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By Steve Huff
Richmond, VA (Crime Library) —Early in the morning on September 6, 2005, around 5 a.m., Ben W. Fawley was out and about on the streets of Richmond, Virginia. The 38-year-old amateur photographer and ex-con was on his way to take some photos... somewhere.
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Suddenly, something scary and strange happened. From the police report filed by Ben Fawley later that day:
I was heading up to Monument to take photos when 3 to 4 guys jumped me. They got a trash bag over my head before I could see them. Tossed me into a car and dumped me out on some dirt road. I wasn't hurt much, just from where that sat on me. As they never said a word I am sure this was not just a robbery. My one camera and tripod is missing along with the $20.00 I had tucked in the camera. I didn't have my wallet, but I did have my bank card and that wasn't taken...
A couple of days later, in the journal section of Ben Fawley's deviantart.com site, kept under the screen name "Skulz," he told the same story, with some additional editorial opinions added in:
A year ago friends of an ex-girlfriend came into my apartment and attacked me. One left stabbed with his own knife (...) Now while I was out taking photos I think she had me jumped.
I was out very early, not sure of the time but the sun hadn't been up long. I was heading up to Monument to take photos when 3 to 4 guys jumped me. They got a trash bag over my head before I could see them. Tossed me into a car and dumped me out on some dirt road. I wasn't hurt much, just from where that sat on me. As they never said a word I am sure this was not just a robbery. My one camera and tripod is missing along with the $20.00 I had tucked in the camera. I didn't have my wallet, but I did have my bank card and that wasn't taken.
I am sure it was someone who was looking to get a message across. The only person who is giving me trouble is Erin (Crabill) & friends, so I am sure this is another gift from her (...) Gee what a nice girl. I would just leave town, but the day before I was to head to Philly she made sure I couldn't go. Friday thanks to her I now face more problems keeping me here in this suck-ass town. I have a way out of town. Why must this psycho keep harassing me, why can't she just let me alone so I can go back to my kids?
The second paragraph in Fawley's journal entry was virtually a cut-and-paste from the police report. Ben Fawley had two days to think about things, and in the entry — since locked or deleted from public view due to the ongoing investigation into the September 5, 2005 disappearance of Taylor Behl — Fawley carefully bracketed a direct quote from the report he had filed with police with statements that would seem to directly implicate his ex-girlfriend, Erin Crabill, in his alleged abduction and robbery.
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