Taylor Behl ID'd - Charges Expected Soon

Identification made through dental records. Charges anticipated. More coverage here.

More breaking reports here as they develop. My extended coverage here.

Update: Click here for video - it's my understanding Jessie Schultz was mentioned by lawyer as possible suspect.

Thanks to several readers for sending links.

Comments

[Kay]

This is so sad and tragic. She was such a beautiful young woman. I was hoping against all hope that the body/remains were not her.

[teresa]

Ok, who broke down and confessed?

[dave]

Last post of Ben Fawley SOng of the day:

1-800-SUICIDE

I found the lyrics.

Murder/Sucide gone bad?

1-800-SUICIDE
Everybody online?

It's the beginning of the end
You want things to go faster
It's the beginning of the end
Now everything's too slow for you
It's the beginning of the end
You are one step closer
It's the beginning of the end
Say Amen

1-800-SUICIDE
Or maybe Doctor Online could help you die
You need wings to fly
You need someone
To take your place
When you are gone

It's the beginning of the end
You know nothing last forever
A beginning of a trend
You need someone there to care for you
It's the beginning of the end
I don't think you understand
Just a beginning of a flatline
Together

1-800-SUICIDE
Or maybe Doctor Online could help you die
You need wings to fly
You need someone
To take your place
When you are gone

1-800-SUICIDE
Or maybe Doctor Online could help you die
You need wings to fly
You need someone
To take your place
When you are gone

Thank you for calling 1-800-SUICIDE
If you wish to self terminate by electric shock - press one
For termination by overdose - press two
If you would like to make a reservation at the end of our drowning pool - please press three
For termination by hanging - please press four
For death by self inflicting gunshot - press five
To speak to a representative, stay online
If you do not wish to die - please hang up now

1-800-SUICIDE
Or maybe Doctor Online could help you die
You need wings to fly
You need someone
To take your place
When you are gone

1-800-SUICIDE
Or maybe Doctor Online could help you die
You need wings to fly
You need someone
To take your place
When you are gone

[teresa]

Kidnapped my ass. He just doesn't know how to cover his.

[silly frank]

Frank - you're joking, right? His being "kidnapped" is no alibi unless they can prove any of it, such as his kidnappers coming forward and admitting they did it and providing evidence!

[Captain Joe]

With fox reporting the body may have been dismembered, wasn't Julie Popovich also dismembered? He said he was going on a cross country trip soon in July. He said he had new wheels, a van. We know he was in Tampa in late August to attend a porn convention. Where was he on August 6. We know he was from Columbus and served time there. We know that Popovich was a part time model . Sound familiar? Is he a serial killer?

[absynth_minded]

At this rate, we could speculate till we're blue in the face. What we do know is tragic enough. That Taylor's poor mom learned that her only daugher was murdered and found in a ravine/grave/ect, and won't ever be coming home.

Nevermind today is the poor woman's Birthday :(

[absynth_minded]

Joe:

The thought of Ben being a serial killer has crossed my mind. All of the textbook warning signs are there. Add those to the fact that at his age, he would have easily evolved by now.

[anon]

I was thinking the same thing:
The license plates, the bone collection, the photos, the OCD behavior, etc.

I'll be really interested to see if he will be linked to others.

All I can say is THANK GOD he is off the streets-at far too high a cost, though.

I wonder when the service will be for Taylor. Will someone in Vienna light a candle for Taylor for me? I hope they give her a peaceful rest soon.

And convict those bastards

[teresa]

http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785493173

I don't think charges will come today.

[absynth_minded]

Also, he mentioned that he has lived ALL OVER the country.

Time to break-out the cold case files...

[absynth_minded]

They also didn't expect to ID the body this soon, so who knows?

However, there would be no need to rush it they thought they had her killer in custody (if he did or even if she was "killed".)

[LilLady]

weird connection to Julie Popovich.... hopefully that is not true. Though she went missing 8/11 and he does not have a blog entry from 8/5-8/24... who knows

[absynth_minded]

That is the same way Duncan's movements were tracked, so who knows?

[kt]

http://www.justicemag.com/daily/item/1383.html

[Sweetie]

You can do a search for Light a Candle and go to a site to light a candle for Taylor.

[anon]

Thanks, sweetie-I will

[JRN]

I haven't been closely following this case, who is Jessie Schultz? Any pictures of him anywhere?

[teresa]

Jesse is the guy the dog tracked from Taylor's car.

[trish]

http://www.planethuff.com/twilight_kingdom/archives/2005
/08/the_vanishing_o_1.html
this is too bizarre.reading from the page linked above ...taylors plates were switched for ohio plates,popovich bears resemblence to taylor,and there are also ariel photos on the web of the site of popovich's body which are errily familiar of the matthews co. photos.there is even mention of other girls disapearing from the same are of ohio over several years, one who drove guess what an escort.i read somewher that he had a thing for dodge darts ...maybe hes also a sick twisted fan of young pretty caucasian girls in college towns who drive fords and can be easily hidden in areas near dams and resiviors

[matt]

Erin Crabell has a myspace page here:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=4087360&Mytoken=6A85B02E-AE58-4010-BABABB00DBA573DA2066088484

And she is a porn model here:
http://www.vegporn.com/models/ewon.html

At her porn site are pictures of her on a farm-- possibly the same farm as the body's been discovered at. Very disturbing to say the least.

[Ciarra]

taylor supposedly went skateboarding with three men/boys/young adults named jesse , kevin and ian.

jesse denies knowing who taylor was, and also denies that he ever met ben. kevin denies knowing jesse.

all posts i've read all over seem to indicate that they all indeed know each other.

could jesse be lying because he is a drug dealer? is everyone lying to cover up their drug use? never mind that someone is dead. good GOD kids are stupid when it comes to this sh**. erin claims that she never does porn, yet supposedly has pix on a couple of web sites with "porn" in their URL. seen some of her stuff, anorexia is ugly. the skeletal, heroin look went out a while ago, i believe. sorry, had to make some comment about what some folks may find attractive and i don't. posing as an abused waif in a bathtub makes one wonder, to say the least. anyway.

these stupid nits should all stop worrying about self-preservation and just come out with the truth, much like the desired path of the holloway case. but some kids just don't get it. they're all i, me, mine.

i'm thinking that a jesse/ben connection is going to be the root of the evil. i think that in some tweaked way, ben dumped her body outside of erin's family's farm to get back at erin, in his continuous need to strike some sort of vengence against her for some godforsaken reason.

god rest taylor's soul and may the angels of care and comfort wrap her family in their wings.

[teresa]

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/enter.cfm

Here is the site to light your candle.

[dave]

I call the RIchmond PD and Newspaper Times-Dispatch to ask if Ben Fawley is on Suicide watch...they said no!

[dave]

I called the Richmond PD and Newspaper Times-Dispatch to ask if Ben Fawley is on Suicide watch...they said no!

[anon]

I keep thinking that they're all in on this-Ciarra, I think you've nailed it. There's that stupid teenage fraternity of denial. My money says they all know exaclty what happened, and that more than a couple were in on it. It's too suspicious that they're all in and out of each other's worlds and yet claim they don't know each other, or each other's actions.
Fess up, people! You will be found out, eventually.

JMO-but it seems too coincidental not to be partly accurate.

[trish]

Matt most definatly its the same farm it belongs to her parents ? did ben take it? he seems a creature of habit he frequented belle isle also

[matt]

Yes Trish-- i found this on Fawley's website: http://www.geocities.com/skulz1980/

"# Missing your post? ....due to an error on 03 Sep. 2005 about 35 posts were "lost" when I went to back-up to archive. I was able to recover some. I was trying to remove posts and other trash left by Erin Crabill the porn star who led VegPorn to try and claim copyright to my work and post my work without giving photo credit.

* This is not the first time, and sure not to be the last time I drop postings from the guest book.
* The guest book was reworked for 2005 and most of the old posts were removed in Dec 2004.
"

This proves that Ben Fawley did take the photos of Erin located at the vegporn.com site.

It's also interesting that he posted this regarding sept 3rd... so close to the disapearence, he was being harrassed by erin or making it look as though he was?

[matt]

i found this posted by fawley here:

http://skulz.deviantart.com/journal/5779917/

A note about ad's and email sent by Erin Crabil

Journal Entry: Tue Jun 28, 2005, 9:18 AM
Well it is sad when someone is just playing and the other is not. I was trying to see this girl and she was also doing some modeling for me. I found she never followed through on the shoots and she never gave me credit for the photos I took that she sold as we had agreed. This was as she noted in her own words, she was just playing with me. Well she sure did and as she hurt my feelings she hurt my work. It was sad that she thought it was all just a game.

Now she has taken to posting personal ads and other. I know that someone was hacking my email, AIM, and this account and I know that someone posted some details about this. I have not until now.

This model was just playing with me personally and with my photography. She thought it was all just a joke. She went as far as cutting all her hair off and making scratches on her arms and going to the hospital over night to gain the attention of others. She placed the blame for this on me yet I have found nothing I did to show it was my fault. From the people that I have talked to about this they seem to think Erin's actions in cutting her hair and arms was a ploy to get another guy to pay her more attention, dump me, and get me booted from a job Erin and I were set to work on together. I will never know the truth as I don't think Erin is able to tell the truth after lying to those she clamed to care about for so long. That is the trouble with cheaters, they get caught up in their own lies and think others are cheating and lying as they are.

I had no control over her drinking when we were trying to take photos. I had no control over her not showing up when she said she would. I didn't make her cheat on her boyfriend with me. I never told her boyfriend that she cheated on him. I never told anyone she cheated on him while on trips for photo shoots, I never told anyone she slept with photographers, and I never did anything to make her look bad. I did not sell porn photos of her with or with out her consent as I never sold any photos of her. Erin Crabil sold the photos I took of her. I didn't sell them, she did. As for porn photos of Erin and I having sex, I never sold hem or gave them to anyone. Erin's choice to work in Porn has nothing to do with any photos I took of her or me.

Well now I have posted this, so now she can say I did. I am posting this after she emailed a model I was set to work with. Erin Crabil is not a friend of mine and she was never my girlfriend, it was just sex. Yes I did have sex with Erin Crabil like 5 times while she was dating another guy. Erin Crabil is not someone to listen to about me as she is not being truthful. I did not sell or post photos that Erin asked me not to. I never posted porn photos of Erin Crabil to any porn web site. The photos I had of Erin that were sexual in nature were private and never given out to anyone.

As for photos of Erin and I of a sexual content. I only showed said photos to Erin, I never even told anyone about them. The fact that just after Erin had use of my laptop that had the only copies of the photos did I get an offer from a web site to buy them. I never told anyone I had such photos. The only person who knew was Erin. I do not have the photos any more and the only other person who had access to the photos was Erin when she had my laptop and all of my passwords, letters, notes and other personal information that is now finding its way on to the internet. The ads and other all seem to come back to Erin. If Erin Crabil is trying to blame me for porn it is a lie as Erin was involved with Porn long before I met her.

I was told that Erin noted in her email that I never paid her for work. The photos I took of Erin were on a TFP/CD set-up. I only work TFP/CD right now as I do not have the funds to do anything but. The photos I have taken I have not sold, they were all for my own portfolio. The only photos of Erin I took that were sold, Erin Crabil sold her self. Her telling a model I did not pay her is not very professional. Erin did sell some photos I took and I did ask her to give me credit and that she has never done.

The photos I took of Erin were originally for Suicide Girls and she told me she sold them to Suicide Girls last year. I took photos of her and another model just for Suicide Girls in May of 2004. She later told me she also sold the photos to Veg Porn. The facts Erin has told me in the year I was dealing with her changed every time she told me. She now tells me she never sold the photos to Suicide Girls. The fact is I took the photos and she sold them, I did not. As for selling photos to a porn site I never did and I don't do that. If she did or didn't sell them to Suicide Girls I do not know as I was taking her word for it. The fact she changed her story is nothing new as most of what Erin has told me now looks to be nothing but a lie based on some game she was playing with me.

Erin Crabil was unable to take the work I was doing with her beyond just some game she was playing. If Erin Crabil has sent you an email about me please send me a copy of it so I can take some action to stop her. She might have derailed her work by cutting her hair off but this is not a game to me. The only thing I ever said about Erin Crabil's work was she didn't follow through on her work. That is true, she and I talked about shoots and she never followed up with them. She said she didn't follow through as she thought it was just for fun and not work. So the fact Erin was just playing with me was the problem as I was not playing.

She didn't follow up as for her it was just a game she was playing for attention. She didn't see working with me as work. That was the problem in that I guess I was just someone to give her attention and someone to play with. She never cared about the work or me. The fact she is emailing models and telling them I didn't pay her is wrong. The photos I took of Erin Crabil were never for pay. The fact Erin is posting ads on the internet and emailing people like the fact she cut her hair off just goes to show what sort of person she is. I am sorry I posted this. I like Erin's work when she did work with me. I also liked Erin as a person when I thought she cared and before I found out she was just playing a kids game with me.

Erin Crabil's playing games, fooling around, email and ad's have hurt my work. Erin trying to blame me for her cutting her hair off is a bit odd as I didn't make her drink and I didn't make her cheat on her last boyfriend, I didn't make her lie to people, I didn't make her change her stories, and I didn't make her fall into porn. Erin Crabil made her choice and it was her actions, not mine that led to this mess. I am sorry this personal mess had to be posted in public by me. I never posted this in public before. Yes, someone used my accounts to post about this and as Erin had use on my laptop with my passwords I think she might have done it her self to gain attention. Yes I posted before that she didn't follow through on her work, and that was true as she didn't. That was not personal information about her, it was a note about her work. The fact she didn't see working with me as anything more than a game and play was her, not me.

if Erin Crabil sees any of this hurtful that is on her as this is how I see it. I just listed the facts as I have them. Since Erin has never given me a truthful answer and she keeps changing her story I will never know the truth. I made every attempt to keep things civil between Erin and myself. The conflicts came about due to Erin's accusing me of things I didn't do. I do not take well to people saying I did things I didn't do. Also Erin told me not to listen to others about her. yet she was telling me she was not seeing me or talking to me due others telling her not to. It was one of Erin's best friends who told me not to mess with Erin as she would just play with my emotions. Odd this person who told me Erin would just play with me is now mad it was true.

~ Skulz (Yes, I posted this in response to the ad on Craig's list and email sent to a model on OMP) signed: Benjamin Fawley

[matt]

suspicious! this posted: Fri Sep 2, 2005, 8:03 AM http://skulz.deviantart.com/journal/6395282/

"The photos showing me in the act of committing a crime are here and there. The crime and what photos are in question are for me to know and for you to figure out, or not. ::"

[Dave]

Along with these posted by Matt above, Erin also goes by Isobel and can be found at this site too.

http://www.onemodelplace.com/member.cfm?ID=113590

[Dave]

Erin's take on the Ben Fawley "breakup" found at:

http://www.onemodelplace.com/member.cfm?ID=113590

If you are here because you read that I do porn, please go away and stop contacting me. I do not do porn, nor have I ever. I am on a few pinup nude sites and I believe that my work there is tasteful, if not classy. The comments posted online about me are the result of a bad breakup with a psychotic man. I did not steal his work and I am not in porn. I broke up with him a long time ago and wish to move on with my life. Please stop talking about me and stop contacting me. I'm just a normal college girl and I have better things to do. Also, stop stealing my photos. I will inform the copyright holders and advise them to sue if you don't cut it out.

[Margaret]

Well, looks like Fawley is in a load of trouble. What a creep.

I also noticed Taylor's mom said the "subhumans" who did this to her daughter will pay -- which leads me to believe there will be more than 1 arrest in this case, probably also drug-related.

Poor Taylor. I feel so bad for her - I know what it's like to be somewhat of a "wild-child" but she had such a bright future ahead of her. It makes me so sad.

[U.S.Marine]

anon,

I sent you an e-mail but it came back undeliverable. Maybe you really mean anonymous!

:
64.233.185.114 does not like recipient.
Remote host said: 550 5.7.1 No such user 15si2163633wrl
Giving up on 64.233.185.114.

[anon]

US Marine:

Yes-I truly like to keep anonymous. Who knows who reads these-I don't want to expose myself or endanger myself (must be the military family talking!)All of my email accounts contain my name in some capacity...

I'd be happy to email you, though, if you'd like to communicate with me that way.

[Andrea]

And today was Janet Palesara's birthday. :(

I knew Taylor. Im so sad. This is so tragic and horrible.

I am like 100% sure that Ben Fawley had something to do with this.

I am so angry.

[trish]

Andrea Im sorry for your lose....I cant imagine what you will go through in the days ,months and even years ahead just know many thoughts and prayers are with you and Taylors family

[Kelly3]

So young, so beautiful, so sad. My heart feels so heavy when you see Taylor's pic with that beautiful smile and that her mom is planning her funeral today. Godspeed Taylor! Prayers for her mom, family and all who love Taylor!

[Liz]

I noticed by reading his live journal...around May 15 2005...when Ben F took the pictures of the Farm (where Taylor B was found) he went there with Erin C..I'm sure everyone knows this by now....but they also broke up when they got back....a few days after the trip....Erin C no longer wanted to see Ben F. But weeks BEFORE he went to the farm w/ Erin he seemed to go on and on about something he wanted to "try" and he was listing himself as confused and creative..it was something he couldn't get out of his head...he had to try...and Erin C refered to him a PSYCO....we also read that other blog where someone said he had been scareing the shit out of girlfriends for years....you know if he is charged he would probly plead insanity, because of his medical history.

[absynth_minded]

Thanks for the "candle link."

I lit one:

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/view.cfm?id=931965&p=854&l=ENG&s=f&cid=931965

http://skulz.deviantart.com/journal/6395282/

Read the short conversation as well. Shows how Fawley lays the trap and the impressionable minds fall in.

[absynth_minded]

DUHHHHHH....

just look for intials a_m