Casefile True Crime - Case 28: Lindsay Buziak | Follow Up

Episode Date: August 24, 2016

This is an update on the Lindsay Buziak case in Case 28. For all credits and sources please visit casefilepodcast.com/case-28-lindsay-buziak

This is our first follow-up episode of the Lindsay Buzziak case. Here we go over some of the media clips that have been released over the years. The Crime Stoppers video, a Sandwich Police press conference, a news report, a clip from the DateLine episode, and a clip from our own podcast. They are all presented in chronological order. On the one-year anniversary of Lindsay's death, a Crime Stoppers video was released. On Saturday, February 2, 2008, 24-year-old Victoria Realtor Lindsay Buzziak had made arrangements to show the house located at 1702 DeSousa Place in Sandwich.

Buzziak had received a cold call from a female with an accent regarding a purchase of this million-dollar property. Buzziak did not know the prospective buyers and had a sense of uneasiness. Shortly after 5.30 p.m., the prospective buyers arrived at the home and met with Lindsay in the driveway. The male was described as a Caucasian and tall, and the female as Caucasian in 30s, with blonde hair, wearing a red, black, and white-patterned dress. Lindsay Buzziak was murdered in the upstairs bedroom.

If you or anybody you know has information concerning the murder of Lindsay Buzziak, please call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. One year after that video, on the second year anniversary of Lindsay's death, the Sandwich police held a press conference. Lindsay Elizabeth Buzziak was murdered at 6 p.m. on February 2, 2008. She was showing the home at 1702 DeSousa Place, to a man and a woman interested in purchasing it. This was a rooster.

Lindsay was intentionally targeted. She was intentionally lured to the home, and she was intentionally killed. After exhaustively investigating this crime for the past two years, this is what we know. Lindsay was working as a real estate agent when she got a call from a woman, wishing to see a home through sale on DeSousa Place. Arrangedness to view the home were made, and Lindsay met a man and a woman just before 6 p.m. on February 7, 2008. Prior to meeting these potential clients, Lindsay made a phone call to her boyfriend,

Jason Salem, who agreed to meet her at the house. After the call with Lindsay, Jason and a friend went to DeSousa Place to ensure the viewing went well. He made a phone call to Lindsay just before arriving, where she did not answer. When they got to the home, they found the front door locked, but could see shoes inside the hallway. No one came to the door. Jason called 9-1-1, requesting police check Lindsay's welfare, but prior to police arriving,

Jason and his friend had entered the home and found Lindsay's body in an upstairs bedroom. Jason and his friend have been ruled out as suspects. Several other people have been considered persons of interest in the trial, but as of this time, none are deemed to be suspects. Soon after that, we have this news report. What investigators have held back until now is what they know about the minutes before and after the killing. Detectives say Lindsay arrived at the house around 5.30 and met a man and a woman.

Once they got into the upstairs portion of the home, which is no longer visible from the street through these open windows, the attack appears to have immediately occurred. Within 10 minutes of entering the house, Lindsay Bouziak was dead. Investigators say her killers escaped through the back door of the home, most certainly with blood on their clothes. And for the first time, investigators are acknowledging how Lindsay's body was discovered and by whom. Police say Jason Zalo, Lindsay's former boyfriend, arrived at the home with a friend to meet her to sign some legal documents.

Detectives say Zalo suspected something was wrong. His text messages to Lindsay went unanswered, and despite seeing Lindsay's car in the driveway, Zalo could see no one in the home. September 16th, 2010, the Dateline episode featuring Lindsay's case is aired. This is Jason Zalo speaking on Dateline. Jason drove up minutes later, around 5.45. From his front seat, he says he saw something through the front door of the house. It's like kind of smoke glass, and I saw a few people in the front entrance way.

You saw what outlines of people through the glass? Yes, yeah. You couldn't tell how many people? I would say two. Then, in 2016, we have Detective Horsley on case file. One thing off the top of my head, I know on the podcast mentioned when the witnesses showed up at the murder house that, you know, there was people seen through obscured glass. The fact of the matter is that people were actually seen.

The door was open, and the witnesses actually observed the male suspect exiting the house. So, just lots of little things that, you know, we've tried to clarify. I certainly have had a lot of discussions with Jeff Buzyak over the years. Thank you.