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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 seat belts, go
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Speaker 1: mock five down the highway, slam on the breaks, and
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Speaker 1: busts through this windshield into this cold case together. Lindsay
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Speaker 1: Elizabeth Boziak was born on November two, nineteen eighty three,
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Speaker 1: in Victoria, British Columbia. She was the first daughter of
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Speaker 1: Jeff Boziak, a local real estate agent, and Evelyn Wright, Mayor,
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Speaker 1: a stay at home mom, and in nineteen eighty six,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay 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 did not fracture Lindsay's family bonds because she
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Speaker 1: would remain close to both her mother and her father
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Speaker 1: as she grew up. Luckily so, as a child, Lindsay
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Speaker 1: split time between Victoria and the peaceful summers at lake,
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Speaker 1: where the family kept a trailer at in RV Lot
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Speaker 1: and those summers were filled with laughter and play, and
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Speaker 1: Lindsay's younger sister, Sarah, fondly remembers learning to swim just
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Speaker 1: to keep up with her energetic big sister, and from
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Speaker 1: an early age, Lindsay's personality just sparkled and she was
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Speaker 1: 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.
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Speaker 2: One story even.
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Speaker 1: Recounts how young Lindsay once begged for great flavored bubblegum
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Speaker 1: simply because it matched her purple 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
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Speaker 1: kindness along the way, and she was not afraid of
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Speaker 1: a 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 balanced 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: Soughterer School, a 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.
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Speaker 2: And at the time, she.
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Speaker 1: Was one of only twenty real estate agents in the
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Speaker 1: entire 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
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Speaker 1: mother surely was a successful realtor also, and the family
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Speaker 1: owned investment properties as well, so they were just kind
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Speaker 1: of known in that industry. And Jason himself had been
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Speaker 1: a competitive hockey player in his youth and now worked
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Speaker 1: as a mortgage broker and realtor. So in Lindsay's eyes,
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Speaker 1: the Zelo family were real estate royalty in Victoria, and
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Speaker 1: she was impressed. Quote she really looked up to the
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Speaker 1: fact that Jason was in the real estate industry and
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Speaker 1: his mom was too, unquote, said Lindsay's friend Vicky, saying
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Speaker 1: that Lindsay seemed to be excited to be welcomed into
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Speaker 1: the Zelo's world, and by mid two thousand and six,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay and Jason began dating seriously, and that relationship moved
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Speaker 1: quickly and soon they were living together, and the Zelos
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Speaker 1: provided the couple with a one bedroom condominium in Victoria's
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Speaker 1: Inner Harbor area, which the family owned in that area,
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Speaker 1: been there a bunch of times, beautiful, absolutely beautiful area
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Speaker 1: and quite expensive, and they also spent summers at a
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Speaker 1: lavish lake front vacation home Shirley Zelo had purchased on
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Speaker 1: to it. As two thousand and seven drew a close,
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Speaker 1: Lindsay confided to those closest to her that things with
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Speaker 1: Jason were not as perfect as they appeared, and during
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Speaker 1: a visit to see her father in Calgary on December fifth,
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Speaker 1: two thousand and seven, Lindsay admitted she was unhappy in
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Speaker 1: the relationship and she told her dad that Jason didn't
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Speaker 1: share the same driver quote unquote ambition she had and
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Speaker 1: that was causing friction. And it was during this time
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Speaker 1: Lindsay even hinted at possibly ending the relationship, and she
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Speaker 1: would repeat similar sentiments to her friends back home, telling
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Speaker 1: them she wasn't fully satisfied with Jason and was considering
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Speaker 1: breaking up.
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Speaker 2: She just 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 2: So I think it's just kind of an odd thing
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Speaker 2: to say.
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Speaker 1: So. In early January two thousand and eight, Lindsay and
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Speaker 1: Jason went on a trip to Whistler with Jason's family,
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Speaker 1: a vacation Lindsay hoped would rekindle their closeness. Now by
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Speaker 1: all appearances, it appeared to work, and Lindsay came back
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Speaker 1: from the Whistler getaway optimistic that she and Jason had
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Speaker 1: turned a corner, saying, quote, we had such fun, this
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Speaker 1: was the perfect thing. We needed to spend more time
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Speaker 1: 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 Lindsay 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, with
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Speaker 1: a separate suite for a housekeeper. So extremely specific and
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Speaker 1: extremely quick and just all around extremely odd. So the
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Speaker 1: timeline was urgent. The woman claimed they wanted to purchase
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Speaker 1: within a few days, which is insane in the real
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Speaker 1: estate world. I mean, my dad's in real estate. That's crazy.
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Speaker 1: That is like next level crazy, even in this time.
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Speaker 1: So this unsolicited inquiry was both exciting and obviously unsettling
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Speaker 1: for Lindsay because, as a relatively new realtor with no
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Speaker 1: seven figure listings of her own, a potential million dollar
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Speaker 1: sale was a huge opportunity, the kind that would kickstart
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Speaker 1: her career and yield a hefty commission. But something about
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Speaker 1: the call just didn't sit right, and Lindsay couldn't shake
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Speaker 1: a sense of unease because, for one, the client's supposed
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Speaker 1: referral made no sense, and when Lindsay asked how she'd
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Speaker 1: gotten her personal cell number, the woman vaguely replied that
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Speaker 1: a friend of her husband's had recommended Lindsey. And after
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Speaker 1: the call, Lindsey diligently checked with all her recent clients
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Speaker 1: and contacts, but none had any idea who this mystery
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Speaker 1: woman could be. So it appeared the referral story was
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Speaker 1: a lie, which is a massive red flag, and there
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Speaker 1: were other red flags, one being the accent.
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Speaker 2: The woman was like deliberately.
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Speaker 1: Disguising her voice with this fake accent and the unusual
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Speaker 1: urgency and specifics of the request as well. And Lindsay
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Speaker 1: confided in her father and boyfriend about the strange call,
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Speaker 1: and she told her dad outright that she had a
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Speaker 1: weird feeling about these new clients. And Lindsay referred to
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Speaker 1: the unknown couple as quote unquote the Mexicans, referencing the
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Speaker 1: accent when discussing the situation with friends. So to keep
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Speaker 1: track of the inquiry, Lindsay saved the caller's phone number
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Speaker 1: in her contacts under the label quote unquote million dollar
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Speaker 1: and it was just a defining feature of these clients,
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Speaker 1: a million dollar budget. But the name also hints at
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Speaker 1: Lindsay's skepticism. This potential deal seemed almost too good to
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Speaker 1: be true, as she remarked to her boyfriend Jason, and
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Speaker 1: Lindsay's instincts would be spot on, but she just didn't
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Speaker 1: know it yet. So the clients insisted on meeting soon,
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Speaker 1: and they set an appointment for the next evening, Saturday,
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Speaker 1: February second, two thousand and eight, at five point thirty
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Speaker 1: pm to view properties, and with a mix of eagerness
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Speaker 1: and dread, Lindsay agreed to show them a few homes,
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Speaker 1: but she privately expressed that something about this just didn't
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Speaker 1: feel right, and court documents later confirmed what Lindsay feared,
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Speaker 1: because the people behind that phone were setting a trap.
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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
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Speaker 1: de sac, and that was seventeen O two de Sosa Place,
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Speaker 1: and this house was listed at nine hundred and sixty
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Speaker 1: four thousand dollars and was brand new and unoccupied, a
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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
19:47
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 2: So the scene was.
19:59
Speaker 1: Set for very private viewing, which as we'll see soon,
20:02
Speaker 1: was by design. But there was no busy traffic, and
20:06
Speaker 1: two of the four homes on the cul de sac
20:07
Speaker 1: were still under construction, in other words, few potential witnesses around,
20:12
Speaker 1: and that evening Shirley Zelo decided to stop by the
20:15
Speaker 1: condo where Lindsay and Jason lived, and Shirley arrived around
20:19
Speaker 1: seven to fifteen pm, supposedly just as a casual visit
20:22
Speaker 1: to see her son and his girlfriend, and as she
20:25
Speaker 1: entered the unit, Surely happened to catch Lindsay in the
20:27
Speaker 1: middle of a phone conversation and it was the mystery
20:30
Speaker 1: woman calling back to finalize the next day's plans, and
20:34
Speaker 1: for about ten minutes or so, Shirley overheard bits of
20:37
Speaker 1: Lindsay's side of the discussion before Lindsay hung up, and
20:40
Speaker 1: Lindsay then revealed the details to Shirley, which was that
20:43
Speaker 1: the clients were confirmed for a five thirty pm showing
20:46
Speaker 1: on Saturday at seventeen oh two De Susa Place, so
20:50
Speaker 1: everything was arranged, and Shirley later said that she immediately
20:53
Speaker 1: felt concerned. Sensing Lindsay's slight discomfort, Surely repeatedly offered to
20:58
Speaker 1: go to the showing in Lindsay's place, essentially volunteering to
21:02
Speaker 1: meet the clients herself. And it's not clear if Shirley's
21:05
Speaker 1: worry was driven by Lindsay's safety or simply wanting to
21:09
Speaker 1: help her attend other plans, because Lindsay had mentioned possibly
21:13
Speaker 1: heading to Vancouver for a friend's bachelorette party after the showing,
21:17
Speaker 1: but either way she was trying to help. She was
21:19
Speaker 1: offering her help, but Lindsay declined the help, and she
21:23
Speaker 1: insisted she would handle it. After all, this was her
21:26
Speaker 1: client and her commission on the line. However, the fact
21:29
Speaker 1: that Shirley Zelo knew exactly when and where Lindsay was
21:32
Speaker 1: meeting the unknown clients, and even the content of their
21:35
Speaker 1: phone call, would later become one of many troubling footnotes
21:39
Speaker 1: in this case, and some would question whether it was
21:42
Speaker 1: mere coincidence that the house chosen for the showing was
21:45
Speaker 1: built by Shirley's acquaintance, or that Shirley happened to be
21:49
Speaker 1: present during the planning. But on February first, two thousand
21:52
Speaker 1: and eight, those connections were not yet the subject of suspicion,
21:57
Speaker 1: just hindsight. By nightfall, all was and at the condo.
22:01
Speaker 1: Jason returned home from a hockey game around midnight, and
22:04
Speaker 1: he and Lindsay talked about her nerves, and Jason at
22:07
Speaker 1: this point was just trying to reassure her and even
22:10
Speaker 1: made the same offer as his mother did, and he
22:12
Speaker 1: suggested he go and meet the clients for her, or
22:15
Speaker 1: at least accompany her, so that Lindsay could leave early
22:18
Speaker 1: for her trip to the mainland after the showing, But
22:21
Speaker 1: Lindsay just shrugged it off, so she was feeling uneasy,
22:24
Speaker 1: but also just curious because why had she been chosen
22:28
Speaker 1: by this caller Because she had so little experience at
22:32
Speaker 1: this point, it just wasn't adding up. And again, I mean,
22:36
Speaker 1: we look at this case with all the red flags there,
22:38
Speaker 1: but hindsight's twenty twenty. I mean, you just don't know
22:41
Speaker 1: at this point. You don't assume that people are going
22:46
Speaker 1: to hurt you. So still, Lindsey told Jason she would
22:49
Speaker 1: do it and that he didn't need to interfere, and
22:52
Speaker 1: if she was concerned, she surely would accept help. At
22:56
Speaker 1: least that's what Jason thought. So when she declined his help,
22:59
Speaker 1: he assumed she felt confident enough to proceed, and they
23:02
Speaker 1: went to bed, perhaps both a little on edge, but
23:04
Speaker 1: hopeful that by the next evening Lindsay might be closing
23:07
Speaker 1: the deal of her life. So February second, two thousand
23:10
Speaker 1: and eight began normally for Lindsey Booziak, albeit with jitters.
23:14
Speaker 1: That morning, the mysterious client actually called the landline at
23:17
Speaker 1: the condo and reached Jason because Lindsay was out at
23:20
Speaker 1: the time, and Jason told the caller Lindsay wasn't home
23:23
Speaker 1: and offered to give her Lindsay's cell phone number, but
23:26
Speaker 1: the woman coolly said she already had it, and Jason
23:29
Speaker 1: noted that the caller's accent sounded like quote unquote broken Spanish,
23:34
Speaker 1: just confirming the same voice Lindsay had heard on the
23:36
Speaker 1: phone as well, and his brief exchange was the last
23:39
Speaker 1: contact before the ill fated meeting. So as afternoon approached,
23:44
Speaker 1: Lindsay grew increasingly anxious. At around two pm, she went
23:48
Speaker 1: into her Remax Cameison office on Chatterden Way, and there
23:52
Speaker 1: she pulled aside to receptionists and asked them to search
23:55
Speaker 1: the names and the phone numbers of these clients, because
23:59
Speaker 1: they had given her numbers and names, and they should
24:02
Speaker 1: be in the real estate database if they had bought
24:04
Speaker 1: anything in Victorious specifically. So Lindsay just basically wanted to
24:09
Speaker 1: see if these people had any history of buying or
24:11
Speaker 1: selling in Victoria, just to know that these people exist
24:15
Speaker 1: or have done business here. But nothing came up. It
24:18
Speaker 1: was as if they didn't exist. So Lindsay was visibly
24:22
Speaker 1: uneasy at this point quote unquote freaked out. According to
24:25
Speaker 1: the colleague who overheard her talking about the situation and
24:28
Speaker 1: sensing her discomfort, a few coworkers, including one named Cal,
24:32
Speaker 1: offered to accompany her to the five point thirty showing,
24:35
Speaker 1: but Lindsay again declined the offer, reassuring them that it
24:39
Speaker 1: was okay because her boyfriend Jason would be there for backup.
24:43
Speaker 2: Quote.
24:44
Speaker 1: She had full confidence her boyfriend was going to be there. Unquote,
24:48
Speaker 1: Cal would recall. So Lindsay may have been spooked, but
24:51
Speaker 1: she had a safety plan, and that was that Jason
24:55
Speaker 1: would meet her right after the clients arrived, just to
24:58
Speaker 1: be sure everything was fine.
24:59
Speaker 2: So at 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 colligue and pick up a friend, Cohen Oatman, 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 autoshop, his friend
26:21
Speaker 1: 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
26:35
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 Disusett 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 it 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 it roughly five five pm. Lindsay
27:02
Speaker 1: pulled up to the cul de Sac on De Sus 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
27:09
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.
27:28
Speaker 2: 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: clients 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,
27:57
Speaker 1: ever professional, stepped forward with a warm smile and shook
28:01
Speaker 1: hands with a couple at the front steps, and Lindsay
28:03
Speaker 1: did not seem to recognize them personally, and her greeting
28:07
Speaker 1: was courteous but obviously formal, and the neighbors later remarked
28:10
Speaker 1: 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.
28:22
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 the home was vacant and the early February evening
28:38
Speaker 1: was beginning to become dark, and Lindsay's cell phone records
28:41
Speaker 1: show that at five 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
29:41
Speaker 1: say quote, I'm a couple minutes away on quote, letting
29:45
Speaker 1: Lindsay know he'd be there shortly, but that text would
29:48
Speaker 1: never be opened. And shortly thereafter the quote unquote showing
29:52
Speaker 1: moved upstairs and the home's main bedroom was on the
29:56
Speaker 1: second floor at the top of the staircase. Perhaps Lindsay
29:59
Speaker 1: le the couple up, chatting about the layout and walked
30:03
Speaker 1: ahead of them into the master bedroom to show off
30:05
Speaker 1: it's en sweet bathroom. But it was at that moment,
30:08
Speaker 1: around five point forty to five point forty one pm,
30:11
Speaker 1: that the trap was sprung, and as Lindsay turned her back,
30:14
Speaker 1: one of the pair attacked her swiftly from behind, and
30:18
Speaker 1: it was at that point that Lindsay would be stepped
30:21
Speaker 1: with a knife or knives just in a frenzy, and
30:25
Speaker 1: Lindsay would have virtually no time to react or defend herself,
30:30
Speaker 1: but the attack would be vicious and personal. The whole
30:33
Speaker 1: scene was just the definition of overkill, and early news
30:38
Speaker 1: reports would sensationalize that Lindsay was stabbed quote more than
30:42
Speaker 1: forty times unquote, but police have since debunked that exact
30:46
Speaker 1: number as an exaggeration. But she did suffer multiple wounds
30:50
Speaker 1: concentrated in her chest and abdomen, along with numerous cuts
30:55
Speaker 1: and nicks, But it just indicated a very frenzied and
30:59
Speaker 1: are all happy and extremely fast because she had no
31:02
Speaker 1: defensive wounds at all on her arms or hands, which
31:06
Speaker 1: is very It's not normal in these sort of circumstances
31:10
Speaker 1: unless it's.
31:11
Speaker 2: Completely just out of nowhere.
31:14
Speaker 1: It just implies she had absolutely no chance to fight
31:18
Speaker 1: back or even raise her hands to protect herself, and
31:21
Speaker 1: it means that the first steps likely just incapacitated her
31:26
Speaker 1: almost immediately. And in the midst of this attack, an
31:29
Speaker 1: eerie and crucial event occurred and Lindsay's phone, still in
31:33
Speaker 1: her jacket pocket, accidentally dialed a number, and at five
31:39
Speaker 1: forty one PM, as Lindsay was being attacked, her BlackBerry
31:43
Speaker 1: made an outbound call a pocket dial to a friend
31:47
Speaker 1: she wasn't infrequent contact with, and the friend received a
31:51
Speaker 1: muffled voicemail that captured distant noises from inside the house
31:57
Speaker 1: and the sounds of movement and perhaps one of Lindsay's
31:59
Speaker 1: last words or gasps or a distant thud. The message
32:03
Speaker 1: itself was unintelligible but clearly not a normal call, and
32:08
Speaker 1: later Sant's detective Sergeant Chris Horseley would confirm this pocket
32:12
Speaker 1: dialed voicemail as likely occurring quote unquote at the.
32:16
Speaker 2: Point of attack.
32:18
Speaker 1: Just the whole thing is incredibly horrible and sad.
32:22
Speaker 2: But I mean to have just like a.
32:31
Speaker 1: Recording of it is I can't even imagine how what
32:37
Speaker 1: that would be like for I just think about the
32:39
Speaker 1: families at this point, and it's just like I just
32:43
Speaker 1: can't imagine. But basically it was it was an inadvertent
32:46
Speaker 1: cry for help that went unheard in time, and at
32:49
Speaker 1: around five point forty five PM, Lindsay was almost deceased
32:54
Speaker 1: or deceased and she would be laying in the master
32:56
Speaker 1: bedroom of that home. So the unknown man and woman
32:59
Speaker 1: had executed their sick, disgusting plan. But at that same moment,
33:04
Speaker 1: headlights swept into Desusa Place and Jason and Cohen arrived
33:08
Speaker 1: at the address, later then expected, but finally there. And
33:12
Speaker 1: as they pulled up in front of seventeen oh two,
33:15
Speaker 1: Jason saw something odd through the decorative glass at the
33:18
Speaker 1: front door, and he glimpsed a shadowy figure moving in
33:21
Speaker 1: the entrance foyer, and then a person quickly receding from
33:25
Speaker 1: view deeper into the house as the range rovers headlights
33:28
Speaker 1: illuminated the front window, so it looked like someone was
33:31
Speaker 1: peeking out and then treated and Jason assumed this was
33:35
Speaker 1: just part of the showing, that maybe Lindsay and the
33:37
Speaker 1: clients were walking around inside and just not wanting to
33:41
Speaker 1: interrupt or seem like an overly nosy boyfriend, he decided
33:45
Speaker 1: not to barge in, and Lindsay had allegedly asked for
33:49
Speaker 1: him not to interfere with the showing by making his
33:51
Speaker 1: presence known, and instead Jason chose to park down the
33:55
Speaker 1: street for a few minutes to give the showing a
33:58
Speaker 1: little bit more time, and he told con that it
34:00
Speaker 1: looked like the appointment was still going on, so they
34:03
Speaker 1: should just wait. So Jason would drive a short distance away,
34:07
Speaker 1: then circle back a couple of minutes later, and by
34:10
Speaker 1: now it was close to five point fifty five to
34:12
Speaker 1: six pm, and he parked in front of the house again,
34:16
Speaker 1: but no sign of anyone was through the windows now,
34:19
Speaker 1: and that's when Jason sent a text to Lindsay's phone
34:21
Speaker 1: saying are you okay? But there was no response, and
34:24
Speaker 1: he tried then calling hersel but then there was no answer,
34:28
Speaker 1: and now Jason started to worry, but he naturally assumed
34:32
Speaker 1: maybe they were just talking inside, maybe she was still
34:36
Speaker 1: doing the showing, and maybe it was just going really well,
34:38
Speaker 1: and that they had more questions. But obviously, as we know,
34:41
Speaker 1: that wasn't the case. And ten more minutes passed in silence,
34:45
Speaker 1: and the house from the outside looked dark and very still,
34:49
Speaker 1: And at around six h five pm, approximately twenty minutes
34:52
Speaker 1: after the first arrival, Jason's concerned reached a tipping point
34:57
Speaker 1: because Lindsay still had not replied or emerged, and Jason
35:00
Speaker 1: decided to take action, so, pulling up the driveway with Cohen,
35:04
Speaker 1: he got out and went straight to the front door
35:07
Speaker 1: of seventeen oh two Desusa, and to his alarm, it
35:10
Speaker 1: was locked, so he repeatedly knocked and rang the doorbell,
35:14
Speaker 1: but it yielded no answers. So Jason would peer through
35:17
Speaker 1: the frosted glass insert and saw a very disturbing sight,
35:21
Speaker 1: and that was Lindsay's shoes that were laying in the
35:25
Speaker 1: entryway inside, so she clearly had taken them off upon entering,
35:29
Speaker 1: which meant she was likely still inside. But why wasn't
35:32
Speaker 1: she coming to the door.
35:34
Speaker 2: Was she hurt?
35:35
Speaker 1: Did something happen so with a surge of panic, Jason
35:39
Speaker 1: pulled out his phone and dialed nine one pint one.
35:41
Speaker 1: So it was now six oh five pm and when
35:43
Speaker 1: he told the emergency operator that he was at a
35:46
Speaker 1: house where his girlfriend was showing a home and he
35:48
Speaker 1: couldn't get in, and he was worried that something may
35:51
Speaker 1: have happened to her, and he emphasized that he had
35:53
Speaker 1: come to check on her because she had quote been
35:56
Speaker 1: kind of scared about this showing. And as he was
35:59
Speaker 1: on the Cohen was searching the perimeter of the house
36:03
Speaker 1: for another way in, and he found a gate to
36:05
Speaker 1: the backyard, but it was secured, but Cohen managed to
36:09
Speaker 1: spot something important because through the fence slats he could
36:12
Speaker 1: see that the backpatio's French 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
36:26
Speaker 1: gaping open behind them and likely slipped through a gap
36:30
Speaker 1: in the backyard.
36:30
Speaker 2: Fence out to that main road.
36:32
Speaker 1: So seeing that open door, Jason hung up with nine
36:34
Speaker 1: point one mid call after providing the address and sprang
36:38
Speaker 1: into action and he ran to boost Cohen over the
36:40
Speaker 1: backyard fence, and Cohen dropped into the yard and dashed
36:43
Speaker 1: through the open French doors into the house, and he
36:46
Speaker 1: immediately unlocked the front door from the inside, allowing Jason
36:49
Speaker 1: to rush in behind him, and the two men split
36:52
Speaker 1: up in the foyer and Cohen took the main floor
36:55
Speaker 1: and Jason took the second, And as Jason was running
36:58
Speaker 1: up the staircase, he was yet selling Lindsay. Lindsay into
37:02
Speaker 1: the silence, and as he neared the top of the stairs,
37:05
Speaker 1: a nightmare materialized and he could see Lindsay's body slumped
37:10
Speaker 1: onto the floor in the master bedroom, and he also
37:13
Speaker 1: saw 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
39:16
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,
39:31
Speaker 1: the investigation into Lindsay Buziak's murder was launched. And this
39:35
Speaker 1: was an investigation that would grow into one of the
39:38
Speaker 1: most perplexing and high profile unsolved cases in Canadian crime history.
39:43
Speaker 1: So Savage police quickly secured the Desusa Place property as
39:46
Speaker 1: a crime scene. But from the outset investigators faced a
39:50
Speaker 1: major challenge, and that was that the scene had been
39:52
Speaker 1: compromised by the frantic rescue effort, and in their desperation
39:56
Speaker 1: defined and help Lindsay, Jason and Cohen had necessarily trampled
40:00
Speaker 1: through the house inadvertently contaminating evidence, which I mean, you
40:05
Speaker 1: can't blame them. I mean they were trying to look
40:07
Speaker 1: for her and then trying to help save her.
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Speaker 2: I just feel so bad.
40:10
Speaker 1: But within hours the Santich Police Department's Major Crime Unit
40:13
Speaker 1: took charge of the case and they realized they were
40:16
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
40:22
Speaker 1: following days, but they would find it no usable DNA
40:25
Speaker 1: or fingerprints from the perpetrators, and they assumed that the
40:29
Speaker 1: assailants had likely worn gloves and perhaps protective clothing or
40:32
Speaker 1: shoecovers that they took with them. So this was clearly
40:36
Speaker 1: an extremely calculated murder, and the murder weapon, presumed to
40:40
Speaker 1: be a sharp edged knife, was not found at the
40:43
Speaker 1: scene either, and the only clue was the bloody shoeprints
40:47
Speaker 1: tracked along the floor, but even these were limited and
40:50
Speaker 1: the specific shoebrand or size was not released publicly, suggesting
40:54
Speaker 1: it might not have even been distinctive enough to trace conclusively,
40:57
Speaker 1: and the absence of defensive wounds on Lindsay. The sheer
41:00
Speaker 1: ferocity of the told investigators that this was a targeted execution,
41:05
Speaker 1: not a robbery gone wrong, and how would it even
41:08
Speaker 1: be a robbery. This was a vacant home, so the
41:10
Speaker 1: only conclusion could be that this was a calculated attack,
41:14
Speaker 1: a murder in the first degree, and outside the house,
41:17
Speaker 1: potential witness information was minimal because neighbors only saw the
41:21
Speaker 1: well dressed couple arriving, not leaving, and no one recalled
41:25
Speaker 1: hearing screams or loud noises, implying Lindsay may have been
41:28
Speaker 1: attacked so suddenly that she couldn't even cry over help,
41:32
Speaker 1: and that's assuming people were in close enough proximity to
41:34
Speaker 1: hear screams anyway, but investigators were intrigued by the victim's
41:38
Speaker 1: last known communications because the pocket dial voicemail Lindsay's phone
41:43
Speaker 1: made during the attack was recovered but yielded little beyond
41:47
Speaker 1: muffled background noise, and the final text message from Jason
41:50
Speaker 1: to Lindsay was are you okay? And it remained unread
41:53
Speaker 1: on her phone, and police also quickly traced the cell
41:56
Speaker 1: phone that had lured Lindsay, and it was, as suspected,
41:59
Speaker 1: a burner phone registered under a bogus name which was
42:03
Speaker 1: Paolo Rodriguez and a fake business address in Vancouver, and
42:07
Speaker 1: records showed it had been purchased three months earlier in
42:10
Speaker 1: Vancouver and activated just the day before the murder, and
42:14
Speaker 1: it made calls exclusively to Lindsay and was powered off
42:18
Speaker 1: permanently soon after she was killed, so authorities believed that
42:21
Speaker 1: the phone was used only for planning and executing this crime,
42:25
Speaker 1: then disposed of just a hallmark of organized, premeditated murder,
42:30
Speaker 1: and it even pinged off a cell phone tower near
42:33
Speaker 1: the murder house the night before, suggesting the suspects did
42:36
Speaker 1: a dry run or surveillance of the area in advance.
42:40
Speaker 1: It's just sickening, horrifying, chilling, sickening. It's all just a
42:46
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
42:57
Speaker 1: exactly what they were doing, likely had done it many
43:01
Speaker 1: times before, because the degree of planning just indicated an
43:04
Speaker 1: experienced hand using an untraceable phone, choosing an empty house,
43:09
Speaker 1: a new build, and minimizing forensic traces. Yet paradoxically, the
43:15
Speaker 1: overkill violence was very emotional and amateurish in its frenzy.
43:21
Speaker 1: So you have this very calculated, planned murder, and then
43:25
Speaker 1: the murder itself felt like a rabid attack of emotion,
43:31
Speaker 1: like it wasn't thought of, It just just happened out
43:34
Speaker 1: of nowhere. It just didn't fit the profile of a dispassionate,
43:37
Speaker 1: professional hit. So this contradiction just puzzled police because the
43:42
Speaker 1: murder had both highly professional elements and intensely personal ferocity.
43:46
Speaker 1: So within the first day police had to consider a
43:49
Speaker 1: difficult reality. The two suspects seen by witnesses had essentially
43:53
Speaker 1: vanished into thin air at this point, and they left
43:56
Speaker 1: virtually no trace of their identities inside the house.
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Speaker 2: No one saw a.
44:00
Speaker 1: Getaway vehicle, so the only thing known was how they
44:03
Speaker 1: looked and that one had possibly a fake accent. So
44:07
Speaker 1: the composite sketch of the female suspect was developed from
44:10
Speaker 1: witness descriptions and released to the public a year later
44:13
Speaker 1: in two thousand and nine, and it depicted a Caucasian
44:16
Speaker 1: woman in her mid thirties with short, stylish blonde hair
44:20
Speaker 1: and a calm expression and alongside. Police described the male
44:23
Speaker 1: suspect as Caucasian, about six foot with dark hair, wearing
44:27
Speaker 1: a brown jacket, and the woman's dress was also highlighted,
44:30
Speaker 1: a black, white and red patterned dress that was very
44:33
Speaker 1: distinctive and for investigators it was as if the suspects
44:37
Speaker 1: had worn a mask and then disappeared into a crowd, though,
44:41
Speaker 1: and they had to start considering who could have orchestrated
44:44
Speaker 1: such a plot and why Lindsay was the target. So
44:48
Speaker 1: the Santich Police threw themselves fully into the hunt for
44:51
Speaker 1: Lindsay's killers, and the department was not large, and a
44:55
Speaker 1: murder of this complexity was a major undertaking, and at
44:58
Speaker 1: least five full time investigators were assigned to the case,
45:02
Speaker 1: and they conducted exhaustive interviews with everyone in Lindsay's life,
45:06
Speaker 1: including family, friends, colleagues, past clients, ex boyfriends, rivals, anyone
45:11
Speaker 1: who might shed light. And within the first year after
45:14
Speaker 1: the murder, police had conducted nearly fifteen hundred interviews and
45:18
Speaker 1: received seven hundred and fifty two tips and executed thirty
45:22
Speaker 1: search warrants. So this was an enormous volume of investigative work,
45:27
Speaker 1: reflecting just how many angles they were exploring for this case,
45:30
Speaker 1: and the Major Crime Unit, led by Inspector Rob McCall,
45:33
Speaker 1: coordinated the efforts and Detective Sergeant Chris Horsley became the
45:37
Speaker 1: public face of the case, often appealing for information and
45:41
Speaker 1: addressing rumors, and early on the SPD acknowledged they were
45:45
Speaker 1: dealing with an exceptionally challenging case and in a rare statement,
45:49
Speaker 1: a spokesperson called it a crime of quote unquote, extraordinary complexity,
45:54
Speaker 1: involving individuals who were experienced and quote unquote had no
45:58
Speaker 1: regard for human life, and leads were pursued not just
46:02
Speaker 1: in Victoria but across provincial lines. Recognizing the possible wider
46:06
Speaker 1: connections such as ties to Calgary or Vancouver criminal groups,
46:11
Speaker 1: and Santisch police welcomed help from outside agencies as well,
46:14
Speaker 1: and the RCMP the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were brought
46:18
Speaker 1: in to provide oversight and specialized resources, and the case
46:22
Speaker 1: was also significant enough that the FBI agents from the
46:25
Speaker 1: United States were later consulted, particularly when it came to
46:28
Speaker 1: the new technology and behavioral analysis, and over the years
46:32
Speaker 1: the investigation grew to staggering proportions and by twenty twenty,
46:37
Speaker 1: santis police said they had over two thousand persons of
46:41
Speaker 1: interest or entities logged in the case file, and they
46:44
Speaker 1: had obtained an excess of thirty five court warrants and
46:47
Speaker 1: production orders targeting cell phone companies, internet providers, and even
46:51
Speaker 1: social media like Facebook to pull data relevant to the crime.
46:55
Speaker 1: But the sheer volume of the information was immense, requiring
46:59
Speaker 1: meticulous or organization and analysis. But detectives were determined to
47:03
Speaker 1: not let a single clue slip through the cracks, and
47:06
Speaker 1: they would also examine cell tower pins and advanced techniques
47:10
Speaker 1: like DNA analysis were repeatedly applied to what few samples
47:13
Speaker 1: they had, though initially none yielded a suspect profile, and
47:17
Speaker 1: the house had been professionally cleaned just before the showing
47:20
Speaker 1: as it was a newly staged house, so there was
47:24
Speaker 1: little trace of evidence in the environment to start with.
47:27
Speaker 1: So from day one, investigators and armchair detectives alike grappled
47:31
Speaker 1: with the burning question who ordered the murder of Lindsay.
47:36
Speaker 2: Bouziak and why?
47:38
Speaker 1: And over the years several theories emerged, some pursued by police,
47:42
Speaker 1: others fueled by Internet speculation, but we'll explore the main
47:46
Speaker 1: ones here, noting what evidence, if any supports them, and
47:51
Speaker 1: how authorities have responded. So, first, we have Jason, Lindsay's boyfriend. Naturally,
47:57
Speaker 1: he would be the first suspect, the first person that
48:00
Speaker 1: police would scrutinize, because in most homicide investigations you start
48:05
Speaker 1: with the inner circle, or those closest to the victim,
48:08
Speaker 1: and Jason was right at the center. He was the
48:10
Speaker 1: one who found her body, and that often raises suspicion. Obviously,
48:15
Speaker 1: so could Jason have been involved in setting up Lindsay
48:18
Speaker 1: and motive wise, the relationship had known troubles. As we know,
48:22
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
48:30
Speaker 1: have arranged to eliminate Lindsay if he couldn't bear to
48:33
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,
48:38
Speaker 1: because people love to suspect the rich boyfriend in a
48:41
Speaker 1: true crime story.
48:43
Speaker 2: However, police have.
48:44
Speaker 1: Repeatedly stated that Jason Zelo is not a suspect, and
48:48
Speaker 1: that's because Jason's actions and alibi on the day the
48:50
Speaker 1: murder largely completely check out because after lunch he was
48:54
Speaker 1: indeed seen on surveillance video at the auto shop at
48:57
Speaker 1: around five thirty pm, leaving with co in his range Rover,
49:01
Speaker 1: and the timing on the CCTV proves he was not
49:04
Speaker 1: at the murder scene when Lindsay was killed, because she
49:06
Speaker 1: was likely being killed at five point forty five forty
49:09
Speaker 1: one pm and it would have been difficult to make
49:12
Speaker 1: it there and pull it off in that time, and
49:15
Speaker 1: by difficult I mean quite literally impossible. And additionally, Jason
49:18
Speaker 1: voluntarily underwent a polygraph test and passed it convincingly according
49:23
Speaker 1: to police, and he handed over his phone and even
49:25
Speaker 1: participated in a detailed re enactment video with investigators walking
49:30
Speaker 1: through his discovery of Lindsay's body on camera to aid
49:33
Speaker 1: the investigation. Basically, he had no hesitation to volunteer any
49:37
Speaker 1: help to the police. He was extremely forthcoming throughout the
49:41
Speaker 1: entire investigation, and investigators found no forensic or digital evidence
49:44
Speaker 1: tying Jason to any part of the murder planning, and
49:47
Speaker 1: a cell phone records, for example, showed genuine attempts to
49:50
Speaker 1: find her and not any coordination with unknown parties. And
49:54
Speaker 1: about a year after the murder, in early two thousand
49:56
Speaker 1: and nine, Santich police formally cleared Jason of any so
50:00
Speaker 1: of involvement, and they noted publicly, quote we've never said
50:04
Speaker 1: Zelo was a suspect. He was a person of interest,
50:08
Speaker 1: as would anybody found at the scene, but he's been
50:10
Speaker 1: ruled out, unquote. But despite this, Jason endured intense public
50:14
Speaker 1: suspicion for years, and Lindsay's father, Jeff, openly suggested Jason
50:19
Speaker 1: might know more than he let on, largely because Jeff
50:22
Speaker 1: felt Jason didn't show enough grief and because of Jason's
50:26
Speaker 1: family connections. But Jason has always maintained his innocence, saying,
50:30
Speaker 1: quote unquote, I want.
50:31
Speaker 2: People to know that I love Lindsay and I think
50:36
Speaker 2: about every day. I want this case solved as fast
50:42
Speaker 2: as possible. I had nothing to do with it.
50:44
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
50:51
Speaker 1: him once he knew that the killers had fled, and
50:54
Speaker 1: he felt valuable time was being lost focusing on him initially,
50:58
Speaker 1: but from the police perspective, that was a necessary step,
51:01
Speaker 1: and once done, they moved on and zero evidence has
51:04
Speaker 1: ever surfaced implicating Jason, and law enforcement and even Lindsay's
51:08
Speaker 1: own mother have accepted that Jason was not involved, and
51:11
Speaker 1: while quote unquote the boyfriend did it is a common trope,
51:15
Speaker 1: this case appears to be the exception, and Jason's role
51:18
Speaker 1: was tragically just that of an unlucky witness who found
51:21
Speaker 1: the woman he loved in her final state. So, if
51:25
Speaker 1: not Jason, what about someone else in the family, and
51:29
Speaker 1: online sleuths turned their gaze to Shirley, Jason's mother. Shirley
51:33
Speaker 1: was a successful realtor and a formidable personality by many accounts,
51:38
Speaker 1: and true crime forms have swirled with the speculation that
51:41
Speaker 1: Shirley could have orchestrated a hit on Lindsay out of
51:44
Speaker 1: some dark motive, perhaps anger if Lindsay was planning to
51:47
Speaker 1: leave Jason, or other personal conflicts. And it didn't help
51:51
Speaker 1: that Shirley was directly connected to key elements of the scenario,
51:55
Speaker 1: like we talked about before. She was present when Lindsay
51:58
Speaker 1: discussed the showing details and the address, and the builder
52:00
Speaker 1: of the murder house, Joe Desusa, was Shirley's friend, and
52:04
Speaker 1: some theorists pose the question that if surely were involved,
52:08
Speaker 1: that might explain how the killers knew Lindsay's schedule and
52:11
Speaker 1: chose that specific house. However, police have never named Shirley
52:16
Speaker 1: as a suspect even and they have explicitly said that
52:19
Speaker 1: no member of the Selo family is under any sort
52:21
Speaker 1: of suspicion, and Shirley provided in alibi for the time
52:25
Speaker 1: of the murder. She was actually out at dinner by
52:27
Speaker 1: some reports, and cooperated with police interviews, and Lindsay's mother, Evelyn,
52:32
Speaker 1: publicly stated she does not believe Shirley had anything to
52:35
Speaker 1: do with it, calling the notion an unfounded rumor, and
52:38
Speaker 1: over the year, Shirley largely just stayed quiet about the
52:42
Speaker 1: rumors that have swirled. But by twenty twenty two, she'd
52:45
Speaker 1: had enough, and that year Shirley filed a defamation lawsuit
52:49
Speaker 1: against Jeff Booziak, which is Lindsay's father, and two administrators
52:53
Speaker 1: of his website, accusing them of maliciously spreading false accusations
52:57
Speaker 1: that she was the murderer. In other words, Shirley took
53:00
Speaker 1: the extraordinary step of suing the victim's father to clear
53:05
Speaker 1: her name, and this underscores how deeply the unproven allegations
53:10
Speaker 1: had hurt her family. And the case is still ongoing
53:13
Speaker 1: and has not been resolved in court. But Shirley's position
53:17
Speaker 1: is clear, and she and her family have been unjustly
53:21
Speaker 1: vilified with zero evidence. And in interviews with Capital Daily,
53:26
Speaker 1: the Zalo's expressed that they felt like quote went through
53:29
Speaker 1: a bad part of life unquote, being targets of these
53:32
Speaker 1: accusations and all that said, police did investigate the Zalo
53:36
Speaker 1: family thoroughly, and they looked into the Shirley's finances, her
53:40
Speaker 1: business ties, and any possible link to Burner Phone or
53:43
Speaker 1: people behind it, but nothing incriminating was ever found. And
53:47
Speaker 1: the fact that Shirley heard part of the phone call
53:49
Speaker 1: appears to have just been coincidence, which I mean, I
53:53
Speaker 1: don't think that's hard to believe. And she was Jason's
53:56
Speaker 1: mom and it was known to often drop by, and
53:59
Speaker 1: Lindsay wasn't her client's communications. And while it's indeed eerie
54:03
Speaker 1: that the killer's house was built by Shirley's acquaintance, Joe Desusa,
54:09
Speaker 1: police have never indicated Joe or Shirley were involved beyond
54:13
Speaker 1: that weird coincidence. So aside from internet suspicion, the case
54:17
Speaker 1: against Shirley is unsupported by hard evidence, and police cleared her,
54:20
Speaker 1: as well as Jason's brother and anyone else in their orbit,
54:23
Speaker 1: and that was fairly early on. So the Zelo's in
54:26
Speaker 1: truth suffered not only the loss of someone they cared
54:29
Speaker 1: about and they insist that they deeply cared about Lindsay,
54:32
Speaker 1: but also damage to their reputation due to rampant speculation.
54:36
Speaker 1: But I also just can't help but feel horrible for
54:39
Speaker 1: Lindsay's family and them just wanting the truth, especially her father.
54:43
Speaker 1: But I mean, that doesn't excuse, you know, defaming someone,
54:47
Speaker 1: but I think just wanting to know answers. I just
54:50
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine how that feels. So I feel
54:52
Speaker 1: for both the families. But one of the most intriguing
54:55
Speaker 1: and initially compelling theories had nothing to do with Lindsay's
54:59
Speaker 1: boyfriend or family at all, and instead it centered on
55:02
Speaker 1: something Lindsay supposedly saw that she shouldn't have moment. So
55:07
Speaker 1: in late two thousand and seven, about two months before
55:10
Speaker 1: her death, Lindsay took an impromptu weekend trip from Victoria
55:14
Speaker 1: to Calgary and Calgary's in Alberta, which is the province
55:18
Speaker 1: right next to British Columbia, and this was to visit
55:20
Speaker 1: her father and old friends, and during this visit she
55:24
Speaker 1: met up briefly with some acquaintances from her past, including
55:28
Speaker 1: reportedly the father of her ex boyfriend. And around that time,
55:32
Speaker 1: a massive drug bust was unfolding in Calgary, and on
55:35
Speaker 1: January two, two thousand and eight, police executed Operation High Noon,
55:39
Speaker 1: seizing over eighty kilograms of cain worth eight million dollars
55:44
Speaker 1: and arresting several high level traffickers, and it was billed
55:48
Speaker 1: as the largest cane bust in Alberta's history. And in
55:52
Speaker 1: a startling coincidence, one of the people caught in the
55:55
Speaker 1: bust had a connection to Lindsay's circle, and that was
55:58
Speaker 1: Erikson de lalcazartance of Lindsay's from Victoria, and he was
56:02
Speaker 1: arrested as a major player in the Calgary drug ring.
56:05
Speaker 1: And this led to rampant speculation that perhaps Lindsay during
56:09
Speaker 1: her Calgary trip, learned something about the operation, maybe overhearing
56:13
Speaker 1: a conversation or sealing a deal, and the cartel or
56:17
Speaker 1: gang involved decided to silence her, believing she maybe would
56:21
Speaker 1: snitch to police. And it is an extremely dramatic theory.
56:25
Speaker 1: The revenge of cartel carried out by contract killers posing
56:29
Speaker 1: his clients, and police have largely debunked this motive because,
56:33
Speaker 1: first of all, they found no evidence Lindsay was an
56:35
Speaker 1: informant or had any role in the Calgary bust, and
56:38
Speaker 1: Calgary Police themselves confirmed Lindsay wasn't on their radar at all,
56:43
Speaker 1: and Lindsay was known to be firmly anti drug as
56:46
Speaker 1: we know, and multiple friends said she never used and
56:49
Speaker 1: didn't endorse that lifestyle, and if she stumbled on criminal info,
56:53
Speaker 1: one would think she might have told a friend or
56:55
Speaker 1: her father, but she didn't, and Jefford later claimed that
56:58
Speaker 1: Lindsay hinted she saw something bad, but no proof of
57:01
Speaker 1: what that was ever emerged, and police also point out
57:04
Speaker 1: that the nature of Lindsay's murderer doesn't fit a professional
57:07
Speaker 1: cartel hit because cartel's, if retaliating against informants, tend to
57:11
Speaker 1: execute in a cleaner way as shooting, for example, and
57:16
Speaker 1: often the bodies are left as a warning. But Lindsay's
57:19
Speaker 1: murder was frenzied and deeply personal, which is not typical
57:24
Speaker 1: of a hired hitman job. However, there are some unresolved
57:27
Speaker 1: curiosities that keep this theory on the table, and investigators
57:31
Speaker 1: confirmed that after returning from Calgary, Lindsay looked up the
57:34
Speaker 1: Facebook profile of a relative of someone arrested in the
57:37
Speaker 1: drug bust and even tried calling that person.
57:39
Speaker 2: Quote.
57:40
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,
57:50
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,
57:56
Speaker 1: like what's going on and if they got busted, and
57:58
Speaker 1: then calling to see if they did.
58:00
Speaker 2: I don't know.
58:01
Speaker 1: I just don't think it's out of the realm of
58:03
Speaker 1: possibility that she was just calling as a very concerned,
58:06
Speaker 1: warm person that she is. And crucially, the key players
58:09
Speaker 1: in the ring were already arrested by the time Lindsay
58:12
Speaker 1: was killed, so it's not as if the cartel was
58:15
Speaker 1: still at large fearing exposure or anything. And in the end,
58:19
Speaker 1: while the Calgary connection may be alluring and was also
58:23
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
58:33
Speaker 1: cartel or loo gang, and the timing and method just
58:36
Speaker 1: didn't align. So with the most obvious suspects and scenarios
58:40
Speaker 1: ruled out, the investigation turned to more complex possibilities, and
58:45
Speaker 1: one such angle was that someone within the real estate
58:47
Speaker 1: industry or closely acquainted with Lindsay's work set her up,
58:51
Speaker 1: and this theory suggests an inside job element, perhaps some
58:55
Speaker 1: agent at her job could access her schedule. Notably, the
58:58
Speaker 1: killer's knew Lindsay would be alone at the house at
59:01
Speaker 1: the exact time, which hints that they had inside information
59:05
Speaker 1: on her appointments. And police did look at colleagues and
59:08
Speaker 1: even past clients, and there was gossip about disgruntled client
59:11
Speaker 1: or a jealous competitor, but nothing concrete materialized publicly. However,
59:16
Speaker 1: it was later uncovered that early in the case police
59:19
Speaker 1: suspected certain violent individuals on Lindsay's Facebook friend list might
59:24
Speaker 1: have been involved, and Lindsay, by all accounts, was a
59:27
Speaker 1: friendly person who had over one hundred Facebook friends, including
59:31
Speaker 1: some people with criminal backgrounds. And Victoria's social scene is
59:34
Speaker 1: such that you could know someone who knows someone basically
59:38
Speaker 1: kind of think it's very tight knit so detectives initially
59:42
Speaker 1: thought perhaps one of those contacts with a shady past
59:45
Speaker 1: could have orchestrated the murder, and this line of inquiry
59:47
Speaker 1: appears to have dovetailed with both the drug theory and
59:50
Speaker 1: general suspicion of anyone in her orbit with criminal ties,
59:54
Speaker 1: but again, no definitive evidence ever came from it, and
59:57
Speaker 1: another theory considered whether organized crime and beyond the gangle
1:00:01
Speaker 1: might be involved, such as money laundering in real estate
1:00:05
Speaker 1: or someone Lindsay inadvertently offended in a property deal, and
1:00:09
Speaker 1: Santich police have said publicly to date they found no
1:00:12
Speaker 1: link between Lindsay's legitimate real estate work and her murder,
1:00:15
Speaker 1: beyond the RUSS used to lure her. In other words,
1:00:19
Speaker 1: it wasn't a case of a deal gone bad or
1:00:22
Speaker 1: client seeking revenge. The real estate viewing was just a
1:00:25
Speaker 1: convenient trap, and over time investigators formed their own theory
1:00:29
Speaker 1: that aligns with the evidence, and that is that Lindsay's
1:00:33
Speaker 1: murder was a personal vendetta by someone or multiple people
1:00:37
Speaker 1: close to her. As one summary put it, quote unquote,
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Speaker 1: the investigators believe a booziax murder was very personal and
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Speaker 1: planned by someone close to her, perhaps someone with access
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Speaker 1: to inside information from her office. So this just points
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Speaker 1: to a scenario where someone in Lindsay's social circle held
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Speaker 1: a grudge or motive to harm her, and not necessarily
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Speaker 1: a best friend, but maybe a of a friend or acquaintance,
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Speaker 1: and they might have leveraged others like the couple to
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Speaker 1: do the dirty work keeping their own hands clean, and
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Speaker 1: it could explain the rage in the killing and personal
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Speaker 1: motive combined with the cunning plan. But to this day
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Speaker 1: police have not publicly named any such individual, and it
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Speaker 1: seems likely the conspiracy involved more than just the man
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Speaker 1: and woman Lindsay met, perhaps insiders who provided information or
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Speaker 1: had the motive, and outsiders who carried it out. So
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Speaker 1: the enduring mystery is identifying all these players and proving
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Speaker 1: their roles. So to summarize this consensus, Lindsay Boozia's murder
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Speaker 1: was a targeted killing, meticulously planned by one or more
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Speaker 1: people who knew her personally or peripherally, and it was
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Speaker 1: not random, not a burglary, not a crime of passion
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Speaker 1: in the moment, but a premeditated assassination of a young
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Speaker 1: woman for reasons that may stem from personal hatred, betrayal,
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Speaker 1: or perceived threat, and over fifteen years later, we are
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Speaker 1: closer to understanding the how of the crime than why
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Speaker 1: the full truth remains locked behind lips that so far
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Speaker 1: have refused to speak. And from two thousand and eight
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Speaker 1: through to today, Jeff, Lindsay's father, organizes an annual walk,
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Speaker 1: a Walk for Justice in Lindsay's memory, every February second,
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Speaker 1: which is the anniversary of her death and come rain
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Speaker 1: or shine, Jeff leads supporters through the streets holding banners
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Speaker 1: and signs with Lindsay's photo and please for information. And
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Speaker 1: these walks have grown to attract dozens, sometimes over one
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Speaker 1: hundred people, all marching to remind the community that a
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Speaker 1: killer or killers still walk free quote unquote until there
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Speaker 1: are rest made, I will continue walking, Jeff bowed, and
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Speaker 1: as of twenty twenty five, he has kept that promise
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Speaker 1: for seventeen consecutive years, and the walk usually starts at
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Speaker 1: Sanwich Municipal Hall and ends at the BC Legislator, symbolically
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Speaker 1: taking the call for justice to the authority stoorstep and
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Speaker 1: Jeff also harnessed the power of the Internet early on,
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Speaker 1: and he created a website, Lindsaybooziak murder dot com intended
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Speaker 1: as both a memorial and a hub for tips and discussion,
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Speaker 1: and that site became a double edged sword because on
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Speaker 1: one hand, it provided an avenue for members of the
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Speaker 1: public to submit information anonymously and for Jeff to publish
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Speaker 1: his thoughts and any updates or theories he endorsed, But
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Speaker 1: on the other hand, it also became a hotbed of speculation,
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Speaker 1: hosting wild theories and at least one malicious fake confession
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Speaker 1: as well. And Jeff moderated the site with help from
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Speaker 1: volunteer administrators, but there were times when emotions ran high
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Speaker 1: intofamatory content was posted. But despite these controversies, the site
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Speaker 1: undeniably kept Lindsay's case in public consciousness and in media appearances.
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Speaker 1: Jeff has been candid and relentless, and he's given countless
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Speaker 1: interviews to local and national outlets, and perhaps most famously,
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Speaker 1: appeared on Doctor Phill's television show in an episode aired
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Speaker 1: on May twenty nineteen, to talk about Lindsay's case and
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Speaker 1: plead for tips. During these interviews, Jeff became increasingly vocal
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Speaker 1: that he felt the police investigation was incompetent and corrupt,
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Speaker 1: and he's even floated theories of police cover ups and
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Speaker 1: high level interference, though without any part evidence, and that's
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Speaker 1: when the suing from Shirley came and the detectives asked
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Speaker 1: him to stop publicly defaming them as well. So it's
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Speaker 1: just been a whirlwind of accusations. Yet despite any interpersonal dramas,
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Speaker 1: all agree on the core point, and that is that
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Speaker 1: Lindsay deserves justice, and as of early twenty twenty five,
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Speaker 1: no arrests have been made and no charges filed. However,
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Speaker 1: law enforcement appears more confident than ever in the direction
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Speaker 1: of the case, and SPD officials have hinted that they
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Speaker 1: quote unquote have an inside track on who it was,
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Speaker 1: but are waiting for the final puzzle piece. So this
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Speaker 1: suggests that investigation is in the phase of building a
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Speaker 1: prosecutable case, gathering hard evidence like DNA, corroborating witness testimonies,
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Speaker 1: or perhaps hoping someone from the conspirator's circle flips. But
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Speaker 1: one challenge the case status faces with each passing year
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Speaker 1: is the statute of limitations on public attention because memories fade,
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Speaker 1: witnesses get harder to track down, and physical evidence can degrade.
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Speaker 1: But the silver lining is there is no statute of
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Speaker 1: limitations on murder in Canada, thank goodness, and the case
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Speaker 1: can remain open indefinitely until solved and the police seem
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Speaker 1: determined to see it through. But that is the case
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Speaker 1: of Lindsay Bouziek. If for whatever reason, you have any
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Speaker 1: information at all on this case, I highly suggest you
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Speaker 1: call the Santich Police Department. And again my heart goes
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Speaker 1: out to the families involved. If you have any other
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Speaker 1: cases you want me to deep dive into and to
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Speaker 1: let you guys know about, let me know in the
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Speaker 1: comments below and I will see your beautiful face.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Bye,