S2 The Billionaire Murders | E2 The Bodies
Suspicion: Murder on Mount Olive
Toronto Star
4.6 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
After Honey and Barry Sherman are found hanging, police sources say it is a murder-suicide and cause outrage among Sherman friends who believe otherwise. Veteran investigative reporter Kevin Donovan cold calls sources and gets a promising lead.
This is episode two 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, Donovan has covered the case for the Star, fought court battles to access documents on the police investigation and the Sherman estate, and wrote a book about it.
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Audio sources: Washington Post, CTV, Canadian Press, Global, Toronto Police Services, CBS
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| 0:00.0 | Just hours after Barry and Honey Sherman's bodies were discovered, a Toronto tabloid, the Sun, announces that police are pursuing a theory of murder suicide. |
| 0:12.2 | Murder suicide suspected in deaths of Toronto billionaire and wife. |
| 0:16.2 | Barry Sherman, a billionaire businessman and philanthropist, was found dead alongside his wife Honey in their Toronto Mansion Friday morning, police sources told the son. |
| 0:24.6 | Officially, Toronto police aren't commenting on the tragedy, other than to call the deaths of one of Canada's richest couples suspicious. |
| 0:32.6 | However, sources say police were working Friday night on the theory, the demise of the billionaire |
| 0:37.7 | Apotex founder and his wife, which has stunned the city and those who knew them, may have |
| 0:42.5 | been a murder suicide. As Toronto's son writer Joe Warmington, aka the Night Scrawler, would |
| 0:49.9 | later explain he was in the middle of writing a story saying the Sherman's were executed |
| 0:55.0 | when his phone rang. It was not a double murder, a police source said. It's a murder suicide, |
| 1:02.0 | with him killing her, dragging her body to the pool, hanging it, and then hanging himself. |
| 1:08.1 | All the major news outlets, citing their own police sources, quickly confirmed |
| 1:13.1 | the Toronto Sun story. Canadian police are investigating the mysterious death of one of the nation's |
| 1:18.6 | wealthiest couples, found dead at their mansion in Toronto. The bodies of 75-year-old billionaire |
| 1:24.3 | Barry Sherman and his wife Honey were found Friday. |
| 1:33.0 | The Globe and Mail reports their bodies were found hanging from a railing on the edge of a basement swimming pool, |
| 1:36.8 | and they say police are investigating a possible murder suicide. |
| 1:40.8 | The news hits like a nuclear bomb among Sherman friends and family. |
| 1:44.2 | They're angry, upset, incredulous. |
| 1:49.4 | For the police to have said that he killed himself, it was impossible. |
| 1:54.1 | Well, and I'm sure you've heard this from everybody he's spoken to, but when they first came out and said murder, suicide, you know, my comment to Fran, and she told, |
| 1:58.6 | and creed with me, not the friends of my wife, I said, you know, and treated with me, my friend's my wife. |
| 2:02.5 | I said, you know, |
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