anybody could see how close they were. >> sure. >> i came into contact as a news reporter covering the disappearance itself. advanced technology. she was the brains of the operation. >> and your very first reaction was what? it's impossible to get around. See production, box office & company info. >> you know, i don't want to speak badly about my sister. the highway of tears. if only she could speak to the spirits the way her mom once did. -no. >> when "dateline" continues. FACTS -Wendy Ratte a wife and mother of 2 kids disappeared on August 18th,1997 at the age of 44 -American free-spirit born in a well to do family from New England -Became a teacher like both parents -Had a bipolar personality -One of her odd personalities was Shanna, a wild child who wanted nothing but freedom -Ran away from home twice and there was a stick. she had done it before. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. >> you couldn't not look at it as a possibility. -you don't know him. >> shawna seemed to have been around off and on for quite a while. >> in fact, the mr. big undercover technique has been repeatedly upheld by canada's supreme court. but that's not catchy, is it? the types of scenarios that they do. you know, i think no loved one really wants to believe that someone they know and care about could be responsible for somebody's murder. >> better? >> so you were able to dispense with that one pretty quickly? why not lie about killing wendy, too, especially when what was at stake was his acceptance in the gang and his new job which he loved as mr. big's loyal foot soldier. mr. big will only accept the truth. and after four weeks, the end to the 13-year-old mystery was finally at hand. >> he said he did it between the house and the garage. with less eczema, you can show more skin. >> but anna watched the tapes, too, and she said she could tell. her abandoned van wasn't far from the highway. >> there is that. -sorry. you live it. Advertisement In 2003, in Las Cruces, New Mexico, residents were shocked by the news of a heinous crime inflicted upon a 22-year-old New Mexico State University . "It's a tragic story but it's really interesting to explore both the mystery of how her mother disappeared and then looking at the emotional and human drama of the daughter's quest to find justice for her mother and then discovering the ultimate betrayal," he said. Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. but "dateline nbc" reviewed an rcmp summary of the mission. >> translator: there was a big thing with a cover on. so what was it? >> but denis' sister dion said that what she observed in saskatchewan when anna and gabriel were still young weren't just mood swings but something far more complicated than that. i always considered him about as close as a hero as i girl could get. The case had languished for years but in 2008, Denis, her husband, became the subject of an elaborate undercover operation, known as a "Mr. Big" sting, in which police officers posing as high-level criminals to gain the suspect's trust. i guess i look pretty ridiculous. >> translator: there was mud, right? a stand mixer for less than $20. >> at first for almost an hour, denis seemed to be in denial. >> he was fed up, over it? there's no shortage of other theories in the case, though theories like rumors are easy. Izhar Harpaz, a producer for Dateline NBC, was in Prince George on Thursday to get a look at the sites and scenes related to the disappearance of Wendy Ann Twiss Ratte. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. and although the rcmp did not find any physical evidence to corroborate denis' confession to mr. big and his gang, it turned out they did have evidence that was perhaps much more compelling, and they got it after denis ratte was arrested. >> frank peebles of the "prince george citizen." denis ratte answered with conviction, "no, i did not." and best of all, their services are completely free. >> that was just four months before she vanished leaving nothing but a van in the local parking lot. so, man, whenever i do hear one. i'm not eating at the soup kitchen anymore. i said, "okay, you were right. Plot summary Add synopsis Genres Documentary News Parents guide Add content advisory Details Language English Production company NBC News See more company credits at IMDbPro Technical specs Runtime >> yeah, definitely. i saw the truth on his face in that tape. >> there was a polygraph question that had to be asked. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. >> anna knows all too well the truth will never replace her mother's soothing voice. anyone would say it's 100% certain that my dad did it. Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). don't forget. they created from scratch a fake criminal organization complete with detectives posing as, crooks. most of her family sided with gabriel. 837 miles of exquisite natural beauty winding its way past dramatic snow-capped mountains and breathtaking vistas of lush forests. it was a surprise to me. we all see it. what are you trying to get? >> i remember her saying that she felt -- she felt at home there. the staged kidnapping. finally in 2007, a decade now since wendy vanished, thomas decided that if she wanted to get closer to denis to find out what he knew once and for all, she would need some help. >> and unlike diane and gabriel, unlike her mom's family in the states, anna was convinced her father was guilty as charged. so on. and now her dear brother refusing to share her outrage. >> when "dateline" continues you clean dishes as you cook. gabriel was at work when the call came. they might not have looked at him twice. when we use it to improve things, then that change can last within us. so two wendys? >> we checked into that and met with dead ends. i guess he sort of could because he was winning quite a bit. >> who are these people? but anna had another word for it. >> translator: she didn't suffer. >> wendy, an art teacher by trade, taught her kids to help others, to speak up and be heard like her. have been okay. that was home. >> that's a job interview. so i think that went on to the visa, as well. hello. Her remains were never found, and the case remained unsolved for more than a decade, until her husband Denis Ratte was charged in 2008, after he confessed to police during a so-call Mr. Big police sting operation. >> and he admitted it. the best thing we can be is striving to be at our best. >> i didn't give it a lot of, thought, to the point where i tried to remember her face and i couldn't. i know she'd spent some time in new mexico when she was getting her teaching degree, and she loved it. but thomas has investigated those cases and expected no such surprise in wendy's case, was sure of it, in fact. didn't get that at all. you have to keep an open mind when you start on these investigations because we had at that point very limited information on who wendy was. >> it struck me there as going -- >> why didn't he tell me that the first time? >> $2,000, exactly. >> was her mom alive? Her remains were never found, and the case remained unsolved for more than a decade,. >> then, denis continued, he put the body in the plymouth voyager, made a left turn onto highway 16, the highway of tears, and drove to an abandoned logger loggers road, 1.5 hours away. finally, he was sure. i couldn't. we're going to fix them. he said, no, and especially not first thing in the morning outside my window. he hadn't been back in 11 years. >> you would have heard that surely. >> he said that's not wendy, that's shawna. the undercover detectives had him just where they wanted him. Dateline Latest Episodes NEW S31 E19 | 02/26/23 The Window NEW S28 E29 | 02/24/23 Before Daylight S31 E18 | 02/17/23 Footprints in the Snow S31 E17 | 02/10/23 Who Killed Mindy Morgenstern? and there was nothing else to. why wouldn't you say, oh, well, of course, i didn't do it, you know, i was just trying to get in with this organization. Currently, Gabriel Ratt works as a Candidat La Profession d'Ingnieur at BBA. >> a month before she, disappeared, wendy decided she needed some distance from denis. and they might have -- she made about a enemy for sure. >> right. >> mm-hmm. after trying other medications. so the obvious question -- did you have the feeling that this is a woman who might have just up and left? he was left high and dry without being able to work anymore. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. Plot summary Add synopsis Genre Crime Add content advisory Details Release date June 14, 2013. in a prince george courtroom, the battle lines were drawn. i still love her even. >> translator: that's what we're going to do. a 4k television for under, $2. >> why should you replace her? "That's why movies work so well everywhere in the world, because we all gravitate towards certain human dramas and certainly this is one drama of the highest order. >> correct. but this time with a quite unexpected outcome. and that's your left side, right? when he tried to return to work, tough as he was, he just couldn't. mom didn't miss appointments. standard practice in unsolved cases. [phone rings] "sore throat pain? >> oops. >> then there were the clothes denis said wendy wore. if i open up enough, she'll come talk to me. disappeared, he volunteered to take the test. Or, did danger lurk closer to home? thomas interviewed wendy's mother about her daughter's troubled youth. i saw the "i'm caught" look in his eye. >> he made a lot of money, first of all. >> the story you're about to witness is all too real, though it may seem perhaps implausible. might be angry with me for the results of where this trial led. >> i spoke to him in french about how i loved him, first of all. the reason for that was history. coming up -- the investigation is transformed when detectives run up against a fresh and frustrating piece of evidence. >> the first time that i really noticed it was with the kids. >> so it was -- >> never happened. "My father took everything," Sieppert told the judge. she was everybody's mom, and she just disappeared. but as anna looked around, her eye caught something familiar. >> translator: i said it there? but wendy could still have left prince george of her own accord. along the way, and left the van in this grocery store parking lot. i asked, you know, do you hear gunshots all the time. >> we spoke at length. and shipping is always free. -are you ok? >> denis could no longer be the family's strong, stable protector. and unlike big glucosamine chondroitin pills, it's all in one tiny pill. >> were denis' two confessions evidence enough? a macbook pro for under $16. i didn't want to leave a mark, right? Wendy Ratte was 47-years-old when she disappeared while shopping in downtown Prince George in August of 1997. the honest truth. It'd take an elaborate, undercover mission to finally crack this case. they took a while to find the place. to find out what happened, an elite group of detectives launched an elaborate mission. this is her little brother, gabriel. that family had moved four months i believe prior. who are these people? i broke down. inside everything looked normal, so anna drove the van home. she came to light sometimes at seances with anna and gabriel. >> translator: she didn't suffer. >> i always thought of our family as a perfect little family. they told me that they know it that my father did it and they are 100% certain of it. >> it turned out he had a lot of nerve damage down the right side of his body. It'd take an elaborate, undercover mission to finally crack this case.Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. you might even qualify for free health insurance with no monthly premium. back to vancouver to his college graduation that very same day. On Thursday his daughter Anna Sieppert delivered an emotional victim impact statement that left staff in the Prince George courtroom in tears. >> upon our review, we came to the same conclusion as judy did, that denis ratte was the suspect in his wife's disappearance. -okay. clear lakes reflecting the blue skies above. >> his failings had been put on display. >> the jones family. A crew from the U.S. network television show Dateline NBC is in Prince George gathering footage and interviews for an episode on the 1997 murder of a Prince George woman and the subsequent. >> a disturbing echo of other stories peebles knew all too well. because mom was never late. 0. >> and they sat me down and said, we've just arrested your father for the murder of your mother. >> i think he didn't see what i saw. he had such a miserable, lonely life that i believe he -- at that point would have said almost anything. Or, did danger lurk closer to home? what it took for her to forgive him hurt him deeply. >> my brother was lost. and waited to see what the machine would say. >> he prided himself on being able to read people and know when -- when to held 'em, when to fold 'em. >> translator: you have killed your friend? "The stories don't just come upon you in your immediate neck of the woods," he said. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. it doesn't matter that my family. that she would not leave her children. >> it was a blow that he'd gone that low, but when i tried to. there was usually a game in town. we asked her repeatedly, and she said, "i saw her, she was sitting at that table over there." CLIP 06/06/22 . and, by the way, he failed that lie detector test all those years ago. so i went and knocked on the door, and they said no, there is nobody here. word was a serial killer was on the loose. it was his first offense so he only got probation. when "dateline" continues. thanks again for -- for rushing over. this was one of those people who was not going to let this go. It's not yet certain if Harpaz will be back with a camera crew to film a piece for Dateline NBC, a newsmagazine driven by stories of true crime, investigative reporting, and social justice. when it came time for him to leave, she said "take me with you." >> he said, i couldn't just tell them i did nothing. >> and you know how people are they talk. >> translator: in the head. >> absolutely. >> translator: you know, it's hard. i never knew when my symptoms would keep us apart. he has blue hair. denis ratte caught by an elaborate undercover sting, a confessor to murder, sat in jail while outside his two children, anna and gabriel, battled over whether he belonged there. was it wendy? but new ways of working demand a new type of network. >> judy told me, "we don't understand. so i remember standing in line to go to the cinema, just, feeling awful, feeling the weight of what's happening and having it feel so odd that we're doing that. Harpaz is willing to travel to some far off places in search of a story. she didn't understand that her. >> then it got more serious. >> i said, you know, get used to it. The incident garnered a whole lot of media attention and later an adaptation of the case by the hit crime series, "Dateline" on NBC. while shawna was the wild child. it i did it, and it paid off. none of that showed up. so, uh, yeah, just a silly mistake. i want you to tell me the truth." what about the jones family, the neighbors who wendy helped evict from their property? but her brother, gabriel? a horrifying surprise for passersby. and she said, "i'm not wendy anymore." i'm going to tell you. Ratte case draws NBC Dateline's attention The 1997 murder of a Prince George woman and the subsequent conviction of her husband for second-degree murder 13 years later could be featured on a U.S.. >> over time the target is led to believe that he is an up-and-comer in the criminal organization. that was never diagnosed. -keep it coming. >> you hear right, truthful. >> cory keenan, a criminologist at vancouver's simon frazer university, has studied these operations and written a book about them. the gunshot, the tarp, the carjack. the emissaries of divine light. the joneses, appearing in the newspaper accusing the family of mistreating their animals and using their land as a garbage dump. she just vibrated. so he says, i made up a story that i thought they would find me some kind of alibi or something, he says, and they'll fix it so that the cops would get off my case. coming up -- and gabriel isn't the only one with doubts. >> a couple of days later, anna got a call. wendy found work off and on as a substitute teacher at the local high school. 555 Followers, 615 Following, 901 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Gabriel Ratt (@grattehandy) grattehandy. all of us, i think, saw him as someone who would die to protect his family. she was a completely different person. >> and it was on one of those smoke-filled nights, sometime around february 1997, six months before wendy disappeared when hunched around the poker table, in the company of high roller, denis found himself staring at a hand that spelled salvation, with $25,000 in chips sitting on the table. Rate. as well as a playstation 4 for under $16. gabriel noticed that the old self-assured denis was back. and all of a sudden she was very cold and very abrupt with them. once neighbors of the rattes, not exactly friends. that the rcmp had let the case go cold. it's there to seek the truth. i didn't know -- this is like three years' buildup of just holding it in. it had been years since she took the van to run errands for her husband and never return, but the pain of her parents failed to return. he did, though he said he didn't like it. you're looking for a grout brush, this is -- garth, did he ask for your help? with a rifle, one shot, you know, nice and easy. >> but perhaps the most convincing argument diane heard was from denis himself when she went to see him in jail. >> wendy became a dedicated wife, teacher, artist, mother. and finally we asked him, you know, "what is going on?" -blue. Accident, Suicide, or Murder Hollywood Horror. it didn't matter where we lived, as long as we were together. >> it was not only damaging for the joneses, it was humiliating. they seem -- seemed real at the time. when she does that, she's shawna. after about an hour of conversation, she finally just shook her head and said, i'm very sure that it was dad. >> i thought, well, maybe -- maybe she's there. >> i don't know. [ chuckles ] no one looks ridiculous, bob. some said wendy had a history of emotional troubles. a 4k television for under $2. she found some peace in that, and one day she said "let's hold hands and speak with oshanna." we have translated and dubbed over their conversation in english. , >> what about the religious group, the emissaries of divine light, that wendy had been drawn to years before? they found absolutely nothing to corroborate his story. and i'm utterly aware that i'm the only person there who is speaking in favor of my dad. >> did she bring up the idea that wendy may have had some sort of mental breakdown? you get a sense that you know these people when you're looking for what happened to them? didn't try to lie? gabriel was reciting a scene from a play that dealt with abandonment, anger, desperation, the very feelings he had been trying to suppress. >> if i could categorize him, he was that way. This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). >> the polygraph operator came back and told denis that he found him to be truthful. >> so all thomas could do was file the results away and try to find more evidence against denis. rinse. i want you to take this as a job interview, okay? she did that, though. >> by that point in time, denis ratte's read all his rights that he's provided under the canadian law. they did not make their anger secret. He never did, and Sieppert urged the judge to keep her father in prison until he was dead. what do you have to say? >> i've been involved in investigations where we've been able to clear a person of any wrongdoing. >> not a big surprise really. Denis Ratte arrives at a moment of truth in meeting "Mr. Big", the man he believed to be an all-powerful crime boss but was really all part of an undercover operation. >> translator: you know, i stirred it around, and it slipped. rcmp investigator judy thomas checked the bank's surveillance cameras, and there he was. was it possible, she wondered, that it was guilt? and if he lied about one murder. it's truly phenomenal. she did not call anybody. During the trial, the jury watched a video recorded with a concealed camera, where Ratte took the officers to the scene of the shooting, in the back yard of the family's home, and then to a wooded area east of the city where he told them he dumped her body, which has never been found. >> translator: right or left side? a day went by, then two, then a week. after wendy fell to the ground, he said, he quickly wrapped her body in a black tarp. she didn't want to be tied down. >> she was the breadwinner. 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