Video footage of the haunting moment killer daughter Jennifer Pan lied to cops about the cold-blooded murder plot she orchestrated to kill her parents has resurfaced amid the release of a new true crime documentary about her shocking crimes.
Jennifer, who lived in the upscale neighborhood of Markham, Canada, had spent nearly a decade weaving a web of lies to cover up her falling grades and forbidden romance – until her parents began to untangle the truth.
Her mother Bich Ha and father Huei Hann, who had arrived in Toronto as refugees from Vietnam, eventually confronted her before Jennifer plotted to have them killed in a fake home invasion.
In November 2010, the then 24-year-old shelled out $10,000 for assailants to enter the family home and shoot her parents in the head – but miraculously her father survived.
Pan’s subsequent police interview, which is detailed below, showed her to be a calculating liar – and she was later handed a life sentence for her involvement in the scheme.
Jennifer Pan, who lived in the upscale neighborhood of Markham, Canada, had spent nearly a decade weaving a web of lies to cover up her falling grades and forbidden romance – until her parents began to untangle the truth
Her mother Bich Ha and father Huei Hann, who had arrived in Toronto as refugees from Vietnam, eventually confronted her before Jennifer plotted to have them killed in a fake home invasion
Pan’s interview tape was released at the time but has recently resurfaced as Netflix’s new true crime documentary What Jennifer Did gets set to unravel the case.
The seemingly doting daughter could be seen sitting in an interrogation room in a gray sweater with her hair swept in front of her shoulder in a braid.
She began by recounting her version of events in a very softly spoken voice.
‘Suddenly, I just heard my mom calling for my dad to come down and that’s when I lowered the volume on my TV,’ Pan started.
‘I could hear the voices weren’t any voices I was very familiar with and so I was scared and I couldn’t move. I just sat in my room for a while.
‘And then I thought I heard them all leave the top floor and I peered out of my bedroom door and a guy was there and he came at me and had string in his hands.
‘He tied my arms back and said, “I have a gun behind your back. Do what I say. If you do what I say then no one will get hurt. Where’s the money? Show me where your money is.”‘
She explained: ‘I had a bit of money put aside from when I was waitressing – cash. So I showed him where it was and he took it and put it in his pocket I think.
The seemingly doting daughter could be seen sitting in an interrogation room in a gray sweater with her hair swept in front of her shoulder in a braid
The then 24-year-old shelled out $10,000 for assailants to enter the family home (pictured) and shoot her parents in the head – but miraculously her father survived
‘And then they pushed me to my parents room and asked me where the money was there and I didn’t really know.
‘So they kind of like… one was right beside me blocking my way to the door while the other one has turned over the bed to find some more cash in my mom’s bedside table.
‘At which then they dragged me downstairs and made me kneel at the bottom telling me to lay face down on the floor while the other guy had a gun behind my head and asked my mom where her purse was.’
Pan continued reeling off her version of events and appeared to be choking back tears as she elaborated: ‘My mom kept trying to get up and they kept telling her “sit down” and so I didn’t want her to get hurt so I told her “mom, sit down.”
‘They were trying to find her wallet and they kept pushing her down onto the chair.
‘And then one of the gentlemen asked my father if he had money in his wallet and where his wallet was.
‘So they took me – because I was next to the stairwell – they took me up the stairs to show them where my father’s wallet was but I didn’t know.
‘They had turned the room upside down I didn’t know where his pants were at that time and then they had taken me and they tied me to the top of the bannister just with one string.
‘I could still move. I was afraid to because one guy had that gun so next thing I know I think I heard my parents going down the stairs and my mom was asking them for me to come with them. They wouldn’t let me come with them.’
The intruders dragged Hann out of his room and down into the living room, while pretending to be staging a home invasion by tying Jennifer’s hands to a bannister
The group stole some money hidden around the home and then led the parents to the basement where each was shot multiple times
Pan then ramped up her performance by bursting into tears but managed to continue telling her fabricated story.
‘The last things I heard them say was “you lied, you lied to us, you lied to us” – and then I heard two pops.
‘My mom screamed, I yelled out for her and then a couple more pops.’
She thrust her head into her hands as the investigator reached out to offer comfort, sliding a box of tissues across to Pan and telling her to take her time.
‘I think I heard my mom say or moan or something and then they did one more before they left and then one of the guys said “we have to go now, it’s been too long” and then they ran out the door.
‘I think once they were out the door I heard my dad come up the stairs and at that point I had my phone in my pocket – on me, behind me – that I had hidden there that they didn’t know about.
Pan’s interview tape was released at the time but has recently resurfaced as Netflix’s What Jennifer Did gets set to unravel the case
‘So when I thought that I had heard them all leave and my dad ran up the stairs. I whipped out the phone and I called 911 but I still hadn’t heard anything from my mom.
‘All I could hear was my dad running on the street – moaning and making sounds. That’s pretty much what I…’
The investigator interjected and asked her to elaborate further on what happened up until the police arrived.
Pan continued: ‘I was just on the phone to the secretary or the operator and I begged her not to leave me alone. My dad was outside and I was yelling at him but he wouldn’t come in.
‘I don’t know if he could hear me. He didn’t come in. I think he went to look for help. I didn’t get to see my dad at all before I left the hospital just now.’
The final question on the tape from the cop was: ‘How did you get free?’
To which, Pan responded: ‘The cop came and he snipped the two strings off for me. I was out asking them for so long. They said they couldn’t untie me until they knew how to properly untie the strings.’
Her version of events was a far cry from the truth and cops soon untangled her web of lies.
Pan was convicted of first-degree murder as well as attempted murder in December 2014.
She was found guilty alongside boyfriend Wong and two thugs she hired to help carry out her plot – Crawford and Mylvaganam.
All four got life sentences with no chance of parole for 25 years on the murder conviction and life for attempted murder with the sentences to be served concurrently.
