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By Steve Huff
Richmond, Va. (Crime Library) — Continued
Fawley wove fact into his fiction, perhaps, if nothing else, to make his story easier to remember. On October 12, 2005, he told what he said was the real story to Richmond Police. Taylor Behl's body had been found in a ravine in Mathews County, Virginia by then, forensic testing and an autopsy completed. Taylor was found wrapped in plastic, in a ravine, off a dirt road. For a month, the young woman's body had lain there as summer slid into fall, not all that far from Erin Crabill's family home. A place Erin had once taken Ben Fawley. There he'd taken many photographs, images of rusted tin roofs, green-canopied dirt roads curving off into shadowy woods. Fawley posted those photos on the same deviantart.com site where he re-told his abduction story on September 8. Ben's supposed real story of that night took him and Taylor Behl to a beach in Mathews, where he said they had sex in her white Ford Escort. During what was perhaps an act of bondage, perhaps erotic asphyxia, Taylor Behl died.
Ben Fawley said Taylor Behl's death was an accidenYet less than 12 hours after he may have been seen, alone, gassing up Taylor's Escort at R & B's Convenience Store in West Point, VA nearly 30 miles east of Richmond, Ben Fawley was filing the police report about his robbery and abduction. He had already salted his tale with key details that linked it to the real events — should his shoes be examined and soil samples found that matched a remote dirt road in Mathews County, he had an excuse. Should Taylor Behl be found wrapped in plastic, as she was, Ben Fawley could say, "see, they went after me, too."
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