>> i remember her saying that she felt -- she felt at home there. what it took for her to forgive him hurt him deeply. yes, three wendys. he was the rock that i had. 43:49. June 14, 2013. when it came time for him to leave, she said "take me with you." Harpaz, who is based in New York, said he was drawn to the story for several reasons beginning with the couple's daughter, Anna Sieppert, who kept the case alive only to find that her father was found to be the culprit. he had access -- >> sure. who are these people? get ready for an undercover mission unlike any you have ever seen. they met at a hotel in reno, nevada, of all places. and all of a sudden she was very cold and very abrupt with them. >> then it got more serious. we couldn't find her. >> and there was one last moment of melodrama. >> you look at the full circumstances of it. >> what was it like to hear that? >> but a failed lie detector test was not enough evidence to arrest denis, let alone charge him with a crime. >> that's a job interview. Snapped Georgina Misener. Or, did danger lurk closer to home? denis agreed to help him. >> translator: you know, it's hard. i won these bluetooth headphones for $20. i called every number in the directory that she had. so what was it? >> she was able to get a fairly big news story happening which made the city react and get them kicked off the property. this is the biggest weak not in the story. if you take asthma medicines, don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. >> that was a lie, of course. healthmarkets' fitscore instantly ranks plans both on and off the government exchange to find one that best fits your insurance needs. >> translator: okay, you -- you move over there like that. but anna had another word for it. >> at first for almost an hour, denis seemed to be in denial. >> you would have heard that surely. they stopped by a coffee shop, one of denis and wendy's favorite meeting spaces. and now her dear brother refusing to share her outrage. >> so runaway wendy? i can be swayed by the evidence whether it is going to be for or against my dad. It'd take an elaborate, undercover mission to finally crack this case. in a prince george courtroom, the battle lines were drawn. >> these undercover officers, they're amazing actors. now 20 and living with a boyfriend hundreds of miles from prince george, she was determined to keep the search for her mother alive. >> some of the victims we see are hitchhikers, also involved in drugs and organized crime or some of the folks that are sex trade workers. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. one of the ways i do that is to get them out of the home. progressive is always here for you with round-the-clock service. and best of all, their services are completely free. so we're using a speakerphone in the store. certainly there was some differences. she made an enemy? he's guilty. >> doctors thought wendy suffered from drug-induced manic depression. >> there was a polygraph question that had to be asked. >> denis ratte had come to the moment of truth. Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. how as a teenager she ran away from home, experimented with drugs. 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. he even transport guns, or so he thought. >> i always thought of my family and my parents as being perfect. and tender moments like these, anna said, reminded her how much she yearned for the bond they once had. >> i said, you know, get used to it. >> shattering. >> well, that was really hard for him, as you can imagine. but this time with a quite unexpected outcome. she was everybody's mom, and she just disappeared. could it have maybe been some kind of a sign of a struggle? -sorry. how did he seem going in? 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. every one of them read to be deceptive. >> he broke down for the first time. >> gabriel is a father himself now. that family had moved four months i believe prior. we'll get through it. that the rcmp had let the case go cold. is that a good idea? >> reports that wendy was mentally ill, that it wasn't her but her alter ego that may have left town? wendy and i met in a parking lot somewhere just to say hi. maybe a phone call to wendy's family back in the states. his comment was, "better." >> yeah, i was. >> there is that. >> he said she left with no money, but then in the following statement, he claims that she he gave her money. she went back to prince george, had a heart to heart with him and then called lois. . >> she was so angry. six years after wendy disappeared, he was living in an apartment in the seediest part of town, collecting bottles to make ends meet. >> sure. >> 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. gabriel said denis was desperate to be accepted by his new tough guy friends. >> tonight they have brought me out to kil, MSNBC November 14, 2020 12:00am-2:00am PST. it's not the truth i wanted. it has triple action support for your joints, cartilage and bones. >> in fact, the mr. big undercover technique has been repeatedly upheld by canada's supreme court. Wendy Ratte was 47-years-old when she disappeared while shopping in downtown Prince George in August of 1997. >> we love each other very much. i didn't do it." >> when wendy disappeared, all traces of her were gone. web pages >> maybe it was shawna who got on that bus, or perhaps oshawna? denis was asked to threaten a man. he said, "i have gone through my story. the family was overjoyed. >> denis bonded with his crime buddies over meals in fancy restaurants and evenings in strip clubs. >> you were close to your mother? >> i remember having a thought of, it's not what i would have expected. 5. >> i had to believe him. >> probably. yeah. >> translator: right or left side? >> coming up, anna gets word there might be witnesses who know what really happened to wendy. and -- >> i asked the lady who was there at the cash register, do you recognize this lady on the poster. 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. >> the joneses ruled out as suspects in the disappearance of wendy ratte. >> 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. >> you couldn't not look at it as a possibility. this was one of those people who was not going to let this go. >> it became sickening to hear that another girl had gone missing. >> very hard. >> translator: i got to put myself back there. >> because then maybe he would. CLIP 06/06/22 . with humira, remission is possible. >> okay. [phone rings] "sore throat pain? >> i knew when he was talking about mom's murder that it was true. home was a country cabin surrounded by trees and mountains of british columbia, canada. Box 500 Station A Toronto, ON Canada, M5W 1E6. something that he told his crime bud wles they asked whether he was capable of murder. we all see it. >> so it was -- >> never happened. >> i cannot see him the way he left her doing that. >> i would trust him to do the right thing and keep me safe. a daughter. she wasn't responding in the way my mother usually does. might be angry with me for the results of where this trial led. this different self. that phone call was happiness with a lot of relief in it. these people almost murdered me. >> translator: no, i never said it. it does happen. he didn't want to lose that. >> they're still my family. >> so much of my life had been devoted to finding the truth, and now i had the truth. Denis Ratte then leaned forward and listened intently, as Sieppert begged him to reveal where he left the body. in a story as unlikely and romantic as anna and gabriel had ever heard. all of us, i think, saw him as someone who would die to protect his family. 555 followers. >> it was a blow that he'd gone that low, but when i tried to. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >> nor did her quest seem to be over. have they phoned the police? >> it wasn't just, how's anna, what's gab doing now, it was always anna and gab. just so you know, next time, you can submit a claim with our mobile app. >> when "dateline" continues. you don't have a scene. >> the van, a white plymouth voyager, had picked up a dent neither one of them remembered on the driver's side door. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, which is severe. one of the worst things about a cois how it can make you feel. >> the case of the disappearance of wendy ratte was at a dead end. >> i know my father. i won these bluetooth headphones for $20. Tracks. Gabriel Pelletier was born in 1958 in Montral, Qubec, Canada. >> a confession is the strongest evidence anybody ever gets, and, you know, it generally does the deed. >> that's just the ideal of what. weird. the sweet free spirit of prince george, british columbia, had vanished from her life as slick as a magic acted. so show me the evidence. like why aren't we looking for her? it was the police asking her to come downtown. he changed so much. >> we had to look at all, possibilities. no problem, said denis. and i'm utterly aware that i'm the only person there who is speaking in favor of my dad. it's all that's left of our perfect family is the two of us. stand living in this kind of doubt any longer? >> translator: that -- that's my left side. >> that's what i needed. and we decided an undercover operation may be the best to move this forward. i'm going to tell you honestly what happened. -- >> that's cold. i'm having a big lunch and then just a snack for dinner. >> translator: yeah, okay, okay, yeah. there had been no satellite watching denis on that august day back in 1997. on behalf of all of my colleaguesa the networks of nbc news, good night. >> i'm putting my gloves -- it's black -- that's the tarp. i didn't want to leave a mark, right? to save time and stay ahead of the mess but scrubbing still takes time. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. >> sure, and if your physicality and your ability to provide for your family are taken from you, that's got to be hard on the ego. >> i was disgusted. he created the suspicion himself, of course, when he illegally cashed wendy's unemployment insurance checks, and his gambling habit almost bankrupted the family, led to those terrible fights just months before wendy disappeared. >> there hasn't been a happy ending for anybody -- >> no. i guess i look pretty ridiculous. it doesn't matter that my family. this is what 24/7 protection looks like. 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. 901 posts. >> when "dateline" continues want to brain better? coming up -- anna and gabriel face off in court. >> sure. and i can't blame him. "This story will be as valid if you tell it a year from now or two years from now," he said. gabriel was putting up a missing persons poster there. >> translator: there was a big thing with a cover on. be kinder to yourself and tougher on your cold sores. >> you didn't have the physical evidence that would back up his confession in the undercover operation. Facebook gives people the power to. she said, yes, very certainly. we couldn't track her. >> i'm going to tell you honestly what happened. >> translator: we're going to talk to each other, and we're going to work out these problems. >> you shot her where? switch to progressive and you can save hundreds. when we use it to improve things, then that change can last within us. there was usually a game in town. did you say this can't be, or -- >> it -- i remember having a thought of hmm, it's not what i would have expected. you're the husband. inside everything looked normal, so anna drove the van home. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. he had absolutely no reason, he said, to hurt wendy or have anything to do with her disappearance. everything worked perfect. the lies, the betrayals. while shawna was the wild child. >> when "dateline" continues. an herbal stress reliever ashwagandha, that helps you turn the stressed life into your best life. >> denis ratte pleaded not guilty and recanted the confessions he made both to mr. big and to the police after his arrest. Sign Up for Free. did he have an explanation that made any sense? >> but denis told police again and again his marriage was back on track. for all those years he told her, the police just wouldn't leave him alone. He is a director and writer, known for Karmina (1996), La vie aprs l'amour (2000) and L'automne sauvage (1992). until the day in late 2007 when anna met reporter frank peebles at a downtown cafe. you do? anyone would say it's 100% certain that my dad did it. i'm 15 years old and expecting everything to come and be norm normal. 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. that's shawna. he's the one who calls the shots. >> 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. it's what she yearns for most these days. >> you think he's living in la-la land? if he likes you and wants to bring you in, he can make your criminal problems go away. which brings us to the greyhound bus station a few blocks from the place wendy's van was found abandoned. Uploaded by 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. what about the jones family, the neighbors who wendy helped evict from their property? coming up -- another potential clue is about to surface from wendy's past. 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. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. in many ways it's perfectly valid. pronamel intensive enamel repair. a van with a dent in the door that nobody could remember seeing before. >> mm-hmm. the truth is all that matters. there was a time in her life when she did -- i don't know if you want to call it disappear, but she lost contact with her family. >> the strong, silent hero who preferred long solitary walks in the woods to social gatherings. >> that's when the investigator decided to show another tape. but in the beginning? of all the lies you could have said for why, you had to involve me again. i thought, great, he got a job. i got this mountain bike for only $11. you have to balance the integrity of the investigation. It'd take an elaborate, undercover mission to finally crack this case. she did that, though. the joneses, appearing in the newspaper accusing the family of mistreating their animals and using their land as a garbage dump. DATELINE SUNDAY PREVIEW: The Perfect Guy 00:58 DATELINE FRIDAY PREVIEW: The Bad Man 00:58 Remembering Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin 02:50 DATELINE FRIDAY. being honest. >> very. >> uh-huh. and there was nothing else to. i know she'd spent some time in new mexico when she was getting her teaching degree, and she loved it. >> yeah, okay. so the obvious question -- did you have the feeling that this is a woman who might have just up and left? Dateline: Secrets Uncovered The Woman With No Name. Join Facebook to connect with Gabriel Ratt and others you may know. so, man, whenever i do hear one. we were talking quietly. a little sweater and jogging pants. >> and then finally she and the family seemed to find it. >> okay? 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? >> so he threw everything into the pot. >> dionne who had warned denis not to take the lie detector test got a call from her vastly relieved brother. >> this town is used to, disappearances. they said they had never heard of her. >> he didn't strike me as overly concerned. >> the rcmp have conducted over 350 of these investigations. >> no -- >> a day after denis led undercover detectives to the scene of his alleged crime, they returned to pick up that piece of tarp and sent it to the lab for analysis. >> the gunshot, the top, the carjack, her brother gabriel said it was all a lie. >> the proof -- first, she says, the chilling details of his alleged cold-blooded murder. rinse. a high stakes gamble to reveal the truth on tape for the children left behind. >> a canadian news magazine show profiled the group and found it had several branches in the u.s. >> i helped police look into that and gave them every information i could. yeah. for this free service, go to healthmarkets.com or call right now. but that's in a person's youth which is much different than when you're married with children. >> you expected that to happen? there are auctions going on right now, so what are you waiting for? >> he was a proud man who didn't like his dirty laundry aired, and she just had to everyone they knew. >> translator: i said it there? >> 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. a crucial moment when a high-stakes gamble went very wrong. without it, there's no way to tell whether the suspect is telling the truth or is lying. my hand was so good that no one was going to beat it. >> if her father didn't want to go police, anna decided, then she would. everything makes sense. It'd take an elaborate, undercover mission to finally crack this case. dealdash.com offers hundreds of auctions every day. you need flexibility- to work from anywhere and manage from everywhere. >> there wasn't quite enough to charge him. they said they needed to see him right away. that was never diagnosed. >> what does that do inside when you hear that? the case of her mother's disappearance wasn't cold at all. those old jacks you used to put under a vehicle. 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