Lindsay Buziak was born on November 2, 1983, as the daughter of Jeff and Evelyn Buziak (née Reitmayer). She had a sister, Sarah. In 2008, a woman worked as a real estate agent in Victoria (British Columbia, Canada). The 24-year-old started a promising career. She was described by her family, friends, and colleagues as an outgoing and caring person. Her boyfriend, Jason Zailo, came from a well-known and wealthy family who ran a successful real estate business.
In late January 2008, Buziak received a phone call from a woman who said she and her husband were urgently looking for a home. They wanted to spend a million dollars on its purchase. According to Buziak, the calling woman had a strange, foreign accent that she could not define. Supposedly, it sounded a bit like Spanish, but not exactly. Lindsay thought her interlocutor might also be faking an accent to hide her identity. Concerned about the course of the conversation, the 24-year-old asked a potential client how she got her personal mobile number. The woman replied that the number had been passed on by her previous customer, Kiss. It was also suspicious since Lindsay had only recently been working in her current position.
The woman told her boyfriend, Jason Zailo, and her father, Jeff Kiss, about the phone. She confided her fears to them. The partner encouraged his girlfriend to continue contact with the client due to the high commission she would receive from the sale of the house. Zailo wanted to calm his beloved, so he offered to wait in his car in front of the property. Should anything go wrong, she'll be around. Lindsay felt a bit more confident, so she found a suitable property and made an appointment with a client to see it. It was supposed to take place on Saturday, February 2, 2008, at 5:30 pm.
That day, Buziak and Zailo had a late lunch at a restaurant. They paid the bill at 4:24 pm and then each got into their own car and drove away. Lindsay came home to change clothes for the property show. Jason went to the car repair shop, from where he was to pick up his friend. However, Zailo was late and the video surveillance recorded that the two men had left the workshop at 5:30 PM. Lindsay and Jason exchanged some text messages, and the 24-year-old knew her boyfriend was going to be late.
De Sousa Place, on which the house was located, was a small, dead-end street. There were only four houses nearby. Number 1702 was at the end of the street, at the intersection of De Sousa Place and Torquay Drive. The side of the property and the garden fence behind the house ran parallel to Torquay Drive.
Even though the client told Lindsay she would be alone, she appeared with another person. At 5:30 p.m., two witnesses saw a white man about 180-185 cm tall with dark hair and a blonde, about 35-45 years old, wearing a characteristic patterned dress. The couple was walking down a dead-end street. Witnesses then saw Lindsay shake hands with her customers. From the nature of their greeting, the witnesses concluded that the 24-year-old had never met them before. All three then entered the house.
Zailo and his colleague arrived at around 5:40 pm. As they drove to the mansion, Jason could see the figure through the front door glass. The man waited in front of the property for about 10 minutes. Then he decided to go back to Torquay Drive and parked there. He then explained that he did not want to be considered a nosy, disturbing boyfriend. The man waited another 10 minutes and sent a text to his partner asking if everything was okay. It was later established that Kissy never read the message.
Twenty minutes after arriving, Zailo saw the couple return home. He then went to the front door and tried to open it. It turned out, however, that they were closed. Through the frosted glass of the front door, he could see his girlfriend's shoes in the entrance hall. He saw no one inside, however, and no one responded to his repeated knock on the door. So he called 911. While Jason was talking to the dispatcher, his colleague found a gap in the fence at the back of the house. He walked through it into the garden and saw that the back patio door was wide open. He called Lindsay's boyfriend, who told the dispatcher they were coming into the house. Zailo then hung up the phone.
The man's friend went inside and went to the front door to let Jason in. Upon entering, he immediately ran upstairs and found his girlfriend lying in a pool of blood in the master bedroom. Zailo called 911 a second time, and emergency services arrived shortly after. When the paramedics arrived, unfortunately, they found death at the scene. Lindsay Kiss has been stabbed multiple times. There were no defensive wounds, indicating she was likely initially attacked from behind and had no idea what was going to happen. None of the murdered belongings was stolen. The woman was also not sexually abused.
Zailo and his colleague were arrested but were eventually released. No charges were brought against them after verifying their version of the events. The monitoring recordings from the car repair shop made it possible to determine exactly what time they were there. On their basis, it was found that the men could not have committed the murder. According to the Saani Police Department, the murdered Canadian's boyfriend has been questioned several times over the years and has always cooperated with the police. He also passed the polygraph test.
No DNA, fingerprints or any other physical evidence was found at the crime scene. For this reason, it is believed that the murder was orchestrated by professionals. The killers were due to exit through the front door when Zailo pulled up to the property, so they eventually escaped through the back door. They then walked over the fence back to the vehicle that was presumably parked somewhere on or near Torquay Drive. This is in line with the testimony of witnesses who indicated that the unknown couple was walking (instead of driving) down a dead end. All the vehicles that were there when the police arrived were checked.
The cell phone from which an unknown woman called Lindsay Kiss was purchased in Vancouver a few months before the murder and was not used until the call was made. It was registered on a man named Paulo Rodriguez, though it was probably a fictional identity. The real address of one of the Vancouver companies was given upon registration, but it is believed to be irrelevant. This address was probably chosen randomly by the killers. The phone was deactivated shortly after the murder and was never used again. Cell phone tower readings show that the person who used the phone was on a ferry from Vancouver the day before the murder. Authorities believe the phone was used solely for the purpose of murder. This supports the theory that the murder was planned.
Jason Zailo's family was investigated because of their connection to the place where the murder took place. De Sousa Court Street is named after developer Joe De Sousa, friend, and associate of Shirley Zailo, Jason's mother. Part of the cul-de-sac was still under construction at the time of the murder, and De Sousa himself was on site an hour before the murder, overseeing the construction work. Police ultimately concluded that none of the Zailo family had anything to do with the crime.
In September 2010, the American network NBC aired an episode of Dateline's "Dream House Murder". Police detectives Saanich, Horsley, and McColl revealed that in December 2007 (about 8 weeks before her death), Kissy attempted to contact a friend of her ex-boyfriend while visiting Calgary. On January 22, 2008, the worst drug robbery in Alberta's history took place and said friend was arrested as a major participant in an illegal drug trafficking operation.
It has been speculated that Buziak's murder may have been ordered by a drug cartel as she was considered a police informant. Investigators investigated the possibility but quickly ruled it out as a motive as it turned out that the woman was not an informant. The personal nature of Lindsay's murder did not match the modus operandi of a typically hired killer. Crime investigator Yolanda McClary and homicide veteran Dwayne Stanton agree it was not a murder commissioned by members of the drug cartel.
They admitted that it was brutal but too amateur. Both experienced investigators said they believed Buziak's murder was personal and was planned by someone close to her. This person also likely had access to confidential information from the Re / Max office where she worked.
There have also been speculations about another drug raid related to the aforementioned group of people. Telephone calls of people involved in smuggling and selling drugs in British Columbia and Alberta were tapped. In 2003, the phones of Buziak and her boyfriend were also tapped due to his connection with this group. While this theory was interesting, it was quickly dismissed because Kissy had never used or traded drugs. She was also not on the list of witnesses testifying during the trial.
In 2008, Lindsay's close friend Nikki claimed that she was awakened in the middle of the night by a call from an unknown number. Since she was half asleep, she didn't record much of what her interlocutor said. However, she noted that the caller had a strange accent that she was unable to identify. She got scared when she remembered Kissing telling her that her unidentified client (and possible murderer) also had an unusual accent. Adrenaline woke her up completely, so she called back, but no one answered.
She called many times, several dozen times. Finally succeeded. The person she called was Shirley Zailo. Nikki asked the woman why she called her and where she got her number from because they didn't know each other. Shirley replied that she was going to call another Nikki, her secretary. But she didn't know why Lindsay's friend's number was on her contact list. She supposed her son Jason must have added it. Interestingly, Shirley categorically denies that this event ever happened. It has not been disclosed whether the authorities took action to establish what really was.
In August 2017, a message appeared on a website hosted by Jeff Buziak that read: "I killed Lindsey [typo] and stupid cops will never prove it." It was probably just a grim joke. If the message had come from the real murderer, the relevant services would probably have been able to track him down.
In 2020, Capital Daily demanded the disclosure of public records of the case and provided previously unpublished information. It was reported that the police knew about two different telephones used by the suspects. The one from Vancouver was for Kissing only. The second was used to check the voicemail for the first. It also revealed strange internet activity just prior to her murder, and that police initially suspected that "violent criminals" on Lindsay's Facebook friend list might have played a role in the murder.
In February 2021, Saanich police reported that advances in DNA analysis and other forensic methods had led to new clues in the case. The FBI began working with investigators on this case.
In February each year, the father of the murdered, Jeff Buziak, organizes a walk in memory of his daughter. Thanks to him, he tries to maintain his interest in the case, counting on its solution. Let us hope that one day we will actually find out the truth.
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