Reasons to suspect foul play

Lisa had not been seen or heard from since about 4am on Canada Day, July 1, 2002.

Repeated contact with the RCMP over the next three days failed to garner a response or any action.^[1]^[2]

Nothing's come up that would suggest foul play, we just don't know where she is. Const. Murray Conway [anim gif] — *Nanaimo Daily News*, July 4, 2002 (Paul Walton)^[1]

On July 4th, 2002 the Nanaimo Daily News published a statement from Nanaimo RCMP (Cst. Murray Conway): “Nothing's come up that would suggest foul play, we just don't know where she is.”^[1]

11 reasons to suspect "foul play"

Calls to Lisa's cellphone were going straight to voicemail. Lisa had never before shut her phone off, and she'd always kept it charged.^[1] She purchased the phone specifically so her parents could always reach her.^[3]
None of Lisa's many friends knew her current whereabouts^[4] but several reported seeing her leave with an unknown man driving an expensive car.^[5]
"He won't bring me back." — The last time Lisa's friends heard from her, she was "getting pissed off" at the driver (when she called Dallas around 3:30am). ^[6]
"They won't let me leave." — Lisa's final communication was an ominous text message.^[7]
Lisa missed plans to move into her new apartment^[8] which she'd made with her dad^[1] and some of her friends.^[9].
Lisa missed her first day of training for a job^[10]^[11] she'd been eager to start^[12].
All of this was entirely unlike Lisa.^[1]^[13] She'd always been very responsible and punctual.^[14]
Lisa's bank account was untouched since her "disappearance", even though it had money in it.^[15]
Lisa's cellphone stopped functioning, soon after her final ominous text message, which was traced to the Departure Bay area.^[16]
"What looked like a body in a hammock" and then, "equipment moving a lot of soil around" in the backyard of 827 Nanaimo Lakes Road — as reported to RCMP by a neighbour of the houseparty.^[17]
Over 100 tips were called in to the RCMP within a week of Lisa's father's coworkers distributing "missing" posters across the island.^[18]^[14]

It was not reported until July 10th that police finally stated that they "suspect foul play".^[1]^[19]^[20] (Once they did, the story immediately spread to news agencies across the province.)^[19]^[20]

Around July 20th, police located Chris Adair — the man Lisa with whom Lisa was last seen. Around the 22nd he was questioned about Lisa's disappearance.^[21]^[22]

Several days later the Jaguar was seized for forensic inspection. It was discovered that the car had already been thoroughly steam-cleaned.^[23]^[24]

Sometime in August, investigators received a tip which they determined warranted a search^[8] of an outdoor area (near the prison where Chris Adair was being held on unrelated charges).^[22]^[21] Police intended to begin the search at the start of September.^[8]

The search was delayed until September 17 — eighty days after Lisa's disappearance.^[22] Eighteen days of the delay was due to investigators being pulled off of Lisa's case to work on an "open and shut" daytime shooting^[8] which was solved within 48 hours.^[25]

The next known activity by RCMP concerning Lisa's case was 18 years later when the RCMP performed a search of the property where the first houseparty was located.^[17] Police returned to the location at least two more times yet failed to locate Lisa's remains (which are located on the property at precisely 49.14502, -123.97504.