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It isn't urban myth, and the information released in court documents prove it.
I have the greatest respect for homicide investigators, but there are cases when I can't defend how they handled their investigation. Sometimes they screw up, and sadly, I feel that it has been proven in this case for many reasons, let alone based on their court requested warrants and production orders that only named Honey as being a homicide victim.
People can try to blame the media (Kevin Donovan) and accuse them of being false news hacks, and they can try to explain away what Brandon Price said at the murder scene, but they can't ignore the release of court documents that prove that TPS were only focused on M/S for a month after the start of the investigation.
It is understood and accepted by the public that LE do not release information in a murder case. We all know that. I don't see what that has to do with any criticism of TPS.
The explanation in defense of TPS that they went with the M/S to make the perp feel he got away with it totally contradicts their working theory per their court requests for warrants and production orders, as listed below.
-The Toronto police were investigating the murder of just Honey Sherman — not Barry and Honey — for almost a full month after the couple’s strangled bodies were
found in their home, search warrant documents reveal.
-Despite the visible evidence at the crime scene, documents filed in support of the first search warrants and production orders show that police believed that Honey Sherman alone was the victim of a crime.
-On Dec. 20, 2017, five days after the bodies were discovered, Toronto police first sought a search warrant and two “production orders,” stating that “Honey Sherman was the victim of a Murder Section 235 (1) of the Criminal Code of Canada.” Barry Sherman’s name is not mentioned. That section of the Criminal Code covers both first-degree (premeditated) and second-degree murder.
-The next series of warrants — four in total — were granted by a judge on Jan. 10. A document filed with the warrant, describing the investigation, reveals that police still considered the murder victim to be Honey Sherman, not Barry and Honey Sherman.
-The final series of judicial authorizations known to the Star were issued by a judge on Feb. 15, 2018. The four production orders were issued by the police in an investigation, that for the first time in the series of court orders, states that “unknown person (s) between December 13th, 2017 and December 15th, 2017” did “murder Bernard Sherman and Honey Sherman.”
Sherman investigation initially focused only on Barry’s wife Honey as a murder victim