Virginia ? Investigators said Thursday they identified the body of a Virginia Commonwealth University freshman who had been missing for a month.

How Taylor Marie Behl, 17, died had not yet been determined.

“I have the utmost confidence that we’re going to be able to resolve this case,” Richmond Police Chief Rodney Monroe said.

Behl left her dorm Sept. 5 with her mobile phone, a small amount of cash, a student ID and her car keys. She told her roommate she would be back in a few hours.

The teen’s car was found two weeks later, and its license plates had been replaced with Ohio plates reported stolen several weeks earlier.

The police chief said the area where Behl’s body was found was searched after police examined photographs on the Web site of an amateur photographer who was one of the last people to see Behl alive.

Ben Fawley, 38, has not been charged in the Behl case, but he is being held without bond on child pornography charges.

Fawley had a romantic relationship with the teen, his attorney, Chris Collins, has said. A telephone message left for Collins was not immediately returned Thursday.