Kevin Donovan’s documentary episode 4, series finale.
New information and spoilers bolded.
-The entire series has frequently cut to recreated images of the hall leading to the pool room and the room itself, with the deceased Shermans accurately depicted. This episode gives closeups.
-KD discussed the sculptures.
- Former FBI profiler: This crime reeks of someone they know or someone really close to them.
-effect of the pandemic and the stall in KD obtaining information about the investigation is discussed. KD gets hold of witness interviews. Each of the four children identify people they believe are suspects, but it is blacked out.
-The relationship between Honey and her children was not a positive one.
-Anonymous service worker: ‘The times that I (heard them speak to her), they were just rude. It was (hilarious?) <my note: it was hard to hear her> because she was pretty nice and timid, and they spoke to her the way that she spoke to other people that she didn’t know. They were incredibly disrespectful.’ <Previously this person said that Honey was rude to wait staff and service people she didn’t know >.
-Barry was in financial trouble prior to the murders as he was not liquid and owed a $580 million judgement. He was calling in loans.
-Jonathon agreed to an interview at his home, and KD told a family source about it. A family source called him quickly and told him to ‘watch his back’: Alexandra believes he was involved in the murders.
-KD described meeting Jonathon. He videotaped his drive to the home and told someone in LE that he was going to meet him.
-Jonathon lives on a heavily wooded large estate.
-KD wonders if it’s a set up, and says “Once more into the breach” (A Shakespeare quote: ‘Once more unto the breach … or close the wall up with our English dead' can be paraphrased as 'charge at the wall once more or die in the attempt'.)
-Jonathon would look off to the side when answering KD’s questions.
-KD described the interview we all know (excerpt and link in media thread.)
-Jonathon believes FD’A had something he was holding over Barry, but doesn’t know what it was.
-Jonathon showed him a photo of his hand with crypto currency codes connected to an account, time stamped 7:17, December 13th, the night of the murders. The documentary has an illustration of the photo. It had the words : ‘cycle, giants, rollover, camping, yellow,’ (some words and numbers were covered by his fingers), a series of numbers and letters.
-KD had previously spoken to a friend of Jonathon’s who had told him he was Jonathon’s alibi: he was with him on the night of the murders. (Later this friend says he was mistaken, he was with him on Thursday night.)
-Jonathon “Only *I* know that I didn’t kill my parents. I’m the only person that knows that.”
-3 sisters are now against him.
-Jonathon discussed firing Jack K.
-KD: ‘I believed some of the things Jonathon said. I didn’t believe everything he said. But I don’t have the proof to disprove some of the key things he said’. (Yes, that’s verbatim.)
-KD talked to Alexandra. She said Jonathon is ‘power hungry and she didn’t like it.’ She grew up knowing Jack Kay. Jonathon started butting heads with him. Jonathon was trying to control everything.
-Jack Kay to Joe Warmington: Follow the money.
-KD won the SCC case, a huge win.
-he got hold of hundreds of documents about the estate at 5:30, got back to the office at 6:30, and the story was online by 9:00 pm.
-KD was surprised Honey died intestate. The anonymous person told of meeting Honey and how Honey told her about updating her will.
-The estate is divided between the four heirs. KD: ‘Are they in anyway involved? I don’t know. I do know the police consider the estate part of their investigation.’ He would expect at this point that the police would say the family is not involved. ‘We’ve not heard that’—KD.
-Many photos and closeups of Jonathon in this episode.
-KD has interviewed over 250 people connected to this case
-The day of December 13th was talked about, moment by moment (outlined on media thread), up to the time Honey arrived home.
-he believes she arrived home at 8:20 pm, and was attacked when arriving: she was either with someone who attacked her, or someone was waiting there.
-he believes she ran for the front door and dropped her phone (in the previous episode he suggested she may have tried to call 911).
-she was brought to the pool either unconscious or deceased.
-At Apotex, Barry had no idea about what had happened at home. He sent his last email from his desktop computer at Apotex at 8:23 pm, and was home by 9:00pm
-a friend says she believed the killer was waiting in the pool room and saw Barry’s headlights through the glass brick wall of the pool room as he entered the underground garage. That’s how they knew he was home. They went down the hallway and met him as he entered the home.
-KD believes: Barry was taken to the pool room while still alive, and he was showed Honey. Whoever did this to him wanted him to see his wife in that situation (bloodied, tied to the railing by her neck, unconscious or deceased). He was then killed with a thin ligature and staged similarly to the statues. (The pathologist said he believed there was significance to how Barry’s legs were crossed and the way he was posed or staged.)
-the thin ligature was used to kill them, the belts simply kept them in position.
-FBI profiler: that was done as a shock factor for whoever walks in and finds them.
-pathologist: the killer took delight in setting the scene.
-KD talked about the Thursday visitor caught on cctv, and the 911 call that was being investigated on Old Colony at the same time.
- He believes Honey made that 911 call using her cell phone on Wednesday evening when she was first attacked. (It’s difficult for the police to track 911 calls from cell phones, especially brief ones.)
-Chief Saunders said he knew who the Thursday morning visitor was and why he was at the home (no one else does that is close to the Shermans, including the PIs). To KD, that means the visitor was a plain clothed officer in an unmarked car.
-Friday December 15th morning and the discovery of the bodies were discussed, and then the ‘Walking Man’ suspect was talked about (details are in the timeline and posts on the media page.)
-police looked at about 300 people in the Shermans’ orbit from about September of 2017, to about 2 days after the murders to see if anyone was tracking them.
-police have cleared a few people, but their names are redacted in the courts documents.
-Different friends of the Shermans commend Kevin Donovan for his work on the case.
Clips of the interviews of dear Sherman friends Murray and Roda Rubin have been showed throughout the series and they’re given some of the last words, and it’s heart wrenching.
Murray Rubin: ‘Why can’t they find who did it?! That’s all I think about.’
Last words-KD: I have a theory of the case. I have a belief that I know who did it. I think the police share the same belief. They know that I’m not going away anytime soon. I’m going to keep fighting this fight. I do think that one day, the murders of Barry and Honey Sherman will be found out. I think that somebody out there knows a piece of information that will help. And my hunt continues.
