126 weeks - solving Beth Bentley case

Beth Bentley, 41 when she vanished in May 2010, has now been missing 126 weeks. That's two years and four months.

Month after month, the Woodstock Police Department reports on this case to the City Manager, for relay to the City Council. Every month they submit the same boilerplate. Month after month. Meaning? No meaningful activity. Why does the City Manager accept the boilerplate? Why do the Mayor and City Council accept it? Why aren't they cracking the whip and demanding progress?

Want to find out what happened to Beth Bentley?

Let's look at the telephone records for Beth and her circle of friends and acquaintances. Say, going back a couple of months to March 2010 and then working forward. What happened in March? Is there at least one significant telephone call in the records? Maybe one that started the ball rolling downhill? Inspect and analyze the patterns. Look for variations. Ask questions.

And then start looking more carefully about a week before she disappeared. And then even more carefully at cell phone records for Thursday, May 20, which possibly could be the day that she vanished. And not just at Beth's cell phone records. All the records.

Why did communications start at 5:00AM on May 20? Why was Beth battered with incoming phone calls and text messages from members of the "posse", as one group of her so-called friends has been called? What was the content of those text messages and phone calls?

Did Beth ever really get out of Woodstock? Did she really make it to Mt. Vernon? Three people should know. Jenn Wyatt. Ryan Ridge. Nathan Ridge.

When you look at the pattern of text messages and phone calls on May 20 and then compare the cell phone activity for May 21-22, red flags fly all over the field.

Why would Jenn call Ryan many times on Sunday morning, May 22? She was supposed to be in Mt. Vernon with him. Weren't they dating then? Weren't Beth and Jenn staying at the house in Mt. Vernon with Ryan and Nathan? The succession of phone calls indicates, to me, a level of urgency or panic. Why didn't Ryan answer? More importantly, why was she calling him in the first place?

Then analyze the phone records for Monday, May 23, the day that Jenn says she was supposed to meet back up with Beth, in order to return to Woodstock in time for Beth to get home before her husband got home from work. The records tell an interesting story by the calls that are not there.  When did Jenn first begin to worry that Beth was not going to meet her?

Jenn's phone records show whom she called and at what time. The real story is between the lines.

Have the police asked all these questions? They are the ones who are supposed to be investigating Beth's disappearance! When will the Woodstock Police Department decide that this is not a missing-person case?

Which one of her "friends" will be first to come forward with "There's something you need to know"? If you don't trust the police, come to me. I'll help you get in touch with law enforcement officials whom you can trust.