Lexiintoronto
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- The strangulation was by ligature, so no hand pressure or injury to hands likely. Less chance of hyoid bone breakage I believe when even pressure by ligature.
- Payment to assassins' by crypto-coin or other 'dark money' methods would be extremely difficult to track.
- Setting up the staging for a fake suicide takes time and effort. I believe there are indications that the criminals were in the home for over an hour. Did they believe that the staging would slow the police up or was there another purpose?
- My feeling was the staging was done for another purpose rather than to confuse and delay the police investigation and that could point to the the perpetrators identity.
I had wondered what would have happened if Honey had been found deceased on the floor upstairs and Barry was located dead by the garage door. Two obvious victims. My guess is the arc of the media coverage against Barry and the initial investigation against him would have been very different. More sympathetic and less intrusive.
- My feeling was the staging was done for another purpose rather than to confuse and delay the police investigation and that could point to the the perpetrators identity.
You didn’t direct the question towards me, but it looks like the killer may have had more respect for Barry based on the staging. Maybe another possibility is it was to make him look like an unbothered murderer?Hi, what do you think the purpose was?
I think one possible purpose was to hide the bodies longer by keeping them in the least-used room.
I think another possible purpose was some kind of message or story or closure. What that would be, I don’t know. Some sort of sense of ceremony for the killer(s)? Maybe even amusement for the killer(s)? A wry inside “joke”? A punishment? Putting them on “display” to humiliate or shame them? Tying their death forever to the ugly pool they never used? Showing some sort of dignity vs leaving them in a heap? — who knows.
The staging was not a small amount of work. This suggests it was important to the killer(s). I believe it had meaning to the killers(s). Even if tongue in cheek. This suggests to me at some level the killer(s) cared about the Shermans. And/or had some contrition about leaving them unceremoniously dead on the floor. MOO.
Yes, this is something that puzzles me. The sheer amount of money in the circle that surrounds this crime makes me think that it would not have been so hard to hide a hired killer's fee in some kind of shell transaction. On the other hand, it would be harder to hide the money given that IMO I do not think the murders were planned a long time in advance. I think it was just a few weeks.
Another theory I had is that the Shermans held a large amount of cash at their house. I'm sure both were conscious of the dangers of anti-Semitism and Honey had direct experience of persecution and wartime flight, so that might make a person inclined to store cash. Plus, Honey's family, like many new immigrants of any ethnicity, may have believed in keeping cash on hand. If we believe the murder to be an inside job the person who commissioned the murder may have told the perpetrator how to access this cash.
Although the Shermans weren't particularly concerned about security a wall safe seems like a possibility, based on the report of the urban explorer about holes punched in the wall.
Cash or diamonds, imo. Barry was involved in at least three businesses that dealt with loose diamonds.
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