Fawley No Longer Person Of Interest In Taylor Behl Disappeance

Police now claim to have no persons of interest in the disappearance of Taylor Behl. What's that remind you of? I can hardly wait to see who is going to suggest there's a large government conspiracy at work. Sorry, but I'm so disgusted with the coverage I have seen on that other matter, maybe it's time to tell the whole truth as regards the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. Someone has to - clearly we can't rely on American news media.

Richmond, Va (AP) - Police no longer consider a 38-year-old Richmond man a person of interest in the disappearance of Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Behl.

Richmond police spokeswoman Cynthia Price says police initially called Ben Fawley a person of interest in Behl's case because they wanted to interview him. But they've done that, and NO longer classify him as such.

More at Missing And Abducted.

Comments

[fishie]

Why did the attorney leave the case? That's VERY atypical, especially for this attorney who's very driven and experienced in high-profile cases...cosmicMojo

Maybe Little Ben just won't listen and keep his mouth shut or the attorney now realizes this case might be bad for future business. In other words maybe the attorney has learned the truth.

[cosmicMojo]

Adding a comment from darkside with the truth about how quickly the VCU police responded within TWO days, not the 11 some people are mentioning:
"I have heard it said many times that VCU police delayed 11 days in turning this over to Richmond police or law enforcement (diferent verbiage used in different areas). I felt it was important to clarify this for my own thought processes and discovered, in re-reading news reports, that it was not 11 days before LE was brought in. Taylor Behl went missing on the 5th. VCU police were alerted on the 8th. FBI was called in by VCU police on THE 10TH of Sept.(per 9/11 times dispatch report). It was the LE task force that was created on the 15th (10 days after disappearance). BUT clearly, VCU police did the right thing just TWO SHORT days after receiving notificaiton of Taylors disappearance.
I just hope we can put to rest the sad portayal of the VCU police.
Posted by sondrad at September 27, 2005 08:22 PM"

[fishie]

Thanks for that clarification cosmicMojo. I found it hard to believe myself that VCU police would sit on something like this without getting all the help they could from the get-go. Just like I said yesterday normally missing college kids show up in a day or two and beyond that usually means a little more than a typical case.

[cosmicMojo]

Yes, I understand Missing Posters were up the NEXT DAY (after her roommate reported her missing). It's really most accurate to count from the day her roommate reported her missing, not from the day she left. The police surely couldn't act on it until they knew she was missing.

[fishie]

I just wonder about the car? Seems like it took an awful long time to find it. Who knows where it had been or if it had been there the whole time. Maybe the scent dogs could have helped more if it was found earlier. However I am not an expert in such matters and for all I know it would not have made a difference.

[absynth_minded]

Mary:

Thank you for posting that you too saw the photos and more importantly the captions below them :)

The same thing crossed my mind when looking at the photo where he had his daughter posed with her knees together. As if the lolita look wasn't bad enough, he had to put her in a tease pose....

On the subject of Taylor's car:

I would hope that something as simple as a tag switch wouldn't throw off well trained officers, so I do not expect that the car was sitting there with Ohio tags for very long. I do believe that the car offers the best clue thus far. If someone is responsible for abducting Taylor, chances are they paniced and dumped off the car as soon as they could, despite the fact that it would have made more sense to create distance between the car and VCU. A hasty dump-off isn't something that an experienced individual would do.

That Ben has a documented hobby of collecting tags from different states doesn't bode well for him and makes me believe that in at least some way he is involved.