Taylor Behl Disappearance: An Update

Steve Huff of the Dark Side Blog and I have been exchanging several emails over the past two days on the Taylor Behl disappearance as different facts have begun to emerge through looking around on the web.

She is known to have posed for some, mostly innocent, I suspect, pictures with a photographer whose interests can be said to have been just a little bit of concern. I say that as some of the images appear to picture his alleged daughter, if not some other underage girl, in provocative clothing. In all honesty, they are far short of what you might call kiddie porn. Still, I hardly think it normal to have a pre-pubescent school girl roll and tie up her top, or slide down her skirt just a touch to expose her mid-drift. And the thought of anyone, let alone her Father, taking pictures of it for display on the web has to be cause for concern.

While his only link to Taylor Behl appears to be a friendship, he does have a criminal record and is said to have done time for at least one serious offense. He is also 20 years her senior with a serious pre-occupation for Goth, fire and also for skulls.

In addition to that, there are unsolved murders in Richmond, it ranks in the top three of US cities for murder, overall, at least one murder involves a decapitated man. His head was found placed on a walk with his body placed in a body of water some distance away.

To some extent, Taylor Behl seems to have been engaged in an alternative lifestyle - likely preferring women to men as sexual partners and having some exposure to the S&M scene - if nowhere else, then through her friend mentioned above - as along with photography, he claims to have appeared in possibly more than one fetish film.

For all intents and purposes, Taylor Behl might have simply run away. There is little or no evidence I am aware of as regards her disappearance. But the circumstances surrounding her life, if not her disappearance, seem to be reason enough to have legitimate concerns.

Please see Steve Huff for considerably more on her interesting friend Skulz.

Comments

[bobo]

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[Andrea]

I know Taylor. She was not interested in women...she had a boyfriend while she was at VCU.

That 38 year old guy is a freakin weirdo.

Apparently they found Taylor's car somewhere, I havent heard anymore news about this.

Taylor would not have run away for this long without contacting anyone. Thats not Taylor.

[Dan]

I know Taylor. She was not interested in women

Well, I didn't know her - all I did was read her on line diaries. Sorry.

[cricket]

Dan - it was on the Richmond news tonight that they have found her car. It was parked less than a couple miles from her dorm. It had stolen plates on it. The police are checking it out for clues. They watched it for awhile to see if anyone came to drive it, but when no one did, they impounded it. They don't think it has been parked there the whole time she has been missing.

[!]

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785127960

HERE IS THE ARTICLE ABOUT HER CAR IN DETAIL.

[!]

http://www.onemodelplace.com/model_list.cfm?ID=175039

Read this.

[Paulo]

I know Taylor. She was not interested in women...she had a boyfriend while she was at VCU.

Posted by: Andrea | Sep 17, 2005 11:23:11 PM

ANDREA:

Thanks for stopping by to set some disinformation correct. As far as I know Taylor is not alternative nor bi-sexual. Can you assist me with who Kelly or Kyle someone Taylor's mom mentioned on television in an interview with Greta van Susteren? She seems really pissed at one of them.

Thanks in advance,

Paulo

[Annie]

If any of you are local to Taylors area and hear anything new,please email me..We are family members of hers and are anxiously awaiting good news.Our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.

[Paulo]

Dan,

With all due respect to you, and you know it, citations please?

To some extent, Taylor Behl seems to have been engaged in an alternative lifestyle - likely preferring women to men as sexual partners and having some exposure to the S&M scene - if nowhere else, then through her friend mentioned above - as along with photography, he claims to have appeared in possibly more than one fetish film.

Posted by Dan in Taylor Behl | Permalink

To this day I have never seen you being the least bit speculative no matter who, albeit, Natalee, Beth, Joran, Deepak, Paulus, Satish, or otherwise. You have made a point on your site to NEVER presuppose or put anything to print without first confirming it through sources or with real proof.

In view of what has happened in Aruba, you have never shown any such disrespect to anyone especially a suspected victim.

Please don't ban me for siting such a bias. Remember Dan, FAIR, BALANCED, and CONFIRMED. Thank you.

Paulo

[Dan]

oh bethphries. we had some fun times. ours was a rather short friendship. i think it faded out when i figured out i really wasn't bi and she got a girl friend... he he he... well ya gotta try.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/tiabliaj/

http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=dykesquad

[Dan]

There's also considerably more I've read - I wasn't linking a lot of it as there seemed little need. She appears to have been experimenting - it isn't uncommon, especially among fem teens today.

[!]

If there is any new news on tis please continue to post. She sure is a pretty girl. This is very sad. I hope its ends in a happy note. !

[Dan]

http://www.livejournal.com/community/dykesquad/9701.html?thread=54757#t54757

her comments:

Well I totally understand if ya think I shouldn't be in cause I'm straight. I've seduced Beth several times if that counts, then im bi... :)

and what the hell, here's my tits just for beth!

[Paulo]

Once again Dan your bias is obvious - even your citations are far reaching. These statements were made by a 16-year-old girl, Dan.

But in good form mate, I think it's only fair to show both sides of the fence. ;~)

"Hi my name is Taylor and I'm hetreosexual. I have never been in a community before and i can't type or spell please forgive me…"

Dan, this is clearly coming from the perspective of a girl trying to gain acceptance into a group she knows nothing about on the advice of another female who is close to 40-years old.

And then again, "Me with Scott, boyfriend" [photo]…

Then again, on the exact same page (your citation, btw) the above shows a large photograph of her in an embrace with her boyfriend.

Both sides Dan, otherwise it's just plain and simple bias. Furthermore please re-read what you wrote:

To some extent, Taylor Behl 1(seems) to have been engaged in an alternative lifestyle - 2(likely preferring women to men as sexual partners) and having some exposure to the 3(S&M scene) - if nowhere else, then through her 4((friend mentioned above)) - as along with photography, 5(((he claims))) to have ((appeared)) in possibly more than one fetish film.

When I first read this I thought, based on the hypothetical, that you were writing about her. Then I re-read it and in reality you are indeed writing about your disdain for her quasi-friend.

1) (seems) is conjecture
2) She admits to finding out she's not gay or bi as a result of beth
3) Where on Earth did you get this S&M rubbish?
4) "...as along with friend mentioned above..."
5) "...he claims..."
6) "...to have appeared in more than one fetish film..."

Dan you are clearly making a case with this guy; however, there really is no need to take this material and: "'seems', 'appears', 'along with [instigating] friend', so that 'he claims', to be in 'more than one fetish' film." What does any of this sensationalism have anything to do with Taylor? Hate the game, hate the guy, but please you are theorizing here at the expense of a teenage girl.

And lastly, the quote of the day comes from Taylor herself that I find is not at all out of the ordinary from a high school angst filled teen trying to win back her ex-boyfriend, Nick, who is a year ahead of her in school.

"If there is someone on your friends list you would love to have an epic, sweaty, damn near legendary, 12 hour fuckathon with, post this same exact sentence in your journal." (Taylor's message to Nick.)

FAIR, BALANCED, AND UNBIASED, Dan. If you have issues with this bloak from Ohio, who may have a propensity for fire, modeling, and photography you need not drag her into his world by association or acquaintance. Just the opposite could be the case.

Hugs and cocktails, (get some rest, Dan)

Paulo

[Molly]

Please, Taylor is just another niave teenager that trusted too much...give her a break...her mistake may have cost her dearly...how I hope she "ran away" A richmond local

[visitor]

On hcjordon's livejournal website entry of Thursday, April 14, 2005, the following entry is noted. Jordon has been sited as a friend of Taylor.

"Has slept with more than 2 teachers - tiabliaj"

http://www.livejournal.com/users/hcjordan/?skip=20

Maybe the authorities should investigate the activities of the adults responsible for her supervision at high school. Should this be accurate, the unfortunate actions of these adults may have contributed to the dangerous life choices of this young girl.

[Googleinator]

Well, anyways, aparently she left that night around 10 pm to go skateboarding with three guys. What idiot freinds/roommates would let her do that. This girl is obviously stupid enough to let something like this happen to her. I hope that this stupid girl is found and brought home to her family so we could stop worrying about her. Obviously I have nothing against her and Im really sad about the whole situation. I wish people would stop being so stupid, smoking at bars cause theyre too young to drink, going out late with a bunch of guys ( no other girls ), and God knows what else. May God watch over these people who dont have any sense and dont use any of their brain - Googleinator

[John]

To the person that posted this "On hcjordon's livejournal website entry of Thursday, April 14, 2005, the following entry is noted. Jordon has been sited as a friend of Taylor.

"Has slept with more than 2 teachers - tiabliaj"

http://www.livejournal.com/users/hcjordan/?skip=20"

that is just a script that generates people from your friend's list in livejournal and puts it into those set statements randomly..it's done for fun in livejournal, it's definitely not reality.

[John]

To the person that posted this "On hcjordon's livejournal website entry of Thursday, April 14, 2005, the following entry is noted. Jordon has been sited as a friend of Taylor.

"Has slept with more than 2 teachers - tiabliaj"

http://www.livejournal.com/users/hcjordan/?skip=20"

that is just a script that generates people from your friend's list in livejournal and puts it into those set statements randomly..it's done for fun in livejournal, it's definitely not reality. Don't start spreading even more untrue rumors.

[CosmicMojo]

It’s a FAR leap from Taylor's statment:
“I figured out i really wasn't bi (in reference to a girl)"

To assuming she:
“likely preferring women to men as sexual partners”

She actually said she prefers men. Why twist it to the opposite and more lurid meaning?

[visitor]

I knew Skulz, was his roommate. His friends seemed to know that there was a relationship b/t them. He only hangs out with and dates young girls, has no friends his own age. About that pic of his daughter, that is probably a Brittany Spears costume (she's a fan) from halloween or something like that.

[CosmicMojo]

Visitor:
Does the daughter's mother know her daughter's pictures are posted on the internet? And particularly in that context?

Some parents are particular about that; I know some schools have policies about it (you can't post pics of your kids at school, you can't post pics of your kids with school friends without the school's express permission--it's to protect the kids from pedophiles).

[Robyn]

OK, this is wild......

Police report filed after Behl missing
Photographer who knew Behl claims attack hours after she was last seen

BY JIM NOLAN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER

Thursday, September 22, 2005

RELATED: Police Beat

A 38-year-old amateur photographer -- one of the last people to see missing Virginia Commonwealth University student Taylor Behl -- filed a report with police claiming he had been abducted and robbed just hours after Behl was last seen on the night of Sept. 5.

The photographer told Richmond police that he was walking in an alley near Franklin Street and Monument Avenue at 5 a.m. Sept. 6 when he was "robbed by an unknown number of people," according to a Richmond Police Department incident report obtained last night by The Times-Dispatch.

The photographer told police that he was hit in the stomach by "an unknown object" before being pushed down and having a bag placed over his head. "He was then put into a vehicle and driven to an unknown location and pushed out of the vehicle onto a dirt road," according to the report.

The photographer was "unable to provide any details as to the location where he was pushed out of the vehicle," according to the report, which goes on to state that the photographer needed medication for a bipolar disorder and had been drinking before the alleged attack.

Last night, the photographer's attorney, Chris Collins, said the attack has "nothing to do with the other matter" involving Behl's disappearance. Collins had earlier confirmed that the photographer is bipolar and had a relationship with Behl. The Times-Dispatch has not published the photographer's name because he has not been charged with a crime.

He said his client does not know who is involved in the attack. "But he [the photographer] suspects that it involved an acquaintance with whom he was in an argument with over the rights" to some photographs.

According to the police report, the photographer told police he had been involved in a similar incident last year in which he was attacked outside his home and that he believed the two events were related. He told police that a camera and tripod valued at $375 was stolen, as well as $20.

The photographer told police that after he was attacked, he was rescued at 6 a.m. by an unknown man who gave him a ride back to his home off Broad Street near the VCU campus.

He filed the police report at 4:42 p.m., nearly 11 hours after the attack. Police sources close to the investigation said a roommate of the photographer told him to file the report when she saw him return to the apartment about 1 p.m. Sept. 6.

Behl was last seen in her dormitory by her roommate at 10:20 p.m. Sept. 5. According to police, the roommate said Behl had told her she was going to go skateboarding with a few friends and left with her car keys, student identification, cell phone and a small amount of cash.

Collins, the photographer's lawyer, said his client told police that he had last seen Behl at 9:30 p.m. that night. Collins said the issue of the attack came up when police questioned his client but was "quickly brushed aside."

In the last 10 days, Richmond police have executed numerous search warrants at the homes of Behl's friends and acquaintances who may have seen her within a day or two of her disappearance.

A warrant filed in court on Tuesday to search the photographer's home stated that police were seeking "all computer media" in relation to the possible offense of possession of child pornography.

Court documents also revealed the Monday arrest of a Richmond man on drug-possession charges. Police believe that man's scent was detected by a bloodhound brought in to sniff Behl's Ford Escort, according to sources close to the investigation.

The 1997 Escort was discovered Saturday on North Mulberry Street in the Fan, several blocks from the Sheppard Street apartment of the arrested man. The man, who was interviewed by police, told Times-Dispatch columnist Mark Holmberg that he told police he did not know Behl and had not been in her car.

Investigative sources said the Sheppard Street man is a skateboarding friend of another acquaintance of Behl's. The acquaintance's Nissan Altima was impounded by police for investigation this week. Police also interviewed him.

Police spokeswoman Kirsten Nelson said investigators are interested in the Nissan because Behl is believed to have been in it before her disappearance.

"Right now, it's a very small piece of a very big puzzle," Nelson said.

Yesterday, Behl's possessions in her dormitory room at Virginia Commonwealth University were packed into black trash bags and boxes and carted away.

Books, clothes, computer equipment, music, posters and a plain brown teddy bear -- the inventory of a college student's life -- fit easily in the back of the sport utility vehicle that Behl's family lawyer and her uncle parked on Main Street outside VCU's Gladding Residence Center yesterday afternoon.

"This would have been too hard for [Taylor's mother]," said the lawyer, George O. Peterson, as he deposited another box into the back of the car.

"When Taylor comes home, she's not coming back to VCU," said Peterson, who yesterday announced the family had posted an $11,000 reward for the tip that finds the missing freshman.

The lawyer said Behl's mother, Janet Pelasara, was disappointed with how university police handled the case of the missing 17-year-old from Vienna who arrived on campus Aug. 19.

The attorney said the family felt the university had held onto the leadership role in the case "when it was beyond its capabilities." The Richmond Police Department took over as the lead agency in the case on Sept. 12.

Dr. Reuban Rodriguez, VCU dean of student affairs, said University Police "used all of their full resources available" from the day Behl was reported missing and also involved the same federal, state and local police agencies in the search that are now part of the Richmond police-led task force running the criminal investigation of her disappearance.

"We did everything that was available to us," Rodriguez said.

Contact Jim Nolan at (804) 649-6061 or jnolan@timesdispatch.com

This story can be found at: http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785209235

[Whocares]

Here we go again! This time it's a foul mouthed little slut with bushy eyebrows and a propensity for posting pictures of her (clothed) breasts on the internet. Yeah, let's cease searching for all the children who DON'T have bad attitudes, DON'T run around with a cig dangling from their mouths (a al Lyndie England), DON'T engage in wierd sexual relationships with losers, and DON'T think they're hot sh**. I think we should also give the heave ho to all Katrina sufferers and focus more media attention on this little trollop. Give me a break!

[knockuout]

Whocares: Keep up the trash talk and deal with the concequencenes. You think friends and family of the missing are interested in your bashing comments?

[Dianna]

Why doesn't anyone sign on her myspace and read her past conversations or anything to see if theres something that would link to her dissaperance. That seems like the OBVIOUS thing to do and it hasn't been done, I don't understand why.

[cosmicMojo]

"Why doesn't anyone sign on her myspace and read her past conversations or anything to see if theres something that would link to her dissaperance. That seems like the OBVIOUS thing to do and it hasn't been done, I don't understand why.
Posted by: Dianna | Sep 25, 2005 11:26:39 AM"

actually, it's been done obsessively, ad infinitum, over and over, nonstop.

[ISHMAel back]

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