Sunday, May 12, 2013

Beth Bentley - gone 155 weeks

Beth Bentley was 41 when she vanished nearly three years ago. That was shortly after Mother's Day 2010.

Mother's Day in 2010 was on May 9. Beth vanished on or about May 23. Shortly after she vanished, there was some chatter about a Mother's Day week-end, girls' getaway trip by Beth and her friend, Jenn Wyatt. The rumor was that they had gone to St. Louis.

There was some talk about a fancy hotel in St. Louis and how Beth and Jenn split up or got separated and, when it was time to meet up on Monday and head to the airport, Jenn wasn't able to find Beth. Were they to fly back to Chicago? (If so, how did they travel south?) If Jenn returned to Woodstock alone, there certainly would have been travel arrangements that easily could have been tracked by investigators.

There was a lot of "talk" about a "Mystery Man" from St. Louis, but he was never publicly identified. Maybe never identified.

Did police ever track down that rumor of a St. Louis trip? What police agency would have investigated it? Woodstock P.D.? Probably not the Mt. Vernon P.D. or Centralia P.D. or the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department. Why would they trot over to St. Louis? They wouldn't.

If Beth was meeting "somebody" in Centralia near the Amtrak Station on the Sunday when Jenn says she dropped Beth off there just before 6:00PM, could that "St. Louis" man have been the "somebody"?

In 2010 there were volunteers ready to go to St. Louis to try to find that "fancy" hotel that supposed Beth had raved about. But where do you start in a big city?

The St. Louis trip could have been important, because some people were trying to discredit reports that a waitress in Mt. Vernon had waited on Beth, Jenn, and Ryan and Nathan Ridge in the Frosty Mug on Friday night, May 21, 2010. A waitress reportedly refused to serve alcoholic beverages to Nathan because he couldn't prove he was 21. That's because he couldn't; he would not be 21 for a few more days. The naysayers were claiming that the four were in the Frosty Mug on May 7; were they?

3 comments:

Unknown said...

Tell me why you feel compelled to slander Beth Bentley in such a way.

Ugly rumors do not become you.

Innocent until proven guilty, remember?

Please stop bashing Beth.

Gus said...

Annie, you misunderstand. The intent is to find out what happened to Beth Bentley.

If "ugly rumors", as you call them, are swept under the rug, she (or her body) will never be found.

Absolutely every detail, every rumor, should have been investigated. Had they been, the "mystery" of her disappearance would have been solved 2½ years ago.

If her circle of friends started telling the truth and volunteering information and names, then her family would know what happened to her that week-end.

Do you really think she just walked down the tracks and out of Centralia?

Unknown said...

Of course not. I feel she was met with foul play; not at her doing.