Plea to City Council in Beth Bentley case

Last night at the meeting of the Woodstock City Council I asked the Council to raise the level of importance to the City for finding Beth Bentley. She has been missing now for more than a year, and it feels to many like she never existed.

Beth's case has always been classified a Missing Person case, not a criminal case. There has not been one press conference by the Woodstock Police Department. Three posters have made their way to the PD's website but are buried down past many "clicks", where they will seldom be seen. Whatever would cause anyone to go searching through the City's boring website?

The family has been conspicuously quiet about its missing family member. Monica Caison, founder of the CUE Center for Missing Persons (Wilmington, N.C.) says she has never seen a case like this one.

In the April 2011 report of the Woodstock Police Department to the City Council is this entry: "The Investigations Division and the Illinois State Police have continued to aggressively follow up on a leads (sic) and investigate the Missing Person Benedetta "Beth" Bentley case."

I told the City that it must speak out for its missing resident, who cannot speak out for herself. We, the residents of Woodstock, cannot let this case just slide under the rug. The people of the City will get involved, but they are going to have to get pushy about it. It is way past time for high public involvement.

It's time for family members and friends to put their cards on the table and stopped holding them close to their chests. Every bit of information belongs in the hands of the investigators. Everything! Rumors, suspicions, every gap in connecting the dots...

Every "pregnant pause" in the online interview by Jon Leiberman must be explored. That's the freshest information. What "wasn't said" is important.