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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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Father asks for help in finding kidnapped son, Erik Buran, as warrants issued for kidnapping.
A Reno father is asking for the public’s help in finding his 4-year-old son 
believed abducted by his mother in April. Lyon County issued a warrant June 27 charging Karen O’Grady, 49, with felony kidnapping in the abduction of her son, Erik Buran, on April 25. According to father, Robert Buran, he and his ex-wife have shared joint custody of Erik since their divorce in 2001. Buran had Erik three days a week, and O’Grady had him four days. Just before the abduction, Buran had filed for sole custody of his son and had lodged a complaint with Child Protective Services alleging O’Grady’s boyfriend physically abused Erik. Since then, a Reno judge awarded Buran sole custody.
Erik is listed as missing by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Nevada Child Seekers, Child Find of America and the Vanished Children’s Alliance.
Texas Missing Persons Clearinghouse Online Bulletin -Poster
• Erik Buran is 4 years old, 3 feet, 6 inches tall, with bluish-grey eyes and sandy blonde hair.
• Karen O’Grady is 49 years old, 5 feet 4 inches tall, with blue eyes and brown hair. She also uses the last names of Akers, Buran and Ligon.
• Anyone with information about their whereabouts or about a motor home O’Grady or her companion purchased just before they disappeared is asked to call the Lyon County Sheriff’s Department at 577-5096.
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Project Jason: Voice for the Missing has an amazing piece on Erik Buran and has been following the story since the beginning. They bring up a rather perplexing issue when it comes to Amber Alerts, although it seems that rules were bent when it came to missing teen, VCU freshman, Taylor Behl. It would seem to me that when it came to the safety of a child no rule is beyond breaking. Why no Amber Alert issued is sad. This program was set up to alert people and help find children, not create frustrating road blocks.
I want to remind you of the post I made on September 16th, entitled “Rules Meant to be Broken?”. This post outlined the State of Virgina’s Amber Alert criteria, admittedly broken for Taylor Behl. As of news stories today, police still state they have no evidence of foul play in her case. The State never responded to my letter, which asked how they were able to do this for Taylor. In Nevada, Robert Buran has been told that Erik does not meet their criteria because it is a case that involves parental abduction. Robert tells me that his research shows that since the Amber Alert began in Nevada in July of 2003, 15 Amber Alerts have been issued. 9 of those 15 were cases of parental abductions, with one being issued by the jurisdiction that tells Robert “no”.
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September 28th, 2005 at 01:29am
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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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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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According to 8News there is another missing persons case in Richmond, VA that involved a 17 year old missing teenager. So it appears that Taylor Behl is not the only missing teenager in Richmond. Her name is Monica Rose Sharp.
Richmond Police are now working a second missing person case involving a teenage girl. Police tell 8News Monica Rose Sharp disappeared Sunday.
Poster with the 17-year-old’s picture are plastered in the city’s Museum District where she was last seen walking her dog. The dog came home, Monica did not.
If you have any information, you are asked to call Richmond Police.
As per the Richmond Times Dispatch, Monica Rose Sharp as been missing since Sunday morning. She is 5-foot-2-inch, 210-pound.
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.
Police were quick to make the following comment with Monica’s case as compared to the other much publicized Richmond missing teen, Taylor Behl.
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.
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call police at 646-0400 or 355-3059.
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September 23rd, 2005 at 07:02pm
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According to NBC4, Richmond police arrested 38-year-old Ben Fawley Friday, the “friend” of 17-year-old missing Taylor Behl.
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.
UPDATE: 10WAVY:
Richmond police spokeswoman Cynthia Price says the charges against amateur photographer Ben Fawley are –quote–”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 D-N-A.
People with information about Behl’s whereabouts are asked to call 8-7-7-2-4-4-H-E-L-P.
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According to The Richmond Times, the university that Taylor Behl is attending, Virginia Commonwealth University, has offered a $20,000 reward in the Taylor Behl investigation.
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.”
Taylor Behl’s family is also offering a $11,000 reward for information and the return of Taylor as well.
People with information about Behl’s whereabouts are asked to call 8-7-7-2-4-4-H-E-L-P.
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September 23rd, 2005 at 05:09pm
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As the investigation inti the the missing VCU freshman Taylor Behl continues, her mother, Janet Pelasara, said Wednesday that the time had come to remove Taylor’s belongings from the Virginia Commonwealth University dorm. Janet Pelasara went on to say, “it was time because when Taylor is found, she will not be attending VCU. I’m taking her home with me.”
RICHMOND, Sept. 21 — Police are still searching for missing college student Taylor Marie Behl, but her mother said Wednesday that the time had come to remove her belongings from the Virginia Commonwealth University dorm where she lived for just two weeks.
“It was just what we had to do,” said Janet Pelasara, who stayed behind at her hotel here while her brother and attorney packed her daughter’s things. “It was time because when Taylor is found, she will not be attending VCU. I’m taking her home with me.”
Students eyed Peterson and Behl’s uncle, Jeff Pelasara, as they stacked the boxes and bags into the vehicle. A scruffy teddy bear was carefully set on the dashboard.
It appears that another missing girls family seems to be disappointed in the actions of the authorities. As in the case of the Natalee Holloway initial investigation, it appears that Taylor Behl’s family is none too happy with the Campus security holding on the the case so long.
Pelasara said the family is disappointed that campus police officials “held onto the case until it was beyond their capabilities.” City police assumed the lead role in the investigation Sept. 15.
“She has not been found, but it’s not because of a lack of a effort,” said Ann Buckley, a spokeswoman for campus police.
Behl was last seen about 10 p.m. Sept. 5 after a late-night dinner at a cafà � near her dorm. She left her dorm room after she found her roommate there with a boyfriend.
People with information about Behl’s whereabouts are asked to call 8-7-7-2-4-4-H-E-L-P.
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September 22nd, 2005 at 10:40pm
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