Now that Spring is almost here, will there be some serious plans for searching for Beth Bentley, either in the Woodstock area or in Jefferson County, Ill., near Mount Vernon? Bentley, 41 at the time she disappeared, hasn't been seen since May 20-21-22-23, 2010, depending on to whom you talk.
If you talk to local Woodstock residents, they haven't seen her since Thursday night, May 20, after her youngest son's baseball game.
If you talk to a waitress in Mount Vernon, she was last seen in the Frosty Mug, a restaurant and bar in Mount Vernon.
Supposedly she went on a boat rental on Rend Lake and was seen in an IGA grocery store on Saturday with her distinctive, designer bag.
If you talk to her friend, co-worker and traveling companion, Jennifer Wyatt, Beth was last seen in Centralia, Ill. on Sunday near the Amtrak station, when Wyatt dropped her off before 6:00PM. Some (many?) jumped to the conclusion initially that Beth had taken the northbound 6:08PM train to Chicago, intending to catch the 12:30AM (May 24) Metra to Woodstock, arriving at 2:01AM.
But then there is a report of a pizza's being ordered from Beth's cell phone in Mount Vernon about the time Wyatt says she dropped Beth off in Centralia.
And now there are rumors that Beth's cell phone "pinged" in McHenry County about 11:00PM that Sunday night. And of a break-in at her husband's office, where she was the office manager, that night and tampering with computers.
On June 10 Wyatt called me and told me that Beth never intended to take a train to Chicago.
So, if Wyatt did drop Beth off in Centralia, what was Beth going to do? Was Beth going to meet someone? Be picked up by someone? Be driven back to northern Illinois, where Wyatt and Beth would rendezvous so that they could return to Woodstock together?
The investigation into Beth's disappearance needs to start again, right at Square 1.
You never know who is interested…
3 months ago
3 comments:
I couldn't agree more, Gus. My fiance and I are just pretty regular people, we don't have an income, even combined, of anything like an atty's income. I know that my fiance would sell his soul(kidney, left arm, everything we own) and take on a 3rd or 4th job to hire a P.I. to find me or at least to help look. I hope that Mr. Bentley has done as much for his missing wife. As always, prayers for the boys, friends, family and most of all - BETH.
Why hasn't the fbi been involved or rend lake dragged?
Rend Lake is a huge lake.
Some attention was given to the Big Muddy River (which looks more like a creek), and supposedly a deputy went to a bridge that was identified and reported that he didn't find anything in the water there. It was never clear if any boats were used to check the banks downstream from the bridge or if the deputy got dirty and walked the banks.
As for the FBI, I suspect nobody reported any suspicion on an interstate crime and asked the FBI to assist.
In fact, the police don't seem to think that any crime occurred. They must be the only ones.
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