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On the way into the wilderness. the highway of tears. 837 miles of exquisite natural beauty. winding its way past dramatic, snow capped mountains and breathtaking vistas of lush forests. the clear lakes, reflecting the blue skies. but also, the sites of unsolved mysteries. they say there are six active investigations. abc news brings tonight, more missing women on the highway of tears. by the time that wendy ratte, vanished. these 15 people had either gone missing or been found dead. along this highway. where was the serial killer who was on the loose? for me as a reporter, it became sickening after a while. to see police issuing another release or another girl had ....
Checked herself out. and disappeared again. this time for almost two years. when wendy disappeared, all traces of her were gone. she did not call, anybody. we couldn t find her. we can track her. she showed up suddenly. apparently seeking refuge from a abusive relationship she wasn t at the time. it was a clear disengagement from reality. she didn t understand that her disappearance is where hurtful. to her family members. didn t get that at all. so it went. on and on. until one day, she turned up and announced that she was getting married to danny. the family was overshadowed. our family thought that he was a very good influence on her. and the fact that he chose to take a chance, and take her away. was nothing short of amazing. wendy became a dedicated ....
And this early into the investigation, it was . this is the difficulty with missing person files. there is no real starting point. you don t have a scene. you don t have any leads and it makes it difficult. she decided to focus the investigation closer to home. she discovered that none of wendy s close or personal things were missing from her house. except for her passport. so, the obvious question? did you have the feeling that this is a woman who may have just up in left? we had to look at all possibilities. you have to keep an open mind when you start on these investigations. because, we had at that point, very limited information on who she was. where do you start? maybe a phone call to wendy s family back in the states. and, i hear the story and i think. for crying out loud! she s done it again! coming up. a missing persons case like no other. because who actually disappeared? ....
Sort of mental breakdown? there was talk of some issues that mandy had. we looked into medical records, there was nothing recent. they set her up in the time in her life, when she wouldn t disappear, but she lost contact with the family. but that is in a person s youth. which is much different then when you re married with children. she interviewed several of wendy s closest friends. who also told her the same thing. wendy was first, and foremost, a mother. you get a sense that you know these people when you re looking for what happened? you certainly develop an idea of who that person could be. and what idea did you develop? for wendy, very caring and loving mother. when i was talking with anna and gabriel, the love that they had for the mother, i knew that it had to be reciprocated. that obviously, she loved her children very much. and i kept hearing that over and over. ....
That she would not leave her children. right, a central fact in your mind. definitely. so, runaway wendy? investigator thomas decided no. so what about the jones family? the neighbors who wendy had helped evict from the property. they would ve had the motive to hurt her. you look at the firm circumstances of it. that family had moved for months prior. the main person they alluded to, wasn t in the area. and there was nothing else to support that. the jones were ruined out. as suspects in the disappearance of wendy ratte. which left wendy s husband danny. he created the suspicion himself, of course, when he illegally cashed wendy s unemployment checks. ....