01x04 - Catch If You Can

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Previously on
Billionaire Murders...

The public perception of this
investigation two years in

is that it's going nowhere.

Police say they have more
questions than answers

when it comes to
the deaths of this

billionaire
Toronto couple.

The Sherman family has asked
me to announce the

offer of a reward of up
to $10 million.

The will of Barry and Honey
Sherman is part of their case.

They didn't want anybody
to know who the

trustees of the estate
were because there was

a k*ller on the loose and
they were afraid.

It looks like he
goes inside and,

it's eerie because the
Shermans are probably

already dead
inside that home.

This morning,
North York Community Council

approved a request by
the Sherman family

to allow for the
demolition of the home.

I didn't understand
how they could

demolish a crime scene.

I ask him, "Do you have a
theory of the case?"

And he said,
"Yes, we do."

I take that to
mean they have an

idea of who did it,
they just can't prove it.

It's been two years since
Barry and Honey Sherman

were found m*rder*d
in their home.

By December 2019,
the Sherman

private investigative team
has disbanded.

And I published a book based
on my reporting on the case.

What often happens
after a journalist

publishes something,
is people call you up.

I get a call from one of the
Sherman real estate agents.

The Sherman home
was up for sale

when they
were m*rder*d.

I end up going to
see that agent.

So, there's really nice pictures
of all of the rooms.

I am leaving that interview
with access to

all of the photos taken of
the Sherman home

just before they
were m*rder*d.

I'm just going through
all of these pictures.

I see the swimming pool.

I see the Sherman's bedroom.
I see the living room.

And then I come to a picture
I'd never seen before,

and it's a picture of
two life-size sculptures.

They appear to be made
out of odds and ends.

They're in a seated
position, side-by-side.

One's clearly female,
one is clearly male.

And the male figure
has his leg crossed.

Seeing these pictures,
they remind me of

an unusual crime
scene detail,

revealed by the Sherman
family's private

investigation team,
back in October 2018.

They failed to recognize the
suspicious and staged manner

in which their
bodies were situated,

sitting next to each other
with ligatures pulled up

around their necks and
wrapped around the railing,

forcing them into
an upright position.

Barry Sherman's legs
were outstretched,

with one crossed
over the other,

in a passive manner.

When you look at
these pictures,

there are some similarities
between those sculptures and

how Barry and Honey
are positioned.

And I thought, is this
what gave the person

the impetus to
stage the Shermans

as they were found by
the swimming pool?

I started asking questions,

and what I quickly
found out from a

Sherman family source,
is that all four children

hated those sculptures.

They thought they were
weird, did not know

why Barry and Honey kept
them in the house.

Why would you, perhaps,
copy a sculpture that was

in the house,
that nobody liked?

This crime just reeks
of somebody they know,

and maybe even someone
very close to them.

Early in 2020, I'm preparing
for my next court appearance

to unseal the
investigative files,

but there's a complication
that nobody sees coming.

The pandemic hits.

Courts are closed
in Ontario.

And so, while we're
trying to, you know,

reschedule this, I'm doing
more digging on this case.

Eventually, about a year
after my last hearing,

towards the end of 2020,

I'm getting set for
my first time appearing

in court on Zoom,
before Justice Pringle.

And, just before
this happens...

The Toronto Police told the
Crown attorney they're

going to unseal some
of the warrants.

And they're going to send
them electronically to me.

I've been fighting to have
these warrants unsealed

for more than two years.

Finally, I'm going to
get a look

inside the police investigation.

The first thing I see
is a description

of the crime scene.

I already have described it
from sources,

quite horrible descriptions of
how their bodies are blue,

they've clearly been
dead for a long time.

They have belts
around their neck.

And then I start
seeing more things,

and I'm starting to
see witness interviews.

And I see an interview
with Jonathan Sherman,

one of two that took place

right after the
bodies were found.

Jonathan says,
"There are people that had

a grudge against
my parents."

The next paragraph's
blacked out.

In the early days in
the investigation,

the police still think
it's a m*rder-suicide,

but the children
are saying,

"Our father didn't
k*ll our mother.

Everything was
fine between them.

Here's a direction
you should look in."

But, in each of the
children's statements,

they say to the police
something that is still

blacked out because
they have identified

what the police term,
"a person of interest".

Everybody's pointing fingers.

I go into court,
and I start

going through everything
with Detective Yim.

Detective Yim will not say
who is a person of interest.

He will not even say who is
not a person of interest.

And, I'm arguing that that
should all be unsealed

because I want to see

what the Sherman
children think.

Shortly after that,
a source shares

some very disturbing
information that reveals

to me a lot more
about the Sherman's

family life than
I saw in the children's

statements to police.

There's an email chain,
and the things they

say to each other in these
emails are not nice.

The relationship between
Honey and her kids

is not a positive one.

The times
that I had heard her kids

speak to her, they were
just like... rude.

It was hilarious
because she was

actually pretty
nice and timid.

And they spoke to her the
way that she spoke to

other people that
she didn't know,

but they were incredibly disrespectful.

The Sherman family home

is not a happy home.

And, I think if you could go
behind the closed doors of

Barry and Honey, you'd see
that's where their

main tension was,
over money and the kids.

Honey wants her children
to be more frugal.

Barry is more inclined
to just give them

some money to make
a problem go away.

He wanted his kids to
work at Apotex and

make something
of themselves.

And when they decided to
go in different directions,

Barry got disappointed
in his own children.

When you look
at these emails,

there's this internecine
discussion going on

between the kids
and their father...

which is about money,

how the money
should be spent.

And, there's one name
that jumps out a lot-

it's Frank D'Angelo.

The four children don't like
that their father has this

association with Frank and,
it's a recurring theme,

particularly
with Jonathan.

Jonathan felt,
I believe,

that the fatherly
role that he wanted

from Barry was being
given to Frank D'Angelo.

Jonathan was
jealous of Frank,

and we see that in many,
many emails between

Barry and Jonathan,
where Jonathan is saying,

"Dad, I am your son. I went
to school in New York.

I have shown you that
I'm good at numbers.

You should be
giving the money

you're giving
to Frank to me."

With billions of
dollars in assets,

it was probably inevitable
that money would play

a large role in the
relationships between

Barry, Honey, and
their children.

But apparently,
even billionaires

at times have cash flow problems.

Athat in the months ande

weeks leading up to Barry
and Honey Sherman

being m*rder*d in 2017,

Barry had gotten into a lot
of financial trouble.

Barry is going to have to
pay at least $580 million

in the next few months to a
big brand pharma company

in one of his patent
cases that he lost.

Barry is not liquid.

While he has, certainly,
billions of dollars,

he doesn't have- in the bank,
ready to go- 580 million.

With this big cash
crunch approaching,

Barry is going
to people that

he believes owes him money.

One of the people is
his son, Jonathan.

And so,
he says to Jonathan,

"I need you to pay me
50 to $60 million back

as soon as possible."

And, Jonathan, who's about to
embark with husband, Fred,

on a trip to Japan,
he's saying,

"That'll take time to do that.

We'll have to meet
with the bankers."

And then, his father, again,
very quickly responds,

"What will you do,
and when?"

I've tried twice before to
interview Jonathan Sherman,

but we just couldn't
come to terms.

So, I decide to try again.
I send him an email.

In early December of 2020,
I'd said, "Listen,

I've heard that your father
was trying to rein you in."

It was about 9 o'clock
on a Wednesday night,

and I never expected
Jonathan to reply to me,

but he did.

A response isn't all I
receive from Jonathan.

He started sending me

a series of emails between

Barry and Jonathan that were
just before the murders.

And in fact,
my source was right,

that Barry started asking
Jonathan to repay, quote,

"50 to 60 million" dollars.

Jonathan is giving me
all these emails and,

I say to him that night,
"Jonathan,

this is something I'm
going to report on.

You've just confirmed
to me that

your father has
asked for money back

just before he's m*rder*d,"
and I say,

"I'm not suggesting you
had anything to do with

the murders, but it looks
like a motive to me.

I think you should
give me some context."

And he says, "Why don't
you come up to my place?

It's a 100-acre place
north of Toronto.

Come up on the Saturday,
and come alone."

I've been trying to get to
Jonathan Sherman

for almost three years.

To me, this is a big
step forward in the case.

I don't know what else
he's going to tell me.

I'm excited to go see him.

In the course of
my investigation,

I told my Sherman family
source that I was thinking of

going and paying
Jonathan Sherman a visit.

The Sherman family source
called me immediately

and said,
"You better be careful

because there's concern
by one of the siblings,

Alexandra Sherman,
that Jonathan is

somehow involved
in the murders.

So, watch your back."

I don't have a death wish,
but whenever you go into

a situation where you're
going on your own someplace,

there's always a
slight concern that

something could happen.

I had checked with
somebody that I know in

law enforcement that morning,
and I said, "Look,

I'm gonna go up and
interview Jonathan Sherman.

Is there anything you know
that I should be

concerned about?" And the
person said, "No."

And, so then I'm
thinking, okay, well,

are the police gonna be
listening in on the interview?

Which, I often think
when I'm speaking to

other people involved
in this case.

One just never knows.

I had a video
camera in my car,

just to record me
driving up.

It's about a 45-minute
to an hour drive

north of Toronto.

There's a number on a
stake outside the driveway,

but there's no sign
that says, you know,

"Sherman Address".

And, I drive in.

I drive up to what I think
is Jonathan's home.

It's a beautiful, big
log cabin structure.

And, there's no sign
of life in this place.

I'm thinking,
"What's going on here?

Is this some sort of
crazy setup?"

I do what I always do
when I go to a place.

I turn my car around
so that

if I have to leave
quickly, I can.

And I go to the door of
the house, knock on it.

Don't see anybody.

There's a garage that is
to the right of the house.

And, the side
garage door opens.

And, out steps a person
I've never met before.

But I recognize him as
Jonathan Sherman from

his speech at the eulogy at
his parents' funeral.

He says to me,
"Hi, Kevin."

And I follow him, and
we walk in the door-

he goes in first.

I'm seeing a lot of tools
around the garage.

I also see a Tesla,
which is-

I know to be
Jonathan's Tesla.

And there is a canoe,
two-thirds constructed,

on two sawhorses.

And, there's nothing else
in this garage

except for the two of us,
and two chairs.

We sit down,
and he said,

"Ask me anything
you want to ask me."

I said, you know,
"Jonathan,

what brought us here today
is those emails you sent me.

Can we talk about that?"

He often would look
off to one side

when I would
ask him a question.

I take from that that he was
choosing his words carefully.

And he said, "My father
asking me for 50 to

$60 million in emails,
that's just the way

billionaires and
their sons talk.

It's not unusual that,
that his father was

trying to ask
for money back.

And I said, "Well, I've
searched the title of

your various properties, and
I don't see any indication

that you did get financing
from the banks."

He said, "Well, it all
happened so quickly

and then our parents
were k*lled.

And so, there wasn't a
reason to do that."

I said, "Well, did you
get it started?"

And he said, "We just
didn't have the time.

I had gone to Japan."

I asked Jonathan
about Frank D'Angelo.

You know, "What do you
think it is between

your father and
Frank D'Angelo?

What's the connection?"

Jonathan was
very open about,

he doesn't like
Frank at all.

And he thinks his father
is just wasting all

this money- on the movies,
and the juice bottling.

In Jonathan's mind,
it doesn't make sense

that his father has
this connection

with Frank D'Angelo.

He thinks that Frank has
something over his father.

He doesn't know what it is.

I really have no idea where
any of the Sherman children

were exactly at the
time of the murders.

Jonathan tells me that not
long before the murders,

he and his husband, Fred,
go to Japan.

He said, "We got back on
the Tuesday night."

I asked, where was he
at the time

Barry and Honey
are k*lled?

He had the photo
of his hand,

and what he said were
cryptocurrency codes

that he had from Japan to
access an account.

And he had sent me
the photo of his hand,

holding this piece of paper
with some numbers and

letters on it that he took
at 7:17 PM on the

Wednesday night that his
parents were m*rder*d.

It shows that he's
in his compound.

And I said, "How do I
know that's your hand?"

And there's another
problem, the timing.

Barry and Honey are k*lled
between 9 and midnight.

And so, I said, "Jonathan, if
you were here in your home,

which is what
this photo says,

you could get to your
parents' home in 40 minutes."

Then I said, "I talked
to a friend of yours,

and the friend told me that

he and a bunch of
your other buddies

was your alibi for
the night of the murders.

He was with you on the
Wednesday night."

And I said, "When I talked
to your friend and

asked him to look
at his phone,

I pointed out to him that
it actually was the

Thursday night that
was the dinner."

And he said,

"Only I know that I
didn't k*ll my parents.

I'm the only person
that knows that."

And then he tells me
something that I've already

heard from a source, that
his sister Alexandra has,

"got it into her head,"
as he put it,

that he was involved
with the m*rder.

He said that now,
his sisters,

the three of him,
are allied against him.

So, he's fighting
the good fight.

He said that he was a
driving force behind

hiring Brian Greenspan.

He said had it not been
for his efforts

in those early days,

this would have been
considered a m*rder-suicide,

case closed.

I ask Jonathan why he
had fired Jack Kay.

Jack Kay was Barry's second
in command for 35 years.

And, Jonathan said, "That's
one of the things that

I really didn't like
about your reporting.

When you wrote
that story, Kevin,

you made it seem like I
picked him up by the lapels

and threw him out the door."
And I said,

"You did show up on the
anniversary of your

parents' murders and
fired him." And I said,

"How about a party
and a gold watch?"

And Jonathan said,
"You know, it was time."

He said, "Jack Kay was
micromanaging Apotex,

and I had to step in."

I told Jonathan
that the police

have a theory of the case.

And, I said the theory is
somehow related to the estate.

I said, "Jonathan, do you
have a theory of the case?"

And, after a time,

he said he does have a
theory of the case.

He didn't want to share his
theory because if he did,

it would, quote, "Put a
target on his back."

After five hours,
I felt that I had

explored the major issues
I wanted to cover.

And I said, you know,

"I'm going to write a
story about this.

I'd like to speak to you
again," and he said,

"Well, let's just
see how this goes.

I believe some of the
things Jonathan said.

I didn't believe
everything he said.

But I don't have the
proof to disprove

some of the key
things he said.

But now, I have it in his
own words that

his sister considers
him a suspect.

Sometime around my
interview with Jonathan,

a source connects me with
his sister, Alexandra.

I get Alexandra
Sherman on the phone,

and we never
met face-to-face.

She starts telling me
about her father,

and how philanthropy was so,
so important to him.

And I'm not surprised
that Alexandra is

the one that has
really carried the torch

on the philanthropy in
the Sherman family

since Barry
and Honey died.

Alexandra also talks about
her brother, and Jack Kay.

She told me that her
brother was power hungry,

and she didn't like it.

She'd grown up
knowing Jack Kay.

Alexandra told me that
Jonathan and Jack

were like two bulls butting
against each other.

And, her brother, Jonathan,

was trying to
control everything.

After Barry died,
Jack had moved from

his office to
Barry's office.

Jonathan told me he
didn't like that.

Jack Kay was bounced
out of Apotex.

The inner workings of
what happened there,

I have no idea.

It was very hard to get
Jack Kay to talk to anybody.

I called him anyway,

and we talked about the
Sherman case.

I'd been following
the money since 2018,

when I launched my challenge
to unseal the Sherman will.

In October of 2020,
not long before

my interview with
Jonathan Sherman,

my case finally reaches the
Supreme Court of Canada.

It's very rare that a
newspaper reporter can

get a case heard in the
Supreme Court of Canada.

That is huge.

The Sherman legal team
has said the names of the

executors of the estate of
Barry and Honey Sherman

can never get out.

It must be kept secret.

They could be
subject to violence.

But I discovered that
the executors,

known as "estate
trustees" in Canada,

had been listed on a publicly
filed property title

since August 2018.

It's important because the
judges get to see that this

super-secret information-
the identities of these

four executors-
it's already out there.

That piece of information
ends up being in

our Supreme Court case.

And of course, the Shermans
are arguing against it.

And I've got this fear that
I'm gonna lose at

the Supreme Court
of Canada.

At the Toronto Star,
we're actually

quite nervous that
Sherman v. Donavan

would go down as the
case that did not open the

courts further, it's a case
that closed the courts.

It's also about
more than this case.

It's about the principle of
the public being able to

find out about
murders that are

taking place in
their community.

This was of tremendous
public interest.

We get to the
Supreme Court of Canada.

My lawyers take over
arguing the case.

The principle of openness,
charter protected,

but based in centuries
of common law...

is foundational
to our democracy,

and critical to the
public's confidence

in the administration
of justice.

Both the Shermans
and I know that

this is the last stop.

There are no more appeals
after the Supreme Court rules.

We're looking at an
aggregated collection of

information, that when
taken together,

its disclosure will cause
harm to these individuals.

The hearing, it goes
on for several hours.

Then, the seven
Supreme Court justices

retire to decide the case.

And then, silence
from the court.

As every month goes by,

we're getting nervous
because we're thinking

the judges are really
wrestling with this and,

and what if they come out
with a ruling that

clamps down on public
access to the courts?

Then,
in early June of 2021...

the judgement is released...

The Toronto Star and
Kevin Donovan

have won this case.

That day, I'm waiting for the
Sherman will to be released.

I think that I'm going
to see digital files with

information about the estate.

I get about six manila
envelopes that are

just filled with
many things,

including Barry's last
will and testament.

And I'm holding it
in my hands-

not a photocopy, the actual
sealed document.

I take out my iPhone,
and I just start copying.

I copy hundreds and
hundreds of pages.

I've got two and a half,
three hours,

to go through several
hundred pages,

and write a story.

I got the documents,
5:30.

I was back in the
newsroom at 6:30.

It was online by 9 PM.

After almost three years
of fighting the good fight,

finally, all of Canada will
see the full contents of

the Sherman will.

And, there are a few
surprising details.

Barry Sherman makes his
wife, Honey Sherman,

the immediate beneficiary.

If Honey had lived,
she would have controlled

the lion's share of her
husband's estate.

For a married couple worth
as much as $10 billion,

one would assume that
Barry and Honey

would each have a will
naming beneficiaries.

I talked to him
often about,

"Barry, what are your
long-term plans here?

What are you gonna
do with the business?

Are you gonna
sell the business?

Keep the business?
Build the business?

How's your estate plan?"
Things that people concern

themselves with at
certain stages of life,

particularly people with
huge assets to deal with,

none of it was ever the
slightest interest to him.

He couldn't focus on that.

He would just
shrug about it.

Barry had a will.
Honey did not.

It's bizarre, but
if she had a will,

nobody's come
forward with it.

But, one person
who knew Honey

relays an interesting
conversation with her

held just prior to
the murders.

In the fall of 2017,

probably a month
before she had passed,

there was an instance
that stuck out in my mind

with Honey.

We were discussing
meeting up at her house.

We realized that both of us
were gonna be in the

same area at the
same time, and so,

she offered to
drive me up there,

so that we didn't have to
take two vehicles.

I asked her why she
was even in that area.

She just said that she was
visiting with a lawyer

to make some
amendments to her will.

They're saying she
didn't have a will,

but I know I had this
conversation with her.

It just didn't seem in
character with her that

she would not have a will.

But the fact is,
there's no will on record

for Honey Sherman...

no way of knowing who she
would have left her money to.

With both Barry
and Honey dead,

the entire estate goes to
the 4 Sherman children.

Quarter each,
no money for charity-

which really
surprised me because

Barry and Honey were
so philanthropic.

No money for
anybody else...

just the four kids-
Lauren, Jonathan,

Kaelan,
and Alexandra.

Are they in any
way involved?

I don't know.

I do know that the
Toronto Police

consider the estate part of
their investigation.

What I would expect to see
at this stage is that

they would say,
"The family's not involved.

We've got alibis
for everybody."

We've not heard that.

During the Zoom hearing,
I say, "Detective Yim,

if you excluded somebody,
completely decided they

didn't do it, would you be
more open to releasing

their identity?" And,
he hasn't said,

"Yes, completely,"
because he said,

he's always worried
about revealing

persons of interest
and suspects.

It's only my source in the
Sherman family

who had said Alexandra
named a suspect.

Jonathan is considered
by his sister a suspect.

Alex Sherman has gone to
the police about this.

She has told a lot
of people in Toronto.

This is a very
open secret that

Alex Sherman
believes this.

The Toronto Police in their
search warrant documents

say that it's quite likely
there's a financial motive

for the murders.

To be fair to the
Sherman family members,

it's possible that there's
somebody out there that

thought that he or
she was going to get

millions of dollars,
realizing they didn't...

and that was the
motive for the m*rder.

Until someone comes up with
a plausible motive and

makes an arrest, then let's
hear everything

that anybody has to say.

Because, there are a lot of
weird things about this

that don't add up.

By December 2020,

three years after
the murders,

I've learned a great deal
about the Sherman family.

I've interviewed more than
250 people on this case.

I've seen all these
court documents.

Now I have proof of most
of the things that happened

between the day that the
Shermans died and

the day the
bodies were found.

The morning of
December 13th,

the Sherman household
is very busy.

The house is for sale.

The realtor is
going around,

making sure everything
looks great.

A personal trainer
shows up.

Her first job is to train
Barry for an hour.

9:30, he's done.

Barry heads off
to shower and

get dressed for the day.

Honey starts her workout,
which is much more extreme.

At about 10 minutes to 10,
Barry comes out,

he's showered,
he's dressed.

He's wearing a belt that
he's quite proud of.

It's a belt that was
purchased by Honey for $9.99

at a discount rack
at a local store.

She bought two of them.
One of them was left on a-

sort of a little cushion-y
seat at the end of the bed,

and the other one is
on Barry's waist.

Barry was
affectionate to Honey.

Gave her a hug and a kiss,
said goodbye.

And he's off to work.

Barry has arrived at
work at around 10:30.

He's got a busy
slate of meetings.

A lot of paperwork
to catch up on.

Honey goes off to do
errands, and she's,

you know, visiting
with some friends.

At 5 PM, the
Sherman architects,

followed by Honey,
arrive at Apotex to go over

plans for the billionaire
couple's new home.

Honey leaves Apotex
at about 6:15, 6:20.

She's got some
Hanukkah shopping

to do for her
new grandchild.

She does her shopping
at the shopping mall.

And, I believe Honey arrives
home by 8:20 PM.

She always parks her SUV
just to the right of

the side door of the
Sherman home.

Honey's best friends say that
Honey was a creature of habit.

She never went to
that front door.

She went in the side door,
which she always did.

That's when I believe
that Honey was attacked.

I believe that
Honey came in,

either with somebody
who attacked her,

or somebody was waiting
there and attacked her.

She gets away.

I think maybe Honey
was running to try and

get to the front door.

The phone falls out of her
hands and lands on the floor.

Her mobile phone is
discovered in a powder room

at the front of the house,
near the front doors,

which are hardly
ever opened.

I don't know if she was
rendered unconscious and

taken downstairs
and m*rder*d,

or m*rder*d and
taken downstairs.

She's taken to the
other end of the pool,

where she's then
tied to the railing.

At Apotex,
Barry has no idea

what is happening
at his home.

Barry sends his last
email from Apotex,

his desktop computer,
at 8:23 PM.

And, I believe he's
home by 9 o'clock.

When Barry Sherman
came home that night,

I assumed that he drove
down the ramp

into the garage.

And, there's a wall in the
garage that's glass block.

The pool is
behind there.

So, I'd assume that when they
saw Barry's lights come on,

whoever was there,
and they'd taken Honey.

And then, possibly,

already they
knew he was home.

They went down
into the hallway,

waited for him to
come in the door.

And that's when they
got him, and that's when

his documents and his
gloves dropped.

My theory is that he's
taken, still alive,

into the swimming pool room,
and he's showed Honey.

And, whoever did this to him
wanted him

to see his wife in
that situation.

It's possible that Barry
was strangled there

with a thin ligature.

Then he was posed,
along with Honey,

to echo the statues
in their home.

There was some significance
to his legs being crossed.

These were things that
were done deliberately.

Barry's wearing
his glasses...

which is surprising to me
because strangulation

is a very violent crime where,
you can imagine

somebody thrashing
about and, and...

eyeglasses being
knocked off.

Probably, the k*ller placed
them back on Barry's head.

Each has a belt tied
around their neck and

attached to the
low railing above.

Likely the same belt that
Barry wore earlier that

morning, and the other belt
that Honey bought for him.

A thin ligature was
used on their throat.

The belts didn't k*ll them.

The belts were strictly to
keep them upright as a

shock factor when somebody
walks in to find them.

This guy takes great
delight in setting a scene.

And, he succeeded.
Didn't he?

The Toronto Police have said
that Barry and Honey

were k*lled between
9 and midnight.

It's always been very...

upsetting to me as a human
being to think that these

two people that were
so important

in so many people's
lives were just

sitting there
for the next 36 hours.

It's a perfect storm
on that Thursday.

There are no showings that
day of the Sherman home.

There are no
cleaners in the home.

There's nobody coming
in to water the plants.

On that Thursday
morning, at 8:30,

Honey was to be at a
board meeting for

one of the charities that
she supported.

But, she just
didn't show up.

Barry doesn't show up
at the office.

Hours go by, and there are
emails coming at Barry and

he's not responding.

Where is the man who
founded this company?

Nobody checks.

after the Shermans

the mystery man

in front of their
home is captured

on security video, repeatedly

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A family member of the
Shermans tells me about a

9-1-1 call that was being
investigated by police

on the street at around
9:30 on the Thursday

after the Shermans
were k*lled.

When you call 9-1-1
from a mobile phone,

your number shows up.

But it doesn't show up
the exact location.

I have long thought it's
possible that a 9-1-1 call

was made from
the Sherman home.

One of my theories is that
Honey is attacked,

she runs...

maybe trying to make
a 9-1-1 call

on the way.

Gets to the bathroom,
phone falls to the floor.

The at 9:30,ning,

theat their door.s

police sent officers

on Old Colony Road

checking on
a 9-1-1 call

that came
from the area.

Chief Mark Saunders gave a
little press conference and

said, "We know who
that person is...

but we're not going
to tell you."

Now, the fact that a police
chief knows who he is

was a police officer

clothes vehicle

The bodies of Barry and
Honey sit, undiscovered,

until the following morning,
Friday December 15th.

The housekeeper arrives.

She unlocks the door.

The alarm has not been set.

She will later tell
people that she felt a,

a black feeling in that home
when she entered in.

She felt
something strange.

Now, the housekeeper
starts cleaning.

First, she notices that
Honey and Barry's bed

has not been slept in.

She notices
that the sink is dry.

Honey would normally have
been up by that time,

and would have
washed her face.

It's completely dry.

A gardener shows up.

The real estate agent who
works for the Shermans,

and another agent who has
brought two clients, arrive.

And they start a tour.

The agent for the
Shermans notices

Honey's phone in
the powder room.

She thinks, "If Honey's phone's
here, where's Honey?"

She heads downstairs
and, she looks down,

and she sees Barry's
driving gloves,

and she also sees the
home inspection report

she'd asked Barry
to bring home.

But she thinks to herself,
"Hang on a second,

I'm trying to
show a house here.

Why didn't somebody
tidy this up?"

Then, with the realtor and
the two clients in tow,

she continues down
the long hallway to

the swimming pool room.

Once the realtor is
clear that Barry and Honey

are dead,
she calls 9-1-1.

And the first
thing she says is,

"Somebody has
k*lled me clients."

That somebody
remains unknown.

But as I prepare to challenge
the seals on warrants

in court for the 7th time,

I get a tip about the
Toronto Police.

In December of 2021,
through my sources,

I heard that the police
were about to have a

press conference,
release some kind of video.

And I'm thinking,
what is this video?

Thank you for
joining us today.

What I learned is that since
the first six weeks

of the case, Toronto Police
have been looking at

surveillance video from
the area to see if

there are people that
they can't identify.

People who would be
persons of interest.

At the outset of
this investigation,

we seized a very large amount
of security video footage.

Some of these videos
were from locations

in the area of
Old Colony Road.

And so, they are
suspicious about a man...

In the neighbourhood,

around the
Sherman home

at the time of
the murders.

That's how they come up
with 'The Walking Man'.

The timing of this
individual's appearance is

in line with when we believe
the murders took place.

They pick up this person
coming from the east,

passing this
fire hydrant...

going close to
the Sherman home,

and they say he
disappears for

a suspicious
amount of time.

But, he reappears in
that same camera

near the Sherman's home,
retraces his routes and

passes that fire hydrant.

Where we're
driving right now,

there is a yellow
fire hydrant,

and there's a tree
that's very close to it.

And, as The Walking Man'
goes by,

you see the fire
hydrant and the tree.

Based on this evidence,

we're classifying this
individual as a suspect.

It is our hope that someone
will come forward with a name

when they recognize
the individual's walk.

The way in which
they kick up

their right foot
with every step.

This gait, this walk
is very, very unusual.

And it fits into this
whole business of

this Agatha
Christie style...

m*rder case,
a real whodunnit.

We believe that further
information from the public

could assist us in
making an identification.

Sitting on that for
4 years is ridiculous.

Put that video out...

a week after you get it.

That should have
been on the news

the second they had it.

Did you see this
person that night?

Did anybody recognize
that person?

Did you pass him on the
street, walking your dog?

Was he wearing glasses?
Or anything.

Showing that to the
public 4 years later...

If you took that fact,
alone, and showed it to

police forces around
the continent,

what do you
think they'd say?

We got the
keystone cops here.

I think that the
k*ller or K*llers...

look at this investigation
and think,

boy,
did we get lucky.

This thing that the police
have been doing for 4 years

is trying to do what's
called a 'cell tower dump'

to find out who
this person was.

And they were hoping that
they would find that

The Walking Man was talking
to somebody somewhere,

and maybe that
person is a suspect.

Attempts to identify this
individual yielded

tens of thousands of
data lines that

needed to be analyzed.

These kinds of things
take a great deal of time.

And, it took them
4 years to do it.

Two days after 'The Walking
Man' press conference,

I'm back in court
challenging the police.

I got a lot more
information unsealed.

One of the things that jumped
out to me is that the police

believe that Barry and
Honey may have been

under surveillance by a
person or persons,

leading up to
their murders.

This surveillance theory,
which begins with

The Walking Man,
is an attempt to find out

if any of about 300 people
who are in the

Sherman's orbit
were in that area,

both the night of
the m*rder,

maybe a couple days
after the m*rder,

and as far back as 3 months
prior to the m*rder.

They believe that The
Walking Man is connected to

people who were
surveilling the Shermans.

As I'm looking
through these ITOs,

their names are
all blacked out,

the numbers are
all blacked out.

There's 3 or 4 names
that are redacted that

the police have cleared.
They say that,

"We find no evidence
that these people

were involved at all."

I want to know who
those people are.

Detective Constable Yim
on the witness stand says,

"The investigation is moving
to an international stage."

He says that the Toronto
Police believe that the

information that will help
them solve this case lies in

one of five countries
somewhere around the world.

I asked Detective
Constable Yim,

"What are the 5 countries?"
He won't tell me.

Given that there's this
international flair to the

Sherman case, I asked him,
"Did you ever think to go to

Toronto Pearson Airport or
the island airport

to see if The Walking Man

passed through security
on the night of

December 13th, when the
Shermans were k*lled?"

He said they did not.

I asked him why
he didn't do that.

And he said they
didn't think of it.

But right now as the days,
and weeks,

and months,
and years go by,

it's seeming less like the
police can lay a charge...

unless they get a break,

and that's what I
think they're hoping for.

Very little new information
came out in the latter part

of 2022, but something
pretty important happened.

Apotex was sold.

The buyer is a New York
company that's

in the chemical business.

Barry had always hoped that
one of his children

would succeed him
at Apotex,

but they just weren't
interested.

Almost immediately
after his death,

Apotex started shrinking.

My sources tell me it
sold for about $3 billion.

There's an art to
the relationship

of the Sherman children.

Less than a week
after the murders,

Jonathan gives a eulogy,
and he says, you know,

"We've all committed to
fulfilling our parents' legacy

and working together
as family members."

But then, about a year
after the murders,

Alexandra-
according to Jonathan-

comes up with
this notion that

her brother was involved.

And that starts a rift.

Both Lauren and Kaelan,

since their
parents' murders,

have gone to different
corners of the world.

And, they're not
public people at all.

At the 5th anniversary
of the Sherman murders,

The Star publishes my story
about a statement that

Alexandra Sherman
has made.

She says that she
misses her parents,

and she wants to remind
the public that the

$10 million reward that her
family had promised

five years before is
still on the table.

Three days later,

Jonathan Sherman releases
his own statement.

He says that he is
relentless in the

pursuit of his
parents' K*llers,

and he's adding $25 million
of his own money,

bringing the total to
$35 million for anybody

who can provide information
towards the arrest and

conviction of the people
who m*rder*d

Barry and Honey Sherman.

That reward is
still on the table.

And to this day,
the k*ller or K*llers

of Barry and
Honey Sherman...

remain free.

Why can't they
find who did it?

That's all I think about.

It has to be solved.
It's terrible.

People say,
"It'll never be solved."

I don't know, I don't
know about that.

I would never say that.

It may be in a week
that they'll announce

some charges, or a year
or two years from now.

Who would know?

We may be doing a 20-year
look back on this famous

m*rder, and they never
found out who did it.

You may well have, of all the
known players in this case,

one of them may
be the k*ller.

And, if he or she
is the k*ller,

they've done a great job of
just going on with their lives.

Everybody who I know,

who knew Honey and Barry say,

"It's over.
It'll never be solved."

I believe this m*rder
will be solved because of

Kevin Donavan keeping on
the heels of the police.

He's like a dog with
a bone, quite frankly.

If it wasn't for
Kevin Donavan and

his incredible
investigative work...

we wouldn't be here today.

I have a theory of the case.

I have a belief that
I know who did it.

I think the police
share the same belief.

They know that I'm not
going away any time soon.

I'm gonna keep
fighting this fight.

I do think that one day the
murders of Barry and

Honey Sherman
will be found out.

I think that somebody
out there knows a

piece of information
that will help.

And, my hunt continues.