Sunday, September 9, 2012

Week 123 - Beth Bentley still gone

Who will be the first to crack?

Somebody in Woodstock or somebody who used to live in Woodstock or somebody with connections to Woodstock knows what happened to Beth Bentley on the week-end of May 20-23, 2010. That's when Beth vanished. Without a trace, so far.

Traveling buddy, sometimes alibi, friend, co-worker Jennifer Wyatt-Paplham must know more than "I dropped her off near the Centralia (Ill.) Amtrak Station and don't know what she was going to do."

Anybody believe that? Anybody?

Why would Jenn write on her Facebook page: "...its (sic) funny they are mad that I lied for my BF but she has lied more then (sic) me ... she lied for scott !!! ..."?

The Woodstock Police and the Illinois State Police should be tracking down every lie. Every last one of them. When did Beth lie "for scott"? About what?

Every aspect of Beth's life should have come under a fine microscope by now? Has it? Have the police investigators examined absolutely everything that Beth ever touched? Have the police carefully reconstructed her personal life, her health, her habits, her family relationships, her friends?

Have the police carefully examined every function she controlled in the law office of her husband where she worked? Have the police investigators tracked every dollar of law practice income and expenditures that she controlled? Was all income properly documented and reported? Were all disbursements authorized and documented?

Was all payroll handled in accordance with IRS procedures? How were work hours recorded? For example, was Jenn Wyatt an employee or was she paid for contract work or in-kind or "cash". In another legal case, Jenn claimed she had no income and could not pay down the $70,000 she owed in child support.

Yet she lived in a rental house, drove a car provided to her, must have had money for food, medical care for children, etc. Was that money a gift to her or was it paid to her for her work at the law firm?

It would be very difficult for a law firm to pay a secretarial employee on a contract basis. The IRS rules are very clear about contracted help and what a firm can and cannot expect or require from a person doing contract work. A firm cannot classify a worker as a contractor, when that person is really an employee. How did the law firm handle Social Security and income-tax withholding on work that Jenn did there?

Somebody knows where Beth is.

2 comments:

MChristineBroderick said...

Yep, someone knows. There is really only one thing that blows my mind more than the fact that Beth Bentley has been missing without a trace for 123 weeks; that a person can hardly type her name online without some kind of controversy ensuing. We have seen this since the first week or so. I do not think that I have to validate that statement, either, and anyone that directs me to is just going to further prove my point.

I read an article today about a little boy that has been missing for over a year. Any time that I read about a missing person, whether they are an adult or child, I think of Beth. I read the article looking for similarities or any thing else that can shed any light on any thing about the missing. I found it interesting that in this case that I'm referring to, the police are the ones trying to get the media to cover it and also, that Monica Caison of CUE is quoted many times about cases that do and do not get covered. Here is a link to the article, if you allow that, Gus: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/48953999/ns/us_news-life/#.UEzRpVEuuPQ

~Still praying in Ohio for Beth's safe return.

Gus said...

Sometimes, uninformed people think that when a person's actual words are quoted, that might give rise to a lawsuit or constitute defamation of character.

It doesn't. When the words of a person are re-stated and quoted, they are merely that person's words. If Jenn writes that she lied, then that's what she wrote. (Of course, she could be lying about having lied...)

Perhaps I should quote what her mother wrote.

Frankly, it's pretty hard for me to imagine such an exchange between a mother and daughter. Perhaps it's just that I don't hang around with people who use that kind of language.