“Ignoring her gut feeling killed her.”

Gut feelings are strange.

Sometimes, they’re nothing more than anxiety.

Sometimes, they’re your brain noticing something you haven't consciously noticed yet.

And sometimes, they’re a warning.

We’re told to trust our instincts. But what happens when we feel something is wrong… and choose to ignore it anyway?

For Lindsay Buziak, that feeling came just days before her death.

A strange woman called her.

A strange accent.

A million-dollar house.

A story that didn't quite add up.

Lindsay was uneasy. She told people around her. She even had others offer to come with her.

But she went anyway.

And a few days later, that gut feeling would be the thing everyone wished she had listened to.

Welcome to another episode of The Crime Times, your weekly dose of chilling crimes, bizarre mysteries, and stories that will make you question everything.

Keep your lights off, wear your detective hat and let’s get back to this week’s case.

At 5:38 p.m., Jason Zalo texted his girlfriend:

“I’m a couple minutes away.”

Three minutes later, Lindsay Buziak’s phone accidentally called a friend from inside the house.

At 6:05 p.m., Jason was calling 911.

Somewhere in those 27 minutes, 24-year-old Lindsay was murdered.

And the people who killed her were gone.

Lindsay was a young realtor in Victoria, British Columbia. Ambitious, successful, and already building a name for herself.

Then, a few days before her death, a woman called.

She said her husband was being transferred to Victoria. They needed a house immediately.

Budget? About $1 million.

The woman had a strange, possibly fake foreign accent. She claimed someone had recommended Lindsay, but Lindsay couldn't verify who.

Something about the whole thing felt wrong.

Still, the client was persistent.

And eventually, Lindsay agreed to show her some properties.

One of them was a brand-new house at 1702 De Sousa Place.

There was just one problem.

Lindsay wasn't comfortable going alone.

The night before the showing, Lindsay's boyfriend's mother, Shirley, overheard her talking to the mystery woman.

She learned the exact time and the exact address.

And she offered to go with Lindsay.

Lindsay said no.

Later that night, Jason also offered.

“No, I'll be fine.”

The next afternoon, Lindsay's coworkers noticed she was genuinely freaked out. They offered to accompany her too.

Again, she declined.

Jason would be nearby.

She wouldn't be alone.

She didn't know how wrong that would be.

Lindsay arrived at the house.

Jason was on the phone with her, trying to find the newly built street.

Then Lindsay saw them.

A man and a woman.

The couple she'd been expecting.

Her voice changed.

“Oh, I've got to go. They're here.”

She ended the call.

The couple approached.

Lindsay shook their hands.

Then she unlocked the house and let them inside.

The door closed.

Jason texted:

“I'm a couple minutes away.”

No reply.

Investigators believe the attack began around 5:40 p.m.

She was stabbed repeatedly upstairs.

There were no meaningful defensive wounds.

It appears she barely had time to react.

And then something even stranger happened.

During the attack, Lindsay's phone accidentally called a friend.

The friend received a muffled connection from inside the house.

Movement.

Noise.

Then nothing.

Jason and his friend Cohen arrived shortly afterward.

They saw a shadow behind the glass of the front door.

They assumed the showing was still happening.

So they waited.

Then they left briefly.

When they returned, the house was silent.

Jason texted again:

“Are you okay?”

Nothing.

He called.

Nothing.

He went to the door.

Locked.

Then he noticed Lindsay's shoes inside.

Something was very, very wrong.

Cohen found the backyard doors wide open.

Jason went inside.

And screamed:

“Lindsay! Lindsay!”

She was upstairs.

Dead.

The couple was gone.

There was no getaway car.

The investigation had very little to work with. 

There was no DNA that could identify the attackers, no fingerprints that pointed to them, and the weapon itself was never found.

The couple had arrived on foot.

And nobody saw them leave.

Investigators later discovered that the phone used to lure Lindsay had been bought under a fake name, activated just one day before her murder, and used only to contact her.

It had even pinged near the murder house the night before.

Which raises a horrible possibility:

Were they watching the house before Lindsay ever arrived?

Police investigated Jason and other people around Lindsay. They explored theories involving real estate, personal motives, and even a possible connection to a Calgary drug bust.

Nothing stuck.

No one was arrested.

Lindsay was 24.

She walked into that house expecting to sell a million-dollar home.

Instead, she walked into a trap.

Two strangers entered with her.

They killed her.

And somehow, they got out.

Seventeen years later, the murder remains unsolved.

Which means somewhere, someone knows.

Someone knows who that couple really was.

Someone knows who sent them.

And someone knows the one question investigators still can't answer:

Why Lindsay?

So detectives, tonight we are asking you to tell us your theories about why it could have happened. Why do you think Lindsay was killed? What could be the motive? And, more than that, who could have killed her?

— The Crime Times
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