I did some more reading. It turns out that the day after Lindsay was killed, another young female realtor there got a strange phone call from a woman with a "heavy foreign accent ".The woman said that she wanted to buy a house in the million dollar range. The young realtor, Jasmine Parsons, had oreviously dated.... Jason Zailo, Lindsay's boyfriend.
What if the couple didn't speak english as a firat language, and didn't watch local news ? And so they didn't know about the murder ? And they left the country soon after ? What if they really did want to buy a house, and hence the call to Jasmine Parsons ? In such a small group of young real estate people,it could have been a coincidence that Jason had dated Jasmine.
My other theory won't hold water ; LE won't say if the potential buyers asked specifically to look at that house,or if Lindsay selected that house to show them...
Although the language isn't totally precise, this article seems to imply that the couple specifically asked to look at that house.
"Buziak was lured to the home by a man and a woman who said they were interested in viewing the million-dollar property at 1702 De Sousa Pl. in Gordon Head...The victim was asked to show the house at 5:30 p.m., even though she wasn't the listing agent."
That would fit with all the other signs of careful planning.
According to this article, Jasmine Parsons said that the woman called saying she wanted to list her house, but then when asked the address, said she didn't know. That would be very peculiar behaviour if it's true.
If someone targeted Lindsay, could they have then made the peculiar call to Jasmine to make people think they were targeting real estate agents in general, to throw investigators off the trail?
This is an unusual murder because the victim was "low risk" and there is no known motive yet the victim was specifically targeted. It was not random. It is very likely that the perp saw an advert with Lindsay's picture, her name and business phone number.
Although there was apparently no evidence of an "sexual" assault, stabbing with a knive can, itself, be a "sexual" act. There have been cases where men have carried out "stabbing" fantacies without "genital to genital" contact. I would think the wound patterns would be a tip off if the motive were sexual. 54 stab wounds were clearly over-kill but I would expect completly different patterns from a sexual stabbing than from an "anger" stabbing.
Real Estate agents are certainly at risk because they can find themselves alone in an isolated situationwhere a Perp would have no ties to the site. There have been enough realtors murdered to put most "on guard" when things are a little fishy. I'm a little surprized a RS company would allows an agent on her own to meet a client at a house that had not been seen at the office.
It is not unheard of for a preditor to use a woman accomplist. (think Karla and Paul Bernardo). Using an untracible cell phone suggest some sophistication but is hardly a sigh of "professionalism" or criminal genius.
I don't see why anyone would think Lindsay knew her killers. She would have mentioned that the appointment that "bothered" her was with someone she knew and it is reasonable to expect that she would have "smelled a rat" if she arrived for the appointment and found it was with someone she knew who was using a false name.
Also, does anyone know where the description of this couple came from ?
One other question : why has LE declined to identify the type of accent the woman who made the phone calls had ?
Are there a lot of Asian buyers up in B.C. ? But then, I wonder about the "Paulo Rodriguez ' phone. Paulo is the Portuguese version of Paul. Could it have been a Brazilian accent ?
liz b. said:2. Did Lindsay obtain and note any names in her appointment calendar ? Also, I read that the house was priced at just under 1 million. Most realtors would obtain some financial information from a potential buyer before they would show a house like that. Did Lindsay note any financial information, such as an employer ?
Couple more questions :
2. Concerning the Paulo Rodriguez cellphone, did LE get a list of all calls made BEORE the woman called Lindsay ? How about cell phone pings ?
Some ideas :
A lot of planning went into this killing, even down to the cell phone alias. Lindsay may have been targeted based solely on her bio on the realtor's website : she was the youngest realtor.Did the killer(s) think she was also the most naive ? Did they believe she would be easy to fool with regard to their financial assets ? And therefore,did they believe she would show them the house without too many questions ?
They seemed to want to kill her inside the house. They seemed to have a huge amount of anger.
I was interested to read that the owner of the land sold it to a developer ; the houses were not occupied, and not all of the houses were even finished. Looking at photos of the area, it is just beautiful. Very serene.
I am wondering if this killing could be the work of an environmental extremist group ? They have been arsonists, could they have stepped over the line to commit murder, and make a point,send a message ?
All JMO
"To nail down the sequence of events, police looked at the time when the lock box was accessed on the homes front door, which is consistent with the 5:30 p.m. scheduled meeting between Buziak and the couple, and with testimony from witnesses who saw Buziak greet the pair at the front door."
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/theory+Killers+Buziak+mistake/3218003/story.html
Million dollar homes aren't that uncommon around here....real estate prices are through the roof. An average 3 bedroom house costs $500,000+, even condos can go higher than a million dollars. My point being the fact that they called and asked to see a million dollar property wouldn't be that unusual....ie - it wouldn't be the biggest, best house in town.
As far as I remember the phone was purchased/activated in late January in Vancouver and wasn't used before the call to Lindsay asking her to show the house. Cell phone pings are interesting....I'm sure they looked into this. I wonder where the call was made from?
So many questions why....why Lindsay? Why so much anger towards her? 54 stab wounds?!
Nevinm,
Thanks for the link, this is a very informative article. Some things that stand out for me :
1. The lack of forensic evidence at the crime scene, and all DNA found was traced back to Lindsay.
2. The cell phone seems to have been purchased and used only to communicate with Lindsay. After the murder it was deactivated.
3. Lindsay was responding to text messages while she was showing this couple the house, she seemed to have no idea that she was about to be attacked.
4. Lindsay was not apprehensive about showing the house,and she did not ask her boyfriend to check up on her or meet her there. He showed up at the house with some real estate papers for her to sign.
5. It is thought that the couple were dropped off and picked up near the house.
My thoughts are that it really sounds like a professional killing.Sounds like it was planned with almost military precision. It does not sound like a sexual/stabbing thrill kill. The why of it would have to be somewhere in her life, in her contacts and background.
I do find it a bit odd that Lindsay's boyfriend would show up at the house after she had just been murdered, with some papers for her to sign. IIRC, they lived together ? And she would probably have been home soon. So, IMO,his presence there just seems.... off somehow.
I wonder if someone hired this couple to kill her ?
All JMO
A lot of things, like #1, 2 and 5 do seem to point to quite a bit of planning, and thus possibly a hired killing.
The thing that seems to me not to fit with that is that she was stabbed so many times. I wonder if that is rare for a professional killing. I would think that hired killers would want to get the job done quickly and cleanly, without doing anything unnecessary.
On the other hand, if it was done for a "thrill," then if #5 is true, it would seem surprising that even more people would be involved.
Very puzzling!
The question,IMO, is : who would have wanted Lindsay dead ?
The last theory put out by the police here is that it was a case of mistaken identity or something like that. They've been through Lindsay's life, computer, etc with a fine tooth comb and couldn't find anything obvious that would lead someone to kill her or want her dead. She was a well liked, decent person. It doesn't make sense.
