>> but a failed lie detector test was not enough evidence to arrest denis, let alone charge him with a crime. >> he said he did it between the house and the garage. >> i knew when he was talking about mom's murder that it was true. 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. there's no evidence. >> but there was something anna didn't know. >> the van, a white plymouth voyager, had picked up a dent neither one of them remembered on the driver's side door. coming up -- a sting by investigators worthy of the big screen. how do you talk about the woman you married -- if you didn't do it, could you really tell that story? mr. big will only accept the truth. i'm 15 years old and expecting everything to come and be norm normal. >> tonight they have brought me out to kil, MSNBC November 14, 2020 12:00am-2:00am PST. >> judy told me, "we don't understand. there's no way he would have taken that kind of chance. >> what that told investigators. if you lie, there could be very devastating consequences. she was shocked to learn that the confession was the only thing the cops had to convict her brother of killing his wife. >> coming up, anna gets word there might be witnesses who know what really happened to wendy. >> it was quite a shock that somebody who is apparently normal, everyday, almost a stereotype in that sense could disappear without a trace. we sold an ipad worth $505 for less than $24. there was no evidence, said denis' sister. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. but did police have anything else on denis? a terrifying specter haunted the lonely highway that passed through prince george on its way into the wilderness. i just didn't want to believe it. that's what he had done. though it was hardly a surprise police would look at the husband. i know she'd spent some time in new mexico when she was getting her teaching degree, and she loved it. Play. and he guarded a hotel room door as an undercover officer savagely beat a woman. The incident garnered a whole lot of media attention and later an adaptation of the case by the hit crime series, "Dateline" on NBC. >> she was so angry. she was the brains of the operation. >> the man who ran the undercover sting, lead investigator robert burret, insisted his team took all precautions to make sure denis did not lie when he met with mr. big. she did say that she recognized my mom. of course, he believed he was talking to fellow gang members. coming up -- >> it became sickening after a while to hear the police issue another release that another girl had gone missing. >> translator: yeah, but, denis, we know that you killed her. a crucial moment when a high-stakes gamble went very wrong. >> rumors of suspects nabbed by a mr. big sting had every right to cry foul said criminologist cory keenan. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. it i did it, and it paid off. >> frank peebles of the "prince george citizen." >> it's not unusual for us to over that kind of time frame because of animal activity and things of that nature not to find either any remains or very few remains. they're afraid of this family." >> translator: you know, i stirred it around, and it slipped. and brand new cars for less than $900. >> it was a big mystery until they brought me in. i thought i was lying to him. i had talked to many families of many disappeared people over the years, and i could see the light in her eyes that way. >> he broke down for the first time. there was a swamp there. >> not a big surprise really. >> yes, because it was specifically asked did wendy have money on her. what do you have to say? i'd never seen her yell at him like that before. be there for you, and them. i guess, around here. >> you expected that to happen? >> what i really liked about them is they seemed to be more friends than lovers. >> i'm going to tell you honestly what happened. and forcibly took her and put her in the hospital. i really don't. i was nervous. it's so obvious. clear lakes reflecting the blue skies above. when we understand what's possible, we won't settle for less. they're unsure of the procedure. he didn't want to lose that. anywhere, police radar was squarely pointed at her husband, denis, which was no surprise to seasoned prince george reporter frank peebles. so on. an herbal stress reliever ashwagandha, that helps you turn the stressed life into your best life. >> earlier on in the mr. big sting, he confessed to killing a man with rat poison. i'm happy i have it. is that a good idea? >> 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. >> "your father's addiction is ruining us" wendy told anna, and as was wendy's way, told everyone else who cared to listen too. the royal canadian mounted police disguised the identities of the undercover voice on this video. >> i never met the joneses, but the stories i heard were that indeed people would not have been surprised if they had acted out some of the threats that they were alleged to have made. spray. the premier cold case unit in british columbia. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. >> the only way gabriel thought he could make sense of it all was to confront his father in jail. >> they're still my family. he admitted it. >> when "dateline" continues. >> i thought -- i thought he was hiding something. businesses today are looking to tomorrsetting the course.ating. along the way, and left the van in this grocery store parking lot. gabriel said denis was desperate to be accepted by his new tough guy friends. >> translator: so essentially, your son is asking you to tell the truth. for other cases there's usually -- at least bogus information coming in. but at the same time, it's like i knew. "I think there are stories where the elements that they contain are universal and appeal to a wide audience. >> yeah, okay. and that's how mom led her life. that's a piece of the tarp. >> and as they continued searching the area -- >> oh, my gosh. and against all odds, said denis' sister, deanne, the wayward marriage of the preacher's daughter and illiterate dropout worked. and she was not a person i'd ever met, and we knew she was not well and needed care. >> whether denis was arrested, he had no idea he'd been caught in a sting and that his confession to mr. big was on tape. >> i saw that glint in his eye where he felt proud of himself again. december, 2010. in fact, just four months before she disappeared, wendy complained very publicly about. we were friends, okay? it turned out they hadn't found anything. one of 800 unsolved cases on the unit's books. >> translator: yes. he told me, "no, no, no. but as the years slowly ticked by one by one, nothing. >> she survived a harrowing ordeal in one of the most dangerous places on earth. >> and denis, his crime buddies assured him, had all it took to been what the organization valued the most, honest and loyal. >> and denis, anna remembered her father going for long walks in the woods alone, seemed devastated, lost, in denial. and he needed to pay the bills. >> probably. >> i can't imagine how it --. 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. i saw his demeanor change from a proud, working man to a street thug. we all see it. >> and right then and there, the police asked gabriel to record a message to his father. just so you know, next time, you can submit a claim with our mobile app. feel the difference. really. how did he seem going in? why would he kill her? have they phoned the police? >> translator: i said it there? that's not going to swim about in your brain. Join Facebook to connect with Gabriel Ratt and others you may know. >> denis said it was just one shot, not a lot of blood. >> i remember her transforming into this character. now suddenly worried, denis, just as planned, had no one else to turn to except his new friends. web pages >> a technique's ingenuity is also an achilles' heel. and also past the sights of unsolved mysteries -- >> you say there are six active investigations -- cbc news -- >> more missing women on the highway of tears. and yeah, he lost it. >> translator: yeah, okay, okay, yeah. after about an hour of conversation, she finally just shook her head and said, i'm very sure that it was dad. but nonetheless, that's what i had. >> translator: you have killed your friend? to. >> did the lie detector test, and i passed it. the family was overjoyed. >> in the classroom. this is her little brother, gabriel. Wendy Ratte was 47-years-old when she disappeared while shopping in downtown Prince George in August of 1997. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. like a play or a movie with at its dark heart something quite unspeakable. they're quite adamant. 901 posts. me, i'm happy to live with a question mark. no one had seen her. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. that's not wendy." >> well, that was really hard for him, as you can imagine. >> i'm putting my gloves -- it's black -- that's the tarp. the pay was good, too, about 12 grand in three months, a little more than he earned in years, he told his sister, without divulging too much. When Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, goes missing, police go under cover to crack the case. >> that night and the next morning, i just kept making phone calls. and as unlikely as it seemed, police had to consider could, would a dedicated wife and mother of two simply skip town, run away from her own family? it's all true. anyone would say it's 100% certain that my dad did it. but this time with a quite unexpected outcome. >> or maybe the enemy lurked within. >> we had five polygraph operators read those charts. they scare me. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! that was his source of pride. the joy of movement. police said, "prove it." >> you wouldn't think he'd forget about $2,000. those old jacks you used to put under a vehicle. they seem -- seemed real at the time. except for poker. >> just as our very approach, she began screaming obscenities and shouting and behaving in a menacing, hateful way. >> denis ratte pleaded not guilty and recanted the confessions he made both to mr. big and to the police after his arrest. they met at a hotel in reno, nevada, of all places. when she does that, she's shawna. that is, of course, if he knew anything about it. and not -- especially not with his kids in the house. cuz i remember turning. >> wendy wanted her children to have the emotional stability she couldn't seem to manage even in her solid middle-class upbringing. >> denis suddenly became suspect number one. that family had moved four months i believe prior. and it turned out that he died of natural causes. >> $2,000, exactly. none of that showed up. and waited to see what the machine would say. and you know, he didn't have much of an answer. On Aug. 18, 1997, Wendy Ann Twiss Ratte, 44 at the time, was reported missing and the family's van was found parked at a supermarket, now Value Village. >> with various files, you get a lot of people saying, oh, i saw this person. >> he told me that, you know, he did this drug deal because he needed the money to keep her home, wendy's home. when we use it to improve things, then that change can last within us. but my sense was if denis betrayed her trust again, it was over. her abandoned van wasn't far from the highway. go to dealdash.com today and see how much you can save. >> this is anna siefert who at the time was anna ratte. while it's capable of exposing the guilty, it can also induce innocent suspects to falsely confess to a crime they didn't commit. and this time -- >> translator: check the tapes. >> it wasn't just, how's anna, what's gab doing now, it was always anna and gab. i ain't happy about it, but i did it. this shy, rustic french canadian laborer, denis ratte, who fancied himself a gambler, and wendy, the sweet, wild girl who strayed so far from her middle class roots in the connecticut suburbs. that was never diagnosed. Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. >> the day after his meeting with mr. big, denis took two other undercover officers to the scene of the crime. i was up to my neck in investigation trying to find mom. >> he was fed up, over it? >> translator: she didn't suffer. >> deceptive, meaning according to the police polygrapher, that denis ratte lied when he claimed he had nothing to do with wendy's disappearance. he even transport guns, or so he thought. with less eczema, you can show more skin. it was one of the crime boss's alleged cronies with an internal police memorandum. you do hear it. they just didn't make any sense. >> okay? >> that was a lie, of course. we have a bond as brother and sister that was very strong as children, and it will always be there. it took everything for me to do it. It's just in the beginning stages.". >> uh-huh. and she said, "i'm not wendy anymore." dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. "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. she was driving a very fast, very expensive car. Work Experience Concepteur McAnique MAADI Group 2019-2019 Concepteur McAnique Lamtrac Global 2018-2018 experts warn it could climb to more than 400,000 by march 1st. Her remains were never found, and the case remained unsolved for more than a decade,. where are my parents to watch this, you know. On Friday the judge is expected to rule on when Ratte will be eligible for parole. and money they didn't have. 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. and help heal your skin from within with dupixent. >> it became sickening to hear that another girl had gone missing. he was still my -- my hero, my childhood hero was still there. >> we spoke at length. the undercover detectives had him just where they wanted him. Dateline: Secrets Uncovered The Woman With No Name. i still love her even. >> that's when the investigator decided to show another tape. how she was constantly seeking something missing. i couldn't. he was a mess. and if he lied about one murder. she did that, though. so, man, whenever i do hear one. >> denis told wendy he'd do whatever it took to save the marriage. wendy or a second personality some say lurked inside? >> denis' defense lawyer hammered undercover detectives about the lack of physical evidence and pointed out lies denis had told mr. big and his gang. healthmarkets' fitscore instantly ranks plans both on and off the government exchange to find one that best fits your insurance needs. >> the rcmp have conducted over 350 of these investigations. >> then a knock on the door. stress less and live more. Tracks. >> then it was a hot morning in august 1997 when everything stopped working. she was his everything. >> shattering. but -- >> i met shawna. >> yeah, like parents get divorced? being honest. 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. "My father took everything," Sieppert told the judge. >> it was like being in a nightmare because mom was never late. and unlike big glucosamine chondroitin pills, it's all in one tiny pill. letting him go as a suspect must have been difficult. disappearances were hurtful to her family members. finally, he was sure. later that night, he came back. of those, i just -- my heart fills with optimism. >> translator: in the back of the head. but i had to make it clear that someone has to defend mom. and it's kind of a thing where she says, i can't believe you can't see it. he had absolutely no reason, he said, to hurt wendy or have anything to do with her disappearance. >> he made a lot of money, first of all. she even called herself that in a letter she wrote her parents when she was just 23. >> just be honest. and there was nothing else to. [ chuckles ] no one looks ridiculous, bob. >> he was changing over the years in front of my eyes. we looked into medical records and there was nothing recent. just wipe, and rinse. >> and i hear this story and think for crying out loud, she's done it again. she came to light sometimes at seances with anna and gabriel. everything worked perfect. >> translator: honesty, honesty, okay. okay? if your financial situation has changed, we may be able to help. on the Internet. . >> we love each other very much. >> and what idea did you develop about wendy? you live it. now there's dawn powerwash dish spray. save my little girl. i always considered him about as close as a hero as i girl could get. so if there's an ounce of -- of me not believing him, it's there. >> and something else bothered him. and don't forget, we offer a full 90 day money back guarantee on your first bid pack purchase. >> denis could no longer be the family's strong, stable protector. 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