invincible. she didn't think anything bad would happen. >> that's part of who she was. she did have a very big heart. >> so she did, and lived out loud. and was exuberant, and generous. and for those who loved her, is eternally missed. for all of those things. >> she was my sister. and i have been robbed of the rest of my life, of my sister. i've been robbed of that relationship. i've been lucky robbed of those conversations. i've been robbed of that friendship. >> that's all for this edition of dateline, i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. >> hello, i'm craig melvin. and this is dateline. >> they fancy themselves as the girls from sex in the city.

>> which one what she? >> carrie. the organizer? everybody's friend? >> but tv fantasy, turned real life mystery when the friend everyone loved was murdered. >> i didn't believe it. there's somebody out there that did this to her. >> stabbed to death, at a luxury, million dollar home. >> shocked the officers that were investigating. >> there were plenty of possible leads, the boyfriend. >> i text, or are you okay? >> and the acts. >> are you involved? >> and two curious, big money clients. what happened inside of that house? >> i saw a few people in the financial bind. >> dateline's own, unsolved case squad, takes on the crime. >> someone got paid to go murder that girl. >> someone who was very close to her. >> i think it's someone she knows. >> so full of life. who was behind her death? >> i am going to find out. if it kills me. ♪ ♪ ♪

>> hello, and welcome to dateline, she was 24 and just starting her life as a real estate agent, she thought she had landed the assignment of her dreams, big clients would want to buy 1 million dollar home but golden opportunities are not always what they seem, here is josh mankiewicz with the dream house mystery! ♪ ♪ ♪ >> just north of seattle and a few short miles from the glittering green playground known as the san juan islands. sets a town that knows little of the ugly side of life. ♪ ♪ ♪ where ferries and float planes spin through a spectacular harbor. surrounded by grander more minutes descent of europe north america. it is victoria, british

columbia. ♪ ♪ ♪ this is where a girl was born and raised, safely in the arms of a large, extended family. and many friends who loved her. the young woman that they all treasured, was lindsey. >> she was just a spectacular young woman that was the love of everyone's life. >> her father, jeff. >> she would make friends with everybody and want to be your friend. >> loved by everybody? >> loved by everybody. she had plenty of company in that fun filled life. among her many friends were beautiful young women like nikki burrows. >> when all of you would get together, what would you do? >> pretend like we were from sex in the city? >> which one were you? >> do i have to say that? >> which one which he? >> carrie. >> everybody's friend?

>> so smart. driven. >> and maybe a little unlucky in love? >> i think all of us girls are. >> one of those, who lindsey had loved was this man, matt macduff. they dated from 2001, 2006, and traveled a lot together. >> she was a pretty driven girl, she was focused on what she wanted to achieve. >> which was? >> she wanted a career, she wanted to do things with her life. >> not even definitely launching it for about two weeks. >> lindsay's chosen career was real estate, she was following in the footsteps of her father. >> an industry in many ways was best suited for her. >> she was selling ice in alaska? it >> wasn't socializing for

her, it was being lindsey. >> and in this approach, both 24 year old lindsey, and her business were beginning to blossom. lindsay was now living with a new boyfriend who is casing many of the same dreams. his name was jason, a mortgage broker with a real estate license. >> what did you feel like when you were with her? >> alive? anytime she would walk into a room, you would know that she is there. she was just always just happy. >> and in the small, island world of victoria, jason's mom surely was also a realtor. a manager for re-max, where lindsey worked. >> she was very focused, really wanted to make herself a premier in real estate. and love that about her. >> and in late january, 2008, lindsay received that call every agent dreams, of a new client was on the form from vancouver. the police would describe the call this way. the client said that she and her husband was moving to victoria, and wanted to look at homes near the city that we're in ready to move and condition.

lindsay wrote it all down here in her -- the clients wanted a house with three bedrooms, three baths, and as a separate house for a housekeeper. and the client made two statements that would grab the instant attention of any real estate agent. the couple needed to buy the house within two days, and the price range they were looking at was in the neighborhood of $1 million. but lindsay told her father and more than a few friends that there was something odd about the client who spoke english with an accent. >> she couldn't really put her finger on exactly what it was, yes. >> cher described it as people making an accent? >> yes. she said it was kind of spanish, but not really. >> the clients were due to begin seeing homes on saturday, february 2nd, 2008. it was 5:30 pm when lindsey met

the couple here, of five bedroom and four bath executive home listed at $964, 000, in an upscale victoria suburbs called saanich. it was the last place that lindsay buziak was seen alive. >> you know, in the wee hours of the morning. i received a call from my ex-wife, she said have the police been in contact with you? and i said what that hail is going on? and she said well, i have the worst news ever in the world. lindsay has been murdered. [crying] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> soon, lindsay's friends heard it to. >> i did not believe it. [crying] where's phone call of my life. [crying] >> for my boyfriend, matt macduff, got the message and when he returned the call. was struck by that is by a hammer. >> i call them back, the girlfriend answers, and they say that lindsay was moore --

[crying] where's phone call i've ever had. >> lindsay buziak body had been found after 6 pm. here in that looks home in a victoria suburb. a high dollar property, she was showing to her big money clients. lindsay had been stabbed to death. who on earth could've done a thing to a glowing, young woman? someone whose life seemed transparently happy. someone who seems not to have any enemies. police would open the book on the mystery. looking for the secrets that could tell them not just who, but why. coming up! what happened inside that house. >> i saw a few people in the financial spot. >> chilling new details from someone who is there. when dateline continues!

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buyers, lindsay's friends and family said goodbye. so many were at a loss to explain who might have been responsible for lindsay's death. her father, jeff. >> she was a spectacular young woman. you would want to be part of her life, you would want to be her friend. how could you possibly think you would want her dead? >> the task of unraveling the mystery felt a police in shara mist, a suburb that averaged around one murder a year. >> it shocked the community, shocked the officers that were investigating it. >> then inspector robert led the investigation backed by a team that included detective sergeant chris hoarsely. they began by reconstructing the last hour of lindsey's life and the bulk of the clues came from her boyfriend, jason zailo. he told police that the couple

had lunch at this restaurant and split up, lindsey over to the house she was going to shoot those eager buyers, jason to take a contract to this autumn detailing shop before meeting lindsey at the house to drop off some papers. >> and so i said, i will come meet you, 10:15 minutes or so. and i started driving and that's when she said to me, okay, i will see you in a bit i have to go the mexicans are here. >> the mexicans was lindsay's shorthand name for the clients who spoke with a strange accident. while lindsey was meeting the couple, this surveillance tape shows jason at a friends hopping into jason's range rover at 5:30 pm to head for the house. at 5:38 pm police say jason sent lindsey a text. >> the last text that jason said was a couple of minutes away, that text was never opened by lindsey. >> then at 5:41 pm, just three minutes after jason sent that final text -- >> lindsey's blackberry made a

phone call out and we believe that phone call was made as a result of the attack. >> that was buttons on her blackberry inadvertently being pressed during the attack? >> it was truly a pockets dial because the blackberry was in the pocket. >> lindsay was murdered during that three minute times fans, the police believe, between 5:38 and 5:41 pm. jason drove up minutes later around 5:45, from his front seat he says he saw something through the front door of the house. >> it's like smoke glass and i saw a few people in the front entrance way. >> you saw what, outlines of people through the glass? >> yes. >> you couldn't tell how many people? >> i would say to. >> outside, jason zailo said he didn't want to appear to be the meddling boyfriend so he pulled out of the cold a sack and onto the main road, to wait.

but after ten minutes or so, he says, he got a feeling something was wrong. >> when i text or are you okay? and i didn't get a text back, that's what worried me. >> jason walk to the front doors, through the window he saw this, lindsay's shoes lying in the four-year, standard procedure for a realtor showing a house. but then jason check the door and found it locked. it was 6:05 pm. >> i called 9-1-1 to say that my girlfriends in the house and it is locked and i can't get in and she is showing people houses. in a panic mode i told them the address of the house and i'm going to get in the house, break into the house or something to open it up. >> jason boosted his friend over this fence on to the side patio, the friend found an open

door than let in jason who found lindsey's body in an upstairs bedroom. another 9-1-1 call came in at 6:11 pm. >> she was just lying on her back, not moving. nothing. so i went straight to her, trying to give her cpr, i felt her skin, it was -- she was already passed away. >> what were you thinking? >> you know, absolute shock. i remember the police were on the phone, and i kept yelling at them saying hurry up, hurry up, hurry up! even though in my mind i already knew that she had passed away. >> and in that terrible moment, jason realized that those figures he had seen through the smoked glass of the front door were probably lindsay's killer 's. but where had they gone? canine units were deployed but found no sign of the killers, they'd apparently escaped on foot. at the crime scene, police found lindsay dead from dozens of viciously inflected stab wounds, both to the head and chest, no knife was left but all the wounds appear to have been inflicted by one person. >> the first thought for a

crime at 1 million dollar home, robbery. but nothing was taken. lindsay's purse, watch, wallet, and her money were all left at the scene. investigators also considered sexual assault as a motive, but an autopsy found no sign of it. crime scene investigators found almost nothing in the way of fingerprints, dna, and other physical evidence to work. with every room in the house was emptied, and they'd been cleaned just before the showing. as police blanketed the neighborhood after the murder, they did turn up more than one witness who provided key information. they had seen in the fading sunlight of a temporary saturday lindsay greene a man and woman as they arrived to the home around 5:30 pm. >> the witnesses were quite firm that it appeared to be a meeting, shaking of the hands, so we're quite satisfied the people that showed up were not known to lindsey. >> lindsay had been killed, it appeared, by strangers, police concluded it had to be the couple that had set up the showing, and had lured lindsey to the scene of her own murder. one witness was able to help police with the composite sketch of the female seen

meeting lindsay, she is described as white, 35 to 40 years old with short blond hair. she was also the witness said wearing a colorful dress of white, black and either red or pink with a distinctive pattern. and more clues to the identities of the killers came from lindsey's blackberry, stored at the phone number for the mexicans, detectives traced the phone the killers used to contact lindsey, it was a cell phone purchase between three and six weeks before the murder, at a vancouver convenience store. surveillance tape of the sale? >> gone. and, unfortunately, the phone is paid to talk, there is no registration other than quickly banged a name and online and your phone is up and running. >> while the killers bought the phone weeks earlier, they activated it via the internet, less than 48 hours before the murder. making their movements difficult to trace. the phone was registered under the name paulo rodrigues. >> the name appears to be fictitious, the address that the phone was registered also appears to be unrelated. it is an actual address but it is a business in vancouver.

white, black and either red or pink with a distinctive pattern. and more clues to the identities of the killers came from lindsey's blackberry, stored at the phone number for the mexicans, detectives traced the phone the killers used to contact lindsey, it was a cell phone purchase between three and six weeks before the murder, at a vancouver convenience store. surveillance tape of the sale? >> gone. and, unfortunately, the phone is paid to talk, there is no registration other than quickly banged a name and online and your phone is up and running. >> while the killers bought the phone weeks earlier, they activated it via the internet, less than 48 hours before the murder. making their movements difficult to trace. the phone was registered under the name paulo rodrigues. >> the name appears to be fictitious, the address that the phone was registered also appears to be unrelated. it is an actual address but it is a business in vancouver. >> vancouver's from where the

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a mysterious couple this lavish home. but in the first days and weeks after her death, police focused not on fighting that couple, but on the emerging idea that this may have been a murder for hire. police and her family began taking a hard look at lindsey herself and her personal relationships. >> there were two theories when i arrived in victoria instantly. >> lindsay's father, jeff. what are the two theories? >> two theories, boyfriend or export front. >> either jason or matt? >> or matt. josh, i don't care who it is that killed lindsey i want to know who and i want them punished. >> and in fact, just minutes after jason zailo discovered lindsey's body on that saturday evening, the police had a suspect, jason zailo himself, found hunched over lindsey covered in her blood. he was handcuffed, taken to the police station questioned for hours and ask to give dna

samples before being released. days later, police called jason back to the house. >> i was yelling, lindsay, lindsey! >> to reenact his movements the night of the murder. shown in this never before released police video. the walls of the house still covered in fingerprint matter loved by investigators. >> are you okay? >> brought back all the memories again and feelings -- >> what feelings? >> how you lose somebody so fast. you know, one day you're living with somebody and the next day she's gone. >> what possible reason my jason zailo have to want lindsay buziak dead, he says their relationship was a happy one, but it turns out there's another side to that story.

in the last months of her life, lindsey was telling family and friends that she was thinking of breaking up with jason. as soon as several realest deals closed. just six weeks before the murder in december 2007, lindsay had flown to calgary, alberta, to tell her father that her relationship with jason wasn't working. >> she just said, daddy, i made a mistake, i feel horrible about it. but she said, i can't do it anymore. >> had she told jason this? >> not that i am aware of. >> the story is confirmed by several of lindsey's friends. but shortly after she made those statements, lindsay went on an after christmas ski trip with jason and his family. friends say jason then soft and, reconsidered. and in their words, was trying to make it work with jason. you know there are people out

there who say that she was getting ready to pull the plug and move on? and truth to that as far as you know? >> none, no. there is no truth to that. >> but what about jason's actions after lindsey's murder? those who saw him claim he was oddly unemotional, unlike virtually everyone else. >> i went up the stairs -- >> did you go to the back at all? >> i was crying, i couldn't keep myself together and he -- i didn't see any tears. >> i have never seen a tear drop out of his eye, never saw a sniffle from his nose. what the heck is wrong with that? >> your behavior after the murder has been described, by some people, as emotionless. everybody else was shocked, you are fine. >> i wasn't fine. people show their emotions in different ways. >> you've never have spoken

publicly about the death of your girlfriend? >> no. >> would you want people to know? >> i want people to know that i loved lindsey, i think about her every day, i want this case sold as fast as possible. i had nothing to do with it. >> and jason had a compelling witness on his side, his friend who was with him and who helped him get inside. footprints and fingerprints matched their account of what they did at the house. lindsay had been dead for more than two years when spanish police granted unprecedented access to datelines unsolved case squad sharing information from the files of an open case with our experts. nbc news consultants at the time, dwayne stanton, a retired homicide detective from washington d. c. who investigated sandra levy's

murder, yolanda mclaren, a retired crime scene investigator in las vegas, and a model for the character on the hit series csi, and allen jackson, a former prosecutor in los angeles who put legendary record producer phil spector behind bars for murder. jason zailo was a suspect for a long time in this case -- >> right. >> it wasn't jayson? >> you don't think it was jason? >> no. look, let's not forget what is rule number one of committing a homicide? you don't bring a witness to a homicide. he had somebody with him, perfect alibi is not that you drive to the house where the murder take place that you hired, you don't do that. the dumbest criminals don't do that. >> and a full year after lindsay's murder, send police did in fact publicly announced that they had cleared jason zailo. so then, who, and why?

our team agree, lindsey was specifically targeted in a scheme that was well thought out. there is a significant degree of planning in this? >> absolutely. >> totally. >> it was artfully designed, work went into it, someone sat around a table like we're doing right now and came up with that plan. >> that planning played off perhaps, even down to the dress worn by the mystery woman, the dress which made such an impression on the eyewitnesses. >> the dress is very unique, and i kind of think it was designed to say -- something they teach us investigator school, do something out of the norm to draw attention to yourself. >> you know what, you're right, it might have worked because everybody seems to have this great description of the skirt, but the only thing they remember about the girl is that she has blond air, up to her shoulders. >> that is it. >> our team explore the theory that the clear learns may have

been hired professionals, with specific instructions to express the anger that someone else felt towards lindsey. >> i think someone got paid to go commit that murder. >> and they were told, make her suffer? make it brutal? >> i believe that. >> i don't see it that way. i think that what happened inside that house was equal parts opportunity, and equal parts panic. she was stabbed so many times, over, and over again, repeatedly, multiple stab wounds were 100 percent unnecessary. i don't see that as sending a message, i don't see that as being personal. >> its saanich police continue to investigate whether the motive was personal, and they were not yet done focusing on people who lindsay buziak would have described as her friends. >> coming up -- the other man who had been part of lindsey's life. >> that was -- from sex in the city.

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here is josh mankiewicz with the dream house mystery. >> as police in saanich, british colombia work to solve the murder of lindsay buziak they focus on those closest to her, and lindsey's divorced parents seemed to have different suspects in mind. lindsay's father, jeff suspected her boyfriend at the time of her death, jason while zailo her mother told friends she suspected lindsey's former boyfriend of five years matt macduff, macduff watched him discuss as saanich police said they had cleared jason zailo of suspicion. >> mr. jason zailo is not a suspect. >> i found it odd? >> because -- >> why would they clear somebody, they don't clear anybody until someone is behind bars. >> he was questioned after lindsay's murder he denied any involvement.

we you know there are people, lindsay's mother, for example who think that you are involved? >> yes. >> are you involved? >> no. >> did you have anything to do lindsay's murder? >> the mom thinks that because if it wasn't me, who could have done it? right? she has to put her anger towards someone and that happens to be me. >> but it is clear that matt macduff was on lindsay's mind around the time of the murder. in fact, boyfriend jason's mother shirley zailo a manager at lindsay's firm said she and lindsey took a walk the day before the murder, and shirley says lindsey, who had at the time less than 24 hours to live told her this. >> she talked about her ex boyfriend that she was afraid of matt -- >> why was she afraid of matt? >> i don't think she really got into the detail, i guess she was a little disappointed in how matt had treated her throughout the relationship. >> shirley zailo is the only

person we spoke to in our reporting that oldest lindsey was afraid of matt around the time of the murder, of course, she is the mother of the man who was at one time the prime suspect. and by the way, police tell us that when lindsey was killed, matt and lindsey had been apart for nearly two years, each had moved on to new relationships, and according to police, they had no contact for months before the murder. matt macduff acknowledges that back when they were together, he and lindsey had a relationship that was, at times, rocky. tumultuous? >> yes, i don't know what that word means, but i wouldn't use that word. >> stormy? >> yes, real stormy at times, sure. >> in fact sources say lindsay called police about matt at least three times, but no criminal charges were ever filed. did the arguing ever get physical?

>> no. >> you never hit her, she never hit you? >> she did hit a few times, that's how she was. she was feisty. >> did you ever hit her back? >> no. she was a tiny girl, hundred pounds, i'm 200, if i hit a girl -- no. >> but while shirley zailo made claims that lindsay was afraid of matt, many of lindsey's friends had a different explanation of why matt might have been on her mind around the time of the murder. it was likely, they say, because she was thinking of leaving jason and getting back together with matt. her father says lindsay said as much, on her trip to visit him. just six weeks before her death. >> she said daddy, i miss math so much. she said i'm really confused, i don't know what to do. it hurt me to see her like that. she knew it was over, but she hadn't gone over it. >> her friends say matt had a hold on lindsey, just like the man known as big had on the star of the tv show lindsay and

her friends liked so much. >> that was her big, from six in the city. that's what she called matt. >> matt was called mr. big? >> yes. i think the love she had with him just wasn't the same with jason. >> the police tell dateline they have no evidence pointing to matt picked off, no reason to suspect him at all, and that he was at least an hour away from the crime scene at the time of the murder, in another area of the island with the family of his new girlfriend who was now his wife. >> so where would the motive be? although there is some unique dynamics that they had in the relationship there has been nothing, nothing that would say that he was involved in any way in this crime. >> what is it like to know that she is gone and you don't even know why? you don't even know the motive?

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lindsay buziak's murder, police in the victoria british columbia suburb of saanich investigative hundreds of leads it, served dozens of warrants, but they seemed not much closer to finding this woman. the blond, 35 to 40 years old wearing a distinctive dress witnesses said, who spoke with the spanish accent. and who along with a man described as white and well dressed, six feet tall with dark possibly brown hair, set up a showing with lindsey, met her at the door of this million -dollar home in february 2008. and then, viciously stabbed lindsey to death. the working theory of the crime was a targeted hit carried out by two killers who brought a knife to a real estate showing. but who would want to kill a young realtor who seemed to have no enemies?

it was forcing investigators to think way outside the box. it seems to me that you are really looking for probably at least three people here? i mean you're looking for the two people in the home that committed that murder, and then, i'm guessing, whoever paid them. >> i think you're absolutely right. it may be that one of those two people who were at the home is in fact the mastermind behind this and perhaps the money, but i think it's also equally possible and more likely there is a third or fourth, fifth person involved. >> that's a criminal conspiracy of some significance to wipe out this young realtor. what's set of facts possibly fits with that? >> large amount of money, large amount of drugs, considerable wrong don to whoever the financier is behind this.

>> saanich police are quick to say as our lindsay's family and friends that there is no evidence she was involved in anything illegal. >> she was the cleanest girl you would ever meet. >> you can't see her getting involved in anything illegal? >> no, no. she worked hard to get her license, she wouldn't risk anything to lose at. >> but the longer her murder went unsolved, the more rumors there were, lindsay was either witness in a drug case or a police informant. neither is true, say police, but a truck angle has emerged. as a leading theory in her murder. is there any evidence that lindsey used drugs recreationally? >> no. >> there is no evidence that she committed any criminal offenses either. >> was she associated with her friends with people who were involved in crime? >> yes. yes, she was.

there was an element of people who she associated with that were involved in crime. >> remember victoria is a relatively small town, and because lindsay was young and like to go out to clubs, the crowd she inevitably hung out with would include people who operated on the fringes of the law. so this friend that you have known on your life might end up being your friend the drug dealer. >> could be. you might bump into them at a club and some of the theories that we developed over the course of this investigation was simply that she had potentially said the wrong thing at the wrong time or had heard something at the wrong time and caused her this grief. >> in fact, police are now exploring an incident that occurred during lindsay's last visit with her father. while visiting calgary, lindsay made contact with at least two men, old friends she grew up with. and just a month later, one of those men was arrested and what police call the largest cocaine bust in alberta history, 67 kilos worth more than $6 million. >> someone might have been

angry, ditto witch hunt take place and did some one point a finger at lindsey because she had happened to be in calgary at the time? >> coincidence, because this is a small town or maybe she saw something she should've seen? >> could go either way. >> if so, we now know it was not true, police say lindsay was not the informant. police have floated this idea that she was killed by mistake. >> it happens. it doesn't seem very reasonable. >> not reasonable. >> if there's no evidence that they've uncovered that suggest that she was an informant, that she was diming off drug dealers or a cartel or anything like that and where is the evidence that the cartel would have that she was doing that? it just seems like a red herring to me. >> i think her just being there for the weekend to go see her father doesn't add up, she doesn't sell drugs. she is not in their business. >> the idea that this is something personal hit being

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interview and maintained her silence in the media since the murder made a public plea for information. >> having lindsey taken from us has been excruciatingly painful please call the police so that we can have closure for lindsay 's death. >> the family first offered a 100,000 dollar reward, but with no arrest the family has dropped that offer, frustration among family and friends has been mounting. who would plan a hit on your daughter? >> god i wish i knew that, josh, i wish i could get my pause on them. >> for the week saanich police the death of lindsay buziak has led down a series of blind alleys without motives or answers. >> to say that we are on the cusp of a breakthrough would be a lie.

we desperately need some help this is a highly unusual situation for us here in canada to be pursuing this, and as public away as we are, that speaks to, i think, our commitment but also to some degree our desperation, as we grasp for anything that we can use to bring those people to justice. >> is the person behind this somebody lindsey knows or is the person behind this someone unknown to her? >> someone she knows. >> i think, someone very close to her. >> i agree. >> i think it's someone that she knows. >> somebody in the same type of business. >> correct. >> in the same real estate firms, who knows. >> the man of the woman who actually committed this murder, what do you think is in their background? >> they will have a criminal history, more than likely i would look for violent crimes, it is an unusual complexion of a case that they worked together, a man and a woman,

male and female working in tandem to commit this kind of violent crime, i also am not convinced that these were highly polished professionals. the way that the crime was committed itself, to me, shows a level of panic, shows a level of unsophistication. >> i call it planned, not professionally planned. >> well planned. >> is there any chance that although these colors were not known to lindsey they weren't planning on murdering her until they went in the house to get there and then in there, something happened, of fight started she gets killed? >> and people pull a butcher not out of their purse or sock, no, that doesn't seem right. >> if this attack is, it is a small chance. >> when used to happen for an arrest to be made? >> someone needs to come forward. >> yes, agreed. >> unfortunately you have an empty house, so it is a

forensic nightmare. >> this case is not going to be solved based on forensic evidence this case will be solved by loose lips. somebody will talk about something. >> for lindsey's friends, the lack of interest has left many too frightened to speak to us on camera. why are you here in some of the other people aren't? >> i can't live my life every day knowing that there is somebody out there that did this to her, i can't. i can't. it is not right, it makes me sick that there's somebody out there who did this to my best friend. >> two years after her death, lindsay's boyfriend told us that there was a kind of numbness that wouldn't go away. >> i think about it delay, yes, -- >> you think it will ever go away? >> no. no. [crying] >> and for lindsay's father, there was determination bordering on obsession. there was barely controlled rage, finally there was a vow to defend the daughter he couldn't help on that february day. >> i'm not going to let her

down, josh, the only way i am going to stop right now finding out who killed or is die myself and i will be dying trying, i guarantee you that. >> you will find out? >> i am going to find out. if it kills me. >> that is all for this edition of dateline, i'm craig melvin. thank you for watching. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> nearly three years after president biden was sworn in as president, we are still learning new ways donald trump and his allies tried to hold on to power. the attempt to overturn the 2020 election has deep roots, and to preserve our democracy we must have a full