December 13, 2017 was the last day the Shermans were seen alive.
8:30 am: Personal trainer and friend, Denise Gold arrives at the Sherman family home as part of her twice-weekly training sessions for both Honey and Barry.
BS routinely would open the front door to pick up the paper (Toronto Star), read it in the kitchen, and eat his breakfast, cutting 15 minutes into the beginning of his session.
9:30 am: Barry’s workout is completed.
10:00 am: He leaves for work. Gold states that Barry wore one of two almost-identical new belts that Honey had purchased from Canadian Tire. (Identical except for size.) The other belt was left in his dressing area on a bench. KD has written that, according to his sources, these belts were later used in the murders to stage the bodies.
9:30- 11:30: Honey’s workout session. Gold left after the session.
Mid-morning:
- At 10:51 am, Barry responds to an email from Jonathon who is requesting $17,677 USD. Barry instructs a staffer to send the money to him.
- Real estate agent Elise Stern is at the Sherman home, as well as workers and cleaners. Water damage is being repaired on the front basement window. That window was found partially open with the screen in place two days later when the bodies were found.
11:30-2:30, approximately: Honey had massage therapy at home.
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm: Barry had a routine meeting with then-Apotex CEO Jeremy Desai and legal council at Apotex.
5:00 pm, approximately: Honey pulled into the Apotex parking lot, followed shortly by architects and builders there to meet with Honey and Barry to discuss the new house they were planning to build. The architect later told police that both Barry and Honey seemed normal and engaged in the discussion. He said Honey mentioned something to Barry about him having to be home early, but he didn’t recall the reason she gave.
5:00 pm is the time that magnetic locks at Apotex activate, preventing anyone from entering the building without a special pass.
6:00 pm, approximately: the meeting ends and Barry walks them all to the front doors and they exit.
Redirect Notice
6:21 pm: Honey makes her last known call (as per link directly above.) She speaks to a friend for approximately 5 minutes. Her friend stated that: “Honey sounded completely normal and was ‘on her way home.’ ”
Did someone know Barry and Honey Sherman’s schedule? Close friends were away and they had nothing planned
Time unspecified: Honey stops by Bayview Village Shopping Centre and makes purchases. She is captured on cctv using a bank atm. $7,500 in cash is later found in her wallet left out in the open in the kitchen.
Time unspecified (‘evening’): Honey sends an email to a tableware company asking about shipping.
7:17 pm: time code of a photo of Jonathon’s hand, with his home in the background, that Jonathon later shows to Kevin Donovan to establish his whereabouts on the evening of the murders. Donovan tells Jonathon that there still would be enough time for him to drive to his parents’ home to kill them, but Jonathon says he didn’t and has nothing to do with their murders.
Time not specified by police: A person is caught on neighbouring cctv is seen approaching an area ‘tight’ to the Sherman home and spends a ‘suspicious’ amount of time there until walking back the way they came. The police later release that information and a clip of the person, saying that they are a suspect in the murders. This is in addition to ‘numerous persons of interest’ in the case.
8:13 pm: Barry composed a routine email at his desktop computer at Apotex.
8:30 pm: Barry left Apotex.
Barry and Honey Sherman were murdered within a few hours upon arriving home on Wednesday, December 13th, according to Homicide Inspector Hank Idsinga. The Star reported that Honey was home by 8:00 pm and Barry was home by about 8:50 pm, so somewhere between those times and midnight. (His statement was on January 15th, 2020.
Barry and Honey Sherman were murdered within hours of arriving home, Toronto police say).