Still A Mystery (2018–2019): Season 1, Episode 1 - The dangerous houses - full transcript

An 18-year-old sends
urgent texts for help.

She said, you know, "I'm scared.

Can you come pick me up.
I don't feel comfortable here."

Then she vanishes.

She seemingly disappeared
into thin air.

Someone is hiding something...

People know.

Somebody knows
what happened to brookelyn.

...And coming up later,

Another young woman
is brutally murdered at work.

They stabbed her
in excess of 40 times.



Stuff like that does not happen.
It just doesn't.

It looked like somebody had gone

To a very careful
and methodical planning.

Two families desperate
for answers.

All I want here is justice
for my daughter.

It doesn't even make
a difference

If I think she's dead or not.

I need my baby back home.

What really happened
to brookelyn and lindsay?

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A young woman vanishes,
leaving her

Most basic belongings behind.

She didn't even have on her
shoes is really what got me.

Like too many other blond girls



Who have disappeared
in the heartland area,

Some people fear
she's been kidnapped.

I would just think, what if
she's in someone's basement?

What if she's cold?

What if she's hungry?

What if she's being beaten?

The mystery of
18-year-old brookelyn farthing

Begins in 2013
in berea, kentucky.

It's a small artsy town
nestled in lush horse country.

The kind of place
where there are no strangers.

Everything is pretty much
in one big circle around here.

Everybody pretty much
knows everybody.

Like most berea kids,

Brookelyn grows up with a love
of nature and adventure,

But she's not a total tomboy.

She was the country girl
going out and fishing,

Four-wheeling, having fun,

But she also was this little
girl that loved pink,

Dress-up, always was looking
real cute, makeup, hair done.

She just was the best
of both worlds.

Brookelyn, or brooke
as she's called by her friends,

Is the middle sister
in a close-knit family of girls,

And she's known
for being the glue

That holds everyone together.

When everybody was arguing,

She was normally the one
who would fix it.

You couldn't help but love her.

She had that spirit
that was just wonderful,

Easy to talk to anybody.

Brooke dreams of
becoming a cosmetologist,

But after graduating
from high school in June 2013,

She's just looking forward
to a fun summer

With her friends and family.

She talked a lot
about cosmetology,

About being a hair dresser,
nails and makeup and stuff,

But she was just
being free to the world.

She was just enjoying life.

She really hadn't made up
her mind

If she wanted to go to college,

Or she just wanted
to get a job right then.

She was still like, "well,
mom, maybe give me a month off."

On Friday, June 21st,
brooke and her younger sister,

Paige,
both take their driver's test.

I went first,
and I did not pass.

But brooke does pass,
and she's ecstatic.

She was just bubbly.

They were all giggling
and happy, you know,

Because she had got
her driver's license,

And they were all going out.

That afternoon, the
sisters spend some special time

With their ailing grandfather
at his birthday party.

He had been sick,
and we didn't really know

If he would make it
through the weekend or not.

Our plans that day we're
basically to go to our grandpa's

Birthday with our cousin,

Go back to her house,
get ready and stuff

And then go out that night.

The girls are going
to an outdoor party.

Brooke packs an overnight bag

Because she's planning to sleep
at a friend's house afterwards.

When she left, smiling, happy,
hugs and kisses everybody,

And they knew the rules --
call back in,

Everything was going to be fine.

It's the first night of summer,

And as they do every year,

Most of the teens in berea
gather to celebrate in a field.

It's a big old field,

And you got a big old fire
in the middle of it,

And you'll have a bunch
of trucks backed up together

And everybody playing
their music real loud,

And the girls
are dancing around,

And the boys are just
hanging out on the tailgate

And having a couple beers.

It seemed like
she was having a great time.

I mean, she was bouncing around,
talking to people.

Brooke's sister,
tasha, leaves the party early,

And then the friend
brooke plans to spend the night

With leaves too with a boy,
which causes a fight.

Brooke being, I guess,
a little headstrong

Like her mama, she's just like,

"fine, if that's the way
you want to be then

I'm going back home tonight.

I'm not going to spend
the night with you."

So this girl left brooke
at the party

Without a ride or anything.

So at that point, she started,
you know,

Trying to figure out
how she was going to get home.

Brooke is stranded,
but she continues to have fun

Until she notices a classmate
who needs her help.

A little boy that she went to
school with had got very drunk

And was unable to drive
and do anything.

Brooke finds someone
who is willing to give both her

And her drunk classmate
a ride home,

An older man who is friends
with her ex-boyfriend, jared.

I guess jared
and this guy were friends.

I had no idea who he was,

But brooke had been
living with jared

For about a year and a half so,
I guess, she could know him.

Jared, brooke's ex,
isn't at the party.

He's working a night shift
at a factory,

But even though
they've just ended

Their serious 3-year
relationship they keep in touch.

They were still like
actively texting and stuff,

But they definitely were not in,
like, a relationship boyfriend,

Girlfriend type of thing.

Brooke seems to feel
okay with jared's friend

Giving both herself
and her drunk classmate a ride.

Brooke wouldn't have
went home with anybody

She wasn't comfortable
catching a ride with.

After dropping brooke's
classmate safely at his house

In the early morning hours
of Saturday,

June 22nd, jared's friend
drives brooke to his house,

Which is in a more
secluded part of town.

It's in kind of like the
outskirts, I guess, of berea,

And there was about maybe eight
or nine houses total

Around there.

It was just a very rural place.

I mean, a lot of woods.

There's a large lake nearby.

Nice neighborhood.

Straight across the street
was her Sunday school teachers.

I mean, it was not a place
or an area

That I would have thought

Anything would have
went wrong or happened.

But the situation is awkward.

Jared's friend is going
through a divorce.

His house is in foreclosure,

And it has no electricity
or running water.

Brooke calls her sisters
and tells them

That she feels uncomfortable
and wants to go home.

She was like, "hey,
can you guys come get me?"

And I was like,
"heather is super drunk.

I don't think
that she can drive."

I was like, "and I can't drive.

Do you want me to get somebody
to come get you?"

And she was like,
"no, it's fine.

I think I'm going to get jared
to come pick me up."

Around 4:00 a.M., brooke writes
to jared asking him

To please come and get her.

He was telling her, you
know, he couldn't get off work

Until about 6:00 or 6:30,

Did she think she'd be
okay there until then,

And she said,
"yeah, that was fine."

He ask her if she was okay.

She said she was fine,
had been drinking

But she had sobered up.

He was in the other bedroom
passed out,

And she was just sitting on
the couch smoking a cigarette.

But suddenly,
the messages from brooke become urgent.

At 4:26 a.M. She texts,
"can you hurry?

Please hurry,"
and then adds, "I'm scared."

I mean, she never has ever been
put in a situation

Where she was
at a stranger's house,

Let alone no electric
or water I'm sure,

But she was freaking out.

Because jared is at
work and thinks brooke is okay,

He doesn't read
all of her texts.

When he does finally
check his phone,

He sees that brooke
has written at 5:30 a.M.

Saying she no longer
needs a ride,

"never mind! I'm okay.

I'm going to a party
in rockcastle county."

It's not until 9:00 that morning

When brooke doesn't
show up at a car show

She plans to attend
with a friend,

That her family begins to worry.

It's not like brooke to not
let people know where she is.

She was just that type of person

That you got 1,000
text messages of, "I went here,"

And "I'll be back home
at this time,"

And "I'm okay,"
and "we're having a lot of fun."

I got worried when matt,
the guy that she was supposed

To go to the car show with,
called and was like,

"hey, do you know
where brooke is?

I keep calling her.
She's not answering,"

And I was like,
"no, that's really weird."

We all thought phones died
or she's got drunk

And passed out,
and it'll be fine.

She'll wake up
and charge her phone

And see everybody has called.

Still, brooke's
silence is troubling,

So her family contacts
her ex-boyfriend, jared.

He tells them about the text she
sent first saying she's scared

But then saying she's okay

And is on her way
to another party 20 miles away.

Something seems off.

I think it was very odd
that brooke was scared to death

And then all of a sudden
she was fine.

Nobody knows anything
about the party

Brooke was supposedly headed to,

And it makes no sense
to her family

That she would have
gone there at 5:30 a.M.

I mean, how do you just go
to a party in rockcastle county

If you don't have a vehicle,

And nobody's coming
to pick you up,

And nobody else
knows you're there?

It was very suspicious.

Now brooke's family is panicked.

Where is she?

On the morning of June 22, 2013,

18-year-old brookelyn farthing
doesn't show up at the car show

She's supposed to attend
with a friend.

She isn't answering her
phone either,

And her family fears
something is wrong.

Everybody was texting everybody

Trying to figure out
where brooke was,

Where she went,
who she was with.

Brooke left a party
the night before with a man

Who is friends
with her ex-boyfriend.

This guy was, like, a lot older
than everyone there.

The man takes brooke
back to his house,

Which immediately strikes
her family as strange.

The house was
in foreclosure at the time.

There was no running water.

There was no electricity,
nothing.

I mean, there was no reason
they should have been there.

Brooke's ex-boyfriend, jared,

Tells her family that
she texted him at 5:30 a.M.

To tell him she was going to
another party 20 miles away,

But when brooke's sister, tasha,
calls the man who owns the house

Where she was sending
the texts from,

He tells her he has
no idea where she went.

He says he left the house
to tend to his horses,

And when he came back,
brooke was gone,

But 15 minutes after tasha
first speaks to him,

He calls back to tell her
something disturbing.

He says, "ma'am,
I'm really scared,"

And I said, "well, what do you
have to be scared about?"

Then he said,
"well, I don't know

If brooke did it or not,
but when I came home

From putting the horses up,
my house was on fire."

It's obviously suspicious
whenever the last known location

That someone was
at catches on fire.

It turns out that at
7:00 a.M. The man called 911

To report a fire
in his living room.

Firefighters rushed to the house
to find a burned-out couch.

And it wasn't until that a fire
was reported,

There at that residence,

That things really
got suspicious.

Brooke's family starts to panic.

Why didn't this man tell them
about the fire

At his house right away?

Is he hiding something?

I just, you know, in my heart

I feel like he got scared
and he was like, "oh, crap.

They're going
to know something."

Like they're going
to keep digging.

Brooke's family heads
to the man's house,

Which police are treating
as a crime scene.

The only sign of brooke
is her overnight bag

And her cowboy boots.

All of her stuff was there
including the shoes

She had on her feet.

Why would brooke
leave her belongings behind?

The only thing she seemed
to have taken is her cellphone.

The fact that she didn't
even have on her shoes

Is really what got me.

Well, her shoes were there,
but, like, she wasn't.

It was just really weird.

Where is brooke?

According to the man
that owns the house,

The last time he saw her

She was on his couch
smoking a cigarette,

But now that couch is destroyed,
and what's more,

It's the only thing in the whole
house that caught fire.

When I say the couch was burned,

All that was left
was literally the metal frame.

It just seems awful funny
and suspicious

That the last place
you seen my daughter

Is the one thing
that was getting destroyed.

The kentucky state
police begin frantically combing

The dense forest
around the foreclosed house.

Initially, there were searches
of several ponds,

Several wooded areas
surrounding the residence.

But there are 16,000 acres
of difficult terrain to search.

They brought in horses.

They brought in cadaver dogs.

They brought in divers.

It was just so hard because
it was so wooded,

So rugged terrain.

I mean, you got cliffs
and drop-offs.

You got sinkholes that
you could fit a car in,

And there's too many snakes
and all kinds of stuff.

The terrain was so bad

That is was really hard
to search for her.

They did thousands
and thousands of miles for her,

But we still just
don't have anything.

Police try to locate
brooke's cellphone

Hoping it will
give them some clues.

They kept pinging this phone
trying to find her,

But finally, I guess,
the phone went dead,

And once its dead
you can't ping it.

When police pulled
brooke's cellphone records,

They see hundreds of calls
and texts

Have come into her phone

From concerned
family and friends,

But there's nothing outgoing
after the 5:30 a.M.

Text she sent to her ex.

How could this beautiful
young girl,

Who had her whole life
ahead of her,

Just vanish into thin air?

She went to a birthday party.

She left from family.

Everything was golden.

100% perfect, smiling face,
giggling,

Laughing, full of life,

And in less than 24 hours
we have nothing.

The madison county teenager
disappeared.

Jared, brooke's ex-boyfriend
is brought in for questioning,

But he has an air-tight alibi.

He was working at the factory
all night.

The man who owns the house
is also questioned,

And so is everyone else
who attended the outdoor party

Brooke went to that night,

But police
don't name anyone a suspect

And seem to have
very little to go on.

In the small town of berea,
rumors begin to run wild.

Some people speculate
that brooke's disappearance

Could be related to
other troubling unsolved cases.

Since 2005, more than a dozen
women, all with blond hair,

Have gone missing
in the heartland area.

What if brooke has been
kidnapped?

That's terrible.

I would rather her just be gone

Than sitting
in someone's basement.

I have three little girls,

And my biggest fear would be
somebody snatching them up

Because you hear about
sex trafficking so much,

People just getting abducted,
and that scares me to death.

Like, that's my greatest fear.

But it's hard to imagine
how brooke could have been abducted.

The house where she was
last known to be

Is in the middle of nowhere
on a quiet cul-de-sac.

And I just don't see her
taking off walking anywhere.

I just don't think that she just
got picked up by someone random.

Brooke also
knew people in the area,

So if she was in trouble,
why didn't she try to get help?

Her Sunday school teachers
was straight across the street,

Right on the other side.

She could have
went across the street,

Used the phone and said,
"mom, come get me."

Whatever happened to brooke,

Her family believes something
went terribly wrong in the hour

Between the time
she texted her ex-boyfriend

Saying, "I'm scared,"

And that last strange text
about going to a party.

I don't believe the last text
was something she wrote.

I don't believe that text
was even hers.

But if it wasn't brooke who
sent that last text from her phone,

Then who did, and what
have they done to brooke?

In June 2013,
18-year-old brooke farthing

Disappears without
a trace in the small town of

Berea, kentucky.

Since brookelyn's disappearance

Thousands of acres
have been searched.

We've tried to leave
no stone unturned.

The last place
she was known to be

Is a house
where there was a fire.

The guy that owned the house

Said that she was sitting
on the couch smoking,

And that he thinks
that she fell asleep

And the cigarette caught
the couch on fire.

The couch yields no clues
because it is burnt to a crisp.

The man who owns the house
maintains that he knows nothing

And had no involvement
in brooke's disappearance.

I'm not happy with his story.

I don't believe his story.

Brooke's family fears the worst.

Something was on that couch,

And he knew
that he had to get rid of it.

In brooke's last text
at 5:30 a.M.,

She said she was heading
to a party in rockcastle,

But investigators
never find any evidence

That there really was a party,

And brooke never mentioned it
to anyone else.

And I was like, "who the heck
does brooke know in rockcastle?"

She told me that she was
going to get a ride with jared.

She was going to come home,
leave the door unlocked,

So I did that,
and she never came home.

There's one more thing.

The man who owns the house
where brooke

Was last seen works
in road maintenance,

Which means he knows
the backwoods of berea

Inside and out,
and brooke's family believes

That if anyone would know
where to hide a body, it's him.

He knew all the back dump roads

Because he worked for
the county road department.

He took them everyday.

I mean, he knew every part
of the land

Back through there,
every drop-off, side road.

I mean, he just knew everything.

But the man continues
to maintain his innocence

And soon one year passes
into another with no new leads.

Today marks 3 years

Since a madison county
teenager disappeared.

It's now been 5 years since
madison county teenager

Brookelyn farthing
disappeared overnight.

Six years after brooke
vanished her case remains a mystery,

And police are still
searching for answers.

We're looking for somebody
that can actually come forward

And lay it out for us.

Brookelyn farthing's family
is still looking for her.

I think that is
the hardest part, um,

Is not having any answers.

We leave it in
law enforcement's hands

Because, I mean,
what else do you do?

Investigators continue
to receive tips

But say they don't yet
have enough evidence

To name a suspect
or a person of interest.

We've talked
to a number of people

During the course
of our investigation,

And somebody knows
what happened to brookelyn.

We're not allowed
to release suspect information

Without having enough
information to charge somebody.

I think what has
really stalled the case

Is that there's no body.

Brooke's family
has resigned themselves

To the sobering reality
that she may not be alive.

It's easier, for me,
just to think that she's dead.

If I spent everyday thinking,
you know,

She was possibly
somewhere alive,

It would drive me crazy.

And it doesn't even make
a difference

If I think she's dead or not.

It's just that she's out there.

I can't get to her,
and I need my baby back home.

She needs to be respected enough
to have a grave to go to.

The family has put up
a $14,000 reward for information.

They maintain a facebook page
and a website,

Find brooke farthing,

In the hopes
that someone will come forward.

People still call.

People still facebook and say,
you know, we're still here.

We haven't forgot about you.

We're still praying.

They are determined
to get justice.

There's some days, you know,

My mom can't get out
of the bed because of it.

The person,
whoever done this to brooke,

I don't know how
they sleep at night,

And he's going to pay one day.

And more than
anything, they want answers.

They just want to know
where brooke is.

Sometimes you don't get
all the answers,

And I may have to live
my whole life

With never seeing
this child again,

So I pray for an end for it.

Please, have mercy on us.

Let us know where she's at.

I just want my baby back.

Will brookelyn ever
be found dead or alive?

Nearly 3,000 miles away
in canada,

Another family has been waiting
even longer for justice.

This unsolved mystery begins
in the small quiet town

Of saanich in victoria,
british columbia.

It's beautiful place,
friendly people.

Everyone kind of knows each
other and knows of each other.

We all felt very safe.

In 2008,
24-year-old lindsay buziak

Is on her way to becoming
one of saanich's

Top real-estate agents.

She was one of the youngest
real -estate agents.

Everybody thought
very highly of her.

She was ambitious.

She was a very good saleswoman

Because she knew
what she wanted,

And she was going for it.

Lindsay is known for her
big heart and warm personality.

Lindsay was literally
the most vivacious person

You've ever met in your life.

She was that shining star
that just made you feel great,

Made you feel at ease.

She was such a social person.

Everybody loved her.

Lindsay makes work
her top priority.

Her phone was never off.

She was always answering e-mails
and phone calls

And text messages
and making sure

That she was there
for her customers all the time.

She was the definition
of a boss babe

Before that was even anything.

But lindsay's love
life is important to her too,

And after a few years
of being on-again, off-again

She's recently moved in
with her boyfriend jason zailo.

Lindsay and jason had
a great relationship.

I thought he was a great guy.

In January 2008,
lindsay gets promising news.

She's contacted by a couple
who wants to see

One of her company's
most expensive listings.

When lindsay got the call

To sell
this million-dollar house,

She called me immediately.

She was just real excited
because she thought okay,

If I can, you know,
get this sale,

What kind of doors
will that open up for me?

Little does anyone realize

What a nightmare
it's about to turn into.

There was a 911 call.

It's the worst possible scenario

You could ever live
in your life.

Lindsay buziak is
a successful real-estate agent

In her small canadian hometown
in saanich, british columbia.

In late January 2008, a woman
calls about buying a home

In the million-plus price range.

Exactly the kind of high-end
sale and big commission

That lindsay strives for.

She wanted to get into
the multi-million dollar sales

And do the high-end
luxury sales,

And she was so driven
to get there.

I know that all she wanted to do
was to be able to,

Like, take care of mom and dad
and, you know, help our family

And make sure that her people
are taken care of.

There's one thing
about the call that seems odd.

Lindsay isn't the agent
listed on the house

The woman says she
and her husband want to see.

The woman called lindsay on her
cellphone which surprised her.

They named a client of lindsay's
and said,

"oh, your client
told us to call you."

The woman is also
insistent that they only want to see

One house, which is brand-new
and was just built.

They aren't interested
in seeing anything else.

They seemed to be
a bit illusive.

They were very defined
what they needed

And that only seemed to be able
to be answered by one house.

As eager as lindsay
is to make the sale,

She begins to feel uneasy.

She's troubled by the woman's
heavy spanish-sounding accent.

She felt they were
putting on the accent.

Lindsay was very, very nervous
about the showing.

For reassurance,
lindsay reaches out

To the client
the woman says referred her

So she can find out
more information,

But the client doesn't respond.

Lindsay decides to show
the couple the house anyway,

But tells her dad that she's
going to ask her boyfriend,

Jason, to tag along.

She assured me
that her boyfriend, jason,

Would be there.

Lindsay's boyfriend,
jason zailo,

Is a mortgage broker

Who does the financing
on most of her deals.

A former semi-pro hockey player,
jason is also a big guy.

On the afternoon of Saturday,
February 2, 2008,

Lindsay and jason
eat a late lunch together.

They pay the bill at 4:24 p.M.,
and then leave in separate cars.

Lindsay asks jason to meet her
at the house at 5:30 p.M.,

But jason stops by an auto shop
to see a friend first,

And he loses track of time.

Jason wasn't there.

He was busy having a beer
with his buddies

Down on the auto detailing shop,
and he was late.

Jason texts lindsay at 5:29 p.M.
To say he's on his way.

"okay, I'll see you in a bit,"
she replies, "gotta go."

Then, lindsay accesses
the digital lock box

Outside the house
to retrieve the keys.

Two prospective clients showed
up to greet her at the door.

Several independent witnesses
saw them there.

At 5:38 p.M., jason sends
lindsay another text

Telling her
he's a few minutes away.

This time, she doesn't respond.

At 5:45 p.M., jason pulls up
to the house,

Which is one of only four homes
on a well-kept cul-de-sac.

He has a friend
with him in the car.

They both notice the front door
of the house open

And then close again.

People were exiting the home
as jason drove up,

Saw them coming out
the front door,

And they darted back in.

Jason claims that he assumed

Lindsay was still showing
the couple the house.

So jason pulled ahead
and parked and waited.

He was sitting out in a vehicle

On the pretext
of keeping guard for lindsay.

At one point, jason
moves his car to another street.

He waited for 20 minutes
at least,

So 10 minutes one spot,
10 minutes the other spot.

Lindsay still doesn't
respond to jason's text

So a little after 6:00 p.M.,

He and his friend decide
to go back to the house

And walk up to the front door.

It's locked, but jason can see

Lindsay's shoes
at the foot of the stairs.

Something isn't right.

He immediately dials 911.

Jason and his friend notice
that the patio doors

At the back of the house
are open,

So they climb over a fence
and rush inside.

What jason discovers in
the master bedroom suite

Upstairs is horrifying.

Lindsay buziak was found stabbed
to death in a home in saanich.

They stabbed her
in excess of 40 times

And slit her throat to the point
of almost decapitation.

I crumbled to the floor.

It was something that
you never want to hear --

Can dream of hearing
in your life,

And I was in disbelief.

We never ever, ever could have
thought that could be anything

That would ever happen to us
or to our lindsay.

The violent killing
sends shock waves

Through
the close-knit community.

Stuff like that does not happen
in victoria, b.C.

It just doesn't.

It doesn't make sense.

Who would want a young woman
like lindsay dead?

Lindsay made friends with every
single person she's ever met.

She absolutely had no enemies.

Police focus their investigation
on those mysterious clients

Who lured lindsay to the house.

They've got several
independent witnesses

That saw a man
and a woman outside

Just before the murder time
talking to lindsay.

It was a couple that lindsay
had never met before.

Witnesses describe
the couple as caucasian,

Well-dressed and about
10 years older than lindsay.

The description of the male
is relatively general --

That he was in 30
to 40 years of age

And about 6 feet tall
with dark hair.

The description that's given
to the public about the female

Is a little more specific.

She's about 35 to 40 years old
with short blond hair.

She was wearing
a distinctive dress,

Something that really stood out.

The unique dress has a red,
black and white swirl pattern,

And police have enough
information about the woman

Who was wearing it
to create this sketch,

But there's little else
to go on.

The couple has disappeared.

Nobody in the neighborhood
saw them leave the house,

And nobody knows
where they've gone,

And investigators can't recover
enough dna evidence

To identify lindsay's attackers.

Alarmingly, it appears
that the crime scene

Has been meticulously
cleaned up.

You would expect that given
the severity of the attack

That we may have had
greater success

With things such as dna
or hair and fiber evidence,

And the reality is is
that that's not the case.

It looked like somebody had gone

To a very careful
and methodical planning.

There was little, if no,
forensic evidence

That they have to tie anyone to.

Police only have one clue,

A phone number scribbled
in lindsay's date book.

They trace the number
to a prepaid cellphone

Purchased at a convenience
store in vancouver

By someone using a fake name
and a fake address.

The phone was activated
for the first time

Right before the mystery
couple contacted lindsay,

And then on the day
before she was murdered,

The phone made its way from
vancouver to saanich on a ferry.

Since then, it's never
been activated again.

That cellphone, or that burner
phone, has just disappeared.

Could there be
a connection between the phone,

The mysterious couple
and lindsay's murder.

Whatever happened,
rumors circulate

That maybe lindsay's boyfriend
is part of it.

My intuition was telling me,
"boyfriend, boyfriend,

Boyfriend."

To lindsay's family,
jason's behavior is odd,

And then there's this video.

He did a re-enactment
for the police a few days

After she was murdered.

And I was yelling.
I was yelling out, like,

"lindsay, lindsay, lindsay!"

I just came running up
the stairs.

Lindsay's family
thinks jason's calm demeanor

In the video is strange.

Did you see anything?
Did you hear anything?

Did you smell anything?

Kind of put yourself back there
into that...

The time I got from the door

To upstairs
was probably 2 seconds.

Okay, so you --
I was running up the stairs.

Okay.
Yeah.

All we can go on
is what we feel,

What we understand,
and certainly as a parent,

You have a gut feeling
of who you think was involved.

And it's not just lindsay's
family who wonders about jason.

There are whispers
in a small town

That maybe
he's hiding something.

In early 2008,
24-year-old realtor

Lindsay buziak is found
violently stabbed to death

In a house she was showing.

The buyers she was meeting
have vanished,

And her family suspects

The murder is the work
of someone lindsay knew.

The viciousness of her murder
was personal.

It was personal.
It was personal.

She was viciously stabbed,

And that indicates a really
strong motive of somebody

With some pent-up rage in them,

And I've only ever seen
those type of murders

In ones we call venting the tank

Where it's been
an enraged domestic situation

Where somebody's just lost it
and murdered somebody.

Lindsay had asked her boyfriend,
jason, to come to the house

Because she was nervous
about being alone

With her mystery clients,
but he didn't make it on time,

And her family wants to know
why he waited

Before going inside the house,

And why he moved his car
to a different location.

He arrived late, saw the people,
drove by the house and parked.

Who does that?

Is that a caring, loving person
who's going to sit there,

Turn around, go park out
on another street,

Wait another 10 minutes
before he does anything?

Jason is questioned by police,
but he has a solid alibi.

Security footage shows him
leaving an auto shop

With a friend at 5:30 p.M.,

The very same time
witnesses saw lindsay

Greet her clients
in the driveway.

Investigators believe she died
just moments afterwards,

But jason didn't
get to the house

Until 15 minutes later.

What's more, jason passes
a polygraph test

And insists that he
would never hurt lindsay.

After interviewing him
several times,

Police turn
their attention elsewhere.

He was finally cleared
as a suspect.

If it wasn't a crime of passion,

Could it have been
some kind of conspiracy?

Police explore a new theory.

They think lindsay's death
might have something to do

With a drug cartel.

Investigators learn that while
visiting her father in calgary

In late 2007,

Lindsay made contact on facebook
with someone who was later

Arrested in the bust
of a major drug ring.

Lindsay was associated
with one individual

That was arrested in calgary
sometime before her murder,

And he was in possession
of a large amount of cocaine.

That was in the middle
of December,

So it would have been
December of '07,

And then February of '08
she was executed.

Is it possible there's
a connection

Between the drug bust
and lindsay's murder?

There's no question that
lindsay had some form

Of contact with this person,

And that's not to say
that she was involved

In illegal activity herself,

But she was the one degree
removed from people

That were involved
at a high level.

Police suggest that
lindsay may have been targeted

By someone who thought
she was part of the drug ring,

Or that she was a snitch.

The theory that the saanich
police are putting out

Is that lindsay's murder
was a mistake.

Lindsay was killed

Because somebody was worried
she knew too much.

One telling clue is
that burner phone

That was used
to contact lindsay.

It's one of the standard
operating procedures

Of drug traffickers
to use phones

That are difficult to trace.

Investigators also believe
the violent nature

Of lindsay's death

Fits with
a drug-related execution,

But her family
doesn't buy any of it.

Most of our friends dabbled in,
you know, recreational drugs.

Lindsay was my only friend

Who never even remotely
went there.

Lindsay was not involved
in the drug trade.

She was not a rat.

She was not a snitch.

The person who was involved
in the calgary drug bust --

She looked him up on facebook,
and she tried his number.

How do you turn that
into a murder for hire?

I think people create a story
in their head

Because they need a story.

Two years pass
with no developments,

So in February 2010,

On the second anniversary
of her death,

Lindsay's family partners
with a real estate board

To offer a $100,000 reward
for information,

But 2 more years pass
and, there are still no leads.

In 2012, lindsay's dad
raises the reward to $500,000.

He is so desperate to find
his daughter's killers,

He begs them to come forward
and confess

And makes a radical proposition.

He also suggests that
if someone comes forward,

They could flee the country
under a new identity.

Everybody grieves differently,
and for my dad,

For him to turn over every rock

And to look every angle
and aspect of this,

I admire that because
I personally don't have

That in me to do that.

My mandate every day of my life

Is I need to do something
to see those people arrested

And exposed for the horrific
crime they took part in.

The family sets up a website

That's devoted to
getting justice for lindsay.

It's not until August 2017,
9 long years after her killing,

That a troubling confession
appears on the site.

It reads, "I killed lindsay,

And stupid cops
will never prove it."

I just remember instantly
thinking it was just a hoax,

Someone trying to maybe
get some attention.

Lindsay's name is
misspelled in the confession,

And the police soon announce
that it's just a cruel stunt.

The unsolved murder
terrifies people

In the small town of saanich.

Police don't know
who her killers are

Or why they killed her.

A local real-estate agent

Creates an app called protect
so other realtors

Can use it to alert loved ones
if they feel unsafe.

There's a big help button.

If they hit help, it alerts

Their friends and family
right away.

People don't look at that
the job of a realtor

Or real-estate agent
as a potentially dangerous job,

Although we're putting
ourselves out there

With strangers
every day, all day.

11 years after the murder,

Saanich police say their
investigation remains active,

And they are convinced
that someone in the community

Could help them
break the case open.

Somebody knows something
and eventually

They'll come forward and say it.

My experience in
criminal investigation

Is that the stranger
the case facts,

The closer the answer
is to home.

This was planned and executed by
people close to lindsay buziak.

That's my gut feeling.

You just pray that either they
can't live with themselves,

Or they inform a loved one
or slip somehow.

You know, of course,
there's people out there

That know something that know
clearly what they did.

The most important thing,
11 years after the fact,

Is that the truth come out

And that someone who knows
something comes forward

And does the right thing.

Lindsay's family
wants the police to do more,

And they're frustrated with how
long it's taking to get answers.

I'm pushing police all the time,

And they're telling me
to be patient.

They're telling me
these things take time.

They tell us nothing.

The police tell us nothing.

We know lindsay's gone.

We know she's not coming back.

All I want here,
is justice for my daughter,

And it's their duty,
their job to go out there

And find out who killed
my daughter and arrest them,

And if they're not
prepared to do that,

I am going to push every day
until that happens or I die.

Solve the ****damn murder now!

Will we ever know
what really happened

To lindsay buziak?