A mysterious phone call. A million-dollar home. Two prospective buyers who were never seen again.
On February 2, 2008, twenty-four-year-old real-estate agent Lindsay Buziak arrived at a vacant home in Saanich, British Columbia, for what appeared to be a routine property showing.
The appointment had been arranged by a woman Lindsay did not know. The caller claimed that she and her husband were relocating to Victoria and wanted to purchase a home worth around one million dollars. Lindsay was uneasy about the unusual referral, but the clients seemed genuine enough to proceed.
At approximately 5:30 p.m., a man and woman arrived at the property.
Witnesses saw Lindsay greet them.
The three entered the house.
Minutes later, Lindsay was fatally stabbed upstairs.
The mysterious couple disappeared.
What followed became one of Canada's most haunting unsolved murder investigations. Detectives traced the calls to a prepaid phone registered using false information, examined extensive telephone records, gathered eyewitness descriptions, searched the crime scene and investigated whether Lindsay had been deliberately lured to the house.
Police have described the murder as targeted and pre-planned, yet no one has been publicly charged with killing Lindsay.
The Couple Who Vanished: The Unsolved Murder of Lindsay Buziak examines the strange calls, the million-dollar appointment, the unidentified man and woman, the evidence, the investigation, the theories and the unanswered questions that have endured for nearly two decades.
Who made the call?
Who were the couple seen entering the house?
Why was Lindsay chosen?
And how did the people connected to her final appointment seemingly disappear?
Carefully separating documented evidence from rumour and speculation, this book explores one enduring mystery:
Who killed Lindsay Buziak-and will the couple who vanished ever finally be identified?