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News of the mysterious deaths of billionaire Canadian pharma giant Barry Sherman and his philanthropist wife Honey in December 2017 reverberated around the world. Five years later, with no arrests and little news from the police, their deaths remain shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theories, with too many lingering questions. Not just who killed them, but what kind of life do you have to live that when you’re found dead, there are multiple theories, including some involving your own family? That’s the question journalist Kathleen Goldhar set out to discover, in The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman, as she explores who the Shermans really were and why too much money might have been what killed them in the end.

Episodes

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yesterday Chapter Six: It's Complicated The lack of justice, or any resolution, has left a void in this story ...that has been filled by online sleuths, investigative reporters, nosey neighbours, and conspiracy theorists. From Covid to the Clintons. From family to the Mafia. With more than a dozen theories on the table, and little information from the police, is it any wonder this case remains constant fodder for the darkest corners of the internet? Websleuths: Snopes: Corrina Oates’ Sleuthing Websleuths: Ann Brocklehurst: more Transcribed
3/13/23 Chapter Five: Just Skate If Honey Sherman showed up unannounced at her favourite hair salon and... someone was in her chair — that person got moved pretty darn quickly. Honey wasn't the one who made the billions, but she certainly spent them. So much is known about her husband, but very little about Honey Sherman. A child of Holocaust survivors, family and community meant everything to Honey. And as for her friends? They aren’t talking. Rosemary Sexton’s website: more Transcribed
3/6/23 Chapter Four: The Winters are Coming It is no secret that some family members wanted Barry Sherman dead. An...d no one had a bigger grudge against Barry than his first cousins, Kerry Winter and his brothers. The Winter cousins were close to Barry — especially Kerry. They were father/son close. And the Winter boys lived well off Barry's money. But that good blood turned bad after a 10-year court battle that pitted cousin against cousin, in a fight over a billion-dollar fortune of which the Winters claimed their cousin robbed them. Kerry Winter on The Fifth Estate: more Transcribed
2/27/23 Chapter Three: The Scorpion To get ahead in the generic drug industry you need to be focused, hard...-nosed and fearless. Especially because half the battle is taking on one of the richest, most powerful industries in the world — Big Pharma. Barry Sherman was the perfect generic drug lord — more litigator than innovator — but did his ability to win in court, and slough off the losses, end up getting him killed? Katherine Eban’s Bottle of Lies: Jeffery Robinson’s Prescription Games: Nancy Olivieri’s How John le Carré Changed my Life: John le Carré The Constant Gardener: Nancy and Barry on 60 Minutes: Shashank Upadhye’s website: more
2/20/23 Chapter Two: The Smartest Man I Ever Met ... more
2/20/23 Chapter One: Bitter Pill What does a Philadelphia junk artist have to do with the deaths of a w...ealthy Canadian pharma giant and his philanthropist wife? Maybe nothing, but it’s odd that their bodies were reportedly posed like a piece of junk sculpture that the Shermans displayed nearby. But this strange coincidence is just one of many in this most baffling of unsolved murder cases in Canadian history. Host Kathleen Goldhar goes on a byzantine journey to find out what kind of life do you have to live that your death spurns on multiple theories about who might have killed you, including some involving your closest family. Leo Sewell’s website: Matthew Campbell’s The Unsolved Murder of an Unusual Billionaire: Saul Rubinek’s IMDB: more
2/3/23 Introducing The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Dea... In the No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Ba...rry and Honey Sherman, journalist Kathleen Goldhar looks into the lives and deaths of one of Canada's richest couples. Eight episodes, released weekly starting February 20. more
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