On Friday, December 15, 2017, billionaire pharmaceutical entrepreneur Barry Sherman and his wife Honey were found dead in their home in Toronto. Sherman was one of the wealthiest Canadians, and the Shermans gave considerable sums to philanthropic causes, as well as business ventures and political campaigns. The Shermans were found in their home, by an indoor pool, and police determined that they died of strangulation. Although police stated that the circumstances of the deaths "appear to be suspicious," they also noted that there were no immediate suspects and initially investigated the case as a potential homicide-suicide. Friends and family of the Shermans declared from the outset that this must have been a homicide, insisting that the Shermans wouldn't have taken their own (or one another's) lives. On Friday January 26, Toronto police announced that they were treating the case as a double homicide, without revealing any additional evidence.