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http://frankmag.ca/2017/12/what-happ...-the-shermans/
I see that article leaves out Mossad. That's my top choice, looking at Barry's political lobbying.
For the first time, I read in this article that the Shermans with were both found hanging with their coats and boots on. The boots still being on is new information for me. It looks more and more like a highly professional ambush contract killing, or possibly someone with a terrible motive for revenge, like the male cousins who lost the lawsuit, and who are appealing ( pictures show a strong. tall fit looking man called Kerry Winter, for one), who managed to pull off quite a successful murder. Possibly the one mistake we know about so far, and which may negate an attempt to stage it as a murder/suicide, or double suicide, was leaving evidence of some kind that Honey was killed in a secondary location, then moved to the pool. We do not know what LE found to give them that impression. Also, the fact that one of the bodies, possibly Barry, in the grey carrying bag, used to remove his body from the house, does not appear flat like possibly Honey in the dark burgundy bag, indicates that he might still be in rigor-mortis, in a semi sitting position, and that would indicate that he died hours after Honey.
My guess, and that is all it is, is that probably 2 or maybe 3 strong men ( one a look-out and driver of a get-away vehicle ? ) gained entrance to the house, either by carjacking Honey, or simply being there when she arrived and forcing their way into the garage/ house. They must have scoped out the area, and knew that neighbours and the Shermans either did not have outside security cameras, or that they were in some kind of blind area. I would very much like to know what entrance Honey usually used when she drove back to her house. Did she park in the driveway, or enter the garage ? Neighbours would likely know the answer. The Shermans were according to this article at a meeting with their Architect that night, and came home separately. The killers might have decided that it would be easier to quickly kill the Shermans one at a time when no staff would be in the house. Barry came to the meeting from work. Maybe he went back to work that night, and so arrived home some time later. He was known to be a workaholic. I would also like to know what special projects he was working on at Apotec, during the last five years when he was not officially in charge. Did he find out something that he should not have ? Was he developing something that would upset Big Pharma, or Governments ? He was a very brilliant man.
For some reason, I keep thinking about the men's leather belts that were used to hang them. I hope LE tested them for DNA. If Barry had used them, and they were in his closet, the killers might have retrieved them, so that it would look like Barry used his own belts, but if they are new, with no traces of DNA except that placed there by the victims at the time of death, then it might mean the killers brought them with them. The same goes for the rope used to tie the belts to the railing -- I think I read that was part of the method. Did LE find more of it in the house or garage ? or was it new rope brought into the house that night ? These things could be traced, and possibly LE could even find out what stores in the area sold them. That could be a break if amateurs really did do this, but I suspect professionals would have used items from within the house, and may have even retrieved them during a practice run of breaking into the house before Wed. night, or it could have been someone who had the cover of having occasion to work in the house, or being a trusted visitor.
Leaving their jackets and boots on, says to me that they were ambushed at different times, and killed separately. Also having both jackets pulled down in the back, seems like something they may have quickly done to restrain them. The killers may have never entered the rest of the house, using only the garage and pool area. They likely wore gloves, hats, maybe even some kind of cloth bootie over shoes so as to leave no trace, but it is possible that somewhere they made even one mistake, that will lead LE to them. For the sake of justice, if this was a double murder, and I think it was, I hope that LE gets some kind of break, or that the private family investigation turns up something, so that justice will be done for the Shermans. It is also possible sadly, that it was a professional hit, or one very well carried out by amateurs that will never be solved. IMO
