A Judge has placed a Gag Order on witnesses in Behl case according to the Washington Post. This would prohibit any witnesses from publicly discussing their testimony in front of the grand jury that is investigating the death of Taylor Behl.
A Richmond judge has signed a gag order that bars witnesses from publicly discussing any testimony they give to a special grand jury investigating the death of college student Taylor Marie Behl, officials said yesterday. The order was signed Monday by the judge presiding over the multi-jurisdictional grand jury, which is expected to convene again this morning in Richmond Circuit Court.
Grand jury witnesses are generally allowed to discuss their testimony if they wish to. Police chief, Rodney D. Monroe, requested the a gag order after he became concerned when information about the police investigation was leaked to the media last week, ‘Police Told Death an Accident, Lawyer Says’.
Benjamin Fawley is reported to have told police that Taylor Behl died accidentally while they were having a sexual encounter, according to an attorney representing Behl’s mother.
Taylor Behl’s mother Janet Pelasara was quick to respond to such statements. “Let’s be clear — Ben Fawley murdered my daughter,” Janet Pelasara said during a hastily arranged news conference outside her attorney’s McLean office. “His claim that it was accidental is just one more perversion of the truth in his ever-changing web of lies.”
Fawley told investigators that he had consensual sex with Behl in her car parked near a beach in rural Mathews County, Va., the night of Sept. 5 and that he accidentally choked her. Fawley panicked after Behl died and dumped her body in a ravine.
Pelasara called Fawley “a big, fat liar” and said she was speaking for the 17-year-old daughter she buried Friday. The notion that Behl and Fawley were lovers is wrong, Pelasara said. Behl had sex with Fawley once in April and decided she did not want an intimate relationship with him, her mother said. "She did it once out of curiosity and then didn't want anything to do with him," according to Pelasara, who said she learned about her daughter's April encounter with Fawley through conversations with Behl's closest friends.
“He had a dark side, and Taylor wasn’t a dark side kind of girl.” “It is apparent that my daughter died a violent and unspeakable death at the hands of Ben Fawley that night and was not a willing participant."
“He had a dark side, and Taylor wasn’t a dark side kind of girl.” “It is apparent that my daughter died a violent and unspeakable death at the hands of Ben Fawley that night and was not a willing participant."
Fawley has a history of violence toward girlfriends. He has a very significant past, and has a violent nature. He choked previous girlfriends. Fawley is in jail on unrelated firearms and child pornography charges.
Behl disappeared on Labor Day, two weeks after starting at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Her body was discovered nearly two weeks ago in Mathews County, about 90 miles from the college. An autopsy has been performed, but the cause of her death has not been determined.
About 400 people, many of them Behl's childhood friends but some strangers who had been following the news coverage, packed a Vienna church for her funeral Friday.
How long do autopsy results take in Virginia? How can they not know the cause of death by now?
About 400 people, many of them Behl's childhood friends but some strangers who had been following the news coverage, packed a Vienna church for her funeral Friday.
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