The Toronto Police homicide squad has a working theory in the Barry and Honey Sherman murder case and detectives have “an idea of what happened,” one of the lead investigators told a court Wednesday.It’s the first public indication in the 16 months since the billionaire Apotex founder and his wife were strangled that the police are getting somewhere. The detective also told an Ontario Court of Justice hearing that within a week police are expecting a “high volume” of electronic records they have been trying to obtain since January, and that at least one person they want to interview has refused to speak to police. Others they want to speak to may have left the country or simply cannot be located, the investigator told court.But Detective Constable Dennis Yim, one of five detectives currently working on the case, refused to answer questions in court from a Star reporter on what the theory of the case is and whether police have identified a named suspect or suspects.“I think everything needs to be sealed because if the information were to be revealed, potential suspects would take steps to ... get rid of other evidence,” Yim said during his cross-examination by the Star. This new information has emerged as part of a Toronto Star application in the Ontario Court of Justice to have more than 1,000 pages of search-warrant material unsealed. Justice Leslie Pringle, who has authorized and sealed all of the warrants and production orders since the outset of the case, reserved her ruling after hearing arguments from the Star and Crown attorney Peter Scrutton.The bodies of the Sherman couple were discovered in the swimming-pool room in the basement of their home at 50 Old Colony Rd. on December 15, 2017. Initially considered a murder suicide, Toronto police ruled it a targeted double homicide six weeks later. Sherman, a well-known philanthropist, founded the Apotex generic firm in the early 1970s and nurtured it into a multi-billi ...
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