Billionaire Barry Sherman Had Business Rivals Spied On—And Clashed With Wife

A police source reportedly told Toronto's The Globe and Mail that investigators believe Sherman, 75, could have killed his wife, hung her body and then hanged himself at the edge of their lavish home's pool.

A real estate agent, who was prepping the home for an open house, found the bodies hanging from rails, side-by-side, next to the Shermans' indoor swimming pool. The home was listed for a whopping $5.4 million dollars.

Barry's cousins fought decade-long litigation against him for a share of his generic drug Apotex company.

Barry first ran into legal problems at his business in 1971, which he blamed on agitation from his rivals.

In Barry's unpublished memoirs, the businessman wrote mysteriously, "Free will is an illusion … Life has no meaning or purpose."

Barry was a reserved, socially awkward workaholic with a high IQ, who was often in courthouse battles, sources told the Mail.

At home, he was the polar opposite of his outgoing wife Honey, and it was a "yin and yang" relationship, family members said.

Although they in some ways complemented each other, they also clashed, according to those who knew them.

Honey, who had survived throat cancer and suffered from severe arthritis, was witty and knew how to tease and push Barry's buttons.

Friends close to the couple describe how Honey would criticize Barry over his workaholic ways, however, they still insist their deaths couldn't have been from murder/suicide.