but i also believe in truth. and that's why i love healthmarkets, your insurance marketplace. i'd never seen real emotion come from him before. >> then a knock on the door. e networks of news, good night it was like being in a nightmare. >> i feel that the decision wendy was making was whether she was going to end the marriage with denis or not. there are auctions going on right now, so what are you waiting for? when we use it to improve things, then that change can last within us. >> i cannot see him the way he left her doing that. we couldn't track her. wendy found work off and on as a substitute teacher at the local high school. ask them to tell you the story." this different self. >> not a big surprise really. and i say, how on earth could you think that? and i saw the look in his eye. >> what was it like to hear that? >> translator: it's all true what you told them? a high stakes gamble to reveal the truth on tape for the children left behind. >> translator: the last one, i didn't -- >> translator: honesty. >> denis, of course, had proclaimed his innocence. >> he was changing over the years in front of my eyes. i say i always felt i connected with my father more. Or, did danger lurk closer to home? >> you know, i don't want to speak badly about my sister. >> but she wasn't the first to vanish. >> that's when we looked at passing it off to the unsolved homicide unit. >> so it was -- >> never happened. clear lakes reflecting the blue skies above. >> when "dateline" continues want to brain better? >> anguish like that couldn't stay hidden for long. the undercover detectives had him just where they wanted him. when wendy ratte disappeared, there was a hint, i would say even a strong whiff of suspicion that this was another highway of tears case. sweet. >> denis told mr. big he drove back to prince george, got rid of the gun and his wife's i.d. that the rcmp had let the case go cold. he was lucky. -blue. i got these three suitcases for less than $40. >> so she decided to give denis one last chance. >> translator: okay, man. 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. network television show. how did he seem going in? she had done it before. they're going distrust you, but don't take a lie detector test. >> we love each other very much. denis ratte, wendy's husband. he bet the highest he could. TV Archive rinse. maybe then she could speak to me. me, i'm happy to live with a question mark. the actors are the family, divided across a thin line separating truth and deception. >> i just kept making phone calls, and no one had seen her, no one knew what i was talking about. my job is to help new homeowners who have turned into their parents. yes, three wendys. read it, said mr. big, as denis listened. -no. standard practice in unsolved cases. According to ZoomInfo records, Gabriel Ratt's professional experience began in 2017. he said, "i have gone through my story. >> uh-huh, yep. i'm 15 years old and expecting everything to come and be norm normal. >> this is the difficulty with missing person files. being honest. wendy had been getting unemployment insurance. gabriel was at work when the call came. good. >> he said, "i'm done. you'll thrive. the gunshot, the tarp, the carjack. he did, though he said he didn't like it. a crucial moment when a high-stakes gamble went very wrong. 15 percent. a brother and sister were prepared to fight for what they believed was right even if that meant losing each other. there was no gunshot. as well as a playstation 4 for under $16. >> the polygraph operator rereads his charts. Work Experience Concepteur McAnique MAADI Group 2019-2019 Concepteur McAnique Lamtrac Global 2018-2018 i was so excited. but that's in a person's youth which is much different than when you're married with children. i can be swayed by the evidence whether it is going to be for or against my dad. Wendy Ratte was 47-years-old when she disappeared while shopping in downtown Prince George in August of 1997. >> translator: okay, you -- you move over there like that. 4 likes >> mm-hmm. Sieppert, who was a teenager when her mother disappeared, tried for years to track her mother down, talking to newspapers and radio shows every year on her mother's birthday, but to no avail. >> i kind of hold my breath and go through it and hope that whatever i say is going to work for my dad. >> by then, wendy's disappearance became news all over prince george. , >> what about the religious group, the emissaries of divine light, that wendy had been drawn to years before? >> there's no one else in the room at the time. -okay. the premier cold case unit in british columbia. and tender moments like these, anna said, reminded her how much she yearned for the bond they once had. >> our family thought that he was a very good influence on her and the fact that she chose to take a chance and take her away was nothing short of amazing. >> you shot her where? and against all odds, said denis' sister, deanne, the wayward marriage of the preacher's daughter and illiterate dropout worked. we sold an ipad worth $505 for less than $24. if you take asthma medicines, don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. investigator thomas wanted to be sure. to find out what happened, an elite group of detectives launched an elaborate mission. wistful when anna, the bride, danced with her father. >> thomas decided to focus her investigation closer to home. -- >> that's cold. today, we are redefining how we do things. >> dark now, anna and her father took the family's old truck and drove to prince george to look for her. she found some peace in that, and one day she said "let's hold hands and speak with oshanna." as each hour crawled by that. >> at first for almost an hour, denis seemed to be in denial. none of that showed up. having a bad neighbor and -- >> and doing something about that. how she was constantly seeking something missing. the reason for that was history. >> translator: she didn't suffer. >> anna's dad told her her mom had dropped her off downtown so he could run errands while she drove on in the family van to tutsi area student and then meet a friend, then pick him up again at the hardware store, but she hadn't returned. but she -- because of her activism in trying to find my mother for so many years, it was a lot easier for her, i think, to put everything aside and create an easy solution. Following. it was one of the crime boss's alleged cronies with an internal police memorandum. but instead of anger he was surprised to encounter skepticism. though it was hardly a surprise police would look at the husband. 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. Currently, Gabriel Ratt works as a Candidat La Profession d'Ingnieur at BBA. and he began to confess again. teacher, not exactly a lucrative profession. >> denis was in a downward spiral. so two wendys? but -- >> i met shawna. >> oh, and there was no question, said gabriel, his mom did feel threatened by the joneses. >> but as reporter frank peebles dug into the story, he found another so far unsubstantiated theory making the rounds around town. four years after denis passed his lie detector test, the rcmp reviewed it. 837 miles of exquisite natural beauty winding its way past dramatic snow-capped mountains and breathtaking vistas of lush forests. >> yeah, definitely. >> denis told wendy he'd do whatever it took to save the marriage. coming up -- a sting by investigators worthy of the big screen. like how would you deal with that? ask your gastroenterologist about humira. that's what he had done. i had talked to many families of many disappeared people over the years, and i could see the light in her eyes that way. president-elect joe biden is the apparent winner in georgia, hooking the state for the first time since 1992 as north carolina was called for president trump. she saw them following her. >> it was such a whirlwind. People always want answers, they don't like to live with mysteries, and in this case you have someone who was on a quest, who was very uncomfortable living with these big question marks and pursued it. a stand mixer for less than $20. and they might have -- she made about a enemy for sure. and bit by bit as days went by, denis became fully involved in what he clearly believed was a criminal gang. we have a bond as brother and sister that was very strong as children, and it will always be there. >> i brought her more behind the garage. dealdash.com offers hundreds of auctions every day. that was never diagnosed. unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. there had been no satellite watching denis on that august day back in 1997. just wipe, and rinse. don't use if you're allergic to dupixent. one of the worst things about a cois how it can make you feel. he was patient. it's not the truth i wanted. experts warn it could climb to more than 400,000 by march 1st. -sorry. >> and i'm natalie morales. >> yes. 555 followers. >> when i heard that mum had to change bank accounts into her name, she had to protect the family's income, that was the first waver i had with my father's character. and i'm utterly aware that i'm the only person there who is speaking in favor of my dad. but this time with a quite unexpected outcome. and now her dear brother refusing to share her outrage. and i can't blame him. wendy ratte. i was balling. she was driving a very fast, very expensive car. Facebook gives people the power to. for a fast-acting rush of relief like you've never tasted in honey lemon ahh woo vicks vapocool drops now in honey lemon chill and there's moving with move free ultra. i know she'd spent some time in new mexico when she was getting her teaching degree, and she loved it. >> we were talking about the phone, and he said they want me to take a lie detector test. "It's really about trying to see what kind of access we can get, how people deal with us. >> they're described as right out of hollywood. it took the jury just two hours to find denis ratte guilty of second-degree murder. in minutes, you can find out if your current plan is the right fit, or if there's another one that can get you more coverage or help save you money. you do hear it. She then turned to her father and asked why he chose to murder his wife and her mother instead of getting a divorce. Prince George man sentenced for wife's murder | CBC News Loaded. >> well, i think you're a little too domineering for me now. 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. feel the difference. >> gabriel was not there for the guilty verdict. >> mom was very vocal. >> some days she would be so happy, and other days the world would just weigh down on her. >> a mother of two disappears. >> she began screaming obscenities and shouting. she just vibrated. you don't have remains. >> yeah. and there was nothing else to. "In telling the story like this, you really tell it through the characters who are involved, and if we can't secure the character's participation, then we can't tell the story," he said. i'm going to tell you. the real police showed up again in denis' life, told him the investigation had been reopened, he was the prime suspect. denis was asked to threaten a man. they said they needed to see him right away. four months after wendy. all told her the same thing -- wendy was first and foremost a, mother. >> i spoke to him in french about how i loved him, first of all. get dishes done faster dawn powerwash dish spray. >> as their friend lois cook could plainly see, denis was fiercely protective of all of them. they also searched the area for a body, of course, but found nothing at all. >> it turned out he had a lot of nerve damage down the right side of his body. >> they're 100% sure he's the. he wants very much to think that your father's not guilty. -keep it coming. he was left high and dry without being able to work anymore. >> allegedly there were threats made from the joneses to the rattes. >> that's when he folded. >> translator: in the back of the head. the royal canadian mounted police disguised the identities of the undercover voice on this video. >> translator: honesty, honesty, okay. >> then denis' criminal friends asked him to take them to where he dumped wendy's body. your sign's pointing at my sign, so people are gonna look at my sign. the van was locked, but denis had an extra key. 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.. so i thought, what about 15 minutes. >> the look in his eye on that tape was -- >> that's all you needed? Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. back to vancouver to his college graduation that very same day. 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. >> yeah, okay. >> we had to look at all, possibilities. it was hard. the grocery store, i think, was just closing up, and i thought well, maybe she is on her way out of the grocery store. that is, of course, if he knew anything about it. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. progressive can't protect you from becoming your parents. >> and what idea did you develop about wendy? no problem, said denis. 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. june 2008 an undercover officer. >> i don't think he could lie about it when you have a picture of him cashing the check at an atm. >> when "dateline" continues. then he wandered around for a bit before he called anna to report her mom was missing. >> and this is "dateline." voltaren. there was no evidence, said denis' sister. to. serendipity. >> for wendy, very caring, loving mother. >> it was quite a shock that somebody who is apparently normal, everyday, almost a stereotype in that sense could disappear without a trace. is that a good idea? she felt restrained by the bonds of marriage and family. in a prince george courtroom, the battle lines were drawn. this calm, patient, sturdy, steady person was emotional. a jury was about to decide. >> in the classroom. at the edge of the wilderness, far from her connecticut past, a small house a few miles outside of prince george, british columbia. >> it was a big mystery until they brought me in. Storyline Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. was it someone who had done her harm? but even when i was there. >> they would hoot and holler as they were passing. "The stories don't just come upon you in your immediate neck of the woods," he said. don't do it. this was a person in your community. On tour View all. hello, i'm dara brown. >> you wouldn't think he'd forget about $2,000. >> then with a heavy heart, gabriel called wendy's family in the states. >> a confession is the strongest evidence anybody ever gets, and, you know, it generally does the deed. someone cashed in her unemployment checks at an atm. 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. >> i knew when he was talking about mom's murder that it was true. how her parents sent her to a psychiatric hospital back in connecticut. don't forget. >> with various files, you get a lot of people saying, oh, i saw this person. that was who he was. he hadn't been back in 11 years. did it seem to you at the time, hey, this is -- this can't be? 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. >> but perhaps the most convincing argument diane heard was from denis himself when she went to see him in jail. Comment must not exceed 1000 characters 57.1K 9,401 Share Copy Link More. >> that was a lie, of course. >> wendy, an art teacher by trade, taught her kids to help others, to speak up and be heard like her. gabriel was in the kitchen, and he was more or less paying attention when his mom and dad told him they were off to run some errands. there's no evidence. i went to the media to say don't forget. this is a really difficult situation for both of us. i won these bluetooth headphones for $20. Join Facebook to connect with Gabriel Ratt and others you may know. 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