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episodes. For today’s case, we be discussing
about the murder of Bich Ha and the attempted
murder of Hann Pan.
Hann Pan was born and raised in Vietnam. In
the year 1979, Hann moved to Canada as a political
refugee. In Toronto, he met Bich Ha who also immigrated as a refugee.
Very soon, the 2 of them fell in love and tied the knot.
Both of them resided in Scarborough after their
marriage. The couple worked at Magna International,
an auto parts manufacturer. Hann worked as
a tool and die maker, while Bich made car
parts. The couple welcomed their first child,
Jennifer in the year 1986. Their second child,
Felix was later born in 1989. The couple promised
that they would give their children the best
lives possible, ensuring that they would have
access to all of the opportunities which they
themselves missed. By 2004, the couple managed
to save enough money to purchase a house with
2 car garage in Markham. At that time, Bich
drove the Lexus ES300 and Hann drove the Mercedes-Benz C-Class.
Also, both of them had accumulated
$200,000 in savings. Besides being financially
stable, their children were also doing pretty
well individually. Their daughter, Jennifer
started taking piano and figure-skating lessons
from the age of 4. She would spent a large
amount of time on training in hope to become
an Olympic figure skating champion. The Pan's
house was filled with trophies won by Jennifer
from various competitions.
Their son, Felix was accepted into Engineering course in Mcmaster University.
On the outside, it appeared as
though the Pan was living the American dream
in Canada. They were successful in their jobs,
had nice house, nice cars, had 2 children
who are doing well and had savings. However,
there's more to the Pan than meets the eye
when gunshots were fired in the Pan's house
on the night of November 8, 2010.
At 10.23pm, November 8, 2010, the York Regional
Police received a call from Jennifer.
According to Jennifer, someone had broken into the house,
and that she was being tied to the banister
on the second floor while her parents were
being dragged to the first floor.
Subsequently, 2 gunshots were fired.
She then heard her father, Hann screaming and running out of the house.
The police immediately arrived at the scene.
They found Hann lying outside the house.
He had been shot in the face and was bleeding profusely.
Ambulance was then called in and
Hann was being sent to the hospital.
The police then found Bich, who was already dead on the first floor of the house
and Jennifer who was being tied to the banister on the second floor.
On the night of the murder, Jennifer underwent
her first interview with the police.
According to Jennifer, she was watching the TV in her room
on the second floor when 2 masked men
broke into her room.
There was a third man present, but Jennifer could only hear his voice.
The 2 men demanded money from Jennifer before tying her to the banister.
The 2 men then brought Hann and Bich to the first floor and shot them multiple times.
From the statement provided by Jennifer, it appeared as though
it was just a simple case of armed robbery.
However, the police were reluctant to believe
that that was the truth because there were
way too many questionable areas.
Back in Pan's house, the couple's cars were
still parked in the garage and the car keys
were in the living room.
If it was a robbery, why didn't they take the car?
Also, no jewelry or cash from drawer were taken,
even though they were in plain sight.
There were no signs of forced entries.
It was as though the robbers were being let into the house by someone.
If the robbers had kill Hann and Bich with the intention to silence them,
why wasn't Jennifer harmed?
Jennifer made the 911 call with her flip phone.
However, she also mentioned that during the
time of robbery, she was tied to the banister.
If so, how did she made the call?
During the next interview, the police actually asked Jennifer
to demonstrate how she managed to
make the call with her hands tied.
On November 12, Hann miraculously woke up after being unconscious for 3 days.
Despite being in a terrible condition, he could still
remember what happened that night.
According to Hann, he saw Jennifer talking to 1 of the 3
masked men as though they knew each other.
He also mentioned that Jennifer was not tied
up like she said she was.
Because of Hann's statement,
Jennifer was brought in for questioning
for the 3rd time.
After 9 hours of questioning,
Jennifer could no longer handle the stress
and confessed saying that she hired a hitman
to kill herself.
However, the hitman made
a mistake and tried to kill her parents instead.
The police did not believe a single word Jennifer
said as they found evidence that proved
otherwise.
Apart from the flip phone used
to make the 911 call, Jennifer had an iPhone,
which was used to communicate with one of
the 3 masked men.
The conversation between them proved that Jennifer had in fact
hired the hitman to get rid of her parents.
Hann and Bich worked hard to ensure that their
children would have the best life possible.
In their opinion, education is extremely important
in shaping a child's life.
They were the typical tiger parents,
always pushing their children
to attain higher levels of achievement.
Even though Felix was doing well academically,
Jennifer was just an average student.
Most of her grades, except for music, were constantly
hovering around the B to C range.
In order to meet her parents' expectations, Jennifer
had forged her report cards multiple times.
Initially, Jennifer attended the Mary Ward
Catholic secondary school,
but she was forced to transfer halfway when her grades failed to meet the minimum requirements.
This caused the Pan couple to become more strict with their parenting.
The couple would pick Jennifer up from her classes everyday
and they would also monitor her extracurricular activities very closely.
Jennifer was also not allowed
to date or go to prom as the Pan fear that
these would distract her from her studies.
Despite being under her parents' close watch, Jennifer met her high school sweetheart,
Daniel Wong at the age of 15.
Jennifer met Daniel, who was 1 year older,
through her extracurricular
activity, the school band.
Of course, Hann and Bich were completely kept in dark
and did not know about the existence of Daniel.
Very soon, Jennifer was in her senior year
in high school.
She applied for early decision to Ryerson University.
However, her application was rejected as Jennifer had her failed calculus class.
In fact, Jennifer did not even managed
to graduate from high school due to her poor grades.
Afraid of her parents finding out,
Jennifer forged a fake acceptance letter from
Ryerson University. Jennifer told her parents that she planned to go to Ryerson University
for 2 years before transferring University
of Toronto to pursue pharmacology.
Not only that,
she also lied about receiving a scholarship
and told her parents to not worry about her
school fees and living expenses.
In order
to not get caught in her lies, Jennifer would
purchase textbooks, watch related videos,
make notes,
as though she was actually studying in University.
However, Jennifer was actually
working as a waitress and part-time piano teacher.
Jennifer also requested to move out
of the house, saying that she would be staying
with a female friend on campus when in fact,
she was staying with Daniel.
I'm not sure if it was because Jennifer was
really great at lying or because the Pan was
too trusting in their daughter, Jennifer actually
managed to lie about graduating as well. She
told her parents that she was only allowed
to bring 1 person to her graduation ceremony,
and because she didn't want either of her
them to feel left out, she decided to bring
a friend instead. So no one in her family
actually attended the ceremony and with that
Jennifer managed to graduate from the University
she didn't even attend.
After graduation,
Jennifer continued with her lies and told
her parents that she found a job at a hospital.
For the first time in years, the Pan started
to get suspicious as she did not have a hospital
ID badge or uniform. Jennifer's lies started
to fall apart when Bich followed her to "work"
on one occasion. Jennifer admitted that she
did not have the hospital job, did not went
to University of Toronto, and was actually
staying with Daniel
but she did not mention about not graduating high school
or not going to Ryerson University.
In a state of shock and anger, the Pan made her quit her waitressing job.
They even installed GPS on her car to
make sure that she did not go anywhere except
for her piano-teaching job.
Jennifer was also given a 9pm curfew.
To make things worse,
they confiscated her phone and laptop to cut
her off from Daniel.
At that time, Jennifer
was already 24 years old.
With this final blow, Jennifer started plotting her revenge.
Her plan was to hire hitman to kill her parents
and then inherit their assets worth $500,000.
She managed to contact Daniel, and asked him
for help. Daniel gave Jennifer an iPhone and
a SIM card, so that they could contact each
other without using her usual cell phone.
Daniel also found a professional hitman, Lenford
Roy Crawford to do the job for $10,000.
Lenford then contacted 2 other friends Eric and David
to help do the job.
The date of murder was
set to be on Monday, November 8.
On that night, Hann was reading the newspaper
in the living room.
He then went to bed at 8.30pm.
Jennifer was in her room watching
the TV.
At 9.30pm, Bich came home from work
and went to her bedroom.
At 9.35pm, David
called Jennifer.
After the call, Jennifer went to unlock the front door.
At 10.02pm,
Jennifer signal to the men
by flashing the lights in her room.
At 10.05pm, Lenford, Eric
and David entered the house after receiving
the message "VIP access" from Jennifer.
Jennifer, Daniel, Lenford and David were all
convicted on December 13, 2014,
and each received a life sentence with no chance of parole for
25 years.
Eric was sentenced to 18 years with
a chance of parole after 9 years after pleading
guilty to conspiring to commit murder.
Apart from being sentenced to life imprisonment,
Jennifer was also banned from contacting members
of her surviving family after Hann and Felix
requested a court order.
