I am assuming the Sherman estate has been or in the process of being distributed to the heirs by now. If the motive for the killings was for money and control, then that has been achieved.
Early on, I believed the motive was revenge by a business relationship gone bad, but there had been no evidence to point that way. One statistical fact mentioned, that swayed me, was "If both parents are murdered in their home, look at the children as POIs". Sadly this could be true in this case. I really hope I am wrong, but has there been any hint of any other potential POI?
Quoting from your post:
“If the motive for the killings was for money and control, then that has been achieved.”
Along with several other reasons, that’s exactly why I DON’T think the motive for the killings was about money and control. Because from a money and control standpoint, everybody who ended up with money already HAD money; and everybody who ended up with control already HAD control (of what they wanted to be in control of, anyway).
Sure, JS would’ve liked a to have had a bigger role in “succession” - and even wanted to involve AP, but BS had already given JS and AP hundreds of millions. BS wasn’t stupid enough to give JS a role in “succession”. He scoffed at the suggestion. I got the impression that BS thought his own decision making capabilities were pretty darn good. He expressed this more than once to the impudent JS.
I think BS felt like he hadn’t needed anyone’s advice to get where he was, and he sure as heck didn’t need JS’s advice to get where he wanted to go. I actually couldn’t believe JS was so naïve and had such a inflated opinion of himself that he thought he could take charge and do what BS did: “but I studied accounting and finance..”. That’s like allowing somebody you don’t know who’s walking down the street to give you advice on stocks. No! Mind your own business!
All that said, JS was already very wealthy, very occupied with multiple companies and ventures, and was over his head, really. He wasn’t going to gain any more money or any more control by killing BS that he wouldn’t have soon gotten through inheritance anyway (jmo)
Everybody who wanted to be rich was already rich. Everybody was already going to collect their 25 percent (at least a billion each) of BS’s estate. BS was already 75 years old. No child seemed to want to be in control of anything that they were not already in control of. And NONE of them wanted to have anything to do with controlling Apotex, that’s for sure.
Unless the rumors about The Giving Pledge were true, and unless a will modification was imminent, I don’t think the desire for money, or power, or control - had anything to do with the killings. I think the motive was hate and revenge. The method was slow. The posing was intended to humiliate. There were ligature marks on the wrists. They were slowly, slowly, deprived of air (and I think, while somebody was watching, jmo). Papers on the floor upstairs. Wearing their coats (they were ambushed when they first got home). Coats pulled down. Glasses put back on. Feet re-crossed. This was schemed. This took imagination. It took hate (jmo).
Imo that’s one reason why this crime has been so difficult for LE to solve: there are just too many people with motive. Dealing with shady partners makes enemies. Corporate espionage makes enemies. Suing contractors makes enemies, Calling back 50 million dollar business loans makes enemies. Stealing patents and pre-running pharmaceuticals makes corporate and other enemies. Running people out of business makes enemies . Stealing from competitors (forcing early end of patent protection under the guise of helping the little guy) makes enemies. Continuous and often vexatious litigation costs people money and makes enemies. Stealing birthright from cousins makes enemies. Taking back the cousins homes and livelihoods and then suing them for attorneys fees makes enemies. Being ruthless makes enemies.
BS seemed to forget that there were a bunch of other animals out there on the Serengeti with him who were just as ruthless and deadly as he was. They were pursuing survival and happiness and money and success and copulation and food just like he was. They weren’t all harmless, foolish, gullible, forgiving, benign, or even foolishly altruistic animals. They existed only for themselves too. Of all people, BS should have known this. But he didn’t see them as equals. He didn’t see them as threats. To me, this turned out to be an ironic fatal flaw. A fatal conceit. He didn’t think he could be wrong about people. But he was.
All jmo.
