Beth Bentley - gone 192 weeks

I hear that there is some chatter on a Facebook page that is questioning whether I could name 25 people who should be on an investigator's list regarding the disappearance of Beth Bentley in May 2010. So I sat down and wrote out the list. (And, no, Kool Breeze, I am not going to name the one who won't be on my list.)

I went sailing past 25 without even slowing down.

One member of Beth's family called somebody a "moron" on that page and said that a private investigator had been hired. Funny how that's news to quite a number of people. Here's what he had to say on the "Missing Beth Bentley" page on Facebook:

"He has always been a moron, he doesn't do it for the sake of finding her or in any good interest. It's all for his own publicity. Plus he doesn't have a clue what the hell he's talking about. Most of his consistent "questions" are already known. Also a PI was hired and it didn't get anywhere unfortunately."

If he is referring to my "consistent 'questions'", yes, the questions are known. But where are the answers?

Private Investigators charge thousands of dollars. If they are worth anything, they get somewhere. An investigator's list would have been twice as long as mine, because he would have picked up leads (names) from the people he interviewed. 

It is believed that the $4,000 raised at Gus's Roadhouse was spent the following week in Las Vegas. No one knows what part of it was spent on finding Beth or why such a quick search, if there was a search, was focused there. The Reward Fund at Chase Bank reached the grand sum of about $140. Two people kicked in $125 on top of the $25 opening deposit. Remember the infamous Trust document?

So I say to that family member: Where is your own blog or website about your mother? Where are your weekly postings? Where is the ongoing plea to the public to provide information that will lead to her or lead to those responsible for her disappearance?

I didn't know her. I had never heard her name before she disappeared. Why do I write every week?

Because a Woodstock woman is missing, and the City should not forget her. The local police never enlisted the help of the public. It was "We're the police; we know best." The Woodstock Police no longer update the City Manager or the City Council on this case. It's "out of sight, out of mind."

When they charged Jenn Wyatt with two counts of perjury, they didn't have a snowball's chance in Hell of convicting her. That was obvious upon the filing of the charges. The State's Attorney Office never should have accepted the charges. When you charge someone with a crime, you ought to believe you have the evidence to convict them. Woodstock PD didn't and should have known it.

So the question is, Where is Beth Bentley?