THE BILLIONAIRE MURDERS _ The Case of Barry and Honey Sherman

"The realtor saw them first. Two bodies, seated upright by the pool, leather belts looped around their necks. The initial police theory? Murder-suicide. The truth? Far darker—and eight years later, still unsolved."On December 15, 2017, Canadian billionaire Apotex founder Barry Sherman, 75, and his wife Honey, 70, were found dead in their Toronto mansion [citation:1]. They had been murdered two nights earlier, on December 13 [citation:7]. Pathologists determined death by ligature strangulation—thin plastic ties around their necks, wrists bound while alive, though no ties were ever found [citation:1][citation:8]. The killer staged the scene: leather belts, added after death, kept them posed upright [citation:1][citation:5].Toronto police first pursued a murder-suicide theory—Barry killing Honey, then himself—despite forensic evidence to the contrary [citation:2]. A privately hired second autopsy exposed this error, and police switched to a double homicide investigation six weeks later [citation:8][citation:5]. But critical early leads were lost [citation:2].A toxic email chain, discovered weeks before the murders—Barry wrote "You have been abusive to me for over 40 years"—may have misled initial investigators [citation:4][citation:10].Now, in 2026, the case remains cold. The Toronto Star is locked in a legal battle to unseal more than 4,000 police documents [citation:1][citation:7]. Only one detective works the case part-time. The killer is still unknown.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/red-tree-crime--6847553/support.