A reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote a long article that appeared in this morning's paper there. With a dateline of Centralia, reporter Nicholas Pistor provided some insight that hasn't yet reached Woodstock residents - at least, not publicly.
You can read the article here: http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/article_b2f615c8-1861-5ae4-95c4-b0b81778b3d7.html?sms_ss=email&at_xt=4d36f5fcf591f812%2C0
Now, we know that reporters get there information somewhere; they don't just make it up. So, look at what's new...
* Scott Bentley now says he was told a lie - that Beth and Jenn were going to Wisconsin, not to southern Illinois. Yet the paper doesn't say who told him that was a lie. Did Beth lie to him before they left? Did Jenn lie to him after she returned to Woodstock? (Facebook readers became away of the Wisconsin alibi several months ago.)
* The article says Scott didn't know Beth was not in Wisconsin until what would have been Monday, May 24. He said he was in frequent contact with Beth by phone over the week-end. (That's a question many have voiced wonder about.)
* Woodstock Police Chief Bob Lowen is reported to have said that it hasn't been easy to investigate the disappearance of a woman 300 miles away. Well, duh... Why didn't they turn over the investigation to Mt. Vernon PD or Jefferson County S/O or the Illinois State Police months ago? Maybe because Mt. Vernon P.D. was quicker to put parts of the story to rest and had no real leads beyond Friday night at the Frosty Mug.)
* The reporter wrote that Beth and Jenn flew to St. Louis two week-ends before she disappeared, which was Mother's Day week-end) and that Jenn doesn't know with whom Beth spent the week-end. Jenn supposedly went to Mt. Vernon. OK, where are the rental car records to support that? And there are plenty of people who cannot fathom Jenn's ignorance over the identify of the St. Louis Connection.
* The reporter wrote that Beth and Jenn met up at the end of the week-end and "headed back to Chicago." (Well, that conflicts with earlier statements attributed to Jenn that Beth overslept and missed her flight back to Chicago.) Did Jenn fly back without Beth? Did Jenn skip her return flight? Did they rent a car and drive back? Was it the same car that Jenn rented to drive to Mt. Vernon and back to St. Louis, or had she already returned that car? Or was she to pick up Beth at the "fabulous, beautiful hotel", of which she now cannot recall the name?
Followers of this case are supposed to be so gullible that they believe Scott didn't know that his wife was flying to St. Louis for a Mother's Day week-end with her friend and co-worker, Jenn? What about the loving wife and mother of three in Woodstock? Mother's Day - off for a little girl-time?
And Angela Montgomery got her name in the news for her "ads on Facebook." Hello? What "ads"?
And how about this? "Police in Woodstock say their active investigation is over. 'Most of the legwork is done,' Lowen said. 'We still follow up on any leads.'"
By now the detectives should have punched holes in all the stories they have been told. It should have taken about a day to uncover the "fabulous, beautiful" hotel in St. Louis and find clerks or bellboys who would have recognized a photo of Beth? And then the identity of the person who rented a room for 1-2 nights. And then credit card receipts. How did Beth get to the hotel? Did Jenn rent a car at the airport and drop her off? Who rented the car, Beth or Jenn? Did Beth rent it and then give the keys to Jenn?
You never know who is interested…
3 months ago
3 comments:
Yanno what?
Please excuse me, but I've lost all patience on the Beth scenarios!
Now we're supposed to make some logical leap between "secretly rented" rental cars and now to contemplate airline tickets either taken advantage of or not, that we’ve previously unknown were facts in her case.
That the PD seems rather sanguine about what might have, or is currently transpiring in this case, I’ll just say it:
Beth has either REALLY f*cked up and is still profoundly retarded, or else she is dead!
And she’s probably dead. Law of averages, much less statistics and reality.
To the extent she may have f*cked up, at this late date, should she still be alive, we’d certainly know it by now by her own hand or voice. I state this as I can’t believe that ANY MOTHER of young children, REGARDLESS of personal issues, would be willing to allow her children to assume she was dead if she was not!
Further, let’s look at the obvious, shall we? Much younger spouse of a much older man, whom obviously dresses “provocatively”, and whose friends do the same? Who engaged in and planned on a weekend with same, as well as engaging herself in a weekend with an ex-felon by all accounts? Does this sound like a recipe for bliss? Really?
Don’t get me wrong! I do not blame Beth in ANY way, other than what could reasonably considered and construed as diminished capacity on Beth’s part as to what kind of situation that she might have been otherwise unknowingly been subjecting herself to. From what I can glean, as regards an ordinary person able to consider her presentation of herself to the world, and as amply demonstrated, I doubt I’m mistaken.
As for precipitating her certain death, is she alone responsible? THAT is what we really want to know, should we be interested at all.
And I say that only because she’s likely dead. Should she not be, what is it about her circumstance that otherwise precludes her from contacting her children otherwise?
“She’s dead, Jim”.
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