About The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
News of the mysterious deaths of billionaire Canadian pharma giant Barry Sherman and his philanthropist wife Honey in December 2017 reverberated around the world. Five years later, with no arrests and little news from the police, their deaths remain shrouded in mystery and conspiracy theories, with too many lingering questions. Not just who killed them, but what kind of life do you have to live that when you’re found dead, there are multiple theories, including some involving your own family? That’s the question journalist Kathleen Goldhar set out to discover, in The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman, as she explores who the Shermans really were and why too much money might have been what killed them in the end.
Host Michelle Shephard and reporter Calvi Leon investigate how Olympic hopeful Ryan Wedding allegedly transformed into an international narco kingpin, revealing his illicit connections and the victims caught in his violent empire.
16 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Introducing: The Jaclyn Ferland-Smith Case
Someone Knows Something is the investigative true crime series by award-winning documentarian David Ridgen.
In Season 10 of Someone Knows Something, host David Ridgen investigates the sudden 2021 disappearance of Jaclyn Ferland-Smith, a Canadian expat living in Playas del Coco, a paradise veiled in rumour and fear on the Pacific coast of Costa Rica.
More episodes of Someone Knows Something are available wherever you get your podcasts, and here: https://link.mgln.ai/SKS10xSherman (https://link.mgln.ai/SKS10xSherman)
15 Sept 2025TRANSCRIPT
Introducing: Dirtbag Climber from Uncover
A murder victim with multiple identities. A criminal on the run from his past. Dirtbag Climber from Uncover is a five-part podcast series investigating the unsolved homicide of “Jesse James,” a “dirtbag” rock climber found dead in Squamish, British Columbia, Canada. Local reporter Steven Chua dives into the case, determined to find answers. Along the twisted way, he tracks a stranger-than-fiction story that criss-crosses North America, unveiling a stunning portrait of an enigmatic con artist — a troubling victim whose twisted life story foreshadowed the darkest digital undercurrents of our time. More episodes of Dirtbag Climber are available at: https://link.mgln.ai/dc-shermans (https://link.mgln.ai/dc-shermans)
3 Jun 2025TRANSCRIPT
Introducing | Uncover: Calls From a Killer
Reporter Arlene Bynon recounts receiving chilling calls from serial killer Clifford Olson and secretly recording their conversations with journalist Peter Worthington, revealing long-buried secrets in this interview.
2 Apr 2025TRANSCRIPT
Introducing | Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer
In the wake of 9/11, anthrax-laced letters unleashed a new wave of terror across the nation. But who was behind the attacks — and why has America nearly forgotten this story?
As government buildings shut down and law enforcement scrambled to track the perpetrator, the FBI launched one of the largest and most complex investigations in its history. Untangling a web of scientific evidence and false leads, the case took unexpected turns with lasting consequences.
From Wolf Entertainment, USG Audio, Dig Studios and CBC, this eight-part series grants unprecedented access to declassified materials and firsthand accounts, revealing how the anthrax attacks reshaped America—and the hidden impact that still lingers today.
More episodes of Aftermath: Hunt for the Anthrax Killer are available at: https://link.mgln.ai/UmMUF5 (https://link.mgln.ai/UmMUF5)
13 May 2024TRANSCRIPT
Bonus: Connie Walker joins Kathleen Goldhar on Crime Story to discuss her new podcast
Fraud. Abduction. Murder. Every week, Crime Story host and investigative journalist Kathleen Goldhar goes deep into a tale of true crime with the storyteller who knows it best.
In this special episode, Connie Walker joins Kathleen to discuss the new season of her Pulitzer Prize winning podcast Stolen: Trouble in Sweetwater that investigates a crisis of policing on America’s largest reservation. Connie investigates the disappearance of two women on the Navajo Nation, a place where people say you can get away with murder.
The full episode and many more are available at: https://link.chtbl.com/K2QYT579 (https://link.chtbl.com/K2QYT579)
3 Apr 2023
Chapter Eight: Thin Lines
After our year-long investigation, in this final episode we revisit the murder/suicide theory. That misstep set the whole investigation off on the wrong foot, and might have derailed any chance of finding out who killed the Shermans. To the Sherman's children, it's one of the biggest police screw-ups in recent history – a botched job that muddled the truth and stained the family. But the theory hangs in the air because its adherents, especially Kerry Winter, aren’t budging. In the end, what is the Shermans’ legacy? And what was all that money really for?
For transcripts of this series, please visit here (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-no-good-terribly-kind-wonderful-lives-and-tragic-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman-transcripts-listen-1.6793254).
Itiel Dror’s Cognitive Bias in Forensic Pathology Decisions (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1556-4029.14697 )
Douglas Young’s website (https://triadforensic.com/ )
27 Mar 2023
Chapter Seven: My Blood is Yours
After a notorious 2018 interview on CBC television, Kerry Winter became a familiar figure in the tale of the Shermans’ deaths. “The Cousin Did It” wasn’t just a snappy headline on the cover of The National Enquirer, it also became a favourite theory. Yet Kerry is not a suspect. And all these years later the humiliation, anger, and deep sadness Kerry feels towards his cousin Barry are still right on the surface. How did such a good thing go so bad, and why is Kerry so certain Barry killed Honey then killed himself? Was a man capable of “ripping off little orphans” also capable of killing his own wife? And himself?
For transcripts of this series, please visit here (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-no-good-terribly-kind-wonderful-lives-and-tragic-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman-transcripts-listen-1.6793254).
Kerry Winter on The Fifth Estate (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov7SCivAo5A)
20 Mar 2023
Chapter Six: It's Complicated
The lack of justice, or any resolution, has left a void in this story that has been filled by online sleuths, investigative reporters, nosey neighbours, and conspiracy theorists. From Covid to the Clintons. From family to the Mafia. With more than a dozen theories on the table, and little information from the police, is it any wonder this case remains constant fodder for the darkest corners of the internet?
For transcripts of this series, please visit here (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-no-good-terribly-kind-wonderful-lives-and-tragic-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman-transcripts-listen-1.6793254).
Websleuths (https://www.websleuths.com/forums/)
Snopes (https://www.snopes.com/ )
Corrina Oates’ Sleuthing Websleuths (https://infocom.hyperlib.sjsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Oates_ResearchPaper.pdf )
Ann Brocklehurst (https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/8571418.Ann_Brocklehurst )
13 Mar 2023
Chapter Five: Just Skate
If Honey Sherman showed up unannounced at her favourite hair salon and someone was in her chair — that person got moved pretty darn quickly. Honey wasn't the one who made the billions, but she certainly spent them. So much is known about her husband, but very little about Honey Sherman. A child of Holocaust survivors, family and community meant everything to Honey. And as for her friends? They aren’t talking.
For transcripts of this series, please visit here (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-no-good-terribly-kind-wonderful-lives-and-tragic-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman-transcripts-listen-1.6793254).
Rosemary Sexton’s website (https://rosemarysexton.com/ )
6 Mar 2023
Chapter Four: The Winters are Coming
It is no secret that some family members wanted Barry Sherman dead. And no one had a bigger grudge against Barry than his first cousins, Kerry Winter and his brothers. The Winter cousins were close to Barry — especially Kerry. They were father/son close. And the Winter boys lived well off Barry's money. But that good blood turned bad after a 10-year court battle that pitted cousin against cousin, in a fight over a billion-dollar fortune of which the Winters claimed their cousin robbed them.
For transcripts of this series, please visit here (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-no-good-terribly-kind-wonderful-lives-and-tragic-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman-transcripts-listen-1.6793254).
Kerry Winter on The Fifth Estate (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov7SCivAo5A )
27 Feb 2023
Chapter Three: The Scorpion
To get ahead in the generic drug industry you need to be focused, hard-nosed and fearless. Especially because half the battle is taking on one of the richest, most powerful industries in the world — Big Pharma. Barry Sherman was the perfect generic drug lord — more litigator than innovator — but did his ability to win in court, and slough off the losses, end up getting him killed?
For transcripts of this series, please visit here (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-no-good-terribly-kind-wonderful-lives-and-tragic-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman-transcripts-listen-1.6793254).
Katherine Eban’s Bottle of Lies (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42448266-bottle-of-lies)
Jeffery Robinson’s Prescription Games (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7224625-prescription-games )
Nancy Olivieri’s How John le Carré Changed my Life (https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2020/12/22/nancy-olivieri-how-john-le-carr-changed-my-life.html )
John le Carré The Constant Gardener (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/19000.The_Constant_Gardener)
Nancy and Barry on 60 Minutes (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ancpMMJUvQ )
Shashank Upadhye’s website (https://ipfdalaw.com/shashank-upadhye/ )
20 Feb 2023
Chapter Two: The Smartest Man I Ever Met
The Shermans’ funeral is weird, the list of eulogists long, and it’s attended by Canadian boldface names. But ask anyone who knew Barry Sherman and they all say the same thing:he was the smartest person they'd ever met. Always finishing at the top of his class, Barry was smart enough to claw his way to the top of the infamously cutthroat generic drug industry and make billions of dollars. But he was also arrogant and unreasonable, driven and deceptive. Just the sort of man who dies under suspicious circumstances.
For transcripts of this series, please visit here (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-no-good-terribly-kind-wonderful-lives-and-tragic-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman-transcripts-listen-1.6793254).
Sherman funeral (https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=external&v=10154971508191175)
20 Feb 2023
Chapter One: Bitter Pill
What does a Philadelphia junk artist have to do with the deaths of a wealthy Canadian pharma giant and his philanthropist wife? Maybe nothing, but it’s odd that their bodies were reportedly posed like a piece of junk sculpture that the Shermans displayed nearby. But this strange coincidence is just one of many in this most baffling of unsolved murder cases in Canadian history. Host Kathleen Goldhar goes on a byzantine journey to find out what kind of life do you have to live that your death spurns on multiple theories about who might have killed you, including some involving your closest family.
For transcripts of this series, please visit here (https://www.cbc.ca/radio/podcastnews/the-no-good-terribly-kind-wonderful-lives-and-tragic-deaths-of-barry-and-honey-sherman-transcripts-listen-1.6793254).
Leo Sewell’s website (https://www.leosewell.net/ )
Matthew Campbell’s The Unsolved Murder of an Unusual Billionaire (https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-apotex-billionaire-murder/)
Saul Rubinek’s IMDB (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007210/)
3 Feb 2023
Introducing The No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman
In the No Good, Terribly Kind, Wonderful Lives and Tragic Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman, journalist Kathleen Goldhar looks into the lives and deaths of one of Canada's richest couples. Eight episodes, released weekly starting February 20.
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[…] His grandparents had an indoor pool. They owned a ski hill. He had an outdoor tennis court at his home. His father drove a Corvette. These were not usual things and certainly wasn't common in Thunder Bay at that time. If Wedding was a rich kid, he didn't act like the stereotypical rich kid. The interesting thing was, I think, that Ryan, in as much as I think he was quite privileged, didn't make a point of really showing that to people. He just kind of seemed to accept that as that was... his life and it was, you know, he obviously liked having access to those kinds of things. But, you know, I didn't get the sense in any way that he was trying to make anyone feel worse for not having them. […]
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