Read this article about efforts to find Holly Bobo, 20, a young woman reportedly abducted from her home in Tennessee. http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/17/hundreds-search-tennessee-woods-for-missing-nursing-student/?ncid=webmail
Then compare the urgency that can be recognized in those efforts with any "urgency" (or lack thereof) in the search for Beth Bentley, missing from Woodstock (or Mt. Vernon or Centralia or (wherever)).
Yes, there are differences. A 41-year-old mother of three vs. a 20-year-old nursing student. An unknown point of disappearance vs. an observed abduction. And I could go on with the comparisons, but they are meaningless.
The Bentley case is cold. It has been allowed to go cold. The absence of family involvement, outcry and demands for action has probably contributed to the lack of media attention. Although Beth is from a small (relatively) community, compared to a big city, there still is much more "press" that could have been gotten.
Has Beth's husband "moved on", as some have described it? Some have even been searching online records of other Illinois counties, looking for any divorce action that might have been filed. But how do you file a divorce action, when the whereabouts of the spouse are unknown and in question? Does a judge inquire why the spouse isn't present, or does the Court just accept a bland statement like, "Service of divorce papers was attempted, but the other party cannot be located."
People who never met Beth seem to be taking a greater interest in finding her. Why is that? Is it because they care about any human being who is missing? Beth Bentley didn't just walk off the edge of the earth. Someone knows what happened to her.
How much longer will it take to find out?
You never know who is interested…
3 months ago
2 comments:
I believe that one would publish a legal notice in the newspaper prior to the divorce, and then bring the certificate of publication to court. Service via publication, but, then, her husband, being a lawyer would know that.
I still have Beth's missing poster up on the glass of the business I manage. So many of my customers comment on it and tell me of their dealings with Beth or her husband. Though rumors and gossip are just that, I am amazed at how all of these unrealted people say just about the same things. Since none of it is flattering to either of them, I will not post what is said. I do wonder though if their reputations have something to do with the lack of interest in this case.
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