Wednesday, August 09, 2006

A local murder

In the next county over, this creep got off easy. Forty years for murdering a college freshman. For him it was just a photo shoot gone wrong. What I can't vaguely understand is why the judge suspended 10 years of the sentence. "Good behavior" for showing them where the body was?
Mathews -- Ben Fawley pleaded this afternoon in Mathews County Circuit Court in the death of 17-year-old Taylor Behl. Fawley entered an Alford plea, meaning he acknowledged there was enough evidence to convict him in Behl's death without accepting culpability.

Fawley, 38, was sentenced to 40 years in prison with 10 years suspended.

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