Barry and Honey Sherman’s neighbours disagree over what should happen to the family’s property
Now a vacant lot, the property was purchased by the Shermans’ daughter, Alexandra Krawczyk, earlier this year
Alexandra Krawczyk, whose parents, Barry and Honey Sherman, were murdered in a high-profile killing that remains unsolved after nearly eight years, has purchased the property that once belonged to her family, according to new information published by the Toronto Star.
The North York property where the Shermans were killed in December 2017 had become a vacant lot after the family decided to have the home demolished. The Sherman family said the house held “bad memories and a stigma,” and sold the lot for $4.25 million.
Per the Star, the buyer never rebuilt on the lot, and neighbours complained of issues including a plywood fence surrounding the property that was unpleasant to look at after years without construction.
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“According to neighbours, the 4,000-square-foot Sherman basement (which had numerous rooms, a 10-car garage and the pool where they were found) was only partially filled in by the demolition team. Neighbours say a lot of wild animals took up residence, tunnelling holes to the old basement,” says the Star.
Earlier this year, the lot was sold back to a charity Krawczyk is associated with for $6.2 million.
Now, neighbours are in disagreement about what should be done with it. Some have suggested a parkette, and others feel strongly that a parkette could attract unwanted attention. One neighbour told the Star that a man once paced back and forth in front of the plywood fence in the middle of the night, holding a candle.
A spokesperson for the Shermans’ daughter said that “It is [Krawczyk’s] desire to work collaboratively with neighbours on Old Colony Road to do something with the property that will be respectful of her parents’ legacy and be in keeping with the neighbourhood.”
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Carly Lewis is a journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Wired, Interview Magazine, Pitchfork, Elle, and Maclean’s, where she is a contributing editor. Her work has been recognized by the National Magazine Awards and the Digital Publishing Awards. She reports on city life, culture—including what people do online—politics, art and crime. She received the Dave Greber Freelance Writers Award for “The Murder of Ashley Wadsworth,” an investigative feature about a Canadian teenager who was killed by a man she met on social media, published by Maclean’s.
