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By Marilyn Bardsley
Richmond, VA (Crime Library) — For weeks, Ben W. Fawley has been sitting in isolation in a Richmond jail on child pornography and firearms charges while the evidence trickles in tying him to the death of Taylor Behl. Jim Nolan of the Times-Dispatch learned that Fawley spent nearly two hours Wednesday night giving a statement to police against the advice of his attorney, Chris Collins.
"He made a statement," Collins told Nolan in a phone interview. "He has been wanting to talk to the police. He was pretty frantic yesterday [Wednesday] to talk to the police. I advised him not to talk, and he didn't take my advice."
Collins would not divulge what Fawley told police and the police refused to confirm or deny that Fawley gave them a statement.
Fawley is the chief suspect in Taylor's death. He was one of the last people to see her alive and then claimed he was abducted and robbed several hours after she was last seen. Taylor's body was found on a farm in Mathews County where Fawley used to go with his ex-girlfriend. Recently it has come to light that Fawley used a credit card the night she disappeared at a store located between Richmond and Mathews County. WRIC TV 8 reported that a gas station attendant at the same store in New Kent County remembers seeing Ben Fawley in a car fitting the description of Taylor's 1997 white Ford Escort. Taylor's car disappeared at the same time that she went missing. Soil samples taken from the undercarriage of Taylor's car match soil samples from the area in which Taylor's remains were found. When the car was found, it was bearing Ohio license plates that had been stolen weeks before from a car in Richmond.
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