All murders are solvable said Sgt. Chris Horsley
Question for Chris Horsley: On a recent Island Crime podcase you made a statement saying that Investigative DNA Genealogy wasn’t as promising at solving cases here in Canada. You also stated that private labs don’t interact seamlessly with the RCMP National Labs. If you really believe what you are saying, then you also have to believe there is little hope for DNA results to be helpful in solving Lindsay’s case. Why then are the Saanich Police letting people believe that there is hope for Lindsay’s murder to be solved through DNA when you yourself don’t hold any hope at all?
Just when you think you’ve got it all right new information relevant to the case surfaces.
Keep in mind this new information may not be 100% accurate but it does make a whole lot of sense. The rumor that Cirilo called the hit began spreading back in 2016, and because the Saanich Police had led everyone to believe that the Delalcazars were behind the murder, it was a story that would be easy to believe for most people. After all, Uncle Cirilo was a long-time drug trafficker/importer who was very close to his nephews, and they had just lost close to 8M dollars in that January 2008 cocaine bust in Calgary. Revenge is a powerful motive.
Currently Cirilo Bautista sits in a Korean prison awaiting trial on importing cocaine into the country and operating a cocaine lab. Without a doubt that should get him 20 years. How perfect is this scenario for the people that are trying to frame the Delalcazars and their uncle. Everything seems to be working in the conspirator’s favor.
It is still possible that Cirilo called the hit, but it’s not likely based on this new information.
Now this guy who lives out Metchosin way has come forward to say that he was told to start the rumor that Cirilo Bautista Lopez was the one who called the hit.
He received this order through an anonymous phone call of course, and fearing for his life and that of his family he did what he felt he had to do. He was shaken up, terrified at the time, and knew if his identity was ever exposed, he would be a dead man. Either killed by Cirilo’s crew or by the people who were setting him up to spread the rumor. For all he knew the rumor could have been true, but in his gut, he didn’t believe a word of it. If it were the “real conspirators” behind this call, then something was going down about that time that had them in a panic.
I have to wonder just what was going on around that time in late 2016. Were the real conspirators starting to panic/worry that the police were getting too close to the truth? Did they decide it was time to threaten a few people into spreading the rumor that Cirilo Lopez called the hit. Nothing better than another deflection tactic to send the Saanich Police down another rabbit hole. After all, they had spent years chasing rabbit holes, so why not give them another one to go down. You know the old trick, stop looking over here, look over there. A minefield of missteps!
That late 2007 cocaine shipment from Victoria to Calgary was no easy task. There had to be a financial backer, someone else in Victoria who had the skillset to install high-end secret compartments in their vehicles, and a crew who knew how to keep their mouths shut. We know that the Delalcazars did manage to get the shipment of cocaine to Calgary, and that they had a stash house in Calgary already set up for storage. So, for that part they were successful, and had it not been for someone in Victoria who picked up the phone and ratted them out to the Calgary Police in November 2007, they may have been home free. Interesting that it was a woman in Victoria who made that call, a woman who knew exactly where the stash house was, and where the cocaine was hidden.
It’s most interesting that the Saanich Police called a press conference just one week after the Dateline Dream House Mystery show aired in October 2010,
and that press conference was to clear the entire Zailo family of having any involvement in Lindsay’s murder. That was most interesting because when Lindsay’s dad spoke to the head of the file Sgt. Craig Sampson a few days later he asked if the Zailo’s had been officially cleared. Sampson said, “the Zailo family have participated in polygraphs interviews to our satisfaction at this time.” Well, that sure as hell does not mean they are clear does it. So why did the Saanich Police publicly clear them that day, when the reality is they were not cleared at all.
Unfortunately, statements made by Jason & his mother on the show made them look very guilty & cast them in a bad light in the eyes of millions of viewers. The Saanich Police had agreed to appear on the show in the hopes that it would generate new leads, but if they already knew who the conspirators were there would have been no need for them to appear on the show. So, it makes no sense whatsoever that they would clear the Zailos less than one week after the show aired. No one should be cleared until arrests are made, and by all accounts the Saanich Police had no intentions of arresting anyone at that time.
in 2010 the Saanich Police publicly stated that the Zailos had submitted to polygraphs and passed,
but they failed to mention that there were people close to the Delalcazars that had also taken a polygraph and passed and were fully cooperative with the police. It was not just one person on the Delalcazar’s side took a polygraph, there were others. So, it’s now quite obvious that the Saanich Police were hell bent on taking down the Delalcazars regardless of their cooperation. Let’s not forget that shortly after Lindsay’s murder Ziggy Matheson was trying to set up a meeting with his associates to figure out a way how to protect the Zailos from Vid and the Delalcazars.
Apparently, Vid Acevedo was on the warpath and out for blood. Of course, there could have been a number of reasons that Vid was enraged, but the one that makes the most sense is that he and his crew found out that they had been set up to take the fall for Lindsay’s murder. If there was any truth to this, it would mean someone began planning Lindsay’s murder months before the drug bust happened in Calgary.
Allegedly, it was a Victoria woman who ratted out the Delalcazars to the Calgary cops in late November 2007, just about the same time the crime phone was purchased in Vancouver,
and just about the same time that Lindsay saw something she shouldn’t have seen. If the plan to murder Lindsay had begun in late November, then Lindsay’s murder had nothing to do with the Calgary drug bust. It would simply be used as a diversion for the “real conspirators”. Now all the conspirators had to do was sit back and wait for the Delalcazars to be busted in Calgary. It was the creation of a mastermind without a conscience, and it was brilliant. Once the bust went down the conspirators would now put their own plan into motion, have Lindsay murdered then put the blame on the Delalcazars.
After all, Lindsay had a friend who worked in the Re/Max office and was dating a friend of the Delalcazars, not to mention that Lindsay had just visited her dad in Calgary over the 2007 Christmas holidays. It was the perfect setup for the perfect murder, and collateral damage meant nothing to these people. If a few innocent people got caught in the crosshairs so what, it was just the cost of doing business.
It will certainly not look very good for the Saanich Police if it turns out the Delalcazars played no part in Lindsay’s murder,
and perhaps that is why they don’t really want to see this heinous crime solved. They’ve been bending over backwards to protect the Zailos all these years, all the while letting the public believe the Delalcazars are responsible for Lindsay’s murder. The Delalcazars are goofs, they sell drugs, beat people up, but they don’t go around murdering people, and they sure don’t have the intelligence to carry out a sophisticated murder such as this one. Every aspect of this murder points to a woman as the mastermind.
It also points to people who work in real estate who would have inside knowledge of Lindsay’s clients, the murder house and Lindsay’s whereabouts every minute of every hour on that fateful day Saturday February 2/2008. I don’t see the Delalcazar’s anywhere in this plot to murder.
It is definitely time for the Saanich Police to do another press conference, and what better time to do this than around the time of the Memorial Walk for Justice for Lindsay February 2, 2025. Maybe the Saanich Police spokesperson can use Sgt. Chris Horsley’s favorite words, “this murder is solvable.” Well then solve it Chris, we are counting on you. Yes, you are retired from the Saanich Police Dept. now, but you are still a cop working at Oak Bay Police department. I am sure you want this horrible crime solved just as much as the rest of us do. I hear the current investigators on the case are leaving no stone unturned, so hopefully we will have some answers soon.
If the Delalcazars were not involved in planning Lindsay’s murder, then that only leaves one other possibility. Who in that other group had the connections to bring in a hired killer in from outside Victoria. I can only think of one person who would have those connections and last I heard he too was living out in Metchosin. A very dangerous, career criminal, drug trafficker and murderer himself. A guy who was and still is very close to the Zailo family.
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