Posted on 09/13/2005 10:37:55 AM PDT by 11th_VA
RICHMOND, Va. -- One week after she walked out of her dorm room to give her roommate privacy with a boyfriend, a 17-year-old college student remains missing--and increasingly anxious authorities have called in the FBI for help.
Virginia Commonwealth University freshman Taylor Behl hasn't been heard from since she hastily departed her room last Monday night with her car keys and a credit card.
Her roommate reported her missing to campus police around 1:30 a.m. Wednesday.
There has been no activity on her credit cards or bank accounts since Monday, police said. Calls to her cell phone ring through, indicating the phone is on and the battery charged seven days after she vanished. Her phone charger has not been found and no calls have been placed from her phone since Monday.
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Police say Behl spent Labor Day weekend with her family at her northern Virginia home in Vienna. She drove back to campus on Monday, had dinner at a local cafe and returned to her dorm room around 10:20 p.m.
When she arrived, Fuller said, she found her roommate "entertaining" a boyfriend, and told them she was going to "get lost for a little while" to give them some privacy.
She has not been heard from since. ...
With a population of around 200,000, Richmond is traditionally ranked as one of nation's most dangerous cities. Richmond had the country's fourth highest murder rate in 2003 and was ranked the nation's ninth most dangerous city overall in 2004--beating out Miami and Compton, Calif.
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She looks like Mary Lou Retton.
She is probably toast. Having 2 daughters it just tears me up how vulnerable girls are.
That is so creepy. There's no trace of any of these girls?
The phone is in two-way contact with the nearest tower(s). That's how calls find you no matter where you are.
By finding which towers it's "talking" to, and by reading relative signal strength, authorities can get a fix to within a few blocks of the phone's location. It must be on, though, and have enough juice to maintain the automatic "conversation".
Nothing yet. Scary, eh?
Her picture is on an older man's website. I heard her mom last night on Greta's show and I think that they might suspect that he knows something, but they're not sure. The poice--and the mom--have spoken with him. He's in his late 30s and apparently likes the co-eds there. It was hard getting a coherent story out of the mom. Very sad.
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