It did seem like you were watching

a work of fiction, not reality.

Tonight the mystery deepening behind

the double homicide of one of the world's richest couples.

But of course truth is often much stranger than fiction

as I learned as I went on with the reporting.

Their murder has shaken the political establishment

with many wondering who could have wanted

to see them dead and why.

This was just a seismic event in the history

of Canadian business and Canadian news.

Now police want to know who would want them dead.

We are now well over a year after their deaths

and they remain completely unsolved.

It's quite a macabre story in terms of how

Barry and Honey Sherman were discovered.

They were last seen, both of them, on December 13, 2018

which was a Wednesday.

They were trying to sell their home

and so their real estate agent was holding viewings

for prospective buyers and the agent had a couple

touring the home who were being shown

around the kitchen, the bedrooms,

and they were shown the indoor pool.

If you can imagine a line of people comes into the pool area

and sees this really gruesome tableau of

Barry and Honey Sherman suspended from a metal railing

that surrounded one end of the pool

with leather belts holding them up by the neck.

They were in kneeling positions facing away from the water.

She was kind of slumped on her side a little bit,

he was more upright.

There was then a 911 call

and the police were on the scene very soon afterward.

Now the billionaire founder of Canada's largest

drugs firm, Barry Sherman and his wife Honey have been

found dead at their home in Toronto.

Police describe the deaths as suspicious

but say they were not being treated as murder.

We discovered two bodies of people inside a home here.

The circumstances of their death appear suspicious.

Homicide detectives are leading

the investigation but there is still no indication

from police that the deaths are homicides.

Over the next 24 hours you began to see

anonymously sourced stories in some of the

Toronto papers to the effect that the police

were treating this as a murder-suicide

committed by Barry Sherman.

The Sherman's adult children put out a statement

saying that this was completely inconsistent

with the character of their parents

and they also put together their own investigative team.

And they actually did a second autopsy which is remarkable.

They found things that they believed indicated

this could not have been a murder-suicide,

narrow markings on Barry Sherman's wrists,

the scene was for lack of a better word, quite clean,

the way in which the murder scene

seemed to have been staged.

And then in late January

the police hold a press conference.

We believe now through the six weeks of work review,

we have sufficient evidence to describe this

as a double homicide investigation

and that both Honey and Barry Sherman were in fact targeted.

We are not police detectives, we do not have access

to the corpus of evidence, we are not going to solve

the crime, so my goal was create the richest portrait

possible of this very unusual person

and how he came to this very unusual end.

As head of Apotex,

the largest pharmaceutical company in Canada,

Barry's net worth was estimated

at over $4 billion at the time of his death.

Barry Sherman was a science guy.

He had a PhD in physics at MIT but he had become

an expert in generics and in drugs.

The generics business is a very tough one.

It is zero sum in the strictest sense of the term.

That means that if you're selling a branded drug

you have had a significant amount of your profit wiped out

and he was very tough in doing this, very uncompromising.

When you speak to people in the

branded pharmaceutical industry they sometimes refer

to Barry Sherman in unprintable terms.

It has been said, though there may be some exaggeration

in the numbers, that he would sometimes be involved

in as many as 100 lawsuits at any one time.

He was a guy who did not like to be crossed

and if someone did betray him or did something

that he felt was improper or disloyal, he would sue.

He was a tough guy.

Definitely someone who did not have a lot of friends

beyond his inner circle.

Barry Sherman did face multiple lawsuits,

among them a decade long battle with a group of cousins

who felt cut out of the Sherman business.

These murders had sort of a

Murder On The Orient Express quality to them.

There was a long list of theories out there.

Someone who everyone looked at very quickly

was Barry Sherman's cousin, Kerry Winter,

the son of Lewis Winter, the founder of Empire Laboratories,

the company where Barry worked as a student

and later ended up owning and Kerry

and his siblings have been engaged in a legal battle

alleging that he owes them 20% of Apotex,

that they were done out of their inheritance.

He cared about one thing, money, making lots of it

and not caring who he destroyed, who he stepped on.

That is a very bitter legal battle and it's one where

Kerry has expressed publicly and otherwise a lot of anger,

said some things that certainly did not

make him less of a suspect.

I probably had reasons to lash out, to do the dirty deed.

But here he is, over a year later, walking free

and unarrested so I think it's safe to say

that he had nothing to do with this.

Police say they are still talking

to neighbors, witnesses, family members,

business associates, anyone who knew anything

about the Sherman's lives or even their last hours.

One of the things I was astounded by

when I started reporting this story,

and it's something that I really had no inkling of,

was the extent of some of Barry Sherman's entanglements

with really inadvisable financial deals, businesses,

and this put him in to bed financially with a lot of people

who really most high level pharmaceutical executives

would never have anything to do with.

Kevin Trudeau, now in jail, another convicted fraudster

called Shaun Rootenberg convinced Barry Sherman

to invest in a online trivia app.

The introduction in that case was made

by someone called Myron Gottlieb.

Gottlieb and Rootenberg had actually met in jail

and the most dramatic of these involvements

over the years was someone named Frank D'Angelo.

He is something of a B-list celebrity in Canada.

He's well known as a director of movies

that don't typically get great reviews.

Barry Sherman invested in most of these films.

Do what you gotta do.

You're trouble for me Angelo.

I met Frank for lunch and he is a colorful guy

to say the least.

If you wanna talk about unprintable language,

he certainly uses a lot of it.

I just felt that I owed it to Barry

to give my two cents.

You know I don't think I'll ever get over this

incredible tragedy, this senseless act,

as long as I live on this planet.

You can see the appeal of hanging out with him

for Barry, particularly because he would've been

so dramatically different from the other people

who Barry Sherman would've seen

and dealt with on a daily basis.

Meeting Frank was not uncomfortable at all.

He was happy to help, he had checked me out.

He knew about me.

I think I found him on Facebook and sent him a note

asking if he would meet and after a few days he responded

and said that he would.

But he did make clear to me, he pulled me close as we were

leaving that first lunch, and said you know,

do the right thing for my friend

and if you don't I'm gonna come to London and find you.

He had been questioned by the police.

He is emphatic that he had nothing to do with the murder

but he is of course emblematic, indicative,

of the tone of some of these financial entanglements

and those entanglements are to many people very suspicious.

Hank Idsinga, the acting inspector

of the homicide squad, says the investigation into

who killed Barry and Honey Sherman is still very active.

I feel for the family and the friends.

It's dragging on, it has been a year.

As an attempt to reignite an investigation,

The Sherman family has asked me to announce the offer

of a reward of up to $10 million dollars for information leading

to the apprehension and prosecution of those responsible

for the murders of Honey and Barry Sherman.

Truth is very strange, you know.

Truth is much stranger than fiction,

that's why I love this job, is that you keep finding out

that what happens in the real world is just as weird

or weirder than Hollywood could every come up with.

It seems pretty clear to all involved that something

that Barry Sherman got involved in went wrong

and came back at him.

If you think about the crime, it is remarkable in many ways.

One of the things that's remarkable is that

his wife was killed and the other thing that I think

has confounded a lot of the investigators

is when there are hits, it's usually a bullet,

it's usually quick, it's done cleanly, efficiently,

in a way that allows a quick getaway.

Barry and Honey Sherman were strangled to death.

So there's this confusing tangle of evidence

that for the police and for anyone else trying

to understand this, it doesn't all point in one direction

and that's I think what is so tantalizing about this

as a mystery in some way and I think it's a mystery

that's going to endure.