we begin this hour with new developments in the murder of Lindsey Buziak it's been more
than four years now since the young realtor's unsolved death in Saanich
so
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today we're going to talk about the mysterious and violent murder of lindsay bouziak she was a
young realtor in victoria british columbia that was killed in 2008 while showing a vacant home
let's get into it in this case there's a lot of speculation more akin to local gossip today we're
going to go over the evidence though this would be easier if police released more information however
they are still considering this case as active even though it's been 13 years with no progress
january 31st 2008 was a normal thursday at the office for lindsey booziak the 24 year old realtor
was working for re max realty at their oak bay office in 2008 the real estate market in victoria
was booming it was on that quiet thursday that lindsay received a call that any junior real
estate agent couldn't refuse the potential client called her personal cell phone requesting a quick
sale a husband and wife wanted to purchase home before the weekend was over and they had a budget
of a million dollars lindsay agreed to help the couple but she had reservations about taking
them on as clients firstly they had called her personal cell phone not her office phone number
her cell phone number wasn't publicly available and when she asked the clients
how they got her number they had said they were referred to her from previous client
the couple said that they were relocating to victoria from vancouver for work
lindsay noted that they had unique accents that she couldn't quite place when she discussed her
new clients with her friends she referred to them as the mexicans she noted their accent was spanish
sounding but something sounded off about it despite lindsay's initial concern about the couple
she did agree to take them on as clients she gathered several properties for the couple to look
at and they agreed to meet the following saturday to view a house that met their requirements in
addition to their million dollar budget they were looking for a three-bedroom three-bathroom
home with a suite for a live-in housekeeper with the ability to purchase that weekend lindsay had
found the perfect home in saanich municipality the home was about 20 minutes from the downtown area
and the house was vacant and empty perfect for a quick possession she had attempted to contact
the client that had apparently referred her but she wasn't able to reach them she couldn't shake
the oddity that she had been cold-called on her cell phone with such a big opportunity
although it wasn't unheard of million dollar quick sales weren't often seen in her office
she wasn't sure why they had reached out to her specifically she had only sold a
few properties mostly condos and she certainly wasn't well established in the real estate market
her father told her that she should pass a client on to someone else but lindsay reassured
him saying that her boyfriend jason would attend the showing with her this immediately settled her
father's reservations jason and lindsay had been together for two years and he knew that jason was
very protective of his daughter and at six foot three and 240 pounds he felt at ease knowing
he was going to be there the day of the showing arrived and before the showing jason and lindsey
got a late lunch jason paid the bill at 4 24 p.m at this point the couple separated lindsay wanted
to go home get changed and get to the property before the clients the showing was scheduled
for 5 30 and jason still had some work to do as well and he planned to meet her at the home
lindsay accessed the home's real estate lock box at 5 29 pm a witness watched as a couple walked
into the cul-de-sac greeted lindsay and the three went inside jason texted lindsay saying i'll come
meet you and i'll be 10 to 15 minutes or so and she responded at 5 30 pm saying okay i'll see you
in a bit i gotta go the mexicans are here at 5 38 p.m jason texts again just a couple minutes away
and this message goes unread he doesn't think much of it as he didn't expect lindsay to open her
phone while she was showing a house he arrived at the house at 5 45 pm and when he pulled into the
driveway he saw the front door open and saw the prospective buyers he had assumed the showing had
just begun and opted to move his car out of the driveway and onto the side street to give lindsay
some space jason had a friend with him in the car he had picked him up on the way and the two had
planned on playing hockey after the showing the two men waited another 10 minutes before getting
out of the vehicle and approaching the house they went to the front door and found it to be locked
jason could see lindsay's shoes through a glass pane in the front door jason called 9-1-1 at 6
05 pm the men walked around the house and looking through windows and calling lindsay jason boosted
his friend over the fence into the backyard and there they saw the patio door slightly open
jason's friend entered the home through the patio door walked through the house and unlocked the
front door so jason could get in jason sprinted upstairs and there he found lindsay in the master
bedroom in a pool of blood there were bloody footprints throughout the upstairs of the home
jason attempted to perform cpr police arrived at 6 11 pm and jason's friend was waving for help from
an upstairs window lindsay had been attacked from behind and she had no defensive wounds on her body
based on the evidence in the home police were able to confidently recreate what had happened
they say that she unlocked the home at 5 29 and the witness statement and text messages confirmed
that the suspects arrived and entered the home at 5 30. she had shown the entire first floor of
the house and went upstairs to show the master bedroom with an ensuite bathroom she turned her
back to open the bathroom door and police believe that was the point that the couple had attacked
her body was half in the bathroom half in the bedroom the attack itself had been quick and
overly violent she suffered multiple stab wounds though the exact details of the slain have not
been released by police when paramedics arrived they determined that lindsay was already deceased
jason and his friend were immediately arrested and taken into custody as suspects though they
were later released police discovered at 5 41 lindsay's phone had dialed a friend that
she hadn't spoken to in years and the call left a voicemail that sounded like a pocket dial police
suspected that that was the time of the attack due to the impact from her body falling they
believe she pocket-dialed someone in her contact list when jason arrived at 5 45 and saw what he
believed was the beginning of the showing he had likely interrupted the couple attempting to flee
instead the couple escaped from the rear of the home there was no way to have seen the backyard
from where jason and his friend were waiting and no other neighbors saw the couple escape
the attack seemed to be targeted which baffled police they were able to rule out sexual assault
and robbery with the entire attack only spanning less than 10 minutes no one could figure out why
someone had gone out of their way to get a young real estate agent alone and brutally murder her
jason and his friends were released they both had solid alibis there was cctv footage of jason
picking up his friend at an auto body shop at 5 30. the police instead decided to focus their
efforts on identifying the couple that lindsay had been in contact with the couple was described as
a tall caucasian man that was well dressed medium build six feet tall with dark hair and the woman
was in her mid-30s to 40s with short blonde hair and was wearing a distinctly patterned dress
which side of the door was going on when when the door opened for you right now so yeah so i'll do
that yeah so i know where you're going so he opens it like this does he open it all the way or you
it open okay um he was already in front of me yeah and i said i'm running upstairs okay and i was
yelling i was yelling like lindsay lindsay lindsay and where did cohen go he went straight ahead he
went straight ahead yeah okay um so just hang on a sec there uh yeah so he went straight ahead yeah
and you were you went running upstairs yeah okay so let me okay let me go upstairs first
and then you can talk your way upstairs and then we'll go to the end right you're okay okay
okay so i was running inside the house
uh i just came running up the stairs do you remember the banister at all or
uh down there okay dude what else were you doing did you did you see anything did you
hear anything did you smell anything kind of put yourself back there into into that that exact on
the the the time i got to from the door to upstairs is probably two seconds okay so you're
like i was running up the stairs yeah like i didn't walk i didn't the second i opened the
door i yelled lindsay lindsay uh and then i ran i ran up these stairs as fast good okay so i ran
the phone that lindsay had been communicating with the couple was determined to have been
a burner phone it had been purchased several months prior to the murder but only activated
a few days before the first contact was made with lindsay and registered under a fake name
the police had connected cell towers close to vancouver placing the phone on the mainland and
traveling over to vancouver island 24 hours prior to the attack the phone was only used
to communicate with lindsay and then the phone was never used again due to lack of evidence
found at the crime scene the efficiency the planning and the careful execution of the murder
police explored the idea the couple had been paid specifically to target and murder lindsay
police just had no idea as to why there was nothing in lindsay's life that suggested that
she was caught up with anything criminal or was experiencing domestic abuse there was just nothing
six weeks prior to the murder lindsay had gone to calgary alberta to see her father while she
was there she expressed to her father that she wasn't happy in her relationship with jason and
was planning on leaving him she revealed that the two had several business deals currently underway
and she wanted to wrap those up before telling jason she allegedly said that she didn't like how
possessive and jealous jason had become but at no point did she express any fear of jason police's
best theory is that a few days after lindsay left calgary there was a massive drug bust police
arrested and charged 12 people from calgary and two from bc as well as seizing over two million
dollars worth of cocaine and two hundred thousand dollars in cash in a massive drug trafficking
operation it had been a year-long operation that had relied on a tip-off from someone from inside
police believe that those with ties to the drug bust may have mistakenly identified lindsay as an
informant though there is no evidence to directly link lindsay to any criminal activity it does
appear that she was friends with people who could be directly linked the investigation is still open
and police haven't been forthcoming about what may or may not have been the reason for lindsay's
murder they have acknowledged that there may be a connection but at this point in time there have
been no arrests both jason and lindsay had friend connections to people involved in that drug bust
and in 2006 lindsay had mentioned to her father that she saw something she shouldn't have but
never elaborated on what she saw on that trip to calgary while there she had reached out to a
friend from high school twice it stood out because it wasn't someone she regularly kept up with
and the person also lived in victoria so it was odd that she was reaching out to them while she
was in another province this person ended up being a relative of one of the people arrested
in that drug bust victoria is a smaller city one where everyone kind of knows everyone especially
people in there at the time early 20s it wasn't exactly clear how close lindsay was to those
involved with the drug bust but both she and jason can be socially connected and in vancouver police
have been able to link the housing industry as a haven for money laundering for illegal activities
it might not be a stretch to broaden the scope and say that may have a similar connection to the
housing market on vancouver island though they're still working to find a suspect police have gone
on the record to say that they don't believe evidence will close this case they feel that
someone in the community knows something about lindsay's murder and it will likely take someone
coming forward with information that will lead to the closure of this case i personally think
it's odd that jason had promised to be there for lindsay for the showing but was late deciding
to pick up a friend instead of being there for lindsay when she expressed concern about
meeting these people alone but it's not a crime to be late and it could just be a coincidence
what we do know is that lindsay was specifically targeted and that someone close to her was
involved someone would have had to have passed on her cell phone number and had gone to great
lengths to cover their tracks lindsay's father continues to keep her story in the media and
in february of 2021 police announced that they would be working with the fbi and re-examining the
evidence collected at the crime scene to see if any advances in technology can pull up new leads
they even said they're looking into reverse family genealogy to source a potential new suspect
my name is constable marcus anastasiades and i am the public information and communications
officer with the saanich police department i am here today to update you on our efforts in the
investigation into the murder of lindsey booziak our tight-knit community wants to understand what
happened to lindsay 13 years ago as we are all connected to what happens in this area
to find those answers we have established a task force comprised of new investigators who
are taking a fresh look at the case the task force has obtained the assistance from the fbi
and continued support from the rcmp both agencies have provided valuable assistance
into the development of new leads and forensic evidence well that's going to be it for this
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