The missing-person flier for Beth Bentley has been restored to the Woodstock (Ill.) Police Department website, not that anyone is likely to see it. It is buried down several clicks where, very likely, no one boldly ever goes.
Monthly reports of Bentley's disappearance to the Woodstock City Manager and City Council were dropped several months ago, and on last Sunday it was observed that Bentley's flier was gone from the PD website. Now it's back.
Unfortunately, it has never been updated. It's pretty likely that this case has gone cold and that no investigative time is being devoted to it.
The flier contains information that is now doubtful, but it has not been removed or updated. For example, Beth wasn't "staying" in the Mt. Vernon Illinois area. She was visiting for the week-end.
Only one person has publicly said that Beth was dropped off on the afternoon of May 23, 2010, near the Centralia (Ill.) Amtrak station. Jenn Wyatt is that one and only person. Did she really droop Beth off there? Does the mileage record for the rental car support the 50-mile roundtrip?
Have Ryan and Nathan Ridge been interviewed about that? Separately? As to the time when Jenn and Beth left Mt. Vernon? And the time that Jenn returned? And what their conversations were all about, regarding what Beth was to do after being dropped off? And about who used Beth's phone to order a pizza from Pogue's Pizza at the time she would have been on the way to Centralia?
And that no one using any names connected with Beth bought a train ticket "at" the Centralia station. Was the station even open on that day? Don't passengers buy their tickets on the train? Maybe the station was open that Sunday? Was it? Any locals know the operating hours for any ticket window in Centralia?
Credit cards - no activity since 5-23-10. But what about the activity "on" May 23 - the payment on a credit card that later went into default and was written off? Am I the only one who thinks it is suspicious that a payment was made on the account on the very day she vanished?
There is no longer a Woodstock CrimeStoppers group. Was the reward offer transferred to CrimeStoppers of McHenry County or did it expire when the Woodstock group disbanded?
Would it really be too much work for the Woodstock Police Department to update its missing-person flier for a resident who has been missing for more than three years?
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3 months ago
2 comments:
If I died tomorrow, most of my bills would continue to be paid via online bill pay until my executor stops them. So I doubt there is anything unusual about her credit card bill being paid.
I was hoping to examine her credit card statements, because the account was in collection and in the McHenry County Circuit Court. Unfortunately, the credit card company sold it to a collection firm, and it filed only the balance due, not the statements.
Agree that a scheduled payment could explain the payment. The coincidence is enough to raise suspicion, considering everything else in this case.
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