Week 127! Beth Bentley, of Woodstock, Ill., has been missing since about May 23, 2010!!!
Who is involved in finding her?
Woodstock (Ill.) Police Department
Mount Vernon (Ill.) Police Department
Centralia (Ill.) Police Department
Jefferson County (Ill.) Sheriff's Department
Illinois State Police, Investigations (Zone 7? Zone 1?)
Did any of them interview Nathan Ridge and Ryan Ridge, brothers that Jenn Wyatt and Beth purported visited in Mount Vernon on the fateful week-end in May 2010? Did Ryan or Nathan tell police whether or not they saw Beth early Friday morning, May 21, 2010, after Jenn and Beth supposedly drove all night from Woodstock to Mount Vernon?
It's 330 miles from Woodstock to Mount Vernon. What time did they leave Woodstock? What route did they take? Where did they stop? What tolls were paid? Where did they buy gas? Who drove and how far? Did both drive? How many miles were put on the rental car? Was there a rental car? What time did they arrive in Mount Vernon?
Beth's car was parked inside Jenn's garage that week-end. Did investigators inventory her car after taking the missing-person report on the evening of May 24, 2010? Did investigators even go through Jenn's rental house at 749 Tara Drive, Woodstock? Ever take a specially-trained sniffer dog into the house? Down into the basement?
This case continues to be classified as a Missing Person case by the Woodstock Police Department.
I say "classified", not "treated". If you are treating a case as a Missing Person case, don't you ask the public for help? Don't you remind the public that the Person is still missing? The November 11, 2010 flier is still posted on the PD's website, but with no further information than was originally posted. The expiration date for the flier is now May 11, 2013, which is 2 1/2 years after the flier was put on the PD's website.
Now that's optimistic, isn't it?
The flier states that rewards of $2,000 are offered by the Woodstock and McHenry County CRIMESTOPPERS (sic), but there may no longer be a Woodstock Area Crime Stoppers group.
Earlier this year I was told it had folded and that the remaining funds had been transferred to Crime Stoppers for McHenry County. I guess that trims the reward to $1,000. At one time there was a total of $5,000 offered as a reward.
In checking the Illinois Secretary of State's website today, the Woodstock Area Crime Stoppers, Inc. is still listed as Active. The next Annual Report Filing Date is December 15. Maybe they are just going to let it dissolve involuntarily, which would make it harder (impossible?) and more expensive to resurrect, if interested parties showed up in the future.
You never know who is interested…
3 months ago
2 comments:
I realize that there are huge differences in the cases - not the least of which is that Jessica Ridgeway was a young child but the Westminster and Arvada police along with the FBI and Colorado Bureau of Investigations appear to have handled the Jessica Ridgeway case flawlessly. Their handling of this should be a model for future cases of missing children (God forbid) and endangered missing adults! The differences in the handling of the case and the communication with the public are striking. Again, I realize that it does make a difference that the Ridgeway case was a child and has such a tragic outcome but there are missing children and endangered missing adult cases all around the country and they seem like they are so often handled quite differently than Beth's case. There were 2 Ridgeway facebook pages and they were handled in the most respectable, professional and productive way!
We're still praying for you Beth, that you will be found, praying that your sons will have answers and that if any harm has come to you, God forbid, that justice will be served.
Thanks. You read my mind. I have written an article for Sunday that was just on this topic.
Yes, the police in Colorado got missing - fast.
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