Wendy Ann Ratte, 44, was last seen the morning of August 18, 1997, in Prince George, British Columbia, after dropping her husband, Denis Ratte, at work. Her white van was found abandoned that same day in a grocery-store parking lot now occupied by a Value Village. Early leads that she might have travelled to the United States did not produce results, and the case remained cold for more than a decade.

In 2008 the RCMP ran an undercover Mr. Big operation. Undercover officers posed as criminal associates and gained Denis Ratte’s trust; during the operation he told them he shot Wendy in the head in the family backyard and dumped her body in a swampy, wooded area east of the city. He was arrested in December 2008, later tried, and in November 2010 a jury convicted him of second-degree murder. Wendy’s remains have not been found.

Financial stress from his gambling debts was presented at trial as a possible motive. Does anyone have information about Wendy’s movements in August 1997 or about the wooded area east of Prince George where she was said to have been left?