Amy Bee not be me

A new, prolific poster on Facebook has pumped fresh air into the Beth Bentley case. "Amy Bee" has posted extensively on the "Beth Bentley Missing" pages, commonly referred to as "BBM-2". This is the second "site" set up to find Beth.

Many people, mostly women, in downstate Illinois near Mount Vernon and Centralia have really taken up this cause. Not meant to lessen attention to the effort being made right here in McHenry County, they have been the "boots on the ground", because most attention has been to the suspicion that Beth disappeared from the Mount Vernon-Centralia area.

A visitor from southern Illinois, who has been keenly interested in finding Beth, is in McHenry County this week-end, and she called me yesterday. Wish I had been home to talk with her, but I was playing Repo Man in Will County (more about that later).

When this woman and I spoke this morning, she told me she had been contacted by the Woodstock Police and accused of being "Amy Bee" and of being under suspicion for interfering with an investigation. All I can say about that is, "What a crock!" Pardon the language, please, but you know what I mean.

She said the police had called her downstate business to locate her, and an employee there took a message.

If you are ever contacted by police, your first question should be "Am I a suspect in any crime?" If the answer is "Yes", then you stop talking.

Remember:
You have the right to remain silent.
Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law.

And it will. If you are thinking, "Oh, I'll just be helpful and answer their questions, since I didn't do anything wrong." You can imagine what Gary Gauger would say about that way of doing things.

Supposedly "Amy Bee" wrote yesterday that she is engaged to a police officer who is connected to the investigation. Would that be where she got all her information? Anyone smart enough to write the way that "Amy Bee" writes would throw that out just to see how far down the hole the mouse would run before he bumped his head at the end and found "no cheese." There isn't any way that would likely be true, because it would so limit the pool of candidates for identification.

All the comments by Amy Bee are gone now, which is too bad. They made very interesting reading. Some in this area believe that Beth never left Woodstock on Thursday night, May 20, after her son's baseball game. Wouldn't that cause fireworks, if it turned out to be true?

What if it was a different Friday night (than May 21) that Beth had dinner in the Frosty Mug in Mount Vernon? Is it true that the Mount Vernon Police have not been able to confirm her being in the Mug that night? That they can't find anyone to confirm her being there that week-end?

What about a ping on beth's her telephone on Sunday night about 11:00PM in the McHenry County area? What about Scott Bentley's office being broken into on that Sunday night? Coincidence? What about missing computer files? Or a missing computer?