More great questions and answers today at the Star.
Someone asked about FDA. We know Barry missed FDA’s annual lunch that last Tuesday. (The architect meeting was scheduled at that time at one point, but then moved to Wednesday. Barry reportedly had lunch with his son-in-law BK instead on Tuesday.)
KD: “Hi Jim, nice to hear from you. Police have most, if not all, of the correspondence between Barry and many people, including Frank.
You may recall that Barry was not liquid in the months leading up to the murders. He was asking some people for money back and he was telling Frank D'Angelo that Frank needed to restructure some things in the juice bottling plant Barry and he owned. Barry was telling Frank that Frank needed to get a better deal on Arizona Ice tea, so that Barry and Frank would boost income from the business. Frank has told me he did that. Now, the Sherman children did not like Frank and with Barry gone, Frank lost his supporter and is no longer in those businesses. Full disclosure, it was Frank who connected me with key people like Jack Kay, and it was with the help of people like Frank and Senator Linda Frum that I got to have interviews with key people in the Sherman lives.”
Who killed Honey and Barry Sherman? Kevin Donovan, investigative reporter and the host of The Billionaire Murders podcast, returns on April 24 to answer more of your questions.
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I didn’t ask the question, but had always wondered if Barry purposely missed that party with FDA and had called in Frank’s loans prior to the murders. It sounds like he was reigning him in by what KD said, imo.
FWIW. From the older, great Bloomberg article:
‘“They’re f---ing criminals, that’s what they are,” Frank D’Angelo said into his phone. He quickly hung up. “F---ing banks. Gangsters. And they say Italians are gangsters.”…
…D’Angelo said he was as confounded by the Shermans’ deaths as anyone else—and that he had nothing to do with them. “Frank D’Angelo?” he said, mimicking an investigator crossing off suspects. “The worst thing that could have happened to Frank D’Angelo is Barry dying.” Sherman, he said, was “my f---ing leprechaun, my four-leaf clover.” Price, the lead detective, interviewed D’Angelo earlier this year, and D’Angelo said the questions were “typical *advertiser censored*. I’m pretty sure he was trying to get a psychological profile about me and see if I had any reason to lie.” The detective, D’Angelo continued, “would ask the same question three or four times, moving around,” feigning surprise when his subject pointed out the repetitions. They included “the million-dollar question: ‘Who do you think did it?’ Well how the f--- do I know? You’re the cop.”
But like everyone in the Shermans’ orbit, he had his theories, which he expressed
Godfather-style.
“I think somebody came to make Barry an offer he couldn’t refuse, and he refused,” D’Angelo said, suggesting that someone wanted Sherman’s cooperation, his money, or both, and that Sherman wouldn’t yield. And “Honey had to die because somebody felt she would get in the way of the scratch.”’
Jack Kay from the same article:
‘Kay had been in New York to see Andrea Bocelli perform at the time the Shermans were killed. He was still stunned, reduced to open-ended speculation about what had happened. “I knew 99 percent of what Barry was engaged in, and none of it makes any sense,” he said.
“What did they do, either Barry or Honey or together, that enraged someone to do what they did?” He wondered if there may have been “some commitment that he made that he didn’t live up to, because the person that he made the commitment to didn’t deliver on his side.” Perhaps, he continued, that person “might have made promises to someone else, and reacted in rage.”’
The chairman of Apotex and his wife were brutally murdered last year in their Toronto home.
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Jack Kay’s theory could fit a few people close to the case, imo.
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