Beth Bentley - Week 77

Beth Bentley has been missing for 77 weeks. Seventy-seven weeks! That's 539 days. (Click on the poster to enlarge it; then click on the Back button on your browser to come back here.)

Wouldn't you think that, in 539 days, some kind of lead would show up? Is there anyone who really thinks this is still a missing person case? Or that it ever was?

The longer it takes to put some pressure on those who were last with her, the harder it's going to be to find Beth. She is NOT forgotten.

Who ought to be put under the hot lights?

You start with those with whom she is believed to have spent the last week-end. That would be May 20-23, 2010.

Supposedly, Beth and friend Jennifer Wyatt drove from Woodstock to Mount Vernon. That's where Jenn male friend was, and the way I heard the story was that Beth and Jenn stayed at the house in Mount Vernon that was being rehabbed by Ryan Ridge.
Supposedly, Beth parked her car in Jenn's garage.
Supposedly, they drove the 330 miles to Mount Vernon, leaving on Thursday night, May 20, after a baseball game in which Beth's youngest son had played.
What time did they leave Woodstock?
What route did they take? (They probably drove on the Illinois Tollway. What record was there for the rental car passing through toll booths?)
Who drove which leg of the trip?
Where did they make restroom, coffee or gas stops?
What time did they arrive in Mount Vernon?

Then you grill Ryan and Nathan for what they know about the car trip and arrival time. And you ask Ryan, Nathan and Jenn (separately!) exactly what happened during the week-end and create a time-line. That should have been done the first week. Was it?

The very first suspicious circumstance is Beth's parking her car in Jenn's garage. If they wanted to use a rental car for whatever purpose, why not leave your car at home? Or did Beth not want it known that they were renting a car? Or driving 700 miles?

Supposedly, her husband thought she was going to Wisconsin for the week-end with Jenn.

Beth was supposed to have dinner with her father on Sunday night. For a year I've wondered when that date was picked; the dinner was originally scheduled for the Sunday before. If it got changed, who changed it, and when? Why would Beth arrange a birthday dinner with her father and then blow it off?

So maybe she didn't. Did the Woodstock Police ever investigate that aspect of events before the date of her disappearance? Did Beth call her father and tell him she was out-of-town and wouldn't be back for his birthday dinner? Since Beth's disappearance wasn't reported to the police until late Monday night, May 24, how and when were the dinner plans changed? Who changed them?

Why has this case gone cold without a lot of noise from the family?