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- I'm craig melvin,

And this is "dateline:
Secrets uncovered."

They fancied themselves as
the girls from "sex & the city."

- Which one was she?
- Carrie.

- The organizer,
everybody's friend.

- But tv fantasy
turned real-life mystery

When the friend
everyone loved

Was murdered.

- I didn't believe it.
[sobbing]

There's somebody out there
that did this to her.

- Stabbed to death
in a luxury million dollar home.

- Shocked the officers
that were investigating it.

- There were plenty
of possible leads.

The boyfriend.

- I texted her
"are you okay?"

- And the ex.
- Are you involved?

- And two curious
big money clients.

What happened
inside that house?

- I saw a few people
in the front entranceway.

- Dateline's own
unsolved case squad

Takes on the crime.

- Someone got paid to
go commit that murder.

- Somebody, I think,
very close to her.

- I agree. I think
it's somebody that she knows.

- So full of life.

Who was behind her death?

- I am going
to find out,

If it kills me.

♪♪

Hello, and welcome to
"dateline: Secrets uncovered."

Lindsay buziak
was intelligent,

Beautiful, and well-liked,
with a promising career

In real estate.

She thought she landed
the golden opportunity

To sell a million dollar home.

But fate had
other plans.

What happened
in that house

Would shock a community,
and send her loved ones

On a mission...

To unearth
a deadly secret.

Here's josh mankiewicz with
"the dream house mystery."

♪♪

- Just north of seattle,

And a few short miles from
the glittering green playground

Known as the san juan islands...

Sits a town that knows little
of the ugly side of life.

♪♪

Where ferrys
and float planes

Spin through a spectacular
inner harbor.

♪♪

Surrounded by grandeur
more reminiscent of europe

Than of north america.

It's victoria,
british columbia.

♪♪

This is where a girl
was born and raised,

Safely in the arms
of a large extended family,

And many friends
who loved her.

The young woman
they all treasured

Was lindsay buziak.

She was just
a spectacular young woman,

That was the love
of everybody's life.

- Her father, jeff.
- She would make friends

With everybody,
and want to be your friend.

- Loved by everybody.
- Loved by everybody.

- She had plenty
of company

In that fun-filled life.
Among her many friends

Were beautiful young women
like nikki burrows.

When all of you
would get together,

What'd you do?

- Pretend like we're
from "sex & the city."

- Which one were you?

- Do I have to say that?
[chuckling]

- All right,
and which one was she?

- Carrie.

- Everybody's friend.
- Mm-hmm.

So smart. Driven.

- And maybe a little
unlucky in love?

- I think all
of us girls are.

- One of those
who lindsay had loved

Was this man,
matt mcduff.

- They're in love.

- They dated
from 2001 to 2006,

And traveled
a lot together.

- She was a pretty
driven girl.

She was focused on what
she wanted to achieve.

- Which was?
- Well, she wanted a career.

She wanted to do things
with her life.

- We're not even
definitely launching it

For about two weeks.

- Lindsay's chosen career
was real estate.

She was following in
the footsteps of her father.

- It was an industry,
in many ways,

Was best-suited for her.

- She could sell ice
in alaska.

- It wasn't selling for her.

It was socializing.
It was being lindsay.

- And as the end
of 2007 approached,

Both 24-year-old lindsay
and her business

Were beginning to blossom.

- Lindsay was now living
with a new boyfriend

Who was chasing many
of the same dreams.

His name was jason zailo,
a mortgage broker

With a real estate license.

What'd you feel like
when you were with her?

- Alive.

Every time she'd walk
into a room,

You would know
that she's there.

She was just always--
just always happy.

♪♪

- And in the small
island world of victoria,

Jason's mom, shirley,
was also a realtor.

A manager for remax,
where lindsay worked.

- She was very focused,
really wanted to make herself

A career in real estate,
and-- loved that about her.

♪♪

And in late January 2008,
lindsay received that call

Every agent dreams of.

A new client was
on the phone from vancouver.

Police would later
describe the call this way:

The client said
she and her husband

Were moving to victoria,
and wanted to look at

Homes near the city

That were in
ready-to-move-in condition.

Lindsay wrote it all down
here in her daytimer.

The clients wanted a house
with three bedrooms,

Three baths,
and a separate area

For a housekeeper,

And the client made
two statements

That would grab
the instant attention

Of any real estate agent.

The couple needed to
buy the house within two days,

And the price range that
they were looking at

Was in the neighborhood
of one million dollars.

But lindsay told her father
and more than a few friends

That there was something odd
about the client,

Who spoke english
with an accent.

- She couldn't really
put her finger on

Exactly what it was.
- She described it as

People, like,
faking an accent?

- Yeah.

She said, well,
it's kind of spanish,

But not really.

- The clients were
due to begin seeing homes

On a Saturday,
February 2nd, 2008.

It was 5:30 pm when
lindsay met the couple here,

A five bedroom,
four bath executive home

Listed at $964,000,

In an upscale victoria suburb
called saanich.

It was the last place
lindsay buziak was seen alive.

- You know, wee hours
of the morning, I...

Received a call
from my ex-wife.

She said, uh,
"have the police

"been in contact
with you?"

And I just said,
"what the hell's goin' on?"

And she said, "well,
I have the worst news ever

"in the world,
lindsay's been murdered."

♪♪

- Soon, lindsay's friends
heard it too.

- I didn't believe it.
[sniffling]

The worst phone call
of my life.

- Former boyfriend
matt mcduff got a message,

And when he returned the call,

Was struck by the news
like a hammer.

- I phoned my brother back,
and his girlfriend answers,

And says
"lindsay was murdered."

[sobbing]

Worst phone call
I've ever had.

[sniffling]

- Lindsay buziak's body
had been found after 6:00 pm,

Here in that luxe home
in a victoria suburb.

A high-dollar property
she was showing to

Her big money clients.

Lindsay had been
stabbed to death.

Who on earth could have
done such a thing

To a glowing young woman,

Someone whose life
seemed transparently happy?

Someone who seemed
not to have any enemies?

Police would open the book
on a mystery,

Looking for the secrets
that could tell them

Not just who,
but why.

- What happened
inside that house?

- I saw a few people
in the front entranceway.

- Chilling new details
from someone who was there,

When "dateline: Secrets
uncovered" continues.

♪♪

- The beautiful victoria,
british columbia

Was suddenly witness
to an outpouring of love

And sadness
few had ever seen.

- Friends hug
each other outside,

As hundreds gather inside
to remember 24-year-old

Lindsay buziak.

One week after realtor
lindsay buziak was murdered

At an empty million dollar
home she was showing

To two new buyers,

Lindsay's friends
and family said goodbye.

So many were at a loss
to explain who might have

Been responsible
for lindsay's death.

Her father, jeff.

- She was a spectacular
young woman!

You would want to be
part of her life.

You would want to
be her friend.

How could you possibly
think you want her dead?

- The task of unraveling
the mystery fell to police

In saanich,
a victoria suburb

That averaged about
one murder a year.

- It shocked the community.

Shocked the officers
that were investigating it.

Then-inspector rob mccoll
led the investigation,

Backed by a team
that included

Detective sergeant
chris horsley.

♪♪

They began by reconstructing
the last hours

Of lindsay's life.

And the bulk of those clues
came from her boyfriend,

Jason zailo.

He told police the couple
had lunch together

At this restaurant,
then they split up.

Lindsay over to the house
she was going to show

Those eager buyers,

Jason to take a contract
to this auto detailing shop,

Before meeting lindsay
back at the house

To drop off some papers.

- And so I said,
"I'll come meet you.

"I'll-I'll be, you know,
10, 15 minutes or so."

♪♪

And I started driving.

And that's when she said to me,
"okay, I'll see you in a bit.

"I gotta go.
The mexicans are here."

- The mexicans was lindsay's
shorthand name for the clients,

Who spoke with
a strange accent.

While lindsay was
meeting the couple,

This surveillance tape
shows jason and a friend

Hopping into jason's
range rover at 5:30 pm

To head for the house.

At 5:38 pm, police say
jason sent lindsay a text.

- The last text
that jason sent was

"just a couple minutes away."

That text was
never opened by lindsay.

- Then, at 5:41 pm,

Just three minutes after
jason sent that final text...

- Lindsay's blackberry
made a phone call out,

And we believe
that phone call

Was made as a result
of the attack.

- That was buttons
on her blackberry

Inadvertently being pressed
during the attack?

- Exactly. It was--
it was truly a pocket dial,

'cause the blackberry
was in her pocket.

- Police believe
lindsay was murdered

During that three-minute
time span,

Between 5:38
and 5:41 pm.

- Jason drove up
minutes later around 5:45.

From his front seat,
he says he saw something

Through the front door
of the house.

- It's, like,
kind of smoked glass,

And I saw a few, uh, people
in-in the front entranceway.

- You saw what?
Outlines of people

Through the glass?
- Yes. Yeah.

- You couldn't tell
how many people?

- I would say two.

- Outside, jason zailo said
he did not want to appear

To be the meddling boyfriend,

So he pulled
out of the cul-de-sac

And onto the main road
to wait.

But after
ten minutes or so,

He says he got a feeling
something was wrong.

- When I text her,
"are you okay?"

And I didn't get
a text back,

That's what-what
really worried me.

- Jason walked
to the front door.

Through the window,
he saw this--

Lindsay's shoes
lying in the foyer,

Standard procedure for
a realtor showing a house,

But then jason checked
the door,

And found it locked.

It was 6:05 pm.

- I called 9-1-1 to say that
my girlfriend's in the house,

And it's locked,
and I can't get in,

And she's, you know,
showing people houses.

In a panic mode, I just told
them the address of the house,

And, you know, come.

I'm gonna-- I'm gonna
get in the house

Or break in the house
or something like that

To-to open it up.

- Jason boosted his friend
over this fence

Onto the side patio.

The friend found
an open door,

Then let in jason

Who found lindsay's body
in an upstairs bedroom.

Another 9-1-1 call came in
at 6:11 pm.

- She was just lying
on her back, you know.

Not moving. Nothing.

So I went straight to her,
tried to give her cpr.

I felt her skin.
It was, uh--

She was already
passed away.

- What were you thinking?

- You know,
absolute shock.

I remember the police
were on the phone,

And I kept
yelling at them,

Saying, "hurry up!
Hurry up! Hurry up!"

Even though in my mind,

I already knew
that she was passed away.

- And in that
terrible moment,

Jason realized that
those figures he'd seen

Through the smoked glass
of the front door

Were probably
lindsay's killers.

But where had
they gone?

K9 units were deployed,

But found no sign
of the killers.

They'd apparently
escaped on foot.

- At the crime scene,

Police found
lindsay buziak dead

From dozens of viciously
inflicted stab wounds,

Most to the head
and chest.

No knife was left,
but all the wounds

Appear to have been
inflicted by one person.

The first thought for a crime
in a million-dollar home--

Robbery, but nothing
was taken.

Lindsay's purse,
watch, wallet,

And her money
were all left at the scene.

Investigators also considered
sexual assault as a motive,

But an autopsy found
no sign of it.

Crime scene investigators
found almost nothing

In the way of
fingerprints, dna,

And other physical evidence
to work with.

Every room in the house
was empty,

And they'd been cleaned
just before the showing.

But as police blanketed the
neighborhood after the murder,

They did turn up
more than one witness

Who provided key information.

They had seen,

In the fading sunlight
of a February Saturday,

Lindsay greeting
the man and woman

As they arrived at the home
around 5:30 pm.

- The witnesses
are quite firm

In that it appeared
to be a meeting,

A shaking of the hands,

So we're quite satisfied that
the people that showed up

Were not known to lindsay.

- Lindsay had been killed,
it appeared, by strangers.

Police concluded
it had to be the couple

That had set up
the showing,

And had lured lindsay
to the scene of her own murder.

One witness was able
to help police

With a composite sketch

Of the female seen
meeting lindsay.

She's described as white,
35 to 40 years old,

With short blonde hair.

She was also,
the witness said,

Wearing a colorful dress
of white, black,

And either red or pink,

With a distinctive pattern.

And more clues to the
identities of the killers

Came from lindsay's blackberry,
stored there--

The phone number
for the mexicans.

Detectives traced the phone
the killers used

To contact lindsay.

It was a cell phone,

Purchased between three and
six weeks before the murder

At a vancouver
convenience store.

Surveillance tape
of, uh, the sale?

- Gone, and,
unfortunately,

The phone is
a pay-to-talk.

Uh, there's no
registration,

Other than quickly
banging a name in online,

And, uh, your phone's
up and running.

- And while the killers bought
the phone weeks earlier,

They activated it
via the internet

Less than 48 hours
before the murder,

Making their movements
difficult to trace.

The phone was registered

Under the name
"paulo rodriguez."

- The name appears
to be fictitious.

The address that the, uh,
phone was registered

Also appears
to be unrelated.

It is an actual address,
but it's a business

In the--
in vancouver.

- And vancouver
is from where the first calls

To lindsay were made,

Confirmed by hits on
cell towers in the city.

Police say perhaps
half a dozen calls

Were made to lindsay,

And after the murder,

The cell phone
was never used again.

You're describing killers

Who are incredibly
disciplined,

And are either very good,

Or just very lucky.

- Yeah, very much so,

And we're not sure
which one.

- They may or may not
have known lindsay,

But certainly they knew how
to carry out a terrible crime

And then cover
their tracks.

Could they be
professionals?

Had someone sent them?

Was there more to lindsay's
life than met the eye?

Detectives began by focusing
on those closest to lindsay.

- The boyfriend
and the ex--

Were either of them
hiding secrets?

A father shares
his suspicions.

- I've never seen a tear
drop out of his eye.

Police return
to the scene of the crime

For a dramatic
reenactment,

When "dateline: Secrets
uncovered" continues.

♪♪

- In an upscale,
leafy suburb

Of victoria,
british columbia,

Police believe lindsay buziak
had been murdered

While showing a mysterious
couple this lavish home.

But in the first days
and weeks after her death,

Police focused not just
on finding that couple

But on the emerging idea

That this may have been
a murder for hire.

Police and her family

Began taking a hard look
at lindsay herself

And her personal
relationships.

- There were two theories
when I arrived in victoria--

Instantly.
- Lindsay's father, jeff.

What are the two theories?
- The two theories--

It's boyfriend,
or ex-boyfriend.

- Either jason or matt.
- Or matt.

And, josh, I don't care
who it is who killed lindsay.

I want to know who.
I want them punished.

- And, in fact,

Just minutes after jason zailo
discovered lindsay's body

On that Saturday evening
in February 2008,

Saanich police
had a suspect--

Jason zailo himself,

Found hunched
over lindsay,

Covered in her blood.

Zailo was handcuffed,
taken to the police station,

Questioned for hours,

And asked to give dna samples
before being released.

Days later, police called jason
back to the house...

- I was yelling, like,
"lindsay! Lindsay! Lindsay!"

- ...To reenact his movements
the night of the murder,

Shown in this
never-before-released
police video,

The walls of he house still
covered with fingerprint powder

Left by investigators.
- You doin' okay?

- Yep.
- Okay.

[sighs]

- It brought back
all the memories again,

And, uh, feelings.
- What feelings?

- How you lose
somebody so fast.

You know, one day,
you're living with somebody,

Uh, and the next day,
she's gone.

- But what possible reason
might jason zailo have

To want lindsay buziak dead?

He says their relationship
was a happy one,

But it turns out, there's
another side to that story.

In the last months
of her life,

Lindsay was telling
family and friends

That she was thinking
of breaking up with jason

As soon as several
real estate deals closed.

Just six weeks
before the murder,

In December 2007,

Lindsay and flown
to calgary, alberta,

To tell her father that
her relationship with jason

Wasn't working.

- She just said,
"daddy, I made a mistake.

"I feel horrible about it."

But she said,
"I can't do it anymore."

- Had she told jason this?
- Not that I'm aware of.

- The story is confirmed by
several of lindsay's friends.

But shortly after
she made those statements,

Lindsay went on
an after-christmas ski trip

With jason and his family.

Friends say
lindsay then softened,

Reconsidered,
and, in their words,

Was trying to make it work
with jason.

You know there
are people out there

Who say that she was gettin'
ready to pull the plug

And move on.
- Mm-hmm.

- Any truth to that,
as far as you know?

- There's none. No.
There's no truth to that.

- But what about
jason's actions

After lindsay's murder?

Those who saw him claimed
he was oddly unemotional,

Unlike virtually
everyone else.

- ...Running up
the stairs.

- Do you remember grabbing
the banister at all, or--

- Uh--
- I was crying.

I couldn't keep
myself together,

And he--
I didn't see any tears.

- I've never seen a tear
drop out of his eye.

I've never seen a sniffle
from his nose.

What the hell
is with that?

- Your behavior
after the murder

Has been described
by some people

As emotionless.

You know, everybody
else was shocked.

You were fine.
- I wasn't fine.

People show their emotions
in different ways.

- You have never spoken publicly
about the death

Of your girlfriend.
- No.

- What do you want
people to know?

- I want people
to know that, uh,

I love lindsay,

And I think about her
every day.

Um, I want
this case solved

As fast as possible.

I had nothing
to do with it.

- And jason had a compelling
witness on his side,

His friend who
was with him

And who helped him
get inside.

Footprints and fingerprints
match their account

Of what they say
the did at the house.

Lindsay buziak had been dead
for more than two years

When saanich police granted
unprecedented access

To "dateline's" unsolved
case squad,

Sharing information from
the files of an open case

With our experts.

Nbc news consultants
at the time,

Dwayne stanton, a retired
homicide detective

From washington, dc,

Who investigated
chandra levy's murder,

Yolanda mcclary,

A retired crime scene
investigator in las vegas,

And the model for the character
on the hit series "csi,"

And alan jackson,

A former prosecutor
in los angeles,

Who put legendary
record producer phil spector

Behind bars for murder.

Jason zailo was a suspect

For a long time
in this case.

- Right.
- Right.

- It wasn't jason.

- You don't think
it was jason.

- No. And look,
let's not forget,

You don't--
what's rule number one

Of committing a homicide?

You don't bring a witness
to a homicide.

He had somebody with him.

The perfect alibi is not that
you drive right to the house

Where the murder took place

That you hired
or had anything to do with.

You don't do that.

The dumbest criminals
don't do that.

- And a full year after
lindsay's murder,

Saanich police did, in fact,
publicly announce

That they had cleared
jason zailo.

So then who
and why?

Our team agreed,

Lindsay was
specifically targeted

In a scheme that was
well thought out.

- There's a significant
degree of planning

In this murder.
- Absolutely.

- Oh, totally.
- But it's artfully designed.

Work went into this.

Someone sat around a table,
like we're doin' right now,

And came up
with that plan.

- And that planning
paid off, perhaps,

Even down to this dress,
worn by the mystery woman,

The dress which made
such an impression

On the eye witnesses.

- The dress is
very unique,

And I kind of think
it was designed to say--

Something they teach
in investigators' school.

Do something out of the norm
to draw attention from yourself.

Look at this, as opposed to
seeing what I look like.

- And you know what?
You're absolutely right,

And it might have worked,

Because everybody
seems to have

This great description
of the skirt.

- They remember the skirt.
- But the only thing

They remember about the girl
is that she had blonde hair

About up to her shoulders.
- That's it. That's it.

- Our team also
explored the theory

That the killers may have
been hired professionals

With specific instructions

To express the anger

That someone else felt
towards lindsay.

- I think someone
got paid

To go commit
that murder.

- And they were told
make her suffer?

Make it brutal?
- I believe that.

- I just don't
see it that way.

I think that what happened
inside that house

Was equal parts
opportunity

And equal parts panic.

She was stabbed
so many times,

Over and over and over,
repeatedly,

Multiple stab wounds

That were completely,
100% unnecessary,

But I don't see that
as sending a message.

I don't see that
as being personal.

- Saanich police
continued to investigate

Whether the motive
was personal,

And they were not
yet done focusing on people

Who lindsay buziak would have
described as her friends.

- The other man who'd been
part of lindsay's life.

Could he have had something
to do with her death?

- There are people who think
that you are involved.

- Yeah.
- Are you involved?

- When "dateline: Secrets
uncovered" continues.

♪♪

Welcome back to "dateline:
Secrets uncovered."

I'm craig melvin.

Lindsay buziak was an ambitious,
young real estate agent

Fatally stabbed during
an evening showing.

Police cleared her boyfriend
of any wrong doing,

And now, it was time to talk
to her long-time ex boyfriend.

What might investigators
learn about lindsay's life

To help them solve
her death?

Back to josh mankiewicz
with "the dream house mystery."

- As police in saanich,
british columbia,

Worked to solve the murder
of lindsay buziak,

They focused on those
closest to her,

And lindsay's divorced
parents seemed to have

Different suspects in mind.

Lindsay's father, jeff,

Suspected her boyfriend at the
time of her death, jason zailo,

While her mother
told friends she suspected

Lindsay's former boyfriend
of five years, matt mcduff.

Mcduff watched in disgust

As saanich police announced

They had cleared jason zailo
of suspicion.

- Mr. Jason zailo
is not a suspect.

- I found that really odd.
- Because?

- 'cause why would
they clear somebody?

You don't clear anybody until
somebody's behind bars, do ya?

- Mcduff was questioned
after lindsay's murder.

He denied any involvement.

- You know there
are people--

Lindsay's mother,
for example,

Who think that you
are involved.

- Yeah.
- Are you involved?

- No.
- Did you have anything

To do with lindsay's murder?
- No.

See, the mom thinks that
because if it wasn't me,

Who could have
done it, right?

She has to vent
her anger at somebody,

And that just
happens to be me.

- But it's clear matt mcduff
was on lindsay's mind

Around the time
of the murder.

In fact, boyfriend jason's
mother, shirley zailo,

A manager at lindsay's
real estate firm,

Says she and lindsay
took a walk

The day before
the murder

And shirley
says lindsay,

Who had, at the time,
less than 24 hours to live,

Told her this.

- She talked about
her ex-boyfriend,

That she was
afraid of matt.

- Why was she
afraid of matt?

- I don't think she really
got into the detail.

I guess she was
a little disappointed

In how matt had treated her
throughout the relationship.

- Shirley zailo is the
only person we spoke with

In our reporting
who told us

Lindsay was afraid of matt
around the time of the murder.

Of course, she is the mother
of the man who was,

At one time,
the prime suspect,

And, by the way,
police tell us

That when lindsay
was killed,

Matt and lindsay had been
apart for nearly two years.

Each had moved on
to new relationships,

And, according to police,

They'd had no contact
for months before the murder.

Matt mcduff
does acknowledge

That back when
they were together,

He and lindsay
had a relationship

That was, at times, rocky.
Tumultuous?

- Yeah, I don't know
what that word means,

But I wouldn't go
that far, no.

- Stormy?
- Oh, yeah. Stormy, yeah.

Real stormy at times.
Sure.

- In fact, sources say lindsay
called police about matt

At least three times,

But no criminal charges
were ever filed.

- Did the arguing
ever get physical?

- No.
- She never hit you?

- You never hit her?
- Oh, she hit me a few times.

That's just what she was.
She was feisty.

But if she was pissed off
at you, you'd know it.

- You ever hit her back?
- No.

She's a tiny girl,
you know, a hundred pounds.

I'm 200. If I hit a girl,
they'd be-- no.

- But while
shirley zailo may claim

That lindsay was
afraid of matt,

Many of lindsay's friends

Have an entirely
different explanation

Of why matt might
have been on her mind

Around the time
of the murder.

It was likely, they say,

Because she was thinking
of leaving jason

And getting back
together with matt.

Her father said
lindsay said as much

On her trip to visit him

Just six weeks
before her death.

- She said, "daddy,
I miss matt so much."

She said, "I'm really confused.
I don't know what to do."

It hurt me to see
her like that.

She knew it was over,

But she hadn't
got over it.

- Her friends said matt
had a hold on lindsay,

Just like the man
known as "big"

Had on the star
of that tv show

Lindsay and her friends
liked so much.

- That was her big
from "sex and the city."

That's what she called matt.
- She called matt "mr. Big"?

- Mm-hmm.
[laughs]

I think just the love
she had with him

Just wasn't the same
with jason.

- Saanich police
tell "dateline"

They have no evidence
pointing to matt mcduff,

No reason to suspect
him at all,

And that he was at least an
hour away from the crime scene

At the time
of the murder,

In another area
of the island

With the family
of his new girlfriend

Who is now his wife.

- So where would
the motive be?

Although there is some
unique dynamics that they had

In their relationship,

There's been nothing,
nothing that would say

He was involved
in any way in this crime.

- What's it like to
know that she's gone

And you don't
even know why?

You don't even
know the motive?

- That's why
we have to find out.

It's tough.

- And with police saying

The two men who seemed
closest to lindsay

Were apparently not
involved in her death,

Police widened the
circle of suspicion.

- A new theory
about the case.

- Was she friends with people
who were involved in crime?

- Yes. People that
she associated with

Were involved in crime.

- Were police
getting closer?

When "dateline: Secrets
uncovered" continues.

♪♪

In the 18 months after
lindsay buziak's murder,

Police in the victoria, british
columbia suburb of saanich

Investigated
hundreds of leads,

Served dozens
of warrants,

But they seemed not much closer
to finding this woman,

The blonde,
35 to 40 years old,

Wearing a distinctive dress,
witnesses said,

Who spoke with
a spanish accent, and who,

Along with a man described
as white and well-dressed,

6 feet tall with dark,
possibly brown hair,

Set up a showing
with lindsay,

Met her at the door of
this nearly $1 million home

In February 2008,

And then viciously
stabbed lindsay to death.

The working theory of the crime
was a targeted hit,

Carried out by two killers
who brought a knife

To a real estate showing.

But who would wanna kill
a young realtor

Who seemed to have
no enemies?

It was forcing investigators

To think
way outside the box.

It seems to me that
you're really looking for,

Probably, at least
three people here.

I mean, you're looking for
the two people in the home

That committed that murder,

And then I'm guessing
whoever paid them.

- I think you're
absolutely right

And it may be that
one of those two people

Who were at the home is
in fact the mastermind

Behind this
and perhaps the money,

But I think it's
also equally possible,

And more likely,
there's a third or fourth

Or a fifth person involved.

- That's a criminal conspiracy
of some significance,

To wipe out
this young realtor.

What set of facts
possibly fits with that?

- Large amount of money,
large amount of drugs.

Considerable wrong done

To whoever the, uh,
financier is behind this.

- Saanich police
are quick to say,

As are lindsay's
family and friends,

That there's no evidence
she was involved

In anything illegal.

- She was the cleanest girl
you'd ever meet.

- You can't see her getting
involved in anything illegal?

- No, no.

She worked hard
to get her license.

She wouldn't risk
anything to lose it.

- But the longer
her murder went unsolved,

The more rumors there were.

Lindsay was either
a witness in a drug case,

Or a police informant.

Neither is true,
say police,

But a drug angle
has emerged

As a leading theory
in her murder.

Is there any evidence that
lindsay used recreational drugs?

- No.

- And there's no evidence
that she committed

Any criminal offenses either.

- Was she associated
with or friends with

People who were
involved in crime?

- Yes, yes, she was.

There was an element of people
that she associated with

That were involved
in-in crime.

- Remember, victoria is
a relatively small town,

And because lindsay was young
and liked to go out to clubs,

The crowd she inevitably
hung out with

Would include people
who operated

On the fringes of the law.

- So this friend that
you've known all your life

Might end up being
your friend the drug dealer?

- Could be.

You might bump into them
at a club.

And some of the theories
that we developed

Over the course
of this investigation

Was simply that she
had potentially said

The wrong thing
at the wrong time

Or had heard something
at the wrong time

And, uh, caused her
this grief.

- In fact, police
are now exploring

An incident that occurred

During lindsay's last visit
with her father.

While visiting calgary,
lindsay made contact

With at least two men,

Old friends
she grew up with.

And just a month later,
one of those men

Was arrested
in what police called

The largest cocaine bust
in alberta history,

67 kilos, worth
more than $6 million.

- Someone might've
been angry,

Did a witch hunt take place?

And did someone point
the finger at lindsay

Because she happened to have
been in calgary at the time?

- Coincidence,
because this is a small town?

Or, maybe she saw something
she shouldn't have seen?

- Could go either way.

- If so, we now know
it was not true.

Police say lindsay
was not the informant.

Police have floated
this idea

That she was killed
by mistake.

- It happens.

Um, it doesn't seem
very reasonable.

- Not reasonable.

- If there's no evidence
that they've uncovered

That suggests that
she was an informant,

That she was diming off
drug dealers

Or a cartel
or anything like that,

Then where's the evidence
that the cartel would have

That she was doing that?

It-it just seems like
a red herring to me.

- I think her just being there
for the weekend

To go see her father
does not add up.

She doesn't sell drugs.

She's not in their business.

- So the idea that this is
some impersonal hit

Being ordered
by drug dealers

Half a-half
a country away--?

- Makes no logical sense.

- Whatever the motive is,
it's personal.

- And you know what? I don't,
uh, think it's a drug cartel.

- Coming up...

So what was it,
and who was it?

Our team profiles
the killers.

- I think it's somebody
that she knows.

- When "dateline:
Secrets uncovered" continues.

- February, 2010,

Two years since
lindsay buziak's murder.

Her mother, evelyn,

Who's declined dateline's
requests for an interview,

And maintained her silence
in the media since the murder,

Made a public plea
for information.

- Having lindsay
taken from us

Has been
excruciatingly painful.

Please call the police
so that we can have

Closure for lindsay's death.

- The family first offered
a $100,000 reward.

But with no arrest, the family
has dropped that offer.

Frustration among
family and friends

Has been mounting.

- Who would plan a hit
on your daughter?

- God, I wish I knew
that, josh.

I wish I could get
my paws on them.

- For the saanich police,
the death of lindsay buziak

Has led down a frustrating
series of blind alleys

Without motives or answers.

- To say that we're on
the cusp of a breakthrough

Would be a lie.

Uh, we desperately
need some help.

This is a highly unusual
situation for us here in canada

To be pursuing this
in as public a way

As-as we are,

And that speaks to,
I think, our commitment

And-- but also, to some degree,
our desperation,

Uh, as we-as we grasp for
anything that we can use

To bring these people
to justice.

- Is the person
behind this...

Somebody lindsay knows,

Or is the person
behind this

Someone unknown to her?

- Someone she knows.

- Somebody, I think,
very close to her.

- I agree, I think it's
somebody that she knows.

- Somebody in the same
type of business.

- Correct.
I mean, the-the--

In the same real estate firm,
uh, who knows?

- The man and the woman who
actually committed this murder,

What do you think's
in their background?

- They're gonna have
a criminal history.

And more than likely, I would
look for violent crimes.

It's an unusual complexion
of the case

That they worked together,
a-a man and a woman,

A male and a female
working in tandem

To commit this kind of
violent crime.

- Right.
- I also am not convinced

That these were
highly polished professionals.

- No.
- The way that the crime
was committed itself,

To me, shows
a level of panic,

Uh, shows a level of,
uh, unsophistication.

- I-I agree.
- I'd call it planned,

Not necessarily
professional, but planned.

- Planned, well planned.

- Is there any chance
that although these killers

Were not known to lindsay,

They weren't planning
on murdering her

Until they went
in the house together,

And then in there,
something happened,

A fight started,
she gets killed?

- And the people pull
a butcher knife

Out of their purse
or out of their sock?

I-- no, it-it
doesn't seem right.

- If there's a chance,
it's ever so minute.

I mean, it's small.

- What needs to happen
for an arrest to be made?

- Um--
- some-someone needs
to come forward.

- Yeah, agreed.
- Unfortunately.

You have an empty house,

You have very little
that was touched.

So it is
a forensic nightmare.

- This case is not
gonna be solved

Based on forensic evidence.

This case is gonna be
solved by loose lips.

Somebody's gonna talk
about something.

- For lindsay's friends,
the lack of an arrest

Has left many too frightened
to speak to us on camera.

- Why are you here
and so many other people aren't?

- I can't live my life
everyday,

Knowing that there's
somebody out there

That did this to her.
I can't.

I can't.
It's not right.

It makes me sick that
there's somebody out there

That did this
to my best friend.

- Two years after her death,
lindsay's boyfriend told us

There was a kind of numbness
that wouldn't go away.

- I think about it
daily, yeah.

- You think it'll ever
go away?

- No.

No.

- And for lindsay's father,

There was determination
bordering on obsession.

There was
barely-controlled rage.

And finally,
there was a vow

To defend the daughter
he couldn't help

On that February day.

- I'm not gonna
let her down, josh.

The only way I'm gonna
stop right now

Finding out who killed her,

Is die myself,
and I'll be dying trying.

I guarantee you that.

- You're gonna find out.

- I am going to find out.

If it kills me.

- That's all for this edition of
"dateline: Secrets uncovered".

I'm craig melvin.
Thank you for watching.