By  Seamus McGraw   

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Behl, a 17-year-old freshman at the university in Richmond vanished Sept. 6, just days after beginning the fall semester. After a month-long search that garnered national attention, her body was found on a farm linked to Fawley in rural Mathews County. Authorities had in part used pictures Fawley had posted on the Internet to help identify the location of the body.

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In October, the 38-year-old Fawley, whose personal life played out largely on the Internet, admitted that he had played a role in the young woman's death but insisted that she had suffocated by accident during rough sex.

And defense attorneys are hoping to mine that Internet trove to help support Fawley's version of the events leading to Behl's death.

"The facts of this case are inextricably immersed in the tangled web of the Internet," Johnson told the court last week in his argument to retain the computer expert.

It was not immediately clear when the two experts were expected to begin work.

The next scheduled hearing in the case is March 22, and the trial, which is expected to last two weeks and could involve as many as 30 witnesses, is slated to begin in May.

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