercury is a fluid metal at room temperature (and down to - 40 F), and oil is a liquid except if its black-top ejected into cold sea water. Also, old fashioned ice meets all the measures of rock-hood too...in permafrost and in ice sheets. Are All Rocks Natural? Not so much. The more drawn out people remain on this planet, the more that solid gathers. Concrete is a blend of sand and stones (total) and a mineral paste (concrete) of calcium silicate mixes. It is an engineered aggregate, and it acts simply like the characteristic stone, turning up in riverbeds and on sea shores. Some of it has entered the stone cycle to be found by future geologists. Block, as well, is a counterfeit stone for this situation, a fake type of monstrous record. Another human item that intently takes after stone is slag, the result of metal refining. Slag is a perplexing blend of oxides that has numerous utilizations including street building and solid total. It has discovered its way into sedimentary shakes as of now. Are All Rocks Made of Minerals? Many are most certainly not. Minerals are inorganic mixes with compound recipes and mineral names, for example, quartz or pyrite. Coal is made of natural material, not minerals. The different kinds of stuff in coal are rather called macerals. Additionally, shouldn't something be said about coquina...a rock made completely of shells? Shells are made of mineral issue, yet they arent minerals anything else than teeth are. At long last, we have the special case of obsidian. Obsidian is a stone glass, wherein little or none of its material has accumulated into precious stones. It is an undifferentiated mass of topographical material, rather like slag yet not as vivid. While obsidian has no minerals in it in essence, it is undeniably a stone.

Guest Entry Stephanie Lin

Guest Entry Stephanie Lin As promised, an awesome guest entry written by the wonderful Stephanie Lin. Read on! 3, Hamsika My name is Stephanie, but mostly I go by stephlin, steph or “yoooo.” I’m currently finishing up my senior year in Course 7 (which is awesome! Everyone should study biology!!) with a minor in Applied International Studies and concentration in Spanish. I was a beekeeper/researcher for a summer in high school (obligatory fun fact), really love parentheses and tend to write/talk too much (as you will soon see…). I’m incredibly excited to be going to Oxford next year via the Rhodes Scholarship, and Hamsika asked me to write some juicy new details about the application experience. Here goes: Prologue (sounds so official, right?). I made the decision to apply for the Rhodes last year (junior spring). Long story short[er], I wanted to be a physician but also wanted to study the humanities side of medicine before jumping from Biology at MIT to Physiology in medical school (I eventually want to work in public health and infectious disease. See, I told you â€" long story). Oxford has some really interesting programs and a very different style of learning from the US, so I thought this would be a great opportunity to gain a different perspective and meet awesome people. So over the summer as I was filling out medical school applications, I was also working on: The Rhodes Application â€" you know the drill. A 1,000 word personal statement, transcript, 2-page resume and between 6-8 letters of recommendation. What a monster, right? I submitted everything in early September to the MIT Distinguished Fellowships Office, which had interviews and chose a group of students to give Institutional Endorsements to. Everything, including the endorsement, was shipped off to one of 16 Districts in early October. And then I waited. The Interview â€" Whoa there. Whoa. In late-ish October, each District emails or calls its Finalists to let us know that we’ve received invitations to interview in mid-November. I was sitting in 7.20 (Human Physiology) when my email came, so I had to refrain from making a ruckus. But I was ridiculously excited…and about 30 seconds later, very nervous. The Rhodes Interviews are notoriously difficult; questions can range from challenges to weaknesses to baseball, poets from your ethnicity, politics, ethics, class from freshman year, classes from sophomore year and yes, even that one class you always slept through senior year. I spent weeks working with the Fellowships office, faculty and friends to talk through questions. I think this preparation was one of the most valuable parts of the process because it forced me to think critically about my aspirations and values, and learn to articulate them properly but also the most grueling. The Interview â€" Fish and cocktail parties. And then I flew to California. The actual interviews take place on Saturday, but all Finalists attend the cocktail party on Friday night in order to meet each other and the interviewers. I thought it would be terrifying; the bios of the previous Scholars online are absolutely amazing and intimidating. But this is what happened: Fun, right? The other applicants and interviewers were all super-accomplished people, but they were also very warm and friendly, and genuinely interested in learning more about me. The cocktail party made the interview process less nerve-wracking and much, much more fun (also, they fed us tacos with really good guacamole. that makes everything better). The Interview â€" The Interview. On Saturday morning all 10 Finalists from the LA region were interviewed in half-hour slots that we’d drawn the night before. After chatting with the receptionist and another applicant for a while, I was called into the room and led to the head of a very long and intimidating table: But the interview also ended up being more fun than expected (haha this is a trend), though the questions were still challenging. I was asked about my favorite class from freshman year, an awesome class from sophomore year, lots about medicine and medical ethics (which made for very interesting conversation), art in Boston and Barcelona (where I’d worked on an internship), biology and a host of other topics. No questions on baseball, thank goodness. I walked out smiling then, nanoseconds after the door closed, began psychoanalyzing every statement I’d made. Which leads us to… The Longest 4 hours of my life. The last fun thing about the Rhodes interviews is that they tell you the same day whether you got the scholarship or not. After my interview I wandered around downtown LA for a while looking for food (a very common theme in my life. the food, not the LA) and then went back to the hotel lobby to chill for a few hours until the call-backs. To distract myself, I went to the nearby CVS and bought one of the DVD’s that was on sale. The choice was a hard one â€" the entire time I was thinking, “what if they call me back for a second interview and ask me what I did all afternoon? Maybe I should watch an inspirational movie. A documentary. Something in Spanish. Something deep.” I eventually picked up “Happy Feet.” Penguins are good for the soul! Ta-dah! Finally, I joined all the other interviewees back at the site to wait. This was actually really cool because we got to chat with one another and play a mean game of “Go Fish” while the judges sat in the room next door talking about us. Twice, the chair of the committee came in to call someone back out to re-interview, and my heart would stop (along with everyone else’s, I’m sure) for just a second. After 2.5 hours they came back to make the announcement, lining up in a very intimidating row. As they called the first name my heart was pounding in my ears. “Stephanie…” [mini-heart-attack] “Bryson.” [*facedesk. Yes, the other Rhodes Scholar-elect from Southern California is also named Stephanie. Fun story.] And then they called my name and I sat there with a really silly look on my face. I don’t remember much of the next few hours; I’m pretty sure my vocabulary was limited to “Thank you,” “wow” and “[silly grin].” Not the most eloquent moment of my life, but I think that’s okay. The end. Plus the stuff that’s missing. And there you have it. But I’m missing a huge chunk â€" you see, this has been MY snapshot of the last few months, but there are so many other people who have helped build the story. I’ve gotten mountains of support from the Fellowships Office (hi Kim, Sarra and Scott! Look, I wrote another essay!), Scholarship alums (including alum blogger Melis ’08), MIT faculty and friends. They’ve spent hours upon hours helping me to revise essays, prep for interviews and stay sane. And then there are the people who’ve written recommendation letters and worked with me on projects and let me potter around in their labs and etcetcetc. Nothing I’ve done at MIT has been done alone, and I’m unbelievably grateful to all the people I’ve met along the way. This place has so much excitement in it. It’s beautiful. Basically: I LOVE MIT!! Thanks for reading, guys. If you have any questions I’d be happy to answer them, and I hope to see you all at CPW!