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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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While the investigation goes on in to the disappearance of Taylor Behl, Taylor’s blogs give Richmond Police an intimate look into lives of teen and her friends.
Prior to her disappearance Taylor had an opportunity to put many things into her own personal blog.
Before she disappeared from a Richmond university four weeks ago, Taylor Marie Behl recorded her moods, her crushes, her insecurities in 50 entries she posted online over the span of 12 months. In language both spare and pensive, she detailed rites of passage, from earning her driver’s license to preparing for university.
With her chronicles, Behl, 17, of Vienna gained entry into a vast virtual community, a very public arena in which her writings were there for anyone to see at any time, a personal diary with no key.
One does wonder as to why so many provide so many personal accounts and details of their personal lives in forums open for all to see.
Now police also are privy to the disagreements that Behl had with her parents, her emotions on any given day, even her sexual exploits. By combing through the missing student’s online journal and profiles, they learned not only about her favorite musicians and movies but also about the many people with whom she was acquainted on the Internet — users with such online identities as “Citizen Cope” and “Chaos.”
As it turns out the internet has become are great forensic tool for investigators to get leads and clues.
The Internet, police said, has emerged as a virtual tip machine that often maps the course of an investigation. Within seconds, detectives are able to amass a great deal of information about someone, either through a search engine such as Google or on Web logs, such as the one that Behl maintained at LiveJournal.com, where more than 8 million people, most of them teenagers and college students, document their thoughts.
“It’s real surprising what people put out on the Internet about themselves, what they’re interested in, what they’re thinking,” said Richmond police Detective Jeff Deem, one of several officers assigned to Behl’s case. “Every case is different, but if we know that someone is a heavy Internet user, we’re going to go online and look around.”
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Behl created her Web log, or blog, April 6, 2004. In her first entry, titled “Oh la la,” Behl wrote that her mother found out a boy had visited while she was out. “I’m just trouble,” she wrote. Two weeks later, she “decided that all boys suck.”
Mostly, Behl’s online writings captured the angst and mood swings typical among teenagers.
There were moments of sadness: “I now know that everyone is useless and really doesn’t care.”
There were moments of anger: “I’m so (expletive) tired of everyone making decisions in my best interest. Don’t I get a (expletive) say? NO. Sorry, not ’til you’re 18.”
And there were moments of utter and exposed joy: “I’ll have my own car on Sunday . . . yesssssssssssssss!”
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The Washington Times is reporting the items the police seized from the residence of Ben Fawley, the 38 year old photographer, the so-called former “person of interest” in the disappearance of Taylor Behl.
Items seized in a search of the apartment belonging to a man under investigation in the disappearance of Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Marie Behl include fabric from a mattress that might be stained with blood, a cell phone that might belong to Taylor, women’s clothes and a .32-caliber gun cartridge, court documents released yesterday show.
Police refused to comment on the seized items, citing the ongoing investigation.
Richmond Police spokeswoman Kirsten Nelson went on to elaborate on the about the designation of Ben Fawley as a former “person of interest.”
“We are not calling him a person of interest because he is not a suspect, but we are still looking at him very seriously.”
Other items that were seized by police in the Sept. 23 search of Ben Fawley’s residence include:
videotapes, bags of clothes, a hatchet, a hammer and three pairs of underwear from an outdoor garbage can; a beaded necklace with a cross and a watch from an outdoor supercan; a black brassiere, white panties, tissues and tampon wrappers, several VCU student IDs — which might include one belonging to Taylor, copies of student IDs, a box of bones and five skateboards from inside Mr. Fawley’s apartment.
Also seized were several fitted bedsheets, a futon cover, a bra and hat and a vacuum cleaner bag.
Police also commented about the stolen license plate, “GRN ERTH”, that occurred at the same time as Taylor Behl but did not go into great detail.
“There were some details revealed about the license plate that we cannot reveal at this point,” Mr. Peterson said. “It doesn’t suggest one way or another” whether Taylor is alive.
The personalized “GRN ERTH” Jamestown 400th Anniversary Virginia plate was stolen in Richmond about the time the 17-year-old disappeared. The person from whom the plate was stolen is not connected with the case, police said.
UPDATE: Richmond Times Dispatch, Items to be studied in Behl case
Police Chief Rodney Monroe did say that three items Behl was known to be carrying before leaving her dormitory room at 10:20 p.m. — her cell phone, VCU student ID and car keys were not among the items recovered by federal agents who searched Fawley’s home.
Monroe said it has yet to be determined whether other female “personal items” seized during the search belong to Behl.
“The license plate means something to us but we are not prepared to say what at this time,” Miss Nelson said.
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From NBC 4, Details About Search Of Photographer’s Home Released. Missing Teen’s Friend Charged With Child Pornography
News4 has learned new details about what police were looking for and what they found when they searched the home of a photographer being questioned in the disappearance of a Virginia Commonwealth University student from Vienna.
A copy of the police search warrant shows investigators were looking for 17-year-old Taylor Behl’s cell phone, her skateboard, and her key ring or car keys.
It’s unclear whether any items belonging to Behl were found, but authorities said they did confiscate numerous cell phones in Fawley’s home, a skateboard, sex toys, and women’s clothing.
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Richmond Police stated that they are searching for anyone who might have information on a stolen license plate, “GRN ERTH,” that may be connected to the case of a missing college student Taylor Behl.
The personalized “GRN ERTH” plate was stolen in Richmond around the time 17-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Behl disappeared, and “preliminary information” indicates the two events may be connected, police said.
The person it was stolen from is not connected to the case, Richmond police spokeswoman Cynthia Price said. Citing the ongoing investigation, she declined to release further details.
The teen’s car was found two weeks later, less than two miles from her dorm. Her license plates had been replaced with Ohio plates reported stolen several weeks before she disappeared.
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An 18-year-old girl has been reported missing from a DeKalb County 
nightclub, where she was seen getting into a black Honda Civic with an unknown man. Stephanie Graciela Hernandez disappeared from the EL Chaparrel nightclub at 2715 Buford Highway on Sunday night. Hernandez is 5 feet, 8 inches tall, weighs 155 pounds, and has black hair. She was wearing blue jeans, black high heels, and a blue shirt. She wears a flower ring with a blue stone on her right hand.
Anyone with information should contact the DeKalb County Youth and Sex Crimes Unit at 404-294-2574.
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After many reports of sightings of 15 year old Erin Nembhard has been found.
PORT ST. LUCIE — A missing teenage girl, who ran away with a man she met on the Internet who then took her to the home of a known sex offender, walked into the Opa-locka police station Monday asking to go back home.
The parents and family of 15-year-old Erin Nembhard, who had been missing since Sept. 16, were relieved that she was safe but remained worried about her disappearance.
“First, I’m going to hug her, and then we’re just going to love her,” Joy Nembhard said. “She’s a good girl, and we’re going to get help for her.”
Investigators say the teen likely spent most of the time in the Opa-locka area, but they’re not sure what she was doing or if she had a place to stay, food or money. On Monday, the focus was on evaluating the teen at a hospital and then reuniting her with her family, Port St. Lucie police said.
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Other Unsolved Missing Persons Cases
There are several similar unsolved cases that have left investigators baffled.
Kelli Ann Gilliland, 17, has been missing since December 2004. (Missing poster)
Mia Losey, 21, has been missing since December 2002.
Grace Bricker, 8, vanished in May 2005.
Ashley Lyn Howley, 20, was last seen in June 2004. (original article)
Patti Adkins vanished after her shift at the Honda plant in Marysville in July 2001.
Take the opportunity to visit the Ohio Missing Children Clearinghouse
All missing children are listed alphabetically; you may view them by clicking on a letter below. Photos and descriptions of current alerts, current advisories and children who have most recently become missing are also below. Under each child’s name is the city from which they disappeared and their current age. Click on the child’s name or image in order to view the child’s poster.
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A missing Virginia teenager may be in the company of a man (Jeffery Nichols, 57) from Belleville, according to Richmond, Va., Police.
Sharp’s family and police suspect she may be with Jeffery Nichols, 57, of Belleville.
” We were able to gather some evidence at the young woman’s home that indicate she was in communication with (Nichols) via the Internet,” said Kirsten Nelson, spokesman with the Richmond Police Department.
Nichols drives a green four-door 1999 Oldsmobile Alero. It has an Illinois license plate of 6219015, according to Richmond Police.
Foul play isn’t suspected, Nelson said. Police say the girl may be a runaway.
Anyone with information about Sharp or Nichols are asked to call Richmond Police at (804) 646-5100
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