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Police in B.C. disclose little about realtor's murder
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Date: Mon. Feb. 4 2008 10:01 PM ET
Police in Saanich, B.C., are saying very little about the murder of a 24-year-old realtor, who may have been lured to her death inside an upscale home.
Investigators have not disclosed how Lindsay Buziak, a well-respected professional who specialized in the Victoria market, may have been killed.
On Saturday at 6 p.m., officers received a 911 call to check on someone in an unoccupied home, located in a new subdivision of the Gordon Head neighbourhood.
When they arrived at the house, they found Buziak's body.
Police said the 911 call is a key part of their investigation, but have not even specified the caller's gender.
Sources told CTV British Columbia that Buziak received a cellphone call on Saturday to show the house. She then apparently told her boyfriend -- also a real estate agent -- that she was concerned.
Police said they have no motive and no suspect in the killing.
"Lindsay was murdered at the hands of someone, but we don't know who caused her death and may not know for some time," Const. Brad Brajcich of Saanich Police said Monday.
Buziak's close friend Vickie Mackie said she was supposed to meet with Buziak on Sunday.
"I'm in complete and utter shock," she said. "Even right now it doesn't seem like reality. It seems like a bad dream that I'll wake up from, and she'll be here."
Wayne Schrader, president of RE/MAX Camosun, said Buziak was respected by everyone she worked with.
"She was the kind of person that everybody liked," he said. "She was very good with clients and the clients that worked with her appreciated all her efforts."
Brajcich told CTV.ca on Monday that there are 25 officers working on the case.
"We know that it's very important to delegate a tremendous amount of resources to resolve this and to come to some conclusion as to what happened," he said.
One of Vancouver's most high-profile realtors, Spice Luck, said she has had moments in her 35-year career when she felt particularly unsafe.
"I've been in a situation where I bolted out of a house very, very quickly," she said.
There have been at least three other incidents in B.C. where female realtors working alone have been the victims of violent crime:
- Last October, an agent in Surrey was attacked by two men posing as clients;
- In 2003, an agent was attacked in downtown Vancouver while showing a condo; and,
- In 1985, another realtor was stabbed to death in Matsqui (later part of Abbotsford).
However, Brajcich said it's unknown whether the victim's job had anything to do with her death.
"We have no evidence she was targeted because of her occupation," he said.
With a report from CTV British Columbia's Jim Beatty
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