Children of Dead Billionaire Decry Murder-Suicide Reports

After the bodies of Canadian pharmaceutical billionaire Barry Sherman and his wife, Honey, were found hanging in their Toronto mansion Friday afternoon, a source for the Toronto police department told the press the police were investigating the possibility that their deaths were a murder-suicide. But now the couples' children are saying those "rumors regrettably circulated" are untrue. The Shermans were found around noon next to a basement pool by a real estate agent who was showing their home. 

But while police said the circumstances of their deaths was "suspicious," they also said they found no signs of forced entry and were not "currently seeking a suspect." According to one police source, investigators were considering the possibility that Sherman, one of the richest men in Canada, "killed his wife, hung her body and then hanged himself at the pool's edge," Fox News reports.

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