Could this beloved teacher have had multiple personalities . He said thats not wendy, thats shawna. Was this a woman broken or a woman taken . To find out what happened, an elite group of detectives launched an elaborate mission. Theyre described as right out of hollywood. The staged kidnapping, the fake blood is truly phenomenal. All leading up to a sitdown with a man they called mr. Big. A high stakes gamble to reveal the truth on tape for the children left behind. What was it like to hear that . Shattering. The story youre 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 11yearold mystery and put under the light of intense personal scrutiny a most unlikely villain, w
and sister who loved each other and loved their mom and dad. i always thought of our family as a perfect little family. it didn t 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 around you. yeah, like parents get divorced? it didn t make sense to me. like how would you deal with that? and their parents? in a story as unlikely and romantic as anna and gabriel had ever heard. this shy, rustic french canadian laborer, denis ratte, who fancied himself a gambler, and wendy, the sweet, wild girl who strayed so far from her middle class roots in the connecticut suburbs.