Another Missing College Student in Minnesota.
From the Star Tribune
Patrick Kycia had been drinking heavily at a fraternity house party before quietly disappearing into the night, his Minnesota State University Moorhead roommates recalled Monday.
“Pat’s a pretty straight kid,” roommate Ricky Sayarath said of the 19-year-old sophomore from Stillwater. “He had a philosophy test Friday morning and he takes school very seriously. We figured he’d be home soon.”
But Kycia never came home Thursday night, never took his philosophy test, never showed up for his 5 p.m. shift at Domino’s Pizza.
By Monday, while officials from the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources combed the Red River and authorities, including the FBI, continued their search for Kycia, his friends and family began fearing the worst.
“We have no hard evidence of foul play, but people just don’t disappear into thin air,” his father, Julian Kycia, said Monday afternoon before leaving Moorhead and heading back to the Twin Cities.
“And as far as him just walking away, well, that’s impossible.”
Patrick Kycia was studying to be a pharmacist and planned to find work in the Twin Cities. And with a 3.65 grade-point average at Minnesota State-Moorhead, the 6-foot-2-inch, 230-pound kid with glasses and short, curly brown hair seemed well on his way.
But last Thursday, he found a detour — a party at the Phi Sigma Kappa house, where whiskey flowed and beers could be purchased for $1, no I.D. required, Sayarath said
September 26th, 2005 at 10:00pm
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Transcript from “On the Record,” September 20, 2005. Taylor’s father Matt Behl joins Greta Van Susteren.
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: College student Taylor Behl (search) disappeared after leaving her Richmond, Virginia dorm room on September 5. Police say there’s no evidence that she left the city and they’re hoping that her abandoned car will help lead them to her.
Taylor’s father Matt Behl joins us live in Washington. Your daughter is supposed to be at college tonight.
MATT BEHL, FATHER OF MISSING VA COLLEGE STUDENT: That’s right — should be in class.
VAN SUSTEREN: Tough isn’t it, I mean it’s unthinkable what parents have to go through on this.
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September 26th, 2005 at 07:30pm
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VCU police still looking for ‘one of our own’. Even though the city police and FBI have taken over, campus force keeps going.
Fuller is chief of police at VCU says that they are taking it personally and that even though the case has been handed over to the Richmond police they are still looking for missing teenage freshman Taylor Behl.
Fuller said VCU still has detectives and street officers working on the case, although the criminal investigation has been turned over to Richmond police. The FBI is also involved.
The chief said he can’t keep track of how many media interviews he has given, as the Behl case became the white-hot focus of news organizations as diverse as NBC’s “Today” and Court TV.
“We’ve never had anything this high profile,” Fuller said wearily. “This has been a very trying ordeal.”
Fuller said he has met with Behl’s parents, as have VCU President Eugene Trani and other VCU administrators, police officers and students.
The burly police chief, who has headed VCU’s police department since 2000, said he has a 23-year-old daughter, and his heart aches when he thinks about how the Behl family must feel as the hours creep by.
“This is personal for us,” he said. “Our officers are serious about keeping students safe. Taylor is one of our own.”
(Full Story from Richmond Times Dispatch)
September 26th, 2005 at 06:52pm
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Taylor Behl’s mom Janet Pelasara remembers the advice she gave her 17-year-old daughter when she dropped her off at Virginia Commonwealth University to begin her freshman year:
“I told her to have as much fun as you can stand and still get good grades,” Pelasara recalled the other day, nearly three weeks after her daughter disappeared.
They were the words of a mother confident in her daughter’s judgment.
These of course would be words that Taylor’s mom would come back and ponder as the knowledge that she had instilled into Taylor Behl say not have been enough to deal with real life situations.
So when it came time to choose a college, Pelasara had few worries that her “street-smart” daughter wouldn’t be able to handle its challenges.
But Behl also had made connections, through friends and the Internet, with people in the city who dwelled on the fringes of college life, some of whom police are investigating for possible clues to her disappearance.
Among them is Ben Fawley, a 38-year-old photographer and self-described “Goth Skater” Behl met in February during a visit to VCU. He was one of the last people to see Behl before she vanished Sept. 5.
In an interview with Matt Behl, Taylor’s dad from Fox News Greta Van Susteren, “On The Record,” they discuss meeting Ben Fawley:
VAN SUSTEREN: You’ve met Ben Fawley?
BEHL: Yes, I have.
VAN SUSTEREN: When did you first meet him?
BEHL: Early February when Taylor was interested in going to VCU I ended up taking her down there to spend the night at that house and go with her friend from high school to classes the next day and to the student union to eat, things like that.
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, your impression of him, I mean which may be favorable or unfavorable? It doesn’t necessarily mean he had anything to do with her disappearance but I’m curious what did you think about him?
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September 26th, 2005 at 06:44pm
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