BONES FOUND: IS IT TAYLOR BEHL?

Investigators Find Body in VA Woods; Feared to be Taylor Behl

Investigators in the Taylor Behl disappearance today found a body in a heavily wooded area discovered the body buried on private property in Mathews County, about 75 miles east of Richmond.

Although investigators refused to say whether they believe they had found Taylor Marie Behl, many have speculated from the information provided that it is.

According to The Washington Post, police task force investigating the disappearance of Taylor Marie Behl found a decomposed body in a shallow grave yesterday and were trying to identify the remains last night, police said.

The investigators were led to the grave, in coastal Mathews County about 80 miles east of Richmond, through “credible” information collected in interviews with Behl’s friends and acquaintances, a source close to the investigation said.

Clothing was also found in the rural area, a place Behl was known to have visited, the source said. This week, we’ve been going to various locations that we’ve known her to frequent,” said Richmond Police Chief Rodney D. Monroe. “Those locations were based on where people told us she had gone and photographs we’ve seen her in. Outstanding investigative work led us there.”



The grave was located behind a barn on an isolated piece of private property, police said. Photographs of the area that were captured by hovering news helicopters showed several acres of greenery, with several white buildings bordered by clusters of large trees.

The discovery came the same day that a multi-jurisdictional grand jury convened in Richmond Circuit Court to hear evidence in Behl’s case. The special jury is composed of about a dozen residents drawn from regular jury pools in Richmond and its surrounding areas, according tothe Web site for Henrico County, adjacent to Richmond.