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.