Beth Bentley - gone 3 years today

May 23, 2010 - the last day that Beth Bentley may have been seen alive.

That's the day, three years ago today, that Jennifer Wyatt-Paplham says she dropped Beth off at the Amtrak Station in Centralia, Ill. At the time people were led to believe that Beth had taken the northbound train toward Chicago just after 6:00PM.

On June 10, 2010, Jenn called me out of the blue and told me that Beth never intended to take the train. She also said that Beth never intended to spend the week-end with brothers Ryan and Nathan Ridge and her.

It's impossible to know whether there is any remaining interest in an investigation by any police department into her disappearance. The Woodstock (Ill.) Police Department claimed the lead, because Beth was reported missing to that department on May 24, 2010. On that day Beth and Jenn were, according to Jenn on June 10, to meet up in northern Illinois, so that they could return to Woodstock together in time for Beth to pick up her car at Jenn's house at 749 Tara Drive and get home before her husband, Scott Bentley, got home from work.

That plan doesn't "compute" with the timeline of phone calls that day and the flurry of activity in the evening when Beth was nowhere to be found. Police were finally notified late in the evening.

Many questions are open:

Why did Beth park her car in Jenn's garage and rent a car for the 300-mile trip to Mt. Vernon, Ill.?
Why did Beth tell Scott she was going to Wisconsin?
Did Beth intend to have dinner with her father on May 23 and celebrate his birthday?
What were Beth's activities on Thursday night, Friday, Saturday and Sunday?
What do Jenn, Ryan and Nathan really know about that week-end?
Did Beth really vanish from Centralia, Ill.?
What were the plans for Beth and Jenn to meet up on Monday?

There are many more open questions.

See today's article in the Northwest Herald about this case.

Three years... without a trace. Where is Beth Bentley?