Beth Bentley - gone 140 weeks

Beth Bentley vanished on about May 23, 2010. That 140 weeks ago.

When a person disappears and is gone this long, is it reasonable to think that she is still a missing person?

Where does a person hide out for 140 weeks? How does a woman live without apparent means of support and without contact with her children?

What transpired on the week-end of May 20-24, 2010? Did Beth really leave Woodstock on Thursday evening, May 20, 2010? Her car was in the garage of the Woodstock house rented by her friend, Jenn Wyatt. Supposedly, Beth and Jenn traveled by rental car to Mount Vernon, Ill. that Thursday night.

What time did they leave? By what route did they travel? Who drove? Did they use the Illinois Tollway? Did the police ever view Tollway videos to confirm who was in the rental car when it passed through the several toll booths?
What do the rental car records reveal? How many miles was the car driven? Were tolls charged to any transponder in the car? Where was gas purchased?

At what time did they arrive in Mount Vernon? Were Ryan and Nathan Ridge interviewed separately and more than once about the arrival time and events of the week-end?

Did Jenn drive Beth to Centralia on Sunday, May 23? By what route? What did she do after she says she dropped Beth off near the train station? Was Beth's phone used to order a pizza from Pogue's Pizza in Mount Vernon right about the time Beth was being driven to Centralia? Was the pizza picked up or not?

When did Beth's dinner with her father on May 23 for his birthday get canceled? Who canceled it? Doesn't anyone else think it strange that a daughter blows off her father's birthday celebration with an out-of-town trip? Why did some think that Beth and Jenn went to Wisconsin, not to Mount Vernon?

What were the arrangements for Jenn to meet Beth on Monday and return to the Woodstock house, where Beth would pick up her car and go home? What time did Jenn, who didn't have a valid driver's license, leave Mount Vernon? What route did she take back to Woodstock? Again, tolls paid? When did Jenn realize that Beth wasn't showing up?

Telephone records don't seem to indicate a lot of worry before Beth was reported missing?

A brand-new investigation should be started, right from the beginning. There is information available now that wasn't available then. Why not use this information and go back to the beginning of the case and start fresh. Re-interview all the people in Beth's life: family, friends, co-workers, acquaintances. Track down all the connections. Build a matrix and connect the dots.

If you were missing, would you want people to stop looking?