Sunday, November 24, 2013

Beth Bentley - gone 183 weeks now

Beth Bentley has been missing 3½ years. There has been no word of or from her, and right away there was no reported use of her cell phone or credit cards after she was last seen on May 23, 2010.

Assuming that is the date when she was last seen.

What really happened, if Beth did spend that week-end in Mount Vernon with three of her friends? This is always been a Missing Person case, as originally classified by the Woodstock (Ill.) Police Department.

Often, in missing-person cases, a police department puts out a lot of information, trying to get help from the public. That didn't happen in this case, and a fair number of people are still wondering why not.

The story was:
Beth rented a car for the week-end.
Beth and her friend, Jenn Wyatt, drove to Mt. Vernon late on May 20, 2010.
They stayed with two male friends there. The two males are brothers.
Friday night they ate at the Frosty Mug.
They rented a boat on a local lake on Saturday.
On Sunday Beth got out of the rental car in Centralia, Ill.
On Monday, May 24, Jenn, who had no valid driver's license, drove the rental car back to Woodstock.

Jenn was to meet up with Beth and drive to Jenn's rental house in Woodstock, where Beth's car was parked in the garage.

Is all of that story true?
Is some of it true?
Is any of it true?

A starting point would be the number of miles on the odometer of the rental car. Were enough miles recorded to drive to Mt. Vernon. It's about 335 miles to Mt. Vernon - one-way. So, were 770-1,000 miles on the rental car's odometer, when it was returned? Did it have an I-Pass, and were any tolls recorded?

Woodstock's police chief was reported in the news to have said that there had been boat rental on Saturday and that all who went out, came back.

What route did Beth and Jenn take to Mt. Vernon, and what route did Jenn take back?

Is anybody trying to tear the story apart and determine whether or not it makes sense?

What were the "activities" of the two women and the two men during the week-end?

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