>> 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. 43:47. this early in the investigation, any lead was welcome. your sign's pointing at my sign, so people are gonna look at my sign. gabriel was at work when the call came. >> so everybody was looking for wendy, said gabriel, when really, maybe they should have been looking for one of the shawnas. >> what did you think when you heard that? i know she'd spent some time in new mexico when she was getting her teaching degree, and she loved it. >> uh-huh. when we use it to improve things, then that change can last within us. the lies, the betrayals. but we can protect your home and auto when you bundle with us. >> and there was one last moment of melodrama. >> i broke down. one of 800 unsolved cases on the unit's books. after a couple of months by august, he was helping to smuggle illegal cigarettes and kohl. they would have had the motive to hurt her. Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. time for denis to come clean. i had talked to many families of many disappeared people over the years, and i could see the light in her eyes that way. >> she showed up suddenly apparently seeking refuge from an abusive relationship she was in at the time and then was gone again. sweet. >> translator: it's all true what you told them? >> no. a horrifying surprise for passersby. >> an undercover operation? 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. she was everybody's mom, and she just disappeared. she did say that she recognized my mom. and money they didn't have. but her brother, gabriel? there's resources that can inform us, and that spark can make a difference. they found absolutely nothing to corroborate his story. >> so said judy thomas, no highway of tears. >> $2,000, exactly. >> and i'm going, wait a minute. we were talking quietly. the royal canadian mounted police disguised the identities of the undercover voice on this video. 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. feel the difference. that phone call was happiness with a lot of relief in it. a 4k television for under, $2. >> what was it like to testify in the trial? >> it felt like my world came unhinged. >> denis, of course, had proclaimed his innocence. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems, such as eye pain or vision changes, or a parasitic infection. >> for wendy, very caring, loving mother. the actors are the family, divided across a thin line separating truth and deception. they're quite adamant. >> very hard. get dishes done faster dawn powerwash dish spray. clear lakes reflecting the blue skies above. and bit by bit as days went by, denis became fully involved in what he clearly believed was a criminal gang. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. >> i feel that the decision wendy was making was whether she was going to end the marriage with denis or not. and no motive. she did not call anybody. >> 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. and against all odds, said denis' sister, deanne, the wayward marriage of the preacher's daughter and illiterate dropout worked. you know what's good about this? and just hearing it made it kind of official that the person i held so dear wasn't there anymore. and waited to see what the machine would say. he's the one who calls the shots. the undercover canadian investigator posing as the crime boss wanted denis to feel comfortable, so he spoke french, denis' mother tongue. >> and then finally she and the family seemed to find it. -[narrator] we are boomer natur. 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. >> right. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open and connected. >> during one of his delivery trips to vancouver, denis stopped to see his son gabriel, now 26 and a college student once more. 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. >> so all thomas could do was file the results away and try to find more evidence against denis. >> probably. >> translator: yeah, okay, okay, yeah. he said, that's not wendy. is it possible, though, that you're liing in denial? >> 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. so show me the evidence. a jury was about to decide. and finally we asked him, you know, "what is going on?" >> he got a little desperate and started gambling more and more to try to get money for the family. >> 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. >> and i told him right away, "i want the truth, whatever it is. >> he broke down for the first time. it was the police asking her to come downtown. >> but there was something anna didn't know. she was so angry. >> once. >> so much of my life had been devoted to finding the truth, and now i had the truth. >> i bet. might be angry with me for the results of where this trial led. Following. i'd never seen real emotion come from him before. >> i don't think he could lie about it when you have a picture of him cashing the check at an atm. i was heaving. i'm not eating at the soup kitchen anymore. be there for you, and them. we have translated and dubbed over their conversation in english. big" when "dateline" continues. >> by then, wendy's disappearance became news all over prince george. Or, did danger lurk closer to home? not the sort of thing they were inclined to take lying down. >> your mother just fighting for her child. >> it had been a heavy burden to carry that with him all those years, said denis. as each hour crawled by that. >> i was terrified. >> he didn't strike me as overly concerned. wendy ratte. but nobody would be working on it. if he likes you and wants to bring you in, he can make your criminal problems go away. you don't -- there's no real starting point. call the number on your screen, or visit healthmarkets.com. by nightfall, there was still no sign of wendy. but, when used at the first sign, abreva can get you back to being you in just 2 and a half days. you might even qualify for free health insurance with no monthly premium. >> he said, i couldn't just tell them i did nothing. When Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, goes missing, police go under cover to crack the case. Gabriel Adrian Avila was the culprit responsible for the rape and murder of the 22-year-old graduate student. and he guarded a hotel room door as an undercover officer savagely beat a woman. >> oops. you know, like the sign says. she did that, though. big." so the litmus test to me is corroboration. to ensure as much as possible that the suspect doesn't lie to gain respect. >> but anna's father, denis, it seemed, had never given up. but isn't that life? really. >> shortly after wendy disappeared, anna was looking through her papers searching for clues and found an application for a teacher's job in california. dealdash.com offers hundreds of auctions every day. so i couldn't make a reported yet. FACTS -Wendy Ratte a wife and mother of 2 kids disappeared on August 18th,1997 at the age of 44 -American free-spirit born in a well to do family from New England -Became a teacher like both parents -Had a bipolar personality -One of her odd personalities was Shanna, a wild child who wanted nothing but freedom -Ran away from home twice 5. no one knew what i was talking about. >> denis was in a downward spiral. >> i'm going to help you or i'm not going to help you, okay? but the results were inconclusive. >> i knew when he was talking about mom's murder that it was true. the family could certainly use the cash, and denis figured he was pretty good. she was driving a very fast, very expensive car. she didn't understand that her. isn't that something common to all of us? >> 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. it continuously scans the market to compare your plan against any new options year after year, so you don't have to stress about picking your health insurance plan. Prince George man sentenced for wife's murder | CBC News Loaded. back to vancouver to his college graduation that very same day. >> and he hardly knew a word of english and she hardly knew a word of french. >> he shot wendy, denis told mr. big, that morning at their house in prince george. on behalf of all of my colleaguesa the networks of nbc news, good night. denis agreed to help him. what do you have to say? >> he said he did it between the house and the garage. >> it was. someone cashed in her unemployment checks at an atm. not happy i did it, but i still did it. just so you know, next time, you can submit a claim with our mobile app. wendy found work off and on as a substitute teacher at the local high school. >> when "dateline" continues. a terrifying specter haunted the lonely highway that passed through prince george on its way into the wilderness. >> translator: we're going to talk to each other, and we're going to work out these problems. >> it was hard for me not to tell anna. boomer naturals, we've got you . all auctions start at $0 and everything must go. and it makes it difficult. i want you to tell me the truth." >> denis said it was just one shot, not a lot of blood. >> that's what i needed. >> in his confessions, denis said he had a reason that would seem so twisted neither police nor anyone else believed it. go to dealdash.com today and see how much you can save. >> it became sickening to hear that another girl had gone missing. gabriel said denis was desperate to be accepted by his new tough guy friends. it didn't matter where we lived, as long as we were together. he did, though he said he didn't like it. >> she survived a harrowing ordeal in one of the most dangerous places on earth. she was in touch with a spirit, an ancient spirit with -- named oshanna. >> we asked them, what is going on? Dateline: Secrets Uncovered The Woman With No Name. "It's really about trying to see what kind of access we can get, how people deal with us. >> sure. the premier cold case unit in british columbia. was it possible, she wondered, that it was guilt? after about an hour of conversation, she finally just shook her head and said, i'm very sure that it was dad. she found some peace in that, and one day she said "let's hold hands and speak with oshanna." she might have reached that breaking point where she just thought or she didn't think, just snapped and just left. i didn't know she did this. >> a lot of people are nervous whether they come in. the staged kidnapping, the fake blood is truly phenomenal. Sieppert, who was a teenager when her mother disappeared, tried for years to track her mother down, talking to newspapers and radio shows every year on her mother's birthday, but to no avail. >> translator: i made sure, you know, the body -- >> translator: what did you put on it? maybe a phone call to wendy's family back in the states. >> it was like being in a nightmare because mom was never late. -you smell like fish. >> but still, why would her own kids think it possible she'd abandon her own family without so much as goodbye? try new vicks vapocool drops in honey lemon chill. >> translator: in the face. mood swings for one thing. >> the story you're about to witness is all too real, though it may seem perhaps implausible. >> mm-hmm. now back to "dateline." "shawna has magic," she wrote. while shawna was the wild child. she was his everything. 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. >> yes, because it was specifically asked did wendy have money on her. , >> what about the religious group, the emissaries of divine light, that wendy had been drawn to years before? >> or is it that you cannot. >> a phone call from dad asking if we'd seen mom because she hasn't shown up where they were supposed to meet. i remember her yelling. . that's because wendy turned 18, checked herself out, and disappeared again. voltaren. but instead of anger he was surprised to encounter skepticism. and humira helps people achieve remission that can last. with humira, remission is possible. >> she was the breadwinner. This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17 U.S. Code). have been okay. Audience Relations, CBC P.O. When Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, goes missing, police go under cover to crack the case. >> when "dateline" continues you clean dishes as you cook. >> as she was leaving, he said to her, keep looking for your mother. >> you certainly develop an idea of who that person could be. >> why should you replace her? saw clear or almost clear skin, and, had significantly less itch. so two wendys? she just vibrated. he's guilty. >> translator: i took a bumper jack, right? >> so it went on and on until one day she turned up and announced she was getting married to denis. >> i didn't believe it. >> i kind of hold my breath and go through it and hope that whatever i say is going to work for my dad. and that's why i love healthmarkets, your insurance marketplace. i'm having a big lunch and then just a snack for dinner. >> translator: i said it there? >> 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. be kinder to yourself and tougher on your cold sores. >> there hasn't been a happy ending for anybody -- >> no. his target? she felt restrained by the bonds of marriage and family. there was usually a game in town. and shipping is always free. the main person that they alluded to wasn't even in the area. >> by that point in time, denis ratte's read all his rights that he's provided under the canadian law. like why aren't we looking for her? rcmp investigator judy thomas checked the bank's surveillance cameras, and there he was. and i was taken aback. Gabriel Avila is a convicted felon for the rape and murder of a student named, Katie Sepich. if you have nothing to hide, then you have nothing to hide. >> i definitely would have heard it. >> or could he or would he tell it again? >> anna knows all too well the truth will never replace her mother's soothing voice. s. a month into the investigation, police thought they were a big step closer to solving the mystery surrounding wendy's disappearance. >> as their friend lois cook could plainly see, denis was fiercely protective of all of them. 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. they told me that they know it that my father did it and they are 100% certain of it. they just didn't make any sense. >> was wendy another victim, or could she have been targeted by neighbors she tangled with? TV Archive she just vibrated. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have uc or crohn's symptoms. >> no, he didn't. >> when "dateline" continues. letting him go as a suspect must have been difficult. Ratte case to air on Dateline NBC. >> denis' defense lawyer hammered undercover detectives about the lack of physical evidence and pointed out lies denis had told mr. big and his gang. >> thomas interviewed several of wendy's closest friends. >> this town is used to, disappearances. >> the polygraph operator came back and told denis that he found him to be truthful. >> absolutely. my emotion went into finding her. >> right. that it was betrayal, and you put years of devotion into someone, to be cut down like that. it's seeing someone's face that comforts us, no matter where. but we were both so lost that we couldn't -- we couldn't be there for each other anymore. i saw the truth on his face in that tape. and we decided an undercover operation may be the best to move this forward. we have a bond as brother and sister that was very strong as children, and it will always be there. one of the worst things about a cois how it can make you feel. >> a confession is the strongest evidence anybody ever gets, and, you know, it generally does the deed. 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. the reason for that was history. it was his first offense so he only got probation. clear lakes reflecting the blue skies above. but i also believe in truth. i said, "where's this coming from? denis was asked to threaten a man. >> she was the breadwinner. -okay. >> i thought, well, maybe -- maybe she's there. Follow. wondering what was going to happen, what's going to take place. >> sure. if only she could speak to the spirits the way her mom once did. it turned out they hadn't found anything. >> denis did not listen to his sister. this different self. i say i always felt i connected with my father more. for years, women had been going missing out here. like a play or a movie with at its dark heart something quite unspeakable. the emissaries of divine light. wistful when anna, the bride, danced with her father. Gabriel Pelletier was born in 1958 in Montral, Qubec, Canada. >> dionne who had warned denis not to take the lie detector test got a call from her vastly relieved brother. right now we're going to see who are you as a person. and she was not a person i'd ever met, and we knew she was not well and needed care. so you asked him about it? like reality had ceased to be. 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. >> i would trust him to do the right thing and keep me safe. -you don't know him. dupixent is the first treatment of its kind that continuously treats moderate-to-severe eczema, or atopic dermatitis, even between flare ups. he told me, "no, no, no. so you've got this elaborate setup. 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