[1] In 2008, 24-year-old Buziak was an ambitious Victoria real-estate agent who had made a promising start to her career and was described by her family, friends and colleagues as popular and caring.
[3] In late January 2008, Buziak received a call from a woman who said that she and her husband were urgently seeking a home with a budget of $1 million.
Unnerved by the nature of the call, Buziak asked the caller how she had obtained her personal cell-phone number, as she was a relatively junior employee.
At 5:30 p.m., two witnesses saw a six-foot-tall white man with dark hair and a blond-haired woman between 35 and 45 years of age, wearing a distinctively patterned dress, walking up the cul-de-sac.
Zailo and his colleague were taken into custody but were released without charge after their version of events was verified and the timestamped surveillance footage from the auto shop proved that they could not have committed the murder.
Because the crime scene yielded no DNA, fingerprints or any other physical evidence, it is believed that the murder was well-organised and executed by people who had killed before.
Saanich detectives revealed that in December 2007, about eight weeks prior to her murder, Buziak tried to contact the friend of her ex-boyfriend while on a visit to Calgary.
On January 22, 2008, the largest drug bust in Alberta's history took place and the friend was arrested, accused of being a major participant in the drug-trafficking operation.
The detectives investigated that possibility but quickly eliminated it as a motive because Buziak was not an informant and the personal nature of her murder did not fit a hired killer's method of operation.
Crime scene investigator Yolanda McClary and veteran homicide detective Dwayne Stanton[9] agree that Buziak's murder was not a contracted operation related to a drug cartel, as it was brutal but too amateurish.
The investigators believe that Buziak's murder was very personal and planned by someone close to her, perhaps by someone who had access to inside information from the real-estate office where she worked.
One man's phone had been tapped because of his high level of involvement in the trafficking and sale of narcotics in British Columbia and Alberta.
However, the theory was quickly dismissed because Buziak had no known involvement with drug use or trafficking and was not included in the defense's witness list during the trial.
She became scared when she remembered that Buziak had reported that her unidentified client (and possible murderer) spoke with an odd accent that she believed may have been fake.
[2] In February each year, Buziak's father Jeff leads an annual walk in remembrance of her and to keep her case in the public eye.
[11][12] In August 2017, a comment was posted on a message board at the investigative website run by Jeff Buziak stating: "I killed Lindsey [sic] and stupid cops will never prove it.