The Golden Daughter’s Deadly Lie: The Jennifer Pan Case (Part 2) — Transcript

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1. 0:00[music]
2. 0:10In part one, we witnessed the perfect
3. 0:13storm. A house in Markham, Ontario, a
4. 0:17golden daughter living a double life,
5. 0:20and a plan to execute her parents to
6. 0:22secure her freedom and her inheritance.
7. 0:26Jennifer Pan thought she had written the
8. 0:28perfect ending. The gunman came. The
9. 0:31shots were fired. Her mother, Bick Pan,
10. 0:35was dead. Jennifer believed the
11. 0:38nightmare was over.
12. 0:40She believed the tiger parents were
13. 0:42gone. But
14. 0:45in every perfect crime, [music] there is
15. 0:47a variable that the killer forgets to
16. 0:49calculate, a loose thread. And in this
17. 0:53case, that thread was breathing.
18. 0:57Her father, Han, took a bullet to the
19. 1:00face. It shattered his bones. It should
20. 1:04have killed him instantly,
21. 1:06but it didn't.
22. 1:08And when he woke up in that hospital
23. 1:10bed, he didn't just bring himself back
24. 1:13to life. He brought the truth back with
25. 1:16him. Today on Story Jungle, we are
26. 1:19[music] going deep. We are going to
27. 1:21examine the lies, the digital
28. 1:23footprints, [music] and the
29. 1:24interrogation tape that broke the
30. 1:26internet.
31. 1:28Welcome to part two, the fall of
32. 1:31Jennifer Pan.
33. 1:34Let's step into the days immediately
34. 1:36following the attack. To the outside
35. 1:39world, Jennifer is a figure of tragedy.
36. 1:42She is the survivor. At her mother's
37. 1:46funeral, she is inconsolable.
38. 1:48She collapses. She weeps. Friends have
39. 1:52to hold her up. But take a closer look.
40. 1:55Detectives were already watching her and
41. 1:58they noticed a disturbing pattern. Her
42. 2:01grief seemed performative.
43. 2:05It had an on andoff switch. When the
44. 2:08cameras were rolling, hysteria when she
45. 2:11was alone in the waiting room, cold,
46. 2:14calculated, blank.
47. 2:17And then she makes a mistake, a rush to
48. 2:21judgment.
49. 2:22Just 3 days after the murder, Jennifer
50. 2:25pushes hard to have her mother cremated
51. 2:27immediately.
52. 2:29Why? She told family members she wanted
53. 2:33closure, but police suspected something
54. 2:36else. Was she trying to destroy forensic
55. 2:39evidence, or was she just in a hurry to
56. 2:42get the death certificate and the life
57. 2:44insurance payout? She was playing the
58. 2:47role of the grieving daughter. But the
59. 2:50cracks in her mask were starting to
60. 2:52show. While Jennifer was acting, a
61. 2:55miracle was happening at Sunnybrook
62. 2:56Hospital. Han Pan was in an induced
63. 3:00coma. The bullet had entered his cheek
64. 3:03and lodged near the base of his skull.
65. 3:06Doctors were fighting to save his body,
66. 3:08but detectives were waiting for his
67. 3:10mind.
68. 3:12Three days pass
69. 3:14and then
70. 3:16the eyes open.
71. 3:19Detective Bill Gats rushes to the
72. 3:20bedside. Han cannot speak. He has tubes
73. 3:24down his throat. But the terror in his
74. 3:27eyes tells the whole story. He
75. 3:30frantically motions for a pen and paper.
76. 3:32His hand is [music] trembling, weak from
77. 3:35blood loss. But he writes, and the words
78. 3:39he writes turn the investigation
79. 3:41180°.
80. 3:43He remembers.
81. 3:45He takes [music] the police back to that
82. 3:47basement. He remembers the cold floor.
83. 3:50He remembers his wife begging. But most
84. 3:53importantly, he remembers looking up
85. 3:56from under the blanket. He saw Jennifer.
86. 4:00But she wasn't tied to the banister. She
87. 4:02wasn't struggling. She was walking
88. 4:05around [music] freely. She was talking
89. 4:07to one of the gunmen softly like they
90. 4:10were old friends.
91. 4:13In that moment, [music] lying on the
92. 4:15floor waiting to die, Han Pan realized
93. 4:17the horrific truth. The intruders didn't
94. 4:20break in. They were invited. And his
95. 4:23daughter wasn't a victim. She was the
96. 4:26Boss.
97. 4:29Jennifer made a mistake born of
98. 4:31arrogance.
99. 4:32She thought that in the modern world,
100. 4:34she could simply hit delete and her
101. 4:36secrets would vanish. She [music] told
102. 4:39police the intruders took her phone, but
103. 4:42they found it. And when the forensic
104. 4:44unit cracked it open, they found the
105. 4:46blueprints of an execution.
106. 4:49Let's dig into the data. Months before
107. 4:52the attack, Jennifer bought a burner
108. 4:55phone, a secret SIM card used for one
109. 4:58purpose only, the hit. While she was at
110. 5:01home making tea for her dad, she was
111. 5:04texting Daniel Wong and the hitman
112. 5:07Lenford Crawford. She was negotiating.
113. 5:11I have the money, $10,000.
114. 5:14That was the price tag she put on her
115. 5:16parents' lives. But the most chilling
116. 5:18text,
117. 5:21the one that proves premeditation beyond
118. 5:24a shadow of a doubt,
119. 5:26it was sent on the morning of November
120. 5:298th.
121. 5:31Jennifer wakes up. She knows [music]
122. 5:34tonight is the night. Does she hesitate?
123. 5:39No.
124. 5:41She texts Daniel two words.
125. 5:45Game on.
126. 5:48Game
127. 5:50on.
128. 5:52Like it's a sport.
129. 5:54Like it's a match she intends to win.
130. 5:58and the science backed it up.
131. 6:00Cell tower triangulation showed exactly
132. 6:03where Jennifer was during the attack.
133. 6:06While her mother was being shot in the
134. 6:07basement, Jennifer's phone was pinging
135. 6:10off a tower right next to the house.
136. 6:13She was active.
137. 6:15She was updating the killers in real
138. 6:17time. She was directing the scene from
139. 6:20the top [music] of the stairs.
140. 6:23November 22nd, 2010.
141. 6:27The police have the dad's testimony.
142. 6:30They have the texts. But they need one
143. 6:33more thing, the confession.
144. 6:36Jennifer is called to the station. She
145. 6:38brings her purse, acting casual,
146. 6:41thinking she is still a witness. She
147. 6:43enters the room with detective Bill
148. 6:45Gates. What follows is a masterclass in
149. 6:48the Reed technique.
150. 6:51Get starts softly. He plays the good
151. 6:54cop. He says, "Jennifer, I know it's
152. 6:58hard. I know your dad was strict. Those
153. 7:02tigers, they push you too hard." He
154. 7:06gives her a moral excuse. [music] He
155. 7:08lets her blame her parents. But watch
156. 7:11closely when Gat starts to push. He
157. 7:14accuses her. He says, "Jennifer, I know
158. 7:17you did it." Look at her body language.
159. 7:21She starts rubbing her knees
160. 7:22frantically. She covers her mouth with
161. 7:25her hand. In psychology, this is called
162. 7:28pacifying [music] behavior. Her brain is
163. 7:31screaming in panic and she [music] is
164. 7:33trying to self soothe. Covering the
165. 7:36mouth. That's a subconscious attempt to
166. 7:39block the lies from coming out. And then
167. 7:42the crying.
168. 7:44Listen to the audio. She is making loud
169. 7:47sobbing [music] noises.
170. 7:50Boohoo. [crying]
171. 7:52But look at her face in HD.
172. 7:55Where are the tears?
173. 7:57She wipes her eyes with a tissue, but
174. 7:59the tissue is dry. Her cheeks are dry.
175. 8:03These are what experts call crocodile
176. 8:05tears. She is performing sadness, but
177. 8:08she forgot the most important prop, real
178. 8:11emotion. Jennifer takes the bait. She
179. 8:15starts complaining about her life, her
180. 8:17lack of freedom.
181. 8:19then gets shifts. He [music] leans in.
182. 8:23The room gets colder. He looks her in
183. 8:26the eye and drops [music] a lie. A
184. 8:29massive bluff. He says, "Jennifer,
185. 8:33[music] we have infrared satellites.
186. 8:36We can see through the roof." And the
187. 8:39satellite shows you walking around the
188. 8:41house freely. You weren't tied up. Now,
189. 8:44[music] we know that's impossible.
190. 8:47Police don't have X-ray satellites, but
191. 8:49Jennifer doesn't know that. Watch her
192. 8:52body language. She freezes. Her
193. 8:54shoulders hunch. She stops breathing for
194. 8:57a second. She realizes her story is
195. 9:00dead. She cracks, but she doesn't give
196. 9:04up. She pivots to a new story. She
197. 9:07starts crying, [music] real panic this
198. 9:09time, and says, "I hired them, but not
199. 9:13to kill my parents. I hired them to kill
200. 9:17me because I was too weak to commit
201. 9:20suicide.
202. 9:24She claims it was a suicide pact gone
203. 9:26wrong. But think about it. If you want
204. 9:29to die, why leave the door unlocked? Why
205. 9:32have a signal? Why run away from the
206. 9:35gunman? It was a desperate lie from a
207. 9:37desperate mind. [music]
208. 9:39And Detective gets didn't buy it for a
209. 9:41second. And Jennifer's reaction,
210. 9:45nothing. She stared ahead, cold,
211. 9:49unfeilling.
212. 9:51The jury saw the game on text. They
213. 9:54heard the father's pain. And they saw
214. 9:56the monster behind [music] the glasses.
215. 10:00The verdict.
216. 10:02Guilty.
217. 10:04Firstde murder.
218. 10:07The sentence.
219. 10:08Life in prison.
220. 10:10No chance of parole [music] for 25
221. 10:12years.
222. 10:14When the judge read the sentence,
223. 10:16Jennifer Pan stood frozen.
224. 10:19The game
225. 10:21was finally over.
226. 10:24Jennifer Pan is now sitting in the Grand
227. 10:26Valley Institution for Women. There is
228. 10:29no piano there, no figure skating, no
229. 10:34pressure to get straight A's.
230. 10:36In a dark, twisted way, she got exactly
231. 10:41what she wanted.
232. 10:44She is finally free from her parents'
233. 10:46expectations.
234. 10:48But the cost?
235. 10:51She traded a cage made of gold for a
236. 10:55cage made of iron.
237. 10:58This story isn't just about murder. It's
238. 11:01about pressure.
239. 11:03It's about the lies we tell to survive
240. 11:06and how those lies can eventually eat us
241. 11:09alive.
242. 11:11But remember, millions of kids have
243. 11:14strict parents. They don't hire Hitman.
244. 11:18Jennifer Pan had a choice and she chose
245. 11:22darkness.
246. 11:25What do you think? Was she a victim of
247. 11:28tiger parenting? Or was she a psychopath
248. 11:31hiding in plain sight? Let me know in
249. 11:35the comments below. I'm Nikki. This is
250. 11:38Story Jungle.
251. 11:40Keep your head down.