Taylor Behl /// Part 2 /// 397 | Forensic Files

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investigators knew that Taylor and Ben folley had a past and continue to talk online and possibly even see each
other but the more troubling thing here Captain is Ben Foley online claims to be
an ex-con which absolutely turns out to be true so what did this uh doucheburger
do well he had some charges for assault and breaking and entering and I think it
goes even beyond that one thing that I find extra troubling here is statements we have from some of her
friends that say that Taylor had gotten into this habit of parking her car on Ben
Folly Street on the street that he lived on because there were no parking meters
there for her to worry about so what I'm getting at here with this Captain is we have this situation where
there seems to be some kind of friendship between the two it looks to me like Ben folley thinks
that it is the Friendship is one thing that it is not and then we also have the situation of
he he's got a violent past A History of Violence and he also probably could know when
she's coming and going because he could visually see her vehicle parked on his Street
well yeah and and again the ruse of I'll I'll take some photos for you and and we
know that he's involved in these odd pornographic sites well and regardless of whatever their
relationship was or their friendship I should say friendship because relationship makes it sound like
something that it was not regardless of what their friendship was the the thing is her friends that knew
about Folly all really say hey I think that she was starting to realize that Ben folley was more screwed up than she
really wanted to deal with [Music] but again it appears that they may still have been hanging out now when
questioned by police about this friendship with Taylor Ben Farley said that he had no idea where she was and he
was worried about her he said the last time he saw her was around 9 30 p.m on that Monday night when she left his
apartment after they he said after they hooked up police didn't believe him in fact they named him as one of several
Persons of Interest in the case on October 3rd but the problem was Ben Folly maintained
that he had an alibi but before Taylor had even been reported missing Ben folley went to the police
station and filed a report alleging that he had been assaulted on the street by several guys the time frame that he
cited for the attack was around 5 a.m on September 6th this occurred in an alley
near Franklin Street and Monument Avenue Folly alleged that he was hit with an unknown object in a bag placed over his
head and then he was thrown in a car and driven around by several men before being released on a dirt road and he had
to hitch a ride home do we have evidence of this do we have the person that he hitched a ride from
saying you know cooperating the story do we have any markings on his individual well so police looked carefully at this
claim trying to determine like you said Captain whether this was true or not the problem is if it is true then it
seems very likely that Folly could not have been responsible for abducting Taylor
Folly filed this report around 4 pm on Tuesday he made vague references to the attack likely being a result of a
long-running altercation with with an X or another photographer over writes to some photographs which all seems a
little loosey-goosey to me well you know those photographers they like to they're
a bad Bunch they they have they have a gang of people and they're going to abduct you and place a bag over your
head and hit you with objects the police officer whose name appears on the incident report did note that Folly
admitted that he was extremely he says he was extremely intoxicated when the alleged attack took
place he also said that he took medication for bipolar disorder now yeah okay when let's dive into that real
quick because most of the the medication that you would be on for bipolar are not things that you would one want
to drink on but they could also cause you death if you do drink on those medications
again though you are a level-headed individual who makes good decisions we once again find ourselves discussing a
guy who does not make good decisions I would be taking this uh report as the officer and when I would say officer's
name I'd put silly goose so the thing that I have trouble with here I don't know really why
this would be considered any type of alibi because Folly says that he last Saw Taylor if we are to believe him at 9 30
pm and then maintain that the attack happened at 5am right hours hours later seems to me like
you had plenty of time to abduct or kill or do whatever during that that time frame well and we have
footage of her leaving her dorm but they're going to find footage of him outside her dorm room
yeah so but again he's not denying that they hung out that night well and the thing is I think what we
have here is really kind of a front a bit of a tactic by police we saw how smart they were with the vehicle
situation right surveillance of the vehicle yeah I think they thought hey this Ben folly
he's pretty dumb he's pretty stupid we we had a meeting all right all of us investigators and police officers we got
together and we took a vote and we decided this guy's a real idiot so here's how the meeting went hey uh raise
your hand if you think this guy's a dumbass and there's like 19 hands went up and then one guy was just kind of
sitting there playing on his phone he for he wasn't paying attention no one guy was one guy was like but I really
like his van right you know when I saw it on the news it's pretty cool um so I think they all kind of agree
this guy's an idiot and they're like publicly let's go out and say hey we we understand he's somebody that
we're interested in we understand that there was some kind of friendship going on but we have to clear we have to
figure this whole he was allegedly attacked situation out we have to figure out if he actually has
an alibi or not make him think that you're kind of falling for it right and see if he does
something dumb because this guy has nothing but a history of 30 some years of doing dumb things so
it he may he may give you whatever you need he may give you that Smoking Gun so you can figure out what he has actually
been up to because even though we have them on record saying that I don't believe that they were falling
for anything that he was saying and I also like you said where's the evidence of this do where's the person that gave
you the ride home yeah I'm trying to see where you're going with this because in my timeline I
know what cops do next but I'm wondering if I'm missing something well I really think that it was just a
to me it looks just like a front that they were putting on at the time I think behind closed doors they didn't think
anything of this alleged attack other than it was a false Alibi that it was something that he created to explain
away a big window of time that he needs to be accounted for well it seems like our thoughts about
their investigation Captain are correct I mean they seem to be suspicious of folly and this did not come out until
later but what we do know took place is that police did review that security camera surveillance footage
from Taylor's dorm on the last night that she was seen and as said she is seen entering the building around 10 20
p.m she walks through the lobby to the doors on the right hand side of the frame presumably to head up to her room
but someone else then enters the lobby at 10 21 and paces around for a few minutes clearly waiting for someone and
who is this person boner sniffer so his statement of hey I last saw her in the nine o'clock hour
can't be true you followed her in we have video surveillance footage of you following
her into the lobby of her residence at 10 20 in the 10 o'clock hour right and then she's going to come back
out to hang out with them so again we know he's lying about the time frame or just misremembering but
it's almost like he knew that he was caught on tape so he has to admit that he was hanging
out with her that night I don't understand this whole I was attacked and that's setting up an alibi
but the time frame would be early morning hours and not around that 10 P.M to 12 p.m window
but I think where he really messed up is when he was telling the cops well and uh we hooked up that night now we
have her friends saying yes they were intimate before but she didn't want to do that again that's not to say that she
wouldn't have been intimate with him again I mean we we have proof that she was intimate with him before so I would
actually argue that that would mean there's more of a possibility just because she told her friends that she
didn't want to do it again but that leads to please to go well she's 17. and this is going to be enough
for us to get a search warrant to search his apartment well you are exactly right because
what's going on here I believe reading between the lines I think that police had an idea that Folly was with her at a
time that he did not give to them I think they knew that for a while I think there are they are trying to figure out
what else was he involved in and I also think that just because they didn't ask him about that 10 o'clock hour
he may be unaware of the security camera footage that he was seen on camera they
were seen on camera together at 10 24 and then they both leave now their joint departure is not actually caught on
camera but neither of them are seen on camera again so we can assume that they left together well here's why I'm saying
not not maybe the footage that the cops actually had but here's this guy that's been around campus long enough to know
the campus is heavily secure there's tons of security cameras everywhere so knowing that you met her on campus you
could just assume that at some point they have you on video footage right and maybe the 9 30 thing is his way of
trying to explain that away right but also by just saying knowing that you met her on campus
this is why you have to tell the police well I was with her that night for a little bit we hooked up and then she
left and I don't know what happened to her so the security surveillance footage plus the fact that he willingly tells
police we hooked up she's under age this is enough to allow officers to obtain a
certain search warrant for Ben Farley's apartment which was located at 407 Hancock Street
on September 16th they went in and searched this apartment and the search warrant must have included you know you
have to specifically State what you are seeking in this war it must have included electronic devices
because we know that police left carrying some computers after this first search
and what they found on those computers led to the arrest of Ben Foley on September 23rd Captain would you like to
do the honors and inform us as to what was found on these computers well what's interesting I don't think it's just on
the computers I think maybe also on disk and things like that there was a lot of
child pornography he tries to explain that away by saying well some of this was left
by the tenant before me I I didn't even know it was there but that kind of explain away the child
pornography that was actually found on the hard drives and that he had multiple uh computers
with extremely large amounts of hard drive space I mean especially for that time
2005. that's right there so there wasn't really anything on the computer's linking Folly directly to Taylor's
disappearance although there were those pictures of her that we we discussed hundreds of pictures of her yeah and
hundreds of pictures hundreds of images of child pornography well not just what it's described but in
the media release yeah I mean not just that but also just tons of very no I I don't know what the correct term
would be but you have pornography and then you have this more like this uh demonic uh
pornography okay so this next bit's going to the next 90 seconds might get a little difficult to listen to but here's
what I have in my notes okay so police said they discovered a massive quote a massive amount of extremely graphic
child pornography featuring children as young as three and four years old being raped by some reports as many as seven
computers loaded with pornography were confiscated from the apartment according to the Richmond Times Dispatch senior
assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Mike jaggles later told judge Kimberly O'Donnell that there were as many as 30
movie files discovered on computers that were removed from Folly's apartment some
depicting acts with minors as young as one this is this is it just tough to even read
miners as young as one or two years old and others featuring individuals 10 to 14 years old Folly of course maintained
that the computers were not his as you pointed out he says they belong to a former resident of the apartment no one
was buying this load of crap that he was trying to shovel uh right but this is just proves how
this guy's story changes constantly he's always has some excuse for things and and so that's when you really know that
most likely whatever happened to her was at the hands of this individual so like we said this results in his
arrest it also results in a second more comprehensive search of his apartment well that but here's what's great we can
put him in jail for these charges and then because of these charges we can go back and look for more evidence
we can build our case and know exactly where he is and hold him and he can't do anything to
get rid of evidence in the process [Music] so the things that they were looking for
in the second search many of the items that were listed on the search warrant included
things that would belong to Taylor you know her clothing her her jeans a black hoodie sneakers black
watch bracelets Saint Francis necklace student ID Nokia cell phone and car keys all of that's listed on the warrant also
listed were skateboards sometimes you want to put a generic term out there so you can take any skateboard that you
find burglary tools this would probably go back to his previous convictions they were also looking for
knives hammers shovels and pry bars and I found this to be strange there's always something strange listed on these
search warrants on here we have the ever suspicious Pepperidge Farm cookie boxes
what yeah I couldn't figure out I have no idea why this would be on the warrant the cops were hungry I don't know if if
they had a reason to believe that she would have had one of these cookie boxes in her possession at the time that she
went missing and maybe that then they can go okay is it it might be a coincidence but it also
might be a sign that she was here right later that night I don't have a complete and complete
list of what was found in the apartment but here's what we do know was taken out
of the house pursuant to the search warrants uh women's white underwear a laptop
computer a Macintosh computer a digital camera sex toys including two dildos and
spiked bracelets a knife two bags of clothes from a garbage can outside of the house a beaded necklace with a cross
from this was removed from the garbage as well a bicycle chain necklace a watch from the garbage can a 35 millimeter
camera a box containing bones he collected weird things like that everybody has a right to have weird [ __ ]
oh yeah yeah we we we all probably own some weird [ __ ] uh rolls of film I mean
we probably don't have a bunch of dildos laying around uh a black bra a machete cigarette butts
a prescription bottle skateboards they did find skateboards a yearbook a hatchet a
hammer a pry bar a 32 caliber cartridge and a partridge in a pear tree I mean it just goes on
and on and on the one thing that was rather interesting of note here Captain police also removed a section from a box
spring that was stained with some kind of reddish brown substance they did include
and executed a warrant for Follies hair and DNA samples not found or Taylor cell phone that they were
looking for her college ID her car keys again anything linking Folly Ben Folly directly to Taylor's disappearance does
not seem to have been found just on the child porn possession alone police had enough to charge Folly with a
felony and as you said hold him while they continue to build a case against him regarding Taylor's
disappearance and they also charged him with a possession of a firearm because remember
he's a convicted felon he's not legally permitted to be in possession of a gun but their investigation takes a pretty
interesting turn as far as because you you collected all this stuff but but where do you go from that I mean
that none of this other than the child porn pornography can you charge them with or like you
said the the gun possession charge so you can add that on top of things but well they're going to go to the public
for help okay because on October 11th police announced that they were specifically interested
in the sightings of the following items between the dates of September 5th and September 17th
they want to know had anybody seen a white Ford Escort that's remember that's the vehicle Virginia license plate
JPC 2848 and they asked the public to call in sightings of the vehicle and a description of whomever may have been
driving the vehicle at the time they wanted to know who had been driving Taylor's car around Richmond during that
time that they can't figure out where it was they also wanted people to report any
sightings of of Virginia personalized license plates grn e-r-t-h this was a plate stolen from a
vehicle around the time Taylor disappeared and police believed it might have been in Folly's possession
and they also sought information about that Ohio state license plate as well right
so what's interesting to me is while they need the Public's help it seems like they have a general idea of what
was going on at the time he abducted he did something to Taylor and was moving her vehicle around during
the time that it was unaccounted for and he may have been switching out the plates multiple times along the way
right because if you know this girl's missing you you see what kind of car she has
how many people saw that car looked at the license plates and went well that's not her car yeah yeah it also came out
around the same time the media reported that Folly used his credit card to buy gas in New Kent County
between Matthews County and Richmond on the night that Taylor disappeared so this really kind of to me
would suggest that his later claim that he was attacked there doesn't seem to be any time left
for that to actually have taken place it's the old Jesse Smollett jumped farce we got going on there
meanwhile Taylor's family lawyer cleaned out Taylor's dorm room taking all of her possessions back to
her hometown of Vienna and they stated Taylor's family basically stated even if she is found alive
she's not going to be returning to VCU at this time there's too much going on here and because at this point you have
to believe that she's abducted and so if you do find her alive there's no way that you're going to want as her parents
for her to be around that vicinity to have any of those bad memories well things are looking very very Bleak by
this time and now they're really honing in on Folly and he's locked up and they can
start they want to start going through his Social Circles now we're going to publicly ask the public for help but
we're going to get into his Social Circles and ask these people for help and one of the people that they come
across is this young woman named Aaron who was also a VCU student and somewhat of a friend or acquaintance of Taylor's
an oddly kind of looks like she could be related to Taylor and definitely looks like uh Taylor's mother like there's a
lot of similarities there and she's a little older than Taylor um she's 23 at the time
apparently she dated Ben folley for some time I guess they only dated for a couple of months before Aaron broke up
with him well and she she probably didn't want to come forward because it was such an embarrassment
that she dated this douche and in the first place well I think she was the one that the charges some of his previous
convictions stem from so well he had a history of me crazy after these girls after a while
well yeah but oddly he would he would start dating them and because oh let me take pictures of you you're so beautiful
and he would make these girls feel like they're the best thing in the world but then that became oh well now I'm
jealous of everybody else and I just love you so much that I'm jealous of everybody else and then become
aggressive almost like self-sabotaging the relationship like well and here's the thing too Captain what we got going
on now we've seen a lot of these types of cases anytime detectives think that we have somebody who needs to hide
something that they never ever want anyone to find they start asking the people that know
them best okay is there anywhere that he like to Camp or go fishing or go hunting
you know outdoor activities what does he do and where does he go so they start talking to Aaron
they start showing her picture after picture from his photography web page because they need her to identify some
of these locations here's a picture tell us where you think this area is yeah he'd take pictures of girls and things
like that but he would also take pictures of like old rundown sheds and you know just fields and in random items
and locations so one photo that caught her eye you know she's looking at photo after photo finally she sees one and
she's like holy moly this might be something here this is a photo of an old abandoned house with like a tin lean-to
attached to it the house was oddly enough located on her family farm which was about 90 miles away from
Richmond in Matthews County right and I think he she took him there at some point maybe they even
shot shot those photos together well and remember we talked about Folly purchasing gas with his credit card
right out that night now all of a sudden this photo of an old abandoned house 90
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I love you man on October sober up right on October 5th police headed out to the site where that
photo was taken this accompanied by Aaron they creepy photo yeah and they're going to be searching this whole area
and before too long they identified a body and a plastic bag in a ditch off the side of a wooded Road The Remains
were very decomposed but were wearing clothing that was similar to what Taylor was wearing when she disappeared sure
enough the medical examiner soon identified the remains as Taylor Beale based on dental records one thing about
this girl that's helping out the police there she goes out to her family's property she doesn't know what she's
going to find they've they find Taylor she then has to think about the relationship she had with this person
and how that possibly could have been her uh that would be a very traumatic um experience
there are several theories as to why this area may have been chosen for the the dump site
you know they seem a little odd who knows what was going on in the mind of the person who placed her there
so there there's one theory that I do find this interesting I don't think it has anything really to do with the case
but there's a thought that maybe Ben Foley thought if he put her on Aaron's family's property that maybe
it would get confusing to investigators and Aaron could somehow be involved in Taylor's disappearance possibly we
know he lies about everything I think what likely happened is this is just unfortunately maybe a place that popped
into his mind when he thought of like we said earlier hey I got something I don't
want anybody to ever find and he thought this was a good place to put it well they're going to go back
with this information this is basically now the cops have a loaded gun that they
can point at him and he's going to start confessing to what he claims happened that night yeah and one thing that they
will be equipped with when they go in to talk with folly is they took some soil samples from the
undercarriage of Taylor's vehicle and they were able to match those two soil samples taken from the area where the
body was found so they are able to piece a lot of this together before they even talk to them
they know where she was found they have a general idea of what happened to her being that she was either abducted or
killed and then transported in her own vehicle out to that location and then we know the vehicle came back to the VCU
Campus area and was was placed there now Taylor died in a manner that did not leave
visible marks on her body so they were unable to determine the exact cause of death there was no broken
bones or obvious signs of death now mind you she rather decomposed at this time Folly continued to deny that he had
anything to do with this but that's not going to last very long Captain just like you pointed out because he will
he will offer up some kind of confession well of sorts and this was against the recommendation of his attorney
Folly told investigators that on the night of September 5th he and Taylor had driven out to a beach in the Matthews
County area to hook up he said he was very drunk and high at the time and was off his meds the two engaged in what he
called rough sex and he said Taylor accidentally died according to him the two had played a sex game and it was all
Taylor's idea she wanted to try erotic asphyxiation but it backfired and when she died he panicked and dumped her body
in that ravine although he tried to spin this off as some type of accident Folly himself may have made mention of
what he planned to do to Taylor in one journal entry by skalls 67 in a journal subtitled playing with fire
the trash of a crazy ex-con he wrote about his sexual Conquest with Partners referred to by their initials like K and
E he also talked about someone with the initials t and said that there was something he
quote still wanted to try with her this was before Taylor died Taylor's mother was quick to dispute
Folly's version of the events of course she says let's be clear Ben Folly murdered my daughter
she said in a news conference his claim that it was accidental is just one more perversion of the truth and his
ever-changing Web of Lies yeah he he claims that there they went out to this location they're trying to hook up
they're in the backseat of the car that he was drunk and and high in an office medication all that stuff
they were trying to put a bag over her head during sex that wasn't really working because she wanted to pass out
this is what he's claiming and so then he took the bag off her head but then put it around her nose and mouth now
once she stopped breathing here's a strange thing is during his confession he doesn't dump the body that night he
doesn't he doesn't just go oh I gotta get rid of her and take the car back he claims that he comes back to VCU
with her body in the back seat and and that the cars parked there for a day or so then he drives back out to
that same location and then and dumps her there um but again this guy will lie about
everything yeah and as you pointed out earlier his story changes when it needs to
you know he has an excuse he has a story he has an alibi until boom you present him with facts with truthful evidence
and facts that you know to be true and then he says well here's a different story for you
well I'll be here's the thing though is he already has more and more charges that are mounting against him
yeah and what's difficult though for the prosecution and for the state Captain is
that we do have this while it does not seem likely it is a plausible defense of this was an
accident and maybe he shouldn't be charged with murder we also have the problem that we really have very little
forensic evidence in this case at all so it's going to take a good amount of time
in fact it was not until January 17th of 2006 that a grand jury handed down an indictment of folly this was for first
degree murder I would love I would have loved to try this case once the uh grand jury was
told and it was explained that the medical examiner could not have identified an exact cause of death
because of the decomposition then we have an indictment that was amended to second-degree murder
the death penalty obviously going to be off the table at this point now despite holes in their case prosecutors went
full steam ahead preparing for a trial working with investigators trying to build a circumstantial case to prove
that Taylor was not the initiator of this so-called sex game that she was not into bondage or erotic
affixiation or really that she would not have consented to any of this crap and that that Folly killed her and probably
deliberately killed her it was not an accident by any stretch of the imagination well on his defense team is
saying well she was she wanted to try this because he had tons of pornography on his computer and showed her some
different things and she was like oh I'd like to try that yeah that's what he claims but but it
doesn't matter I mean the the idea that that uh anybody female or male would be on trial for wanting to try something
sexually that's her right to that doesn't equal being murdered right you know so it doesn't matter how you
slice it doesn't matter if it was his idea or her idea that does that should never equal murder
so what we have here Captain is in August of 2006 the murder trial is about to begin
but what we get and I man I so love this we get a gift for the prosecution because Folly opens up his big fat mouth
that's right Folly made the mistake of talking and his defense attorneys got wind of this and a jailhouse
conversation with an officer Folly described he has set it up a little bit better because
he is coming back to his cell after after this like um there was a meeting and and basically this
this Web of Lies that he's been casting he claims that it's the ultimate chess move
right he says he's playing a chess game and really this story that he came up about Taylor's accidental death was
really just that just a story designed to clear him to take the heat off of him explain away what happened but it's not
what actually happened um and then we have a little bit more but holy okay because you you know this
better than me this is the part that's kind of confusing to me because he makes that a mission to
uh this officer and then the officer lets the defense team know they can't they can't represent that
idea because they know it's a lie is that right no I think the thought here is we have people that are going to
testify that he was lying about this story right and and then we have this weird thing where he's writing letters
from jail to a female friend the prosecution gets a hold of these letters they did not help Folly's case
I don't know exactly what was in these letters but these were mentioned during this portion of the story right and what
this leads to is by August 9th we have Folly Consulting with his attorneys and they decide that Folly should take an
Alfred plea for second-degree murder in exchange for prosecutors dropping the child pornography charges
out at The Plea proceedings prosecutors and defense attorneys were able to present their cases to the judge whose
job it is then to determine whether there was enough evidence to Warrant Folly taking such a plea
the confession his tapes of his confession or so-called confession were played in court and later transcripts
were released to the media more details about this confession came out and you went through quite a bit of that when
you were telling us about what happened I one thing I found weird was it cites that Taylor wanted to play a
game that she called drunk monkey I don't know and again it's it's almost it seems a little silly to go through
this confession when we know so much of it is just completely false and we can we can say that based off of
his plea off of his later plea where he accepts that he's going to be convicted of this
yeah I mean and again I I have some questions but I don't think it matters like was she alive when they went out to
this location I don't know did he did he bring did he actually bring the body back
did he bring Taylor back I don't know you know I don't think it matters I think at the end of the day no matter
what he States everything else again he can still say he's still staying in prison I'm not the cause of
her death she wanted to try something that was an accident well we know that you told people hey
I'm a genius I came up with this excuse but everything else points to to murder right this this happens she blacks out
she stops breathing you don't call 9-1-1 you then claim that you transport her body back to Camp campus not telling
anybody that equals murder you then changed license plates multiple times on that car that equals murder
you then lie to the cops about what happened that equals murder you then lie to everybody and tell her family almost
in a braggadocious way well we hooked up that night no you didn't you probably raped her
that equals murder you then constantly lie about everything and all these twists and turns and take
not only the police but the family members of your victim on this wild ride all that stuff equals murder
and then you put her out in the middle of nowhere and her and this is what her mom says
for her body to be eaten by animals and bugs and insects because you don't have respect for human
life you won't have respect for this young lady this was not your friend because all that stuff equals murder
well and unfortunately it seems like for Ben Folly well for those around him anyway that he was ramping up to
something like this probably for quite some time now I don't have those all those letters
that he wrote to his friend while he's in jail but well hold on for a second ladies get better friends
you you know who Who's the who who's the person communicating with this [ __ ] you
know well we do have a portion of one of those letters and this is going to be what really is going to seal the deal
here and they read this aloud in the uh The Plea proceedings I believe that all of them all of these
letters were read but the one that made its way to the media is this and this is
directly from Folly's Written Letter to his friend he says quote people don't like me they never do as a child I had
no friends I was a bother in the way a problem so I spent most my life alone I never liked the thoughts in my head
people are right something is wrong with me all the thoughts of killing and death
in my head and now it's true I've killed someone these are his own words at the conclusion of the Alfred plea hearing
judge William Shaw III found that there was substantial evidence that Folly was guilty of murdering Taylor Beale he
sentenced Folly to 40 years with 10 years suspended Folly would serve 30 years Taylor beale's case is famous because it
is one of the first to be solved using the victim's social media police were able to narrow down the
suspect list very quickly because of her postings online Taylor's funeral was held the day after
her 18th birthday Benjamin Foley is scheduled to be released on November 14 2031.
no that's just too soon Janet Taylor's mother has published a book called love you more the Taylor Beale story and has
become an outspoken advocate for victims Taylor's friend Aaron crabill received a
twenty thousand dollar reward for her assistance in locating Taylor with some of the reward money she established a
fund for women in crisis in honor of Taylor Beale [Music] foreign thanks for joining us here in the garage
Nick do we have any recommended reading yes we do my fine Captain this week we are recommending without a Prayer by
Susan Ashland this is without a prayer the death of Lucas Leonard and how one Church became a cult you'll want to pick
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Brief Summary

Taylor Beale's murder case involves Ben Folly's violent history, disturbing confessions, and the use of social media in the investigation.

Key points

Welcome to True Crime Garage. Join hosts Nick and Captain as they dive into this week's true crime case.
Shout Outs to Listeners. Cheers to listeners contributing to the beer fund from various locations.
Ben Foley's Troubling Past. Investigators uncover Ben Foley's violent history and connection to Taylor.
Disturbing Evidence Found. Police discover a massive amount of graphic child pornography in Foley's apartment.
Public Appeal for Help. Police seek sightings of a white Ford Escort related to the case.
Body Identified. Authorities discover remains identified as Taylor Beale, leading to new developments in the case.

Episode highlights

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He had some charges for assault and breaking and entering.

Discussion about Ben Foley's past

3:24WatchNov 14, 2022

Tension

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