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post investigators knew that Taylor and Ben Folly had a past and continue to talk online and possibly even see each
other but the more troubling thing here Captain is Ben FY online claims to be an
Exon which absolutely turns out to be true so what did this uh douche Berger do well he had some charges for assault
and breaking and entering and I think it goes even Beyond on 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 FY Street on the street that he lived on because there were no parking
meters there for her to worry about mhm 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 fol 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 I'll take some photos for you and and we know that he's involved in
these odd pornographic sites well in 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 Folly was more screwed up than she really wanted to deal with mhm but
again it appears that they may still have been hanging out now when questioned by police about this
friendship with Taylor Ben FY 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 and fact they named him as one of several Persons of
Interest in the case on October 3rd but the problem was Ben fol maintained that he had an
alibi but before Taylor had even been reported missing Ben fol 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 5:00 a.m. on September 6th this occurred in an alley near Franklin Street in Monument Avenue Folly alleged
that he was hit with an unknown object and 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 hits your 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 fol filed this report around 4 p.m. on Tuesday he made made vague
references to the attack likely being a result of a long running altercation with with an ex or another photographer
over rights 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 and's 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 levelheaded 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 it 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 p.m. and then maintain that the attack happened at 5:00 a.m. 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 in her dorm but they're going to find footage of him outside her dorm room mhm 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 FY 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
is a dumbass and 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 that one guy was like but I really like his van right you know I saw
it on the news 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 attack 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 mhm and see if he does something dumb
because this guy has nothing but a history of 30 some years of doing dumb things so he 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 cuz 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 MH 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 Ben Folly boner sniffer so his
statement of hey I last saw her in the 9:00 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 10:00 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 in this whole I was attacked and that's setting up a alibi but the time frame would be early
morning hours and not around that 10 p.m. to 12:00 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 friend 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 again I
mean we we have proof that she was intimate with him before so I I would actually argue that that would mean
there was more of a possibility just because she told her friends that she didn't want to do it again but that
leads to Polie 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 they're 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 10:00 hour he may be unaware of the security camera footage that he was seeing on camera
they were seing 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 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 underage this is enough to allow
officers to obtain a SE search warrant for Ben fy's apartment which was located at 407 Hancock Street on September 16th
they went in and search this apartment and the search warrant must have included you know you have to
specifically State what you are seeking in this warrant 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 fol 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 is I don't think it's
just on the computers I think maybe also on dis 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 couldn't
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 computers linking Folly directly to Taylor's disappearance although there
were those pictures of her that we we discussed that he took hundreds of pictures of her yeah and hundreds of
pictures this hundreds of images of child pornography well and not just that is what's described in the media release
yeah I mean not just that but also just tons of very I don't know what the correct term
would be but you have pornography and then you have this more like this uh demonic U
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 jagal later told judge Kimberly odonnell that there were as many as 30 movie
files discovered on computers that were removed from F's apartment some depicting acts with miners 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 tend 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 well but this is just proves how 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 MH so the things that they were looking for in this 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 St Francis necklace student ID NOK 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 MH burglary tools this would probably go back to his
previous convictions mhm they were also looking for knives hammers shovels and pry bars and I found this to be strange
there's always something Strang l on these search warrants on here we have the ever
suspicious pepp 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 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 35mm camera a box containing
bones he collected weird things like that which everybody has a right to have weird [ __ ] oh yeah yeah we we we all
probably own some weird [ __ ] M 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
Folly's hair and DNA samples not found were 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 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 por
pornography can you charge him 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 eer T 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 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 Smet jumped farce we got going on there meanwhile Taylor's family loyer 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 right 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 like
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 a friend
or acquaintance of Taylor and oddly kind of looks like she could be related to Taylor uh 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 Folly 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 in 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 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 M because they need her to
identify some of these locations here's a picture tell us where you think this area is yeah he would take pictures of
girls and things like that but he would also take pictures of like old rundown sheds and you know just feel
and and 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 M 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 M away out in
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have might have had a few too many yeah I love you man on October 5th 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 for 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 Beal
based on dental records well I'm think 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 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 Folly 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 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 mhm 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 him 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 de imposed 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 xixi but it backfired and when she died he panicked and dumped her body in 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 skulls 67 in a journal subtitled playing with
fire the trash of a crazy xcon 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 MH 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 per version of the truth and his Ever Changing Web of Lies yeah he he
claims that they they went out to this location they're trying to hook up there in the backseat of the car that he was
drunk and and high and and office medication all that stuff they were trying to put a bag over her head during
sex that wasn't really working cuz 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 the strange thing is during his confession he doesn't dump the body that night he doesn't he doesn't just go oh I
got to 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 and that the car is parked there for a day or so then he drives back out to that same location and then
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 but here's the thing though is he already has more and more charges
that are mounting against him yeah and the 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 M 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 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 affixation 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 and 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 any body 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
again mhm 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 in a
jailhouse conversation with an officer Folly described hold on you got you 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
allies that he's been casting he he claims that it's the ultimate chess move right he says he's playing a chess
game and really the 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 and then we have a little bit more okay because you you know this
better than me this is the part that's kind of confusing to me because he makes that mission
to uh this officer and then the officer lets the defense team know now 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 okay 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 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 f 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 sites
that Taylor wanted to play a game that she called Drunk Monkey I don't know and 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 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 saying in prison I'm not the cause of
her death she wanted to try something it 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 911 you then claim that you transport
her body back to Camp campus not telling anybody that equals murder you then change 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 cuz you don't have respect for
human life you don'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 when hold on for a second ladies get better friends you don't
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 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 of problem so I spent
most my life alone I never like 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 II found that there was substantial evidence that
Folly was guilty of murdering Taylor Beal he sentenced Folly to 40 years with 10 years suspended Folly would serve 30
years Taylor Beal'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 fol is scheduled to be released on November
14th 2031 that's just too soon Janet Taylor's mother has published a book called love
you more the Taylor Beal story and has become an outspoken advocate for victims Taylor's friend Aaron krael received a
20,000 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 [Music] [Music] Beal all right 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
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Brief Summary

Taylor Beal's murder investigation reveals Ben Folly's violent past and troubling confessions, leading to his conviction for her death.

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Suspicious Friendship. Taylor's friendship with Ben raises red flags due to his violent past.
Shocking Discovery. Police find a massive amount of child pornography in Ben's apartment.
Public Appeal for Help. Police ask the public for sightings of a white Ford Escort connected to Taylor's case.

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