Suspicion | The Billionaire Murders: The hunt for the killers of Honey and Barry Sherman - S3 40 Years Cold | Episode 4 preview - The Impact

Episode Date: July 5, 2024

Listen to a short expert from 40 Years Cold episode 4, The Impact, coming this Monday, July 8. With court decisions in place, do Tice and Gilmour’s families ever find closure? The complicated conclusion of how grief and relief live side by side for everyone involved. Toronto Star subscribers have exclusive early access to all episodes. Non subscribers will get new episodes each Monday. If you are not a Star subscriber, please visit thestar.com/subscribe.   

Toronto police detective Steve Smith and his team had just made a monumental, if unconventional, arrest. They just caught Joseph George Sutherland, the man they were certain raped and killed Aaron Gilmore and Susan Tice in 1983. It was time for Smith to make the phone calls the victims' families had been awaiting for 40 years. to make the phone calls the victims' families had been awaiting for 40 years. I was watching the football game with a couple of friends. I had finished work that afternoon and we all decided to get together and have a beer and watch the football game. And whenever Steve called me, it would always come up, no-call or ID. I turned to my best friend John and I was like, I'll be right back.

We go outside and Steve is on the line and just sort of says, hey, can you talk? And I said, yep. I said, yeah, I can talk. And he goes, we got him. And yeah, like I broke into tears. Like I'm about to do now. It was, yeah, it was an incredible piece of news.

It was, I was literally crying out loud and at the same time screaming at the top of my lungs. It was 40 years of just letting go. Felt like, it still feels like I'd taken off a 200 pound backpack. I remember going back into the bar and I couldn't really say anything. I sort of looked at my friend John and he said, everything okay? And I said, it was the police. And he sort of known that they were working on this whole thing.

And he said said everything okay And I just remember like I said, let's go outside for a second I basically told him the news and then you know You got two 50 year old guys outside on Yonge Street jumping up and down and crying and it was like it was it was a cool moment From the Toronto Star, this is 40 years cold. Episode 4, The Impact, coming this Monday, July 8th.