S2 The Billionaire Murders | E8 Perfect Storm
Suspicion: Murder on Mount Olive
Toronto Star
4.6 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Honey and Barry Sherman had nothing on their calendar, friends were away and Barry's life was a who's who of suspects. He also owed a lot of money. If there ever was a perfect time to commit a horrendous murder and get away with it, this was it.
This is episode eight 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, reporter Kevin 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.
Audio Sources: I24 News, Yes TV, CityNews, Global, Murder on the Orient Express movie
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| 0:00.0 | It's being called the worst storm in recorded history. |
| 0:02.6 | Hurricane Grace is accelerating off of Sable Island. |
| 0:05.6 | Once it starts, no force on Earth can stop it. |
| 0:08.0 | These storms have collided. You're going to run right into this thing. |
| 0:11.4 | Are they okay? |
| 0:12.2 | No one knows. |
| 0:13.0 | Please, God, get them there. |
| 0:15.5 | Call it the perfect storm. |
| 0:18.7 | That's a clip from the trailer for the movie about a powerful hurricane that battered |
| 0:23.4 | the east coast of the United States in 1991. Journalist Sebastian Younger, whose book |
| 0:29.4 | the movie was based on, coined the phrase the perfect storm to describe a rare convergence |
| 0:35.0 | of weather patterns. It's my belief that the murders of Barry and Honey Sherman |
| 0:40.1 | were the result of another kind of perfect storm. |
| 0:43.9 | Events that came together at a key time with deadly results. |
| 0:48.1 | There were literally people crying hysterically, right? |
| 0:52.1 | Walked in the front door right there. |
| 0:54.2 | People collapsed on the stairs, people embracing each other. |
| 0:56.9 | I mean, I could barely make my way up to Jerry's office. |
| 1:00.7 | That's Jordan Berman, one of the Apotex vice presidents, |
| 1:04.5 | describing how staff took the news of Barry Sherman's death. |
| 1:08.3 | Though Barry openly mused at how someone might kill him one day, his employees |
| 1:13.0 | were understandably stunned. Shock, the shock of it, how it happened, everything. People just couldn't, |
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