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Suspicion: Murder on Mount Olive

S2 The Billionaire Murders | E1 The Man on the Inside

Suspicion: Murder on Mount Olive

Toronto Star

News, True Crime

4.6591 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Where are Honey and Barry Sherman? It's a typical day for these eccentric billionaires but they're not answering the phone. After a gruesome discovery, the Sherman children decide to tear down the mansion where they grew up. Before wreckers arrive, a mysterious intruder discovers signs of an investigation gone wrong.

This is episode one of "The Billionaire Murders: The hunt for the killers of Honey and Barry Sherman," a "Suspicion" podcast probing the strange case of the famous Toronto couple who were found strangled in their north Toronto home in 2017. For five years, Kevin Donovan has covered the case for the Star, fought court battles to access documents on the police investigation and the Shermans and their estate, and wrote a book about it. 

Audio sources: CityNews, Global

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's a cool Saturday afternoon in early spring.

0:06.4

Patchy low-lying clouds fill the sky, not even a hint of sun to warm the air.

0:12.0

A slightly built man in his early 30s waits in his car around the corner from a house that has become notorious as a crime scene in Toronto.

0:22.2

He's about to commit a crime himself. Getting out of his car, the man slips a small backpack over one shoulder. He's tucked

0:29.3

the tools of his very unusual hobby inside, a camera and a powerful flashlight. He starts walking

0:36.0

along the road. This is one of those older neighborhoods

0:39.4

with no sidewalks, the street about sweeping driveways, most of them gated, big houses behind stone

0:46.5

pillars. One home has no gate, no pillars, but it stands out because it is encircled by a high

0:53.5

plywood fence.

0:55.6

When he's certain nobody's looking, the man dips into the yard next door, hoists himself

1:01.1

to the top of the fence, then drops like a cat to the stone patio below, landing in a crouch.

1:08.3

He stands up slowly. The house in front of him is 50 old colony road. In two days,

1:15.1

a wrecking crew will tear down this home where billionaires Barry and Honey Sherman lived for

1:20.1

almost 40 years, and it's the same home where one wintry night they were murdered.

1:26.6

I was inside the mansion shortly before its demolition.

1:30.3

I'm a photographer of abandoned, vacant places,

1:33.6

and I suppose my morbid curiosity got the better of me.

1:37.0

It took almost a year of waiting,

1:39.1

but eventually the conditions became right for me to sneak inside.

1:42.6

Urban explorers, this one calls himself the Urbex Man,

1:46.9

are people with jobs and families and a most unusual hobby.

1:51.5

They like to explore deserted buildings slated for demolition,

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