the jones family. once neighbors of the rattes, not exactly friends. in fact, just four months before she disappeared, wendy complained very publicly about the joneses, appearing in the newspaper accusing the family of mistreating their animals and using their land as a garbage dump. she was able to get a fairly big news story happening which made the city react and get them kicked off the property. and the animals taken away. it was not only damaging for the joneses, it was humiliating. not the sort of thing they were inclined to take lying down. allegedly there were threats made from the joneses to the rattes. the jones family matriarch sent a scathing letter to the prince george citizen, bad-mouthing wendy and her family. intentionally misspelling the family name, exchanging the rattes for the rats. i never met the joneses, but the stories i heard were that