Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Bentley still missing


Is there any possible good reason why police agencies are taking such a low profile in the missing person case of Beth Bentley, 41, of Woodstock?

A report of her disappearance can't even make the webpage of the Woodstock Police Department in more than two weeks! Not that anyone really known that that page exists...

But it took the Northwest Herald over a week to print its first story about Beth's disappearance. Was that due to its just sitting on the news from the Woodstock Police Department or did the P.D. not issue any news release about the missing person report filed on May 24?

One would think that by now news would show up on the "Crime Stopper Cases / Press Releases / Crime Alerts webpage.
Does the Woodstock Police Department want the public's help in solving this case? Is it the lead investigations law enforcement agency?
A woman who can positively identify Beth and one of the two men out for dinner and drinks in Mt. Vernon, Ill. on Friday, May 21, has not even been interviewed by police yet. Well, duhhh... what are they waiting for?
Beth was reportedly last seen by her friend and traveling companion on that road trip, Jenn Wyatt, on Sunday afternoon, May 23, at the Amtrak station in Centralia. There are no public reports that anyone else saw her on the train platform or on the northbound 6:08PM train. So, who saw her earlier on Sunday? Who saw her on Saturday?
Was the entire first week of investigation time lost by not informing the public of her disappearance?

2 comments:

yagottabekidding said...

And you've decided they are taking a 'low profile' because what... they haven't asked you to hypnotize the train engine?

Gus said...

Did I say somewhere that they hadn't asked that?