Behrman not forgotten

Each day, Indiana State Police Detective Rick Lang walks into his office and sits down at his desk. Among the piles of papers, pictures of his family and his computer is a picture of Jill Behrman, an IU student who disappeared five years ago. This photo reminds Lang each day to do everything he can to solve Behrman's case so she can have justice.\nLang, the case's lead investigator, wasn't on the case until Behrman was found a little more than two years ago. He hopes not to become emotionally involved in the case, he said, despite having a daughter the same age as \nBehrman. \n"When Kate, my daughter, graduated college I thought of Jill and how she was robbed of the opportunity of experiencing all the things my daughter will experience the rest of her life," he said.\nWhile there is always a chance the case will never get solved, Lang said he is more confident now he will solve it than when first assigned to it.\n"There were witnesses that came forward with some specific information that was not previously known," he said. "Through developing that information it makes a lot of sense to me and it has filled in a lot of the blanks that were previously there."\nBecause of this information, Lang said, he has been investigating two 'persons of interest' in connection with Behrman's death. Lang has had his eye on these individuals for the last five months. \n"I was speaking with friends, associates of the two new persons of interest," he said. "I've been establishing their whereabouts when the event occurred. I want to be right; therefore I'm not rushing into this. I'm just dotting the I's and crossing the T's, but I'm confident (a resolution) will come."\nRecently the U.S. Marshals have become involved with the Behrman case after Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Jason Wojdylo saw an episode of "America's Most Wanted" that aired a segment on the Behrman case. Wojdylo was so moved by the story that after watching the segment he drove 35 miles to his office in Indianapolis and called Lang. Wojdylo told Lang he would have the full support of the U.S. Marshals in apprehending Kerry Silvers. \nSilvers was not a suspect but was being sought not only because he had escaped from prison but he could provide further information into the Behrman case.\n"The role of the U.S. marshals service in this case was to locate, capture and return Kerry Silvers to Indiana," Wojdylo said. "We continue to offer any assistance to any law enforcement agency in this case, (but) we have not been involved in the underlying criminal investigation involving the disappearance and murder of Jill Behrman."\nLang said there are three reasons why he highlighted the need to apprehend Silvers. First, he was an escapee that needed to be caught. Second, there was information that Lang needed Silvers to confirm or deny based on a previous interview, which Silvers was able to confirm but not elaborate. Third, Lang wanted to keep public interest alive in the case. \nEric Behrman has been waiting for his daughter's killer to be caught since her disappearance and he said he feels Lang and the other law enforcement agencies working on the case are getting closer to solving it. \n"It is like a big puzzle," he said. "We feel that once they get all the pieces together they will solve the case"