Detectives investigating 17-year-old Taylor Behl's disappearance from Virginia Commonwealth University are now focusing on Mathews County, Virginia, where remains have been found in a shallow grave. Investigators do not know for certain if the remains are those of Taylor.

Police say their investigation included several searches, and in one of those searches, some pictures were seized. One of those pictures was of the general area where the human remains were found. Police say one of the witnesses they spoke to recognized the area in the photograph. That photograph was reportedly found in a search of photographer Benjamin Fawley's studio, though no charges related to Behl have been filed yet. 

Behl's friends said they have been doing their own searches, using the internet.

Those efforts turned up a Web page entitled, "Deviant Art," which contains pictures from 38-year-old Fawley. On the web page are photos of a farmhouse that is approximately the same age and architectural style as the building on the property where the remains were found. According to reports one picture contains the caption, "I saw this on May 15 with someone special."

The Fawley Factor

Police had arrested Fawley on Friday, September 26 on unrelated charges.  According to a search warrant police seized seven computers, along with several boxes of CD's and some hard drives from Fawley's home.  Fawley has been charged with 16 counts of child pornography.

Just days after Fawley's arrest the Richmond Police Department asked the public for help providing additional information regarding a Virginia personalized license plate "GRN ERTH."  They said that this license plate was stolen around the time Taylor disappeared from her dorm room.

On Saturday, September 17, 2005 Taylor's car was found a mile and a half from where she was last seen.

Police Chief Rodney Monroe told Richmond media an off-duty police officer found Taylor's car while he was out walking his dog. Police say the car's Virginia license plate had been replaced with plates from Ohio.   Fawley, a self proclaimed license plate collector, admits to having seen Taylor the night she disappeared.

Cops say their police dog did pick up Behl's scent inside the car.  The other scent produced what police chief Rodney Monroe described as a "successful track," which produced several leads that investigators were aggressively pursuing. Monroe would not say what the dog discovered or where its nose led investigators.

"It just doesn't make sense."  That is what Janet Pelasara has said of her daughter's disappearance.  Taylor disappeared on Monday, September 5, 2005. She was just two weeks into her freshman year at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.  

Taylor had just spent Labor Day weekend with her family in Vienna, Virginia. Police say she drove back to campus that Monday evening and had dinner at a local cafe.

She returned to her campus dorm room and found her roommate in their room with a boyfriend.  So police say she told her she would leave for a while to give them privacy.  Taylor left and never returned.  According to cops Taylor told her roommate that she was going skateboarding with three men.  Police interviewed those three men and say that they failed lie detector tests.

On Thursday, September 15, 2005 the Richmond Police Department issued an AMBER Alert.  They announced that they would no longer be treating this case as a missing person's case but as a criminal investigation. 

Taylor was last seen wearing jeans and a hooded black sweatshirt.  She is 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs 135 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.  Authorities say she took only her keys and a credit card.