Beth Bentley - now it's 51 weeks she has been gone

In last Thursday’s Daily Herald the Round Lake Park police explained the details surrounding the death of Melissa Best, 34, a town resident who disappeared on a Friday and whose body was found ten days later in her vehicle in an apartment community’s parking lot.

The full story is at http://dailyherald.com/article/20110512/news/705129897/

Best had driven to the Waukegan motel residence of her brother-in-law and his wife, who allegedly gave Best heroin that she injected into an arm. Best died of morphine intoxication. Round Lake Park Police Chief George Filenko said that morphine intoxication would be consistent for someone who used heroin.

Melissa Best’s brother-in-law, Charles Best, and his wife, Sherry, have been arrested and charged with concealing a homicide.

Why is all this important in Woodstock? There have been rumors of drug use floating around in regard to Beth Bentley’s disappearance. Let’s say she OD’ed right here in Woodstock and never left Woodstock on Thursday night. Where is her body?

In Gary, Indiana, a boy’s body was recently found in concrete poured in a carport.

Or let’s say she did make it to Mount Vernon and died during some partying there. Again, where’s the body?

Concealment of a homicide is a felony. Somebody knows what happened to Beth. Should he (or she) decide to try to save his (her) own neck? Eventually someone is going to say what happened. Are there some who have heard what happened but who weren’t directly involved? Could they be charged with conspiracy to conceal a death?