you don't have a scene. while it's capable of exposing the guilty, it can also induce innocent suspects to falsely confess to a crime they didn't commit. and shipping is always free. and i saw the look in his eye. september 27, 2008. a hotel room in winnipeg. he's the one who calls the shots. with stressballs. >> but still, why would her own kids think it possible she'd abandon her own family without so much as goodbye? his audition, he believed, for membership, for trust, for help from mr. big. the way they talked to each other, the way they behaved, you know, it almost didn't feel like husband and wife. like reality had ceased to be. but her brother, gabriel? Or, did danger lurk closer to home? CLIP 06/06/22 . >> or is it that you cannot. When Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, goes missing, police go under cover to crack the case. like a play or a movie with at its dark heart something quite unspeakable. >> with various files, you get a lot of people saying, oh, i saw this person. that family had moved four months i believe prior. this different self. there had been no satellite watching denis on that august day back in 1997. no problem, said denis. >> translator: i'm going to tell you. he skpaifr he exchanged stolen diamonds. the family finally found her, living in a tent in new hampshire. and i can absolutely understand wanting to be blind to -- to the truth because i was there too. >> first, mr. big told denis he'd have to come clean about his past. >> she was the breadwinner. now back to "dateline." though it was hardly a surprise police would look at the husband. we can't let that go. he could have said, ah, i thought i was talking to a crime boss. he did, though he said he didn't like it. she wanted to have a good time. she might have reached that breaking point where she just thought or she didn't think, just snapped and just left. what was it like to testify at the trial? the first steps of checking in, the smallest moments can end up being everything. for all those years he told her, the police just wouldn't leave him alone. >> when wendy disappeared, all traces of her were gone. >> so all thomas could do was file the results away and try to find more evidence against denis. back to vancouver to his college graduation that very same day. 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. denis agreed to help him. clear lakes reflecting the blue skies above. and there was a stick. the highway of tears. >> and their parents? >> translator: i got to put myself back there. i was heaving. cuz i remember turning. and two of her checks had been cashed at an atm in full view of the bank's surveillance camera. 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. i was talking to jamie. >> sure. but she knew how much denis loved his children and how much the children loved denis. this is the biggest weak not in the story. she discovered that none of wendy's clothes or personal things were missing from the house except for her passport. last august, did you murder wendy? 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. he liked being the man of the house. Gabriel Ratt is on Facebook. >> translator: it's all true what you told them? like how would you deal with that? >> these undercover officers, they're amazing actors. >> translator: it still hurts. i went to the media to say don't forget. my hand was so good that no one was going to beat it. >> i'm putting my gloves -- it's black -- that's the tarp. i was nervous. i couldn't imagine how it would feel to be the one investigated. just so you know, next time, you can submit a claim with our mobile app. he was calm. as each hour crawled by that. you do hear it. heart monitors that let your doctor watch over you, just like you watch over your best friend. 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. i didn't know -- this is like three years' buildup of just holding it in. meantime government in new mexico are stepping up requirements. time for mr. big. >> 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. >> because i think maybe then i could hear her. View the profiles of people named Gabriel Ratte. did you say this can't be, or -- >> it -- i remember having a thought of hmm, it's not what i would have expected. It'd take an elaborate, undercover mission to finally crack this case. didn't try to lie? i saw him at the food banks. >> we had five polygraph operators read those charts. we're going to fix them, okay? 3. healthmarkets' fitscore instantly ranks plans both on and off the government exchange to find one that best fits your insurance needs. >> right after the curb there, the house is right there. their visa card was almost maxed out. >> if her father didn't want to go police, anna decided, then she would. >> rumors of suspects nabbed by a mr. big sting had every right to cry foul said criminologist cory keenan. 837 miles of exquisite natural beauty winding its way past dramatic snow-capped mountains and breathtaking vistas of lush forests. Currently, Gabriel Ratt works as a Candidat La Profession d'Ingnieur at BBA. >> probably. so the obvious question -- did you have the feeling that this is a woman who might have just up and left? >> that's the part of me that is the dreamy, hopeful, optimistic side. they created from scratch a fake criminal organization complete with detectives posing as, crooks. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. in fact, in the very first week of the investigation, thomas had questioned him three times. now back to "dateline". why would he kill her? wendy just didn't fit the profile. his target? Tracks. managing heart failure starts now with understanding. >> and she began to believe she was quite alone. >> he said that day that she disappeared, friends of his saw the family from down the street that she had had kicked out. >> for wendy, very caring, loving mother. she was feeding the ducks, her back to him, when he took aim with a .22-caliber rifle. a place to belong. >> were denis' two confessions evidence enough? i saw the truth on his face in that tape. >> translator: you know, i stirred it around, and it slipped. Or, did danger lurk closer to home? >> your mother just fighting for her child. coming up -- the investigation is transformed when detectives run up against a fresh and frustrating piece of evidence. >> yeah, like parents get divorced? so, man, whenever i do hear one. home was a country cabin surrounded by trees and mountains of british columbia, canada. i didn't want to leave a mark, right? there was, after all, that sighting at the greyhound bus station. >> if i could categorize him, he was that way. that's shawna. >> you looked out there and you saw everybody else who -- in the family who disagreed with you. >> it was a fake confession. >> -- except your sister anna thinks it's the right ending. mood swings for one thing. i saw the "i'm caught" look in his eye. i'm 15 years old and expecting everything to come and be norm normal. the types of scenarios that they do. >> translator: in the face. her father was guilty. >> all leading up to a sit-down with a man they called "mr. It's just in the beginning stages.". one of the worst things about a cois how it can make you feel. but at the same time, it's like i knew. >> she was so angry. >> coming up, anna gets word there might be witnesses who know what really happened to wendy. Wendy Ratte was 47-years-old when she disappeared while shopping in downtown Prince George in August of 1997. i just didn't want to believe it. >> that's when the investigator decided to show another tape. so, uh, yeah, just a silly mistake. what are you trying to get? it took everything for me to do it. this is what 24/7 protection looks like. when she does that, she's shawna. they're going to look at you. >> what did all of that feel like? don't forget. what did you put on top? sweet. >> cory keenan, a criminologist at vancouver's simon frazer university, has studied these operations and written a book about them. i always considered him about as close as a hero as i girl could get. >> yeah, okay. one that's more than just fast. until the day in late 2007 when anna met reporter frank peebles at a downtown cafe. >> 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. but there were always issues. gabriel noticed that the old self-assured denis was back. that is, of course, if he knew anything about it. 15 minutes could save you 15% or more on car insurance. on behalf of all of my colleaguesa the networks of nbc news, good night. they're afraid of this family." >> mm-hmm. 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. >> what was it like to hear that? >> it was hard for me not to tell anna. and it hadn't been. well, that was a different story altogether. >> but as reporter frank peebles dug into the story, he found another so far unsubstantiated theory making the rounds around town. now suddenly for a man he believed to be a crime boss, he changed his story. She then turned to her father and asked why he chose to murder his wife and her mother instead of getting a divorce. the lies, the betrayals. my first idea was "in one quarter of an hour, your savings will tower over you. >> you expected that to happen? it was brother against sister on the witness stand. Or, did danger lurk closer to home? >> mom was very vocal. where are my parents to watch this, you know. >> what was it like to testify in the trial? those old jacks you used to put under a vehicle. i know my father's mannerisms. >> and the kids? a van with a dent in the door that nobody could remember seeing before. desperate for money, he turned to small-time crime, did a bit of drug dealing, got caught. >> that's just the ideal of what. 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. >> okay -- >> in this video, she organized a peace project that taught student, including her own son, about conflict resolution and respect. >> absolutely not. 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. When Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, goes missing, police go under cover to crack the case. your sign's pointing at my sign, so people are gonna look at my sign. Police investigated: a bitter feud with a neighbor, a possible serial killer. and unlike big glucosamine chondroitin pills, it's all in one tiny pill. >> i walk there, right in there. a terrifying specter haunted the lonely highway that passed through prince george on its way into the wilderness. here's what's happening. >> 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. 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. >> translator: you have killed your friend? >> as their friend lois cook could plainly see, denis was fiercely protective of all of them. >> and then a couple of minutes later, a silent nod from denis. is that a good idea? it i did it, and it paid off. It'd take an elaborate, undercover mission to finally crack this case.Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. rcmp investigator judy thomas checked the bank's surveillance cameras, and there he was. Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. pretty scary, i think. she talked about how much she loved dad but was so angry with him, wasn't sure she could forgive him. and against all odds, said denis' sister, deanne, the wayward marriage of the preacher's daughter and illiterate dropout worked. big" when "dateline" continues. dealdash.com, the fair and honest bidding site. >> it wasn't physical evidence, correct, yeah. >> the rcmp have conducted over 350 of these investigations. Closed Captioning and Described Video is available for many CBC shows offered on CBC Gem. >> so said judy thomas, no highway of tears. all told her the same thing -- wendy was first and foremost a, mother. of course, he believed he was talking to fellow gang members. we looked at that angle. >> translator: honesty, honesty, okay. Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. >> i'm going to help you or i'm not going to help you, okay? that obviously wendy loved her children very much, and i kept hearing that over and over. i don't believe in twice. it looks like your blood pressure's a little high. and i've also had anxiety, headaches, insomnia, and panic attacks. >> they're still my family. seeing a husband trying to relive the moment when he said he murdered his wife. >> okay? >> the gunshot, the top, the carjack, her brother gabriel said it was all a lie. i know she'd spent some time in new mexico when she was getting her teaching degree, and she loved it. now they know i didn't do it, and they're leaving me alone. >> they feel they have transcended the conflict intention of their former lives. how as a teenager she ran away from home, experimented with drugs. there was no evidence, said denis' sister. >> at first for almost an hour, denis seemed to be in denial. >> and he admitted it. wendy found work off and on as a substitute teacher at the local high school. Enable push notifications on your device. >> or could he or would he tell it again? >> and unlike diane and gabriel, unlike her mom's family in the states, anna was convinced her father was guilty as charged. finally, he was sure. i'm dara brown. she did not call anybody. >> the joneses ruled out as suspects in the disappearance of wendy ratte. get dishes done faster dawn powerwash dish spray. so if there's an ounce of -- of me not believing him, it's there. the reason for that was history. the only income came from wendy's work as a substitute. >> translator: so essentially, your son is asking you to tell the truth. she even called herself that in a letter she wrote her parents when she was just 23. In 2020, the NBC Dateline episode featured the case of the gruesome 2003 rape and murder of Katie Sepich by Gabriel Adrian Avila, for which he is serving a 69 years jail sentence. >> just disappeared from her life. she took the kids and went to visit her old friend, lois. a high stakes gamble to reveal the truth on tape for the children left behind. coming up, where was wendy? but that's in a person's youth which is much different than when you're married with children. >> i don't know. afternoon, anna's worry grew. >> denis told wendy he'd do whatever it took to save the marriage. so please be honest. Plot summary Add synopsis Genres Documentary News Parents guide Add content advisory Details Language English Production company NBC News See more company credits at IMDbPro Technical specs Runtime it doesn't matter that my family. >> you couldn't not look at it as a possibility. if only she could speak to the spirits the way her mom once did. i was up to my neck in investigation trying to find mom. yeah. >> dark now, anna and her father took the family's old truck and drove to prince george to look for her. Storyline Wendy Ratte, a free-spirited mother of two, was missing. i called every friend of mine, every friend of hers. it was one of the crime boss's alleged cronies with an internal police memorandum. that's not wendy." not only on never finding his wife again about on himself. Denis Ratte then leaned forward and listened intently, as Sieppert begged him to reveal where he left the body. >> then a knock on the door. police said, "prove it." standard practice in unsolved cases. she felt restrained by the bonds of marriage and family. we looked into medical records and there was nothing recent. >> thomas decided to focus her investigation closer to home. >> it wasn't just, how's anna, what's gab doing now, it was always anna and gab. so show me the evidence. and money they didn't have. >> maybe it's every gambler's excuse. and yeah, he lost it. after about an hour of conversation, she finally just shook her head and said, i'm very sure that it was dad. progressive is always here for you with round-the-clock service. wendy ratte. 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? but -- >> i met shawna. we flagged bank accounts, credit cards, social insurance numbers. how she was constantly seeking something missing. gabriel was putting up a missing persons poster there. >> it's hard being on the other side of this with her because i'd love to have a better relationship with her. word was a serial killer was on the loose. in many ways it's perfectly valid. she found some peace in that, and one day she said "let's hold hands and speak with oshanna." he bet the highest he could. she didn't just disappear. Harpaz is willing to travel to some far off places in search of a story. -keep it coming. they said they had never heard of her. >> once. one who did it. separating rumor from fact, that's another matter altogether as detective judy thomas discovered. that's because wendy turned 18, checked herself out, and disappeared again. >> so he did, all the way back to canada, to northern saskatchewan. and if he lied about one murder. 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. >> it's hope, you know. >> i would trust him to do the right thing and keep me safe. weird. he said, "if i keep the house, she'll have a home to come home to." 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. he was meeting mr. big, the man he believed to be an all-powerful crime boss. >> and he hardly knew a word of english and she hardly knew a word of french. i'd never seen real emotion come from him before. >> very. >> yeah. >> and i told him right away, "i want the truth, whatever it is. >> i'm going, wait a minute. a jury was about to decide. S29 E9. and so, of course, he did. On Thursday his daughter Anna Sieppert delivered an emotional victim impact statement that left staff in the Prince George courtroom in tears. so you can experience few or no symptoms. to. the staged kidnapping, the fake blood is truly phenomenal. all of us, i think, saw him as someone who would die to protect his family. >> in the classroom. i got these three suitcases for less than $40. how her parents sent her to a psychiatric hospital back in connecticut. try move free ultra now. like it was a dream. and that's why i love healthmarkets, your insurance marketplace. >> judy told me, "we don't understand. he explained the fact that his wife had disappeared, there was no money coming in. and i can't blame him. >> the case of the disappearance of wendy ratte was at a dead end. why would he kill her? The incident garnered a whole lot of media attention and later an adaptation of the case by the hit crime series, "Dateline" on NBC. >> denis was in a downward spiral. save the little girl. if you take asthma medicines, don't change or stop them without talking to your doctor. >> i definitely thought about it, right? , >> then there was that religious group she'd been so into the years earlier. most of her family sided with gabriel. >> yes. >> oops. and tender moments like these, anna said, reminded her how much she yearned for the bond they once had. >> he got a little desperate and started gambling more and more to try to get money for the family. he'd say, "oh, we're going for a walk now." >> no. >> and i'm natalie morales. a macbook pro for under $16. so bounce forward, with comcast business. >> when "dateline" continues. On tour View all. >> i feel that the decision wendy was making was whether she was going to end the marriage with denis or not. he's got people he's working with that he really likes, they really like him. >> it was. Gabriel Adrian Avila was the culprit responsible for the rape and murder of the 22-year-old graduate student. Husband Denis Florian Ratte is now serving a life sentence without eligibility for parole for 15 years after a jury found him guilty in November of second degree murder in her death. having helped enroll people in millions of policies while earning an a-plus customer satisfaction rating from the better business bureau, you can trust healthmarkets. on November 14, 2020. with us as always. >> they're described as right out of hollywood. >> as she was leaving, he said to her, keep looking for your mother. it turned out they hadn't found anything. serious allergic reactions can occur, including anaphylaxis, which is severe. >> upon our review, we came to the same conclusion as judy did, that denis ratte was the suspect in his wife's disappearance. >> when "dateline" continues. so much so that fiction is often difficult to differentiate from reality. The horrendous crime occurred on the night of August 31, 2003. it's truly phenomenal. >> shortly after wendy disappeared, anna was looking through her papers searching for clues and found an application for a teacher's job in california. don't have much left. >> and yet they hit it off. and bit by bit as days went by, denis became fully involved in what he clearly believed was a criminal gang. >> over time the target is led to believe that he is an up-and-comer in the criminal organization. i know when he's hiding something, when he's not being truthful about something. she wasn't responding in the way my mother usually does. Facebook gives people the power to. >> didn't help that from one interview to the next, denis appeared to change vital information about the day his wife went missing. i'm happy i have it. read it, said mr. big, as denis listened. the stories were all anecdotal. rinse. >> there. in minutes, you can find out if your current plan is the right fit, or if there's another one that can get you more coverage or help save you money. >> our primary suspect and only suspect, husband denis ratte, had just about finished their investigation. >> and something else bothered him. go to dealdash.com today and see how much you can save. a little sweater and jogging pants. >> translator: i had no choice. 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 -sorry. try new vicks vapocool drops in honey lemon chill. >> a technique's ingenuity is also an achilles' heel. pronamel intensive enamel repair. that's a piece of the tarp. she just vibrated. and brand new cars for less than $900. >> i didn't know what else to do. she came to light sometimes at seances with anna and gabriel. she was the brains of the operation. Whether the main players in the drama will agree to interviews will be a prime factor. a brother and sister were prepared to fight for what they believed was right even if that meant losing each other. so it's not just there to try to find a person guilty. one of 800 unsolved cases on the unit's books. many people taking dupixent. he had absolutely no reason, he said, to hurt wendy or have anything to do with her disappearance. >> in his confessions, denis said he had a reason that would seem so twisted neither police nor anyone else believed it. teacher, not exactly a lucrative profession. it didn't make sense to me. the vice president won the state by more than 14,000 votes. might be angry with me for the results of where this trial led. she had done it before. -no, no. >> 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. stand living in this kind of doubt any longer? >> just at a loss. >> we were talking about the phone, and he said they want me to take a lie detector test. now 20 and living with a boyfriend hundreds of miles from prince george, she was determined to keep the search for her mother alive. she was incredibly nurturing, and i think what she succeeded in doing is that she raised a good son and a good man to live in this world as a sane person. >> denis did not listen to his sister. i've asked him more than once, why did you confess when you knew you were in front of a police officer? 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? -no. it didn't matter where we lived, as long as we were together. he said "see, told me not to do it. this is a really difficult situation for both of us. "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. >> i didn't give it a lot of, thought, to the point where i tried to remember her face and i couldn't. >> it was a big mystery until they brought me in. >> it was like being in a nightmare because mom was never late. i'm going to tell you. and the wrench in her eyes when that came out was something i -- i don't think i can ever forget. if your financial situation has changed, we may be able to help. >> but perhaps the most convincing argument diane heard was from denis himself when she went to see him in jail. >> they would hoot and holler as they were passing. >> a couple of days later, anna got a call. >> gabriel was not there for the guilty verdict. >> you didn't have the physical evidence that would back up his confession in the undercover operation. and his meeting with the crime boss, he said, was a chance to finally make the investigation stop. 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