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It's December in Toronto.

It's snowing tonight.

A 12,000 square foot mansion stands dark.

None of its windows are illuminated, not even the basement office.

That's unusual.

This is the home of billionaire power couple Barry and Honey Sherman, owing to the wild

success of his generic pharmaceutical company, Apotex.

Barry is both a workaholic and an insomniac.

He does his best thinking at nighttime, and his employees are used to receiving emails and calls

from Barry at all hours. But on this night, the night of Wednesday, December 13, 2017,

his employees received no late night messages from Barry at all. In fact, it's the first

time they recall this ever happening.

What the employees don't yet realize, though, is that they'll never receive a message from

Barry Sherman ever again. And it's because deep within the bounds of the Sherman Mansion, something gruesome is happening,

and it'll haunt investigators in the Sherman's upscale neighborhood. It's no longer snowing.

It's the morning of Friday, December 15th, 2017. There's a for-sale sign in the front of the

Sherman's home, and it's been there for weeks. The Sherman's real term is scheduled to show their home to potential buyers

at around 11 o'clock, but the Sherman's housekeeper, who arrives every Friday, is the very

first to arrive at 8.30 a.m. Immediately upon arrival, though, a few things strike her as slightly

unusual. First, the strike her as slightly unusual.

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