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Ben essentially told a variation on his victim's story as his own in an attempt to forge an alibi.

In the process, it would appear from his deviantart.com journal entry that Fawley felt he could kill two birds with one stone. Or, more appropriately, two ex-girlfriends — Behl and Crabill.

Ben Fawley's full story was, perhaps, carefully crafted by the time he reported this fictional attack to authorities in Richmond. He designed a tale that would cover as many future questions as he could possibly anticipate.

Taylor Behl was already dead. By September 8, 2005, Ben Fawley was the only person in the country who knew this, and his drawing of the name of Erin Crabill into the story told in his journal entry, in retrospect, seems to have an undertone of glee.

After all, he'd been diligently stalking Erin Crabill since their breakup, at each turn reversing his harassment of her so that Fawley was always the victim. Ben Fawley was failing by early August in his hunt for Erin. He'd gone as far as to register to attend a convention Erin was visiting in Florida. When Erin Crabill learned this, she alerted the organizers of the event and Ben Fawley was barred. Around the same time, he posted two virtually identical weblogs on the internet, containing nothing but painstakingly detailed stories of how Erin had betrayed him.

Taylor Behl, in the meantime, was no longer posting in her Livejournal, perhaps significantly ceasing to do so just a week after she'd visited Ben Fawley in Richmond, in April of 2005. It is not yet known if Taylor had made it clear to Ben Fawley that she might no longer be interested in any kind of relationship with him, but her mother, Janet Pelasara, clearly believes her daughter had no interest in a relationship with Ben Fawley by the time she entered VCU in August, 2005.

In his many stories of his romantic woes, posted in more than one weblog, Ben Fawley rarely if ever painted himself as anything but a victim of the women for whom he had once cared. To hear Fawley tell it, he had a bizarre knack for hooking up with women who were "psycho," perhaps even "sluts," and who often had a ready cadre of goons at their beck and call once they decided their time with Ben was at an end. Now, it is hard to not review his stories and wonder if he had a consistent game plan and approach each time — where the moment he felt as if the woman he had perhaps idealized, photographed, fawned over, turned on him and became, to him, less than human, he began a campaign of righteous revenge.

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