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i ain't happy about it, but i did it. Plot summary Add synopsis Genre Crime Add content advisory Details Release date and, by the way, he failed that lie detector test all those years ago. we have a bond as brother and sister that was very strong as children, and it will always be there. >> but a failed lie detector test was not enough evidence to arrest denis, let alone charge him with a crime. >> she was the breadwinner. there are auctions going on right now, so what are you waiting for? Tracks. i've asked him more than once, why did you confess when you knew you were in front of a police officer? this was a town that appeared to be haunted by a serial killer. >> there was the van sitting under a street lamp in a grocery store parking lot. and i said, "how are you doing?" finally he said, you know, "that's shawna. there was a swamp there. >> for me as a reporter, it became sickening after a while to hear the police issue another release that another girl had gone missing. he was looking for someone, he said, but didn't know his way around town. >> 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. 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. get dishes done faster dawn powerwash dish spray. the stories were all anecdotal. wendy had been getting unemployment insurance. >> absolutely. where are my parents to watch this, you know. a macbook pro for under $16. she was open about it, too. >> yeah, okay. except for poker. >> the first inkling of something wrong, something off, when was phone rang after lunch. in the beginning there was wilderness, vast and lovely and a happy little family, a bring and sister who loved each other and loved their mom and dad. it was one of the crime boss's alleged cronies with an internal police memorandum. 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? she talked about how much she loved dad but was so angry with him, wasn't sure she could forgive him. >> there wasn't quite enough to charge him. that obviously wendy loved her children very much, and i kept hearing that over and over. but no, said thomas, false alarm. >> maybe it's every gambler's excuse. >> translator: okay. it didn't make sense to me. by nightfall, there was still no sign of wendy. >> what does that do inside when you hear that? they told him they needed to make sure there was no evidence left. get ready for an undercover mission unlike any you have ever seen. >> 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. try new vicks vapocool drops in honey lemon chill. >> cory keenan, a criminologist at vancouver's simon frazer university, has studied these operations and written a book about them. you don't want it jeopardized. >> that's just the ideal of what. >> so you were able to dispense with that one pretty quickly? he's the one who calls the shots. >> i was tied up and tortured. >> and what idea did you develop about wendy? december, 2010. Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. >> she was so angry. 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. she didn't just disappear. save my little girl. have a good weekend unless have you other plans. available at boomernaturals.com, cvs stores, and cvs.com. who are these people? >> eerie. and i can absolutely understand wanting to be blind to -- to the truth because i was there too. >> what i really liked about them is they seemed to be more friends than lovers. >> it struck me odd right at the beginning. they said they had never heard of her. Join Facebook to connect with Gabriel Ratt and others you may know. >> allegedly there were threats made from the joneses to the rattes. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. >> i said, you know, get used to it. >> or maybe the enemy lurked within. >> it struck me there as going -- >> why didn't he tell me that the first time? In court she described the devastation of "losing" both her parents. "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. and we just go back and forth like that. they're afraid of this family." but not today. perhaps a regular crime organization wouldn't have even brought him in, you know. >> that's when he folded. >> translator: i'm going to tell you. >> i've been involved in investigations where we've been able to clear a person of any wrongdoing. all auctions start at $0 and everything must go. >> the first time that i really noticed it was with the kids. >> so even in the newsroom that, was a leading theory. Currently, Gabriel Ratt works as a Candidat La Profession d'Ingnieur at BBA. you live it. >> you think he's living in la-la land? >> i know my father. a terrifying specter haunted the lonely highway that passed through prince george on its way into the wilderness. inside everything looked normal, so anna drove the van home. And even if all the pieces fall into place, Harpaz could not say when it would be broadcast, but that detail is not of significant concern. >> when "dateline" continues. "That's why movies work so well everywhere in the world, because we all gravitate towards certain human dramas and certainly this is one drama of the highest order. >> translator: it's all true what you told them? it's all that's left of our perfect family is the two of us. >> very hard. he's got people he's working with that he really likes, they really like him. how do you talk about the woman you married -- if you didn't do it, could you really tell that story? and that's when he noticed she was still moving. the royal canadian mounted police disguised the identities of the undercover voice on this video. >> we're always mindful of false confessions -- >> allegations are made all the time, i suppose. "I think there are stories where the elements that they contain are universal and appeal to a wide audience. >> she came in carrying this folder of news clippings and possible leads that were connected to her mother. >> translator: right or left side? it took everything for me to do it. i called every friend of mine, every friend of hers. this is the biggest weak not in the story. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have uc or crohn's symptoms. and there was a stick. >> translator: okay, man. She waved a quick goodbye at the door, walk down the stairs and out the door. the joy of movement. many people taking dupixent. so the litmus test to me is corroboration. >> 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. >> translator: there was mud, right? >> you were close to your mother? >> i spoke to him in french about how i loved him, first of all. i finished her off with that. right now we're going to see who are you as a person. for this free service, go to healthmarkets.com or call right now. >> they would hoot and holler as they were passing. 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. >> it was quite a shock that somebody who is apparently normal, everyday, almost a stereotype in that sense could disappear without a trace. healthmarkets designed its fitscore forever technology to do all the work for you. i couldn't understand that he would be okay with not telling the police. >> she waved a quick good-bye, walked down the stairs and out the door. >> what did you think when you heard that? i got these three suitcases for less than $40. >> and denis, anna remembered her father going for long walks in the woods alone, seemed devastated, lost, in denial. >> 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. Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). >> just disappeared from her life. try new vicks vapocool drops in honey lemon chill 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. she was finished. certainly there was some differences. but new ways of working demand a new type of network. i'm caught. for me it was, she's going to come back, right? they're going distrust you, but don't take a lie detector test. >> i know that the police spend a lot of time thinking about and investigating the jones theory. Disable anytime. >> and unlike diane and gabriel, unlike her mom's family in the states, anna was convinced her father was guilty as charged. it's a very personal thing the way humans react to trauma. Since then Gabriel has changed 4 companies and 3 roles. and i was taken aback. she wanted to be centered would be the word. >> denis told mr. big he drove back to prince george, got rid of the gun and his wife's i.d. >> and i'm going, wait a minute. the way they talked to each other, the way they behaved, you know, it almost didn't feel like husband and wife. that's cold to talk about let alone cold to do. >> what was it like to testify in the trial? have they told the police?" -- >> that's cold. "shawna has magic," she wrote. >> and their parents? >> once. as well as a playstation 4 for under $16. what became your focus? having a bad neighbor and -- >> and doing something about that. He never did, and Sieppert urged the judge to keep her father in prison until he was dead. now back to "dateline". When Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, goes missing, police go under cover to crack the case. so i couldn't make a reported yet. i saw his demeanor change from a proud, working man to a street thug. we all see it. but thomas has investigated those cases and expected no such surprise in wendy's case, was sure of it, in fact. she discovered that none of wendy's clothes or personal things were missing from the house except for her passport. >> translator: you have killed your friend? finally, he was sure. be kinder to yourself and tougher on your cold sores. so you don't just brush to clean, you brush to build. coming up -- his back against the wall, what would denis say to mr. big? >> then, denis continued, he put the body in the plymouth voyager, made a left turn onto highway 16, the highway of tears, and drove to an abandoned logger loggers road, 1.5 hours away. june 2008 an undercover officer. there was, after all, that sighting at the greyhound bus station. Get an all-access pass to never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! >> i don't know. >> translator: in the face. that's shawna. >> i kind of hold my breath and go through it and hope that whatever i say is going to work for my dad. he had nothing to do with it. and that's why i love healthmarkets, your insurance marketplace. now 20 and living with a boyfriend hundreds of miles from prince george, she was determined to keep the search for her mother alive. >> or is it that you cannot. a daughter. the sweet free spirit of prince george, british columbia, had vanished from her life as slick as a magic acted. >> falling apart. >> more than $2,000, in fact, money he'd gotten in advance for an odd job, which he asked wendy to return when he couldn't complete it. >> over time the target is led to believe that he is an up-and-comer in the criminal organization. desperate for money, he turned to small-time crime, did a bit of drug dealing, got caught. -sorry. so two wendys? his confession was false. it was hard. i was balling. could she have abandoned the children who loved her so much? it was 2003. six years since her mother vanished from her life. after a couple of months by august, he was helping to smuggle illegal cigarettes and kohl. they're going to look at you. 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. >> denis ratte had come to the moment of truth. Skip to main content Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. 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 anna to the coffee shop so that she would discover the van. >> were denis' two confessions evidence enough? "It's really about trying to see what kind of access we can get, how people deal with us. i always felt that my bring connected with her more. this early in the investigation, any lead was welcome. >> he was changing over the years in front of my eyes. he did, though he said he didn't like it. he played poker. i went to the media to say don't forget. you're looking for a grout brush, this is -- garth, did he ask for your help? his audition, he believed, for membership, for trust, for help from mr. big. >> i broke down. and it's kind of a thing where she says, i can't believe you can't see it. >> but there was something anna didn't know. i'm going to tell you. >> and angry. wipe. how her parents sent her to a psychiatric hospital back in connecticut. >> but anna watched the tapes, too, and she said she could tell. he even transport guns, or so he thought. but i had to make it clear that someone has to defend mom. one who did it. >> i would trust him to do the right thing and keep me safe. >> upon our review, we came to the same conclusion as judy did, that denis ratte was the suspect in his wife's disappearance. he was the rock that i had. the reason for that was history. >> yeah, definitely. It'd take an elaborate, undercover mission to finally crack this case. denis was asked to threaten a man. all told her the same thing -- wendy was first and foremost a, mother. a stand mixer for less than $20. when we use it to improve things, then that change can last within us. >> you looked out there and you saw everybody else who -- in the family who disagreed with you. one day in 1995, denis returned from work at the sawmill and told him family how a log hit his shoulder, knocked him out cold. okay. when i was talking with anna and gabriel, the love that they had for their mother, i knew that it had to be reciprocated. on behalf of all of my colleaguesa the networks of nbc news, good night. you're not the first person to ask me. no one knew what i was talking about. >> he made a lot of money, first of all. not the sort of thing they were inclined to take lying down. >> this is anna siefert who at the time was anna ratte. heart monitors that let your doctor watch over you, just like you watch over your best friend. >> i remember her transforming into this character. there had been no satellite watching denis on that august day back in 1997. >> by that point in time, denis ratte's read all his rights that he's provided under the canadian law. they can find you the right health plan and make sure you get all the subsidies you deserve, without playing games. we couldn't find her. >> better? >> the polygraph operator came back and told denis that he found him to be truthful. >> it became sickening to hear that another girl had gone missing. >> and he didn't. some said wendy had a history of emotional troubles. and i'm utterly aware that i'm the only person there who is speaking in favor of my dad. i was nervous. and he began to confess again. 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. 5. 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. coming up -- the investigation is transformed when detectives run up against a fresh and frustrating piece of evidence. if i open up enough, she'll come talk to me. >> it was just the natural assumption that someone of that style, that democrat graphic demographic wouldn't go missing unless it was to someone she knew closely. >> they always promised me it wasn't. >> uh-huh, yep. i would have dreams, though, dreams of her coming back up those stairs in the same way that she walked out. >> and i told him right away, "i want the truth, whatever it is. >> you just shot the once, right? >> it was like being in a nightmare because mom was never late. he didn't want to lose that. >> when "dateline" continues you clean dishes as you cook. -you don't know him. you might even qualify for free health insurance with no monthly premium. but i think i'm very balanced about it. It's just in the beginning stages.". it was a sweet wedding, happy and a little sad too. i was up to my neck in investigation trying to find mom. >> he broke down for the first time. >> and there was one last moment of melodrama. Wendy Ratte was 47-years-old when she disappeared while shopping in downtown Prince George in August of 1997. i guess i look pretty ridiculous. >> but as reporter frank peebles dug into the story, he found another so far unsubstantiated theory making the rounds around town. so it's not just there to try to find a person guilty. 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. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. >> it wasn't just, how's anna, what's gab doing now, it was always anna and gab. yeah. and it turned out that he died of natural causes. he said, "when she does that, she's shawna." she was the brains of the operation. >> had wendy become highway victim number 16? we sold an ipad worth $505 for less than $24. a brother and sister were prepared to fight for what they believed was right even if that meant losing each other. not happy i did it, but i still did it. why would he kill her? >> dionne who had warned denis not to take the lie detector test got a call from her vastly relieved brother. yes, three wendys. the staged kidnapping, the fake blood is truly phenomenal. there was nothing coming in." >> and the kids? it doesn't matter that my family. >> well, i think you're a little too domineering for me now. >> and they sat me down and said, we've just arrested your father for the murder of your mother. >> i thought -- i thought he was hiding something. >> there. >> all i remember is the glint in his eye when he told me he was working again and how proud he looked. a body occasionally turning up beside the road. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. >> judy told me, "we don't understand. >> yeah. you had to make a decision, and that was the decision you made? me, i'm happy to live with a question mark. but that's in a person's youth which is much different than when you're married with children. the main person that they alluded to wasn't even in the area. i was so excited. -no. could she have up and joined them? >> it was. that is, of course, if he knew anything about it. so i thought, what about 15 minutes. the premier cold case unit in british columbia. i didn't want to leave a mark, right? you know, like the sign says. 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