Beth Bentley - now gone 154 weeks

Beth Bentley, Woodstock mother of 3, vanished on May 23, 2010 (or so). That's the day that Jenn Wyatt says she dropped Beth off near the Centralia, Ill. Amtrak station about 6:00PM.

Jenn said she didn't know what Beth's plans were.

On June 10th Jenn called me and told me that Beth never intended to take a train.

Now, let's start adding up 2 + 2 and see what we get.

Beth and Jenn were bosom buddies. Jenn worked for Beth. Beth bought a car for Jenn to drive. Supposedly, Beth paid the rent on Jenn's rental house at 749 Tara Drive, Woodstock. Presumably, Jenn got paid for working the law office where Beth Bentley was office manager and maybe legal secretary, since it was the office of her husband. Did she get W-2 income (wages), subject to withholding, or did she get paid "Cash". If she got paid in "cash" or what some people refer to as "under the table", the law office still had the legal obligation (Hello, IRS?) to produce a Form 1099, if it paid Jenn more than $600 in dollars or "in kind". (In a child support action in McHenry County, Jenn has said she didn't have any income.)

Beth and Jenn had gone on other girls' week-ends away. You'd sort of guess that they knew each other pretty well.

Beth rented a car for them to drive to Mount Vernon and left her own car in Jenn's garage. Beth would have had to rent it, because Jenn's California driver's license was expired. Beth should have been the only driver of the rental car. Let's assume they didn't sweat about the "small stuff", since Jenn was going to have to drive the rental car back to Mount Vernon that Sunday and then back to Woodstock on Monday, even without a valid driver's license.

Is there anyone on the planet who would believe that one woman would drive her BFF 30 miles and drop her off in a small town without knowing where she was going? Or with whom, if she was meeting someone?

Unless ... unless they had had some kind of falling out... But if they had, why didn't Beth take the car (she was the renter and the only legal driver) and leave Jenn to make her own way back to Woodstock?

There are some stones here that haven't been turned over yet.

How many people really know what happened to Beth? Do they have "reasons" for not talking to the police? What could some of those reasons be?