The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
When the bodies of jewish billionaire Barry Sherman – who founded pharmaceutical company Apotex – (1) and his ‘Holocaust Survivor’ wife Honey (2) were found dead at their home in Toronto, Canada on Friday 15th December 2017.
Then despite the very public ‘outpouring of grief’ (3) and the sudden revelation that Barry Sherman is to be posthumously awarded the ‘Order of Canada’. (4) It came as quite a shock to Canada’s jewish community, especially when Toronto police revealed that they thought it was a case of a ‘Murder-Suicide’ of Honey Sherman by her husband. (5)
So much so that the jews immediately began denouncing the Canadian police and implying incompetence, (6) while the surviving members of the Sherman family quickly started hiring private detectives to undermine the police investigation... sorry ‘solve the mystery by making sure no stone is left unturned’. (7)
The facts of the case however do not support the suspicions and implied accusation of a cover-up/anti-Semitic witch-hunt that have been spread by the Sherman family against the Canadian police.
These are simply these:
- The couple were selling their existing house. (8)
- They had purchased another house in 2016 and demolished it but had yet to start building their new residence. (9)
- Their bodies were discovered in their existing property by their real estate agent. (10)
- Their bodies were discovered hung on a beam near their basement pool in their existing house in a semi-sitting position. (11)
- There was no sign of forced entry into the property. (12)
- There was no suicide note. (13)
Now looking at the facts the likeliest possibilities are ‘Murder-Suicide’ or ‘Double Suicide’, because unless further toxicological screening (14) reveals the unlikely presence of sedatives or some such chemical trace in both Barry and Honey Sherman. Then it just isn’t very plausible to suggest that they were killed by a third party as their family and Linda Frum – a ‘Canadian Conservative Senator’ - are trying to claim was the case. (15)
Ironically the only people who would have a reason to kill Barry and Honey Sherman are the same relatives who are currently claiming that an as yet unknown third party was responsible. This is because in 2016; he was subject to a lawsuit from members of his family who claimed that they had been ‘cut out of the company for years’, but which was thrown out by a judge the same year. (16)
Yet there is also evidence that Barry Sherman had been heavily stressed in recent months, because – as a prominent supporter and fund-raising for ultra-liberal Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – (17) they had been accused of improper conduct and interference in Canadian politics and were to be formally investigated by Canadian police. (18)
Did Barry Sherman have something to hide?
Certainly, that is the only really conceivable reason for the ‘Murder-Suicide’ or ‘Double Suicide’ at this point in time and as there is no real evidence for a ‘Double Murder’ theory.
Although that being said, the Canadian police have subsequently confirmed that they are treating this case as a ‘Double Murder’ and claimed that the Shermans were ‘in fact targeted’, (19) but have declined to explain why they have suddenly come to this contradictory epiphany.
If this is true and there is some significant fact that has yet to be released that would strongly suggest that the deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman were in fact murders or more precisely assassinations.
Then it is more than likely – because of the aforementioned legal proceedings and family squabbles about who is entitled to what in terms of the Sherman estate – that it is to the Sherman family to which we must look for the murderer(s) and/or those who organised and paid for it to be place rather than to Sherman’s business rivals as Haaretz and Jewish News are claiming. (20)
References
(1) https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/family-of-barry-sherman-proud-that-apotex-founder-is-among-latest-order-of-canada-inductees/article37464644/
(2) https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/12/21/thousands-expected-at-funeral-of-barry-and-honey-sherman-thursday.html
(3) https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/12/21/thousands-expected-at-funeral-of-barry-and-honey-sherman-thursday.html ; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42433778
(4) https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/family-of-barry-sherman-proud-that-apotex-founder-is-among-latest-order-of-canada-inductees/article37464644/
(5) https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/12/16/murder-suicide-is-the-working-theory-for-police-investigating-death-of-billionaire-and-his-wife.html ; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42388311
(6) http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/pharma-billionaire-barry-sherman-honey-family-suspcious-death-latest-media-reports-a8115651.html ; http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42388311
(7) http://uk.businessinsider.com/barry-sherman-family-hire-private-detective-to-solve-death-mystery-2017-12 ;https://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/billionaire-barry-sherman-new-details-death-investigation/
(8) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42388311
(9) https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2017/12/28/the-house-honey-and-barry-sherman-would-have-built.html
(10) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42388311
(11) https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2017/12/20/what-we-know-and-dont-know-so-far-about-the-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman.html ; https://www.thejc.com/news/world/double-murder-in-canada-billionaire-philanthropist-barry-sherman-and-wife-1.450654
(12) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42388311
(13) https://www.thejc.com/news/world/double-murder-in-canada-billionaire-philanthropist-barry-sherman-and-wife-1.450654
(14) https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2017/12/20/what-we-know-and-dont-know-so-far-about-the-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman.html
(15) https://www.thejc.com/news/world/double-murder-in-canada-billionaire-philanthropist-barry-sherman-and-wife-1.450654
(16) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/18/toronto-detectives-say-billionaire-barry-sherman-wife-died-ligature/ ;http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42388311
(17) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/18/toronto-detectives-say-billionaire-barry-sherman-wife-died-ligature/
(18) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42388311
(19) http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/canadian-police-say-jewish-billionaire-couple-were-murdered/ ; https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/americas/police-treating-death-of-canadian-jewish-billionaire-couple-as-murder-1.5767330
(20) Ibid.