investigations cbc news more missing women on the highway of tears. discovery of a body by the time wendy ratte vanished, at least 15 women had either gone missing or been found dead somewhere along this highway. word was a serial killer was on the loose. for me as a reporter, it became sickening after a while to hear the police issue another release that another girl had gone missing. had wendy become highway victim number 16? her abandoned van wasn t far from the highway. you couldn t not look at it as a possibility. it s another woman gone missing in unsubstantiated ways. for some, that s all that s needed. in many ways it s perfectly valid. but as reporter frank peebles dug into the story, he found another so far unsubstantiated theory making the rounds around town. i know that the police spend a lot of time thinking about and investigating the jones theory.
you were married to if you didn t do it? could you really tell that story? or could he? would he? tell it again? coming up, whatever denis was or was not about to say, did it really make sense that he would hurt wendy? she was the breadwinner. she was the brains of the operation. why would he kill her? when date whine continues.
and and said, we ve just arrested your father. for the murder of your mother. what was it like to hear that? shattering. i i broke down. but at the same time it s like i knew. i just didn t want to believe it. the signs were all there. he changed so much. and just hearing it made it kind of official, that the person i held so dear wasn t there anymore. not a big surprise, really. anna had doubts about her father all along. but her brother, gabriel? well. that was a different story altogether. i can t imagine how anyone would say it s 100% certain that my dad did it. coming up, gabriel isn t the only one with doubts.
conducting his own investigation, his target, suspects police had already eliminated. the jones family. he said that day that she disappeared, friends of his saw the family from down the street that she had had kicked out. she saw them following her. i said, where s this coming from? who are these people? have they told the police? and he said, these people don t want to go to the police, they re afraid of this family. and i couldn t understand that he would be okay with not telling the police. if her father didn t want to go to police, anna decided, then she would. i asked, could i have my father s storyline? and the police said, we don t have a clear picture of what happened that day, because every time he tells us a story, there are big holes. what did you think when you heard that? just at a loss. it felt like there was a it s like he was putting a barrier in front of the investigation. but there was something anna
the story you re about to witness is all too real, though it may seem perhaps implausible, like a play or a movie with at its dark heart something quite unspeakable. the actors are the family, divided across a thin line separating truth and deception. 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. but in the beginning? in the beginning there was wilderness vast and lovely and a happy little family, a brother