Taylor Behl & Myspace

PM_Mama00 · #1 10-09-2005, 04:33 PM

I just got this bulletin on myspace. This is really really sad and just shows that you HAVE to be careful of who you meet online. Anyone one of us could be a total fake (and I don't mean like that one crazy chick). You never know.

GIRL MURDERED by man she first met up online on MYSPACE !!!

Taylor Behl,a student from Virginia, has been found murdered. Her body turned up yesterday in a shallow grave and was confirmed to be that of Taylor Behl.The prime suspect, Ben Fawley claims to be an amateur photographer and is being held by authorities. She has a MySpace page and to see the comments from people while she was missing right up to finding the body is pretty sad and intense.Keep in mind that there are over 30 million people on this network so the odds are pretty good that you'll interact with some psychos and possibly some predators along the way(male or female). Just be careful and use common sense especially if you are female. I know 1st hand the amount of e-mails that women get every single day, half from guys posing as amateur photographers.
The romantic relationship between Taylor and Ben started online on Myspace.
Check out her My Space profile, which is still up and all the comments her friends have been leaving her from the day she disappeared up until today.

www.myspace.com/doowop

Here is the story on the News:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,171446,00.html
http://www.crimelibrary.com/criminal...or_behl/3.html

BE SAFE .

please repost !!!

copacabana · #2 10-09-2005, 06:38 PM

How sad.
Yeah some people on there are definitely creepy. I know that I've gotten a few of those "amateur photographer" messages before...but they went the way of the circular file.

lagirl33 · #3 10-09-2005, 06:47 PM

It's one of those things where it's important to realize that people may not be who they seem. It's so sad to read the comments.

One of my brother's friends died in a motorcross accident during the summer (she was only 16). I was almost in tears reading all of the messages left by her friends.

A similar thing happened on facebook with regards to the messages when a girl in my dorm commited suicide last year.

#4 10-09-2005, 06:55 PM

What happened to her was horrible, and I hope the man responsible for it gets served justice.

BUT -- let us remember that Taylor made the ill-fated choice to go meet him. I have a few friends who meet people off MySpace and then IRL.

Look out for yourselves and your friends, kids.

texas*princess · #5 10-09-2005, 07:12 PM

Yea sites like these are definitely creepy in the sense that you don't always know who is out there.

I use myspace, facebook, etc. but I only "friend" people that I have actually known longer than 5 minutes. I may not have 355426863 people on my friends page, but I know who they are

When thefacebook.com first got launched, I didn't find it until after I had graduated. I thought the idea was really neat in the way that you could search and find people in your classes andmeet people that way, but it also freaked me out that my entire school schedule would be online for all of the world to see which is disturbing in a way.

Intense1920 · #6 10-09-2005, 07:12 PM

Wow! That is crazy!

KSigkid · #7 10-09-2005, 07:13 PM

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Originally posted by OTW
What happened to her was horrible, and I hope the man responsible for it gets served justice.

BUT -- let us remember that Taylor made the ill-fated choice to go meet him. I have a few friends who meet people off MySpace and then IRL.

Look out for yourselves and your friends, kids.

This is why I'm often surprised at how much personal info people put out on the internet. Things like this will happen if people aren't careful.

It's a sad story and hopefully will end up as a wake-up call to others.

UofISigKap · #8 10-09-2005, 07:15 PM

My youngest brother's ex-girlfriend was, and maybe still is, meeting guys on myspace. The idea just scares me because there are lots of crazies out there waiting to prey on trusting people. She has this thought of invincibility. (Needless to say, myspace was actually a key reason why they broke up.)

lagirl33 · #9 10-09-2005, 07:29 PM

I was very happy that I was able to convince my little sister (she's only 14!) as well as a few of her friends to get rid of their myspace profiles. It's really dangerous! A lot of times people don't intend to broadcast personal information, but they don't realize that it's not that hard to piece together chains of messages, find names, posted phone numbers, etc.

A colleague of my mother went through a lot of frustration when her son was being stalked by a cult (he had his phone number posted on his facebook). I know too many people who post their numbers, home/school addresses, etc. without any regard to who may be viewing their profiles.

KatieKate1244 · #10 10-09-2005, 07:45 PM

This reminds me of a boy who commited suicide last year in my hometown. He posted his suicide note on Xanga, then went and shot himself. I didn't know him (my friend did, though) but I cried as I read all the messages left to him on Xanga, ecspecially those left by his parents.

And then some a**hole left a message that said he was going to hell for commiting suicide.

honeychile · #11 10-09-2005, 09:37 PM

Taylor's murder was one of the featured stories on Dateline tonight. She also had a Live Journal account, fwiw.

The man who's in custody as a "person of interest" is 38 - a full 21 years older than Taylor. He was one of the few people she knew in Richmond.

James · #12 10-10-2005, 03:44 AM

I got the impression she knew about him from their relationship?

His age and salient details, she just didn't know he was going to kill her, assuming he did.

I am not sure what she may have done wrong here, but I admit to not knowing alot of the details.

wrigley · #13 10-10-2005, 01:02 PM

I only caught the tail end of the Dateline story. From the links that PM_Mama posted,it turns out that the alleged killer had a livejournal account too.

honeychile · #14 10-10-2005, 01:10 PM

I don't know about myspace, but her LiveJournal name is jailbait spelled backwards: taibliaj. Her alleged killer's is Skulz something.