Jennifer Pan speaks to police hours after mother's murder 1 of 3 — Transcript
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- 0:21Okay.
- 0:22So, today is now
- 0:26I just want to make sure that our
- 0:27recordings are on. Just give me 1
- 0:28second.
- 0:31Good to go?
- 0:35So, today's the 9th of November
- 0:382010.
- 0:40It's now
- 0:41on my watch 2:44
- 0:44a.m.
- 0:46Um
- 0:48you're in a room right now that's uh
- 0:51video being video and audio recorded.
- 0:54This is a digital audio recorder. And
- 0:56the reason I have that there is um
- 0:58it's more of a fail-safe that if
- 1:00something was to happen to the video
- 1:01system and recording that I have another
- 1:03it may not be a video, but I have a
- 1:05digital audio recording of what we're
- 1:07we're going to speak to speak about.
- 1:09Um we're again we're at 5 District. I
- 1:12want to go through a form with you. It
- 1:13may seem kind of you know why you're
- 1:16doing this, but
- 1:17um this is a it's it's like you're
- 1:20you're swearing to tell the truth about
- 1:22what you're going to talk to me about.
- 1:24And it's also going to explain to you
- 1:26the
- 1:27um
- 1:27the penalties for not telling the truth.
- 1:30I don't expect you uh to help me,
- 1:33but
- 1:34for a homicide investigation anyone
- 1:37who's very close to the investigation we
- 1:40do this with. Okay? So, this isn't
- 1:42suspecting that you're not going to tell
- 1:44the truth. This is more of a feature
- 1:46that you understand the importance of
- 1:48telling the complete truth. As much as I
- 1:51can remember. That's all I ask for, but
- 1:53so this form
- 1:55please don't take it personal. Okay? But
- 1:58it's something we go through with
- 1:59everyone.
- 2:01Okay? If you have any questions about
- 2:02the form so I'm going to read this form
- 2:04to you.
- 2:05Then someone's going to come in here
- 2:07with either a Bible or affirm whatever
- 2:09your choice is that whatever you tell
- 2:11will be the truth. Okay? And then from
- 2:13that point I'm going to go on and we're
- 2:14going to ask questions. Okay?
- 2:16So,
- 2:21first off I want you to uh identify
- 2:23identify yourself. Speak loudly. There
- 2:25are there are mics in here. I just now
- 2:27with the this is a new room for me. I
- 2:29don't know where they are, but I need to
- 2:31hear a nice clear voice.
- 2:34So, if you can identify yourself for me.
- 2:36My name is Jennifer Pan. Can you spell
- 2:38your last name, Jennifer? P A N Pan.
- 2:41Pan.
- 2:42Okay, do you understand that everything
- 2:44um that is being said in this room is
- 2:46being videotaped, audio recorded,
- 2:48digitally audio recorded? Yes.
- 2:54I would like um I asked you to introduce
- 2:56yourself which you already have and that
- 2:58you consent to this uh tape being made.
- 3:02Uh my name is Randy Slate. I introduced
- 3:04myself to you at the hospital. My badge
- 3:06number is 531 and I'm a member of the
- 3:08York Regional Police Homicide Unit.
- 3:10Uh monitoring this statement right right
- 3:13here in the next room, okay, is Trevor
- 3:16Byard. His badge number is 1446.
- 3:19As I indicated when this tape started
- 3:21that it today is Tuesday the 9th day of
- 3:23November 2010.
- 3:26And the time when I started was 2:44
- 3:29in the morning. We're presently at 5
- 3:31District in the town of Markham in the
- 3:33Regional Municipality of York.
- 3:36Um is there anything um is there
- 3:38anything I need to know in order to
- 3:39understand your statement? And that
- 3:41means is is there do you have do you
- 3:42suffer from any physical or mental
- 3:43condition, use of alcohol, drugs, or
- 3:46anything of any concerns that would
- 3:47influence your ability to give me a
- 3:49statement?
- 3:51No.
- 3:55Um we are investigating a murder.
- 3:59Okay? And you're aware that of who it
- 4:01is. It's um the murder of your mom and
- 4:05can you can you tell me what your mom's
- 4:06name is?
- 4:08My mother's name is Bik Ha Pan. Bik Ha
- 4:11Pan. As a part of our investigation into
- 4:14the offense, I would like to interview
- 4:16on videotape and under oath or solemn
- 4:18affirmation or solemn
- 4:20declaration.
- 4:22It is my obligation to advise you of
- 4:24certain information before we commence
- 4:26this statement. You may be a witness in
- 4:29the court concerning the events you're
- 4:30about to describe in your statement. If
- 4:32at any time you change your statement or
- 4:34claim not to remember the events, the
- 4:36content of this video statement you now
- 4:38give may be used as evidence in court.
- 4:40Do you understand? Yes, I do.
- 4:46I'm going to get you some Kleenex in a
- 4:47second, okay?
- 4:50You you have nothing to apologize to me
- 4:53for, Jennifer. I
- 4:56I uh
- 4:57I I it's going to be tough,
- 4:59but you know the importance of this
- 5:00statement. Okay? But don't you have
- 5:02nothing to apologize to me about. I'm
- 5:05here to help you. Okay?
- 5:08Um it is also my obligation to advise
- 5:10you that fabricating evidence this stuff
- 5:12is the penalties for lying as I
- 5:14explained to you earlier. Fabricating
- 5:16evidence with the intent to mislead is
- 5:17an offense under Section 137 of the
- 5:19Criminal Code. If you give a false
- 5:21statement under oath, you may be charged
- 5:23with fabricating evidence. If convicted
- 5:25of fabricating fabricating evidence, you
- 5:28may be sentenced up to 14 years in jail.
- 5:31It is also an offense under Section 139
- 5:33of the Criminal Code to obstruct by
- 5:35willfully attempting to obstruct,
- 5:36pervert, or defeat the course of
- 5:37justice.
- 5:39You may be charged if you obstruct just
- 5:41it obstruct justice.
- 5:43If convicted of obstructing justice, you
- 5:45could be sentenced up to 10 years in
- 5:46jail.
- 5:47It is also an offense under Section 140
- 5:50of the Criminal Code to commit public
- 5:51mischief by causing a police officer to
- 5:53start or continue an investigation by
- 5:55making a false statement that accuses
- 5:57some other person of committing an
- 5:59offense.
- 6:00And you may be charged if you commit
- 6:01public mischief. If convicted of public
- 6:03mischief, you could be sentenced up to 5
- 6:05years. If you are charged with one or
- 6:07more of these offenses, this statement
- 6:09may be used in court against you. Do you
- 6:11understand the criminal sanctions of
- 6:13what I have explained to you? Yes.
- 6:17Do you understand the criminal
- 6:18consequences of making a false
- 6:20statement?
- 6:20Yes.
- 6:22Do you understand that it is your choice
- 6:24whether or not to give a statement?
- 6:27Yes.
- 6:31Do you understand the importance of
- 6:32telling the truth? Yes, I do. With
- 6:34respect to this investigation?
- 6:38If you have spoken to any police officer
- 6:40or person in authority in connection
- 6:42with the investigation, I want it
- 6:43clearly understood that I do not want it
- 6:46to influence you in making
- 6:48making a statement. Do you understand?
- 6:50Yes.
- 6:51Do you have any questions?
- 6:54So, basically um just
- 6:56start anew right now.
- 6:59So, what
- 7:00what I've just explained to you is
- 7:03you're here voluntarily to help us.
- 7:07That you don't have to talk to us if you
- 7:09don't want to, but the importance of
- 7:10talking to us and if you're talking to
- 7:12us the importance of telling the truth.
- 7:14And if you don't tell the truth, there's
- 7:15criminal consequences for not telling
- 7:17the truth. That's all that all that
- 7:19stuff had to deal with. Okay. Okay?
- 7:22You can't point the finger at someone
- 7:24else. You can't tell us to go off in a
- 7:25different direction. You just got to
- 7:27tell us the truth.
- 7:28Exactly. Exactly. And do you have any
- 7:31questions with respect to what I've just
- 7:33told you? I'm just just
- 7:35like sitting sometimes like parts come
- 7:37back that I didn't remember when I spoke
- 7:39to
- 7:39No one is
- 7:40and that's the process. This is going to
- 7:42be a long process. This is an initial
- 7:44statement from you. We may you know as
- 7:46you remember other things you may be
- 7:48asked you may want to come in and tell
- 7:49us things.
- 7:50Okay?
- 7:51No one is going to tell you how to give
- 7:53us a give a perfect statement. You just
- 7:55do what the best you can given that
- 7:57given what you're dealing with. Okay?
- 8:00Any other questions?
- 8:05Are you prepared to give a statement
- 8:06under oath or solemn application
- 8:08affirmation or declaration? Yes.
- 8:13Okay, so I'm going to get I'm going to
- 8:15get there's a commissioner of oaths
- 8:16who's going to come in and deal with
- 8:17this right now with you.
- 8:19Just it's just a filling out of this
- 8:20last portion
- 8:22right here. And I'm going to get you
- 8:23some Kleenex too while while she's
- 8:25talking to you. Okay?
- 9:34Okay.
- 9:37I'm going to ask you to spell your first
- 9:39and last name for me.
- 9:41J
- 9:42e n n
- 9:44i f e r
- 9:47Mhm. Pan p a n
- 9:51Hello, my name is Andrea Lesperance. I'm
- 9:53a commissioner of oaths with York
- 9:54Regional Police.
- 9:56I'm here so you can give a truthful
- 9:57statement either by solemn affirmation
- 9:59or swearing on the Bible. Which do you
- 10:02prefer? Swearing on the Bible. Okay,
- 10:03just put your hand on the Bible.
- 10:09Do you, Jennifer Pan, swear that the
- 10:11evidence you shall give on this
- 10:13investigation shall be the truth, the
- 10:15whole truth, and nothing but the truth,
- 10:16so help you God? I do.
- 10:37Okay.
- 10:38Just sign right there for me, okay?
- 10:58Just close that door for me.
- 11:08Okay.
- 11:12So, we're through the forms. Um
- 11:14[Music]
- 11:15that just that's the
- 11:18administrative process about this.
- 11:22Now, I want you to
- 11:23sort of take yourself back to earlier on
- 11:26today.
- 11:27About yesterday, meaning uh the 8th of
- 11:29November.
- 11:31And um
- 11:32tell me about your day.
- 11:33Okay, start at any point in time.
- 11:36Where wherever you feel comfortable.
- 11:38And then then we're going to move we're
- 11:39going to move forward, okay?
- 11:42Um
- 11:45yesterday, probably around 9:00 in the
- 11:48morning.
- 11:499:30.
- 11:51Um my mother
- 11:53she woke me up and she told me that she
- 11:55was going to going to visit my
- 11:57grandfather
- 11:58who was ill.
- 11:59And that she was going to go over and
- 12:01pick up my aunt to go.
- 12:03Um
- 12:04once we stepped out of the house, there
- 12:06were
- 12:07um few police officers blocking
- 12:10barricading the driveway.
- 12:12And so she called me down and when I
- 12:13came down, the officers just said that
- 12:15there was like a gas leak in the area.
- 12:18And uh they were just as precaution
- 12:20evacuating.
- 12:21And before we could walk over to a safer
- 12:23place, they said that that um
- 12:26the evacuation had been moved to
- 12:28somewhere else. That it was safe to go
- 12:30back home.
- 12:32With that, my mom decided for me to stay
- 12:34home
- 12:35uh and cuz I have some
- 12:38piano history stuff that I'm working on.
- 12:41So, I was
- 12:42doing that on the computer, played a
- 12:44little piano.
- 12:46I don't forget what time my mom comes
- 12:47came home, probably around like 3:00,
- 12:503:30.
- 12:52Um my father came home later than usual.
- 12:55He said that he had forgot to
- 12:57lock a toolbox and had to turn back, but
- 13:00I'm not exactly sure.
- 13:03He just was home later than usual. Okay.
- 13:06Um
- 13:07and once he came home, he um phoned up
- 13:09my uncle and asked him to go to buy a
- 13:13USB pen, I think. Just to go shopping
- 13:15with him cuz my my uncle doesn't drive.
- 13:19Uh they left, so my mom had prepared
- 13:21dinner cuz she was heading to go dancing
- 13:23that night uh line dancing. She does it
- 13:26every Monday. And so, her and I sat down
- 13:28for dinner first.
- 13:30And then um well, after my father came
- 13:32home, he did that and then a friend of
- 13:34mine came over. We do TV night every
- 13:37every so often.
- 13:39So, um my dad, I guess, went up on the
- 13:42computer as he always does and I was
- 13:44downstairs with my friend watching
- 13:45movies.
- 13:46And then my mom was out uh dancing. Um
- 13:49my friend left around 9:00, I believe.
- 13:52Mhm.
- 13:57And then my I
- 13:59upstairs in my room
- 14:01called it a night
- 14:02with the TV on um talking on the phone
- 14:04with a friend of mine.
- 14:07And then uh
- 14:09shortly after my mom came home, I
- 14:11believe that was around 9:30 or so. She
- 14:14was rummaging downstairs. I didn't
- 14:16think anything of it.
- 14:19And then
- 14:21suddenly, I just heard my mom calling
- 14:23for my dad to come down.
- 14:25And that's when I lowered the volume on
- 14:27my TV.
- 14:28And I could hear the voices weren't any
- 14:31voices I was very familiar with.
- 14:35And so I was scared and I couldn't move.
- 14:38I just sat in my room for a while.
- 14:42And then
- 14:43I thought I heard them all like leave
- 14:45the top floor and I peered out of my
- 14:47bedroom door.
- 14:48And a guy was there and he came at me
- 14:50and had string in his hands and tied my
- 14:53arms back and said I have a gun behind
- 14:55your back.
- 14:56Do what I say. If you do what I say,
- 14:58then no one will get hurt. Where is the
- 15:00money? Show me where your money is.
- 15:11I am
- 15:12I have still a few
- 15:14a bit of money put aside from when I was
- 15:16waitressing, cash.
- 15:19So, I showed him where it was and he
- 15:21took it and put put it in his pocket, I
- 15:23think.
- 15:24And then
- 15:27that's where they they pushed me to my
- 15:29parents' room
- 15:31and asked me where the money was there
- 15:33and I didn't really know.
- 15:35So, they kind of like one was right
- 15:38beside me blocking my way to the door
- 15:40while the other ones turned over the bed
- 15:43to find some more cash in my mom's
- 15:45bedside table.
- 15:52In which then they dragged me down the
- 15:53stairs.
- 15:55And then made me kneel at the bottom
- 15:57telling me to face down on the floor
- 15:59while the other guy had a gun behind my
- 16:00head.
- 16:02And asked my mom where her purse was.
- 16:07My mom kept trying to get up and they
- 16:09kept telling her sit down. And so, I
- 16:12didn't want her to get hurt. I told her,
- 16:13"Mom, sit down."
- 16:16They were trying to find her wallet, but
- 16:17she her English isn't good, so she kept
- 16:20saying purse.
- 16:21They kept pushing her down onto the
- 16:23chair.
- 16:24Okay.
- 16:26Take your time.
- 16:28Take your time.
- 16:30All this is very important, so take your
- 16:32time.
- 16:36They kept all the lights off
- 16:38on the main floor.
- 16:41The only time there was light
- 16:43was when they opened the fridge door
- 16:46to see if they could find where my mom's
- 16:47purse was.
- 16:50I didn't
- 16:51at that point, I saw three
- 16:53figures of men.
- 16:57One with a hoodie. Like the one I could
- 16:59see the most clearly, he had a hoodie on
- 17:01and I believe he had
- 17:04a bandana of some sort covering from
- 17:08like his lower under his eyes down.
- 17:15And then for some reason, I think one of
- 17:17the the gentlemen asked my father if he
- 17:20had money in his wallet and where his
- 17:21wallet was. So, they took me cuz I was
- 17:24next to the stairs or well, they took me
- 17:26up the stairs to
- 17:27show them where my father's wallet was,
- 17:29but I'm
- 17:30I didn't know. They had turned the room
- 17:32upside down. I didn't know where his
- 17:34pants were at that time.
- 17:39And then
- 17:40after they had gotten that
- 17:43they had taken me and they tied me to
- 17:45the top of the banister.
- 17:47Just with one string, I could still
- 17:49move.
- 17:50But
- 17:51I was afraid to because the one guy just
- 17:52had that gun just
- 18:00Next thing I know I think I hear my
- 18:02parents going down the stairs and my mom
- 18:04was asking them for me to come with
- 18:05them.
- 18:07They wouldn't let me come with them.
- 18:11And
- 18:12after it's the last things I heard them
- 18:15say was
- 18:18You lied. You lied to us.
- 18:21You lied to us.
- 18:24And then I heard two pops.
- 18:27My mom screamed.
- 18:30I yelled out for her.
- 18:33And a couple more pops.
- 18:42Take your time.
- 18:43Take your time.
- 18:51And I think I heard my mom saying moan
- 18:54or
- 18:55something and then they did one more
- 18:56before they left and then one of the
- 18:58guys
- 18:59said, "We have to go now. It's been too
- 19:01long."
- 19:04And then they ran out the door.
- 19:06And I think
- 19:08once they were out the door
- 19:10I heard my dad call downstairs and at
- 19:12that point, I had my phone in my in my
- 19:16on me, behind me.
- 19:18And then I had hidden there that they
- 19:19didn't know about.
- 19:21So, when I when I when they I thought
- 19:24they had heard them all leave and my dad
- 19:26ran up the stairs, I whipped out the
- 19:28phone and I called 911.
- 19:31But I I still hadn't heard anything from
- 19:33my mom and all I could hear was my dad
- 19:34running on the street just
- 19:37moaning and
- 19:38sounds.
- 19:49And that's pretty much
- 19:52uh what I have So, what happens?
- 19:54Continue on from from now
- 19:57to the point that the police arrive.
- 20:00I was just on the phone with the
- 20:02secretary or the operator. I begged her
- 20:05not to leave me alone and that my dad
- 20:07was outside. I was yelling to him, but
- 20:09he wouldn't come in. I don't know if he
- 20:11didn't hear me, didn't come in. I think
- 20:13he went to look for help.
- 20:17And I didn't get to see my dad at all
- 20:18until before I left the hospital just
- 20:21now.
- 20:22How did you get free?
- 20:25The cop came and he snipped the two
- 20:29the two strings off for me. I was I was
- 20:32asking them for so long and
- 20:36and they said they couldn't untie me
- 20:38until they knew how to properly untie
- 20:41the string.
- 20:42Okay.
- 20:43So,
- 20:44we've gone through we've gone through a
- 20:47very tough portion and now
- 20:50I'm just going to go back clinically,
- 20:52you know, try and I want you to put
- 20:54yourself now as a as a figure looking
- 20:57down at what you see. Okay?
- 21:00Um
- 21:01so, you
- 21:02go back you're up in your room at 9:30.
- 21:06Correct?
- 21:07Like 9:00, 9:30, right? You're you're on
- 21:09the phone. Who are you on the phone
- 21:10with?
- 21:10With a friend of mine, an old coworker.
- 21:12An old coworker. Are you on the phone
- 21:15with that person when you hear these
- 21:17voices that you don't recognize? Yes.
- 21:20And um
- 21:23do you remain on the phone with this
- 21:24person or when does that conversation
- 21:26end? It ended when I heard my mother
- 21:28asking my father to come down the
- 21:30stairs. And normally they
- 21:33they
- 21:34they don't get a they don't communicate
- 21:37very well sometimes.
- 21:39So, what I did was I told my friend,
- 21:41I'll call you back and I hung up.
- 21:43Stuck the phone in the back pocket and
- 21:46started to go out the door.
- 21:48And that's when I noticed that there
- 21:49were
- 21:50men running around. Okay. So,
- 21:53let's back up again.
- 21:55When you hear your mom come Do you hear
- 21:57your mom
- 21:58in the house? She was in the house. I
- 22:01had gone down the stairs. Did you hear
- 22:04So, before this this is when when did
- 22:06you hear your mom for the first time in
- 22:08the house? When she came home.
- 22:10And what time was that?
- 22:129:15
- 22:14[Music]
- 22:16Is there a time period
- 22:18So, and where is your father at that
- 22:19time?
- 22:20He had He's just finishing on the
- 22:22computer, I think, and he was heading to
- 22:25bed.
- 22:26So, did you physically see your mom?
- 22:29Yes.
- 22:30And at that time there was no one
- 22:32strange in the house? No, I went She was
- 22:34on the downstairs sofa. She was watching
- 22:37TV when I last saw her.
- 22:39Okay.
- 22:41Where is the
- 22:42So,
- 22:43between that time that you see her and
- 22:46you leave her on the sofa
- 22:48until you hear the noises the strange
- 22:50the voices that as you describe them.
- 22:52How long is that?
- 22:54Maybe a half hour.
- 22:56A half an hour?
- 23:00Um
- 23:01where is it your mom was before here?
- 23:04She goes dancing every Monday at
- 23:08Saint
- 23:12I'd like to say Saint Paul, but I'm
- 23:16not 100% sure.
- 23:18And where is Saint Paul's?
- 23:21Cuz I don't know if she's moved
- 23:23locations from the last time she does
- 23:24lessons. Yeah. Um the last one I
- 23:27remember she said that there was one on
- 23:29Birchmount and
- 23:32Finch.
- 23:35Yeah, Birchmount and Finch on the
- 23:37southwest corner.
- 23:39At Birchmount and Finch? Yeah.
- 23:42I know the area. Okay.
- 23:44She used to dance there, but but I'm not
- 23:47100% sure whether she moved to a
- 23:49different
- 23:50with somebody else.
- 23:52She does dance She does goes dancing
- 23:54with a few relatives as well. Okay.
- 23:58Would she Would she have been there with
- 24:00a few relatives tonight? Is that the
- 24:01normal thing?
- 24:03Um the one night I forgot to ask.
- 24:06Normally um
- 24:08the normal is that she goes with one or
- 24:10two friends, one from across the street
- 24:12and one relative just on the other side
- 24:15of the 407. What are their names?
- 24:19Um
- 24:21I call
- 24:23I only know their names by what I call
- 24:25them. Okay. Um I call one Buckmui.
- 24:29And then the other one is my cousin.
- 24:33And her name is Vuong.
- 24:35And the one who lives on your street,
- 24:37what number?
- 24:38The neighbor who lives on that she
- 24:40usually goes with. Uh
- 24:42across the street about two houses down.
- 24:45I don't know the exact number,
- 24:46unfortunately. Okay. We'll find that
- 24:48out.
- 24:49Um and so, she's been going there for
- 24:51how many how long?
- 24:54She's been dancing for
- 24:57a long while. A long time? A long maybe
- 25:00more than a year. Okay.
- 25:02Um
- 25:04what does your mom do What What does she
- 25:06do for a living?
- 25:07She used to work for Magna. Okay. But
- 25:10with due to the job cutback
- 25:15I'm sorry. Um due to the job cutback,
- 25:17she was unemployed, but could not find
- 25:19employment. Okay. And
- 25:22so, she's been at home looking for a job
- 25:24and
- 25:24recently I think her pension's done.
- 25:27How long is How long has she been out of
- 25:29work with Magna?
- 25:34I'd say at least a year and a half.
- 25:37Okay.
- 25:38And what about your father? What does he
- 25:40do for a living?
- 25:41He also works for the car company.
- 25:44Col-
- 25:46I think they just changed their names.
- 25:48Something Colben Colbell and Amstel.
- 25:52What does he do?
- 25:53I
- 25:54He does He wears many hats. He's like
- 25:56assembly line worker, but I think his
- 25:58title is tool and die operator. Okay.
- 26:02So,
- 26:039:15 you see your mom down on the
- 26:06downstairs couch and you see your dad
- 26:09he's at the
- 26:10And where is the computer located?
- 26:11Upstairs right beside right beside his
- 26:13room. It's in a separate room beside his
- 26:15room. Okay.
- 26:17And you're going to bed. You're going up
- 26:19to your room to to watch TV and and tune
- 26:21turn down for the night.
- 26:22Yeah.
- 26:23Um
- 26:24and then approximately again how long
- 26:26later that you hear these voices?
- 26:31My mom had to be home for maybe
- 26:3420 minutes.
- 26:36Don't really have that window.
- 26:39Think around like maybe 9:00
- 26:4140.
- 26:439:40?
- 26:44Okay. Estimates is fine. Yeah, I'm not
- 26:47expecting to hold you down to times
- 26:48because we can probably get that from
- 26:50who you were speaking to, right? Cuz how
- 26:53long after you end the conversation with
- 26:56the person does this do you hear the
- 26:58voices?
- 27:00They're already in the house. So, you
- 27:02end the conversation because you hear
- 27:03the voices. You'll call the person back.
- 27:06I yeah, because I heard my dad and then
- 27:08I heard some strange voices is when I
- 27:10was like, I'll call you back. And who
- 27:12was it that you were speaking to? A
- 27:13coworker of mine.
- 27:14And what's what's that name? Edward.
- 27:16Edward? Edward, do you know Edward's
- 27:17last name?
- 27:18Pacificador. Okay.
- 27:21So,
- 27:22what is it that you hear that causes
- 27:24your father to go downstairs? My mother
- 27:26calling for him.
- 27:27And what Is he Is she speaking in
- 27:29English or is she speaking in another
- 27:30language?
- 27:31She was speaking in English, which which
- 27:32is why it also caught my attention. What
- 27:34language does she normally speak? Uh at
- 27:36home we speak a mix of like Vietnamese
- 27:39is most fluent, but we do throw some
- 27:42Chinese words here and there. Okay. Or
- 27:45English words here and there.
- 27:45But the vast majority of it is
- 27:47Vietnamese?
- 27:48Vietnamese.
- 27:50What is the first When you hear these
- 27:52this Can you hear them talking
- 27:54downstairs the unknown voices?
- 27:57It's all a mumble.
- 27:58It's a mumble? Because I had the TV on.
- 28:00It was just all a mumble.
- 28:02When's the first time that you actually
- 28:04can hear one of them talking?
- 28:08When he was upstairs
- 28:11and I thought he had left upstairs
- 28:13because I was frozen in my room for a
- 28:15while. Yeah. Trying to listen in, but I
- 28:17couldn't hear over my TV and I didn't
- 28:20want to
- 28:21startle
- 28:23startle them by turning it off or
- 28:25like diminishing the volume. So, I was
- 28:27kind of pressed up against my door for a
- 28:29while trying to hear it.
- 28:32And I thought that all the people
- 28:34upstairs had gone down, so I opened up
- 28:36my door quietly and tried to peer out
- 28:38and he saw me.
- 28:40And that's when he came.
- 28:42Can you Did you have lights on in your
- 28:44room at that time? My lights were off. I
- 28:45only had the reflection off my TV, which
- 28:47is
- 28:49lower to the What do you see of this
- 28:51guy?
- 28:52And I'm calling him a guy because you
- 28:54said you you thought they were all
- 28:55males.
- 28:55they were all three males. Okay. So,
- 28:57tell me about this guy.
- 28:59Uh he was
- 29:02medium build. Okay.
- 29:05I didn't I don't remember any of his
- 29:07clothing, unfortunately.
- 29:09The only thing I can remember with him
- 29:10was he had dreadlocks. He had
- 29:12dreadlocks. So, are you Can you describe
- 29:14his race to me? He was black. Did it Was
- 29:17his head covered? Was his face covered?
- 29:20Do you remember anything about that?
- 29:21Just that his dreadlocks were
- 29:23like
- 29:24kind of like flopping all over the
- 29:26place. I couldn't really
- 29:27see his face and they kept the lights
- 29:30dark as much as
- 29:32as much as possible. How long How long
- 29:35were the dreadlocks? Was it Were they,
- 29:37you know, like when you say they're
- 29:38dreadlocks and they were flopping all
- 29:39over his face?
- 29:42It's hard I I
- 29:44don't want to remember 100%.
- 29:47I think some of them were like around
- 29:49his face were a little shorter Mhm.
- 29:51and then in the back there were there
- 29:53were longer ones. Okay.
- 29:55Now, his complexion um there was various
- 29:58degrees of of of
- 30:00of dark
- 30:01dark to medium dark to to actually light
- 30:04uh I'd say he was
- 30:06he I wouldn't say he was the darkest
- 30:08person I've seen, but he was on the
- 30:10darker side.
- 30:12Any facial hair?
- 30:22I'd like to say maybe
- 30:27Say only what you can think. Just Just
- 30:29say what you what you think. I don't
- 30:30want you to say what you're
- 30:31But I don't want to say something wrong.
- 30:33Exactly. So, you if you don't know, then
- 30:35it's okay to say. It's okay to say that.
- 30:37Okay, so
- 30:40can you give an age approximation for
- 30:41this guy?
- 30:46When I when the other officer asked me,
- 30:48I was
- 30:50leaning along the ages of 28
- 30:53to 33.
- 30:55So,
- 30:56and someone who's established in life.
- 30:59I would have assumed so. Like not
- 31:01established meaning world meaning that
- 31:02he's been around been around. So,
- 31:05uh a 20-year-old talks completely
- 31:07different than a 30-year-old. As you
- 31:09know.
- 31:09He seemed to be the one in charge. He
- 31:11seemed to be running the show? He's the
- 31:13one that
- 31:14had me. Like he pretty much did not let
- 31:17me go.
- 31:19He was in charge of me.
- 31:21And all the money I showed him he
- 31:23pocketed.
- 31:24Okay. Did he have a gun?
- 31:26Yes. Did you see the gun?
- 31:28I only saw the top part of the gun. What
- 31:30did it look like?
- 31:31Um
- 31:33kind of
- 31:34it was black. Yeah. And
- 31:37it kind of
- 31:39not triangular, but it was slightly
- 31:41wider at the end
- 31:43than it was
- 31:45closer. Do you know the difference
- 31:47between what a pistol and a revolver is?
- 31:50Yes. Okay. Do you know if it was a
- 31:53pistol or a revolve revolve?
- 31:55That particular one that he was holding
- 31:57I believe should have been a pistol. A
- 31:59pistol.
- 32:00Okay.
- 32:00Cuz the difference is the the round
- 32:02part, right?
- 32:03So, you tell me what's a pistol and
- 32:04what's a revolver. Which one has the
- 32:05round part? I would think that the
- 32:07revolver has the the ones that the
- 32:09bullets go around. Okay.
- 32:12And it didn't look like that. It looked
- 32:13like more like a handgun. So, it looked
- 32:15more like a pistol. Yes. What you're
- 32:17saying, not a revolver. No.
- 32:19The other gentleman though We'll go
- 32:21We'll go to the other gentleman. We'll
- 32:22go this in stages so that we're not
- 32:24doing We'll call this guy number one
- 32:26because you're saying that he seemed to
- 32:28be running the show as you're running he
- 32:30was in control. From my perspective,
- 32:32yes. He was in control of you. Yes.
- 32:35Is this the gentleman Is this the guy
- 32:36who tied you up? Yes. Okay. I want you
- 32:40to
- 32:40But my he he was the one that tied my
- 32:42wrists together. He wasn't the one that
- 32:44tied me to the banister. Okay. So, where
- 32:46did he get the shoelaces or whatever the
- 32:49laces were or whatever it was that tied
- 32:50you up? I'm not sure. It might have been
- 32:52from my mother's room or the study room
- 32:55or
- 32:56cuz my mom has a sewing table next to
- 32:58her bed bed. So, when you open the door,
- 33:00where is this guy?
- 33:03He was just stepping out of my brother's
- 33:06well, what formula would be my brother's
- 33:09room.
- 33:09So, he's already on the upstairs. Yeah.
- 33:11Do you know where the other guys
- 33:13involved in this are?
- 33:15I know one stayed with my parents
- 33:17downstairs. Okay.
- 33:19Um the other one
- 33:21I'm not at that point in time I
- 33:24was more focused on him like he was
- 33:27seeing me and he was coming after me.
- 33:30So, you're saying there's three for
- 33:31sure. Yes. That's all you saw a total of
- 33:33three at one time you saw three people
- 33:35together? Yes, when I went downstairs, I
- 33:37saw three shadows.
- 33:39Okay, so
- 33:41um
- 33:42this number one guy and we're calling
- 33:43him number one because he was he was the
- 33:45one who tied you up and he's the first
- 33:46one that you actually are confronted by.
- 33:49Um and he comes out of your brother's
- 33:51room, what was formerly your brother's
- 33:53room.
- 33:54And he comes into your comes into your
- 33:56room?
- 33:57Mhm. And what happens in there?
- 33:58me to sit down. And he's Is he
- 34:00And he shows me his gun. So, it's not
- 34:02pointing at you, but you see it and
- 34:04where is it? It's like
- 34:06in a holster almost. Okay.
- 34:10And then he showed it to me.
- 34:12And he's like, "Don't move."
- 34:15And then someone else brought him the
- 34:16shoelace.
- 34:18Okay, can you describe the other person
- 34:19who brings the shoelace? I would He was
- 34:22the second person and the only other
- 34:24person that I encountered with.
- 34:26Okay. Um I only saw the third guy, but I
- 34:28he didn't encounter with me at all.
- 34:30Okay.
- 34:31Uh he had a hood he had a hoodie and uh
- 34:35like a
- 34:36bandana over his face. Yeah.
- 34:39He's his complexion
- 34:41then it was really dark, but I could
- 34:43tell that he was darker than
- 34:46the first guy. So, he's a male black as
- 34:48well. But thinner built. But thinner
- 34:51built. So, we got a medium build, thin
- 34:53build. And what about the height? Where
- 34:54you know, like where are we in height
- 34:56scales?
- 34:57How tall are you?
- 34:585'7". So, where are they in comparison
- 35:00to you?
- 35:18I'd say one was pretty much right around
- 35:20my height level. And which guy is that?
- 35:23The
- 35:24the medium build. The first guy. First
- 35:26guy you encounter who shows you the gun.
- 35:28Yes. And tie eventually ties your wrists
- 35:30together.
- 35:31He's he's about your height. So, he's
- 35:33somewhere in the area 5' 6' to 5'8".
- 35:365'7". 5'6" to 7'.
- 35:377' I'd say. Okay. And the other guy I'd
- 35:40say around 5'8".
- 35:43Maybe smidget higher lower than me.
- 35:46taller than you, but not much.
- 35:47Not much. Okay.
- 35:49Now, the first guy who spoke to you,
- 35:50what kind of did he have any accent?
- 35:53None that I could make out. Was it clear
- 35:55English?
- 35:56English. Unbroken?
- 35:58Unbroken. No accent?
- 36:01From the terms he used I didn't get to
- 36:02pick up an accent, no. He used short
- 36:04phrases.
- 36:05He sounded He sounded Canadian.
- 36:08I would say yes, he was born here. He
- 36:10was born here.
- 36:11Okay. So, number two guy you see with
- 36:14the bandana and he's got a darker
- 36:15complexion and he's he's thinner. Yes.
- 36:18And he's about 5'8". With hoodie. With a
- 36:20hoodie.
- 36:21Is it black hoodie or what color is it?
- 36:23It
- 36:24again it was all really dark, so I'm
- 36:26assuming he was wearing black. What
- 36:28about the bandana? Can you see a color
- 36:30on the bandana? It was very dark as
- 36:31well. Okay.
- 36:33Anything distinguishing about his eyes?
- 36:36I didn't look straight into his eyes,
- 36:38no. No?
- 36:39Any other portions of clothing that you
- 36:40recognized?
- 36:43No, unfortunately. Okay, how about this
- 36:45guy's um language? What did How was he
- 36:48Did he speak to you?
- 36:49speak at all. Nothing? He just nodded.
- 36:51He nodded.
- 36:53Who seemed to be giving the directions?
- 36:55Number one. He the guy first guy you
- 36:57encountered seemed to be telling
- 36:58everyone what to do?
- 37:01From what you you can tell.
- 37:02Okay. So, now they're both upstairs with
- 37:05you. Where are your parents? They're in
- 37:08the living room. They're in the living
- 37:09room.
- 37:10And now what happens?
- 37:14They take me downstairs. Are they Have
- 37:16they tied you now? They Yeah, the number
- 37:18one has tied me and now they're taking
- 37:20me down the stairs. Describe first how
- 37:21he's tied you. He told he grabbed my arm
- 37:24and he pulled it to the back and said,
- 37:25"Give me your other arm as well."
- 37:27Okay. And then I was trying to make a
- 37:30wide X so that
- 37:33I could later loosen if I needed it to,
- 37:36but he had pulled really really tight.
- 37:38And I guess he felt my flinch.
- 37:41And that's when he quickly tied the
- 37:43second knot.
- 37:44I think I don't like we know all I know
- 37:46is like I flinched and then it got
- 37:47tighter.
- 37:48So, you were tied you were bound behind
- 37:50you.
- 37:51Behind me, yes. Okay.
- 37:53Um
- 37:54and then you're taken downstairs.
- 37:56Tell me what happens down there. Um they
- 37:58sit me right at the bottom of the stairs
- 38:00like um
- 38:01slightly out not exactly directly at the
- 38:04bottom of the stairwell, but just
- 38:06slightly over a little.
- 38:08And um
- 38:10the third guy who I didn't encounter,
- 38:11but he was there. He was like, "Where's
- 38:13your money?" Well, be straight with us.
- 38:16And you And then my mom's like, "You
- 38:17know, yelling and don't hurt us." And
- 38:19you know, "My money's in my wallet. Just
- 38:21please leave my paperwork."
- 38:24This person this third guy who you're
- 38:25now describing, do you see him ever?
- 38:29Only as a shadow?
- 38:31Cuz he was There's a
- 38:33a wall Okay.
- 38:34partial wall and he was like right in
- 38:36that vision
- 38:38over my father, but
- 38:40harshly in that vision.
- 38:42And
- 38:43describe his voice to you to me.
- 38:46It had a slight
- 38:48just a very very slight accent. Do you
- 38:51recognize the accent?
- 38:54I can't definitively say which accent it
- 38:57was. It was more like a Guyanese or
- 39:01Jamaican accent. Okay. So, it's an
- 39:03island accent. It's not what you'd call
- 39:05It's not an Asian accent. No. It's not
- 39:07like a Western European German or or
- 39:10anything like this. This is something
- 39:12you recognize as being
- 39:14South Asian Caribbean. Caribbean, yeah.
- 39:16Caribbean.
- 39:17Okay.
- 39:19Um
- 39:21When the guy upstairs number one guy who
- 39:23who you're we described as our number
- 39:25one guy with the dreadlocks or with the
- 39:28yeah, the dreadlocks, right?
- 39:30When he shows you
- 39:32the gun
- 39:32do you see anything on his hands?
- 39:34Gloves. He's wearing gloves?
- 39:37Number one was wearing gloves. What
- 39:38about anyone else? The other guy, the
- 39:40second guy.
- 39:42I don't remember. I'm He must have been,
- 39:45but I can't 100% say. All I saw was that
- 39:49number one had gloves in his hands. Do
- 39:51you recognize or can you describe the
- 39:52type of gloves he had in his hands?
- 39:55Leather gloves. Leather gloves?
- 39:57Okay, so they're not They're not like
- 39:58surgical gloves. They're not surgical
- 40:01gloves. They weren't like our skating
- 40:03gloves or like wool gloves.
- 40:06I'm pretty sure they were leather
- 40:08gloves. Leather gloves?
- 40:10Okay.
- 40:12So, now you're downstairs. You're
- 40:14sitting on the stairs? They They told me
- 40:16to sit at the bottom of the stairs. Are
- 40:18you on the floor or on the On the floor?
- 40:20Your parents are in the living room?
- 40:22Yes.
- 40:23How many people are with you and how
- 40:24many people are with your parents? One
- 40:26with me, the guy in the corner with my
- 40:28parents, and the third guy
- 40:31kind of
- 40:32going between
- 40:33going between the "Where's the purse?
- 40:34Sit down. Where's the purse? Sit down."
- 40:37He's the guy who you describe as the
- 40:39thinner build medium young man, and he
- 40:40was upstairs with you.
- 40:43Okay. Um
- 40:47Where do you go? What happens from this
- 40:49point? Now, you're down on the stairs,
- 40:50and there's a guy going between. There's
- 40:52two Obviously, your parents in the
- 40:53living room. You're on the floor.
- 40:55my mother's wallet.
- 40:57But she can't She's
- 41:09Take a deep breath.
- 41:14Best way to do this The best way for you
- 41:16to to on this on these parts in here
- 41:19is to pull yourself out and be like
- 41:21you're a You're an observer in this,
- 41:24okay? It's not going to help you through
- 41:26or heal you through, but it's going to
- 41:28help you try and remember components,
- 41:30and it neutralizes what your mom said.
- 41:33You just are now hearing You're echoing
- 41:35what your mom is saying to these people,
- 41:36okay?
- 41:39After a bit, she had realized that
- 41:41she didn't carry a purse. She had just
- 41:44gone home from dancing, so her wallet
- 41:47would be in the bag, and that's where
- 41:49the money would be.
- 41:52And while that guy's searching for her
- 41:54and telling her to sit back down, with
- 41:55the the one behind the wall was asking
- 41:58my father if he had money in his wallet.
- 42:02And my dad said, "Yes."
- 42:04And they asked how much I
- 42:06I think I heard my dad say $60.
- 42:10And they
- 42:11Then the one that was with me was
- 42:13signaled, and he said, "Come here. Go
- 42:15show us where it is."
- 42:17He had a lower
- 42:19lower tone. Who's that? Who
- 42:21Number one. Number one. A lower voice?
- 42:23Yeah. Okay. And this is
- 42:25Um and you say the reason 28 to 30-ish
- 42:2833 is is um
- 42:31is why. Why do you hear that as being
- 42:34the age of this person that you're
- 42:35dealing with? That he's
- 42:37It's just the way he
- 42:40like his muscular tone.
- 42:42I don't know how exactly to say this,
- 42:44but he wasn't He wasn't like built like
- 42:47muscular like a young man.
- 42:49What about the second guy you hear? When
- 42:51you What do you How would How would How
- 42:52old do you think he would be in?
- 42:56I
- 42:56I didn't hear his voice. I didn't get to
- 42:58see much of his face. Okay.
- 43:00So, you don't know. But if I had to
- 43:02guess, I'd say younger than that number
- 43:04one, though. Okay.
- 43:06So,
- 43:07they take you You're You're down there,
- 43:09and they're wanting to go to this
- 43:11wallet. Yes. So, they're now telling me
- 43:13like dragging me by my my sweater, "Get
- 43:16up. Get up.
- 43:17Show us where it is."
- 43:20Okay. And one kept me at the door while
- 43:22one was inside looking.
- 43:25When you looked inside that bedroom,
- 43:27had it been You said it was tossed. Had
- 43:29it already been tossed?
- 43:31So,
- 43:35they were in So, the room had been
- 43:37tossed prior to you opening the door to
- 43:39see
- 43:39Yes. Okay.
- 43:41Um Cuz that's when I figured out what
- 43:43was happening, and I kind of froze.
- 43:45So, I heard them
- 43:46moving stuff around.
- 43:48How long do you think that they were in
- 43:51that you heard between the time I guess
- 43:53it's tough in the in the freeze time,
- 43:54but how long do you do you hear it and
- 43:57then moving around before you're
- 43:59confronted by one of them?
- 44:02Less than 5. Less than 5 minutes?
- 44:06Okay. I
- 44:07then it just all
- 44:09Time Time is Time's all over the place.
- 44:11I understand that. It's your estimation.
- 44:13It's about 5 minutes, maybe.
- 44:15Um
- 44:17Okay. So, you're now upstairs, and he's
- 44:20in Who's inside the room looking for
- 44:22this wallet?
- 44:24In In
- 44:25Your dad's your I'm guessing number two
- 44:27because
- 44:28by the time I was found, number two
- 44:31wasn't on the first floor.
- 44:32He had gone back down.
- 44:34Oh, no, no, no. I mean, when you're back
- 44:36up Sorry. When you're now back upstairs,
- 44:38and they're looking for your dad's
- 44:38wallet.
- 44:39Mhm.
- 44:40Who's with you, and who's turning the
- 44:41room?
- 44:42Number one has me. Okay.
- 44:43And number two is the one looking and
- 44:45flipping and
- 44:46"Where is it? Here? Is it over there?"
- 44:48And number one keeps saying, "Time.
- 44:51We're running out of time.
- 44:52Faster. It's taking too long."
- 44:54Okay.
- 44:56How long is he in that room for?
- 45:00Maybe just a few minutes, few moments.
- 45:02Not that long. Do they find what they're
- 45:04looking for?
- 45:05I don't remember. Okay.
- 45:09What happens next?
- 45:11He decides to tie me down to the
- 45:13banister. Okay. That he didn't want to
- 45:16take me downstairs anymore.
- 45:17So, you're now tied to the banister?
- 45:19Yep. He calls for Cuzzie.
- 45:22So,
- 45:22He's like, "Get Cuzzie to give me that
- 45:24string I just gave him."
- 45:26And who is he talking to? Number two.
- 45:29So, he says to number two,
- 45:31"Tell Cuzzie to get me that string."
- 45:35Do you hear any other names during this
- 45:36whole time?
- 45:38Cuzzie. Just Cuzzie.
- 45:40Cuzzie.
- 45:42Okay.
- 45:43So, now what happens?
- 45:45They tied my arm to the banister.
- 45:47Did number two go downstairs? Yes. He
- 45:49followed the directions? Yes.
- 45:51And he comes back upstairs with the
- 45:53string? Yes.
- 45:54And you get tied to the banister? Yes.
- 45:57Okay. Continue.
- 45:59And the next thing I can hear are them
- 46:00telling my parents to move to the
- 46:02basement.
- 46:03Okay.
- 46:04And I'm asking them, "Why? Where are you
- 46:06going?" And my mom's yelling to me,
- 46:08"I want my daughter. I want my daughter
- 46:10come, too.
- 46:11I want my daughter."
- 46:16Who goes down to the basement? Do you
- 46:17Can you see that from where you're
- 46:19sitting?
- 46:20is towards the wall. Do you hear anyone
- 46:22else in the main level?
- 46:25Where Where your parents were?
- 46:27Like you can hear if people are trucking
- 46:29down the stairs. You hear your parents
- 46:30going down the stairs.
- 46:32Do you hear
- 46:33like five sets of foot strengths foot
- 46:36footsteps going down there, or can't you
- 46:38hear that?
- 46:39I was just such a distress.
- 46:41I don't exactly know how many people
- 46:43went down. Okay. Did you ever see a gun
- 46:46on anyone else?
- 46:48On
- 46:51Cuz number two and number three, as
- 46:53we'll call them, Number three is the
- 46:54unknown guy who you just hear who we who
- 46:56we hear as Cuzzie, and you hear him with
- 47:00a slight island Caribbean accent, okay?
- 47:03Um One of those two
- 47:05Like they They dressed very similar,
- 47:08like very thin build.
- 47:10You saw number three? You can describe
- 47:13briefly, like through the the reflection
- 47:16from the lamp post on the street,
- 47:18through my
- 47:20through the
- 47:21the sheer
- 47:23curtains. Yeah.
- 47:25just saw briefly. He was quite thin
- 47:27build. Another thin build guy?
- 47:29Yeah. Similar to number two? Yes. And
- 47:32And what about the gun? Did you see
- 47:33another gun? I saw the tip of his gun
- 47:35cuz he had pointed it out at my father.
- 47:38And that one was
- 47:39was a revolver. Like it had the
- 47:41the rotating
- 47:43You saw the cylinder.
- 47:45Yeah. The rotating cylinder portion of
- 47:47the gun. Yeah. You saw that. Yeah.
- 47:50Okay.
- 47:51And what color was the gun?
- 47:55I was quite a bit away. Okay. And how
- 47:58did you see the How did you see this?
- 48:00Did you see it as a silhouette, or did
- 48:01you actually physically see the gun?
- 48:03I was on the floor kneeling when he was
- 48:05asking my father for his wallet. Yes. He
- 48:07had pointed it out. And I Like I Like I
- 48:10was told to keep my head down, but I
- 48:11kind of
- 48:12looked up
- 48:13looked up like peripheral here.
- 48:15And then I saw that.
- 48:18So, what portion of the gun are you
- 48:19seeing? If you're seeing Are you seeing
- 48:21him holding the with the handle and the
- 48:23revolver? Cuz the cylinder portion
- 48:25sticks right
- 48:26Yeah, like right close by here.
- 48:28see him wearing gloves, or can you see
- 48:29him Honestly, the lights were all out on
- 48:32that side of the house. Okay.
- 48:35But you In your estimation, it's a
- 48:37revolver because of what you I I saw
- 48:39Like I saw like what it looked like, the
- 48:43Okay. You see nothing else about his
- 48:45clothing or anything else he's wearing?
- 48:46Unfortunately, I wish I could have, but
- 48:48That's all I We just have to make sure
- 48:50that
- 48:51uh that we understand. So, you're Now,
- 48:53you when um
- 48:55when you're tied to the banister, right?
- 48:57And your parents are now going down to
- 48:59the basement.
- 49:00Do you hear or see anyone else upstairs
- 49:03while that's happening? No one came back
- 49:05upstairs for me. No one came back
- 49:07upstairs for you.
- 49:09Okay. Can you Can you hear the voices
- 49:11down Other than your parents, can you
- 49:13hear their voices down there?
- 49:15I All I could hear was, "This is taking
- 49:18too long." Who's saying that?
- 49:20Whose voice is that? You hear all three
- 49:22voices.
- 49:23You can distinguish them. Whose do you
- 49:25hear saying, "This is taking too long"?
- 49:28I mean, Because it was said to you
- 49:29upstairs, right?
- 49:31Who said that to you upstairs? Who was
- 49:33saying that upstairs, "This is taking
- 49:34too long"? Number one.
- 49:36Is that the same voice that you hear
- 49:38saying it downstairs? Yes. The on- only
- 49:42two of them voiced. Number three and
- 49:44number one voiced up. Voices the voiced
- 49:47up?
- 49:47Yeah.
- 49:48Who do you hear yelling you lie to us or
- 49:51to that extent?
- 49:53Number three.
- 49:54To my I'm assuming it's to my father.
- 49:57Because he was the one asking for the
- 49:58wallet.
- 50:02Now, your mom's your mom with her her
- 50:05wallet. Would your mom Do you know if
- 50:07your mom had gone to the bank after
- 50:09after her dance class or after she had
- 50:12finished? She just
- 50:14went to the bank a few days ago. Okay.
- 50:17Is there What type of car does your mom
- 50:19drive?
- 50:21And first off, did your mom drive
- 50:22tonight?
- 50:24What type of car does your mom drive? A
- 50:26Lexus. A Lexus?
- 50:28The S300.
- 50:29And she drove tonight?
- 50:32Okay.
- 50:34So, now you hear this commotion
- 50:37downstairs. You said you heard two pops.
- 50:41And you heard who scream?
- 50:43My mom.
- 50:44Your mom.
- 50:46And what was she screaming?
- 50:47Do you remember?
- 50:48get out. It was kind of like a cry cry
- 50:51yells. It was just
- 50:54Okay.
- 50:55It Are Are they still talking? Do you
- 50:57hear them talking?
- 51:01I was focused on my mom and
- 51:02No, I understand. I'm only going to ask
- 51:04questions that I can try and tweak your
- 51:06memory for, okay? So, you hear the two
- 51:09pop noise, you hear your mom screaming
- 51:11or crying or screaming or yelling.
- 51:14And then you hear some more.
- 51:16I hear you. Do you know how many more
- 51:18you heard?
- 51:29There was a set.
- 51:31But I don't
- 51:36Like I don't want to say this wrong. Say
- 51:38it what you think and what you what you
- 51:40believe. So, you're not Whatever you say
- 51:42isn't going to be wrong.
- 51:43Something for sure is I don't know if it
- 51:44was one
- 51:46and then what I'm going to tell you and
- 51:48then one Yeah.
- 51:49or if it was two and then what they said
- 51:51I'm going to tell you and then another
- 51:53one.
- 51:54Basically,
- 51:55they had made the first round or pop pop
- 51:59and
- 52:00they had they had said, "Okay, that's
- 52:02enough.
- 52:04Let's go." Who said that? Whose voice is
- 52:06that?
- 52:06Number one. Okay. And then I heard one
- 52:09more after that. And they're like,
- 52:11"That's enough. Let's go."
- 52:13Okay. And again, that's number one.
- 52:16Yes.
- 52:18Do you hear three's voice at all?
- 52:20Not at that After he had pretty much
- 52:24said, "You
- 52:30After he said
- 52:32that you lied to us, you lied to us.
- 52:35You just had to cooperate."
- 52:39And then they shot him and that's the
- 52:40last time I heard of three.
- 52:43Okay.
- 52:44So, how many shots, not putting it in
- 52:47sequence, how many shots do you think
- 52:48you hear in total?
- 52:52Five. Five?
- 52:56Then what happens?
- 52:59And then Talk about them first.
- 53:03Okay.
- 53:03scrambling.
- 53:04Can you see the front door from where
- 53:06you are?
- 53:07No?
- 53:08Okay.
- 53:09Did you ever hear
- 53:11how they got into the house?
- 53:14Doorbell ring? No. Kick door?
- 53:17Nothing like that?
- 53:20I don't remember how they got in. I
- 53:21don't even know how they got in. Okay.
- 53:24Um
- 53:27you uh
- 53:29you hear scrambling noises.
- 53:32Are you talking about right now? Right
- 53:33at this point in time. So, we're back to
- 53:35the time they're leaving, okay?
- 53:37Or they're you hear the scrambling noise
- 53:39and I'm only assuming they leave cuz
- 53:40they're not there when we get there.
- 53:42Um do you know which way they go out?
- 53:47You can't hear that.
- 53:48I'm
- 53:49I'm pretty sure it was the front door.
- 53:51Yeah. But I'm not
- 53:53100%. I didn't get to see anything.
- 53:56Like my arms were behind my back and I
- 53:59was against the banister. Yeah. And the
- 54:01banister is twisted, so I can't see the
- 54:03front door.
- 54:06Now you hear your dad.
- 54:09Yeah. Right? And what's going on? So,
- 54:11what do you hear next after you hear the
- 54:13scrambling? They're gone.
- 54:15Cuz you're hearing no more. I gather
- 54:17that's how you assume they're gone is
- 54:18cuz you don't hear it. Then you hear
- 54:19your dad. I I reached for my phone at
- 54:21that point.
- 54:22And you call 911.
- 54:24Okay. And then you What happens after
- 54:26you're on
- 54:28Uh
- 54:30I just I I heard my dad go out.
- 54:33And I don't know if they damaged his
- 54:36throat or what. How did you hear your
- 54:38dad So, what I This is the kind of
- 54:39importance because if you he Did he go
- 54:41out the front door?
- 54:42How did you How did you know he went out
- 54:44the front door? Cuz I heard him open the
- 54:46door.
- 54:47Did you hear that door open when these
- 54:49guys were scrambling to leave?
- 54:52There was just so much studying and
- 54:54Is your house got an alarm system? Yes.
- 54:57Do you know the alarm system when the
- 54:58front door goes off and there's that
- 54:59chirping
- 55:00We don't have that chirping. No? No. Is
- 55:03your house alarmed at night when you
- 55:05guys go to bed? Before the last person
- 55:07goes up to bed, they will alarm it. But
- 55:09prior to that, it doesn't get alarmed.
- 55:11Okay.
- 55:13So,
- 55:14you hear your from your when your father
- 55:16exits, you hear the door open because
- 55:18you hear your dad and then you see
- 55:19I can hear like the outside noises.
- 55:22Okay. Like the wind coming in and I just
- 55:26hear my dad
- 55:27I think he
- 55:32You think that he sustained some kind of
- 55:34injury cuz he's not You can't understand
- 55:35what he's saying.
- 55:37Okay. What about Do you Do you Can you
- 55:40hear your mom?
- 55:42Okay.
- 55:44Where does your dad go? Do you know
- 55:45where You never see your dad again until
- 55:47when we're at the hospital. I think
- 55:49that's what you said, right? I saw him
- 55:51when he was on the gurney, but the
- 55:53officers
- 55:54walked me around. So, I really didn't
- 55:58Okay, so now you're upstairs and you're
- 56:00on the phone with the 911 operator.
- 56:03Okay.
- 56:04You remained on the phone until the
- 56:06police arrived.
- 56:08And the officer is the one who cuts gets
- 56:11you free.
- 56:12He He first had to secure the place.
- 56:15Yes.
- 56:15It took me a while to get somebody
- 56:17upstairs. Okay.
- 56:20And
- 56:21kept screaming.
- 56:23Okay. And um
- 56:26I guess they went to my bedroom and I
- 56:27have a pair of scissors that I cut my
- 56:28hair with. Yes. And they said that they
- 56:31cut it for me, but
- 56:33it was still a while longer until after
- 56:35they cut the
- 56:36the strings so that I could be free. Do
- 56:37you understand that they of the
- 56:39importance to clear the what they were
- 56:41doing? It wasn't to leave you in any
- 56:42kind of trauma or anything like that.
- 56:44I I understand. It's just
- 56:46Did
- 56:48from what it's a very tough question
- 56:50considering all the things that you've
- 56:51gone through tonight, Jennifer, is
- 56:54any of the tying up, any of the binding,
- 56:56any of the things Were you sexually
- 56:58assaulted in any way?
- 57:00It wasn't that. This was strictly they
- 57:03were after money.
- 57:04From what I saw, they were after money.
- 57:07They wanted it now.
- 57:09How much money did you turn over to
- 57:10them?
- 57:14From my personal, I had about
- 57:17two 2,500. 2,500? And where was that?
- 57:22And where was that? In my nightstand
- 57:24underneath the TV. Okay. And that was
- 57:27from work that you had done? Yeah. What
- 57:29do you do for a living now? What are you
- 57:30doing right now? I heard you saying
- 57:31about piano. Are you in school? I'm I've
- 57:34recently I lost all my students in
- 57:36piano. I had a few Yes.
- 57:38for a while.
- 57:39But uh they've gone on to university.
- 57:41That's why as of September, I didn't
- 57:42have any more students. So, you were a
- 57:44piano instructor. Yes, out of my home.
- 57:46Okay.
- 57:47Just for family friends
- 57:49here and there.
- 57:51Um also, my family needed me home for a
- 57:53while.
- 57:55And I was doing some piano classes with
- 57:57a very good teacher of mine. Okay.
- 58:01And I'm going back to school in January.
- 58:03To
- 58:04to study biotechnology engineering.
- 58:07Okay.
- 58:09Um
- 58:11your parents,
- 58:13are they known to keep large quantities
- 58:14of cash in their house?
- 58:17Do they have
- 58:19a large quantity of cash in their in
- 58:21their bank?
- 58:23I wouldn't say that it was
- 58:26large enough to raise flags. It's enough
- 58:30to pay bills. Okay.
- 58:33My mom's very
- 58:35diligent on making sure just just
- 58:37enough. Just enough. So, she wouldn't
- 58:39carry around a lot of cash is what
- 58:41you're saying.
- 58:42The only we
- 58:44We did just come back from vacation. So,
- 58:46we did have
- 58:48not a large sum, but a
- 58:50sum that we could we didn't spend over
- 58:52the over in the States. And when when
- 58:54did you go away on vacation?
- 58:59It was the weekend. My cousin got
- 59:01married on 10 10 10.
- 59:03Okay. And where did you go? We went over
- 59:05to Buffalo.
- 59:08That's where you the wedding was in
- 59:10Buffalo? Well, just within Buffalo.
- 59:12Within the area of Buffalo.
- 59:14And when you say that that you came back
- 59:16with a quantity of cash, how much money
- 59:18are we talking about? At least 1,100 in
- 59:21US funds that my mom was going to go to
- 59:23the bank and put it in immediately, but
- 59:26um
- 59:28family circumstances
- 59:30that we've been dealing with when we got
- 59:31back.
- 59:33So, what are those family circumstances
- 59:34that you were dealing with when you came
- 59:35back?
- 59:37Well, my mom's sister was in town for
- 59:39the wedding.
- 59:40And then, my mom the weekend after that
- 59:43wedding, we took her to Montreal
- 59:46for like one last visit before she went
- 59:48home to the UK to her son. Okay. And
- 59:51then, honestly, I think probably like a
- 59:52day or two after that,
- 59:55um
- 59:56my grandfather fell really ill and he
- 59:59went to the hospital.
- 1:00:00And my mom and I were the two main
- 1:00:03people cuz my uncle doesn't drive. So,
- 1:00:06we were the ones driving in and out all
- 1:00:08the time. So, is this your mom's father?
- 1:00:11Okay.
- 1:00:12Um
- 1:00:15So, that $1,100, did it get taken
- 1:00:17tonight?
- 1:00:18I believe so. And where would that where
- 1:00:20would that have been?
- 1:00:21In my mom's bedside table.
- 1:00:23And you said you saw them Did they go
- 1:00:25into that bedside table?
- 1:00:29Um and it was that the second time that
- 1:00:31you when they were upstairs and they
- 1:00:32were looking for your father's wallet?
- 1:00:33While they're looking for my father's
- 1:00:35wallet, they flipped the
- 1:00:37flipped the bed off and they're like,
- 1:00:38"Oh, you didn't you miss that drawer."
- 1:00:41Like number one told number two, "You
- 1:00:43missed the drawer." So, he number one
- 1:00:45was the one that leaned over and pulled
- 1:00:46it open.
- 1:00:48Okay. You guys are inside the bedroom?
- 1:00:50I was just at the doorway of the
- 1:00:52bedroom. Okay. So, the and where in
- 1:00:54relation to this bedroom and where is
- 1:00:56this this Very tight. Very tight space.
- 1:00:59Okay. So, he he could stay with you and
- 1:01:01still reach around and grab this and
- 1:01:02open this drawer and that's where they
- 1:01:04found
- 1:01:04of pulled me with one hand closer Yeah.
- 1:01:07as he leaned over, but it was close
- 1:01:08enough that you could
- 1:01:11maneuver.
- 1:01:13Okay.
- 1:01:14And um so, they grabbed that that
- 1:01:17American money? Yes. You see it go?
- 1:01:20I saw him fold it and put it in his
- 1:01:22pocket. Okay.
- 1:01:24And
- 1:01:26did that seem to agitate them? Did you
- 1:01:28see any change in behavior after after
- 1:01:31that?
- 1:01:32They're like, "There has to be more."
- 1:01:37Who's saying that? Number one. Who's
- 1:01:39saying there has to be more?
- 1:01:44Do they look anywhere else? Are they
- 1:01:46looking anywhere else?
- 1:01:48Not besides my mother's wallet still in
- 1:01:51my dad's wallet. I don't even know if
- 1:01:52they got it. But uh those two things
- 1:01:54that they wanted to see.
- 1:01:56Whatever happened down in the basement,
- 1:01:58I think I tried to hear as much as I
- 1:02:00could, but it was too many people
- 1:02:03and we have really creaky floors, so
- 1:02:04it's
- 1:02:05When you're when they're in that room in
- 1:02:08inside the bedroom and now
- 1:02:10um is it lit any better?
- 1:02:12No, so it's still all in darkness?
- 1:02:16So, you still can't see if number two
- 1:02:18has got gloves on or not. No, they they
- 1:02:21had
- 1:02:22like something blind me. Like they
- 1:02:24number one when when we first got in the
- 1:02:26room, the light was on.
- 1:02:28And he's like, "Hold on." And he grabbed
- 1:02:30I don't remember what he grabbed, jacket
- 1:02:32or sleeve or something and he kind of
- 1:02:34like shell shielded me with it. And
- 1:02:37that's when he took my glasses and he
- 1:02:38like tossed them.
- 1:02:41So, he took your glasses off?
- 1:02:44Okay. How did you get your glasses back?
- 1:02:46I asked the officer.
- 1:02:48Okay.
- 1:02:49And how bad are your eyes with your
- 1:02:50glasses off?
- 1:02:52Degree wise, I'm about
- 1:02:55high four, I think 475 and 525. Okay.
- 1:02:58So, you have with your glasses off, it's
- 1:03:01difficult for you to see things, right?
- 1:03:03I can see shapes, but no definition. But
- 1:03:06prior to all of this,
- 1:03:09you had your glasses on. Yes.
- 1:03:11So, when you describe the gun and you
- 1:03:12describe the dreadlocks, you describe
- 1:03:14number two,
- 1:03:16what about when you saw the revolver?
- 1:03:17What did you have your glasses on at
- 1:03:18that point in time? So, all of these
- 1:03:20observations are made with your glasses.
- 1:03:22It's not until you're tied upstairs,
- 1:03:24you're you know, they're Right before
- 1:03:25they tied me to the banister.
- 1:03:27Like when we went the stairs second
- 1:03:30time. Okay. And who ties you to the
- 1:03:31banister?
- 1:03:33Um
- 1:03:34I'm not sure if number two held number
- 1:03:35one, but it was behind me. I'm not sure
- 1:03:38who did the tying. But number two goes
- 1:03:40downstairs to get the string to tie tie
- 1:03:44you up.
- 1:03:44And brings it up. And brings it up.
- 1:03:46From this cuz cuz And you're sure it's
- 1:03:49cuz like cousin cuz I'm assuming It's a
- 1:03:52No, I'm not saying that that's what it
- 1:03:54is, but it's on that line of cuz.
- 1:03:56Yes, go tell cuz.
- 1:03:58Okay.
- 1:04:00And again, that's number one who's
- 1:04:01saying this.
- 1:04:04Have
- 1:04:06Is there any reason
- 1:04:08to suspect or anything that's happened
- 1:04:10in the recent weeks leading up
- 1:04:14that would
- 1:04:15have you guys be
- 1:04:17a target of some type of incident like
- 1:04:19this?
- 1:04:21We live a straightforward kind of almost
- 1:04:24routine life. Where is your brother
- 1:04:26right now? He's in Well, he's right now,
- 1:04:29he's here.
- 1:04:30But does he live with you guys? He In
- 1:04:32the summertime, he goes back in
- 1:04:34September, normally end of August.
- 1:04:37Goes back to school. Okay.
- 1:04:39Moves out there.
- 1:04:40What school is he at?
- 1:04:42McMaster's.
- 1:04:43And
- 1:04:45um what year is he in?
- 1:04:46Uh
- 1:04:48third year, I believe.
- 1:04:49Third year of what type of program?
- 1:04:50Engineering. Engineering.
- 1:04:53Um
- 1:04:54so
- 1:04:55there's nothing
- 1:04:58There's no it's it's cuz of it's
- 1:05:01important, you know, like there are
- 1:05:02places where there's a legal gambling
- 1:05:04going on where people think there's
- 1:05:05large quantities of money.
- 1:05:07What in your opinion would cause people
- 1:05:10to target your house to think there was
- 1:05:12a large quantity of money?
- 1:05:15I'm not sure.
- 1:05:17Now, you say your mom drives a Lexus.
- 1:05:20It could be because of the aesthetics,
- 1:05:22yes. What about your dad? He drives a
- 1:05:24Mercedes and he loves that baby. Is that
- 1:05:26right? So, your mom drives a Lexus, your
- 1:05:29dad drives a Mercedes.
- 1:05:31Um
- 1:05:32the area you live in,
- 1:05:34you know, what's the square footage of
- 1:05:35your house? Do you have any idea?
- 1:05:392,100? 2,100.
- 1:05:42Um
- 1:05:44and the only thing that happened tonight
- 1:05:46that happens every Monday night
- 1:05:48is your mom goes to dance. Yeah. And you
- 1:05:51think it's at St. Paul's?
- 1:05:54And that would have been in the
- 1:05:55Birchmount and Finch area? Yes.
- 1:05:57Southwest corner.
- 1:05:58Yes.
- 1:06:00She goes there at what time?
- 1:06:02She leaves the house at 7:00, picks up
- 1:06:05her friend on like right off of Kennedy.
- 1:06:08Yes.
- 1:06:09And I believe she starts at 7:30
- 1:06:12to about 9:00.
- 1:06:14And then she she she's usually home
- 1:06:16around 9:30. Usually home around 9:30.
- 1:06:18And so, nothing was any different
- 1:06:20tonight other than the fact that she may
- 1:06:22have been home a little bit earlier than
- 1:06:23that. Is that right? I think you said
- 1:06:249:15.
- 1:06:25father after work. That was the only
- 1:06:29difference. Your father being late
- 1:06:31because of coming home after work. And
- 1:06:33what time did he arrive home?
- 1:06:36I'm sorry, we still haven't updated all
- 1:06:37our clocks on the daylight savings, but
- 1:06:40I think around 4:30 or so.
- 1:06:43Normally, he'll be home by
- 1:06:4410:00 to 4:00. Okay. So, 4:30 is And
- 1:06:47does he leave? Does he go out for the
- 1:06:48rest of the night or is he in? Well, he
- 1:06:50came home and then
- 1:06:52Oh, he went with his My uncle. Yeah, he
- 1:06:54went with my uncle. I don't know where
- 1:06:56they went. Um all I know is that he came
- 1:06:58back with a heat
- 1:07:02vent. I don't know. He bought something
- 1:07:04for the heat.
- 1:07:05Okay.
- 1:07:06He said his he doesn't like how the
- 1:07:07draft comes up. He likes it to be
- 1:07:09focused
- 1:07:10Oh, so it's like a heat deflector. Yeah.
- 1:07:12Okay.
- 1:07:12For like the For the for the floor
- 1:07:14heating the heating elements on the
- 1:07:15floor, okay. The registers, yes.
- 1:07:18Okay. So, and what time does he get
- 1:07:20back?
- 1:07:22I had finished eating.
- 1:07:25Uh he probably got back around
- 1:07:286:00, 6:15. 6:00 or 6:15. Does he go out
- 1:07:31again? No. Is he on the computer for the
- 1:07:34for After dinner.
- 1:07:36What is What does he dinner. He ate
- 1:07:37dinner first. What does he do on the
- 1:07:38computer?
- 1:07:39He reads uh Vietnamese news Okay.
- 1:07:42and Vietnamese uh
- 1:07:44soaps, I guess.
- 1:07:46And your mother, do you believe comes
- 1:07:48home at 9:30 like normal?
- 1:07:50Around that time, more or less. There's
- 1:07:51nothing unusual about her time of coming
- 1:07:53home. And
- 1:07:56it's
- 1:07:5710 to 15 minutes later that you hear the
- 1:07:59noises?
- 1:08:00You hear the different voices?
- 1:08:03I'd say.
- 1:08:04Maybe a little later. It could be if
- 1:08:06closer to
- 1:08:11It could have been 45. Is there any way
- 1:08:14of finding out for sure where your mom
- 1:08:16where you where this place was that they
- 1:08:18did dancing tonight?
- 1:08:20Um I believe my
- 1:08:22cousin might have gone with her. Okay.
- 1:08:26Might be very important for us to find
- 1:08:27out exactly where she was, where this
- 1:08:29was tonight. Okay. Okay.
- 1:08:32Um
- 1:08:35You just sit tight for a minute, okay?
- 1:08:37And think think about anything else that
- 1:08:38you can that might help us in this. You
- 1:08:40we've gone through a lot of the details
- 1:08:42and um
- 1:08:44um I just want to talk I just want to
- 1:08:47talk to the the the officer who's
- 1:08:49monitoring it and I also want to talk to
- 1:08:51the lead investigator just to see if
- 1:08:52there's anything else I need to ask you
- 1:08:54about. You've explained the scissors
- 1:08:56which were found upstairs in the area
- 1:08:58they were used that you had cut your
- 1:08:59hair, but an officer came and brought
- 1:09:01them to you to cut you free.
- 1:09:03Okay. Is that correct?
- 1:09:05Okay.
- 1:09:08Did you ever go down into the basement?
- 1:09:10No. And where did you go once
- 1:09:12to the basement earlier in the night
- 1:09:14when I was with my friend watching
- 1:09:15movies. No, no, no. I mean uh During
- 1:09:17that? During the time. And who was over
- 1:09:19watching movies with you? What's her
- 1:09:20name? Oh, his name Adrian.
- 1:09:22Adrian and Adrian's last name?
- 1:09:23Dinkovitz. Dinkovitz at Tenkovitz. And
- 1:09:25where does Adrian live? He lives on
- 1:09:28Birchmount, no.
- 1:09:30Sorry, Brimley. Brimley and Finch.
- 1:09:33Brimley and Finch.
- 1:09:34Okay, and how long have you known Adrian
- 1:09:35for? Uh more than 10, 15 years. So, this
- 1:09:39is a kind of a regular occurrence for
- 1:09:40you guys? Yeah. We meet up once a week,
- 1:09:43if not once a month, depending on how
- 1:09:44busy our lives are. Yeah. And we sit and
- 1:09:46we watch our usual shows. Okay.
- 1:09:49And so, that that was uh that's what
- 1:09:51happened tonight. Mhm. And what time did
- 1:09:52Adrian leave at? 9:00. At 9:00? 10 to
- 1:09:559:00, 9:00. Okay.
- 1:09:58And Edward is who you were on the phone
- 1:10:00with? Yes. Okay, until you got off the
- 1:10:02phone because of the noises. Did you
- 1:10:04tell Edward what was going on? No, I
- 1:10:06just I basically just told him, "I got
- 1:10:08to go. Call you later."
- 1:10:10Okay.
- 1:10:11Do you know what show you were watching
- 1:10:12when this was going on?
- 1:10:14What you had on the TV?
- 1:10:15Sorry, multitasking. I was watching
- 1:10:17Gossip Girl.
- 1:10:19And then I was watching uh Kate Plus 8.
- 1:10:21Kate Plus 8. It's just the time what
- 1:10:22we're doing is to time stamp things,
- 1:10:24right now on the way to the phone and
- 1:10:25and whatever else.
- 1:10:27Now, as part of um
- 1:10:29the investigation, we have your cell
- 1:10:30phone right now. Mhm. Um
- 1:10:33we're going to ask you if you would
- 1:10:34consent to um to your phone records to
- 1:10:37help us on the investigation, and that
- 1:10:39will again that's part of the time
- 1:10:41stamping of things, you know, of who you
- 1:10:42were on the phone with, who you were
- 1:10:43talking to, and when this happened.
- 1:10:45I just don't
- 1:10:46like I talked to people on the phone,
- 1:10:48but I don't really want them to know
- 1:10:49what's happening with my
- 1:10:51Unfortunately, the unfortunate thing is
- 1:10:53what probably Edward
- 1:10:55and Adrian are people who were probably
- 1:10:58going to be interviewed because they
- 1:10:59were in the house and in the and and
- 1:11:01they were on the phone with you. So,
- 1:11:03as much and I'm telling you that you and
- 1:11:05and the media is going to be
- 1:11:07um
- 1:11:08around this case.
- 1:11:10And and um
- 1:11:12that's that you know, like we have no
- 1:11:14control over what they say and what they
- 1:11:16do. My only advice to you is don't read
- 1:11:18the papers and turn the TVs off.
- 1:11:21Right? Um they may not they may come and
- 1:11:24go and very quietly disappear because
- 1:11:26something else pops onto their radar.
- 1:11:28But
- 1:11:30you know, a home invasion type robbery
- 1:11:32where someone is murdered can become
- 1:11:35very big news and people
- 1:11:37wear this stuff, you know, they they
- 1:11:38hang on it.
- 1:11:40So,
- 1:11:41for the next little next
- 1:11:435 to 7 days, I would say that tell your
- 1:11:45friends and you your well, your family,
- 1:11:48it's it's of no value for you to be
- 1:11:49listening to the news or reading about
- 1:11:51this stuff.
- 1:11:52Okay?
- 1:11:54Because it's just going to upset you
- 1:11:55even more than what you have than what
- 1:11:57you feel right now.
- 1:11:58So, just bear with me for a minute,
- 1:12:00okay? I'm going to go and it may be a
- 1:12:01little bit longer than a minute. I'm
- 1:12:03just going to go and talk to
- 1:12:05the officer who's monitoring it to see
- 1:12:06if there's any clarifica- clarification
- 1:12:08questions and and also the guy who's
- 1:12:10investigating it, if there's something
- 1:12:12else when I brief him if there's
- 1:12:13something else I should be asking you
- 1:12:15about, okay?
- 1:12:17And we're close to being we're very
- 1:12:18close to being done. Okay.
- 1:28:04No.
- 1:32:52Okay, sorry. Have a seat. We got just a
- 1:32:56couple more questions. We're going to
- 1:32:58give your phone back to you.
- 1:33:00Okay?
- 1:33:01And your brother is just being
- 1:33:03interviewed next door. Oh, yeah, they
- 1:33:05had an interview, too. Yeah, well, just
- 1:33:06because you never know, right? Any other
- 1:33:08fringe stuff that comes up. It's just
- 1:33:10more of an administration, but
- 1:33:13obviously, the relevant people to be
- 1:33:15interviewed, in my opinion,
- 1:33:18right now, are who your mom was with
- 1:33:21right after like when she went to this
- 1:33:24line dancing or this dancing.
- 1:33:26So, we can clarify where it was.
- 1:33:29And, you know,
- 1:33:31I think I'm 90% sure that it's there.
- 1:33:33Okay. It It doesn't take a rocket
- 1:33:35scientist to figure out that could she
- 1:33:38have
- 1:33:39drawn them here from where she was
- 1:33:41because of the type of car she's driving
- 1:33:44and where she's driving to. It's It's
- 1:33:46very possible. It's something that we
- 1:33:47obviously have to explore. So, how am I
- 1:33:49going to find out who she was with
- 1:33:51tonight?
- 1:33:53I don't have her number
- 1:33:56at home. Um Is there a way on your phone
- 1:34:00Can you use your phone to find that the
- 1:34:02find out who the people she was with
- 1:34:03tonight?
- 1:34:05I could ask one of my uncles and ask
- 1:34:08them for that girl's number. Okay. One
- 1:34:11of his nieces.
- 1:34:13We're going to need I'm going to ask you
- 1:34:14to do that, okay? If you can do that for
- 1:34:16us.
- 1:34:17Um who who are you with? What phone
- 1:34:19service are you with? Rogers.
- 1:34:20With Rogers?
- 1:34:21Okay. We're going to prepare a consent
- 1:34:24for you for the phone records.
- 1:34:26And then um I'm going to uh
- 1:34:30uh
- 1:34:30give your phone back. I'm going to ask
- 1:34:32you to call
- 1:34:34what this uncle Okay. uh so that we can
- 1:34:36find out where where she went, who she
- 1:34:39was with, and where she went tonight.
- 1:34:40Mhm.
- 1:34:42Because we need to obviously find out
- 1:34:45confirm where it was
- 1:34:47and confirm who she was where and if
- 1:34:49there was any problems.
- 1:34:51Okay?
- 1:34:52Um
- 1:34:54the the cars, how many cars?
- 1:34:57Yes?
- 1:35:01Oh, thank you.
- 1:35:02Thanks.
- 1:35:06You want to check to make sure that's
- 1:35:07your phone? Yeah.
- 1:35:12Are you the Are you the owner of that
- 1:35:14phone? Are you the on on the plan is it
- 1:35:16under your name?
- 1:35:18Okay.
- 1:35:21I just asked them to put a two initials
- 1:35:23on cuz I just
- 1:35:25um
- 1:35:26like caller ID when I call in, it's not
- 1:35:29my name.
- 1:35:29It's not your name, but it's still your
- 1:35:30phone and you use this, right?
- 1:35:32it and Okay, what's your cellular phone
- 1:35:34number?
- 1:35:35Uh
- 1:35:38647
- 1:35:41965211
- 1:36:15Because these things come in
- 1:36:17in um
- 1:36:21in batches, I'm just going to extend the
- 1:36:23time period.
- 1:36:41Just because it I I give it a from the
- 1:36:431st to the 9th because they have they
- 1:36:45may even give us more time. It's just
- 1:36:46the way that the the the information
- 1:36:48comes off of their reading, okay? But
- 1:36:50I'll explain that to you.
- 1:36:57I'm sorry, your mom's first name?
- 1:37:00B I C H, separate word, H.
- 1:37:02B I C H. H, separate word. H A H A? Pan?
- 1:37:37So,
- 1:37:38um
- 1:37:59My question is how far deep into this
- 1:38:02will they look for my phone? Just like
- 1:38:05comment like regular phone calls to
- 1:38:07people and stuff like that?
- 1:38:09Really, it's just the time stamping of
- 1:38:11of the
- 1:38:12you know, we we're putting 9 days down
- 1:38:15because it may come back to you that
- 1:38:17oh, I spoke to him and it may be able
- 1:38:19for us to be able to identify people
- 1:38:21that we may need to go back and
- 1:38:22interview.
- 1:38:23The The interest of us is obviously
- 1:38:25tonight between
- 1:38:289 and 10,
- 1:38:30right?
- 1:38:31Um but we're just asking for this to
- 1:38:33We're not asking for months and months
- 1:38:34and months. It's 9 days that we're
- 1:38:36asking for and generally it's because we
- 1:38:38may come back to you and say, "Okay, we
- 1:38:41want to interview
- 1:38:43um this person." And you go,
- 1:38:46"I don't know where they live."
- 1:38:48But I spoke to them.
- 1:38:49Or we got the phone records. Is this the
- 1:38:51same person? And we'll have their
- 1:38:52address, at least what is registered to
- 1:38:54their phone. So, it's the only reason
- 1:38:56we're asking for a 9-day period. Okay.
- 1:38:58There's no Investigatively, it's it's
- 1:39:01it's not of no real significant value
- 1:39:03other than
- 1:39:04today, right?
- 1:39:07It's only because sometimes I phone, you
- 1:39:08know, teachers and stuff like that. No,
- 1:39:10we're not going to go back and interview
- 1:39:11all those people. That's not our
- 1:39:13intention, right? Um
- 1:39:15So,
- 1:39:17I need you to fill out
- 1:39:19this portion for me.
- 1:39:21So, owner,
- 1:39:23subscriber,
- 1:39:24it's the same person
- 1:39:26as this. So, it's you and you.
- 1:39:29Your address,
- 1:39:31the telephone number,
- 1:39:33and um
- 1:39:34and today's date, and then your
- 1:39:36signature.
- 1:39:37And what it is is before we go into it,
- 1:39:39it's all This is all being recorded
- 1:39:41again. So, it's just that you consent to
- 1:39:43giving us the records for cell phone
- 1:39:45number 647-965-2118.
- 1:39:49Um
- 1:39:50and you consent to allow the York
- 1:39:51Regional Police to access the phone
- 1:39:53records. The said cellular phone company
- 1:39:55authorize Rogers
- 1:40:03for the following: billing records,
- 1:40:05incoming and outgoing numbers dialed,
- 1:40:07registered owner information including
- 1:40:09credit and payment history. This is
- 1:40:10really how we link phones to people, how
- 1:40:12we confirm that it's your phone.
- 1:40:14And the tower site location, if
- 1:40:16requested, for the above-mentioned times
- 1:40:18and dates. And towers now become uh
- 1:40:21I just dropped that. Towers become
- 1:40:23relevant in this case because of where
- 1:40:24you are when the phone call comes in on
- 1:40:26the on today's date, right? Is that it
- 1:40:29firms your story to saying that I was in
- 1:40:31my room when I made that when the calls
- 1:40:33came in.
- 1:40:35And um that will show up on the tower
- 1:40:38site information. That's the relevance
- 1:40:40of the tower site information. It also
- 1:40:41may turn out that maybe during this time
- 1:40:44period you were targeted.
- 1:40:47And you were in an area, and this
- 1:40:50enables us to go back and try and look
- 1:40:51for cameras and other things through the
- 1:40:54towers. Not saying it's going to happen
- 1:40:56in your case, but it's why we ask for
- 1:40:57tower sites, right? Tower sites always
- 1:41:00show when you're on the phone, they show
- 1:41:01you where you're where you are when
- 1:41:02you're on the phone making calls.
- 1:41:04Um
- 1:41:06and that the above-mentioned records are
- 1:41:07to be released for the York region to
- 1:41:09the York Regional Police for the
- 1:41:10purposes of investigation of murder of
- 1:41:12your mom, and for the time period as
- 1:41:15stated November 1st to November 9th.
- 1:41:18This is the part of the consent. I am
- 1:41:21voluntarily giving consent, and I know
- 1:41:23that I you don't have to. You don't have
- 1:41:24to do this. This is your This is you
- 1:41:26volunteering to do this. You may
- 1:41:28withdraw your consent at any time.
- 1:41:31I understand that these records may be
- 1:41:32used as evidence against against me and
- 1:41:34may become any part of a criminal
- 1:41:35proceeding. Now, if you were lying on
- 1:41:37this, you know, as a part of this whole
- 1:41:39process that I explained, telling us
- 1:41:41fictitious information, it comes back.
- 1:41:43Now, the records can also be used
- 1:41:45against you. If you're telling the
- 1:41:46truth,
- 1:41:48really point three it means nothing,
- 1:41:50okay? Um but we have to let you know by
- 1:41:53law that we could use these against you
- 1:41:54if you're lying to us.
- 1:41:56And in consideration for Rogers uh
- 1:41:59dis wireless
- 1:42:03disclosing the records of the identified
- 1:42:05person above, I hereby release and
- 1:42:06discharge Rogers
- 1:42:12and its employees from any liability
- 1:42:14whatsoever in regard to this disclosure.
- 1:42:15So, this is what the phone companies
- 1:42:17have asked us to say that because we're
- 1:42:19giving you this thing, you can't use you
- 1:42:22can't the people who we got it from
- 1:42:24can't come and sue us.
- 1:42:25So, it's it's a preamble, legal
- 1:42:27preamble.
- 1:42:29Um
- 1:42:30and by doing this, by
- 1:42:34Okay, the owner subscriber, you're
- 1:42:36putting your name, you sign here, you
- 1:42:37print your name, your address,
- 1:42:39uh your subscriber number and the date,
- 1:42:41and I sign with the witnesses to state
- 1:42:43that I witness this.
- 1:42:44And then um
- 1:42:46I'm going to ask you
- 1:42:48after this to try and contact that
- 1:42:50cousin to get us the name of the people
- 1:42:51who were with your mom tonight.
- 1:43:22Do you need the full address?
- 1:43:23Yeah, Markham. Yeah, you Markham,
- 1:43:25Ontario just the state.
- 1:43:50Today is now the 9th of November.
- 1:44:00And I'm going to sign to witness it.
- 1:44:04So, will you will we be in will I be
- 1:44:07informed of who of my
- 1:44:09if anybody is contacted on that?
- 1:44:11Um
- 1:44:14the chances are if you're going to be
- 1:44:16So, you you can almost guarantee that
- 1:44:17Adrian and Edward are going to be we're
- 1:44:19going to need to speak to them.
- 1:44:20Right?
- 1:44:21Because Adrian was in your house.
- 1:44:23Remember um
- 1:44:25if they're doing forensic testing in
- 1:44:27your house to try and get DNA and
- 1:44:29anything else in there, they're also
- 1:44:30going to need stuff to eliminate people.
- 1:44:32Right? So, Adrian was in your house.
- 1:44:34Yes, he was.
- 1:44:35Um so, we need to try and if you when
- 1:44:38when we shut this down, I'm going to
- 1:44:40because it doesn't need to be disclosed
- 1:44:42on video about their personal
- 1:44:43information, I need to get Adrian's
- 1:44:46contact information. I need to get
- 1:44:47Edward's contact information. I don't
- 1:44:50know if we're going to contact them to
- 1:44:51tonight or this morning, but sometime
- 1:44:53today they're going to be spoken to.
- 1:44:55Okay?
- 1:44:56Um
- 1:44:58our priority is who is with your mom.
- 1:45:00That's our priority right now. Okay.
- 1:45:02Okay? Um but I
- 1:45:05just tweak me back. How many cars do
- 1:45:06your do your Does your family own?
- 1:45:09The Mercedes and Alexis. And where do
- 1:45:11your parents park these cars? My dad
- 1:45:13always parks it on the right, and my mom
- 1:45:15always parks on the left. Inside the
- 1:45:17garage?
- 1:45:19And when they Where do they enter the
- 1:45:20house when they're when they park in the
- 1:45:22garage? Is there an entrance through the
- 1:45:23garage?
- 1:45:24Okay. So, that's the normal course is
- 1:45:26they park. Unless we we plan on going
- 1:45:29out somewhere, we leave the car in the
- 1:45:32driveway instead of having to
- 1:45:34through the garage. When you left today
- 1:45:36left tonight after this incident had
- 1:45:38happened, did you see the cars in the
- 1:45:40garage?
- 1:45:41I did not, but I believe that one of the
- 1:45:44officers went and checked and said that
- 1:45:46the cars were still in the garage. The
- 1:45:48garage door was were closed?
- 1:45:49Yes.
- 1:45:50Okay.
- 1:45:51Um
- 1:45:54is there any video equipment, video
- 1:45:56cameras, or any video system on in your
- 1:45:58house? To record? No?
- 1:46:01No.
- 1:46:02Okay.
- 1:46:03Is there anything else that you can
- 1:46:04think of that might help us right now
- 1:46:06in this investigation?
- 1:46:14Not off the top of my head.
- 1:46:16Okay, so I'm going to
- 1:46:19Okay. So, you know what you told us has
- 1:46:21been under oath. Um
- 1:46:23I'm just making sure Did Did you swear
- 1:46:25on a Bible? Yes. It was under oath.
- 1:46:27Um is there anything you want to change?
- 1:46:30No.
- 1:46:33Is there anything else I should know to
- 1:46:35fully understand your statement?
- 1:46:38Suffer from
- 1:46:39This is one of those things that people
- 1:46:41say, "Well, I'm
- 1:46:42I'm schizophrenic. I just didn't tell
- 1:46:44you." Or I suffer from mental illness
- 1:46:46and or delusions or uh I'm actually an
- 1:46:48alcoholic and I
- 1:46:50None of these things affect you?
- 1:46:52that you said.
- 1:46:53You're competent, and this was
- 1:46:54completely voluntary, and you've told us
- 1:46:56everything you need to the best of your
- 1:46:58ability. Best as I can.
- 1:47:02Okay.
- 1:47:04So, what I'm going to get I'm going to
- 1:47:06It is now 4:30 in the morning. I'm going
- 1:47:08to shut everything off. And then we're
- 1:47:10going to have you try and find those
- 1:47:11that that information for us, okay? So,
- 1:47:14the recordings now
- 1:47:15are turned off.
- 1:47:18I'm going to make sure that um
- 1:47:20that next door the recording's off. May
- 1:47:22I use the washroom? Of course you can
- 1:47:24use the washroom.
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