The Disturbing Jennifer Pan Story That Shocked Canada — Transcript

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1. 0:00What if the picture perfect life you
2. 0:01were forced to live was nothing more
3. 0:03than a meticulously crafted lie? A lie
4. 0:06so vast, so suffocating that it became a
5. 0:08prison. And what if the only way you
6. 0:11sought to escape that prison was to
7. 0:13betray the very people who built it for
8. 0:14you with a level of cold-blooded cruelty
9. 0:17that would shock a nation? This is not
10. 0:20just a story about a crime. It's a story
11. 0:22about a daughter who tried to have her
12. 0:24parents murdered and the terrifying
13. 0:26chain of events that led to a lie
14. 0:28becoming a living, breathing monster.
15. 0:32This is a story that begins like so many
16. 0:34others. A story of immigrants who came
17. 0:37to a new country with nothing but hope
18. 0:39and a relentless work ethic. They built
19. 0:41a life brick by brick from the ground up
20. 0:44for their children. They sacrificed
21. 0:46everything and in return they asked for
22. 0:48only one thing, success. This is the
23. 0:51story of Jennifer Pan. A story of a lie
24. 0:54so vast it became a life and a life so
25. 0:57fractured it led to a brutal unspeakable
26. 1:00act. Han and [ __ ] Pan were refugees
27. 1:03from Vietnam, a family of ethnic Chinese
28. 1:06who fled to Canada to escape war and
29. 1:09turmoil. They were industrious and
30. 1:11driven. Han, a tool and die maker and
31. 1:15[ __ ] who worked at an auto parts
32. 1:17factory saved every penny. They bought a
33. 1:20beautiful house in a quiet, affluent
34. 1:22neighborhood. They had two children,
35. 1:24Jennifer and her younger brother, Felix.
36. 1:27For them, the dream was a simple one, to
37. 1:31provide a better life, to give their
38. 1:33children the opportunities they never
39. 1:34had. From a young age, Jennifer was the
40. 1:38golden child, a source of immense pride
41. 1:41and expectation. Her parents poured
42. 1:43everything into her. She was a figure
43. 1:46skater, a talented pianist, her days
44. 1:48meticulously scheduled with lessons and
45. 1:51practice. Her parents believed this was
46. 1:53the only path to a successful future, a
47. 1:56future that would justify their own
48. 1:58struggles. But the relentless pressure
49. 2:00to be perfect was a heavy burden.
50. 2:02Jennifer, a girl who, by her own
51. 2:04account, felt she had little affection
52. 2:06and much criticism, began to crumble
53. 2:09under the weight of her parents' hopes.
54. 2:11In high school, the first crack in the
55. 2:14facade appeared. Jennifer's grades were
56. 2:16not the A's her parents demanded.
57. 2:18Instead of facing their disappointment,
58. 2:21she did the unimaginable. She started to
59. 2:24lie. She forged report cards,
60. 2:26meticulously changing grades to reflect
61. 2:28the perfect student her parents believed
62. 2:30she was. She fooled them into thinking
63. 2:33she was a straight A student on track to
64. 2:35achieve everything they had ever dreamed
65. 2:37for her. But the deception was just
66. 2:39beginning. During this time, Jennifer
67. 2:42found an escape. She met Daniel Wong, a
68. 2:45young man who was everything her parents
69. 2:47were not. He worked at a pizza
70. 2:49restaurant and was a small-time drug
71. 2:51dealer. He was a stark contrast to the
72. 2:54world of academic rigor and structured
73. 2:56success her parents had built. Daniel
74. 2:58was a source of freedom, of a life she
75. 3:01felt she was missing. Her parents, of
76. 3:03course, disapproved and forbade her from
77. 3:05seeing him. But their relationship
78. 3:07continued in secret. a clandestine world
79. 3:10built on stolen moments and shared
80. 3:12secrets. It was a relationship that
81. 3:15would become the central pillar of her
82. 3:17unraveling. The lies grew bigger, more
83. 3:20intricate, more consuming. Jennifer
84. 3:23failed her grade 12 calculus class, a
85. 3:25failure that meant Ryerson University,
86. 3:28where she had been given early
87. 3:29admission, rescended their offer. The
88. 3:32dream her parents had for her to become
89. 3:34a pharmacist was over. But instead of
90. 3:36confessing, she doubled down on the lie.
91. 3:39For years, Jennifer pretended to attend
92. 3:41university. Her parents drove her to a
93. 3:44bus stop near the school, believing she
94. 3:46was on her way to class. She would then
95. 3:48go to Daniel's house or work, spending
96. 3:50her days living a completely different
97. 3:52life. To maintain the charade, she faked
98. 3:55a degree, forged a diploma, and even
99. 3:58invented a job at a hospital to explain
100. 4:00her forged pay stubs. She had to be home
101. 4:03by a certain time, constantly explaining
102. 4:06her whereabouts. Her parents, especially
103. 4:08her father, Han, were the rulemakers,
104. 4:12and she lived in constant fear of them
105. 4:14discovering the truth. The pressure was
106. 4:16suffocating. She felt like a prisoner in
107. 4:18her own home, a ghost in her own life.
108. 4:22In 2008, the deception began to crack.
109. 4:26Jennifer's mother, Bish, became
110. 4:28suspicious when she noticed Jennifer
111. 4:30didn't have a hospital ID badge or
112. 4:32uniform. On one day, she followed
113. 4:34Jennifer and the elaborate lie came
114. 4:36crashing down. She saw her daughter not
115. 4:39walking into a hospital, but instead
116. 4:41walking away. She confronted her and the
117. 4:44truth for the first time was out. Han
118. 4:47Pan, her father, was furious. He wanted
119. 4:51to throw her out of the house to cut her
120. 4:52off entirely. But her mother, B, ever
121. 4:56the mediator, convinced him to allow her
122. 4:58to stay. But there were conditions.
123. 5:00Jennifer was to end her relationship
124. 5:02with Daniel Wong. She was to give up her
125. 5:05phone and her computer. Her movements
126. 5:07would be strictly monitored, and her
127. 5:09life once again was no longer her own.
128. 5:12She was to work on finishing high school
129. 5:14and eventually apply to university
130. 5:16again. For Jennifer, this was not a
131. 5:19second chance. It was a prison sentence.
132. 5:23The relationship with Daniel Wong became
133. 5:25the final piece of the puzzle. Despite
134. 5:27her parents' demands, Jennifer and
135. 5:29Daniel secretly reconnected. But their
136. 5:32communication was different now. They
137. 5:34were planning something, something dark.
138. 5:36The conversations began to turn to her
139. 5:39parents. Jennifer, feeling completely
140. 5:41trapped, saw only one way out. She and
141. 5:44Daniel started to plot a murder for
142. 5:45hire. The plan was simple. Hire hitmen
143. 5:48to kill her parents. And with the
144. 5:50inheritance from her family's wealth,
145. 5:52they could finally be together, free
146. 5:54from the crushing weight of her parents'
147. 5:56expectations.
148. 5:58The stage was set for the night of
149. 6:00November 8th, 2010. Jennifer unlocked
150. 6:04the front door of her family's home
151. 6:05before she went to bed, a crucial detail
152. 6:08that would later prove her guilt. She
153. 6:10spoke on the phone with one of the hired
154. 6:12hitmen, David Milvagenham. Shortly
155. 6:15after, three armed men entered the house
156. 6:17through the front door. The scene was
157. 6:19meant to look like a home invasion, a
158. 6:22robbery gone wrong. The men took Han and
159. 6:24[ __ ] to the basement where they shot
160. 6:26them both multiple times. They ransacked
161. 6:29the house and then they left. Jennifer,
162. 6:31who was left upstairs untied with her
163. 6:34phone, calmly dialed 911. [ __ ] Pan was
164. 6:37pronounced dead at the scene. Her life
165. 6:40stolen in an instant. Han Pan, though
166. 6:43shot multiple times with critical
167. 6:45injuries, miraculously survived. He was
168. 6:48in a coma for 3 days. Jennifer's plan,
169. 6:51so meticulously laid out, had a single
170. 6:53catastrophic flaw. Her father, the man
171. 6:56she had tried to kill, would awaken from
172. 6:59his coma and remember. When Han Pan woke
173. 7:02up, he recounted the events of that
174. 7:04night to the police. He told them he saw
175. 7:06Jennifer talking to one of the gunmen,
176. 7:08not with fear, but in a soft, friendly,
177. 7:11and conversational manner. He also told
178. 7:14them he never saw his daughter tied up
179. 7:16as she claimed. The intricate web of
180. 7:18lies which had held her life together
181. 7:20for so long began to unravel with the
182. 7:23single horrifying truth spoken by the
183. 7:25man she had tried to silence. The
184. 7:27police, who were already suspicious, had
185. 7:29their prime suspect. During her police
186. 7:32interrogation, the facade shattered.
187. 7:35Confronted with the mounting evidence,
188. 7:37Jennifer eventually confessed to hiring
189. 7:39the hitmen. But even then, she continued
190. 7:42to lie, claiming the plan was for them
191. 7:44to kill her, not her parents, that she
192. 7:46was so depressed and disappointed with
193. 7:48her life, she just wanted it to end. But
194. 7:51the evidence told a different story.
195. 7:53Text messages, phone records, and the
196. 7:56testimony of her father all pointed to a
197. 7:58cold, calculated murder plot. A plot not
198. 8:01to end her own life, but to take her
199. 8:04parents' lives. In 2015, Jennifer Pan,
200. 8:08along with Daniel Wong and the two
201. 8:10hitmen, was convicted of first-degree
202. 8:12murder for her mother's death and
203. 8:14attempted murder for her father's
204. 8:16injuries. She was sentenced to life in
205. 8:18prison. The story of the golden child
206. 8:21who had everything, who was given
207. 8:23everything and who threw it all away for
208. 8:25a lie, became a cautionary tale of
209. 8:28parental pressure, extreme deception,
210. 8:30and a descent into the darkest form of
211. 8:33betrayal. Her father, Han Pan, would
212. 8:36later say in a written statement, "When
213. 8:38I lost my wife, I lost my daughter at
214. 8:40the same time. He and everyone who knew
215. 8:43her would be left to wonder how a life
216. 8:45built on a lie could end with a tragedy
217. 8:48that was all too real." Here at Life in
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