Bloggers Monitor Ben Fawley's Life Behind Bars

After the Mathews County grand jury handed down its indictment of Fawley on the 17^th of January, some of the most interesting blog-based comments were made by blogger C.F. Kirk in his weblog, "5; One year's worth of observations from a hill overlooking America's fifth most dangerous city":

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"I have it from a reliable source, who has it from a reliable source, that Mr. Fawley has spent the better part of his jail time careening around the gen-pop cell like an organ grinder's monkey, trying as hard as he can to stay one nervous step ahead of his (...) new common-law husband, whose name is something effeminate and non-threatening, like Tina. Indeed. And when Ben isn't doing his best interpretation of Ned Beatty in Deliverance, he's planting the seeds of a Preppy Murder defense (...)

Ben Fawley

That case was not lost on our dear friend Mr. Fawley, who, during these many months in detention, has been "admitting" to fellow inmates that he killed Taylor Biehl (sic) in a moment of rough sex and that, in a state of panic, he transported her corpse to a shallow grave... These "admissions" are the seeds of a defense..."

Though the blogger was incorrect about Fawley's past criminal record (he stated that Fawley was a convicted pedophile — he is not), and likely indulging in dark satire with his depictions of Ben Fawley "careening" through the general population, he was correct about the 'Chambers' defense.

C.F. Kirk also mentioned in one of his initial entries another crime that rocked Richmond on the first day of 2006 — the murder of Bryan and Kathryn Harvey and their children, Stella, age 9, and Ruby, age 4, allegedly by Ricky Jovan Gray and his nephew, Ray Dandridge:

Harvey family from left: Kathryn, Bryan, Stella and Ruby

"I did not know the Harveys or any of their friends, but I identified with them immediately. I am an artist who works in Information Technology. My wife works with children, and we plan to make at least one of our own in the not too distant future. We live on Church Hill, on the East side of town, where we moved last July after being away for more than sixteen years. Our apartment is a couple of miles form the Harvey home. We've shopped houses in that neighborhood. It's a nice enough neighborhood, as neighborhoods go in America's fifth most dangerous city, but something tells me that this terrible first murder of 2006 had nothing at all to do with metropolitan geography."

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