on a friday morning in december 2017, two real estate agents walked a couple through a mansion in north toronto. downstairs by the lap pool, they found the owners. barry and honey sherman. fully dressed, sitting upright, necks looped to a low railing with leather belts. one agent thought it was some kind of weird yoga. they had been dead for almost two days.

barry built apotex into the largest canadian-owned drug company and a multibillion-dollar fortune. he was brilliant, famously cheap, and he ran his business on lawsuits. honey was one of the most connected philanthropists in the country. together they gave away record amounts of money and made a very long list of enemies.

in this episode we go deep. the empire and the orphaned cousins who sued him. the money, the trusts, and the foundations he used like a piggy bank. the billion dollars in debt he refused to pay. the botched murder-suicide theory and the second autopsy that blew it apart. the walking man. the mystery visitor. and the six theories that are still on the table. police are now down to one detective and an ai program, and the family says it lives in fear.

we keep it direct and we keep it fair. no wild guessing, no naming names the reporting does not name.

what we get into

how a ten-year-old counting zippers became a billionaire with a phd from mit
the four orphaned cousins, the voided option, and the lawsuit that ended days before the murders
kerry, the cousin who fantasized about killing barry on camera and failed a polygraph
apotex, 1,200 lawsuits, and a man who called his own company a legal firm that sold drugs on the side
the frugal billionaire: four cars in a lifetime, a chrysler sebring, and frosted flakes
the foundations that loaned 240 million dollars back to his own business
the cash crunch, the billion in debt, and the wills that may have been getting rewritten in the final hours
the scene, the belts, and the bodies possibly posed to match the basement sculptures
the second autopsy, the missing ligatures, and why murder-suicide was impossible
the walking man video and the 29-minute mystery visitor
all six theories, laid out with the case for and the case against each
the house, the demolition, the property saga, and the 35 million dollar reward
where it stands now: one detective, an ai program, and a daughter living in fear

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