# Canada’s Most Chilling Unsolved Murder: The Lindsay Buziak Case | 192

An episode of [Lazy Chill True Crime](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1815534472), 21 Mar 2026, 13 min.

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The shocking, unsolved murder of Lindsay Buziak remains one of Canada’s most haunting mysteries. In 2008, the 24-year-old real estate agent was lured to a vacant home by a mysterious couple posing as buyers, only to be brutally killed within minutes of arriving. The suspects vanished without a trace, leaving behind no clear motive, no weapon, and no answers. In this episode, we break down the timeline, the strange details, and the theories that still surround a case that refuses to be forgotten. Episode 192 of the true crime podcast by the way. 👇 Youtube links: Lazy Chill History Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LazyChillHistory Lazy Chill Zone Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@LazyChillZone 👇 Support My Work: 🛍️ Merch: https://lazy-chill-zone-shop.fourthwall.com ❤️ Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/lazychillzone 👇Social Media Links: https://www.instagram.com/lazychillzone/ 👇 Podcast links: ⚡History Video Podcast on Spotify⚡: https://open.spotify.com/show/7km5pLWpYWEj1mrPpEfRUr?si=0FHYnZf-Qs2FY1GyLevfig ⚡True Crime Podcast on Spotify⚡: https://open.spotify.com/show/0klIz08pAr7wR4we0Ia4sk?si=68qZxCeAQkysXzMZrHE0Iw 🍏 True Crime Podcast on Apple 🍎: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lazy-chill-true-crime/id1815534472 Lindsay Buziak, Lindsay Buziak murder, true crime podcast, unsolved murder, Canadian true crime, Victoria BC crime, real estate agent murder, cold case Canada, unsolved mystery, true crime Canada, missing suspects, mysterious couple, crime investigation, homicide case, true crime story, chilling cases, crime podcast, unsolved homicide, cold case files, eerie mysteries, dark true crime, real estate crime, brutal murder case, crime theories, unsolved crimes podcast, Canadian cold cases, shocking murders, crime documentary, true crime community, baffling cases

## Transcript

[0:00] On the evening of February 2nd, 2008, a 24 year old real estate
[0:05] agent walked into a vacant house in one of Victoria, BC's
[0:09] quietest suburbs. She intended to show it to a
[0:12] wealthy couple she'd never met, the exact sort of individuals
[0:17] who she expected to purchase the home.
[0:20] She told her boyfriend and her father that something about the
[0:22] clients felt off, but she went anyway.
[0:26] Within 10 minutes of stepping through the front door, Lindsay
[0:30] Buziak was dead, stabbed repeatedly in an upstairs
[0:33] bedroom while her boyfriend sat in the car waiting for her to
[0:37] finish. The supposed buyers vanished
[0:40] without a trace. They left behind no
[0:43] fingerprints, no genetic evidence, no weapon and no
[0:47] motive that anyone has ever been able to prove.
[0:51] This is one of Canada's most chilling unsolved cold cases, a
[0:55] narrative where everything we know only deepens the mystery of
[0:59] what we don't. Lindsay Buziak was born on
[1:03] November 2nd, 1983 in Calgary, AB, a province in Canada known
[1:09] for its vast quantities of oil. Raised by her parents, Jeff and
[1:13] Evelyn, alongside her sister Sarah, she was described by
[1:17] those who knew her as energetic, ambitious and personable.
[1:23] After relocating to Victoria, she began building a career in
[1:26] real estate, joining a re/max office where she worked
[1:30] alongside her boyfriend, Jason Zalo, and his mother, Shirley
[1:35] Zalo. By early 2008, Lindsay had made
[1:39] a promising start in the industry.
[1:42] She was still junior, but she was driven and eager to prove
[1:46] herself. Her father, himself a real
[1:49] estate agent in Calgary, was a close confidant, and Lindsay
[1:53] spoke with him regularly about her career and personal life.
[1:57] By late 2007, she'd been telling him the relationship with Jason
[2:02] was faltering. She felt he lacked ambition, and
[2:06] friends knew she was seriously considering a breakup.
[2:09] Despite those doubts, she stayed as the new year began, a
[2:13] decision that indirectly placed her directly in the path of
[2:16] whoever was planning what came next.
[2:20] In late January 2008, Lindsay received a call on her personal
[2:25] cell from a woman claiming to be house hunting with her husband.
[2:28] The caller said her husband had just been transferred to
[2:31] Victoria, that they needed to move quickly, and that their
[2:35] budget was roughly $1 million. She wanted a vacant move in
[2:40] ready property with at least three bedrooms, 3 bathrooms, and
[2:45] a separate area for a housekeeper.
[2:48] For a young agent still building her client list.
[2:51] It was the kind of opportunity that could define a career.
[2:55] But Lindsay was uneasy from the start, since a number of things
[2:59] simply didn't add up. The woman spoke English with an
[3:03] accent Lindsay described to her father as sounding somewhat
[3:06] Spanish but not quite right, as though it might be affected to
[3:11] hide her real voice. She also questioned why this
[3:15] wealthy client had reached out to her, specifically a junior
[3:19] agent using her personal number. The caller claimed a previous
[3:24] client had referred her, but Lindsay wasn't convinced and she
[3:28] shared her concerns with Jason and her father.
[3:32] Notably, it appears that she didn't name drop who this client
[3:35] was. Another massive red flag.
[3:39] Everyone involved found the inquiry suspicious and felt it
[3:43] was too good to be true. Jason nonetheless encouraged her
[3:47] to keep the appointment because of the Commission $1,000,000
[3:49] sale would generate and offered to wait outside in his car
[3:53] during the showing. What neither of them knew was
[3:56] that the phone used to make the call was a prepaid burner
[4:00] purchased at a Vancouver convenience store weeks earlier
[4:03] under a fictitious name. It had been activated less than
[4:07] 48 hours before Lindsay's slaying and had only ever been
[4:11] used to contact one person, Lindsay.
[4:16] That Saturday afternoon, Lindsay and Jason went for a late lunch
[4:20] at a restaurant called Sauce, paying their bill around 430
[4:24] before departing. Separately, Lindsay appears to
[4:27] have gone home to change before the 5:30 showing.
[4:30] Jason drove to an auto detailing shop to pick up a colleague,
[4:34] Cohen Oatman. Security footage from the shop
[4:37] confirmed they left together at approximately 5:30 PM.
[4:41] The property was at 17 O 2 D'souza Place in the Saanich
[4:45] suburb of Gordon Head, a small cul-de-sac with just four
[4:49] houses. The street was named after
[4:52] developer Joe D'souza, a friend and business associate of
[4:56] Jason's mother. D'souza had been on site
[4:59] supervising construction just an hour before the attack, and the
[5:03] area was considered extremely safe.
[5:07] At around 5:30 PM, witnesses observed a man and woman walking
[5:12] up the cul-de-sac. The man was described as white,
[5:16] roughly 6 feet tall, with dark hair and a light jacket.
[5:21] The woman was described as white, mid 30s to 40s, with
[5:25] short blonde hair and a distinctive dress, black with
[5:29] thick white and red or pink swirls.
[5:32] Witnesses watched Lindsay greet the couple with a formal
[5:35] handshake, suggesting she hadn't met them before.
[5:39] Jason and Oatman arrived at roughly 5:40 PM.
[5:43] Jason saw what appeared to be figures near the entrance,
[5:47] assumed Lindsay was with her clients and parked nearby to
[5:50] wait. He texted her asking if she was
[5:53] OK, but she never opened the message.
[5:57] By about 6 O 5:00 PM. Growing worried, he approached
[6:02] the front door and found it locked, unusual for a property
[6:05] being shown. He called the cops, then had
[6:09] Oatman climb the backyard fence to access an unlocked rear patio
[6:13] door. Jason ran up stairs and found
[6:16] Lindsay lying on her back in the master bedroom in a pool of
[6:19] blood, her skin already cold to the touch.
[6:24] The autopsy determined Lindsay had been stabbed multiple times.
[6:28] There were no defensive wounds, indicating she'd likely been
[6:31] attacked from behind. Without warning, the coroner
[6:35] placed the time of death at approximately 5:40 PM, roughly
[6:39] within 10 minutes of entering the house.
[6:42] Nothing was stolen, and she hadn't been subjected to any
[6:45] other forms of assault beyond the stabbing.
[6:48] It was targeted deliberate violence against a junior real
[6:51] estate agent who had no known enemies.
[6:54] Saanich police reported virtually no forensic evidence
[6:57] left behind, no usable DNA, no fingerprints.
[7:02] The perpetrators had been extraordinarily careful and the
[7:05] weapon used was never recovered. The burner phone was never used
[7:10] again, but a second prepaid phone was later identified,
[7:14] apparently used to check the first phone's voicemail.
[7:18] Jason and Oatman were questioned but cleared by the time stamped
[7:21] security footage, which proved they couldn't have committed the
[7:24] crime. Jason and Oatman both cooperated
[7:28] fully, submitted to multiple interviews and passed a series
[7:31] of polygraph tests. By February 2009, Saanich police
[7:37] publicly stated neither of the men was considered a suspect.
[7:42] Jason's family was also investigated partly due to their
[7:46] connections to the D'souza Place development, but police stated
[7:50] no member of the Xylo family was considered a suspect.
[7:55] Investigators pursued multiple theories and one early lead
[7:59] focused on a cartel connection and one of the largest busts in
[8:03] Canadian history. In December 2007, Lindsay had
[8:08] visited Calgary and attempted to contact an acquaintance linked
[8:11] to her ex-boyfriend. On January 22nd, 2008, less than
[8:16] two weeks before her slaying, Alberta authorities executed the
[8:20] province's largest ever drug bust and that acquaintance was
[8:24] arrested as a major participant. The theory emerged that Lindsay
[8:29] may have been eliminated by a cartel faction that mistakenly
[8:33] believed she was a police informant.
[8:36] Investigators dismissed this, and Lindsay had no known
[8:39] involvement in criminal activity and wasn't an informant.
[8:43] Experts on cartel hits also weighed in, noting that these
[8:47] sorts of hits are either brutal in the extreme or extremely
[8:50] professional with virtually nothing in the space in between.
[8:56] The Lindsay Buziak case is disturbing because of how much
[8:59] is known. We know she was specifically
[9:02] targeted and that a man and woman posed as home buyers using
[9:06] a burner phone registered to a fake name.
[9:09] The perpetrators were well dressed and appeared to be in
[9:12] their mid 30s to 40's. The attack was swift, the
[9:16] perpetrators escaped without a trace and the weapon was never
[9:20] found. A significant degree of planning
[9:23] went into this the burner phone, the fictitious identity, the
[9:28] choice of a vacant house on a dead end St.
[9:33] There's a natural instinct to try to make the slaying of
[9:36] Lindsay Buziak fit into some familiar category, But we know
[9:40] it wasn't a jealous partner, a bad relationship, and we're
[9:45] pretty sure it wasn't some kind of drug connection gone wrong.
[9:50] The deeper I look at the facts, the less it feels like a
[9:53] personal crime, and the more it starts to feel like something
[9:57] colder. This wasn't random, and it
[10:00] definitely wasn't sloppy, at least in the planning.
[10:04] And someone went to real effort here to target Lindsay or a
[10:08] young female real estate agent more generally.
[10:12] They bought a burner phone weeks in advance, created a fake
[10:16] identity, and specifically targeted a young real estate
[10:20] agent. They could get a loan inside an
[10:22] empty house. They showed up as a normal
[10:25] looking couple. Nothing that would raise alarm
[10:28] bells. And within minutes of getting
[10:30] her inside, it was over. There was no struggle, no
[10:35] defensive wounds, no evidence left behind suggesting that they
[10:39] had the entire act planned out in advance.
[10:43] Then, just like that, they disappeared without leaving
[10:46] behind any meaningful trace of evidence.
[10:50] That part is hard to ignore, since most people who commit
[10:53] such an act leave something behind, some small piece of
[10:56] evidence to indicate who they are, despite the preparation
[10:59] they took. Even when they plan it,
[11:02] something slips. But here nothing did, suggesting
[11:06] it wasn't this couple's first rodeo.
[11:09] And the fact that there were two of them matters as well, and
[11:12] makes the whole scenario that much more unusual.
[11:16] A man and a woman working together isn't common, but when
[11:20] you do see it, it usually points to something more deliberate.
[11:25] I'm not saying this is definitely the work of a
[11:27] seemingly normal couple that moonlight as serial predators,
[11:31] but it doesn't feel like a one off either.
[11:36] Notably, I also think it's interesting that they targeted a
[11:39] young real estate agent who essentially couldn't turn down
[11:42] the business. She more or less had no choice
[11:45] but to agree to meet the couple, even though there were red flags
[11:50] since the payoff could have made her career in that sense.
[11:54] I don't believe that they targeted Lindsay because they
[11:56] knew her specifically, but because they were looking to
[11:59] target a certain category of person.
[12:03] I theorized that they wanted to find a young female real estate
[12:06] agent who posed no physical threat to the couple if things
[12:09] went off the rails. Another possibility that doesn't
[12:14] get talked about enough is that the attackers perhaps weren't
[12:16] local at all. Absolutely everything about this
[12:20] feels transient, from the burner phone to the fake identity to
[12:24] the quick in and out operation. There were no sightings
[12:28] afterward and no loose threads that could be tugged upon by
[12:32] investigators. It's entirely possible they were
[12:35] just passing through, maybe even from outside North America
[12:39] altogether. If they were experienced and
[12:42] mobile, Canada could have been just one stop on some sort of
[12:46] disturbing world tour anyway. Unfortunately, given the amount
[12:52] of time that's passed and the fact that there's absolutely no
[12:55] forensic evidence, I suspect this case will forever remain an
[12:59] unsolved mystery. Hey everyone, it's Jimmy here
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