RSSBen Fawley, the 38 year old “friend” of Taylor Behl Filed Police Report; And it gets stranger
Just when one thought some things in the investigation of the disappearance of Taylor Behl could not get any more strange comes this piece of information. It appears that Ben Fawley, the 38 year old amateur photographer and “person of interest” in the investigation filed a police report claiming he had been abducted and robbed just hours after Behl was last seen on the night of September 5.
A 38-year-old amateur photographer — one of the last people to see missing Virginia Commonwealth University student Taylor Behl — filed a report with police claiming he had been abducted and robbed just hours after Behl was last seen on the night of Sept. 5.
John Roberts Passes Out of Committee to Full Senate for Aproval
To no ones surprise, John Roberts moved closer to his new position as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court today. 13 voted against his nomination, the hard left of the democratic party; Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (Mass.), Joseph Biden (Del.), Dianne Feinstein (Calif.) , Charles Schumer (N.Y.) and Dick Durbin (Ill.). The Democrats that voted for Roberts were Sens. Patrick Leahy (Vt.) , Herb Kohl (Wis.) and Russ Feingold (Wis.).
Nothing that happened today changed the overwhelming view that he will be confirmed in the Senate and available for swearing in before Oct. 3. The only remaining question is the margin of victory for Bush’s first Supreme Court nominee.
With little doubt about the outcome, the Roberts nomination has become more of a preliminary round to what may be a greater controversy over the president’s so-far-unannounced choice to replace O’Connor.
The assumption of Democrats and Republicans alike is that Roberts’s votes on the court will be comparable to Rehnquist’s, the conservative for whom Roberts clerked as a young man, and will therefore not immediately alter the disposition of cases.
The ABA Official Report on John Roberts
The American Bar Association, who has advised the Senate on Supreme Court Nominees for the past half century, has released their official statement on John Roberts. Attached is the official report presented to the Senate by Stephen Tober, head of the ABA’s Judicial Review Committee.
Rarely has a body come to the conclusion so unanimously regarding an individual. The report is a glowing testimony to John Roberts, the man and the judge.
To read the whole report, click here. (PDF FILE)
Some excerpts from the report. These are comments by the committee members regarding John Roberts on topics such as integrity, judicial temperment, and competence.
Integrity:
“He is probably the most honorable guy I know and he is a man of his word.”
“I would be amazed if anyone had any greater integrity on either a personal or professional level.”
“He’s a man of extraordinary integrity and character.”
“He is honest and straightforward and I do not have the slightest hesitation about any aspect of his integrity.”
On the basis of our interviews with Judge Roberts and with over three hundred judges, lawyers and others who know Judge Roberts professionally, the Standing Committee concluded that Judge Roberts is a man of impeccable integrity.
Judicial Temperment:
Aruba Today: Kalpoe Lawyers; Tapes are Illegal and Falsified
From the September 17, 2005 Aruba Today, The Kalpow attorney state that not only are the tapes from the Dr. Phil show illegal that they are falsified as well. 
According to Kalpoe’s Lawyer Rudi Oomen, the tape recording was not only illegally obtained, but edited in a way to make it appear that Deepak answered questions that were not originally asked. This interview clearly was a farce creating an allusion of guilt of the suspect for Dr. Phil’s viewers and guests.
However, the following couple of statements seem a bit far fetched as they occurred after the much publicized Beth Twitty confrontation with Deepak Kalpoe in the Internet Cafe. One would have thought after such a confrontation where Deepak claimed he was harassed and intimidated by Beth Twitty that his attorney, Rudi Oomen, would have told his client to talk to no one.
According to Oomen, Skeeters approached Kalpoe in July shortly after Beth Twitty herself had confronted Kalpoe in his place of employment. Twitty attempted to entice Kalpoe in person with a tempting $250,000 if he would just tell her that he “wasn’t involved in a sexual crime against her daughter …
Skeeters approached Kalpoe as a friend to help him combat the negative publicity that the family of Natalee continued to portray of him. Skeeters never told Deepak that he was being taped and he personally guaranteed that his conversations with him would be private.
One really does wonder why Deepak Kalpoe would have talked to anyone after the Beth Twitty confrontation and that his attorney would have advised him not to do so at all. Seems like there is a bit of controversy as to whether now Deepak admits he was being taped. Deepak’s attorney then goes on to say,
“It is obvious after viewing the Dr. Phil show, Skeeters had other intentions. The interview was fabricated by clearly a cut and paste procedure,”
One can also say the following, there is a difference between an fabrication and normal media editing. There is no such thing in the media as a non-edited story in print or video unless it is live. The other rather interesting quote of the article is the following, “After hearing the misleading false confession provided by Skeeter”. Misleading false confession? I think the question that comes to mind to any reasonable adult is why would there be a confession to anything if one was not guilty? Whether there was a camera present or not, a recording device or not; what difference would it make? If some one is innocent of something, do they really state otherwise if they don’t believe they are being recorded? This is the dilemma that the good people of Aruba face. Why are they supposed to believe Deepak was mislead into a confession by the American media when I am certain his attorney forbade him to talk to the media. How does someone confess to something that all along they stated otherwise? Do the people of Aruba who took time out of their lives to search for Natalee Holloway really believe that? Arubans may not like the style or form of the Dr. Phil Show or the reference of a boycott; however, to believe some of what Deepak’s attorney is saying is also difficult to believe. Deepak’s attorney concluded with the following statement:
Oomen concluded that his client could not afford to take legal recourse against Skeeter for his fabrication and defamation.
Interesting, seeing that they had n problems initially claiming that they were going to sue Beth Holloway Twitty for defamation when she made the reference that the suspects were criminals.
“She called our client, Mr. Satish Kalpoe, a ‘criminal,’ ‘involved in a violent crime against my daughter’ and who is ‘allowed to walk freely among the tourists and citizens…”
The good people have choices to make no matter what spin comes from either side. They may come about it from different angles Natalee’s parents, Beth Twitty and Dave Holloway are both after the same outcome. The where abouts of their daughter and justice for her. Make no mistake about it, they may have different approaches to the investigation; however, both believe that the three suspects know what happened to their daughter.
Ben Fawley, Taylor Behl’s 38 year old “friend” link to Child Porn Investigation
The investigation in to the disappearance of VCU freshman Taylor Behl took a strange twist yesterday. The 38 year old amateur photographer, Ben Fawley, who has been rumored to have had a relationship with Taylor Behl was linked to a child pornography investigation according to court documents as reported by NBC4.
The investigation into a missing Virginia Commonwealth University freshman from Vienna took a new turn Wednesday.
Police filed unrelated charges against a person questioned in the student’s disappearance.
Police searched the apartment of 38-year-old photographer Ben Fawley as part of a child pornography investigation, according to court documents. According to the search warrant, investigators went to Fawley’s apartment looking for images and documents related to child pornography and the distribution of child pornography. Investigators said they took away at least five computers and an assortment of computer equipment.
