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Investigators in the Taylor Behl disappearance today found a body in a heavily wooded area discovered the body buried on private property in Mathews County, about 75 miles east of Richmond. Although investigators refused to say whether they believe they had found Taylor Marie Behl, many have speculated from the information provided that it is.
MATHEWS, Va. (AP) – A task force investigating the disappearance of a 
college freshman unearthed a body from a wooded area Wednesday, but refused to say whether they believe they had found Taylor Marie Behl.
“During the past week, we have gone into a mode of searching locations that we knew Taylor to have visited based on statements, based on photographs, based on a host of other things,” said Richmond Police Chief Rodney Monroe. “That is what led us to this particular location.”
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According to The Washington Post, police task force investigating the disappearance of Taylor Marie Behl found a decomposed body in a shallow grave yesterday. 
A police task force investigating the disappearance of college student Taylor Marie Behl found a decomposed body in a shallow grave yesterday east of Richmond and were trying to identify the remains last night, police said.
The investigators were led to the grave, in coastal Mathews County about 80 miles east of Richmond, through “credible” information collected in interviews with Behl’s friends and acquaintances, a source close to the investigation said. Clothing was also found in the rural area, a place Behl was known to have visited, the source said.
This week, we’ve been going to various locations that we’ve known her to frequent,” said Richmond Police Chief Rodney D. Monroe. “Those locations were based on where people told us she had gone and photographs we’ve seen her in. Outstanding investigative work led us there.”
Monroe declined to elaborate but said a medical examiner and federal forensics investigators were at the scene in a field off a farm road in the largely rural area.
Credible information and photographs were used to locate areas that Taylor Behl frequented.
The grave was located behind a barn on an isolated piece of private property, 
police said. Photographs of the area that were captured by hovering news helicopters showed several acres of greenery, with several white buildings bordered by clusters of large trees.
The discovery came the same day that a multi-jurisdictional grand jury convened in Richmond Circuit Court to hear evidence in Behl’s case. The special jury is composed of about a dozen residents drawn from regular jury pools in Richmond and its surrounding areas, according to the Web site for Henrico County, adjacent to Richmond.
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In a video just uploaded on the WJLA ABC7 News, it is now reported that a source close to the family has said that they are 99.9% certain that the body is that of Taylor Behl. WJLA reports that Janet Pelasara has been spotted on the scene.
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“The FBI has begun processing the scene,” Chief Monroe told a press conference yesterday. “At this time, we do not, I repeat, we do not know who the remains belong to. We contacted [Miss Behl's] family as precaution.”
Family members said they were confident that the remains belonged to Miss Behl, WJLA-TV (Channel 7) reported. She has been missing from the VCU campus in Richmond since Labor Day.
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Breaking news in the Taylor Behl case. The remains of a body have been found 70-75 miles east of Richmond, VA. There has been no official confirmation as to the identity of the body.
(Richmond Times Dispatch) Body found 70 miles east of Richmond Updated: 6:34 p.m.
The Richmond police task force investigating the disappearance of Virginia Commonwealth University student Taylor Marie Behl has discovered the remains of a body in rural Mathews County. Sources close to the investigation said the body has not been identified. It was discovered in a shallow grave behind a barn on an isolated piece of private property just west of Diggs, a community along the Chesapeake Bay just south of Rigby Island. The area is about 70 miles east of Richmond.
“At this time, we do not, I repeat, we do not know who the remains belong to,“ Monroe said at a news conference outside the Mathews County sheriff’s office.
UPDATE: NBC4; Officials Investigating Missing Va. Teen Find Remains
Monroe said investigators from VCU discovered the location of the body, FBI investigators were collecting evidence from a large crime scene and state police would investigate the discovery of the remains. The remains were discovered in a shallow grave in a heavily wooded area on private property in the county, about 75 miles east of Richmond. According to police, their investigation included several searches, and in one of those searches, some pictures were seized, including a picture of the general area where the human remains were found. Police said one of the witnesses they spoke to recognized the area in the photograph.
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Monroe said investigators from VCU discovered the location of the body, FBI investigators were collecting evidence from a large crime scene and state police would investigate the discovery of the remains.
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Update: ABC News 7, Police Confirm Human Remains Found In Mathews County
Police said the remains were discovered in a grave in a heavily wooded area on private property in the county, about 75 miles east of Richmond.
Police crime scene tape blocked access to a dirt path that led off a rural road to part of the crime scene, where investigators worked Wednesday evening underneath a green tent surrounded by orange cones, two vans and a truck.
“During the past week, we have gone into a mode of searching locations that we knew Taylor to have visited based on statements, based on photographs, based on a host of other things,” Monroe said. “That is what led us to this particular location.”
Police would not say if the body was female, and said it would take several days for identification. It was not clear how long the body had been there, Monroe said.
“We will not know who or what evidence those remains present until we have an opportunity for the medical examiner’s office to make that determination,” Monroe said.
Behl’s mother, Janet Pelasara, was contacted by police about the body as a courtesy, Monroe said.
A family friend who answered the phone at Pelasara’s home Wednesday night said Pelasara would not be making any statement until the body has been identified.
UPDATE: Fox News; Body in Woods May Be Missing Va. Student
Task force investigating the disappearance of a college freshman unearthed a body from a wooded area Wednesday, but refused to say whether they believe they had found Taylor Marie Behl.
October 5th, 2005 at 08:13pm
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Please say a prayer for the family, this is a sad story of a young man in college gone wrong.
From the AP:
A body found Tuesday in the Red River was that of a missing Minnesota State University Moorhead student, the student’s mother confirmed.
Patrick Kycia, 19, of Stillwater, had been seen last in the early morning hours on Friday at a fraternity party.
There were no obvious signs of trauma, police Lt. Bob Larson said. The body was to be taken to Ramsey County for identification, but the clothing, physical description and items found in the man’s pockets led police to believe it was Kycia.
Rose Foley, Kycia’s mother, told the Star Tribune of Minneapolis she had been contacted by authorities who said her son ‘looked pretty good, considering.’ She said she was relieved that her son’s body had been found. ‘That was our goal.’
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September 27th, 2005 at 11:40pm
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ADA, Okla. (AP) – A teenager who was abducted as she left school last week was found shot to death Saturday along with a man her mother had once dated. Authorities said it appeared to be a murder-suicide.
As previously posted and now confirmed the incident was in relation to the fact that the alleged kidnapper and killer, Jerry Don Savage had a previous relationship with Caitlin’s mom and had attempted to kidnap her.
Savage, who had dated the girl’s mother, Donna Wooten, reportedly called the girl’s grandmother Friday afternoon and threatened to harm Caitlin, Bratcher said.
He said Savage was recently arrested on charges of attempting to kidnap Donna Wooten. Wooten obtained a protective order against Savage on Aug. 30, court records show, but he was out of jail on bond when Caitlin disappeared.
The deaths appear to be murder-suicide, said Jessica Brown, a spokeswoman for the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation.
Savage had previously lived in the area and knew the owner of the land where the bodies were found, authorities said. The landowner, Saye Sliger, was arrested as a possible accessory to the crime, Brown said.
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September 27th, 2005 at 12:39pm
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From KOTV 6, The bodies of missing teen Caitlin Elizabeth Wooten and her alleged abductor Jerry Don Savage were spotted by troopers who were searching for them in an Oklahoma Highway Patrol helicopter shortly before 10 am.
Officials in Ada say the bodies of Caitlin Elizabeth Wooten and Jerry Don Savage were spotted by troopers who were searching for them in an Oklahoma Highway Patrol helicopter shortly before 10 am.
Ada spokesman Mark Bratcher says the troopers guided a search team on the ground to the partially wooded area in Pontotoc County six miles southwest of Ada. Bratcher says each of the victims died from gunshot wounds, but it wasn’t known how long they had been dead.
As posted yesterday, an Amber Alert issues for 16 year old Caitlin Elizabeth Wooten who had been taken at gun point by Jerry Don Savage. Less than 24 hours later both are found dead from gun shot wounds.
A truly sad ending to an all to common situation in this country that could have been prevented. Reportedly, there was a restraining order against Jerry Don Savage, the ex-boy friend of Caitlin Elizabeth Wooten’s mother. He had allegedly kidnapped or had attempted to kidnap Caitlin’s mother.
Court records show Savage had a protective order filed against him on August 30th. We’re told he is the ex-boyfriend of Wooten’s mother.
This country needs to figure out a better way of how to protect children and those that actually obey the laws. Authorities need to figure out that “THE INNOCENT HAVE RIGHT TO!!!”. A piece of “protective order” paper is worth about as much as the paper it is written on to a person who does not care about the law. We need to start treating these individuals as the CRIMINALS they are and not worrying about their rights.
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According to NBS 4, A 13-year-old Ohio girl, Katelind Caudill, was found shot to death in her bedroom who may have been killed for trying to help an abused friend. Melvin Keeling is also a suspect in death of convenience store clerks. What a truly sad story. Not only should the suspect not have been on the streets but Katelind Caudill should have been better protected.
A 13-year-old Ohio girl found shot to death in her bedroom may have been killed for trying to help an abused friend.
Relatives say Katelind Caudill had alerted authorities that her friend was being molested.
Police are now looking for her friend’s stepfather, Melvin Keeling. Officials say he’s also a suspect in the fatal shootings of two Indiana convenience store clerks a few hours after the teen’s body was found.
Katie Caudill’s dad said Keeling had threatened her and that police should have protected the 13-year-old, who was helping them in a child rape investigation against the accused killer, Cincinnati television station WLWT reported.
“(Keeling said), ‘You guys took my family, so I’m going to take yours,’” Charles Caudill told the station.
“I’m mad. Warren County did absolutely nothing about it,” Katie’s father said. “They had him and let him go. They should have held him knowing he had threatened my daughter and her sister. They should have had a cop or something patrolling there, but they didn’t.”
Keeling, of Deerfield Township, Ohio, also was wanted for questioning in the shooting death about 3 1/2 hours earlier of Katelind Caudill, 13, at her grandmother’s house about 25 miles northeast of Cincinnati, authorities said.
According to the AP: Keeling was wanted on charges of rape and gross sexual imposition involving a child in an unrelated case, the Warren County sheriff’s office said.
A gunman shot and killed two women working at a northern Indiana convenience store Monday, and police were seeking a man who also was suspected of killing a teenage girl in Ohio.
Katelind Caudill is a hero for what she did and she paid with her life. God Bless you.
Katie’s father said he wasn’t surprised she would put her life on the line for a friend.
“She was nice and she would go out of her way to help anybody. She helped a friend out and ended up dead,” he said.
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According to the Ohio News Now, there may be a break in the Julie Popovich murder investigation as a potential suspect may be behind bars.
The search for a killer may have turned a corner Tuesday night.Columbus Police sources say there is a suspect in the murder of Julie Popovich.
A young man behind bars Tuesday night was being charged with a rape committed on May 6th. Adam Saleh, 18, was being arraigned on that charge Wednesday morning.
But police sources say Saleh is also a suspect in the disappearance and murder of Julie Popovich.
According to FBI detectives Saleh lives near Ledo’s Lounge near Hudson Street the last location that Julie Popovich was seen alive and police sources claim that Saleh was at that club the night Popovich disappeared.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations, Columbus homicide detectives and crime scene investigators searched Saleh’s North High Street apartment Tuesday night. The flat above a video store is just a stone’s throw away from Ledo’s Lounge near Hudson Street.
That’s the last place Julie Popovich was seen alive.
Police sources say Saleh was at that club the night Popovich disappeared — Thursday, August 11th.
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Following the earlier report that a woman’s skeletal remains were found new the Hoover Dam, according to the Ohio News Network the search for Julie Popovich is over as scientists have identified remains found Thursday as those of the missing Reynoldsburg woman.
It is a sad end to the search for Julie Popovich. 10TV has learned that scientists have identified remains found Thursday as those of the missing Reynoldsburg woman.
Forensic dentists at OSU have concluded that the body found in a bean field is indeed Julie Popovich.
County workers mowing grass found Julie Thursday afternoon in a bean field along Smothers Road. It is about a mile from where a fisherman found the ID Julie was using the night she disappeared.
Police aren’t talking about how Julie died, but sources say homicide detectives are making good progress.
Julie Popovich was only 20-years-old. Just last week family and friends held a candlelight vigil to pray for her safe return.
The Franklin County Coroner says an autopsy is underway.
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The Washington Post is reporting that the remains of a woman found outside of Philadelphia are likely to be those of 24-year-old LaToyia Figueroa, and that a person is in custody. We extend our prayers to her family.
There is a 10 AM press conference scheduled.
Update: Fox News; Cops: Woman’s Remains Found, Father Arrested
The father of the unborn child of a Philadelphia woman whose remains were found Saturday has been arrested and charged with murder, police say.
CNN; Pregnant woman’s remains found near Philadelphia
The suspect, Stephen Poaches, is a former boyfriend of 24-year-old LaToyia Figueroa, who has been missing for a month. When Poaches, 25, was arrested in nearby Chester, police said he was wearing a bulletproof vest and carrying a pistol.
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