Beth Bentley - 87 weeks and counting

More than a year and a half ago Beth Bentley disappeared. Sometime over the days of May 20-24, 2010, Beth vanished.

How much of her time and location has actually been absolutely accounted for? Say, from the time she left the Dairy Queen in Woodstock on Thursday evening, May 20, until late on the evening of Monday, May 24, when she was reported as missing to the Woodstock (Ill.) Police Department?

One person has offered information about a portion of her whereabouts on that week-end. Co-worker, friend, traveling companion and sometime-alibi Jennifer Wyatt has said that she dropped Beth off near the Amtrak station in Centralia, Ill. on Sunday, May 23, shortly before a northbound train to Chicago was scheduled to pass through the station at about 6:00PM. Jenn told me that Beth never intended to take the train, but she didn't say what Beth's plans were.

Yet there are reports that Beth's cell phone was used to order a pizza from Pogue's Pizza in Mount Vernon about 5:30PM on that Sunday. It shouldn't have been all that hard to trace that phone call. Apparently, the number showed up on Pogue's telephone system. From where was the call placed? Mount Vernon? Centralia? Wouldn't phone records and "pings" come up with a location for the phone when the call was placed?

And what about the rumor that Beth's cell phone pinged in McHenry County late on Sunday night, May 23?

And that Scott Bentley's law office in McHenry was broken into that night? Who knows about that? The McHenry Police Department doesn't. If his office was broken into and computers were tampered with, wouldn't he report that to police? Wouldn't he be concerned about loss of confidential client records? Were files removed from a computer in his office? What files?

And who tampered with Beth's Facebook account and removed many comments and photos? Who had access to her account? Didn't the police attempt to freeze her Facebook account to prevent tampering?

With the retirement of Det. Sgt. Kurt Rosenquist from the Woodstock Police Department, who will now lead the Woodstock PD Detective Division? Will this officer take a fresh look at this Endangered Missing Person case? Will the "Endangered" classification be continued? Removed? Was it ever justified in the first place?

Some people have commented to me that they think it's strange that Det. Rosenquist would have had Friends on his own Facebook page that included persons closely connected to Beth Bentley. Since no one can be ruled out in this case, why would he have included Jennifer Wyatt, Jeremy Velmont, Albert Bafford and Angela Montgomery as Facebook friends?

Of course, FB Friends aren't necessarily "friends". I probably have FB Friends I don't even know on my FB page. Sun-Tzu, Chinese general and military strategist, reportedly said in about 400 B.C., "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer." Any correlation here?

Kurt joined the McHenry County Sheriff's Department courthouse security staff on January 9, when he was sworn in by Sheriff Keith Nygren. Two photos of the swearing-in ceremony appear in the January-February 2012 issue of the MCSO Newsletter. So much for hoping that he'd hang out his own shingle as a P.I. and solve the missing-person case of Beth Bentley.