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They met at a hotel in reno, nevada, of all places. >> and he hardly knew a word of english and she hardly knew a word of french. >> and yet they hit it off. when it came time for him to leave, she said take me with you. >> so he did, all the way back to canada, to northern saskatchewan. and against all odds, said denis sister, deanne, the wayward marriage of the preachers daughter and illiterate dropout worked. >> what i really liked about them is they seemed to be more friends than lovers. the...

Hours. and it hadnt been. so i couldnt make a reported yet. >> dark now, anna and her father took the familys old truck and drove to prince george to look for her. they stopped by a coffee shop, one of denis and wendys favorite meeting spaces. no wendy. but as anna looked around, her eye caught something familiar. >> there was the van sitting under a street lamp in a grocery store parking lot. i was so excited. the grocery store, i think, was just closing up, and i thought well, maybe she is on ...

>> she interviewed several of wendys close friends. all told her the same thing. wendy was first and foremost a mother. >> you got a sense you know these people when you are looking for what happened to them? >> you certainly develop an idea of who that person could be. >> what idea did you develop? >> for wendy, very caring, loving mother. when i was talking with anna and gabe. the love they had for their mother, i knew it had to be reciprocated. that obviously wendy loved her children very muc...

Whatever it took to save the marriage. but anna could clearly see that wendys very public complaints about his failings had been bothering him a lot. >> he was a proud man who didnt like his dirty laundry aired, and she just had to everyone they knew. >> his failings had been put on display. >> and they had never been before. what it took for her to forgive him hurt him deeply. >> but denis told police again and again his marriage was back on track. he had absolutely no reason, he said, to hurt ...

>> he says, i couldnt just tell them i did nothing, and then they cant help me. and so he says, i made up a story, you know, that i thought they would find me some kind of an alibi or something. he says, fix it so that these cops would get off my case. he had such a miserable, lonely life thatible he would have -- at that point would have said almost anything. >> relatives of suspects nabbed by a mr.ing about sting have every right to cry foul, he says. >> achilles heel. while capable of exposin...

And yeah, he lost it. so i think that went on to the visa, as well. and he was terrible. >> mom was very vocal. i remember her yelling. she was so angry. she just vibrated. >> vibrated? >> mom was emotional. id never seen her yell at him like that before. she talked about how much she loved dad but was so angry with him, wasnt sure she could forgive him. that it was betrayal, and you put years of devotion into someone, to be cut down like that. >> "your fathers addiction is ruining us," wendy to...

I know my fathers mannerisms. i know when hes hiding something. when hes not being truthful of something. >> unlike deonne and gabriel, unlike her moms family in the states, anna was convinced her father was guilty as charged. >> i know when he was talking about moms murder that it was true. thats what he had done. >> they just about finished their investigation, and theyre waiting for satellite results from u.s. >> satellite results? >> thats when he folded. and i saw the look in his eye. im ca...

And sister who loved each other and loved their mom and dad. >> i always thought of our family as a perfect little family. it didnt matter where we lived, as long as we were together. that was home. >> this is anna siefert who at the time was anna ratte. home was a country cabin surrounded by trees and mountains of british columbia, canada. this is her little brother, gabriel. >> i always thought of my family and my parents as being perfect. >> especially when you saw the dysfunction in families...

Mom, hurry! our shows gonna start soon! i promised i wouldnt miss the show and mommy always keeps her promises. oh, no! seriously? hmm! its not the same if shes not here. oh. -what the. oh my goodness! i dont suppose you can sing, can you? ♪ the snows comin down ♪ -mommy? ♪ im watching it fall ♪ watch the full story at www.xfinity.com/sing2 it was late summer, a hot morning in saskatchewan when wendy and denis ratte drove off to run some errands. hours later, wendy was nowhere to be fo...