www.justiceforchandra.com

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/22/AR2005092202040.html


Friend of Missing Student Reported Being Abducted
Man Was One of Last to See Vienna Teen

By Jamie Stockwell
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, September 23, 2005; Page B01

A 38-year-old photographer, one of the last people to see missing Virginia Commonwealth University student Taylor Marie Behl, filed a police report hours after he dropped the freshman off at her dorm saying he had been abducted and robbed.

The photographer, Benjamin Fawley, said in the Sept. 6 police report that he was walking in an alley near the downtown campus when he was "struck in the stomach" and "pushed to the ground by someone who put a bag over his head."


Fawley said he was put into a vehicle and driven to an unknown area, where he was "pushed out . . . onto a dirt road," the report said. He was unable to provide more specific information about the attack, and the officer who took the information wrote in the report that he was able to determine that Fawley "should be on medication for bipolar disorder and . . . was intoxicated" before the alleged abduction and robbery.

"It is my belief that the victim was attacked, but due to his mental state, getting any other relevant information is going to prove to be very difficult," the officer wrote.

Fawley was one of the last people to see Behl, 17, before she was reported missing more than two weeks ago, and he has been questioned by police several times since her disappearance. He told police that he walked the Vienna teenager to her dorm about 10 p.m. on Sept. 5, the day she vanished, his attorney said.

Police said they suspect that Behl might have been abducted, and they continued to follow leads yesterday. No one has been charged in her disappearance.

Fawley said in the statement that his camera, tripod and $20 in cash were taken during the attack. The statement was first reported Thursday by the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

His attorney, Chris Collins, said yesterday that Behl's disappearance and the alleged abduction are unrelated. "I don't think they have anything to do with each other," Collins said in a telephone interview from his Richmond office.

Collins said his client did not know his assailants but suspects that they are associated with an acquaintance he had an argument with over the rights to photographs. The photographer told police that he was the victim of a similar incident last year and believes the two might be related.

In a Web log entry posted at 2:46 a.m. Sept. 8, Fawley wrote about both attacks. He wrote that the "sun hadn't been up long" when he was accosted two days earlier, although he stated in the police report that it occurred at 5 a.m., which on that morning was nearly two hours before dawn. He also wrote that he suspected that an ex-girlfriend was responsible.

Behl, who was having a romantic relationship with Fawley, according to his attorney and her family, is not mentioned in the blog entry. Fawley and Behl met earlier this year, when Behl went to Richmond to visit the VCU campus, Collins said.

On a second visit in April, the man took photographs of Behl and posted them on his Web site. The photos, which were posted among collages of other girls, were taken down after her disappearance.

Behl, a June graduate of James Madison High School in Vienna, was two weeks into her freshman year when she disappeared. She was last seen about 10 p.m. Labor Day after a late-night dinner at a cafe near her dorm. She met up with Fawley after dinner, Collins said. He lent her a skateboard and walked her to the residence hall. She later left after she found her roommate with a boyfriend.

Her roommate reported her missing about 27 hours later.

Search warrants were served in recent days at Fawley's apartment and at the homes of other acquaintances. Several computers and cameras were taken from Fawley's residence, partly because police were searching for child pornography, according to an affidavit filed in Richmond Circuit Court.

Fawley has numerous misdemeanor convictions, including assault, reckless driving and failure to stop at the scene of an accident, according to court records..

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http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785230286


VCU offers reward in Behl case
Police say the report filed by photographer is 'vague' and they can't investigate

BY JIM NOLAN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Sep 23, 2005

Officials at Virginia Commonwealth University are pledging a $20,000 reward to anyone with information leading to the location and return of missing VCU freshman Taylor Marie Behl.

"Please keep Taylor, her family and friends in your thoughts as we hope for her safe return," VCU President Eugene P. Trani wrote yesterday in a letter to the university and VCU Health System "communities."

The announcement came a day after Behl's family posted an $11,000 reward for information about her disappearance.

Meanwhile, Richmond police officials said yesterday that they do not have enough information to properly investigate an abduction report filed by a 38-year-old amateur photographer who said he was attacked and robbed hours after he had seen the 17-year-old Behl.

"In order for us to go forward on [the photographer's] case, we have to have more details than the limited and vague descriptions he gave us in reference to this alleged crime," Police Chief Rodney Monroe said.

The photographer -- identified by police as one of a number of "persons of interest" in the criminal investigation into Behl's disappearance -- filed a report with police at 4:42 p.m. Sept. 6. He said the attack occurred in an alley near where the eastern end of Monument Avenue meets Franklin Street at 5 a.m. -- about 7½ hours after saying good night to Behl the evening of Sept. 5.

The photographer said he had been attacked by unknown people, struck by an unknown object, driven with a bag over his head to an unknown location and dumped on a dirt road.

In a supplemental police report on the incident, he said a Hispanic man assisted him an hour later and drove him back to his neighborhood, but the photographer said he did not know the man's name. The officer who took the photographer's statement said he believed the photographer had been attacked, but "due to his mental state, getting any other relevant information is going to prove to be verydifficult."

The photographer also told detectives that he should be on medication for a bipolar condition and was drunk at the time of the attack.

The photographer's lawyer, Chris Collins, said Wednesday that the attack was unrelated to Behl's case and possibly involved a dispute with a friend over the rights to photographs he had taken.

But investigators say the details are important because they can help establish the photographer's whereabouts in the hours after he is said to have left Behl.

Behl was last reported seen by her roommate at her VCU dormitory about 10:20 p.m. Sept. 5. She left with her car keys, student ID, a small amount of cash and a cell phone. Police said she told her roommate she planned to go skateboarding with friends.

In the 18 days since her disappearance, investigators have also questioned several other acquaintances of Behl's, including some who are believed to have previously skateboarded with her.

Police impounded the car of one skateboarding friend after finding evidence that Behl had been in the car at some time before her disappearance.

They also arrested a friend of the skateboarder on a drug-possession charge after a bloodhound tracked his scent from Behl's car, recovered on North Mulberry Street, to his apartment several blocks away. The man has denied knowing Behl or being in her car.


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

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http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031785230294

Another girl, 17, missing from city
On Sunday, she left her home, possibly to meet Internet contact

BY JIM NOLAN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Sep 23, 2005


RELATED: Police Beat

Taylor Behl isn't the only young woman to disappear recently in Richmond.

Seventeen-year-old Monica Rose Sharp has been missing since Sunday morning.

Police said Sharp left her home in the Museum District about 10:35 a.m. to walk her dog and didn't return. Her mother filed a missing-persons report later in the day.

The dog showed up Monday. But by yesterday, the 5-foot-2-inch, 210-pound Sharp had yet to return.

Police spokeswoman Kirsten Nelson said a preliminary investigation indicates Sharp may have gone to meet someone with whom she had previously corresponded on the Internet.

While investigators think Sharp voluntarily left her home, it has not changed the seriousness or intensity with which detectives are pursuing the case.

"All missing-persons cases are serious, especially those involving juveniles," Nelson said. Richmond police have investigated roughly 100 missing-persons cases this year.

"We're doing the same things we do in all missing-persons cases," she said, referring to Behl and Sharp.

In the case of Behl, who has been missing since Sept. 5, police are still exploring leads, Nelson said. In Sharp's case, she said detectives have concrete leads.

"We're working hard on both of them," she said.

Sharp's father, Nick Sharp, said, "We're really worried about our daughter. We want her back home."

Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call police at 646-0400 or 355-3059.


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

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Ben F. (photographer) was arrested for child pornography

Also, warrant served for fingerprints and DNA.

I have been following the story elsewhere and I'm not sure if anyone wants the links, (some Adult), blogs, etc here, so just a brief update as to what I obtained since yesterday afternoon.

It has also been noted that his hair color keeps changing. This man has various blogs, other porno sites with pics posted,or has been involved with such, etc.

That is it.

Rd, you may continue if you want. Do not want to step over any boundaries of the forum here.

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A link to the site carrying the work of the internet sleuthers' research would be nice, goz. Wonderful news that the photographer is arrested!

The Richmond police are a world away from Aruba, and this district attorney even let them get a search warrant unlike DC when Chandra disappeared.

Amazing difference when the police treat the disappearance of a young woman as a crime.

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rd: you kill me! I take it I must be the " internet sleuther"?? I was not being wise either, I just wasn't sure what links were allowed here.

This is from yesterday what I had saved. I have to go but will post in more late tonight or tomorrow. Did not do any searching today..


http://www.nbc4.com/news/5013174/detail.html


Missing Teen's Friend Charged With Child Pornography
Richmond Police Arrest Photographer

POSTED: 4:00 pm EDT September 23, 2005
UPDATED: 7:26 pm EDT September 23, 2005

RICHMOND, Va. -- A friend of a missing teenager from Vienna has been arrested on child pornography charges.

Richmond police arrested 38-year-old Ben Fawley Friday. The photographer has been linked to 17-year-old Taylor Behl, the Virginia Commonwealth University freshman who has been missing since Sept. 5.

Fawley lives in an apartment near VCU. Police searched the apartment and seized a number of computers, hard drives and CDs. Police said they were looking for images and files linked to the possession and distribution of child pornography.

"It's my information that those were found on computers from an ex-roommate," said Chris Collins, Fawley's lawyer. "And I don't know any of the details of the case or what the government's planning on doing with it. I do know it's got nothing to do with Taylor Behl."


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Slideshows: Photographer Arrested | Taylor Behl

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Collins said Fawley had an intimate relationship with Behl. He said Fawley saw Behl on the day she disappeared but he was not the last person to see her and he had nothing to do with her disappearance.

Fawley has not been charged in Behl's disappearance. Police said there is no evidence of criminal activity in her disappearance.

Previous Stories:
September 22, 2005: Missing Teen's Friend Claims He Also Was Abducted
September 21, 2005: Friend Of Missing Student Linked To Child Porn Investigation
September 20, 2005: Richmond Police Follow More Leads In Missing Student Case
September 19, 2005: Family, Friends Attend Vigil For Missing VCU Student
September 18, 2005: Police Search Missing Teen's Vienna Home
September 15, 2005: Search For VCU Student Becomes Criminal Investigation
Copyright 2005 by nbc4.com.


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Skuzz Bag Skulz likely received his wounds during his murder of Terry would be my guess, and the false report to the police was to give himself and alibi, and to explain the injuries. Too bad the police did not photograph the wounds. Wonder if they did a body examination and recorded his wounds, knowing whether or not he had any scratches would be helpful. If someone is raping someone, one of the likely places the perp would be injured by the victims is in the side and back of the head. Grabbing an object on the floor or table by a bed.

The BLOW on the head, it is surprizing that he had not gone to the hospital to get checked out, this seems rather amiss considering if the police man thought he should be on bipolar medication, then it is obvious that his reasoning faculties were not working well, the policeman had no way to know if this was new onset or an old problem.

I'm having a bit of a problem why Skulz did not go to a hospital initially instead of going to the police, and secondly why the police did not take him to the hospital, especially since he could not recall the event in any logical order. This definately seems like an alibi.

If Skulz did cause Terry to disappear then she cannot be far away, as by five a.m. he was at the police station, so he had approximately 7 hours to dispose of a body. Landfill or the water seem the most likely places. We know that he would have had Terry's car. Skulz knows of many deserted places as he has photographed many of which are on line. One place that Skulz's mentioned several times is Belle's Island, St. James River...there is an old military prison there, so it must be a fair size? There are also riding trails on the Island.

I personally think that nothing this man says can be believed, he appears on drugs, paranoid, and in general out of control, I believe that he is up to his ears in porno, it is only now to find the trail of evidence, this will prove difficult, as no records, no one talking. This will be difficult for the police to penetrate the wall of silence around pornography, even if the young women involved are terrified, information will be difficult to extract. Bravo to the police so far.

Skulz referral to a problem with an exgirlfriend is posted in one of the blogs, and on his page at deviant art.com. Her name is Erin and it appears that there was some dispute over rights to pictures he had taken of her, he also tells this story somewhere else on the net, likely in several places. His case against Erin seems like a paranoid rant.
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Note: I won't print from the Live Journals/The Ben Blogs/nor links from the Porno sites that are available. These can be located by those here. I'm sure many are aware of where they can be found.

Of Interest: many are probably aware of PlanetHuff, I have the link but no time to post it at the present. This is an excellent blog for reading and updating on crime.

*I usually do my own research for articles - but follow his work and read his blog. I have not had time to do so, but read links to him elsewhere on this case.

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From yesterday also:


http://www.wtopnews.com/?sid=575909&nid=25


New Development in Missing Co-Ed Case
Updated: Friday, Sep. 23, 2005 - 6:18 PM

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - A 38-year-old man identified as a person of interest in the disappearance of a missing college student was charged Friday with 16 counts of possession of child pornography, police said.
Richmond police spokeswoman Cynthia Price said the charges against amateur photographer Ben Fawley are "not directly related" to the disappearance of 17-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Behl. But police entered Fawley's home on a search warrant looking for items that might belong to Behl, including her clothing.

---****A second search warrant was issued for Fawley's fingerprints and DNA, police said. ****

NOTE: It has been noted this has been for Taylor's case(NOTE by forum person- GG)----

Earlier this week, police seized computers and several CDs from Fawley's home, according to a search warrant. None of the pornographic images police found were of Behl, Price said.

Behl hasn't been seen since she left her dorm room around 10 p.m. Sept. 5 to give her roommate privacy with a boyfriend. She told the couple she would return in a little while, taking with her a cell phone, a small amount of cash, a student ID and her car keys.

Fawley was one of the last people to see Behl that night, and his lawyer, Chris Collins, has said the two had a romantic relationship. Collins did not return calls seeking comment but has said his client had nothing to do with Behl's disappearance.

"I'm glad that he is behind bars, but it doesn't help the police find Taylor," Behl's mother, Janet Pelasara, told Richmond television station WWBT.

According to a police incident report, Fawley said he was abducted several hours after Behl disappeared. Fawley told police he was robbed and kidnapped by two unknown assailants as he was out walking around 5 a.m. on Sept. 6. Fawley said he was beaten and shoved to the ground, where someone put a bag over his head before putting him into a vehicle and driving him to an unknown location. He said he was then pushed out onto a dirt road.

In the incident report, the responding officer said Fawley wasn't able to provide any details as to where he had been taken, but told police he'd been attacked last year outside his home and believed the two events were related.

"I was able to determine that he should be on medication for bipolar disorder and that he was intoxicated prior to the listed events," the officer wrote in the report. "It is my belief that the victim was attacked but due to his mental state getting any other relevant information is going to prove to be very difficult."

George Peterson, an attorney for Behl's mother, said his client met Fawley once - when police were questioning him soon after Behl disappeared.

"She got a very bad feeling about him and had to walk away - she could not listen to him," Peterson said. "I think he certainly is someone that the police have put a high degree of scrutiny upon and probably deservedly so."

Behl's family has cleared out her dorm room and taken the items back to her home in Vienna, Peterson said. Pelasara does not want her daughter to return to VCU if she is found, he said.

Pelasara has offered an $11,000 reward for anyone with information that leads to Behl's return. VCU on Thursday offered a $20,000 reward.

A second Richmond teenager was reported missing this week, but police say they don't believe the two cases are related.

Monica Rose Sharp was last seen Sunday morning, when she left her home to take her dog for a walk. Her mother filed a missing-persons report later that day.

Police spokeswoman Kirsten Nelson said police believe the 17-year-old may have gone with someone she met on the Internet.

Sharp vanished from the city's Museum District - the same neighborhood where Behl's car was found last weekend. The car's license plates had been replaced with Ohio plates that had been reported stolen several weeks before Behl disappeared. The FBI is analyzing the car for evidence.

Nelson said there is no evidence of a link between the two disappearances.

(Copyright 2005 by The Associated Press.

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Just did a web surf which began on a page of Skulz comments on livejournal.com. now that was a walk through a wonderland of confusion.

A map of the states with a sign that says route 666, a hundred views of his van, wonder where this van is now? Talk of his trips to OHIO. Talk of taging his Van.

It will take the police a month of sundays to research his computers. It is very odd Goz how come he keeps dying his hair. He is like a jekyle and Hyde. Scary guy.
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Let us hope this young girl is safe, I'm wondering what information the police have of the disappearance of sharp for to so quickly rule out that these cases are not connected, it seems they must have some idea of what became of Miss Sharpe. I looked earlier today and found nothing on the net about her disappearance, even though it was mentioned here? Odd!. Wonder if an amber alert was issued.
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kate wrote: If Skulz did cause Terry to disappear then she cannot be far away, as by five a.m. he was at the police station,...


What is that you're refering to kate? Is that a typo? He said he was attacked at 5 am, driven to the country and let out on a dirt road, and given a ride back to Richmond by some unknown person. He didn't report it to police till later that day, late afternoon or early evening. The police basically blew him off as being drunk and needing medication.

Of course I don't believe he was back from his dastardly deed long before he called police. There was about 18 hours between her disappearance and his contact with police. That was all just part of establishing an alibi in my opinion. Everything he said is unsubstantiated and a lie.

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Hi goz, I was referring to wherever you said you were following it elsewhere as far as posting a link to it. I don't see any particular benefit in linking to porno sites and benefitting them, which is what happens when a legitimate site such as this that is logged by search sites finds links to other sites.

We know he is a degenerate and a murderer, he's already been charged with child pornography, hopefully a murder charge to come.

But yes, you and the others here are internet sleuthers that can put some good information together for people to understand the tragedy of a woman who has disappeared.

Thanks to you and everyone else here. I hope anyone caring about what happened to Taylor can find this thread helpful.

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rd you are correct about the timing, went back and reread the articles and it was the twelve hours after the fact, and this is really odd that he waits 12 hours to report his attack. Yes indeed, Skulz would have had oodles of time to dispose of any evidence.

Thanks to for the correction also, of how Taylor and Skulz met...I cannot believe that Taylor's father did not realize how old he was, he looks well over thirty and then some to me. Not to mention creepy.

Strange sideline to the investigation, the dogs stopping at the house near where Taylor's car was found, then the nephew of the owners of the house flunked part of a polygraph then later a trunk in the basement of the same house, is broken into and the trunk ramsacked? Very strange! "They also arrested a friend of the skateboarder on a drug-possession charge after a bloodhound tracked his scent from Behl's car, recovered on North Mulberry Street, to his apartment several blocks away. The man has denied knowing Behl or being in her car." The skateboarder is the person who's car has been impounded, mentioned below.


The car that the police seized seems to have been one of Taylor's skate board friends..."Police impounded the car of one skateboarding friend after finding evidence that Behl had been in the car at some time before her disappearance." Taken from article in this thread BY JIM NOLAN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Sep 23, 2005


The plot seems to have thickened. Guess there is allot more than what seems apparent at first glance in this case, that went on in Taylor's disappearance, perhaps more people are involved than Skulz?!
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Well, it's not random, but I don't put any credence into it at all. The car was searched by police based on what they found in Taylor's car.

In the past I've learned that this makes it sound more complicated than what it is. Generally what it is is a piece of paper with a name or phone number found in the car.

They say they believe Taylor was in that car. Generally when police say something like that it's based on a dog indicating it detects the scent.

It is known that Taylor was into skateboarding. These are young skateboarders from what I can tell. The young man says he doesn't know Taylor, and was willing to take a lie detector test. The police say he flunked two questions, whether he knew Taylor and whether she was in his car. He says the police are rousting him because they don't have anything else.

Actually, they have the murderer but I don't believe the police about flunking the test. Since a legal case was decided that police can lie when questioning, I don't believe anything police say when questioning people. They were just sweating him and he's smart enough and innocent enough to know it.

I don't believe the police broke in those residences. I think a private detective type, probably for a tabloid or someone wanting to sell info to a tabloid, made those breakins.

It would be interesting to find out what was in Taylor's car that led to the boy's car but they don't know Taylor. That is definitely part of a bigger puzzle. The only thing I can guess is that the photographer used the car. I'll have to check back in the artcles, I don't recall if they knew him.

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