Lindsay Buziak

All witnesses purchase of interest, and suspects are considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Warning. This episode contains graphic crime scene detail and may be sensitive for some listeners. Welcome to Primetime Crime. I'm your host, Kylie. Let's talk right now in true crime, and then together we are going to work on warming up some cold cases. Let's go. Hey, guys, welcome to another episode of Primetime Crime. It's Kylie. We are going to dive in to right now in true crime, which is again going to be a bit of a trial update, and there's a couple other things I'm going to touch on, but right now in True crime, So they have found Rachel Moren's murderer guilty and he will be sentenced somewhere in the next sixty to ninety days. And all I can say is hallelujah. Her case I covered initially shortly after it happened, and I said when I covered it that it was very solvable because they had DNA of who this person was, and this person had also committed another crime in another state. But it was going on far too long in my opinion, and this person could have gotten away with this. Thank God he didn't. Thank God he was found arrested. He has now been found guilty and he will hopefully be spending the rest of his life in prison, and we'll never see the light of day again, as he should not. We are very very grateful the justice system got it right with this one, and hopefully that will help give her family a little bit of peace and knowing that this horrific human that took Rachel's life will never hurt anyone else, all right. Next thing up is they have officially seated a jury for the Karen Reid trial. It is a new trial. They were having a really difficult time getting a jury for this one, but they finally did. They narrowed it down to nine men and nine women. Very even keeled, Karen says she feels good about it. She's ready to go. Openings are set to start on Tuesday, and this one is going to be interesting. I don't know which way things are going to go. And again they're looking for a jury that doesn't really have any familiarity with the Karen Reid case for the murder of John O'Keeffe. I feel like John O'Keeffe has really gotten lost in the frenzy of it all, and I feel bad about that because it is, at the end of the day, about John, but it has become such a media circus surrounding Karen and her innocence or her guilt, whatever way you may believe. But it's just been really tragic because somebody did lose their lives and it was lost in a potentially horrific way. Whatever happened, he deserves justice and if Karen Reid is innocent, I do believe that she is innocent personally, just my belief. I think that this whole thing has taken such a horrific turn, and whoever is responsible, whether or not it was an accident or this huge cover up, just needs to fess up because this has gone on far, far, far too long. It has turned way more into this huge conspiracy than anything else, and that's really sad for John and his family and his friends. So it is going to be interesting to kind of see all of this stuff play out and see what ends up happening in this next trial. And I am going to be sure to keep you guys updated on all of the Karen Reid John O'Keefe trial happenings. So here is an interesting update on a missing girl that disappeared in nineteen eighty three in Santa Fe, Texas. Her name is Sondra Ramber and she disappeared from Santa Fe, Texas. Like I said in nineteen eighty three, she was fourteen years old, and this past week there was some action going on at the property address that Sondra and her father used to live at. Now. The home that is on the property now is not the home that was there when Sondra went missing, but the garage of the home had been intact since nineteen eighty three, and they were basically looking underneath, in the cement and everything of what was underneath the garage to see if they could find this girl's remains, because for whatever reason, a tip led them back to that property to search it. Now. Sondra went missing, like I said, in nineteen eighty three, and her dad reported her missing the next day. But she was fourteen years old when she went missing, and she was at home. She was baking at the time of her disappearance. Her dad came home to find biscuits in the oven, but there was no sign of Sondra, so he thought, well, maybe she ran out to get something. From the store, but she didn't take anything with her, and she was fourteen years old, so again not really something that you think a fourteen year old girl would do, would leave her home without any of her personal belongings. So he reported her missing, but of course law enforcement very much poo pooed it away and said, oh, she probably just ran away, let us know when she comes back, and basically alluded to her running off to start a new life at fourteen years old. What resources does a fourteen year old girl in nineteen eighty three have to start a new life. It completely boggles my mind that the things that families were told back in nineteen eighty three are still things that families are told in twenty twenty five. Let's get it to get other. Kids should not be on the streets by themselves, if it was voluntary or not, they are still in danger because they are minors. Fourteen year olds should not be on the streets by themselves. God knows what kind of predator or creep is going to come upon them and take advantage of them. We need to take these cases seriously. Nick Mak has also released a age progression of Sondra to what she might look like now if she was still alive. So they announced officially that there wasn't anything found under the concrete slab. They did send off some of the dirt and stuff for testing, but they aren't very hopeful. So they're kind of back to square one as far as the search for Sondra and where she could possibly be. Something substantial must have led them back to that property, which I think is interesting that after all of these years, there was a tip that led them back pretty much to where she was last seen. I don't really know what I think about this. It's very complex, very convoluted. There's a lot of different things that we could be looking at here. Law enforcement has not come forward with any potential persons of interest, but something led them there, some type of substantial tip led them back to that property. And breaking news, as I'm recording right now in True Crime, I am getting the word that the state has officially rested in the Lori Valo Dabel trial. They did. I'm recording this on Wednesday. I think they did a really good job Wednesday, really laying out the conspiracy to commit murder. I personally think Glori is toast her defense. Whatever she's going to put forward. I don't know what it's going to look like. I guess we'll find out probably tomorrow by the time this is released, will know if there's anything juicy that happens. I will do a little additional tack on at the end of this. But I think the state really has done their job with everything. I mean, even if you don't know about all the other horrific things that LVD did, then you would see that through all of the stuff that the state has presented that she did conspire to kill Charles with Alex, with Chad, with god knows who else, because she is just that girl, she really is. So it's going to be interesting. If anything more happens, I will be sure to let you guys know. But if you're not following, please follow along. Nate Eaton from East Idaho News does the best like Lunchtime Lives. Same with Gigi from Pretty Lies and Alibis. They are both at the courthouse attending to try daily. They both do daily like Lunchtime updates, and then they also do like nightly recaps, So ten out of ten recommend those. I've been able to watch a huge portion of the trial because it doesn't start until one o'clock my time, so I get off of work at three, and it's really easy for me just to kind of catch up a little bit, and then I watch it for the rest of the evening. It goes usually until about seven my time, so I've been able to watch a huge portion of the trial. But I always watch and listen to all of the nightly recaps just in case there was something I miss because this has been the most interesting trial that I think I've ever watched, from start to finish before. It's been such an interesting journey looking at everything that's transpired and then seeing Laurie try to get up there and defend herself and cross examined witnesses, professional people. It has been a mind lowing journey. And also, as I'm recording this, I also have now seen that Lori Valo has rested, meaning she is not going to testify, She's not going to present any case on her behalf, even though she chose this life, she chose to represent herself. I am just absolutely shook to my core by all of this, but also not surprised, but surprised because I felt like she was going to put up a little more, but her defenseless, was crumbling, like all of her witness people were crumbling because none of them have anything to help her, because there's literally nothing that any of those people can do to make her look less guilty. But that is just my opinion and just actual insanity. I am seeing now that they're going to do the closings on Monday and then the jury will get the case. So stay tuned for all press Lori Valonews because I am sure we will have a verdict probably pretty quickly. Again just my opinion. Also, one more thing I want to talk about is the Menanda's brothers are going to be resentenced on April seventeenth and eighteenth. There is a hearing scheduled for both days at nine thirty am, and it is going to be a pivotal moment in the case of Eric and Lyle Menenda's The DA really tried so hard to block all of this from happening, but it is happening despite that, So it's going to be really really interesting to see what happens. So they're going to have different family members that are going to testify. There's going to be different correctional officers who are familiar with the brothers and who have had some experience with them over the past thirty plus years that they've been in There's going to be behavioral scientists who will speak on their psychological state, talk about some of their trauma history and their rehabilitation. There is going potentially to be some people that are going to come up and talk about the sexual abuse that they experienced at the hands of jose Menenda's That is again potential, not one hundred percent for sure. Now, if you remember, the original DA called for them to be resentenced fifty years to life. The prosecution, of course wants to uphold and oppose any resentencing and keep up with their original sentence of life without parole. And the defense is going to push for a manslaughter rolling, asserting that the brothers acted in imperfect self defense due to prolonged abuse and trauma. It might go on longer than two days, but it is scheduled to last those two days. There will be no care allowed in the courtroom, but anything breaking pressing happens. I will be sure to let you know and post to my socials, so be sure you're following me over on Instagram or Facebook. I post all the time to my stories on Instagram it's at Primetime Crime with a k pod, and on Facebook it's just Primetime Crime. And follow me over there so you can get all of the information that I post on my stories, because I post all my stories a heck of a lot. And I also do a Unsolved Sunday spotlight every Sunday where I highlight a unsolved case, whether it's missing, murdered, whatever kind of unsolved case it may be. So follow me over there and we are going to go ahead and get into this week's episode. Hey, it's me again with a little baby update for you. This is exactly what I get for recording right now and True Crime on a Wednesday instead of on a Thursday, because today happened to be the day that everything was going down in the Menanda's brother's hearing. So essentially what happened is the DA attempted to block the hearing, and there's a lot of ins and outs to it, but the hearing did start and then it was recessed. And now the attorney for the Menendo's brothers is filing a motion to recuse the Los Angeles District Attorney's office due to their repeated efforts to delay the resentencing. They have canceled the hearing for tomorrow and a new date of May ninth has been set to address the recusal and the admissibility of the risk assessment report. The DA is just doing everything in his power to try to block this and prevent it from happening, and Eric and Lyle's team and supporters and family aren't going to stop. So it's going to be interesting to see what all try transpires with this. But that is the update. Also, Lori Valo is officially not going to testify because she did not officially rest her case in front of the jury. There was still a little bit of question as to whether or not she would change her mind. But she is set to rest her case in front of the jury on Monday, and then there will be jury instructions and closing statements from both sides, and then the jury will get the case. So we could easily have a verdict Monday afternoon. It could go into Tuesday, it could go longer. We really don't know. But wow, what a journey. Anyways, we are going to get into today's episode. Okay, guys, today we are jumping into a brand new unsolved case. I am going to be telling you about the unsolved homicide of a twenty four year old woman who was a real estate agent in Canada named Lindsey Buziak. Lindsay Elizabeth buse Zak was born in Victoria, British Columbia, November two of nineteen eighty three to her parents, Jeff and Evelyn Booziak. She had a younger sister, who was named Sarah. Lindsay is described by her dad Jeff during a Dateline interview as a spectacular young woman who could make friends with everybody. Everyone that met her wanted to be part of her life, which made her brutal death even more confusing. Who would want to harm Lindsay and why. After Lindsay graduated from Reynolds High School, she studied for her real estate license and quickly became a licensed real estate agent. She secured a job at the Maverick Real Estate Corporation, and at the time of her death, she was one of the youngest of thirteen hundred agents working in her area. In two thousand and six, Lindsay met her boyfriend at a real estate course and they quickly began dating. In order to understand Lindsay's story and what happened to her the day that she lost her life. We have to talk about her life leading up to her murder. In two thousand and eight, she was living with her boyfriend who was named Jason Zalo and he was a mortgage broker. He also had his real estate license. Now, as I mentioned, they had met at a real estate course, so that is kind of how they came to know each other. Lindsay had recently started working for Remax, where Jason's mom, who was named Shirley, worked and she was the manager. In late two thousand and eight, Lindsay received a call from a couple with a Vancouver number, and they said that they were interested in buying a one million dollar plus home in the area. The woman that had called said that her husband had just been transferred and they needed a home in a quiet area. Lindsay described the woman as sounding Spanish or Hispanic and had a accent that she couldn't quite place what the accent was. They wanted a house that was three bedrooms, three baths, and they wanted it to have room for a living maid. The call also came through on Lindsay's personal cell phone, not her work cell phone, and Lindsay had inquired about how the couple got her number, and the caller said that she was referred to from a friend, but never identified who the friend was. Now, Lindsay was a little unsure about this call and this couple, but she was willing to help them because it was her job, and they did contact her. But Lindsay was a fairly new realtor, and nobody really knew how this couple got her name and her phone number. And it was almost one of those things that seemed too good to be true that they would be ready to purchase a property for one million dollars so quickly and so easily, with no questions asked. Now, for whatever reason, Lindsay never documented this couple and their names and simply had them saved in her phone as million dollars. The day following the call, the husband had called Lindsay and said that he'd be looking at homes alone because his wife was busy. Again. I think that this interaction made Lindsay uncomfortable. She supposedly told her coworkers that she felt uneasy about this being a female showing a man. Holmes by herself, I would very much feel uneasy too. Between the time of first contact that the couple contacted Lindsay and ultimately when Lindsay ended up showing them the house, there was ten phone calls between the buyers and Lindsay. So on February first, Lindsay emailed the couple some listings to consider that fit their criteria. All of these homes were new homes and they were all vacant. Friday night rolled around and Lindsay had talked to the couple about showing them some properties on Saturday, and they had wanted to meet around five thirty pm and possibly even see some properties the following day on Sunday. Lindsay still continue you to feel a little uneasy about it, and Jason had offered to show the home for her instead, but she agreed to show them the first property in the town of Sanwich in the Gordon Head area on February second. Now I very much understand why Lindsay, despite feeling a little uneasy, decided to show the home because she was the one who was contacted. She felt like it was her job to help them, and also it's her job and she would make a heck of a lot of commission if she were to seal the deal and sell this home to this couple. So the first property was a home located at seventeen o two Desuza Place now per Jason on February second of two thousand and eight, it was a Saturday. That day, Lindsay had stopped by the Remax office, in which the office receptionist said that Lindsay still was saying she was feeling an easy about the showing. Now, like I said earlier, I do stand why Lindsay went through with this and decided to show the house, but I do want a sidebar for a minute and talk about trusting your gut. Lindsey knew something was off, but it's so easy to rationalize and not listen to your gut, thinking that you're overthinking things. But if your gut is saying no, listen, that is all I want to say. So after that, Jason and Lindsay had gone to lunch around three thirty pm before they ended up going their separate ways. So Jason had gone to a place called SCCH Autographics, and the owners of this company had hired Lindsay to sell a property, and Jason basically went there to present them with an offer. CCTV footage confirms that Jason was there at four twenty nine pm, Lindsay went home to change in order to prepare for the showing. Lindsay was set to show the couple the home around five thirty pm, and she also had plans to attend a bachelorette party after she got off of work that day. While Jason was at the autographics shop, he ended up calling Lindsay and offered to meet her at the house. And he said that he had some paperwork from the autographics place for her to sign, and also he thought having him close by would probably ease Lindsay's spheares a little bit. Jason had plans to meet a friend for dinner, so that friend and him decided that they were just going to go over to the house together and wait for Lindsey and then they would go their separate ways and drive to dinner from there. Jason and his friend headed to the house around five point thirty pm, but had difficulty navigating there with Jason's GPS system, so he had to call Lindsay for directions. Now you might be wondering why couldn't he find it on his GPS system, Well, it was a brand new build and it wasn't even in the GPS system yet. That is why he had difficulty trying to figure out where it was. It was so new, the property was new, the area was new that it wasn't even in the GPS system yet, and the area that this house in there was still a lot of new construction going around surrounding the home, and this area was under development at the time that Lindsay was murdered. So she was on the phone with Jason and the potential buyers arrived, so she said she had to go in order to show them the house, and Jason and his friend ended up arriving at approximately five forty five. As they turned onto the street, he said he saw a man and a woman open the front door and then quickly close it. He had called and texted Lindsay, and he said that he saw that her car was in the driveway, but he didn't see any other cars near the house. They ended up waiting for about ten minutes. Jason decided to go up to the door and it was locked, which he felt was very odd. He rang the doorbell, there was no answer, and then he and his friend went to the back of the house to try to find a way in via basement access, but they couldn't. They then went back around front, hoping that Jason would have luck in contacting somebody from the listing agency that could give him the pass code for the garage entrance, and he also ended up calling nine one one around six Zho five pm. According to the transcript, he explained that he and his girlfriend were both real estate agents and she was meeting a couple to show them a home. He said that in just peeking through the front window, he was able to see that Lindsay had removed her heels before going on to walk through the home, but he can't access the home because it was locked. At this point, I assume they are dispatching someone to try to help with the situation. So then they decide to walk to the side of the house and they see an enclosed patio and in that they see an open back door. Jason boosted his friend over the fence and he went into the house unlocked the front door where Jason entered. Now, initially, I will say that I questioned this series of events until I looked at the house on Google Maps and the layout. It is a very very large home and I can see the fencing on the left side of the property where the enclosed patio is, and how they wouldn't have initially seen that the back door was left ajar because typically you would be able to see that, But I a million percent understand how they weren't able to until they looked a little further. They ended up searching the house and his friend took the first floor and Jason went up to the second floor, where he found Lindsay in the master bedroom, which was located at the very top of the stairs. She had been stabbed more than forty times. Around six eleven PM, another nine to one to one call came in, which was made by Jason's friend. Once police arrived and secured the scene, Jason and his friend were taken down to the station for an interview. They searched the house and surrounding areas. It has never been revealed by law enforcement if the murder weapon was found or not. Investigators looked into the phone that was used to contact Lindsay about buying the home, and it was a prepaid phone and there was no trace of any other calls made on that phone. The name that was used to register the phone was a name that was determined to be fake and it was not a real person. The phone was bought weeks before the murder in late two thousand and seven and was activated only forty eight hours before the murder. The phone was deactivated shortly after the murder and was not used again. They were able to determine that the phone had been purchased in Vancouver, and they could tell that it had traveled from Vancouver to Victoria shortly before Lindsay's murder. On February sixth, Jason returned to the house with investigators and his lawyer, and he walked them through exactly what happened that day. I am going to play a clip of that whole interaction. Now, which side of the door was going on? When when the door open for you? Right over the door? So yeah, so I'll do that. I'm so I got to work. So he opens it like this? Does he open it all the way? Or you used key on the key unlocked the door? Okay, I'm upside guy, So I locked okays op? Okay, So so I don't know if it's had Hey, I know that because I heard it unlocked, kay. And unlocked and I pushed. It open him Okay, Uh uh. He was already in front of me. Yeah. And I sat up running upstairs, and I was yelling. I used was yelling on the Lindsay, Lindsay, Lindsay, And. Where did you come from? He went straight ahead? He went straight ahead. Yeah, okay, so just hanging. On sack there dead. So he went straight ahead. Yeah, and you were you weren't running upstairs? Yeah? Okay, So let me. Let me go upstairs first, and then you can talk to your. Way voting the stairs and then they will go to right you. Okay, okay, hmm. Okay, So I was running inside the house. I just came running up the stairs. You're gonna grabbing a master at all? Or uh? Down there? Okay? What else are you doing? Is he anything? Did you hear anything? Did you smell anything? Kind of put yourself. Back or into into that dot com? The time I got to it from the door upstairs. With probably two seconds. Okay, so you're young, was running up the stairs. Yeah, I got walk. I didn't. The second I opened the door, I yelled Lindsay, Lindsay. Uh, and then I rap. I ran up these stairs and saw secod okay, so. I ran that up Okay, So that was a short clip. They were at the house, Jason and an investigator, and he was kind of walking him through what happened that day. He said his friend came in unlocked the door. He heard the door unlocked, he opened it. His friend kind of went onto the first floor and then he immediately started yelling Lindsey, Lindsay, Lindsay, and then ran up to the second floor. But I do think it's important that he was kind of walking them through the scene and telling them exactly what he did that day, because that is important for trying to sort out all of the evidence that they had in this case. So in two thousand and eight, this is so crazy to me. One of Lindsay's friends received a phone call in the middle of the night from an unknown number. She noted that the caller had a very strange accent, and she had kind of remembered Lindsay saying that the clients who had contacted her also had a strange accent. Now, this is where it gets really, really weird, and I do want to this and saying that this is all alleged. But this friend of Lindsay's picked up the phone call in the middle of the night. She was kind of a little groggy. She was trying to figure out what was going on. She doesn't even remember what this person said, but once she realized that this person had a strange accent that she couldn't really place, she thought back to what Lindsay had said about her clients having a strange accent, and she from there called the person back, called the number back a ton of times and didn't get any answer. And then when she finally did get an answer, it was none other than Shirley Zalo, who, if you remember, was Jason's mom, and the friend had asked, how did you get my number? And then apparently Shirley said that she had called her by mistake, and she wasn't sure how her phone number got programmed into her phone, and she had the same name as her secretary. But that is just really bizarred, so bizarre to me. I don't even know now. Shirley denies that this interaction ever happened, which makes things even more confusing for all involved parties, especially me At the moment, I don't even know what to think about this. I have no idea what's going on with that. When I first started to research this case, I really didn't know where all of this was going. I am unsure if authorities ever investigated this interaction, if they were able to say that this interaction happened or not, And if this interaction happened between one of Lindsay's friends and Shirley Zelo. I do not know the validity of this, but if this is true, it's very confusing. It just really boggles my mind. Now. Pretty much from the start, investigators say that Jason was not a suspect, nor was anyone in the Zelo family. Investigators even came out and said that public tips were not necessary to solve this case, which again makes absolutely no sense to me, saying that this was a planned attack. Because it's obvious that this couple came in from Vancouver to commit this crime against Lindsay, why aren't they asking for the public's assistance in figuring out who these people were. The family also wanted to put up a reward to help propel the case forward, but investigator said that they felt like they had enough information already and that the family did not need to do that. Well a year later and there still had been no movement in Lindsay's case. So my question here as an outsider looking in is what we're investigators hiding. It doesn't really seem that they had any direction in which they were going. Obviously, to this day, the crime is still unsolved. So why did investigators hold back the family from not putting up a reward? Why were they so quick to dismiss all of these things that didn't really make any sense, at least in my opinion. So we're now going to talk a little bit more about the investigation and what authorities believed happened that day. Investigators theorized that the couple had attempted to leave the house from the front, but were spooked when they saw Jason, and they then, assumingly, according to investigators, ended up sneaking out of the back and left the patio door open. Authorities believe they snuck through an area of fencing that was open and back to their car, which was parked on a side street. So I did look at a Google map to familiarize myself with the area and try to make sense of what investigators thought had happened. And the escape route does make sense to me because the house was on a corner and the house was on a cul de sac, so them sneaking off on a side street. Parking on that side street initially does make sense to me, and they easily could have accessed their car from the front or the side, So them kind of coming out the front and getting booked and then ended up going around the back and to the side, it absolutely does make sense to me. But they a million percent parked there, so they weren't going to be right in front of the house. They also, in my opinion, planned parking where they did so they wouldn't be seen. Police believed that Lindsay was attacked between five thirty eight and five forty one pm, and at that time Lindsay's BlackBerry made an accidental call, which was a pocket dial to a friend. The call went to voicemail and you can only really hear a muffling sound. Her time of death, per the coroner, was five forty PM, which was five minutes before Jason and his friend showed up. Investigators believe that in regards to Lindsay's online activity two weeks before the showing, it seems that some messages from Facebook friends had possibly been deleted. Now, Lindsay was very active on Facebook and she posted on her wall daily, although it was new, she used it regularly, and she had not one message from her large group of friends. Investigators combed through her friends list and realized that Lindsay was friends with some alleged violent criminals and maybe theorized that this is what could have led to her death. In December of two thousand and seven, Lindsay had gone to Calgary to visit her dad, and she also had spent some time visiting friends. Now following Lindsay's death, one of those friends was involved in a major drug bust. So I think that investigators thought that maybe this was their lead, but after a year, they didn't have anything, and they admitted finally that they needed help in this investigation. So for a whole year they let this crime go unsolved, and all of the potential tips that could have come in they denied. They blocked the family from offering a ward because they were quote unquote onto something which they obviously weren't onto anything. In my research for this case, I got angrier and angrier for Lindsay and her family the more I delved into it because I didn't realize that they literally did not investigate it for a whole year because they thought they knew what was going on here. They didn't ask for any people to come forward. They had a description of what this couple look like, which we'll get to in a minute. They didn't ask for anyone to come forward if they had saw this couple in the area. None of this makes any sense to me. Now. I will say that although they didn't really have any direction for Lindsay's case, they did conduct some interviews, They had followed up on some tips that they had received, and they also executed some search warrants. They did end up searching the property that Lindsay and Jason lived in together prior to Lindsay's murder, and they were basically going through everything to try to eliminate people as possible suspects. Finally, on February fourth of two thousand and nine, a whole year after Lindsay's murder, they released a composite sketch of the woman that they believed to be involved in Lindsay's murder. It was then that they gave the public the suspects description. The man and woman were described as Caucasian. The woman was between thirty five and forty years old, with short, blonder hair, and she had a very colorful dress on. The man is described as six foot with brown hair and had a brown jacket on. Now, the woman's dress was described in a very particular way, and I've seen reenactment videos of the dress, and to me, the dress looks like a piece of bacon. That's just like my perception of it. It was red, and it had kind of like white stripes on it, and it was just a very distinctive looking dress. Now, imagine what could have been done if they had released this sketch to the public and description right away instead of waiting a whole year to release it. Somebody could have seen this couple walking or even potentially knew this couple and would have recognized the description of that dress. But instead they waited a whole year to release this information. I just want to know why police ended up receiving tips following the release of the sketch. They also came out and said that Jason Zealo was officially cleared as a suspect. However, they were very dismissive to the family who were trying to get answers as to what happened to Lindsay. And of course we hear this all the time. Where investigators like to keep things close to protect the integrity of the investigation. But Jeff, who is Lindsay's dad, has been very vocal in his quest to find his daughter's killer. He has also been very critical of the Sandwich Police Department and their investigation into Lindsay's murder. And I fully one hundred percent agree with him and support him, and would feel the exact same way if this was a member of my family or a friend. Jeff went on the Doctor Phil show and spoke on his experience, and I am now going to play you that clip, and it is about four minutes long, so just prepare for that. This is Jeff talking to Doctor Phil about his daughter and his daughter's murder and the investigation. This has taken a toll on you, mentally, emotionally, physically, You've lost your job, You've lost really everything, right house cars, I mean, you've given up everything in pursuit of this because this is your number one priority and nothing gets in the way of it. Correct, That's correct, Doctor Phil. I pursue this daily and I always say when people ask me, you know, what does that mean to you? I say, all in, I'm all in, What do you think happened. Why do you think she was killed. And she saw something she shouldn't have seen. She was jeopardizing people's lifestyles. They executed her. You say she told you you don't know what it was. No, I don't, doctor Phil. She said, I can't tell you right now, Daddy, but I will. And I know the reason she said that because she was in the situation and she knew that if she told me, I would tell her to remove herself immediately, and she wasn't ready for that. You've related this to the authorities, and they've investigated this and said they have at this point no reason to believe that any of that is true. They don't have any suspects regarding what you're saying. They don't believe anything is true, and they don't have any suspects. I don't know what they do. We did get a statement from them, and I'm going to read it in part. I'm going to put the whole thing up on doctor field dot com. But here in part is their statement. At no time has the investigation been declared a cold case, and an investigative team is presently assigned. We are aware of criticism from some family members the details of our investigation must remain confidential. While the police will always try to communicate and update families, the necessity of maintaining confidentiality to ensure a successful prosecution remains our priority. The Sandwich Police remained committed to working in partnership with the RCMP. We will continue to work for justice for Lindsey. That's not a truthful statement. They declared it a cold case. They called me into their office on year two and said, Jeff, this is a cold case. Now we've done our investigation. So I said, okay, turn over the file to me which I'm entitled to and information from the file. So they said, well, why don't you go have lunch and we'll call you after lunch. I did. They phoned me while I was at lunch and said, Jeff, we had a meeting. We've decided now it's active, so you don't have access to any of the case. So they will not keep it a cold case because they know I'll get information and so does the media entitled the information, so they just keep it cold case. The other thing not truthful there is the officer's assign are yes, assigned to the case as their pr terms, but they work general detective work. That's not acceptable for me. Well, I understand, and I understand your frustration here, but somebody did this heinous crime. And people that do this kind of thing they talk, they tell somebody somebody has heard something about this somewhere. And you may not recognize how consequential. Some little piece of the puzzle you might know, but when it's snapped together with another piece of the puzzle, it can make a difference. So look at this picture and if you have heard someone talking about this, if you saw something, if you know something, you'll pick up the phone. I don't care if it's been eleven years or twelve thirteen, for this is a crime that deserves to be solved. This man deserves to have justice for his daughter. So if you know something, if you can help, please please please pick up the phone, give a tip to the authorities, and let's see if we can get this thing solved. So obviously from that clip, Jeff is very well spoken. I personally believe that he knows what he's talking about. I believe him one thousand percent everything that he said, And even before I heard Jeff say anything, just for my research into this case, we all know that this case was not investigated properly. It wasn't carried out properly, and I don't know why that is. But whenever I see stuff like this going down in a case, it makes me question why Why wasn't it properly investigated? Why didn't they release the caposit sketch right away, the description of the suspects. Why didn't they want people calling in tips? That doesn't make any sense. It could very well be an understaff undersourced police department, but it could also be something more. Why were they not doing everything in their power to solve this case? I don't get it, But again that is just my opinion. I believe when somebody is heinously murdered and you don't have clear cut evidence right away, that you ask for tips from the public. Just my opinion. Jeff also stated that in twenty ten, he hired a local private investigator to investigate his daughter's murder, and he basically felt like he had to take things into his own hands. One of the detectives working the case thought that she could have been targeted by hired professional killers. They thought that these two people could have been contract killers, But who were they contracted by? Two years after Lindsay's murder, her family announced that they were offering a one hundred thousand dollars reward leading to information that would lead to the arrest of the suspect or suspects that were responsible for Lindsay's murder. Jeff is adamant that law enforcement knows who did this, and that Jeff knows who did this. He said, she was just a local girl who was slaughtered in a house while she was doing her job because somebody was mad at her. Lindsay didn't have anything in her background that would have made her a target. She was just a normal girl. The private investigators that Jeff had hired had narrowed their suspect list down to a short list of five people, and Jeff believed that he also knew what the motive was, but he did not speak publicly on what that motive was. And again, I have to question why law enforcement isn't the one that has these answers, but instead it's the victim's family who was the one that's taking the necessary actions to try and solve this murder. It just makes no sense to me. It's also interesting to note that Lindsay was stabbed a lot of times forty times, which if you're talking about a proffes hit, that's typically not what you see in a professional hit. You also typically don't see a stabbing in a professional hit type of situation because there is a higher likelihood that you're going to leave DNA evidence behind. Now, law enforcement has told us that there wasn't any DNA left behind at the crime scene, at least none that belonged to anybody but Lindsay. An investigator's theorized that she was attacked from behind because she did not have any defensive wounds. Typically you're going to see a stabbing like this being a crime of passion, not a murder, for higher type of hit situation. In September of twenty ten, Dateline covered Lindsay's story, which resulted in one hundred and sixty tips coming in. Nothing came of any of these tips, unfortunately. Now, there were some theories that ended up coming in regarding the friend that Lindsay had visited in Calgary shortly before her murder. That person ended up being part of a drug bust, like I said early, and they thought that Lindsay had possibly seen something that she wasn't supposed to see, or that she became privy to something that she wasn't supposed to have information on and that put her life in danger, But this ended up being ruled out as a possible motive. This, in my opinion, does not seem to be drug or hit related, but I could be completely wrong on that. There has been a lot of speculation surrounding the Zealo family in Lindsay's murder, which I feel like that's just kind of the natural course of the investigation. There has been a lot of finger pointing and people assuming that they were involved, but investigators came forward and said that nobody in the family was involved in Lindsay's murder and that they were sure of that. And I don't know really what led them to come to this conclusion to be one hundred percent sure that nobody in the family is involved. I don't know what kind of evidence they have against that, because they have never really come forward with that information. Jeff has been his daughter's biggest supporter, and this murder investigation has taken over his life. He spends all of his time trying to find out what happened to his daughter, Although he says he knows what happened and who's responsible for taking his daughter's life. It's now just about getting law enforcement and investigators to do their jobs and actually make an arrest in this murder. He holds an annual walk every year on the anniversary of Lindsay's murder to raise awareness and hopefully put enough pressure on the people responsible to finally come forward with what they know about Lindsay's murder. By twenty twenty, the Santich Police still hadn't released much about the case, and they still stay pretty tight lipped about the case and Lindsay's murder. In twenty twenty one, it was announced that the FBI would be joining the investigation, which is so interesting because the FBI does not have jurisdiction in Canada. But I guess at this point, whatever can happen to help propel the case forward is what we need to happen. Investigators are reviewing and retesting evidence from a DNA standpoint, as well as cell phone data and technology based data. So although investigator said that the only DNA that was found at the scene was that of Lindsay's, that might not be the full truth. I honestly have zero idea what they are doing in this investigation. I just feel like I look at this and it's just one giant question mark. In twenty twenty two, Shirley Zelo filed a lawsuit against Jeff, saying that she had been defamed and had been subjected to numerous attacks against her and her character. Jeff said he wasn't surprised by this lawsuit, but from his standpoint, Shirley hadn't cooperated in the investigation into Lindsay's murder, and she was Lindsay's boss essentially because Lindsay worked for her at her Remax office that she managed. So she is a whole different layer of involvement in this because she did manage the office where Lindsay worked and Lindsey was working at the time of for murder. So it does make sense as to why she would be somebody that was questioned and I don't know the ins and outs of how much they questioned her and all that she said, But Jeff didn't feel like she was cooperative, so that is why he was saying the things he was saying, and she ended up filing this lawsuit against him. Jeff ended up hiring Xanta Research Group to look into the murder of Lindsay and They also represented him in the defamation lawsuit. They have also launched an online tip line. Jeff also started a GoFundMe as well to help support his efforts in hiring the Xanta Research Group. I will now read that description below and I'm going to link the GoFundMe as well. To this date, he has raised over twelve thousand dollars, And honestly, it really takes a of a lot of money for these families, whether it's a missing or murdered loved one, to propel their story forward. And Jeff has completely devoted his life to trying to find his daughter. So I think it's super important to support causes like this. So I am going to be linking the GoFundMe below. I'm now going to read the description. My name is Jeff Buziak and I am the father of Lindsay Buziak, who was gruesomely murdered in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada in two thousand and eight. She was twenty four. She received a suspicious phone call at her office at Remax just days before. Despite her hesitancy, she met with the couple to show them the home and didn't make it out alive. Even though it's been fourteen years. For me, it feels like the investigation is on day one. Until now. With your support, the RCNP investigation appears at a standstill. In twenty twelve, I offered a five hundred thousand dollars reward for a tip that led to her killers, which didn't you anything. Since then, I've exhausted nearly all of my resources in the pursuit of justice and continue to owe more, including a lawsuit I'm currently fighting, along with two others, for our efforts to find Lindsay's killers. And this is why, with a heavy heart, I've started the fundraiser asking for your help. Your support will fund launch a private investigation and confidential tip line. I am working with the highly respected investigation companies Onto Research Group, which will take a fresh look at the case, revisit old leads, and test new theories. A professional media campaign will raise awareness about Lindsay's unsolved murder through postered and sponsored social media posts. Here are some ways to support this cause without money. Share this go fundme link on your social media channels and your email lists. Please use hashtag justice for Linz. Take a moment to look over past coverage of the case see below. Email the Mayor of Sanwich, Fred Haynes, to focus resources on the case. Solving this case means justice for Lindsay, everyone who loved her, and women who were victims of violence everywhere. Lindsay was a go getter and a fiercely loyal friend, and this campaign is the kind of thing she wouldn't hesitate to do for another. I hope we can make her proud. Thank you for your time, support and sharing of our story. Jeff Buziak, So I am going to link that below in the show notes if you guys are interested in sharing or in donating. The last donation was three months ago, so I'm sure it has slowed down a little bit since initially he put this up, But honestly, I would be doing the same for my missing, murdered, loved one, friend, family, whoever it may be. He is doing everything he can to try to keep this case out there, keep Lindsay's face and name out there. And actually how I came across this case is last year for my secret Santa at work, I asked for a calendar that's like three hundred and sixty five days of true crime cases and Lindsay's story was on one of them, so that's how I initially came upon it. I didn't know anything about it before, but I think it was like four days talking about Lindsay's murder and how she was essentially set up by this couple and just really piqued my interest. And once I decided to look into it, I realized that there was even more to it than I initially thought just from reading the calendar. So things like that really do help keep these cases out in the public eye, and you never know if somebody is going to figure something out and realize that they know something without realizing it, and that could lead to solving this murder. So that is Lindsay's story. I am going to link all of my sources below in the show notes, and hopefully there is some resolution in this case. I know I do have a lot of Canadian listeners from that area, so you just never know if somebody is going to know something or potentially be able to help solve this case. Thank you guys so much for listening to Lindsay's story. Be sure to share her story, especially if you are in Canada, and I will see you guys next week for a brand new unsolved case. And I hope you guys have a fantastic weekend and I will see you then Bye.