Taylor Behl Investigators Still Seeking Answers

From Jim Nolan at the Times Dispatch today - he rounds out some information on where the investigation stands today.

Sources close to the investigation said Behl task force members gathering evidence on the Vienna teen's death in September -- allegedly during a sexual encounter in Mathews with suspect Benjamin Fawley -- have no direct evidence suggesting that the pond is linked to Behl's death.

Still, the sources said investigators want to know where the pond is because it is one of the few places photographed by Fawley that they have not been able to identify and search in the three months since Behl was last seen alive.

"They're just trying to be as thorough as possible," one source said. "We had some success with a picture before, and there are some personal items that we'd like to account for."

Sources said the items being sought include some of Behl's clothing and a student-identification card she is believed to have taken with her the night she disappeared from VCU. The sources said Behl's cell phone has been recovered.

Comments

[tanya]

At least they will have him in custody when the collect all the pieces

[abigail]

Where and when was her cell phone recovered? Did I know that already? Help guys, has that been discussed?

[Vedder]

Abigal...just read that myself a litte while ago.

This is big news,is it not???... I wonder where they found it....No, I have not seen this being discussed anywhere...

vedder

[cindi in pa]

First I have heard it also. Could be one of the phones found in BF's trash........maybe. Does anyone still have a copy of the search warrant inventory from his apartment?

[Dan]

a copy of the search warrant inventory

It'll be linked in the Taylor Behl archives.

[abigail]

I'm going to google it, a cell phone may have been found, but I don't know if it said who's it was.

[abigail]

Looks like they found 3 cell phones in bf's apartment, of course they did not say who they belonged to.

http://wwbtads.com/news/fawley/page3.htm

[abigail]

Who knows if one of the 3 was hers though. Her phone could have been found after the gag--maybe that's why we did not know....

Vedder,

I don't recognize the "blog name", are you a "newbie"?. If so then welcome to the "crazy, trying to figure out bf and why?" blog!

[Katie]

I'm sorry if I aggrivate anyone with this, but where in fact did they find this picture that they are so interested in? Do they think that Taylor Behl will have belongings there? It also made me think, he took pictures of the area where he killed Taylor, so maybe he commited crimes in this area at one point or time? I've been away from the computer and haven't been updated on everything, sorry if I am bringing up old news. Can someone please clue me in?

[justathought]

Hey Abby---

Long time no hear. So I am like 50 post behind. So get me caught up.

[abigail]

Katie,

No aggrivation from me!:) We all need catching up from time to time, and geez, I can hardly remember what was posted yesterday! ') I think they found the pictures on one of bfs computers and I believe the pictures were dated around the time or after Taylor disappeared. I guess he's not talking, so they need our help to locate. Not sure if this is the location in which he killed her, but LE is just trying to get any evidence to build the case against him, such as clothes and an ID card... I think we are all questioning what is going on. Since the gag, there have not been many explanations.

You guys call me on it if I'm off.....

[abigail]

JAT! I had to catch up the old fashioned way, now read on! Hahahha! Ask me questions and I shall try to answer, but I don't know where you left off! Where you been stranger?

[vedder]

abigail..
"I'm going to google it, a cell phone may have been found, but I don't know if it said who's it was."

"The sources said Behl's cell phone has been recovered."..from the link on the top of this page...

Been lurking for a while now...thank you
vedder

[justathought]

I am on "vacation" LOL. Yeah right!!!!!!!!!!!!! I took 11 days off from work to work as relief provider for a family that went on a cruise. So now I get my regular pay from work and what they are paying and 2 weeks before Christmas I needed the money! But I am working 24/7 so I am about dead on my feet now and I still have 7 more days to go at the 24/7

[justathought]

Abby-

And I am in the middle of BFE so until tonight I could not even get internet connection and now that I have it it is so slow I could walk to your house faster!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But I am here and I am trying to get caught up but to tired to read everything. So email the just of the last two threads if you don't mind.

[abigail]

Vedder,

Curious to what brought you here and how you know about the case...just wondering as we have some catching up to do! ;0 You certainly don't have to explain, it's just that we all like to "connect" in that sort of way. Perhaps you already have and I forgot! uuhhhggg. Between the damn Christmas lists and planning, I cannot keep up. Well, I usually have a bad memory anyway, but I have an excuse for it in December! :)

[abigail]

Kudos to you JAT! You are a good woman! I will try, and then I need to go to bed! :)

[amiqueue]

This is all I have found so far about the cell phone. It says that LE said her phone was not among items recovered. - Still looking.

http://taylorbehl.notagz.com/20051001.html

Following publishing copies of the search warrant and the list of items seized by the investigators from Fawley's home, the police now say that Taylor's cell phone, keys, student ID were not among the items recovered in the search. The police continue to withhold further comment about the significance, if any, in the rest of the items they collected. All they will say is the further analyis is ongoing, and that it would be premature and likely detrimental to the investigation to go into any detail.

[abigail]

Good work amiqueue, I think I recall that article now, but I'll be damned if I'm going back to look. Too tired right now!

Good night all! Wish Richmond luck on some snow in the morning! I want to go sledding with my girl! :)

[Vedder]

Abigail

Ive known and been heart broken about this case from the very start....normally I just keep to myself.I read this and other "Taylor sites" everyday....I guess it take me awhile to break out of my shell.

I can tell how much you folks care about Taylor and Janet....It gives me much comfort.

Thank you for asking
vedder

[cindi in pa]

Click here: Exposing Erin - Ben Fawleys previous relationship - The Crime library

You are in: CRIMINAL MIND/FORENSICS & INVESTIGATION



TAYLOR BEHL


Ben Fawley relationship brief, intense

By Steve Huff

The following quote is from an article written by reporter Jim Nolan for the Richmond Times-Dispatch on October 5, 2005, titled, Behl task force investigates body in Mathews County:

An ex-girlfriend of a man interviewed in connection with the disappearance of Taylor Marie Behl yesterday led investigators to a Mathews County farm where police discovered the severely decomposed remains of an unidentified person, law-enforcement sources told The Times-Dispatch...

Erin Crabill

The ex-girlfriend, 23-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) student and freelance model Erin Crabill, later wrote this to me in an e-mail:

If they found Taylor's phone on her...It makes me cry every time thinking that she was out back of my parent's house (not a league from the property line) with her phone ringing for days. She's so lonely out there(...)She was so close [to the house], but not close enough. She's abandoned and maybe no one will find her but her phone is ringing...

[cindi in pa]

Sorry........just read again Erins statement to Steve Huff. Realized the BIG IF on the phone being found.

[vedder]

"Sources said the items being sought include some of Behl's clothing and a student-identification card she is believed to have taken with her the night she disappeared from VCU. The sources said Behl's cell phone has been recovered.'

Its at the top of THIS page...am I seeing something no one else does???

[cindi in pa]

Vedder, I think we see it, if you are talking about the cell. The question seems to be, when did they find it.

[vedder]

cindi
Yesterday(dec4) was the first time I read that they found HER phone...I thought this was big news....Did you guys already know that they had found her phone??? Is this old news?....I thought no one was seeing what I was...

[hehheh]

Well, abigail got her snow. Gonna get worse afor it gets better.

[Katie]

Thanks Abigail :)

[abigail]

I did get my snow! yippie! It's beautiful, but of course right before I left work it turned into sleet!

YW Katie.

New blog started about the pictures and location being found.