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In a situation that sounds all too familiar, the AP is reporting that Richmond Police no longer consider a 38-year-old Richmond man a person of interest in the disappearance of Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Behl.
Richmond police spokeswoman Cynthia Price says police initially called Ben Fawley a person of interest in Behl’s case because they wanted to interview him. But they’ve done that, and NO longer classify him as such.
Last week, police said they had several persons of interest in the case. Price says that now they have none.
Fawley was arraigned Monday on 16 counts of possession of child pornography and ordered held without bond. Police raided Fawley’s apartment last week and took several computers and C-s, according to a search warrant.
As also reported by NBC4 it could be a matter of semantics rather than anything else. No really really believes that Ben Fawley really isn’t a suspect in the disappearance of Taylor Behl do they?
However police spokeswoman Kirsten Nelson said it’s a matter of semantics. She said Fawley is still someone police are interested in and that he’s “still a part of this case.”
Police said Fawley was initially called a person of interest because they wanted to interview him.
However, unlike the comparable case of missing teen Natalee Holloway, Benjamin “Skulz” Fawley, is held in jail without bond on other charges. The noticeable difference from the well publicized Aruba case is that authorities have held “Skulz” on other charges while most are sure they will be questioning him on the disappearance of Taylor Behl. Maybe Aruban authorities could have done the same with other charges as well?
Bond denied for man who knows Behl. He is held on child-pornography charges; search for student goes on.
Benjamin “Skulz” Fawley, 38 — a “person of interest” in the Richmond Police Department’s criminal investigation into Behl’s disappearance — was denied bond after appearing in Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court on 16 counts of possession of child pornography.
Senior Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Mike Jagels said Fawley was in possession of sexually explicit movies depicting young children with adults when police search his home on Sept. 16.
Jagels told Judge Kimberly O’Donnell that there may be as many as 30 movie files discovered on computers confiscated from Fawley’s apartment, “some depicting acts with minors as young as 1 or 2 years old,” and others featuring “individuals 10 to 14 years old.”
However, The Richmond Times Dispatch does seem to continue to be referring to Ben Fawley as a “person of interest”.
The search for Taylor Marie Behl enters its fourth week today with a “person of interest” in the investigation into her disappearance in jail on unrelated charges and teams of police and family members growing increasingly concerned for her safety.
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September 27th, 2005 at 07:39pm
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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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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.”
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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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Endangered person alert also needed
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff recently announced the Endangered Person Advisory program, which can be used in the cases of missing persons – regardless of age – whose cases do not fall within the parameters of the Amber Alert program.
Such situations would include lost hikers, kidnapped adults, missing Alzheimer’s patients or anyone who has disappeared under suspicious circumstances.
The Endangered Persons Alert will have some differences from the Amber Alert Program:
The new program will be a scaled-down version of the Amber Alert system in that it will not call for emergency broadcasts on television, radio and electronic signs on highways. However, when an Endangered Person Advisory goes into effect, law-enforcement agencies, businesses and the media will quickly receive a press release with information about the missing person and when they were last seen. Advisories also will be posted at state ports of entry, which could be an important factor in Southern Utah cases.
While it is vitally important that we protect vulnerable children who have been abducted, it is also important to involve the public in helping to find other missing persons.
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September 25th, 2005 at 02:04pm
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From The Times Reporter comes a rather interesting article on the greater difficulty of finding missing adults than children. As they state when an adults leaves they do not need to inform anyone and they can leave whenever they want, not the same with a child.
When a missing person is an adult, finding him is more difficult.
“Adults have the right to leave any time they want,” said Detective Lt. Orvis Campbell of the Tuscarawas County sheriff’s office.
“Typically, adults have the right to leave and not tell anybody anything.”
When a missing persons is reported generally the following occurs:
When someone reports a missing person, depending on the person’s age, the sheriff’s office does a number of things. The missing people are entered into a national database that all law enforcement agencies access. Campbell said juveniles often are taken out of the database within hours of being entered because they are at a friend’s or neighbor’s home.
After that, for missing people of all ages, deputies respond and always start by searching the residence, even if the people there have already done it.
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September 25th, 2005 at 01:54pm
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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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September 24th, 2005 at 04:00pm
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KTUL 8, Amber Alert Issued For Girl In Pontotoc County for 16 year old Caitlin Elizabeth Wooten is a white female, about 5’4″ and 125 pounds with shoulder-length, sandy brown 
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Ada – An Amber Alert has been issued for a 16-year-old girl who is believed to have been abducted at gunpoint from her high school in Ada. 16-year-old Caitlin Elizabeth Wooten is a white female, about 5’4″ and 125 pounds with shoulder-length, sandy brown hair. She was last seen at about three o’clock at Ada High School wearing shorts and an Ada High School cheer-leading uniform.
The suspect in this case is 47-year-old Jerry Don Savage. He is 5’11″ and 180 pounds. He has green eyes. He is also the ex-boyfriend of Caitlin Elizabeth Wooten’s mother. Savage had a protective order filed against him on August 30th.
The suspect in this case is 47-year-old Jerry Don Savage. He is 5’11″ and 180 pounds. He has green eyes. He is driving a blue or green, late model Toyota 
pickup truck with the partial license plate PRB-. He should be considered armed and dangerous. Witnesses say Wooten was seen getting into Savage’s green Dodge truck at gunpoint. That pickup was found near Ada, but neither Savage nor Wooten have been found. The blue or green Toyota pickup is a new vehicle description. 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.
Anyone with information on the whereabouts of either Caitlin Elizabeth Wooten or Jerry Savage are asked to call 911 immediately.
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September 24th, 2005 at 02:06am
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