Meet Taylor Behl, a 17-year-old freshman at Virginia Commonwealth University. She’s young, pretty, white and missing — ingredients that make her newsworthy in today’s 24/7 news culture.
Taylor’s case has all the ingredients for the sensationalist side of news: She disappeared without a trace, she has a “dark side” to her life that shows sign of rebellion once landing in college and she’s involved with a photographer who likes to take suggestive pictures for young girls and post them on “teen model” web sites.
The photographer, Ben Fawley of Richmond, has a criminal record and admits seeing Behl on the night she died.