Seven years ago, Jeff Buziak says, he held his daughter Lindsay, looked her in the eye and told her how much he loved her.

“Unfortunately, I was in a morgue and she was covered with a white sheet,” Buziak told reporters Monday morning, as he prepared to lead a memorial walk for his daughter, seven years to the day since the 24-year-old real estate agent was murdered.

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“The salt on the wound is that [it’s been] seven years and there’s been no arrests and no resolution to the senseless murder of my precious child,” said Buziak, who flew to Victoria from his home in Calgary for the walk.

In drizzling rain, dozens of people set off from Royal Oak Burial Park, walking through Mount Douglas Park and past the home on De Sousa Place where Buziak was stabbed to death in an upstairs bedroom.

Lindsay Buziak, 24, was lured to the $1-million home for sale at 1702 De Sousa Pl. by a man and woman posing as homebuyers. She was stabbed repeatedly in an upstairs bedroom in what police say was a sophisticated contract killing.

Police said whoever lured Lindsay to the home called her using a cellphone purchased in Vancouver and disconnected shortly after the murder. Detectives have never said publicly why Buziak was targeted.

A team of Saanich police investigators continues to work on the case and the department insists the trail has not gone cold.

Jeff Buziak has had private investigators probe the case, while Lindsay Buziak’s mother, Evelyn Reitmayer, has offered a $100,000 reward.

This is the fifth year Jeff Buziak has led the walk in hope his daughter’s death will not be forgotten. “So it’s a very difficult day but in a sense, a glorious day. I have the wonderful support of the community ... to make sure Lindsay’s memory is not lost, but especially that her murder is going to be solved,” he said.

The walk ended at Saanich municipal hall.

Saanich police maintain a dedicated tip line for the case. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-888-980-1919 or 250-475-4356.

Lindsay Buziak’s killing is one of four unsolved murders in Saanich.

On Jan. 18, 1943, Anneta Margaret Clive “Molly” Justice, 15, was walking along the CN rail line — what is now the Galloping Goose Trail near Saanich municipal hall — when she was beaten and stabbed repeatedly. One of the more than 30 wounds severed her jugular vein. There were no signs of sexual assault.

Pregnant teenager Cheri Lynn Smith was found dead in the bushes on Munns Road in 1990. Bobby Johal was gunned down in his Cordova Bay driveway in 2003.

Victoria police have recorded seven unsolved homicides since 1963, including the mysterious death of newspaper carrier Alice Liu, whose body was found at the back entrance of a warehouse on Gamma Street in Victoria on Nov. 13, 1996.

The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit has two unsolved murders on its books.

James Lucas McLaughlin was stabbed to death in his Quadra Street apartment on Oct. 15, 2009, and Martin Hornell was found dead on May 21, 2013.

kderosa@timescolonist.com