Beth Bentley - gone 27 weeks

Beth Bentley, 41, has now been missing for 27 weeks. She disappeared from southern Illinois on May 22.

Now the Facebook page for "Beth Bentley Missing" has decided to hide all the many comments made under the "Discussions" tab. For months readers have posted comments, opinions, speculation and wild guesses about her disappearance. Then, poof! An administrator of the page decided to remove the hundreds (thousands?) of comments.

When the page was started, the position was that no one would be blocked and no comments would be removed. The first was disregarded a while back, and now the second has occurred.

Interested followers in southern Illinois have been the most aggressive in their efforts to find Beth. The results from the assumption that she did disappear from the vicinity of Centralia (the "near-the-train-station" story) or Mt. Vernon, Ill., where Beth was last seen on a Friday night in The Frosty Mug.

If she is going to be found, nothing is to be gained by hiding all the previous comments. When asked today when the comments would be restored, the response from an anonymous administrator of that Facebook page was, "We will not give an explanation and we will not say if it will be restored."