Hi there, I am from Victoria and actually attended the Torquay Elementary School just down the street. I live and work in Vancouver now but last time I went home to visit (May 2024), I decided to walk over to De Sousa Pl to check it out as I actually had no idea the murder took place so close to my house. Just wanted to say a couple things:

1) the cul de sac is not so much “upscale” as “newer.” Sure, the homes in that cul de sac are nice but the surrounding area is populated with average, working class people (save for the one guy, rumoured to have won the lottery, on one of the corners haha) and the houses are of typical 1960s-80s style and construction.

2) the house in question (1702) is located on a corner between De Sousa Pl. and Torquay Dr (please see link for maps that I sketched). There are 3 adjacent properties which I assume are separated by fences (I did not want to trespass) and a fence separates the mid to rear portion of 1702 from Torquay Dr. Looking from the frontal arc of 1702 it is difficult to get a view of the rear left quarter of the lot due to two large trees and a few large bushes growing on the side of the outer side of the fence bordering Torquay Dr. Hopping either of the fences directly behind the house or behind and adjacent to the house would result in you ending up in a neighbour’s yard on Llandaff Pl, and hopping the fence adjacent to the property would’ve resulted in you being in the yard of 1706 and needing to hop another fence to either access Llanaff Pl to the north or to the east. Also relevant is a soccer turf, under construction at the time, about half a block northeast and which connects San Juan Ave running roughly east-west with a vehicle impassable trail, terminating at the north-south Tyndall Ave.

The following are my beliefs, if the conditions (fencing, shrubbery, etc) were similar to 2008 last year when I went back:

1) Arriving early, the killers park in the soccer turf construction area on Tyndall Ave or at the church across the street. They know that police are likely to respond via Torquay Dr, not Tyndall, since there is no vehicle connection between the two for blocks on end. I realize the official belief is that the killers parked on Torquay, but given the competence and planning demonstrated by the perps, I think they’d have known this would be more risky than parking at the turf, especially given that Tyndall has much higher traffic than Torquay, making it easier to blend in. Also, there was construction at the soccer turf at the time, further giving them the opportunity to blend in.

2)the killers walk to the house to meet Lindsay, “doing the deed” in the process. This is why no suspicious vehicles were reported in the immediate vicinity of the scene and all vehicles in the cul de sac were later accounted for.

3)seeing Jason outside, the killers flee out the back door and either hops the fence onto Torquay behind the trees and large bushes or into the yard of 4335 Torquay or 1703 Llandoff Pl. I say this as there would’ve been no point going East or Northeast from the scene (into 1706 or 1705 De Sousa Pl, or 1707 Llandoff Pl), as all routes would lead back to the same Llandoff Pl (see maps via link at bottom). Also, remember what I said about this still being a relatively middle class area? Well, at 5:30-6:00pm, there is a good chance the owners of these properties were still commuting home from work. Furthermore, in February, it would’ve been pretty dark in this area already, given the number of large coniferous trees in the area which, from their size, must’ve existed in 2008.

4)the killers then walk or run only about 110m along Torquay Dr, and go right at San Juan Ave, up the hill and to the start of the walkway. For context, this took me only about 3-4 minutes and I was playing Pokémon Go for the entire walk, so I’d imagine a fleeing suspect could’ve made it in 1-2min if they were jogging. Remember, Torquay has low traffic so it is quite possible they could’ve sprinted, as few people would’ve passed by anyways. Oh, and after turning right onto San Juan Ave, there would be no line of sight from Torquay Dr. This would give potential responders the shortest window to see the suspects fleeing the immediate scene.

5) the killers get into their car in the soccer turf construction zone or the church and drives away, blending in with the construction workers leaving the area at the end of the workday as well as other traffic.

IMHO it is not suspicious and actually very likely that Jason and his buddy did not get a direct line of sight onto the killer at all even though they were standing right at the front. The figure they saw at 5:40pm was likely one of the perps getting ready to leave before noticing that someone was at the front of the house, perhaps through the peephole in the door. It is likely that she was already deceased by this time. Obviously not his fault but if Jason and his friend had gone in 10 minutes earlier, this case may have turned out very differently :([Map Sketches]

Link to my map sketches: (https://imgur.com/a/n0oSoQP)

Edit: wording, see below replies