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The Most Horrifying Cold Case In Canadian History · The conspiracy

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Speaker 1: On a cold February evening in two thousand and eight,
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Speaker 1: a young realtor in Victoria, British Columbia, prepared for what
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Speaker 1: could have been the biggest sale of her life. The
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Speaker 1: clients were mysterious, wealthy newcomers to the city, eager to
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Speaker 1: buy a million dollar house. They found her through a
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Speaker 1: recommendation she couldn't trace, spoken in an accent she wasn't
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Speaker 1: sure was real, and insisted on meeting immediately, and by
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Speaker 1: the next day Lindsay Booziak would be dead. And seventeen
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Speaker 1: years later, their faces are still unknown. And what happened
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Speaker 1: inside that house wasn't just a killing, It was an
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Speaker 1: execution and someone out there planned it to perfection. This
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Speaker 1: is the story of Lindsay Booziak. Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers,
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Speaker 1: and murder all things that I love to consume, and
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Speaker 1: I know you do too, you sick, twisted, beautiful, intellectually minded.
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Speaker 1: Today we're getting into kind of a more personal case. Honestly,
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Speaker 1: I was around and alive and knowing what was going
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Speaker 1: on during this case, and it was close to home,
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Speaker 1: and it bothers me that it is still a cold case.
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Speaker 1: So without further ado, let's unbuckle our seatbelts, go mock
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Speaker 1: five down the highway, slam on the breaks, and busts
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Speaker 1: through the windshield into this cold case together. Lindsay Elizabeth
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Speaker 1: Boziak was born on November two, nineteen eighty three, in Victoria,
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Speaker 1: British Columbia. She was the first daughter of Jeff Boziak,
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Speaker 1: a local real estate agent, and Evelyn Wright, Mayor, a
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Speaker 1: stay at home mom, and in nineteen eighty six, Lindsay
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Speaker 1: became a big sister when her sibling Sarah was born,
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Speaker 1: and though her parents' marriage ended in the mid nineteen nineties,
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Speaker 1: the divorce and did not fracture Lindsay's family bonds because
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Speaker 1: she would remain close to both her mother and her
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Speaker 1: father as she grew up. Luckily so, as a child,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay split time between Victoria and the peaceful summers at lake,
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Speaker 1: where the family kept a trailer at in r V
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Speaker 1: Lot and those summers were filled with laughter and play,
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Speaker 1: and Lindsay's younger sister, Sarah, fondly remembers learning to swim
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Speaker 1: just to keep up with her energetic big sister, and
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Speaker 1: from an early age, Lindsay's personality just sparkled and she
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Speaker 1: was often described as a happy, outgoing.
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Speaker 2: Little girl quote full of joy.
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Speaker 1: Unquote, as her mother recalls, and there was a fashionable
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Speaker 1: flare about her even in childhood. One story even recounts
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Speaker 1: how young Lindsay once begged for great flavored bubblegum simply
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Speaker 1: because it matched her purple.
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Speaker 2: Outfit, which is absolutely adorable.
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Speaker 1: And her mother would gently refuse, saying she would buy
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Speaker 1: what Lindsay needed, not just what she wanted. But ever resourceful,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay took that as motivation, and by her early teens,
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Speaker 1: she landed her very first job at Sirens, which was
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Speaker 1: a trendy clothing store in Victoria's Mall, and Lindsay was
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Speaker 1: determined to earn the things she wanted, just a hint
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Speaker 1: at the ambition that would later define her. So. Lindsay
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Speaker 1: grew up up in the greater Victoria area and attended
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Speaker 1: local schools, including Royal Oak Middle School and Reynold's Secondary School.
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Speaker 1: In her teen years, and in school, she became known
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Speaker 1: for an infectious smile and a warmth that just drew
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Speaker 1: others in. She was just an overall amazing person, and
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Speaker 1: friends and teachers remember Lindsay's genuine ability to make people
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Speaker 1: feel valued. She quote could make friends with everybody unquote,
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Speaker 1: and that's what her father, Jeff later said about her.
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Speaker 1: Yet Lindsay wasn't just friendly. She had a compassionate streak
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Speaker 1: and a strong sense of right and wrong. And her
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Speaker 1: mother tells of an instance when Lindsay witnessed a boy
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Speaker 1: being bullied at school, where Lindsay immediately stood up for him,
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Speaker 1: stepping in to stop the teasing, saying, quote, I was
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Speaker 1: really proud, because that's the way you're supposed to be.
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Speaker 1: And Evelyn would say that about her daughter's bravery. So
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Speaker 1: Lindsay's nurturing, people oriented personality came with a protective side,
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Speaker 1: and she held firm anti drug values and chose her
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Speaker 1: inner circle very carefully. In fact, in one of her
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Speaker 1: later relationships, one thing she proudly told her family was
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Speaker 1: that he didn't do drugs, which was a key point
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Speaker 1: for Lindsay, who stayed away from substance use and just
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Speaker 1: frowned on that lifestyle overall. So just an extremely mature
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Speaker 1: young lady. So she was a young woman who was
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Speaker 1: both ambitious and compassionate in equal measure, and she had
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Speaker 1: big dreams for her future, but never lost sight of kindness.
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Speaker 1: Along the way, and she was not afraid of a
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Speaker 1: little hard work either, because having started employment so young,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay developed a very strong work ethic really early on,
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Speaker 1: so she bounced school with work and just proved to
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Speaker 1: be very, very driven, and this would be a trait
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Speaker 1: that would later serve her well when she decided to
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Speaker 1: follow in her father's footsteps into real estate. So by
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Speaker 1: her early twenties, Lindsay's ambitions crystallized into a career goal.
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Speaker 1: She wanted to be a successful real estate agent in Victoria,
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Speaker 1: so she would enroll in the University of British Columbia's
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Speaker 1: Solder School of Business real estate program and studied hard
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Speaker 1: to pass the licensing exam, and in June of two
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Speaker 1: thousand and six, at just the age of twenty two
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Speaker 1: years old, Lindsay achieved that goal and she would pass
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Speaker 1: her a state exam. And at the time, she was
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Speaker 1: one of only twenty real estate agents in the entire
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Speaker 1: grade of Victoria region under the age of twenty five,
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Speaker 1: so it was clear that Lindsay was just a rising
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Speaker 1: star in an industry typically dominated by older, more experienced agents,
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Speaker 1: but she would hit the ground running, and Lindsay's first
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Speaker 1: job in the field was with a small brokerage called Maverick,
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Speaker 1: where she spent about a year and a half marketing
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Speaker 1: in new townhouses in Victoria's West Shore area and being
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Speaker 1: eager to advance, she next took an opportunity at Remax
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Speaker 1: Camison and being one of Victoria's top agencies and notably
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Speaker 1: the same office where Jason Zalo's family worked, and we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about Jason's relevance to the story in a bit.
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Speaker 1: So joining Remax brought Lindsay under the wing of the
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Speaker 1: high performing Xylo real estate clan, and Lindsay didn't miss
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Speaker 1: a beat and during about a year long period, Lindsay
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Speaker 1: managed to close eight property transactions totally about three point
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Speaker 1: two million in value, So it was a strong start
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Speaker 1: for a twenty four year old new agent, and colleagues
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Speaker 1: commented that Lindsay seemed just destined for success in real
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Speaker 1: estate because she was sharp, and driven and personable, all
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Speaker 1: things you need to be a great real estate agent.
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Speaker 1: My dad's a real estate agent, so I would know.
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Speaker 1: But to say the least, she was absolutely kicking ass
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Speaker 1: in the industry, and she was just exactly the kind
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Speaker 1: of agent clients trusted and a former coworker later noted
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Speaker 1: that Lindsay was determined to become successful in her career
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Speaker 1: as a licensed real estate agent, and she worked tirelessly
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Speaker 1: toward that goal, and in that short amount of time
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Speaker 1: she had built a very promising reputation in Victoria's property market.
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Speaker 1: And it was around the same time her real estate
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Speaker 1: career was taking off that Lindsay's love life took a
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Speaker 1: significant turn. And in late two thousand and five, while
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Speaker 1: attending a real estate networking event and training workshop, twenty
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Speaker 1: two year old that Lindsay crossed paths with twenty five
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Speaker 1: year old Jason Zelo. And now she already knew of
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Speaker 1: Jason from around town because he came from a very prominent,
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Speaker 1: wealthy local family deeply involved in real estate, and Jason's mother, Shirley,
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Speaker 1: was a successful realtor also and the family owned investment
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Speaker 1: properties as well, so they were just kind of known
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Speaker 1: in that industry. And Jason himself had been a competitive
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Speaker 1: hockey player in his youth and now worked as a
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Speaker 1: mortgage broker and realtor. So in Lindsay's eyes, the Zelo
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Speaker 1: family were real estate royalty in Victoria, and she was impressed.
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Speaker 2: Quote she really.
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Speaker 1: Looked up to the fact that Jason was in the
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Speaker 1: real estate industry and his mom was too. Unquote, said
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Speaker 1: Lindsay's friend Vicky, saying that Lindsay seemed to be excited
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Speaker 1: to be welcomed into the Zealo's world, and by mid
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Speaker 1: two thousand and six, Lindsay and Jason began dating seriously
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Speaker 1: and the relationship moved quickly and soon they were living together,
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Speaker 1: and the Zelos provided the couple with a one bedroom
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Speaker 1: condominium in Victoria's Inner Harbor area, which the family owned
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Speaker 1: in that area, been there a bunch of times, be beautiful,
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Speaker 1: absolutely beautiful area and quite expensive, and they also spent
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Speaker 1: summers at a lavish lake front vacation home Shirley Zelo
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Speaker 1: had purchased on Shawnigan Lake, where Lindsay and Jason enjoyed
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Speaker 1: thousand and seven drew a close, Lindsay confided to those
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Speaker 1: closest to her that things with Jason were not as
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Speaker 1: perfect as they appeared, and during a visit to see
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Speaker 1: her father in Calgary on December fifth, two thousand and seven,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay admitted she was unhappy in the relationship and she
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Speaker 1: told her dad that Jason didn't share the same driver
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Speaker 1: quote unquote ambition she had and that was causing friction.
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Speaker 1: And it was during this time Lindsay even hinted at
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Speaker 1: possibly ending the relationship, and she would repeat similar sentiments
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Speaker 1: to her friends back home, telling them she wasn't fully
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Speaker 1: satisfied with Jason and was considering breaking up.
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Speaker 2: Sheida said, Daddy, I made a mistake.
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Speaker 1: I feel horrible about it, but she said, I can't
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Speaker 1: do it anymore. And Jason, when later asked, said he
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Speaker 1: was aware that they had some troubles in the late
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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, but claimed they never discussed breaking
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Speaker 1: up and that he believed the relationship wasn't in danger
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Speaker 1: of ending, and interestingly, not everyone saw the cracks. Lindsay's
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Speaker 1: sister Sarah thought the couple seemed happy together and noted
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Speaker 1: that Jason quote treated her well unquote in her experience.
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Speaker 1: And there's I don't know, treating someone well, and then
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Speaker 1: there's someone just not having an ambition or drive. You know,
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Speaker 1: you're not an evil person if you're not driven, but
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Speaker 1: you know, if like personalities don't match, then it doesn't match.
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Speaker 1: You can look a certain way on the outside or
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Speaker 1: appeer certain way, but that doesn't mean that you're good.
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Speaker 1: So I think it's just kind of an odd thing
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Speaker 1: to say. So. In early January two thousand and eight,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay and Jason went on a trip to Whistler with
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Speaker 1: Jason's family, A vacation, Lindsay hoped would rekindle their closeness.
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Speaker 1: Now by all appearances, it appeared to work, and Lindsay
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Speaker 1: came back from the Whistler getaway optimistic that she and
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Speaker 1: Jason had turned a corner, saying, quote, we had such fun,
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Speaker 1: this was the perfect thing. We needed to spend more
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Speaker 1: time together unquote. And she would tell this to her mother,
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Speaker 1: just sounding overall upbeat about their future. So, by all accounts,
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Speaker 1: heading into February two thousand and eight, Lindsay was trying
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Speaker 1: to make the best of their relationship, and she and
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Speaker 1: Jason were still living together and for the moment, putting
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Speaker 1: on a united front. But unfortunately, Lindsay would never get
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Speaker 1: the chance to decide what she truly wanted next, because
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Speaker 1: her life was about to be cut short in a
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Speaker 1: way as shocking as it was brutal. So late in
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Speaker 1: January two thousand and eight, Lindsay received a phone call
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Speaker 1: that would change her life. An unfamiliar woman's voice spoke
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Speaker 1: on the other end of Lindsay's cell phone, and the
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Speaker 1: caller had a thick foreign accent, which Lindsay would later
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Speaker 1: say she couldn't quite describe, maybe Spanish or Mexican, though
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Speaker 1: she wasn't sure. Something about it struck Lindsay as possibly fake,
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Speaker 1: and the woman would introduce herself, though Lindsey would not
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Speaker 1: recall the name and notably did not write it down,
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Speaker 1: and got straight to the point, and she said her
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Speaker 1: husband was being transferred to Victoria for work and they
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Speaker 1: needed to buy a house immediately, and not just any house,
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Speaker 1: a million dollar property, newly built, move in ready.
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Speaker 2: With a separate suite for a housekeeper.
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Speaker 1: So extremely specific and extremely quick and just all around
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Speaker 1: extremely odd. So the timeline was urgent. The woman claimed
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Speaker 1: they wanted to purchase within a few days, which is
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Speaker 1: insane in the real estate world. I mean, my dad's
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Speaker 1: in real estate. That's crazy. That is like next level crazy,
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Speaker 1: even in this time. So this unsolicited inquiry was both
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Speaker 1: exciting and obviously unsettling for Lindsay because, as a relatively
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Speaker 1: new realtor with no seven figure listings of her own,
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Speaker 1: a potential million dollar sale was a huge opportunity, the
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Speaker 1: kind that would kickstart her career and yield a hefty commission.
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Speaker 1: But something about the call just didn't sit right, and
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Speaker 1: Lindsay couldn't shake a sense of unease.
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Speaker 2: Because for one.
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Speaker 1: The client's supposed referral made no sense, and when Lindsay
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Speaker 1: asked how she'd gotten her personal cell number, the woman
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Speaker 1: vaguely replied that a friend of her husband's had recommended Lindsay.
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Speaker 1: And after the call, Lindsay diligently checked with all her
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Speaker 1: recent clients and contacts, but none had any idea who
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Speaker 1: this mystery woman could be. So it appeared the referral
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Speaker 1: story was a lie, which is a massive red flag,
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Speaker 1: and there were other red flags, one being the accent.
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Speaker 1: The woman was like deliberately disguising her voice with this
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Speaker 1: fake accent and the unusual urgency and specifics of the
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Speaker 1: request as well. And Lindsay confided in her father and
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Speaker 1: boyfriend about the strange call, and she told her dad
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Speaker 1: outright that she had a weird feeling about these new clients.
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Speaker 1: And Lindsay referred to the unknown couple as quote unquote
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Speaker 1: the Mexicans, referencing the accent when discussing the situation with friends.
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Speaker 1: So to keep track of the inquiry, Lindsay saved the
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Speaker 1: caller's phone number in her contacts under the label quote
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Speaker 1: unquote million dollar. And it was just a defining feature
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Speaker 1: of these clients a million dollar budget, but the name
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Speaker 1: also hints at Lindsay's skepticism. This potential deal seemed almost
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Speaker 1: too good to be true, as she remarked to her
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Speaker 1: boyfriend Jason, and Lindsay's instincts would be spot on, but
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Speaker 1: she just didn't know it yet. So the clients insisted
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Speaker 1: on meeting soon, and they set an appointment for the
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Speaker 1: next evening, Saturday, February second, two thousand and eight, at
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Speaker 1: five point thirty pm to view properties, and with a
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Speaker 1: mix of eagerness and dread, Lindsay agreed to show them
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Speaker 1: So on Friday, February first, the day before the showing,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay hustled to prepare for her big clients, so she
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Speaker 1: spent the day selecting suitable homes in the upscale Gordon
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Speaker 1: had neighborhood of Sanwich that fit the couple's criteria for
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Speaker 1: a home, which was new construction vacant around one million dollars,
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Speaker 1: and one property was recent builds on a small cul
19:20
Speaker 1: de sac, and that was seventeen O two de Sosa Place,
19:24
Speaker 1: and this house was listed at nine hundred and sixty
19:26
Speaker 1: four thousand dollars and was brand new and unoccupied, a
19:30
Speaker 1: perfect candidate for a home, and it had been built
19:33
Speaker 1: by a developer named Joe Desusa, a friend and business
19:37
Speaker 1: associate of none other than Shirley Zelo, Jason's mother, and
19:41
Speaker 1: Lindsay herself had never listed this property. Another agent in
19:44
Speaker 1: her office had it, but as a realtor she could
19:48
Speaker 1: show any MLS listing and still earn commission. So the
19:51
Speaker 1: quiet street had only four houses on it, arranged around
19:55
Speaker 1: a short dead end lane that intersected a main road.
19:58
Speaker 1: So the scene was set for very very private viewing,
20:01
Speaker 1: which as we'll.
20:02
Speaker 2: See soon, was by design.
20:04
Speaker 1: But there was no busy traffic and two of the
20:06
Speaker 1: four homes on the cul de sac were still under construction,
20:09
Speaker 1: in other words, few potential witnesses around, and that evening
20:13
Speaker 1: Shirley Zelo decided to stop by the condo where Lindsay
20:16
Speaker 1: and Jason lived, and Shirley arrived around seven fifteen pm,
20:20
Speaker 1: supposedly just as a casual visit to see her son
20:23
Speaker 1: and his girlfriend, and as she entered the unit, Surely
20:26
Speaker 1: happened to catch Lindsay in the middle of a phone
20:28
Speaker 1: conversation and it was the mystery woman calling back to
20:31
Speaker 1: finalize the next day's plans, and for about ten minutes
20:35
Speaker 1: or so, Shirley overheard bits of Lindsay's side of the
20:38
Speaker 1: discussion before Lindsay hung up, and Lindsay then revealed the
20:41
Speaker 1: details to Shirley, which was that the clients were confirmed
20:44
Speaker 1: for a five thirty pm showing on Saturday at seventeen
20:47
Speaker 1: oh two De sus A place, so everything was arranged,
20:51
Speaker 1: and Shirley later said that she immediately felt concerned. Sensing
20:55
Speaker 1: Lindsay's slight discomfort, Sureley repeatedly offered to go to the
20:59
Speaker 1: showing in Lindsay's place, essentially volunteering to meet the clients herself,
21:04
Speaker 1: and it's not clear if Shirley's worry was driven by
21:07
Speaker 1: Lindsay's safety or simply wanting to help her attend other plans,
21:11
Speaker 1: because Lindsay had mentioned possibly heading to Vancouver for a
21:14
Speaker 1: friend's bachelorette party after the showing, but either way, she
21:18
Speaker 1: was trying to help. She was offering her help, but
21:20
Speaker 1: Lindsay declined the help, and she insisted she would handle it.
21:24
Speaker 1: After all, this was her client and her commission on
21:27
Speaker 1: the line. However, the fact that Shirley Zelo knew exactly
21:31
Speaker 1: when and where Lindsay was meeting the unknown clients, and
21:34
Speaker 1: even the content of their phone call, would later become
21:36
Speaker 1: one of many troubling footnotes in this case, and some
21:40
Speaker 1: would question whether it was mere coincidence that the house
21:44
Speaker 1: chosen for the showing was built by Shirley's acquaintance, or
21:48
Speaker 1: that Shirley happened to be present during the planning. But
21:51
Speaker 1: on February first, two thousand and eight, those connections were
21:54
Speaker 1: not yet the subject of suspicion, just hindsight. By nightfall,
21:59
Speaker 1: all was and at the condo. Jason returned home from
22:02
Speaker 1: a hockey game around midnight, and he and Lindsay talked
22:06
Speaker 1: about her nerves, and Jason at this point was just
22:08
Speaker 1: trying to reassure her and even made the same offer
22:11
Speaker 1: as his mother did, and he suggested he go and
22:13
Speaker 1: meet the clients for her, or at least accompany her,
22:16
Speaker 1: so that Lindsay could leave early for her trip to
22:19
Speaker 1: the mainland. After the showing, but Lindsay just shrugged it off.
22:23
Speaker 1: So she was feeling uneasy, but also just curious because
22:26
Speaker 1: why had she been chosen by this caller, Because she
22:30
Speaker 1: had so little experience at this point, it just wasn't
22:33
Speaker 1: adding up. And again, I mean, we look at this
22:36
Speaker 1: case with all the red flags there, but hindsight's twenty twenty.
22:40
Speaker 1: I mean, you just don't know at this point. You
22:42
Speaker 1: don't assume that people are going to hurt you. So still,
22:48
Speaker 1: Lindsay told Jason she would do it and that he
22:51
Speaker 1: didn't need to interfere, and if she was concerned, she
22:54
Speaker 1: surely would accept help. At least that's what Jason thought.
22:57
Speaker 1: So when she declined his help, he assumed she felt
23:00
Speaker 1: confident enough to proceed, and they went to bed, perhaps
23:03
Speaker 1: both a little on edge, but hopeful that by the
23:05
Speaker 1: next evening Lindsay might be closing the deal of her life.
23:09
Speaker 1: So February second, two thousand and eight began normally for
23:11
Speaker 1: Lindsey Booziak, albeit with Jitters. That morning, the mysterious client
23:16
Speaker 1: actually called the landline at the condo and reached Jason
23:19
Speaker 1: because Lindsay was out at the time, and Jason told
23:22
Speaker 1: the caller Lindsay wasn't home and offered to give her
23:24
Speaker 1: Lindsay's cell phone number, but the woman coolly said she
23:28
Speaker 1: already had it, and Jason noted that the caller's accent
23:30
Speaker 1: sounded like quote unquote broken Spanish, just confirming the same
23:35
Speaker 1: voice Lindsay had heard on the phone as well in
23:37
Speaker 1: his brief exchange was the last contact before the ill
23:41
Speaker 1: fated meeting, So his afternoon approached, Lindsay grew increasingly anxious,
23:46
Speaker 1: and around two pm she went into her Remax Camison
23:49
Speaker 1: office on Chatterden Way, and there she pulled aside to
23:53
Speaker 1: receptionists and asked them to search the names and the
23:56
Speaker 1: phone numbers of these clients, because they had given her
24:00
Speaker 1: numbers and names, and they should be in the real
24:02
Speaker 1: estate database if they had bought anything in Victorious specifically,
24:07
Speaker 1: So Lindsay just basically wanted to see if these people
24:09
Speaker 1: had any history of buying or selling in Victoria, just
24:12
Speaker 1: to know that these people exist or have done business here.
24:16
Speaker 1: But nothing came up. It was as if they didn't exist.
24:20
Speaker 1: So Lindsay was visibly uneasy at this point quote unquote
24:24
Speaker 1: freaked out. According to the colleague who overheard her, talking
24:27
Speaker 1: about the situation and sensing her discomfort, a few coworkers,
24:30
Speaker 1: including one named Cal, offered to accompany her to the
24:33
Speaker 1: five point thirty showing, but Lindsay again declined the offer,
24:38
Speaker 1: reassuring them that it was okay because her boyfriend Jason
24:41
Speaker 1: would be there for backup. Quote, she had full confidence
24:45
Speaker 1: her boyfriend was going to be there. Unquote, Cal would recall.
24:49
Speaker 1: So Lindsay may have been spooked, but she had a
24:52
Speaker 1: safety plan, and that was that Jason would meet her
24:55
Speaker 1: right after the clients arrived, just to be sure everything
24:59
Speaker 1: was fine.
24:59
Speaker 2: So least there's that.
25:01
Speaker 1: So at around three pm, Lindsay left the office and
25:04
Speaker 1: met up with Jason for a late lunch downtown and
25:07
Speaker 1: they chose a restaurant by the Inner Harbor and finished
25:09
Speaker 1: around four twenty four pm, and that was the time
25:12
Speaker 1: that was actually stamped on their paid bill. Later and
25:15
Speaker 1: over lunch, Lindsay was distracted. She ate quickly and went
25:18
Speaker 1: over the property feature sheets she had prepared, showing Jason
25:21
Speaker 1: the list of homes she planned to take the couple two,
25:24
Speaker 1: including seventeen oh two Desusa Place, and Jason, just sensing
25:28
Speaker 1: her nerves, once again, offered to do the showing for her,
25:31
Speaker 1: but again Lindsay said no, perhaps trying to prove to
25:34
Speaker 1: herself she could handle such a big client despite the
25:37
Speaker 1: odd circumstances, and by five PM, with dusk falling on
25:41
Speaker 1: a cloudy winter evening, the couple split up to get
25:44
Speaker 1: ready for their respective plans, and Lindsay headed back to
25:47
Speaker 1: their condo to change clothes, wanting to look professional for
25:50
Speaker 1: her high end clients, and Jason meanwhile drove to a
25:54
Speaker 1: nearby auto detailing shop called SHC Autographics to briefly meet
25:59
Speaker 1: a collie and pick up a friend, Cohen Oateman, and
26:03
Speaker 1: Cohen was both a friend and an employee of Jason's
26:06
Speaker 1: and they played on the same men's recreational hockey team,
26:09
Speaker 1: and the two had gone to a hockey game scheduled
26:11
Speaker 1: for later that night after Lindsay's showing, and they intended
26:16
Speaker 1: to go together once Jason checked on Lindsey, so while
26:19
Speaker 1: Jason was in the meeting at the auto shop, his
26:21
Speaker 1: friend Cohen began calling his phone repeatedly, eager to link up,
26:25
Speaker 1: and by about five thirty pm, Cohen arrived at the
26:28
Speaker 1: shop and hopped into Jason's range rover, and Jason explained
26:31
Speaker 1: to Cohen that he had gotten a call from Lindsay
26:33
Speaker 1: earlier asking him to meet her at the house because
26:36
Speaker 1: she was uneasy about the situation, And according to what
26:39
Speaker 1: Lindsay had texted Jason, she provided the address seventeen oh
26:42
Speaker 1: two disused place and essentially asked him to quote unquote
26:46
Speaker 1: follow her there. So Jason would tell Cohen that a
26:49
Speaker 1: quick detour was needed and they would swing by the
26:51
Speaker 1: house just to check that Lindsay was okay, and then
26:55
Speaker 1: head out to their hockey game after so Cohen would
26:58
Speaker 1: agree without hesitation, and at roughly five pm, Lindsay pulled
27:02
Speaker 1: up to the cul de Sac on to Susa Place,
27:04
Speaker 1: and the street, as we know, was newly built and
27:06
Speaker 1: so recent that it didn't even appear on Jason's SUV
27:10
Speaker 1: GPS map. So as Lindsay parked and stepped out, her
27:13
Speaker 1: phone rang and it was Jason and he was lost
27:15
Speaker 1: in the maze of Gordon Head's residential streets, calling for directions.
27:19
Speaker 1: So Lindsay began to guide him over the phone, but
27:22
Speaker 1: before she could finish, she saw something that made her
27:25
Speaker 1: cut the call short, saying, quote, oh, I've got to go,
27:29
Speaker 1: they're here unquote. She told Jason abruptly because the new
27:33
Speaker 1: client's had arrived, and Lindsay would hang up with Jason
27:37
Speaker 1: still in the line and would turn to greet a
27:40
Speaker 1: couple approaching the driveway, and multiple witnesses later provided remarkably
27:44
Speaker 1: consistent descriptions of the pair Lindsay met at approximately five
27:48
Speaker 1: thirty pm, so the couple appeared to have come on
27:51
Speaker 1: foot walking up to the cul de sac, not driving,
27:54
Speaker 1: which is very odd, and the witnesses watched as Lindsay,
27:58
Speaker 1: ever professional, stepped forward with a war arm smile and
28:00
Speaker 1: shook hands with a couple at the front steps, and
28:03
Speaker 1: Lindsay did not seem to recognize them personally, and her
28:06
Speaker 1: greeting was courteous but obviously formal, and the neighbors later
28:10
Speaker 1: remarked it looked like the first meeting between agent and clients,
28:14
Speaker 1: nothing indicating that they were friends at all. And that's
28:17
Speaker 1: when Lindsay would lead the man and woman through the
28:19
Speaker 1: front door of the house and close the door behind them.
28:23
Speaker 1: And unbeknownst to Lindsay, she had just sealed herself inside
28:27
Speaker 1: an empty home with a pair of killers. So inside
28:30
Speaker 1: seventeen oh two Desusa Place, the air must have been chilly,
28:35
Speaker 1: because home was vacant and the early February evening was
28:38
Speaker 1: beginning to become dark, and Lindsay's cell phone records show
28:41
Speaker 1: that at five point twenty nine pm, just before the
28:44
Speaker 1: couple arrived, she accessed the lock box to retreat the
28:47
Speaker 1: house key, and the lock box timestamp was later noted
28:50
Speaker 1: by investigators. So now at around five point thirty something,
28:54
Speaker 1: she began the routine of showing the property, and we
28:57
Speaker 1: can only really imagine her initial nervousness gave way to
29:01
Speaker 1: her professional training, and she likely pointed out features of
29:04
Speaker 1: the entryway and main floor, trying to build rapport with
29:07
Speaker 1: the clients, and on the surface, nothing appeared amiss during
29:11
Speaker 1: those first few minutes, and outside, Jason and Cohen were
29:14
Speaker 1: just minutes away, having just gotten off the phone with Lindsay. Abruptly,
29:19
Speaker 1: Jason still didn't have the precise directions and he would
29:22
Speaker 1: actually call his younger brother for navigational help and he
29:26
Speaker 1: would start driving to the neighborhood with that help. Meanwhile,
29:29
Speaker 1: Lindsay did manage to send Jason a quick text with
29:32
Speaker 1: step by step directions to find Asusa place, and this
29:35
Speaker 1: would be the last message she would ever send, So
29:38
Speaker 1: at about five thirty eight pm, Jason texted back to say, quote,
29:43
Speaker 1: I'm a couple minutes away unquote, letting Lindsay know he'd
29:46
Speaker 1: be there shortly, but that text would never be opened,
29:49
Speaker 1: and shortly thereafter the quote unquote showing moved upstairs and
29:54
Speaker 1: the home's main bedroom was on the second floor at
29:57
Speaker 1: the top of the staircase. Perhaps Lindsay left the couple
30:00
Speaker 1: up chatting about the layout and walked ahead of them
30:03
Speaker 1: into the master bedroom to show off it's en sweet bathroom,
30:06
Speaker 1: but it was at that moment, around five point forty
30:09
Speaker 1: to five point forty one pm, that the trap was sprung,
30:12
Speaker 1: and as Lindsay turned her back, one of the pair
30:15
Speaker 1: attacked her swiftly from behind, And it was at that
30:18
Speaker 1: point that Lindsay would be stebbed with a knife or knives,
30:23
Speaker 1: just in a frenzy, and Lindsay would have virtually no
30:27
Speaker 1: time to react or defend herself, but the attack would
30:31
Speaker 1: be vicious and personal. The whole scene was just the
30:35
Speaker 1: definition of overkill, and early news reports would sensationalize that
30:40
Speaker 1: Lindsay was stabbed quote more than forty times unquote, but
30:44
Speaker 1: police have since debunked that exact number as an exaggeration,
30:48
Speaker 1: but she did suffer multiple wounds concentrated in her chest
30:52
Speaker 1: and abdomen, along with numerous cuts and nicks. But it
30:56
Speaker 1: just indicated a very frenzied and are all and extremely
31:01
Speaker 1: fast because she had no defensive wounds at all on
31:04
Speaker 1: her arms or hands, which is very It's not normal
31:09
Speaker 1: in these sort of circumstances unless it's completely just out
31:13
Speaker 1: of nowhere. It just implies she had absolutely no chance
31:17
Speaker 1: to fight back or even raise her hands to protect herself,
31:21
Speaker 1: and it means that the first steps likely just incapacitated
31:25
Speaker 1: her almost immediately. And in the midst of this attack,
31:29
Speaker 1: an eerie and crucial event occurred and Lindsay's phone, still
31:33
Speaker 1: in her jacket pocket, accidentally dialed a number, and at
31:38
Speaker 1: five point forty one PM, as Lindsay was being attacked,
31:43
Speaker 1: her BlackBerry made an outbound call a pocket dial to
31:47
Speaker 1: a friend she wasn't infrequent contact with, and the friend
31:51
Speaker 1: received a muffled voicemail that captured distant noises from inside
31:56
Speaker 1: the house and the sounds of movement and perhaps one
31:58
Speaker 1: of Lindsay's.
31:59
Speaker 2: Last words or gasps or.
32:02
Speaker 1: A distant thud. The message itself was unintelligible. But clearly
32:06
Speaker 1: not a normal call, and later Sanet's detective Sergeant Chris
32:10
Speaker 1: Horseley would confirm this pocket dialed voicemail as likely occurring
32:15
Speaker 1: quote unquote at the point of attack. I just the
32:18
Speaker 1: whole thing is incredibly horrible and sad.
32:22
Speaker 2: But I mean to.
32:23
Speaker 1: Have just like a recording of it is I can't
32:34
Speaker 1: even imagine how what that would be like for I
32:38
Speaker 1: just think about the families at this point, and it's
32:40
Speaker 1: just like I just can't imagine. But basically it was
32:45
Speaker 1: it was an inadvertent cry for help that went unheard
32:48
Speaker 1: in time, and at around five point forty five pm,
32:51
Speaker 1: Lindsay was almost deceased or deceased and she would be
32:55
Speaker 1: laying in the master bedroom of that home. So the
32:58
Speaker 1: unknown man and woman had executed their sick, disgusting plan.
33:03
Speaker 1: But at that same moment, headlights swept into Desusa Place
33:07
Speaker 1: and Jason and Cohen arrived at the address, later then expected,
33:11
Speaker 1: but finally there. And as they pulled up in front
33:14
Speaker 1: of seventeen oh two, Jason saw something odd through the
33:17
Speaker 1: decorative glass up the front door, and he glimpsed a
33:20
Speaker 1: shadowy figure moving in the entrance foyer, and then a
33:23
Speaker 1: person quickly receding from view deeper into the house as
33:27
Speaker 1: the range rovers headlights illuminated the front window so it
33:30
Speaker 1: looked like someone was peeking out, and then retreated, and
33:33
Speaker 1: Jason assumed this was just part of the showing, that
33:36
Speaker 1: maybe Lindsay and the clients were walking around inside and
33:40
Speaker 1: just not wanting to interrupt or seem like an overly
33:43
Speaker 1: nosy boyfriend, He decided not to barge in, and Lindsay
33:47
Speaker 1: had allegedly asked for him not to interfere with the
33:50
Speaker 1: showing by making his presence known, and instead Jason chose
33:54
Speaker 1: to park down the street for a few minutes to
33:57
Speaker 1: give the showing a little bit more time, and he
33:59
Speaker 1: told that it looked like the appointment was still going on,
34:03
Speaker 1: so they should just wait. So Jason would drive a
34:06
Speaker 1: short distance away, then circle back a couple of minutes later,
34:10
Speaker 1: and by now it was close to five point fifty
34:12
Speaker 1: five to six pm and he parked in front of
34:15
Speaker 1: the house again, but no sign of anyone was through
34:18
Speaker 1: the windows now, and that's when Jason sent a text
34:20
Speaker 1: to Lindsay's phone saying are you okay, but there was
34:23
Speaker 1: no response, and he tried then calling herself, but then
34:27
Speaker 1: there was no answer, and now Jason started to worry,
34:30
Speaker 1: but he naturally assumed maybe they were just talking inside,
34:34
Speaker 1: maybe she was still doing the showing, and maybe it
34:37
Speaker 1: was just going really well, and that they had more questions.
34:40
Speaker 1: But obviously, as we know, that wasn't the case. And
34:42
Speaker 1: ten more minutes passed in silence, and the house from
34:46
Speaker 1: the outside looked dark and very still, And at around
34:49
Speaker 1: six h five pm, approximately twenty minutes after the first arrival,
34:54
Speaker 1: Jason's concerned reached a tipping point because Lindsay still had
34:58
Speaker 1: not replied or emerged, and Jason decided to take action, so,
35:02
Speaker 1: pulling up the driveway with Cohen, he got out and
35:05
Speaker 1: went straight to the front door of seventeen oh two Desusa,
35:08
Speaker 1: and to his alarm, it was locked, so he repeatedly
35:12
Speaker 1: knocked and rang the doorbell, but he yielded no answers.
35:16
Speaker 1: So Jason would peer through the frosted glass insert and
35:19
Speaker 1: saw a very disturbing sight and that was Lindsay's shoes
35:24
Speaker 1: that were laying in the entryway inside, so she clearly
35:27
Speaker 1: had taken them off upon entering, which meant she was
35:30
Speaker 1: likely still inside. But why wasn't she coming to the door,
35:34
Speaker 1: was she hurt? Did something happen? So with a surge
35:38
Speaker 1: of panic, Jason pulled out his phone and dialed nine
35:40
Speaker 1: one pint one. So it was now six oh five
35:43
Speaker 1: pm and when he told the emergency operator that he
35:46
Speaker 1: was at a house where his girlfriend was showing a
35:48
Speaker 1: home and he couldn't get in, and he was worried
35:50
Speaker 1: that something may have happened to her, and he emphasized
35:53
Speaker 1: that he had come to check on her because she
35:55
Speaker 1: had quote been kind of scared about this showing. And
35:58
Speaker 1: as he was on the phone, Cohen was searching the
36:01
Speaker 1: perimeter of the house for another way in and he
36:04
Speaker 1: found a gate to the backyard, but it was secured.
36:08
Speaker 1: But Cohen managed to spot something important because through the
36:11
Speaker 1: fence slats he could see that the back patio's French
36:14
Speaker 1: doors were wide open.
36:16
Speaker 2: So he waved to.
36:17
Speaker 1: Jason and pointed urgently. And the killers, it turns out,
36:20
Speaker 1: had fled through those back doors moments earlier, escaping into
36:24
Speaker 1: the night, and in their haste, they left the doors
36:27
Speaker 1: gaping open behind them and likely slipped through a gap
36:30
Speaker 1: in the backyard fence out to that main road. So
36:32
Speaker 1: seeing that open door, Jason hung up with nine point
36:35
Speaker 1: one mid call after providing the address and sprang into
36:38
Speaker 1: action and he ran to boost Cohen over the backyard
36:41
Speaker 1: fence and Cohen dropped into the yard and dashed through
36:43
Speaker 1: the open French doors into the house, and he immediately
36:46
Speaker 1: unlocked the front door from the inside, allowing Jason to
36:49
Speaker 1: rush in behind him, and the two men split up
36:52
Speaker 1: in the foyer and Cohen took the main floor and
36:55
Speaker 1: Jason took the second. And as Jason was running up
36:58
Speaker 1: the staircase, he was yet telling Lindsay Lindsay into the silence,
37:03
Speaker 1: and as he neared the top of the stairs, a
37:05
Speaker 1: nightmare materialized and he could see Lindsay's body slumped onto
37:10
Speaker 1: the floor in the master bedroom, and he also saw
37:13
Speaker 1: blood and Lindsay would be found lying on her back,
37:16
Speaker 1: collapsed against the wall, and Jason just dropped to his
37:19
Speaker 1: knees at her side, frantically trying to rouse her, and Cohen, horrified,
37:24
Speaker 1: immediately called nine Poet one again at six eleven pm,
37:28
Speaker 1: urgently telling the dispatcher that they needed an ambulance right away,
37:31
Speaker 1: and Jason, in a state of shock, began attempting CPR
37:35
Speaker 1: on Lindsay, even though it was far too late. So
37:38
Speaker 1: he tilted her head and started mouth to mouth breaths
37:41
Speaker 1: and in a chilling, incredibly chilling detail, and within minutes,
37:45
Speaker 1: the sirens of the first responders pierced the quiet neighborhood,
37:49
Speaker 1: and paramedics arrived and police cars swarmed the cul de sac,
37:52
Speaker 1: but despite resuscitation tempts by EMTs, Lindsay Bouziak was pronounced
37:57
Speaker 1: dead at the scene, and Jason was just in hysterics
38:01
Speaker 1: and I imagine, complete disbelief, and he kept trying to
38:05
Speaker 1: will time backwards, saying, quote, if I was ten minutes earlier,
38:09
Speaker 1: if I went with her, would she still be alive.
38:13
Speaker 1: I just can't even imagine. I can't even imagine the
38:16
Speaker 1: thought process after witnessing that, I feel so incredibly horrible
38:22
Speaker 1: for him. But no one had seen this mysterious couple leave.
38:26
Speaker 1: They were like ghosts who vanished before anyone realized what
38:29
Speaker 1: had happened, and the only physical evidence left behind were
38:32
Speaker 1: a bloody footprints inside the house and a trail on
38:36
Speaker 1: the stairs indicating the path the killers took as they
38:38
Speaker 1: calmly walked out of the front entry, only to retreat
38:41
Speaker 1: and escape out the back. When Jason's arrival spoke to them,
38:45
Speaker 1: So it appeared the murderers were literally in the process
38:48
Speaker 1: of walking out the door when Jason and Cohen pulled up,
38:51
Speaker 1: forcing them to flee via plan B over the back fence.
38:55
Speaker 1: So if Jason had arrived just minute or two earlier,
38:58
Speaker 1: he may have come face to face with them, Not
39:01
Speaker 1: that that would have changed Lindsay's fate, but maybe we
39:04
Speaker 1: would know who they are now. But I think thinking
39:07
Speaker 1: what ifs in the situation is just not helpful at
39:10
Speaker 1: all in any sense, because you can't change the past.
39:13
Speaker 1: So in a matter of minutes, a bright, beloved young
39:17
Speaker 1: woman's life had been brutally snuffed out, and the reverberations
39:21
Speaker 1: of this carefully planned homicide were only just beginning to
39:24
Speaker 1: be felt. And as the crime scene tape went up
39:27
Speaker 1: around seventeen oh two Desusa Place on that cold February night,
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Speaker 1: the investigation into Lindsay Buziak's murder was launched. And this
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Speaker 1: was an investigation that would grow into one of the
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Speaker 1: most perplexing and high profile unsolved cases in Canadian crime history.
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Speaker 1: So Savage police quickly secured the Desusa Place property as
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Speaker 1: a crime scene, but from the outset, investigators faced a
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Speaker 1: major challenge, and that was that the scene had been
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Speaker 1: compromised by the frantic rescue effort, and in their desperation
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Speaker 1: defined and help Lindsay, Jason and Cohen had necessarily trampled
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Speaker 1: through the house inadvertently contaminating evidence, which I mean, you
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Speaker 1: can't blame them. I mean they were trying to look
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Speaker 1: for her and then trying to help save her.
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Speaker 2: I just feel so bad.
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Speaker 1: But within hours the Santich Police Department's Major Crime Unit
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Speaker 1: took charge of the case and they realized they were
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Speaker 1: dealing with anything but in ordinary murder, and forensic examiners
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Speaker 1: scored the empty house late into the night and the
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Speaker 1: following days, but they would find it no usable DNA
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Speaker 1: or fingerprints from the perpetrators, and they assumed that the
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Speaker 1: assailants had likely worn gloves and perhaps protective clothing or
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Speaker 1: shoecovers that they took with them. So this was clearly
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Speaker 1: an extremely calculated murder, and the murder weapon, presumed to
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Speaker 1: be a sharp edged knife, was not found at the
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Speaker 1: scene either, and the only clue was the bloody shoeprints
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Speaker 1: tracked along the floor, but even these were limited and
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Speaker 1: the specific shoebrand or size was not released publicly, suggesting
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Speaker 1: it might not have even been distinctive enough to trace conclusively,
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Speaker 1: and the absence of defensive wounds on Lindsay. The sheer
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Speaker 1: ferocity of the told investigators that this was a targeted execution,
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Speaker 1: not a robbery gone wrong, and how would it even
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Speaker 1: be a robbery. This was a vacant home, so the
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Speaker 1: only conclusion could be that this was a calculated attack,
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Speaker 1: a murder in the first degree, and outside the house,
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Speaker 1: potential witness information was minimal because neighbors only saw the
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Speaker 1: well dressed couple arriving, not leaving, and no one recalled
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Speaker 1: hearing screams or loud noises, implying Lindsay may have been
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Speaker 1: attacked so suddenly that she couldn't even cry over help,
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Speaker 1: and that's assuming people were in close enough proximity to
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Speaker 1: hear screams anyway, But investigators were intrigued by the victim's
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Speaker 1: last known communications because the pocket dial voicemail Lindsay's phone
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Speaker 1: made during the attack was recovered but yielded little beyond
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Speaker 1: muffled background noise, and the final text message from Jason
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Speaker 1: to Lindsay was are you okay? And it remained unread
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Speaker 1: on her phone. And police also quickly traced the cell
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Speaker 1: phone that had lured Lindsay, and it was, as suspected,
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Speaker 1: a burner phone registered under a bogus name which was
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Speaker 1: Paolo Rodriguez and a fake business address in Vancouver, and
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Speaker 1: records showed it had been purchased three months earlier in
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Speaker 1: Vancouver and activated just the day before the murder, and
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Speaker 1: it made calls exclusively to Lindsay and was powered off
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Speaker 1: permanently soon after she was killed, so authorities believed that
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Speaker 1: the phone was used only for planning and executing this crime,
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Speaker 1: then disposed of just a hallmark of organized, premeditated murder,
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Speaker 1: and it even pinged off a cell phone tower near
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Speaker 1: the murder house the night before, suggesting the suspects did
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Speaker 1: a dry run or surveillance of the area in advance.
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Speaker 1: It's just sickening, horrifying, chilling, sicken It's all just a
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Speaker 1: nightmare to think about. So the forensic and physical evidence
42:49
Speaker 1: thus painted a grim picture, and that is that this
42:53
Speaker 1: homicide was carefully organized and executed by individuals who knew
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Speaker 1: exactly what they were doing, likely had done it many
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Speaker 1: times before, because the degree of planning just indicated an
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Speaker 1: experienced hand using an untraceable phone, choosing an empty house
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Speaker 1: and a new build, and minimizing forensic traces. Yet paradoxically,
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Speaker 1: the overkill violence was very emotional and amateurish in its frenzy.
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Speaker 1: So you have this very calculated, planned murder, and then
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Speaker 1: the murder itself felt like a rabid attack of emotion,
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Speaker 1: like it wasn't thought of, It just just happened out
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Speaker 1: of nowhere. It just didn't fit the profile of a
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Speaker 1: dispassionate professional hit. So this contradiction just puzzled police because
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Speaker 1: the murderer had both highly professional elements and intensely personal ferocity.
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Speaker 1: So within the first day police had to consider a
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Speaker 1: difficult reality. The two suspects seen by witnesses had essentially
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Speaker 1: vanished into thin air at this point, and they left
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Speaker 1: virtually no trace of their identities inside the house. No
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Speaker 1: one saw a getaway vehicle, so the only thing known
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Speaker 1: was how they looked, and that one had possibly a
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Speaker 1: fake accent. So the composite sketch of the female suspect
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Speaker 1: was developed from witness descriptions and released to the public
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Speaker 1: a year later in two thousand and nine, and it
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Speaker 1: depicted a Caucasian woman in her mid thirties with short,
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Speaker 1: stylish blonde hair and a calm expression, and alongside. Police
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Speaker 1: described the male suspect as Caucasian, about six foot with
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Speaker 1: dark hair, wearing a brown jacket, and the woman's dress
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Speaker 1: was also highlighted, a black, white and red patterned dress
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Speaker 1: that was very distinctive and for investigators it was as
44:36
Speaker 1: if the suspects had worn a mask and then disappeared
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Speaker 1: into a crowd, though, and they had to start considering
44:43
Speaker 1: who could have orchestrated such a plot and why Lindsay
44:47
Speaker 1: was the target. So the Santich Police threw themselves fully
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Speaker 1: into the hunt for Lindsay's killers, and the department was
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Speaker 1: not large, and a murder of this complexity was a
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Speaker 1: major undertaking, and at least five full time investigators were
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Speaker 1: assigned to the case, and they conducted exhaustive interviews with
45:04
Speaker 1: everyone in Lindsay's life, including family, friends, colleagues, past clients,
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Speaker 1: ex boyfriends, rivals, anyone who might shed light. And within
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Speaker 1: the first year after the murder, police had conducted nearly
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Speaker 1: fifteen hundred interviews and received seven hundred and fifty two
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Speaker 1: tips and executed thirty search warrants. So this was an
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Speaker 1: enormous volume of investigative work, reflecting just how many angles
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Speaker 1: they were exploring for this case, and the Major Crime Unit,
45:31
Speaker 1: led by Inspector Rob McCall, coordinated the efforts and Detective
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Speaker 1: Sergeant Chris Horseley became the public face of the case,
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Speaker 1: often appealing for information and addressing rumors, and early on
45:43
Speaker 1: the SPD acknowledged they were dealing with an exceptionally challenging
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Speaker 1: case and in a rare statement, a spokesperson called it
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Speaker 1: a crime of quote unquote, extraordinary complexity, involving individuals who
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Speaker 1: were experienced and quote unquote had no regard for human life,
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Speaker 1: and leads were pursued not just in Victoria but across
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Speaker 1: provincial lines, recognizing the possible wider connections such as ties
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Speaker 1: to Calgary or Vancouver criminal groups, and Santich police welcomed
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Speaker 1: help from outside agencies as well. In the RCMP, the
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Speaker 1: Royal Canadian Mounted Police were brought in to provide oversight
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Speaker 1: and specialized resources, and the case was also significant enough
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Speaker 1: that the FBI agents from the United States were later consulted,
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Speaker 1: particularly when it came to the new technology and behavioral analysis,
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Speaker 1: and over the years the investigation grew to staggering proportions,
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Speaker 1: and by twenty twenty, Santich Police said they had over
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Speaker 1: two thousand persons of interest or entities logged in the
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Speaker 1: case file, and they had obtained an excess of thirty
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Speaker 1: five court warrants and production orders targeting cell phone companies,
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Speaker 1: internet providers and even social media like Facebook to pull
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Speaker 1: data relevant to the crime. But the sheer volume of
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Speaker 1: the information was immense, requiring meticulous or organization and analysis.
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Speaker 1: But detectives were determined to not let a single clue
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Speaker 1: slip through the cracks, and they but also examine cell
47:07
Speaker 1: tower pings and advanced techniques like DNA analysis were repeatedly
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Speaker 1: applied to what few samples they had, though initially none
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Speaker 1: yielded a suspect profile, and the house had been professionally
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Speaker 1: cleaned just before the showing, as it was a newly
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Speaker 1: staged house, so there was little trace of evidence in
47:25
Speaker 1: the environment to start with. So from day one, investigators
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Speaker 1: and armchair detectives alike grappled with the burning question who
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Speaker 1: ordered the murder of Lindsay.
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Speaker 2: Bouziak and why?
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Speaker 1: And over the years several theories emerged, some pursued by police,
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Speaker 1: others fueled by internet speculation, but we'll explore the main
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Speaker 1: ones here, noting what evidence, if any, supports them, and
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Speaker 1: how authorities have responded. So first we have Jason, Lindsay's boyfriend. Naturally,
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Speaker 1: he would be the first suspect, the first person that
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Speaker 1: police would scrutinize, because in most homicide investigations you start
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Speaker 1: with the inner circle, or those closest to the victim,
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Speaker 1: and Jason was right at the center. He was the
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Speaker 1: one who found her body, and that often raises suspicion. Obviously,
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Speaker 1: so could Jason have been involved in setting up Lindsay?
48:19
Speaker 1: And motive wise, the relationship had known troubles. As we know,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay had considered leaving him, and there were rumors of
48:25
Speaker 1: jealousy as well. Some who distrusted Jason speculated he might
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Speaker 1: have arranged to eliminate Lindsay if he couldn't bear to
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Speaker 1: let her go. And it didn't help Jason's case in
48:35
Speaker 1: the public eye that his family was wealthy and influential,
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Speaker 1: because people love to suspect the rich boyfriend in a
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Speaker 1: true crime story.
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Speaker 2: However, police have repeatedly stated.
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Speaker 1: That Jason Zelo is not a suspect, and that's because
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Speaker 1: Jason's actions and alibi on the day the murder largely
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Speaker 1: completely check out, because after lunch, he was indeed seen
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Speaker 1: on surveillance video at the auto shop at around five
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Speaker 1: thirty PM, leaving with co in his range Rover, and
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Speaker 1: the timing on the CCTV proves he was not at
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Speaker 1: the murder scene when Lindsay was killed, because she was
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Speaker 1: likely being killed at five point forty five forty one pm,
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Speaker 1: and it would have been difficult to make it there
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Speaker 1: and pull it off in that time, and by difficult
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Speaker 1: I mean quite literally impossible. And additionally, Jason voluntarily underwent
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Speaker 1: a polygraph test and passed it convincingly according to police,
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Speaker 1: and he handed over his phone and even participated in
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Speaker 1: a detailed reenactment video with investigators walking through his discovery
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Speaker 1: of Lindsay's body on camera to aid the investigation. Basically,
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Speaker 1: he had no hesitation to volunteer any help to the police.
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Speaker 1: He was extremely forthcoming throughout the entire investigation, and investigators
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Speaker 1: found no forensic or digital evidence tying Jason to any
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Speaker 1: part of the murder planning, and a cell phone records,
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Speaker 1: for example, showed genuine attempts to find her and not
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Speaker 1: any coordination with unknown parties, and about a year after
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Speaker 1: the murder, in early two thousand and nine, Santish police
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Speaker 1: formally cleared Jason of any of involvement, and they noted publicly,
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Speaker 1: quote we've never said Zelo was a suspect. He was
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Speaker 1: a person of interest, as would anybody found at the scene,
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Speaker 1: but he's been ruled out unquote. But despite this, Jason
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Speaker 1: endured intense public suspicion for years, and Lindsay's father, Jeff,
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Speaker 1: openly suggested Jason might know more than he let on,
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Speaker 1: largely because Jeff felt Jason didn't show enough grief and
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Speaker 1: because of Jason's family connections. But Jason has always maintained
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Speaker 1: his innocence, saying, quote unquote, I want.
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Speaker 3: People to know that I love Lindsay and I think
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Speaker 3: about every day. I want this case solved as fast
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Speaker 3: as possible. I had nothing to do with it.
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Speaker 1: It's worth noting that police had thoroughly interrogated Jason for
50:48
Speaker 1: hours the night of the murder, something that really frustrated
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Speaker 1: him once he knew that the killers had fled, and
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Speaker 1: he felt valuable time was being lost focusing on him. Initially,
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Speaker 1: but from the police perspective that was a necessary step,
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Speaker 1: and once done, they moved on and zero evidence has
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Speaker 1: ever surfaced implicating Jason, and law enforcement and even Lindsay's
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Speaker 1: own mother have accepted that Jason was not involved, and
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Speaker 1: while quote unquote the boyfriend did it is a common trope,
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Speaker 1: this case appears to be the exception, and Jason's role
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Speaker 1: was tragically just that of an unlucky witness who found
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Speaker 1: the woman he loved in her final state.
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Speaker 2: So if not.
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Speaker 1: Jason, what about someone else in the family, and online
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Speaker 1: sleuths turned their gaze to Shirley, Jason's mother. Shirley was
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Speaker 1: a successful realtor and a formidable personality by many accounts,
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Speaker 1: and true crime forms have swirled with the speculation that
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Speaker 1: Shirley could have orchestrated a hit on Lindsay out of
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Speaker 1: some dark motive, perhaps anger, if Lindsay was planning to
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Speaker 1: leave Jason, or other personal conflicts. And it didn't help
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Speaker 1: that Shirley was directly connected to key elements of the scenario,
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Speaker 1: like we talked about before. She was present when Lindsay
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Speaker 1: discussed the showing details and the address, and the builder
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Speaker 1: of the murder house, Joe Desusa, was Shirley's friend and
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Speaker 1: some theorists pose the question that if surely were involved,
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Speaker 1: that might explain how the killers knew Lindsay's schedule and
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Speaker 1: chose that specific house. However, police have never named Shirley
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Speaker 1: as a suspect even and they have explicitly said that
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Speaker 1: no member of the Selo family is under any sort
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Speaker 1: of suspicion, and Shirley provided in alibi for the time
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Speaker 1: of the murder. She was actually out at dinner by
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Speaker 1: some reports, and cooperated with police interviews, and Lindsay's mother, Evelyn,
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Speaker 1: publicly stated she does not believe Shirley had anything to
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Speaker 1: do with it, calling the notion an unfounded rumor, and
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Speaker 1: over the year, Shirley largely just stayed quiet about the rumors.
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Speaker 2: That have swirled.
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Speaker 1: But by twenty twenty two, she'd had enough, and that
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Speaker 1: year Shirley filed a defamation lawsuit against Jeff Booziak, which
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Speaker 1: is Lindsay's father, and two administrators of his website, accusing
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Speaker 1: them of maliciously spreading false accusations that she was the murderer.
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Speaker 1: In other words, Shirley took the extraordinary step of suing
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Speaker 1: the victim's father to clear her name, and this underscores
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Speaker 1: how deeply the unproven allegations had hurt her family, and
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Speaker 1: the case is still ongoing and has not been resolved
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Speaker 1: in court, but Shirley's position is clear and she and
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Speaker 1: her family have been unjustly vilified with zero evidence. And
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Speaker 1: in interviews with Capital Daily, the Zalo's expressed that they
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Speaker 1: felt like, quote went through a bad part of life
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Speaker 1: unquote being targets of these accusations. And all that said,
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Speaker 1: police did investigate the Salo family thoroughly, and they looked
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Speaker 1: into the Shirley's finances, her business ties, and any possible
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Speaker 1: link to Burner Phone or people behind it. But nothing
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Speaker 1: incriminating was ever found. And the fact that Shirley heard
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Speaker 1: part of the phone call appears to have just been coincidence,
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Speaker 1: which I mean, I don't think that's hard to believe.
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Speaker 1: And she was Jason's mom and it was known to
53:57
Speaker 1: often drop by, and Lindsay wasn't her client's communications. And
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Speaker 1: while it's indeed eerie that the killer's house was built
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Speaker 1: by Shirley's acquaintance, Joe Desusa, police have never indicated Joe
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Speaker 1: or Shirley were involved beyond that weird coincidence. So aside
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Speaker 1: from internet suspicion. The case against Shirley is unsupported by
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Speaker 1: hard evidence, and police cleared her as well as Jason's
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Speaker 1: brother and anyone else in their orbit, and that was
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Speaker 1: fairly early on. So the Zelo's in truth suffered not
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Speaker 1: only the loss of someone they cared about and they
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Speaker 1: insist that they deeply cared about Lindsay, but also damage
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Speaker 1: to their reputation due to rampant speculation. But I also
54:37
Speaker 1: just can't help but feel horrible for Lindsay's family and
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Speaker 1: them just wanting the truth, especially her father. I mean,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't excuse, you know, defaming someone, but I think
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Speaker 1: just wanting to know answers. I just I can't even
54:50
Speaker 1: imagine how that feels. So I feel for both the families.
54:54
Speaker 1: But one of the most intriguing and initially compelling theories
54:57
Speaker 1: had nothing to do with Lindsay's boyfriend or family at all,
55:01
Speaker 1: and instead it centered on something Lindsay supposedly saw that
55:05
Speaker 1: she shouldn't have moment. So in late two thousand and seven,
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Speaker 1: about two months before her death, Lindsay took an impromptu
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Speaker 1: weekend trip from Victoria to Calgary and Calgary's in Alberta,
55:16
Speaker 1: which is the province right next to British Columbia, and
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Speaker 1: this was to visit her father and old friends. And
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Speaker 1: during this visit she met up briefly with some acquaintances
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Speaker 1: from her past, including reportedly the father of her ex boyfriend.
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Speaker 1: And around that time, a massive drug bust was unfolding
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Speaker 1: in Calgary, and on January two, two thousand and eight,
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Speaker 1: police executed Operation High Noon, seizing over eighty kilograms of
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Speaker 1: cain worth eight million dollars and arresting several high level traffickers,
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Speaker 1: and it was billed as the largest cane bust in
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Speaker 1: Alberta's history. And in a startling coincidence, one of the
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Speaker 1: people caught in the bust had a connection to Lindsay's circle,
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Speaker 1: and that was Ericson de lalcazarance of Lindsay's from Victoria,
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Speaker 1: and he was arrested as a major player in the
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Speaker 1: Calgary drug ring and this led to rampant speculation that
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Speaker 1: perhaps Lindsay during her Calgary trip learned something about the operation,
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Speaker 1: maybe overhearing a conversation or sealing a deal, and the
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Speaker 1: cartel or gang involves decided to silence her, believing she
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Speaker 1: maybe would snitch to police and it is an extremely
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Speaker 1: dramatic theory, the revenge of cartel carried out by contract
56:28
Speaker 1: killers posing his clients, and police have largely debunked this
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Speaker 1: motive because, first of all, they found no evidence Lindsay
56:35
Speaker 1: was an informant or had any role in the Calgary bust,
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Speaker 1: and Calgary Police themselves confirmed Lindsay wasn't on their radar
56:42
Speaker 1: at all. And Lindsay was known to be firmly anti
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Speaker 1: drug as we know, and multiple friends said she never
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Speaker 1: used and didn't endorse that lifestyle, and if she stumbled
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Speaker 1: on criminal info, one would think she might have told
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Speaker 1: a friend or her father, but she didn't, and Jefford
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Speaker 1: later claimed that Lindsay hinted she so something bad, but
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Speaker 1: no proof of what that was ever emerged. And police
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Speaker 1: also point out that the nature of Lindsay's murderer doesn't
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Speaker 1: fit a professional cartel hit because cartels, if retaliating against informants,
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Speaker 1: tend to execute in a cleaner way as shooting, for example,
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Speaker 1: and often the bodies are left as a warning. But
57:19
Speaker 1: Lindsay's murder was frenzied and deeply personal, which is not
57:24
Speaker 1: typical of a hired hitman job. However, there are some
57:27
Speaker 1: unresolved curiosities that keep this theory on the table, and
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Speaker 1: investigators confirmed that after returning from Calgary, Lindsay looked up
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Speaker 1: the Facebook profile of a relative of someone arrested in
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Speaker 1: the drug bust and even tried calling that person.
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Speaker 2: Quote.
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Speaker 1: We don't know why she was on his Facebook. We
57:43
Speaker 1: don't know why she called him unquote. And that was
57:45
Speaker 1: detective hoarsely admitting of the bizarre discovery. But I think like,
57:49
Speaker 1: if something happened like a drug bust to someone you know,
57:53
Speaker 1: that would be absolutely insane and I'd be looking up
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Speaker 1: like what's going on and if they got busted, and
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Speaker 1: then calling to see if they did.
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Speaker 2: I don't know.
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Speaker 1: I just don't think it's out of the realm of
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Speaker 1: possibility that she was just calling as a very concerned,
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Speaker 1: warm person that she is. And crucially, the key players
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Speaker 1: in the ring were already arrested by the time Lindsay
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Speaker 1: was killed, so it's not as if the cartel was
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Speaker 1: still at large fearing exposure or anything. And in the end,
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Speaker 1: while the Calgary connection may be alluring and was also
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Speaker 1: popularized in a twenty ten Dateline episode, police eliminated it
58:28
Speaker 1: as a viable motive at all, and they publicly stated
58:31
Speaker 1: Lindsay's murder did not appear to be ordered by a
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Speaker 1: cartel or joking, and the timing and method just didn't align.
58:37
Speaker 1: So with the most obvious suspects and scenarios ruled out,
58:41
Speaker 1: the investigation turned to more complex possibilities, and one such
58:45
Speaker 1: angle was that someone within the real estate industry or
58:48
Speaker 1: closely acquainted with Lindsay's work, set her up, and this
58:51
Speaker 1: theory suggests an inside job element, perhaps some agent at
58:56
Speaker 1: her job could access her schedule. Notably, the killers knew
58:59
Speaker 1: Lindsay would be alone at the house at the exact time,
59:03
Speaker 1: which hints that they had incite information on her appointments,
59:06
Speaker 1: and police did look at colleagues and even past clients,
59:09
Speaker 1: and there was gossip about disgruntled client or a jealous competitor,
59:13
Speaker 1: but nothing concrete materialized publicly. However, it was later uncovered
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Speaker 1: that early in the case police suspected certain violent individuals
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Speaker 1: on Lindsay's Facebook friend list might have been involved, and Lindsay,
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Speaker 1: by all accounts, was a friendly person who had over
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Speaker 1: one hundred Facebook friends, including some people with criminal backgrounds.
59:33
Speaker 1: And Victoria's social scene is such that you could know
59:36
Speaker 1: someone who knows someone basically kind of think it's very
59:39
Speaker 1: tight knit. So detectives initially thought perhaps one of those
59:43
Speaker 1: contacts with a shady past could have orchestrated the murder,
59:46
Speaker 1: and this line of inquiry appears to have dovetailed with
59:49
Speaker 1: both the drug theory and general suspicion of anyone in
59:52
Speaker 1: her orbit with criminal ties, but again, no definitive evidence
59:56
Speaker 1: ever came from it, and another theory considered whether organized
59:59
Speaker 1: crime beyond the gangle might be involved, such as money
1:00:03
Speaker 1: laundering in real estate or someone Lindsay inadvertently offended in
1:00:07
Speaker 1: a property deal, and Santich police have said publicly to
1:00:11
Speaker 1: date they found no link between Lindsay's legitimate real estate
1:00:14
Speaker 1: work and her murder beyond the RUSS used to lure her.
1:00:18
Speaker 1: In other words, it wasn't a case of a deal
1:00:20
Speaker 1: gone bad or client seeking revenge. The real estate viewing
1:00:24
Speaker 1: was just a convenient trap, and over time investigators formed
1:00:28
Speaker 1: their own theory that aligns with the evidence, and that
1:00:32
Speaker 1: is that Lindsay's murder was a personal vendetta by someone
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Speaker 1: or multiple people close to her. As one summary put it,
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Speaker 1: quote unquote, the investigators believe a Boozia's murderer was very
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Speaker 1: personal and planned by someone close to her, perhaps someone
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Speaker 1: with access to inside information from her office. So this
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Speaker 1: just points to a scenario where someone in Lindsay's social
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Speaker 1: circle held a grudge or motive to harm her, and
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Speaker 1: not necessarily a best friend, but maybe a end of
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Speaker 1: a friend or acquaintance, and they might have leveraged others
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Speaker 1: like the couple to do the dirty work keeping their
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Speaker 1: own hands clean, and it could explain the rage in
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Speaker 1: the killing and personal motive combined with the cunning plan.
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Speaker 1: But to this day, police have not publicly named any
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Speaker 1: such individual, and it seems likely the conspiracy involved more
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Speaker 1: than just the man and woman Lindsay met it, perhaps
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Speaker 1: insiders who provided information or had the motive, and outsiders
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Speaker 1: who carried it out. So the enduring mystery is identifying
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Speaker 1: all these players and proving their roles. So to summarize
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Speaker 1: this consensus, Lindsey Bouziac's murder was a targeted killing, meticulously
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Speaker 1: planned by one or more people who knew her personally
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Speaker 1: or peripherally, and it was not random, not a burglary,
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Speaker 1: not a crime of passion in the moment, but a
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Speaker 1: premeditated assassination of a young woman for reasons that may
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Speaker 1: stem from personal hatred, betrayal, or perceived threat. And over
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Speaker 1: fifteen years later, we are closer to understanding the how
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Speaker 1: of the crime than why the full truth remains locked
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Speaker 1: behind lips that so far have refused to speak. And
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Speaker 1: from two thousand and eight through to today, Jeff, Lindsay's father,
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Speaker 1: organizes an annual walk, a Walk for Justice in Lindsay's memory,
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Speaker 1: every February second, which is the anniversary of her death
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Speaker 1: and come rain or shine, Jeff leads supporters through the streets,
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Speaker 1: holding banners and signs with Lindsay's photo and please for information,
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Speaker 1: and these walks have grown to attract dozens, sometimes over
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Speaker 1: one hundred people, all marching to remind the community that
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Speaker 1: a killer or killers still walk free quote unquote until
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Speaker 1: there are rest made, I will continue walking, Jeff bowed,
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Speaker 1: and as of twenty twenty five, he has kept that
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Speaker 1: promise for seventeen consecutive years, and the walk usually starts
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Speaker 1: at Sanwich Municipal Hall and ends at the BC Legislator,
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Speaker 1: symbolically taking the call for justice to the authority storstep
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Speaker 1: and Jeff also harnessed the power of the internet early
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Speaker 1: on and he created a website, Lindsaybouziek murder dot com,
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Speaker 1: intended as both a memorial and a hub for tips
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Speaker 1: and discussion, and that site became a double edged sword
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Speaker 1: because on one hand, it provided an avenue for members
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Speaker 1: of the public to submit information anonymously and for Jeff
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Speaker 1: to publish his thoughts and any updates or theories he endorsed.
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Speaker 1: But on the other hand, it also became a hotbed
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Speaker 1: of speculation, hosting wild theories and at least one malicious
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Speaker 1: fake confession as well. And Jeff moderated the site with
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Speaker 1: help from volunteer administrators, but there were times when emotions
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Speaker 1: ran high in defamatory content was posted. But despite these controversies,
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Speaker 1: the site undeniably kept Lindsay's case in public consciousness and
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Speaker 1: in media appearances. Jeff has been candid and relentless, and
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Speaker 1: he's given countless interviews to local and national outlets. Perhaps
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Speaker 1: most famously, he appeared on Doctor Phill's television show in
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Speaker 1: an episode aired on May twenty nineteen, to talk about
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Speaker 1: Lindsay's case and plead for tips, and during these interviews,
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Speaker 1: Jeff became increasingly vocal that he felt the police investigation
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Speaker 1: was incompetent and corrupt, and he's even floated theories of
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Speaker 1: police cover ups and high level interference, though without any
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Speaker 1: part evidence, and that's when the suing from Shirley came
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Speaker 1: and the detectives asked him to stop publicly defaming them
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Speaker 1: as well. So it's just been a whirlwind of accusations.
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Speaker 1: Yet despite any interpersonal dramas, all agree on the core point,
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Speaker 1: and that is that Lindsay deserves justice, and as of
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Speaker 1: early twenty twenty five, no arrests have been made and
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Speaker 1: no charges filed. However, law enforcement appears more confident than
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Speaker 1: ever in the direction of the case, and SPD officials
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Speaker 1: have hinted that they quote unquote have an inside track
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Speaker 1: on who it was, but are waiting for the final
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Speaker 1: puzzle piece. So this suggests that investigation is in the
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Speaker 1: phase of building a prosecutable case, gathering hard evidence like DNA,
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Speaker 1: corroborating witness testimonies, or perhaps hoping someone from the conspirator's
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Speaker 1: circle flips. But one challenge the case status faces with
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Speaker 1: each passing year is the statute of limitations on public attention.
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Speaker 1: Because memories fade, witnesses get harder to track down, and
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Speaker 1: physical evidence can degrade. But the silver lining is there
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Speaker 1: is no statute of limitations on murder in Canada, thank goodness,
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Speaker 1: and the case can remain open indefinitely until solved and
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Speaker 1: the police seem determined to see it through. But that
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Speaker 1: is the case of Lindsay Bouziek. If for whatever reason,
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Speaker 1: you have any information at all on this case, I
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Speaker 1: highly suggest you call the Sanwich Police Department. And again
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Speaker 1: my heart goes out to the families involved. If you
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Speaker 1: have any other cases you want me to deep dive
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Speaker 1: into and to let you guys know about, let me
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Speaker 1: know in the comments below. Then I will see your
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Speaker 1: beautiful face.
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Speaker 2: Okay, bye,