Showing posts with label CUE Center. Show all posts
Showing posts with label CUE Center. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

CUE Center involvement in Bentley case

The CUE (Community Unified Effort) Center for Missing Persons (www.cuecenter.org/ and www.ncmissingpersons.org/) was founded in 1994 by Monica Carlson. Since that year it has helped more than 9,000 families in their efforts to find lost family members. The CUE Center is headquartered in Wilmington, N.C.

Recently, I received an email from a "~Linda~" and a private Yahoo! Mail email address with information about the Cue Center's efforts in the Beth Bentley case. ~Linda~ (there was no last name in the email) has now been identified to me as Linda Stovall, and she is a volunteer with the CUE Center.

The CUE Center assisted in the development of a new site created by Beth's brother in Arizona, and it can be viewed at www.helpfindbethbentley.com/

Sunday, January 23, 2011

35 weeks now - Beth Bentley missing

Is it still a Missing Person case, or is it time for the police to say "Foul play is likely"?

Beth Bentley, 41, has been missing since the third week of May. There seem to be plenty of "persons of interest", but the police have never named even one. That's the term police use, when they aren't ready to call someone a suspect and have to read him his rights.

Received an email from someone today using the sender name of linda4cuecenter@yahoo.com. I suspected immediately, of course, that this person is not associated with the CUE Center for Missing Persons, which is a national organization headquartered in North Carolina. Personally, I object to an individual's creating the appearance of an affiliation with an organization, when none likely exists.

That sender included a direction to the new "official" Beth Bentley blog, which now includes a plea for tips to be sent to it for forwarding to police. It is better for you to provide your tips directly to police. If you also want to inform search organizations, why not? But send tips directly to police first.

That "Linda" claims to be an "internet project manager/caseworker" and lists the website for the CUE Center below her title. This might cause recipients to believe she is affiliated with the CUE Center, but note that she does not directly so claim. If she were with the CUE Center, my guess is that she would have a CUE domain for her email address.