WRIC Richmond News and Weather - Who Was Taylor Behl?
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Taylor Behl spent her teenage years in Vienna, Virginia. She attended James Madison High School, graduating just last year. She worked at a Starbucks and friends say she spent most of her free time at Jammin Java, a local cafe that featured live music. It was there 8News sat down with two of Taylor's friends. Here's how they remember her in their own words.
"She just had that spark...that nobody could not love her. Shes just so embracing. She's a beautiful girl, not only outside but inside and she would draw everybody to her."
"She had this confidence, this way about her. I don't know where that confidence came from because I know when I was that age I didn't have that."
"It's a rare quality to have in someone to make people feel comfortable no matter who they are, where they came from, how long they've known them. I only hope I can hold that trait. She was fun, spontaneous, full of life, and everybody loves her. She draws all the attention to her. And its okay because shes that kind of person that makes everybody happy."
"One of the coolest things about her was her relationship with her mother. Because they were really best friends. "
"She was very close to her Mom. They would talk all the time, not go out past her curfew. She'd come home, spend weekends with her Mom. They were what I wanted with my Mom. I hurt so much more for Janet because I can't even fathom that. It doesn't compute in my head what that must be like."
"There's not a day that goes by that I don't think of her. I had to start a journal when she was missing and that filled up quick. And I had to start a new binder where I've written poems and letters to her. It's a scrapbook where I write things we used to say and memories of her."
"She loved music. She loved old doowop music - she had this shirt that said doowop darling on it she would wear. "
"I don't know how to put into words the kind of emptiness you get from something like this. Because she was such an amazing person."
"I miss her. She was the best friend I ever had. An amazing person who was there for me. It hurts my heart I'm never going to see her again."
"I know I'll never meet anybody like her again. And that's the worst part about it. I love her and I miss her terribly...and well hang out again. One day. It'll be cool."
