things were missing from the house except for her passport. so the obvious question did you have the feeling that this is a woman who might have just up and 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 wendy was. where do you start? maybe a phone call to wendy s family back in the states. and i hear this story and think for crying out loud, she s done it again. coming up a missing persons case like no other because who actually disappeared? wendy or a second personality some say lurked inside? we asked them, what is going on? he said, that s not wendy. that s shawna. when she does that, she s shawna. i met shawna. she was driving a very fast, very expensive car.
in this video, she organized a peace project that taught student, including her own son, about conflict resolution and respect. that s just the ideal of what she tried to do in her everyday life. you were close to your mother? very. 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. wendy wanted her children to have the emotional stability she couldn t seem to manage even in her solid middle-class upbringing. she was open about it, too. how she was constantly seeking something missing. how as a teenager she ran away from home, experimented with drugs. how her parents sent her to a psychiatric hospital back in connecticut. she wanted to have a peaceful part of her. she wanted to be centered would be the word. but isn t that life? isn t that something common to all of us? nor did her quest seem to be over.
hours. and it hadn t been. so i couldn t make a reported yet. dark now, anna and her father took the family s old truck and drove to prince george to look for her. they stopped by a coffee shop, one of denis and wendy s 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 her way out of the grocery store. so i went and knocked on the door, and they said no, there is nobody here. the van, a white plymouth voyager, had picked up a dent neither one of them remembered on the driver s side door. weird. the van was locked, but denis had an extra key. inside everything looked normal, so anna drove the van home. that night and the next morning, i just kept making phone calls.
she interviewed several of wendy s 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 much. i kept hearing that over and over. she wouldn t leave her children. that was the central fact. in your mind. definitely. so, run away wendy? investigator thomas decided no. what about the jones family? the neighbors who wendy helped evict from the property. they would have had the motive to hurt her. you look at the full circumstances of it.
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. i d never seen her yell at him like that before. she talked about how much she loved dad but was so angry with him, wasn t sure she could forgive him. that it was betrayal, and you put years of devotion into someone, to be cut down like that. your father s addiction is ruining us, wendy told anna, and as was wendy s way, told everyone else who cared to listen too. 16-year-old anna, daddy s girl, began to see the tarnish in her father s halo. when i heard that mum had to change bank accounts into her name, she had to protect the