The Story of Jennifer Pan — Transcript
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- 0:02the real-life horror story that happened
- 0:04inside the pan family's home shattered
- 0:07the serenity of their normally quiet
- 0:10upscale neighborhood in many ways this
- 0:12is an immigrant's tale it's the
- 0:14beginning of what detective bill curtis
- 0:16describes as 18 minutes of sheer terror
- 0:20guys on my channel and today we are
- 0:21doing another true crime case so today
- 0:24we will be talking about if you haven't
- 0:25seen the title in the intro we are
- 0:27talking about jennifer's case jennifer
- 0:30pan so once again i do have all my
- 0:32information written down so if i am
- 0:34looking down or
- 0:36anywhere but the camera
- 0:37my apologies i just want to make sure
- 0:39you know i always get the information
- 0:40correct when i talk about your crime
- 0:42cases this was actually recommended by
- 0:44one of you guys so
- 0:46thank you
- 0:48definitely love doing stories that my
- 0:50followers do suggest but yeah before we
- 0:51get on in the video with the story
- 0:54one this is gonna be a lengthy video
- 0:56we're gonna be covering everything that
- 0:57has been going on with the jennifer k
- 0:59and don't forget to hit the subscribe
- 1:01button as well so yeah let's get on with
- 1:03the video jennifer was born in
- 1:05barkingham
- 1:06ontario with her older brother where
- 1:08they were both razor in a middle-class
- 1:10household jennifer's parents were born
- 1:12in vietnam they go by bic in hand and
- 1:15their parenting method was really strict
- 1:18they their obligation was that their
- 1:21kids had to bring achievement into the
- 1:23household and that was the only way
- 1:26of living and they felt like that was
- 1:28the obligation like my kids have to have
- 1:31success and have to secede and that is
- 1:33the only proper way of living that is
- 1:35exactly how they saw it but that's kind
- 1:38of how a lot of asian households are i
- 1:40don't know if that still is the
- 1:42standard thing but a lot of asian
- 1:44households are very strict about you
- 1:47know their kids achieving things and
- 1:49their kids bringing you know excellent
- 1:51grades and
- 1:52very hard on
- 1:54you know bringing the success to the
- 1:56family but that also plays a really big
- 1:59part later on in the story of how
- 2:02the stress of success and obligation to
- 2:05bring achievement later on
- 2:08causes a lot of waves jennifer at first
- 2:11had successfully achieved that
- 2:13through her figure skating she used to
- 2:15be a figure skater back when she was 14
- 2:1713 years old she was really good at this
- 2:19she was basically a pro she was actually
- 2:21set
- 2:22to go to the winter olympics but sadly
- 2:25she couldn't no longer compete because
- 2:27she injured her knee which you know that
- 2:29is obviously a big muscle and a part of
- 2:32your body for figure skating that she
- 2:34could no longer compete so now she was
- 2:36like
- 2:37crap
- 2:38like i had everything figured out what
- 2:40this figure is getting i'm really
- 2:41athletic this was something that was
- 2:43making my parents happy with me because
- 2:45she was not good at school she was great
- 2:48with athletics she was you know she
- 2:50would blow people away with her athletic
- 2:52ability
- 2:53and now she had to
- 2:55make her parents happy with her grades
- 2:58and the thing is with jennifer she like
- 3:01i said she was not good at school she
- 3:04knew that this was going to cause some
- 3:06problems in her household she was giving
- 3:08an average of c minus when her parents
- 3:11expected nothing but straight a's all
- 3:14across the board with tests report cards
- 3:16and everything else included but instead
- 3:18of jennifer you know communicating with
- 3:20her parents about how much she struggled
- 3:22in school this is when jennifer started
- 3:24to live a double life jennifer began
- 3:27lying about her grades lying about her
- 3:30tests
- 3:31lying about
- 3:32everything so she started to fake her
- 3:34grades she started to fake her grades on
- 3:37any test that she had in high school she
- 3:39also faked her high school diploma faked
- 3:41a university acceptance letter saying
- 3:44that she was going to study in a field
- 3:46of pharmacology and her parents were
- 3:48like my daughter is doing amazing first
- 3:51she was a figure skater now you know she
- 3:54can't do that no more but now she's set
- 3:56to have a career in the medical field
- 3:58which they thought was happening
- 4:01rally jennifer was doing the complete
- 4:03opposite of that reality jennifer was a
- 4:06high school dropout living with her drug
- 4:08dealer boyfriend who they have been
- 4:10dating for roughly almost eight years
- 4:13together her parents actually later on
- 4:15found out in the year of 2010
- 4:18and gave jennifer an ultimatum saying
- 4:21you're either going to
- 4:22come back home live with us go back to
- 4:25school
- 4:26we're going to be really strict because
- 4:27that's how they were she wasn't allowed
- 4:28to literally do anything you're gonna be
- 4:30really strict on you can't do anything
- 4:32but go to school come home go to work
- 4:35and that's it
- 4:36or you know you could do whatever you
- 4:38want but this family will no longer talk
- 4:40to you no longer provide you with money
- 4:42or anything and you will be disowned by
- 4:45us that was the ultimatum either live
- 4:47with us
- 4:48under the strict environment and you
- 4:50could literally can't do anything
- 4:52besides school and work or you could do
- 4:54whatever you want just like you're doing
- 4:56now but we will no longer talk to you or
- 4:58financially support you and you're
- 5:00disowned from the family forever
- 5:02jennifer decided that neither one of
- 5:04those options were something that she
- 5:06wanted to do so jennifer actually
- 5:08created a third option that her parents
- 5:11did not know anything about
- 5:12jennifer and her boyfriend came with
- 5:14this idea of how about instead of
- 5:18me being stuck in this house where i
- 5:20can't do anything i want where i don't
- 5:22have the freedom where i have to go to
- 5:23school which i'm not good at and i have
- 5:25to work all the time and i can't see my
- 5:27boyfriend i can't live my life i can't
- 5:28have the freedom how about instead we
- 5:30stage a robbery
- 5:32gone wrong
- 5:34she had her boyfriend create a fake
- 5:37mock robbery with three of his friends
- 5:40so basically they were given two clear
- 5:42instructions they were going to invade
- 5:44the house like a robbery and then kill
- 5:46her parents of the robbery that was set
- 5:49in stone was monday november 8th at 11
- 5:51pm was your scheduled time to do so on a
- 5:54neighbor's surveillance camera which i
- 5:56will insert here
- 6:07as you saw in the clip that you could
- 6:09see that jennifer was with these three
- 6:12men and literally unlocked the door
- 6:15and showed them the way in to her home
- 6:18and in those same 18 minutes there was a
- 6:20call from the same household jennifer's
- 6:22house from jennifer
- 6:24crying that her parents were just shot
- 6:27or that her house was just robbed but in
- 6:29reality we all know that jennifer had a
- 6:30part in this robbery of course but she
- 6:32was faking it so you know she wouldn't
- 6:34get caught and she can go about living
- 6:36whatever life she wanted because both
- 6:37her parents were dealt with actually
- 6:39insert the 911 call from jennifer right
- 6:42here for you guys
- 6:56her mother was actually shot twice one
- 6:58and one in the neck and one in the head
- 7:00and she was killed immediately her
- 7:02father was also shot twice as while he
- 7:04was shot in the face and in the shoulder
- 7:06but he actually later on survived and he
- 7:08was put into a coma when later on
- 7:10transferred to the hospital jennifer was
- 7:13also taken to the hospital because right
- 7:14now the police think that jennifer is
- 7:16just a innocent victim slash witness and
- 7:20that she was also
- 7:22like
- 7:23one of the victims in the robbery that
- 7:24she was also hurt so they brought her in
- 7:27to just do like a like mental like
- 7:30awareness check on her to make sure that
- 7:32she was okay but they found that the
- 7:34jennifer was completely fine and they
- 7:36let her be so jennifer actually stood by
- 7:38her father's side for three hours before
- 7:40the police brought her in for her very
- 7:42first witness statement slash interview
- 7:45so right now i'm going to insert the
- 7:47clip of the mark and playstations
- 7:48interview it's going to be a little
- 7:50lengthy because it's the first one and
- 7:51you'll see that
- 7:53her story gets kind of mixed a little
- 7:55bit but she's showing emotions like she
- 7:57had nothing to do
- 7:58with the robbery slash murder of her
- 8:00parents in the house she was in the
- 8:03house i had gone down the stairs did you
- 8:05hear
- 8:07so before this this is when when did you
- 8:09hear your mom for the first time in the
- 8:10house when she came home so did you
- 8:13physically see your mom yes
- 8:15and at that time there was no one
- 8:18strange in the house no i went she was
- 8:20on the downstairs sofa
- 8:22she was watching tv when i last saw her
- 8:24between that time that you see her and
- 8:27you leave her on the sofa
- 8:28until you hear the noises the strange
- 8:31the voices as you describe them how long
- 8:33is that maybe a half hour
- 8:35a half an hour where is it your mom was
- 8:38before here she goes dancing every
- 8:41monday she just goes dancing with a few
- 8:44relatives as well what is the first when
- 8:46you hear these this can you hear them
- 8:48talk there's the unknown voices
- 8:52it's a mumble because i had the tv on it
- 8:54was just all the mumble when's the first
- 8:56time that you actually can hear one of
- 8:58them talking
- 8:59when he was upstairs
- 9:02and i thought he had left the upstairs
- 9:04because i was frozen in my room for a
- 9:06while
- 9:07trying to listen in but i couldn't
- 9:09hear over my tv and i didn't want to
- 9:12startle
- 9:14startle them by turning it off or
- 9:16like diminishing the volume so i was
- 9:18kind of pressed up against my door for a
- 9:20while trying to hear it
- 9:22and i thought that all the people
- 9:25upstairs had gone down so i opened up my
- 9:26door quietly and tried to peer out and
- 9:28he saw me and that's when he came the
- 9:30only thing i can remember was him was he
- 9:32had dreadlocks did you see the gun i
- 9:35only saw the top part
- 9:36what did it look like
- 9:39um
- 9:40kind of
- 9:41it was black yeah and
- 9:44it kind of
- 9:46not triangular but it was slightly wider
- 9:49they sit me right at the bottom of the
- 9:50stairs like um
- 9:52slightly out
- 9:53not exactly directly at the bottom of
- 9:55the stairwell but just slightly over a
- 9:57little the third guy who i didn't
- 9:59encounter but he was there he was like
- 10:01where's your money cooperate with us and
- 10:04you and then my mom's like you know
- 10:05yelling and don't hurt us and you know
- 10:07my money's in my wallet just please
- 10:09leave my paperwork
- 10:11this person this third guy who you're
- 10:12now describing do you see him ever
- 10:16only as a shadow
- 10:17because he was there's a
- 10:20a wall a partial wall and he was like
- 10:22right in that vision
- 10:25over my father but
- 10:27partially in that vision and the next
- 10:29thing i can hear are them telling my
- 10:31parents to move to the basement
- 10:33okay
- 10:34and i'm asking them why where are you
- 10:36going and my mom's yelling to me
- 10:38i want my daughter why can't my daughter
- 10:40come too
- 10:41i want my daughter who goes down to the
- 10:43basement do you can you see that from
- 10:45where you're sitting my back is towards
- 10:47the wall do you hear anyone else in the
- 10:49main level where your parents were
- 10:52like you can hear if people are trucking
- 10:54down the stairs you hear your parents
- 10:55going down the stairs
- 10:57do you hear
- 10:58like five sets of foot strings
- 11:01footsteps going down there or can't you
- 11:03hear that
- 11:04i was just such a distress i
- 11:06i don't exactly know how many people
- 11:08went down after the first interview
- 11:10jennifer was brought back in for a
- 11:12second interview because police were
- 11:13like how was she able to call the police
- 11:16if she was so called tied up because she
- 11:18was tied up which they will show you in
- 11:20the clip that i'm gonna insert she was
- 11:22tied up so it's like how can you get a
- 11:24phone if your arms are tied up and you
- 11:27can't move which you know does kind of
- 11:29make sense as to what the police are
- 11:30saying because it's like literally not
- 11:32really possible so in this next clip
- 11:34that you are going to see you are going
- 11:35to see
- 11:36the second interview where they actually
- 11:39have her stand up and demonstrate how
- 11:41did was she even able to call the police
- 11:43in the first place stand up and turn
- 11:45around
- 11:47put this in the side that you believe it
- 11:48was in
- 11:49great turn around so that only you're
- 11:52looking away from me you're looking
- 11:54exactly like now here is where the
- 11:56banister is put your hands back behind
- 11:58your back is exactly how you remember
- 12:00they work okay
- 12:01now and the are you restrained from
- 12:03movement how far can you move your hands
- 12:05from the banister he tied my upper arm
- 12:07yes around the banister yes
- 12:10but my hands are bound together so your
- 12:12hands bound together and this is the arm
- 12:14that's the strings wrapped around
- 12:15against the banister
- 12:17okay so now how can you get to the phone
- 12:19and how do you make the phone call
- 12:259-1-1
- 12:27and do you talk down like that yes i'm
- 12:29yelling at the phone like this and how
- 12:31can you hear
- 12:33i turned the volume on max yes
- 12:37so that's exactly the way that you're
- 12:39talking to her against the railing
- 12:42vic's funeral was held november 15 2010
- 12:45this is her mother's funeral and the
- 12:47police were actually secretly watching
- 12:50jennifer to see how she would react if
- 12:53she had any emotions basically just how
- 12:55she was acting that day see her emotions
- 12:58because they were slowly catching on to
- 13:00the fact that maybe jennifer did have
- 13:02something to do with this robbery gone
- 13:05wrong they noticed that during the
- 13:07funeral jennifer wasn't showing really
- 13:09any emotions she was kind of just there
- 13:12she wasn't really she was just acting
- 13:15like
- 13:16she didn't have any emotions but
- 13:19they also kept in mind that you know
- 13:20everybody grieves differently so that's
- 13:22kind of playing a factor in this
- 13:24everybody grieves differently so there's
- 13:25definitely affected to that that maybe
- 13:27jennifer was just grieving differently
- 13:29even though we all know she obviously
- 13:30had a part in it but right now the
- 13:31police do not know for sure if jennifer
- 13:34had a part in killing her mother and
- 13:36injuring her father but after the
- 13:38funeral the police decided to keep
- 13:40jennifer on a surveillance at all times
- 13:43to see if they can get more information
- 13:45on her the place laid on notice that her
- 13:48story was not adding up because if it
- 13:50was a so-called robbery so when um they
- 13:54kind of went over the map of the house
- 13:57and everything that was in plain sight
- 14:00two cars they had cars there that were
- 14:02expensive cars in a robber you would
- 14:05think that
- 14:06um the robbery like the robbers would
- 14:08take the car and none of their
- 14:10technology was touched none of the
- 14:12jewelry was touched none of the hidden
- 14:14money there's still hidden money in the
- 14:15house
- 14:16nothing was touched jennifer was not
- 14:18touched at all
- 14:19and in a robbery their plan was to
- 14:22murder everybody so there's no witnesses
- 14:24but if it was that in that case then how
- 14:27come
- 14:28jennifer made it out alive and untouched
- 14:31also the police noticed that
- 14:34the robbers didn't have any kind of tool
- 14:36to get inside that house so it was kind
- 14:39of like they were expecting that door to
- 14:42be wide open which we saw earlier in the
- 14:43surveillance clip that i showed you guys
- 14:45that jennifer opened the door for the
- 14:48robbers
- 14:49but the police still don't know this yet
- 14:51but they're slowly adding the puzzle
- 14:53together to figure out what exactly
- 14:55happened that night three days later
- 14:56when the place started slowly puzzling
- 14:59the evidence together her father
- 15:02hand actually woke up from his coma of
- 15:04course he was severely injured he had a
- 15:06lot of you know fractures in his face
- 15:08because of the bullets and everything
- 15:10but surprisingly enough he remembered
- 15:12everything that happened that night he
- 15:15told the police while the men were in
- 15:17the house
- 15:18jennifer was not tied up and jennifer
- 15:20was actually talking to the men like
- 15:22they were best friends all along
- 15:24jennifer was not tied up at all and
- 15:26jennifer was actually walking around the
- 15:28house with them just roaming around the
- 15:30entire house and of course this is the
- 15:33complete opposite of what jennifer has
- 15:35been telling the police police brought
- 15:36her in for a third and final interview
- 15:39this interview actually lasted nine
- 15:41hours they started you know pointing the
- 15:43finger at jennifer being like you did
- 15:45this this is all you you did this for
- 15:47sure pointing the finger at her and
- 15:49blaming her and being like you did this
- 15:51is all your fault to see how she would
- 15:53react they didn't know for sure yet
- 15:55still
- 15:56if it was her but they thought maybe if
- 15:59we act like we know that she did
- 16:01something she's gonna react and tell us
- 16:03the full-on truth of what really
- 16:05happened after the nine hours jennifer
- 16:07actually ended up cracking and telling
- 16:10police only like a half truth and
- 16:12another made-up story she told the
- 16:14police that she was depressed and she
- 16:16was locked up in the house like it was
- 16:19house arrest because she was living a
- 16:20very strict household but that part is
- 16:22true
- 16:23but she was saying that she hired
- 16:26somebody to kill her not her parents and
- 16:29that the men got the information wrong
- 16:31and confused and that they accidentally
- 16:34killed her parents and not her after
- 16:36jennifer confesses that the police ended
- 16:38up arresting jennifer right on the spot
- 16:40and actually the police found old phone
- 16:42records of hours-long conversations from
- 16:45the day of the robbery slash murder that
- 16:48jennifer was talking to the men this
- 16:50entire time planning out exactly what
- 16:52they were going to do in jennifer's
- 16:54family's house ended up arresting
- 16:56everyone including the boyfriend the
- 16:58three men involved and jennifer and
- 17:00actually a trial started to begin the
- 17:02trial actually lasted 10 months long
- 17:05more than 50 witnesses up there
- 17:08testifying against jennifer jennifer
- 17:10ended up being on the stand in the jury
- 17:12for seven days long jennifer actually
- 17:15and the rest of the people involved all
- 17:18ended up getting a life sentence with a
- 17:20small possibility of parole in 25 years
- 17:24that doesn't mean that they're gonna for
- 17:25sure get parole but they can request it
- 17:28and stand in front of the judge and see
- 17:30if they'll get it but it's not a hundred
- 17:32percent for sure going to happen so
- 17:35right now this very moment they are
- 17:36still in jail nothing they have not been
- 17:38out but this i feel like this case was a
- 17:40very not talked about case at all you
- 17:42kind of really have to do some digging
- 17:44to know more about this jennifer case
- 17:45but it kind of shows that um
- 17:48a lot can happen under a strict family
- 17:51it does not excuse the behavior of
- 17:53jennifer
- 17:54in the um court they actually try to
- 17:56argue the fact that jennifer was abused
- 17:59being in a strict environment that she
- 18:01eventually cracked and could no longer
- 18:04take no more and that is why she set up
- 18:06the murder of her parents even though
- 18:07her dad did survive like we did talk
- 18:09about but that is all we have for
- 18:11jennifer solution that's what we're
- 18:12going to call this video jennifer's
- 18:13lucian slash case
- 18:15if you guys like this video please like
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- 18:24next video
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