CRIME: The Mysterious Murder of Barry & Honey Sherman

August 21, 2026

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The Mysterious Murder of Barry & Honey Sherman

On the morning of December 15, 2017, real estate agent Elise Stern arrived at 50 Old Colony Road in Toronto to show the Sherman mansion to prospective buyers. The housekeeper let them in, but the alarm was off and the owners were nowhere to be found. Walking through the main floor, the group admired the art collection before heading to the basement showstopper: a massive heated indoor lap pool. That's when Elise realized they weren't alone. Across the pool deck, two people sat on the floor, torsos slumped forward but heads held strangely high—almost as if they'd been posed. Thinking it might be sculptures or a bizarre meditation ritual, she hurried her clients upstairs, locked the basement door, and sent the gardener down to investigate. What he found was Barry and Honey Sherman, two of the wealthiest people in Canada, strangled and tied by their necks to the railing of their own swimming pool.

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1 Main Outline
2 (00:51) **The Discovery** - A real estate agent arrives to show the Sherman mansion and finds the couple dead by their indoor pool
3 (03:18) **Case Introduction** - The episode frames the central mystery: two of Canada's wealthiest philanthropists murdered in their home with no arrests nearly a decade later
4 (07:30) **Barry's Early Life** - The founder's childhood shaped by sudden loss and relentless ambition
5 (09:15) **The Empire Laboratories Opportunity** - A part-time courier job leads to a family tragedy and a business gamble
6 (11:31) **Buying Empire** - Barry returns from MIT to purchase the struggling company with a controversial promise to his cousins
7 (13:06) **Meeting Honey** - The unlikely romance between a driven astrophysicist and a Holocaust survivor's daughter

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Show Notes

In December 2017, billionaire pharmaceutical founder Barry Sherman and his wife Honey were found dead in their Toronto mansion, their bodies posed beside the indoor pool, each hanging from a railing by a belt. Police initially suggested a murder-suicide, a theory the couple's family furiously rejected. As private investigators and a second autopsy revealed the truth, the case was reclassified as a targeted double homicide, the work of someone who had carefully staged the scene. Barry had built the generic drug giant Apotex into a fortune worth billions, leaving behind a tangle of lawsuits, business rivalries, and family disputes. Years later, despite a massive reward and one of the most high-profile investigations in Canadian history, no one has ever been charged. In this episode of Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes, Vanessa Richardson examines the killing of Barry and Honey Sherman, the botched early investigation that cost crucial evidence, and the web of money, power, and suspicion surrounding a murder that remains unsolved.

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