Taylor's Mom Says She Stared at Fawley and Felt "Absolutely Nothing"

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Pelasara, who has long maintained that Fawley intentionally killed Behl because he was angry over her efforts to terminate their brief relationship, said she felt numb as she sat in the courtroom, glaring for the first time at the man accused of the first-degree murder of her daughter. "I felt absolutely nothing, nothing, nothing, " she said.

Prosecutors also offered no comment on the case. A gag order, imposed last fall after reports surfaced that Fawley had made comments implicating himself in Behl's death, remains in place.

Fawley, who is now being held without bail on the murder charge, reportedly told authorities that the young woman died accidentally during rough sex soon after the fall term at VCU began. A month later, her badly decomposed remains were found on a farm linked to Fawley in this rural eastern Virginia community.

Because authorities believe the crime was committed in Mathews County, Fawley is being prosecuted here. Last week, a grand jury alleged that he had committed the murder intentionally "during the commission of, or attempt to commit forcible rape, sodomy or abduction."

If convicted, Fawley faces life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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