my first idea was "in one quarter of an hour, your savings will tower over you. so you asked him about it? the real police showed up again in denis' life, told him the investigation had been reopened, he was the prime suspect. a stand mixer for less than $20. 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 asked, could i have my father's storyline, and the police said, we don't have a clear picture of what happened that day because every time he tells us a story, there are big holes. forward-thinking enterprises deserve forward-thinking solutions. he even transport guns, or so he thought. and i told him, you know, if this happened, i just want to know more. separating rumor from fact, that's another matter altogether as detective judy thomas discovered. >> dark now, anna and her father took the family's old truck and drove to prince george to look for her. sounds like you've been shopping for health insurance. in fact, in the very first week of the investigation, thomas had questioned him three times. mood swings for one thing. >> translator: that -- that's my left side. , >> what about the religious group, the emissaries of divine light, that wendy had been drawn to years before? especially about the mystery of his wife's disappearance. i didn't know she did this. >> denis lost the house. they put me in a room with a camera, and that's when they broke it to me. proof, he told the jury, that denis' confession should not be believed. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. stress less and live more. Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Work Experience Concepteur McAnique MAADI Group 2019-2019 Concepteur McAnique Lamtrac Global 2018-2018 with stressballs. and i saw the look in his eye. Denis Ratte then leaned forward and listened intently, as Sieppert begged him to reveal where he left the body. they created from scratch a fake criminal organization complete with detectives posing as, crooks. >> when "dateline" continues. and brand new cars for less than $900. clear lakes reflecting the blue skies above. See production, box office & company info. >> translator: she didn't suffer. there was nothing coming in." we have a bond as brother and sister that was very strong as children, and it will always be there. i asked, you know, do you hear gunshots all the time. S29 E9. there's no way he would have taken that kind of chance. >> yes, because it was specifically asked did wendy have money on her. >> judy told me, "we don't understand. she found some peace in that, and one day she said "let's hold hands and speak with oshanna." for years, women had been going missing out here. Wendy Ratte was 47-years-old when she disappeared while shopping in downtown Prince George in August of 1997. "It's really about trying to see what kind of access we can get, how people deal with us. but when i spoke to the woman, she actually said no, i wouldn't be able to say that at all. >> i met shawna. >> first, mr. big told denis he'd have to come clean about his past. >> denis said it was just one shot, not a lot of blood. anybody could see how close they were. how did he seem going in? >> vancouver's e-division to be exact. because mom was never late. isn't that something common to all of us? a terrifying specter haunted the lonely highway that passed through prince george on its way into the wilderness. when she does that, she's shawna. >> wendy was the good mother, conservative, hard worker, wanted to save the world. i say i always felt i connected with my father more. with less eczema, you can show more skin. >> yeah, okay. in many ways it's perfectly valid. On tour View all. >> or is it that you cannot. >> yes. try new vicks vapocool drops in honey lemon chill. but wendy could still have left prince george of her own accord. there's no way. the undercover canadian investigator posing as the crime boss wanted denis to feel comfortable, so he spoke french, denis' mother tongue. and he hadn't felt that since he -- since he'd been injured. >> 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. she was driving a very fast, very expensive car. >> she came in carrying this folder of news clippings and possible leads that were connected to her mother. >> maybe it's every gambler's excuse. >> and i hear this story and think for crying out loud, she's done it again. >> then one day after a month of rumors and unsubstantiated theories followed one after the other, there was a break. >> just disappeared from her life. >> why lie? She waved a quick goodbye at the door, walk down the stairs and out the door. >> you hear right, truthful. >> who are these people? so show me the evidence. Storyline Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. >> you couldn't not look at it as a possibility. and unlike big glucosamine chondroitin pills, it's all in one tiny pill. rinse. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. i couldn't understand that he would be okay with not telling the police. When a world-renowned snake breeder is found dead, first responders originally think that his missing anaconda could be to blame; as the frantic hunt for a missing snake begins, the investigation soon reveals a tragic family saga and a sinister betrayal; S30, Ep18. >> 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. wipe. that's not wendy." i was heaving. On Friday the judge is expected to rule on when Ratte will be eligible for parole. >> well, i think you're a little too domineering for me now. you know what's good about this? 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. Harpaz is willing to travel to some far off places in search of a story. she just vibrated. i saw him with girlfriends that he had to pay for. the fake blood is truly phenomenal. >> translator: there was mud, right? >> mm-hmm. there are auctions going on right now, so what are you waiting for? and if he lied about one murder. progressive is always here for you with round-the-clock service. -you smell like fish. fearlessly it appeared because she must have known they would not like this, obviously. 615 following. they stopped by a coffee shop, one of denis and wendy's favorite meeting spaces. >> translator: where? and the joneses could have a motive. now they know i didn't do it, and they're leaving me alone. she made an enemy? YT ONLY - Dateline 1057 Stringout. -you smell like fish. Ratte case to air on Dateline NBC. >> translator: yeah, okay, okay, yeah. Gabriel Ratt is on Facebook. on the Internet. and waited to see what the machine would say. yeah. Facebook gives people the power to. so i think that went on to the visa, as well. and that's how mom led her life. they created a missing persons poster, a photo of wendy smiling, happy, her hazel eyes magnified by supersized glasses they plastered around town. i got these three suitcases for less than $40. but did police have anything else on denis? 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. >> and this is "dateline." she was shocked to learn that the confession was the only thing the cops had to convict her brother of killing his wife. >> you would have heard that surely. >> okay. >> translator: i said it there? >> mom was emotional. >> the day after his meeting with mr. big, denis took two other undercover officers to the scene of the crime. >> what would he know? how her parents sent her to a psychiatric hospital back in connecticut. Accident, Suicide, or Murder Hollywood Horror. approached denis in prince george. it was 2003. six years since her mother vanished from her life. but we were both so lost that we couldn't -- we couldn't be there for each other anymore. they would have had the motive to hurt her. clear lakes reflecting the blue skies above. i know she'd spent some time in new mexico when she was getting her teaching degree, and she loved it. it doesn't matter that my family. not distraught by any means. but "dateline nbc" reviewed an rcmp summary of the mission. he was a mess. >> i think that she had the capacity to pick up and go. >> you wouldn't think he'd forget about $2,000. we all see it. and it turned out that he died of natural causes. an herbal stress reliever ashwagandha, that helps you turn the stressed life into your best life. to. >> and i'm natalie morales. who are these people? 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. and we just go back and forth like that. but karen said they didn't have time to make an official diagnosis. that she would not leave her children. >> i know. don't do it. >> in his confessions, denis said he had a reason that would seem so twisted neither police nor anyone else believed it. >> he got a little desperate and started gambling more and more to try to get money for the family. >> you shot her where? >> better? "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. she was the brains of the operation. >> i came into contact as a news reporter covering the disappearance itself. -keep it coming. "This story will be as valid if you tell it a year from now or two years from now," he said. see, i was right." september 27, 2008. a hotel room in winnipeg. four months after wendy. if your financial situation has changed, we may be able to help. >> very hard. >> i definitely thought about it, right? after a couple of months by august, he was helping to smuggle illegal cigarettes and kohl. -[narrator] we are boomer natur. it's truly phenomenal. we checked the airlines, the border crossings, there was just nothing. >> were denis' two confessions evidence enough? >> the truth? >> he was going to protect his family and protect his kids. pretty scary, i think. she went back to prince george, had a heart to heart with him and then called lois. Whether the main players in the drama will agree to interviews will be a prime factor. >> yes. >> all i remember is the glint in his eye when he told me he was working again and how proud he looked. >> so it was -- >> never happened. >> he was fed up, over it? the royal canadian mounted police disguised the identities of the undercover voice on this video. >> it turned out he had a lot of nerve damage down the right side of his body. 5. >> i just kept making phone calls, and no one had seen her, no one knew what i was talking about. it does happen. >> i remember having a thought of, it's not what i would have expected. the number of coronavirus cases has climbed upward to 170,000, pushing the peak ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. they're going to look at you. on behalf of all of my colleaguesa the networks of nbc news, good night. >> i think he didn't see what i saw. >> mm-hmm. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. all auctions start at $0 and everything must go. they found absolutely nothing to corroborate his story. one of the worst things about a cois how it can make you feel. >> when "dateline" continues. if only she could speak to the spirits the way her mom once did. >> 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. , >> then there was that religious group she'd been so into the years earlier. 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. and gambled too much and started losing money. i'm happy i have it. save the little girl. is it coming back to you, denis? this early in the investigation, any lead was welcome. now back to "dateline." for all those years he told her, the police just wouldn't leave him alone. i remember her yelling. for three years after his mother disappeared, gabriel's way was to forget, force it out of his head. Keith Morrison reports. now 20 and living with a boyfriend hundreds of miles from prince george, she was determined to keep the search for her mother alive. >> so said judy thomas, no highway of tears. >> denis suddenly became suspect number one. he was looking for someone, he said, but didn't know his way around town. 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 . perhaps a regular crime organization wouldn't have even brought him in, you know. unlike ordinary memory supplements- neuriva has clinically proven ingredients that fuel 5 indicators of brain performance. It'd take an elaborate, undercover mission to finally crack this case. lead investigator rob burret monitoring the video in a nearby room. Sign Up for Free. another life-changing technology from abbott, so you don't wait for life. >> mr. big is the commanding, all-powerful boss of the criminal organization. >> i broke down. it's impossible to get around. he liked being the man of the house. when it came time for him to leave, she said "take me with you." >> that's just the ideal of what. funny, that came up the last time i was at the doctor. you have to balance the integrity of the investigation. Join Facebook to connect with Gabriel Ratt and others you may know. it made me wonder about his character. not so much as a bone. could she have abandoned the children who loved her so much? 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. >> some days she would be so happy, and other days the world would just weigh down on her. and i can absolutely understand wanting to be blind to -- to the truth because i was there too. the premier cold case unit in british columbia. they took a while to find the place. she was always so gentle with them, soft spoken. 2022. she took the kids and went to visit her old friend, lois. >> oh, yeah. and his meeting with the crime boss, he said, was a chance to finally make the investigation stop. >> okay? he'd say, "oh, we're going for a walk now." one of my really vivid memories is we went to see a movie together because we felt like let's have a little distraction from this trauma. but thomas has investigated those cases and expected no such surprise in wendy's case, was sure of it, in fact. she was everybody's mom, and she just disappeared. sweet. >> when "dateline" continues. 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 i started noticing denis when this would happen, denis would take her away. we can't let that go. >> denis, of course, had proclaimed his innocence. >> then there were the clothes denis said wendy wore. i'm going to tell you honestly what happened. was it possible, she wondered, that it was guilt? >> they're 100% sure he's the. so i thought, what about 15 minutes. for this free service, go to healthmarkets.com or call right now. This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). 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. you do? but nonetheless, that's what i had. 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. >> you know, i don't want to speak badly about my sister. they scare me. >> i brought her more behind the garage. they told me that they know it that my father did it and they are 100% certain of it. so bounce forward, with comcast business. but not today. >> we spoke at length. and there was nothing else to. >> it struck me odd right at the beginning. >> had wendy become highway victim number 16? >> gabriel was not there for the guilty verdict. 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. well, that was a different story altogether. >> the jones family. but, when used at the first sign, abreva can get you back to being you in just 2 and a half days. >> what that told investigators. -no. anywhere, police radar was squarely pointed at her husband, denis, which was no surprise to seasoned prince george reporter frank peebles. and don't forget, we offer a full 90 day money back guarantee on your first bid pack purchase. >> were you a daddy's girl? >> i bet. >> denis' defense lawyer hammered undercover detectives about the lack of physical evidence and pointed out lies denis had told mr. big and his gang. >> then denis' criminal friends asked him to take them to where he dumped wendy's body. after wendy fell to the ground, he said, he quickly wrapped her body in a black tarp. coming up -- his back against the wall, what would denis say to mr. big? and brand new cars for less than $900. 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. >> it struck me there as going -- >> why didn't he tell me that the first time? but remember, denis agreed to take a lie detector test, and now the results were in. his target? my emotion went into finding her. >> right. but i also believe in truth. >> that's when he folded. >> just as our very approach, she began screaming obscenities and shouting and behaving in a menacing, hateful way. >> it was a big mystery until they brought me in. i know my father's mannerisms. and so, of course, he did. i guess i look pretty ridiculous. was she dead? i won these bluetooth headphones for $20. but as the years slowly ticked by one by one, nothing. it cleans grease five times faster on easy messes, just spray, wipe, and rinse. with a rifle, one shot, you know, nice and easy. >> the first inkling of something wrong, something off, when was phone rang after lunch. he had absolutely no reason, he said, to hurt wendy or have anything to do with her disappearance. you hear the odd story once in a while of someone returning after 25 years of absence. she was uninterested in anybody else besides herself. >> and i'm going, wait a minute. please know that i'm here for you. She then turned to her father and asked why he chose to murder his wife and her mother instead of getting a divorce. advanced technology. there was usually a game in town. good. >> he said that's not wendy, that's shawna. Prince George man sentenced for wife's murder | CBC News Loaded. you know, like the sign says. >> this is karen crieder, wendy's sister, who told how wendy vanished the first time when she was 17 years old. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. >> it was. >> i remember her transforming into this character. june 2008 an undercover officer. heart monitors that let your doctor watch over you, just like you watch over your best friend. Facebook gives people the power to. denis lied to mr. big. one of the ways i do that is to get them out of the home. >> and that's the one i don't understand more than anything. >> translator: does there come back to you? >> what did you think when you heard that? >> the rcmp would not discuss the specifics of the undercover operation that targeted denis ratte. it felt like there was -- like he was putting a barrier in front of the investigation. me, i'm happy to live with a question mark. >> and yet they hit it off. of those, i just -- my heart fills with optimism. >> and as they continued searching the area -- >> oh, my gosh. that's one of the examples of her community activism. 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