Information that was new to me last week (can anyone add to this?):
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Barry’s phone was found on the floor with the home inspection report and his driving gloves.
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the housekeeper picked up more than one newspaper from the front door. KD previously reported the *one* had been found. They had the Star delivered to them every morning and Barry would routinely be reading in the kitchen by 8:30 am.
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two iPads were found in the master bedroom where Honey slept.
-Barry slept in a different bedroom because of snoring issues.
The housekeeper said his bed was made, but not in the way she would usually find it. That is the same thing that was previously reported about Honey’s bed.
-the driveway was heated, but
one side of the ramp leading to the underground garage was not working. That is where the furnace repair man noted that he saw ‘old’ frozen footprints.
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Barry *sometimes* used the underground garage where his car was found on December 15th.
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Honey’s wallet was found out in the open in the kitchen on the main floor. It contained $7500 in cash. The Star doesn’t know where Barry’s wallet was found, but it contained $372 dollars, credit & loyalty cards.
-there was more detail on the Star diagram of both victims, and
Honey’s footwear appear to be slip on shoes similar to slippers or sandals. This is an important detail as there were drag marks in the pool area and the theory is that she had been attacked and possibly killed in another location and dragged there, but it’s surprising the shoes stayed on or were placed back in her feet if that’s true. Barry seemed to have regular dress shoes on, based on the illustration.
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When the discovery of money and portable valuables made a robbery seem unlikely, police formed a theory that the Shermans died in a murder-suicide.
www.thestar.com
-Star sources say the
cash and portable valuables left at the scene contributed to LE’s m/s theory and why the police tried to calm neighbours’ fears that this was a robbery gone wrong. There had been many break-ins in the neighborhood prior to the murders.
-the CBC and the Star both have podcasts on the case with February start dates. As KW previously stated, a documentary based on KD’s work will be released this year.
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KD said in an interview that he believes the ‘Night Walker’ suspect may have been a lookout.
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KD also said he believes the killer or killers are local and the police are trying to obtain financial information linked to them in 5 foreign countries, some of which do not have a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty agreement with Canada.
I’m stumped with the last one. Any theories? I know KD previously reported about the foreign countries but he has now added the details about what they may be looking into. The Shermans had close ties to Israel and the US, but KD indirectly said the US is not one of the countries (he described all five as being ‘overseas’).
(My only guess is that it’s Barry’s money or valuables, but it’s listed under someone else’s name and they’re linked to the crime.)
The Star previously reported that at the time of his death, Barry had $1 billion invested in a Bahamas bank. I’d think based on that there were similar investments in other countries.
