May 13/2024 Lindsay Buziak Murder & the mysterious Toshiba Laptop inspection by the Saanich Police Geek Squad.
The Saanich Police seized Jason Zailo’s Toshiba laptop computer two weeks after the murder. What doesn’t make sense is why they didn’t seize it immediately after the murder, and why did Saanich need to turn the laptop over to the RCMP for inspection – don’t they have their own forensics department? Jason told the investigators that him and Lindsay shared the laptop. Wouldn’t the cops question why a guy who drives a Range Rover and a girl who drove a BMW needed to share a laptop. Surely each of them could have afforded their own, and anyone who knew Lindsay well, would know that she would want her own computer.
Not one where her boyfriend had easy access and could be snooping into her private business. Is it possible that this laptop was not password protected, thereby giving the person who deleted the messages easy access? Just how do you share a computer? Even if there was no password to access the computer whoever had the device would need the password to access Lindsay’s Facebook account. When the police came knocking, the owner would have to explain why their fingerprints were all over the keys, and other parts of the device. No need for Jason to give it a wipe-down, he would know that a wipe-down would not completely erase anything he might have touched. After several years in the real estate business myself I have never once heard of realtors sharing a laptop. It makes no sense at all. Just one more unbelievable story told by Jason Zailo.
FACT: Lindsay buziak owned her own laptop and was very protective of it.
So, the RCMP go through the computer and find that there are missing chat messages and discover that no one has posted on Lindsay’s wall between January 24th & February 3rd. Even though someone had deleted all this information, the police were able to recover the information from the deleted file. You can’t just delete something from the deleted file and expect it to be gone. You need to delete a file at least 3 times before it will be deleted from the hard drive.
Is it possible that Lindsay could have deleted her friends Facebook posts during those dates, and her incoming and outgoing messages? Hardly likely, but not impossible. However, the cops did say “recently deleted.” Therefore, the Saanich cops knew exactly when those messages were all deleted, but as we know that information would never be shared with the public. You’d think most good investigators would find deletions of these kind to be suspicious and a good clue, and a good investigator would have had no problem determining who exactly deleted the messages and chat.
The officers who inspected the files found this all to be very odd, but Sgt. Chris Horsley was quick to tell the Times Colonist that police had investigated Lindsay’s on-line chat, and even though it had been deleted, they found nothing related to any crime or potential motive.
But, if this is true, then why did Sgt. Chris Horsley go on CHEK News and tell the public that the police found evidence on Lindsay’s computer to show that she had sent a message to a relative of Erickson Delalcazar’s. He also said that she had tried to contact him by phone, but they did not know whether she had made contact. Really, are you telling me the cops can’t find out through her service provider whether the person picked up at the other end and how long the call lasted. If the person at the other end didn’t answer, then there would be no record of time spent on the phone. If they spent time on the phone, there would be a time recorded record.
Let’s not forget what Sgt. Rob McColl & Chris Horsley told Josh about Lindsay’s Calgary visit when they appeared on Dateline in 2010.
The host, Josh Mankiewicz said, “while in Calgary, Lindsay made contact with at least 2 men, old friends she grew up with and just a month later one of those men, was arrested in Calgary’s largest drug bust ever. So, it could be that Lindsay did meet up with Erickson Delalcazar while in Calgary, then when she returned to Victoria, she tried to make contact with one of Erickson’s relatives.
So even though Horsley had us confused with what he said in the media, referring back to what was said on Dateline by Josh and what was said by Horsley in the press, both statements now make sense. Why would Lindsay meet up with Erickson & which relative would she have reached out to when back in Victoria?
Isn’t it interesting that the person who deleted all the messages chose not to delete that message to Delalcazar, but removed the others. It’s as if they left that message on there so that the police would think Lindsay had connections to someone in the Delalcazar family. The Saanich Police fell hook, line and sinker for that because that is the first lead they chose to follow. Right where the person who deleted the messages wanted them to go. “Calgary”
Maybe Sgt. Chris Horsley can explain to us why someone deleted all these files from the computer.
Seemingly, they had a motive for doing what they did and what other possible motive would they have had, other than to erase data they didn’t want the police to see. Perhaps this is hold-back information/future evidence that the police don’t want the public to know. Wouldn’t it have been top priority for the cops to figure out just who deleted all this information, and why? Was this computer inspected by RCMP experts or was this the new guy at the local Geek Squad they handed the laptop over to?
Even if no one admitted to deleting the information, a forensics expert could identify the date the information was deleted, and the IP address from where the laptop was at the time of deletion. It had to be someone very close to Lindsay, someone who knew her password, and if they didn’t know her password, had access to her computer and knew how to find her password. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out who that person was likely to be. Did the cops follow that lead – no there was no follow through, instead they cleared Jason Zailo of having any involvement in his girlfriend’s murder in 2009. Talk about a bungled investigation.
The RCMP officer who studied the computer, Paul Brooks, found that data related to internet chat communication had recently been deleted.
The missing data came from the “my documents” part of the hard drive, where there was a folder called, “my received files,” a file that Brooks said was empty. He also said he had found a page file on the computer which contained a password processing activity email & internet browsing activity. Brooks concluded that there were chat messages at one time, but they had since been erased. He was unable to determine what had happened. A different officer who studied Lindsay’s Facebook page noticed that none of Lindsay’s 700 friends posted any messages on her wall between Jan 24 & Feb. 3/2008. The officer found this very odd and inconsistent with Lindsay’s pattern of activity. Police believe her messages had been deleted.
What INFORMATION Facebook provided to the Saanich Police through a court order IS UNCLEAR, but notes made by a Saanich Police officer after reading about Facebook, suggests Lindsay, or someone with access to Lindsay’s Facebook account had deleted the messages. Wall messages may be deleted but only the user may delete messages posted on their own wall through the use of their own account.
EMAIL ADDRESS: murderondesousa@gmail.com