>> upon our review, we came to the same conclusion as judy did, that denis ratte was the suspect in his wife's disappearance. no one had seen her. >> and this is "dateline." >> they've just about finished their investigation, and they're waiting for satellite results from the u.s. >> satellite results? >> i can't imagine how it --. Whether the main players in the drama will agree to interviews will be a prime factor. the police. that's what he had done. last august, did you murder wendy? hello, i'm dara brown. of course, he believed he was talking to fellow gang members. >> denis, of course, had proclaimed his innocence. >> at first for almost an hour, denis seemed to be in denial. she chased down the leads. maybe a phone call to wendy's family back in the states. >> this is the difficulty with missing person files. but there were always issues. one that's more than just fast. [ chuckles ] no one looks ridiculous, bob. her passport nowhere to be found. he said, that's not wendy. they met at a hotel in reno, nevada, of all places. >> it wasn't just, how's anna, what's gab doing now, it was always anna and gab. we asked her repeatedly, and she said, "i saw her, she was sitting at that table over there." >> that's the part of me that is the dreamy, hopeful, optimistic side. >> he broke down for the first time. they created from scratch a fake criminal organization complete with detectives posing as, crooks. >> he said she left with no money, but then in the following statement, he claims that she he gave her money. she was bragging about how much money she made, and she said "i'm not wendy anymore." she was the brains of the operation. >> yeah. her abandoned van wasn't far from the highway. i was up to my neck in investigation trying to find mom. in a story as unlikely and romantic as anna and gabriel had ever heard. they did not make their anger secret. >> i'm going to tell you honestly what happened. you know, someone who looks at you and -- i've always loved my wife. >> she showed up suddenly apparently seeking refuge from an abusive relationship she was in at the time and then was gone again. but new ways of working demand a new type of network. >> it was painful for diane to watch the video of her brother's confession in the pretrial hearing. >> he didn't strike me as overly concerned. >> i knew when he was talking about mom's murder that it was true. coming up -- and gabriel isn't the only one with doubts. >> that's a job interview. >> did the lie detector test, and i passed it. inside everything looked normal, so anna drove the van home. the types of scenarios that they do. there is the gamblers/desperate hand, the voice, the presence summoned from beyond, and the audacious undercover caper, all to solve an 11-year-old mystery and put under the light of intense personal scrutiny a most unlikely villain, who depending on who you choose to believe may not be a villain at all. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! web pages we are going to put everything on the table. 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? >> couldn't be true because of my recollection of the morning, he said that she was wearing totally different clothes than i saw her leave with. there was no gunshot. >> he got a little desperate and started gambling more and more to try to get money for the family. and don't forget, we offer a full 90 day money back guarantee on your first bid pack purchase. the undercover canadian investigator posing as the crime boss wanted denis to feel comfortable, so he spoke french, denis' mother tongue. okay. 16-year-old anna, daddy's girl, began to see the tarnish in her father's halo. >> when "dateline" continues. the number of coronavirus cases has climbed upward to 170,000, pushing the peak ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. >> the van, a white plymouth voyager, had picked up a dent neither one of them remembered on the driver's side door. approached denis in prince george. i'm 15 years old and expecting everything to come and be norm normal. See production, box office & company info. On Nov. 3, Ratte was convicted of second-degree murder for shooting his wife in the head and dumping her naked body in a swamp. >> the joneses ruled out as suspects in the disappearance of wendy ratte. >> i cannot see him the way he left her doing that. 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. a brother and sister were prepared to fight for what they believed was right even if that meant losing each other. here's what's happening. december, 2010. perhaps a regular crime organization wouldn't have even brought him in, you know. 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. denis took a job at a local lumber mill. It'd take an elaborate, undercover mission to finally crack this case. Rate. >> well, i think you're a little too domineering for me now. for this free service, go to healthmarkets.com or call right now. she didn't want to be tied down. >> we had to look at all, possibilities. but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. >> this is anna siefert who at the time was anna ratte. but i also believe in truth. i don't believe in twice. >> the only way gabriel thought he could make sense of it all was to confront his father in jail. and he was terrible. we flagged bank accounts, credit cards, social insurance numbers. he said, "these people don't want to go to the police. and he hadn't felt that since he -- since he'd been injured. >> translator: so essentially, your son is asking you to tell the truth. >> but as reporter frank peebles dug into the story, he found another so far unsubstantiated theory making the rounds around town. >> translator: she didn't suffer. as well as a playstation 4 for under $16. you don't have a scene. i remember her yelling. i'm caught. save my little girl. i really don't. the beatings, the staged kidnappings, the fake blood pacts. >> you shot her where? >> that's when the investigator decided to show another tape. and i saw the look in his eye. they're waiting for satellite results from the u.s. >> satellite results? proof, he told the jury, that denis' confession should not be believed. >> a month before she, disappeared, wendy decided she needed some distance from denis. >> i know that the police spend a lot of time thinking about and investigating the jones theory. >> but the gun barrel, the bits and pieces of things, the stash places, the driver's license and. Thirteen years after his wife disappeared, a Prince George, B.C., man has been sentenced to life in prison for her murder, but the couple's adult children remain conflicted about her death. i got this mountain bike for only $11. >> once he lost his job, i think it was up to her to figure out, okay, like how do we make everything work. well, that was a different story altogether. ask your gastroenterologist about humira. and i can absolutely understand wanting to be blind to -- to the truth because i was there too. wendy just didn't fit the profile. a jury was about to decide. she didn't just disappear. and -- >> i asked the lady who was there at the cash register, do you recognize this lady on the poster. >> translator: honesty, honesty, okay. >> then three months into the operation, the sting was primed. that's a piece of the tarp. was it someone who had done her harm? the staged kidnapping, the fake blood is truly phenomenal. they stopped by a coffee shop, one of denis and wendy's favorite meeting spaces. the gunshot, the tarp, the carjack. gabriel was reciting a scene from a play that dealt with abandonment, anger, desperation, the very feelings he had been trying to suppress. >> all leading up to a sit-down with a man they called "mr. >> in fact, the mr. big undercover technique has been repeatedly upheld by canada's supreme court. me, i'm happy to live with a question mark. >> especially when you saw the dysfunction in families around you. don't start humira if you have an infection. she didn't understand that her. >> uh-huh, yep. >> a phone call from dad asking if we'd seen mom because she hasn't shown up where they were supposed to meet. >> translator: you have killed your friend? our neck gaiters, face masks, and one-piece shield masks are certified 99.99% anti-microl with nano-silver technology. there are auctions going on right now, so what are you waiting for? humira can lower your ability to fight infections. >> he told me that, you know, he did this drug deal because he needed the money to keep her home, wendy's home. investigator thomas wanted to be sure. >> because then maybe he would. a place to belong. seeing a husband trying to relive the moment when he said he murdered his wife. that's one of the examples of her community activism. >> he says, i'm earning some money. >> translator: i made sure, you know, the body -- >> translator: what did you put on it? denis lied to mr. big. >> i know my father. there was no evidence, said denis' sister. they all felt i should have been with him more, siding with him more. >> you looked out there and you saw everybody else who -- in the family who disagreed with you. Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. >> and there was one last moment of melodrama. available over the counter. meantime government in new mexico are stepping up requirements. >> i didn't believe it. Prince George man sentenced for wife's murder | CBC News Loaded. >> absolutely not. "I want to know everything," she said, "So we can put my mom to rest.". stand living in this kind of doubt any longer? >> were you a daddy's girl? the truth is all that matters. she was driving a very fast, very expensive car. it's seeing someone's face that comforts us, no matter where. right now we're going to see who are you as a person. one of the worst things about a cois how it can make you feel. they took a while to find the place. she did not call anybody. the premier cold case unit in british columbia. understanding how to talk to your doctor about treatment options is key. . how her parents sent her to a psychiatric hospital back in connecticut. she was shocked to learn that the confession was the only thing the cops had to convict her brother of killing his wife. i say i always felt i connected with my father more. >> i remember her saying that she felt -- she felt at home there. and don't forget, we offer a full 90 day money back guarantee on your first bid pack purchase. they're going distrust you, but don't take a lie detector test. you'll stay at home except f essential businesses and bars and restaurants will offer orders for takeout only. It is a priority for CBC to create products that are accessible to all in Canada including people with visual, hearing, motor and cognitive challenges. the first steps of checking in, the smallest moments can end up being everything. to save time and stay ahead of the mess but scrubbing still takes time. Snapped Georgina Misener. it was brother against sister on the witness stand. every one of them read to be deceptive. >> the case of the disappearance of wendy ratte was at a dead end. we checked the airlines, the border crossings, there was just nothing. >> you know, i don't want to speak badly about my sister. could she have up and joined them? progressive can't protect you from becoming your parents. >> when she phoned, she said, "i had a talk with denis. could it have maybe been some kind of a sign of a struggle? biden now has 306 electoral votes to trump's 232. and word of biden's victory came as auditors in georgia began the laborious task of counting nearly 5 million ballots by hand. and yeah, he lost it. if you take asthma medicines, don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. >> the moment had come. you'll thrive. call or click now to enroll or see how your plan compares. The incident garnered a whole lot of media attention and later an adaptation of the case by the hit crime series, "Dateline" on NBC. they said they had never heard of her. i guess he sort of could because he was winning quite a bit. >> so you were able to dispense with that one pretty quickly? why would he kill her? >> it became sickening to hear that another girl had gone missing. support that. coming up -- whatever denis was or was not about to say, did it really make sense that he would hurt wendy? >> you were close to your mother? and after four weeks, the end to the 13-year-old mystery was finally at hand. and they're described as right out of hollywood. wendy, remember, was said to have a split personality, and denis claimed on the day he killed her, he knew wendy's alter ego shanna was going to sexually assault anna, and, of course, he couldn't let that happen. >> yeah, okay. as well as a playstation 4 for under $16. i was heaving. i didn't know -- this is like three years' buildup of just holding it in. Join Facebook to connect with Gabriel Ratt and others you may know. mom didn't miss appointments. it has triple action support for your joints, cartilage and bones. teacher, not exactly a lucrative profession. >> just disappeared from her life. >> translator: in the head. how as a teenager she ran away from home, experimented with drugs. >> i always thought of my family and my parents as being perfect. >> when i called the police to say i don't know where she is, can you help, their only question was has it been 24 hours. with health insurance plans constantly changing, having the wrong fit could mean missing benefits or costing you thousands. so far whenever undercover officers had asked denis about his missing wife, about a dozen times or so, he didn't waver from the story he'd stuck to for more than a decade. right after denis was sentenced to 15 years to life, he suddenly turned to anna. healthmarkets' fitscore instantly ranks plans both on and off the government exchange to find one that best fits your insurance needs. in fact, in the very first week of the investigation, thomas had questioned him three times. we couldn't find her. >> i came into contact as a news reporter covering the disappearance itself. >> was wendy another victim, or could she have been targeted by neighbors she tangled with? and it hadn't been. his comment was, "better." which brings us to the greyhound bus station a few blocks from the place wendy's van was found abandoned. The horrendous crime occurred on the night of August 31, 2003. was she dead? so help heal your skin from within, and talk to your eczema specialist about dupixent. i said denis, you're the husband. >> he said that day that she disappeared, friends of his saw the family from down the street that she had had kicked out. he said, "when she does that, she's shawna." so you don't just brush to clean, you brush to build. >> it turned out he had a lot of nerve damage down the right side of his body. 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. >> i don't know. 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