“It’s an open and very active investigation,” Insp. Hank Idsinga, head of Homicide, said of the slayings of the Apotex founder and his famous for charitable fundraising wife.
And not just an open investigation. Or active.
“Very active.”
“This is great news,” said a person close to the billionaire couple’s children. “This is the first time we have heard that.”
Senator Linda Frum said family members “have confidence in police” and long for the day “there is a resolution” and “justice.”
A “very active” probe is certainly a change from two years ago when the original belief was that the scene inside the couple’s Old Colony Rd. mansion was a murder-suicide.
Neighbour and friend Heather Gilbert never believed it.
“No way,” she said. “They had a very good relationship and displayed no tension with each other. They loved each other.”
She saw this in the 14 years she lived next door.
When Det.-Sgt. Sue Gomes addressed the media 42 days after the grisly discovery she was on side that this was murder.
“We believe we have sufficient evidence to describe this as a double homicide and that both were targeted,” she told the media at the time.
Honey and Barry Sherman were found inside the basement pool area in a seated position, hands behind their backs in winter coats, with belts around their necks that were attached to the pool’s railing.
Sherman family lawyer Brian Greenspan has claimed the Shermans’ bodies were “staged.”
Police and the family’s private investigation team, led by retired homicide detective Tom Klatt, have been keeping their cards close.
But they are all still on this — and the family’s $10-million reward is still available.
“This was a hit,” said an insider.
The why, how and who are unresolved questions?
That someone could get into the home, kill the couple and escape undetected has neighbour Heather Gilbert hearkening back to something that occurred at the house prior to the double murder.
“I thought right away of the skylight on the roof of that house,” she said. “Somebody got on the roof and opened the skylight to lower themselves into their house to steal Honey’s jewelry.”
After learning of the robbery from police, Gilbert said, “I was worried because we also have skylights.”
It was later determined it was believed to be an international ring of robbers working the street. For Gilbert it showed a potential entry and escape route.
“I believe there is something big behind this,” she said.
Gilbert also hopes investigators are looking at the case of Dean Lorich — a doctor famous for successfully operating on U2 superstar Bono after a cycling accident — who knew Barry Sherman and reportedly “stabbed himself” in his Manhattan apartment Dec. 10, 2017.
It was “five days before” the Shermans’ bodies were found, she pointed out.
“They called it a suicide because he had a knife in his chest. I never believed it. He was 50 years old (Lorich was actually 54) and was babysitting his 11-year-old daughter,” Gilbert said. “Would he pick that time to commit suicide? He knew Barry. They were together (on) Haiti doing work. Barry would send bills and the doctor would devote his time.”
Conspiracy theory? Wishful thinking? Coincidence?
Police have not responded to questions on the skylight or Lorich case. But a source close to the Sherman family called Gilbert’s revelations “interesting.”
Although Barry Sherman and Lorich did humanitarian work together in Haiti, a personal connection between the two has not been verified.
But someone close to the family said this is the kind of lead this “very active” investigation should look into.
Two years may have passed since Honey and Barry Sherman were murdered, but this is an investigation that is very much hot.
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