The checkpoints were designated with orange cones and marked police cars, said Capt. Bill Parker of the Bloomington Police Department. Officers talked to the occupants of every vehicle, with the hopes of finding someone who may have seen Behrman or whoever dumped her bike. Police chose Wednesday morning to conduct the checkpoints, Parker said, in order to interview people who may have been in the area when Behrman was apparently abducted on the same day a week earlier. They also continued interviewing residents of those areas and following up leads telephoned into a command center in the Bloomington Police Department headquarters.
Phone calls from both the reward line and the Bloomington police line ring into the command center.
That helps eliminate possible duplicate calls to both lines, he said. Information from each phone call is carefully recorded on data sheets, Parker said. The command center, housed in the former city council chambers in what once was City Hall, features banks of phones and computers, as well as maps, dry erase boards, food and coffee. FBI technicians are continuing to enter information about the case into case management software, Parker said. But the software hasn't really been put to use yet, Parker said.