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By Jamie Stockwell Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 17, 2006; 3:09 PM A Richmond man who told authorities that college freshman Taylor Behl accidentally died during a sexual encounter with him was indicted today in Mathews County, Va., on a murder charge, officials said. County prosecutors said Benjamin Fawley, 38, was indicted on one count of first-degree murder in the slaying of 17-year-old Behl, whose body was found partially buried in a shallow ravine in the rural county Oct. 5.

Benjamin Fawley, a suspect in the death of Taylor Marie Behl, told police that the Vienna teenager died accidentally while they were having a sexual encounter, an attorney representing Behl's mother said yesterday. Her grieving mother disputed the account. "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...

Amateur photographer Ben Fawley has admitted to being with Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Marie Behl when she died, but he says her death was accidental, according to a jailhouse statement he has given to police.

The family of VCU freshman Taylor Behl has scheduled her funeral, now that her remains have been released from the medical examiner. Viewing will be Thursday from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. at Money and King Vienna Funeral Home in Vienna. Services will be Friday at 11:00 a.m. at The Church of the Holy Comforter in Vienna. The 17-year-old's remains were discovered in a shallow gave in rural Mathews County last Wednesday. Police say they were led to the location after examining a photograph found on Ben Fawley's Web site. Fawley, 38, of Richmond,...

Richmond Police yesterday arrested an amateur photographer - one of the last people to see Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Behl before she vanished Sept. 5 - and charged him with 16 counts of possession of child pornography. Ben Fawley, 38, was arrested about 3 p.m. just as a phalanx of armed and armored police officers converged on his doorstep in the 400 block of Hancock Street. "Open the door, Ben," ordered a detective, who was filmed making the arrest by a local TV crew. Moments later, the bespectacled Fawley exited in a black T-shirt. Police said his long, dyed...

A 38-year-old amateur photographer -- one of the last people to see missing Virginia Commonwealth University student Taylor Behl -- filed a report with police claiming he had been abducted and robbed just hours after Behl was last seen on the night of Sept. 5. The photographer told Richmond police that he was walking in an alley near Franklin Street and Monument Avenue at 5 a.m. Sept. 6 when he was "robbed by an unknown number of people," according to a Richmond Police Department incident report obtained last night by The Times-Dispatch. The photographer told police that he was hit...