On August 28th, America’s Most Wanted had a segment on a gentleman named Kerry Silvers who was wanted for escape and for questioning in a murder case. Kerry is from the same area as me and I met him many years ago. Though pretty much a “career criminal”, Kerry is a very intelligent individual. He escaped from the Lawrence County Security Center in May 2000 and was out for less than a month before he was captured. After being sentenced to 61 years in prison in Lawrence County, he was transferred to the Orange County Jail to face forgery charges (while he was on the lam, he was forging payroll checks). While there, he and two others overtook the jailers at the small (and probably understaffed) facility and managed to escape.
The two others were captured a few days later, in their hometown (yeah, not the smartest guys in the world, huh?). Kerry, however, had not been seen since.
On May 31st, 2000, a 19-year-old young lady named Jill Behrman went missing. Her remains were discovered nearly three years later on March 9th, 2003 in a section of rural woods in Morgan County, Indiana. Police had a suspect in the case named Uriah Clouse, but didn’t have enough hard enough to hold him or charge him with Jill’s murder. While Kerry is not a suspect in the Behrman murder (according to the authorities), they wanted to talk to him. Kerry, apparently, had spent some time in jail with Uriah Clouse and they think he may have had some information on the case.
On August 28th, 2004, America’s Most Wanted aired a segment on Kerry Silvers, detailing his two escapes and his possible link to the Behrman murder. Watching that Saturday night was a gentleman named Jason Wojdylo. Unlike most other viewers, however, Jason is a deputy with the U.S. Marshals in Indiana. Jason, being from the Bloomington area and familiar with the case, took it upon himself to find Kerry Silvers.
It didn’t take long. On December 15th, the Marshals arrested Kerry Silvers in Martinez de la Torre, a small village in Veracruz, Mexico. According to my local newspaper (from Kerry’s hometown), he was working in a school teaching English to young children. He was also teaching computer classes and running a computer repair business (remember, I said this guy was smart). Kerry was transported to the Indiana Department of Corrections to begin serving the 61 years that he currently owes to the State of Indiana. During the escape from Orange County, he racked up a whole bunch more charges and is facing something like 320 years total for all of them. He’ll be held in a maximum-security facility and will (if the State of Indiana has its way) never be a free man again.
Meanwhile, investigators have been talking with Kerry and questioning him on the Behrman case. Though they aren’t releasing any details, they have said that he is “cooperating”.
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