[Music] come on carefully please I don't know where are you ma'am create a view I think we just know hello ma'am calm down what's going on some people broke into so it's all is money man yeah I am where are you two three eight one Avenue Q three eighth Avenue Road yeah you saw them it's a changing for me please hello hello yes ma'am I need to know your address Avenue rocky because they haven't to see Helen Avenue my dad what else ice cream eight ma'am you stop the street address for me please 808 and broken I heard a shot like pop I don't know what's happening I'm tied up there and I think my dad went outside and he's screaming okay you're upstairs you think someone fell in the house I believe I don't know they're still around okay are you safety can you lock your door you upstairs I can't hide is our time my cell phone in my pocket someone invaded your home ma'am yes and her gunshot they had guns and I'm holding me at gunpoint you hear mommy or daddy everything your mom decide to learn do you think your mom is downstairs to store anymore hey just take a deep breath okay do you know what you believe do you know that if they know your parents anything like that was on your relation to them to do to make people they just they just came and tied you up and thank you really boys all your money worth your money where's your wallet is it you're asking for money okay don't worry okay lots of hop on the way okay what's your name Jennifer okay Jennifer you're doing a great job okay you hear them okay just stand if only do you see them okay Jennifer Jennifer well you found the fun right okay do you see anyone there okay Jennifer there with you okay Jennifer yes there with you right I don't okay you want to stand this on me to see them sure they're there okay Jennifer got me hang up okay okay take care okay [Music] on November 8 2010 just after 9:30 p.m. 25 year-old Jennifer Penn was in her bedroom she had a TV on and was chatting on the phone while getting ready for bed she had spent the afternoon practicing the piano and studying piano history for an upcoming test she'd been playing the piano since she was 4 years old earlier that day Jennifer's mother 53 year old beaker went to visit jennifer's grandfather and run some errands around Markham in Ontario Canada Vika returned home around 3:00 in the afternoon Jennifer's father 57 year old Han had gotten home later than usual from work it worked half in the air away at an automotive manufacturer in Scarborough Ontario it was a metal tool and dye operator here had forgotten to lock the toolbox and remembered when he was already halfway home so he had to turn back when he got home just after 4:30 p.m. he called his brother Jennifer's uncle to see if he wanted to join him shopping they went to Home Depot Vika cooked dinner and ate with Jennifer before going to her Vaughan dancing class which she attended every Monday they put hands dinner aside for when he got home from shopping and got home around the 6:15 p.m. he ate his dinner alone and then went to the study which was upstairs next to he's in big cars bedroom he logged on to his computer to catch up on the latest Vietnamese news before going to bed he always went to bed early as he had to get up for work at 5:00 a.m. about 6:30 p.m. Jennifer's friend - Adrienne visited her they regularly had TV nights together and Adrienne had bought over the latest episodes of Gossip Girl and How I Met Your Mother for them to catch up on they went down to the basement TV room together Adrienne left about 9:00 p.m. and Jennifer went upstairs to her bedroom Jennifer put the TV on in her room The Amazing Race was on about 9:15 p.m. she heard her mum get home from lawn dancing Jennifer went downstairs and spoke briefly to her mum who was also watching TV Jennifer then went back up to her room where she continued watching TV and called her friend an old co-worker Edward Pacifica door around 20 minutes later Jennifer could hear movement downstairs and voices she didn't recognize her mother who nearly always spoke in a mix of Vietnamese and her native Cantonese yelled out for Han in English in a tone that Jennifer knew meant now that startled Jennifer there were people in the house she heard footsteps studying so loudly up the stairs she knew they could not be her parents they couldn't be her younger brother Felix either he was living half an hour away at university jennifer hung up the phone on Edward in fact frozen in her room she was too scared to turn the tv down and she was too scared to open the door she was too scared to move she heard men shouting outside her room and then her dad yelling he had been asleep but was woken up by the commotion to see me and wearing a baseball cap standing over him but without his glasses on him couldn't see properly where's the [ __ ] money the man in the cap screamed before he and got a chance to act he was dragged downstairs to where another man was standing over his wife of 30 years vicar was cowering and crying in her silky green winnie-the-pooh pajamas all the lights were off there was just the glove the TV lighting the room the first words be cut cried to hand were how did they get in in reply I don't know I was sleeping one of the men yelled shut up you talk too much upstairs Jennifer got the courage to open her door a little I mean with dreadlocks flopping around his face saw her he walked towards her carrying string he grabbed her hands and tied them behind it back I have a gun behind your back do what I say if you do what I say then no one will get hurt where is the money show me where your money is Jennifer gave them in two thousand dollars cash she had saved he then dragged her to her parents room show me where they keep the money Jennifer said she didn't know and so the man trashed the room with the help of one of the other attackers they found some money in because bedside table one of the men dragged Jennifer into the hallway down the stairs to where her parents were pleading he made her kneel on the ground near the foot of the stairs away from both her parents this is when Jennifer first realized there were three attackers in total all men but she couldn't really see the third men they were all carrying guns the third attacker was yelling at her mother big car tried to get up off the floor but the men was yelling at her to get back down because poor English left her confused she didn't know what he was saying Jennifer yelled out to her mom to sit down she didn't want her to get hurt the men kept yelling where's the [ __ ] money and said I'll have $60 in my pants upstairs but my possessions are worth plenty one of the men dragged Jennifer back up the stairs towards her parents room again he found the cash Jennifer remembered her mother had more money stashed and told the man where it was in the bedroom it was around 1,100 u.s. dollars left over from a trip to the United States they had just taken to go to a wedding Jennifer hoped this would be enough money for them to let her and her family go but the men had other ideas they tied Jennifer to the banister at the top of the stairs one of the men downstairs started to look around the kitchen he was looking for because purse he even looked in the fridge I need the [ __ ] money he received a hard blow to the back of his head and he watched as blood sprayed over the living room sofa as he felt their [ __ ] get up in a big car were forced down the basement stairs big car was hysterically crying unable to control herself you can hurt us but please don't hurt our daughter Jennifer screamed they are from upstairs to let her go with her parents hand remained silent he realized this wasn't just the break-in the basement was set up as a TV room with a large leather reclining chair and a 2 seater sofa blankets were scattered around the TV and stereo cabinet was in the corner with pitches knickknacks and de vars of fresh flowers hen and big heart were forced onto the sofa with one of the gunmen throwing blankets over their heads before he got to look his attackers in the face he was shot twice in quick succession the first shot struck his face fracturing the bone in the inner corner of his right eye raising his carotid artery the main artery which runs down your neck the second shot hit him in the right shoulder and exited out the back big heart was screaming more shots wrung out 1 2 3 the first entered at the base of because neck the second through her right shoulder and the third entered and exited her skull killing her instantly Jennifer was carrying at the top of the stairs she heard the shots ringing out she heard one of the men say we gotta go now it's been too long the string which was tying her to the banister had a gap of about 8 inches which allowed her to reach into the waistband of her yoga pants for her phone she dialed 9-1-1 you heard the call at the start of the episode han was silent but he was not dead within seconds as he regained consciousness and turned to his wife slumped on the floor there was blood everywhere he cried her name over and over but she was gone han was in agony his face dripping with blood he was unable to see a thing without his glasses he was moaning and yelling as he crawled up the basement stairs to the main level of the house Jennifer was calling out to him from upstairs crying for him but he ran for the front door trying to get help outside and neighbor Peter Chung was on his way to work he walked outside of his house just after the attackers fled in a waiting car it was confronted by a friend he can as he collapsed on the ground covered in blood police sirens got louder as they approached the house Peter was with him when they arrived the more Mike's Tesco and his partner Brian Derek were two of the first officers on the scene they approached him who was covered in blood and saw a trail leading from the house to where he had fallen hen was moaning and wailing but managed to save wife was shot and his daughter was still inside other officers started to arrive one of those was constable Mason Baines the officers had no idea where the gunmen were but their first job was to check inside and clear the house they approached with their guns drawn they could hear Jennifer's cries for help upstairs constables Thesz Cohen Baines went down to the basement they were followed by Derek who momentarily went downstairs is Becker before going upstairs to Jennifer it's Derek you can hear approach her in the norm on one call in the basement they saw the body of B cart on the floor there was a large pool of blood around her they attempted to get a response from her but they got nothing the paramedics arrived and took over Derek climbed the stairs to where Jennifer was huddled at the top her hands only loosely tied now with the shoelace she was sobbing as she hung up the phone from the norm on one Operator Jennifer told Derek she didn't know where the attackers were Derek gripped his weapon he moved past Jennifer to check the other rooms of the top floor there was no one there the men were gone Derek walked back to Jennifer who was sitting on the floor slightly to one side her legs underneath her and her hands centered in front of her her hands were bound with a long shoelace tightly enough that Derek needed to find some scissors to cut the lace away but loosely enough Jennifer could move her hands around eight inches away from the banister there was no bruising or redness on her wrists that he could see she was unharmed Derek helped her downstairs putting his own jacket over her and walking her towards a paramedic Jennifer called out for her father as he was being wheeled into an ambulance himself the paramedics helped Jennifer into the ambulance accompanied by a constable Derek she asked Derek where her mother was he told her that her mother had died in the basement Jennifer put her head down and covered her face with her hands by now neighbors were outside wondering what was going on the neighbor who had found him was standing in shock relaying what he had seen to an officer none of them knew baqar was dead some neighbors were relatives and others were very close friends once Jennifer had calmed down constable Derek asked her what she remembered about the home invasion she said there were three men one with dreadlocks but that's all she could get out constable Mike Sisco relayed in his reports what he witnessed at the scene although he had seen a trail of blood splatter on the way in upon entering the house he said quote everything in the house seemed to be where it should be obviously we've done home invasions in the past where their house had been ransacked but nothing was out of place nothing taken but upstairs was a different story the master bedroom had been rent sacked dresser drawers had been pulled out and emptied all over the floor the mattress pulled off and tipped over on its side but apart from that no furniture elsewhere in the house had been disturbed the house at 240 Helen Avenue Markham Ontario was a middle-class suburban home a two-story brown brick house with two white garage doors it had a large front porch with pillars leading up to welcoming double front doors in a suburb of the large homes it didn't stand out from the rest most houses were similar and most of the residents for Asian families like the pants from the outside there was no obvious reason for this house to be targeted over any others the city of Markham just north of Toronto is in the region of York it's about as safe and as quiet as suburbs get in the area the community was tight-knit a woman who lived in the pens street said quote we've been here 10 years people don't understand why this house there are bigger homes in the area maybe they thought that we were an easy target the pens were a simple quiet hard-working family it didn't make sense in the year prior to the home invasion at the pens 2009 the York Region had a total of 14 home invasions which was half the amount they had in 2008 Markham had experienced six home invasions so far that year up to November 2010 none of which had ended in murder home invasions were nearly always targeted attacks drugs were a common motive but a random home invasion which ended in murder was almost unheard of in Markham almost every detective in the region was assigned to the pen case in some way within a day home security companies descended on the suburb door knocking and selling camera systems the baffled and frightened the community wondered who would be next Canadian statistics for the year prior to the attack on the Pens showed that of four hundred and fifty three solve homicides 242 over half were committed by partners 87 were committed by a blood relative 42 were committed by an acquaintance leaving 82 murders in the year prior committed by someone unknown to the victim including people caught in crossfire and in big Harpe M had both been raised and educated in Vietnam they arrived to Canada separately in 1979 as political refugees they met in Toronto and got married not long after in 1986 their first child Jennifer was born followed three years later by their son Felix hen and Bakr worked hard in their first jobs at an automotive parts manufacturer in Aurora a town just over an hour's drive from Toronto they lived a frugal life in the Toronto district of Scarborough they didn't like living there it was a rough neighborhood and they were robbed hen and B car made it their goal to move their family to a better area by 2004 they had saved heart and moved to Markham they bought a large home with a two-car garage and a quiet residential street Markham had a large Asian community and they were close to relatives and friends by the late 2000s Han was driving a mercedes-benz and to be cut Alexus big car lost her job in 2008 when the company had cutbacks she found it hard to find employment but her and him continued to make it work especially for the education of their children by 2010 they had saved $200,000 in the bank and could afford to support their two children through college their hard work and dedication was very evident there were strict parents who seemingly lived for their children they wanted to give their children all the things they weren't able to have growing up they seemed happy but for two years leading up to the home invasion they slept most nights in separate rooms according to Jennifer they hadn't been getting along very well at all there had always been tension but lately that had gotten worse lots of arguments in yelling would occur in those days Jennifer sometimes had to mediate and be the common ground between them Jennifer felt that if she could be good for them they would be happy and in big Harpe push their kids academically wanting the best for them in the early days before moving to Markham Jennifer then four years old was playing the piano by the time she was in elementary school she had a room full of awards she figure skated from a young age but not for fun she trained hard in the hope she would make it onto the 2010 Canadian Winter Olympic team even as a young child Jennifer would often train until 10 p.m. then go home and do homework till midnight but Jennifer started to bombing out in skating competitions she tried to hide her devastation from her parents not wanting to add worried to their disappointment sometimes big heart would comfort her saying you know all we want from you is just your best just do what you can that Mary Ward Catholic Secondary College in grade 8 Jennifer worked hard it was expected that she would receive valedictorian that year the top honor of her grade as well as receive a bunch of awards for her academic achievements but she didn't win valedictorian she won no Awards she put on what she would later describe as her happy mask in spite of this and in the proud eyes of her parents Jennifer went on to do well the expectation was that both the P and children would go to Toronto University hen and big car also had very set ideas about Jennifer's extracurricular activities she was allowed to figure skate as long as you work towards her goal of Nationals for the Olympic team she could pursue music but she had to work hard on music theory and pass exams she was not allowed to go to parties dances and most importantly she was not allowed to have a boyfriend her focus in life were her studies and her goals she never had sleepovers and she never went on trips away with anyone she was however allowed to go on a two-week banned trip to Europe towards the end of high school in 2003 this is where Jennifer and her friend Daniel Wong became more than just friends that summer they started seeing each other but Jennifer didn't dare tell her parents Jennifer had met Daniel in grade 11 at bent practice Daniel was also the son of Asian immigrants he had a Filipino and Chinese background during the last year high school Daniel's parents moved him to the Cardinal Carter Academy an art school in North York he was falling behind in his studies at Mary Ward and he was starting to get himself into trouble dealing drugs by the end of school he had been charged with trafficking cannabis after half-pound was found in his car Jennifer didn't like the drug dealing she wasn't interested in drugs and didn't really want him to deal daniel refused to stop but he kept her out of it and Jennifer was spent with Daniel so nothing was going to stop her seeing him not his drug dealing and did not her parents when her parents eventually found out she had a boyfriend they immediately put an end to it but Jennifer didn't end it she kept her relationship with Daniel a secret and snuck around behind her parents back to keep singing Jennifer's grades were high enough to get her accepted into Ryerson University on early admission even though this wasn't Toronto University in and big car were thrilled when they learned that Jennifer had received a scholarship to Ryerson and they supported her decision to do two years there studying science her plan was to then transfer to Toronto University to study pharmacology they supported her financially depositing money into her bank account and they often drove her to university they even allowed her to spend a couple of nights a week at a fellow classmates house so she wasn't so exhausted there was a time during University where Jennifer's parents found out she was seeing Daniel again they were furious and made her stop seeing him Jennifer understood she knew they just had her best interest at heart and so she told them she had cut off communication with him and continued on with her studies when she got a work placement at the Hospital for Sick Kids in Toronto Jennifer's parents thought their dream for their daughter had been realized after the home invasion Jennifer was taken to hospital where she was seen by doctors and crisis workers she was told her father was undergoing life-saving surgery and was in a critical condition she was given medication to calm it down as she was badly shaken and suffering shock but physically she was unharmed at 1:31 a.m. when doctors felt she was stable enough to be released she was taken by constable Derick to Markham police station so she could make a statement once there police seized her phone in case it could help them with any information as to why her family was targeted a major case management unit was quickly put together three experienced investigators formed what is known as a command triangle having three had investigators gives the team the ability to have three sets of eyes on all aspects of the investigation and was the best strategy for managing the large team of officers who were working on the case Detective Sergeant Larry Wilson the most experienced of the three was named the senior investigating officer responsible for the direction of the investigation detective bill Curtis was put in charge of running the day-to-day tactical strategy he had previously led five homicide investigations and had been involved in a total of 80 others including one of Markham's most infamous involving convicted murderer Chris little Curtis was harsh but had an excellent track record Detective Constable Alan Cooke our former drugs and vice detective who also worked in the intelligence unit was placed as the foil coordinator Cook was known for his undercover expertise veteran York Regional Police Detective Randy Slade was on duty he had already met Jennifer at the hospital Jennifer was shaken and in shock but Slade explained that giving her statement now was going to be there chance of finding the people responsible by the time he sat down in the interview room with Jennifer that was 2:45 a.m. she had just lost her mom and her dad was in hospital fighting for his life Jennifer was 25 but could easily pass for 16 detective Slade explained to the forms he needed her to sign the standard procedure for giving a voluntary statement he was very careful to put Jennifer at ease and he explained she didn't have to give a statement here she didn't want to or wasn't ready do you understand the criminal consequences of making a false statement do you understand that it is your choice whether or not to give a statement do you understand the importance of telling the truth you think with respect to this investigation if you've spoken to any police officer a person in authority in connection with investigation I want it clearly understood but I do not want it to influence you in making others making a statement do you understand yeah do you have any questions so basically I'm starting to Hey so what what I've just explained to you is you're here voluntarily to help us that you don't have to talk to us if you don't want to but the importance of talking to us and if you're talking to us the importance of telling the truth and if you don't tell the truth there's criminal consequences for not telling the truth that's all that all that stuff had to deal with okay you can't point the finger at someone else you can't tell us to go off in a different direction you just got to tell us that you know exactly exactly and do you have any questions with respect to what I've just told you just like sitting sometimes like hearts come back they didn't remember when I no one is and that's the process this is going to be a lot long process this is an initial statement from you we may you know as you remember other things you may be asked you may want to come in and tell us things okay no one is going to tell you how to give us a give a perfect statement you just do what the best you can given given what you're dealing with okay any other questions at the beginning of the interview Jennifer started to realize the enormity of what it just happened to her and her family she sat nervously in the chair pulling the sleeves of her sweater over her wrists and went between rubbing her thighs to covering her face with their hands crying and the first mention of her mother's death Jennifer put her head down and started to cry Slade told Jennifer he would get her some tissues before saying you have nothing to apologize for Jennifer it's going to be tough but you know the importance of this statement you have nothing to apologize to me for I am here to help you okay Slade left the room to grab the tissues Jennifer's sat with her head down and her hands over her face she appeared to be crying when Slade opened the door to walk back in Jennifer jumped about a half a foot in the air detective Slade asked Jennifer to tell him as much about the day she could then they moved on to what happened to during the home invasion Jennifer told him the story start to finish next Slade asked her to tell him again but in a different way he asked Jennifer to recall the invasion at this time as if she was looking down on the event this is a technique which helps witnesses recall parts of what they saw that they may not necessarily have record before it can also show investigators if there is any change or inconsistency in the witness's story Jennifer described the men as best she could one was of African American appearance with dreadlocks that were shorter at the front and longer at the back he was of medium build in between 28 and 32 years of age he walked like leather gloves the second man she described as taller with a smaller frame wearing a dark-colored bandanna which covered the bottom half of his face and a hooded sweater the third man didn't engage with Jennifer at all she couldn't describe his appearance but she recognized that maybe he had a Jamaican accent this new technique enabled Jennifer to remember details about the home invasion that she was unable to record before she remembers that the men with the dreadlocks yelled out to the thinner man to tell Cuzzi who was the third man to get some more string that was how she was tied to the banister upstairs she also described seeing the cylinder of a gun and remembered more details about the third men while in retelling the story about the gunshots she heard while tied to the banister Jennifer recalled the man with the dreadlocks saying that's enough Arthur a few gunshots after hearing the words that's enough Jennifer heard one more shot this would be the shot that killed her mother about one hour into the interview Jennifer remembered more detail she was able to clearly differentiate the three voices of the attackers and could tell which of the three men were saying what she could hear the words the men were saying to her parents in the basement she clearly heard the third attacker say he just had to do what we said he just had to cooperate um do you know which way they go out you can't hear that um I'm pretty sure the front door yeah but I'm not 100% I didn't get to see anything like my arms or my my back and I was against the banister yep and banisters twisted so I can't see the front door now you hear your dad right and what's going on so what do you hear next after you hear the scrambling they're gone does your hearing know more I gather that's how you swim they're gone is because you don't hear then you hear your dad I reach for my phone okay and you call 911 okay and then you what happens after you're on I just I I heard my dad go out and I don't know if they damaged his throat how did you hear you're dead so what this is the kind of importance because if you he did he go out the front door how did you how did you know he went out the front door cuz I heard him both in the door did you hear that door open when these guys were scrambling to leave there was so much thudding is your house got an alarm system yeah you know the alarm system when the front door goes off and there's that chirping we don't we don't have that you know is your house alarmed at night when you guys go to bed before the last person goes up too bad they will alarm it but prior to that it doesn't get alarm okay so you hear you from your when your father exits you hear the door open because you hear your dot and then yes I can hear like the outside noises okay like the wind coming in and I just hear my dad I think you think that he sustained some kind of injury because he's not you can't understand what he's saying okay what about can you hear your mom okay where does your dad go do you know where you never seen your dad again until way more at the hospital I think that's what you said right you saw him when he was on the greenie but the officers walking you around oh we did okay so now you're upstairs and you're on the phone with the 9-1-1 operator okay do you remain on the phone until the police arrived and the officer is the one who cuts gets you free yeah he first had to secure the place yes it took me a while to get somebody upstairs okay and kept screaming okay and I guess they went to my bedroom and I have a pair scissors I cut my hair with yes he said they cut it for me but it was a little while longer int elastic string so I can be free do you understand that they are the importance of clear that what they were doing it wasn't to leave you in any kind of trauma or anything like that did from it's a very tough question considering all the things that you've gone through tonight Jennifer is any other tying up any of the binding any other things were you sexually assaulted in any way it wasn't that this was strictly they were after money it from what I thought they were after money they wanted it now how much money did you turn over - from my personal I had to 2500 2500 and where was that and where was that in my nightstand underneath the TV okay and that was from work that you had done yeah what do you do for a living now what are you doing right now heard you're saying about piano are you in school I I recently lost all my students in piano I had a few yes for a while when how they've gone to university that's I was a September I didn't have any more students so you were a piano instructor yes out of my own okay just for family friends here and there also my family needed me home a while and I was doing some piano classes with very good teacher of mine okay and I'm going back to school in January to to study biotechnology engineering okay detective Slade was able to ascertain a lot about the evening from Jennifer and said he was happy with the information he had but he thought he needed to find out a little more about where her mother was that evening the exact location of the lawn dancing class and if she went elsewhere after line dancing before Slade left the interview room he asked Jennifer if she consented to her phone records being examined so they could check time stamps for when she was speaking to Edward on the phone to match the exact time of the home invasion Jennifer agreed Slade then advised Jennifer not to read the papers or watch TV he didn't want her seeing or reading things that would cause her distress it was about one and a half hours into the interview when detective Slade left the room to get the phone record consent forms Jennifer sat with her face in her hands she remains still not crying she sat like that for over ten minutes before she reached her tissue Jennifer then stood up stretched her legs and paste a little while holding the chair in the wall she was agitated a noise outside made it jump then she started to motion with her hands as if she was conducting music she sat back down and again covered her face with her hands she wiped her eyes she got back up and rocked back and forth on her feet rubbing her stomach slayed startled her when he opened the door and told her to have a seat Slade mentioned that her brother Felix was being interviewed next door Jennifer seemed surprised Slade banned it clear that he felt big heart may have been followed home after line dancing spotted by her attackers driving an expensive car when detective Slade was filling out the phone record consent form he told Jennifer he was going to go back and check in on day period my question is as far as deep into this will I look for my phone just like comment like regular phone calls people really it's just the time stamping of the you know we were putting nine days down because it may come back to you that I spoke to him and it may be able for us to be able to identify people that we may need to go back and interview the interest of us is obviously tonight between nine and ten right but we're just asking for this we're not asking for months and months and months it's nine days that we're asking for and generally it's because we may come back to you and say okay we want to interview this person and you go off I don't know where they live but I spoke to them or we got the phone records is this the same person and we'll have their address at least what is registered to their phone so it's the only reason we're asking for a nine-day period investigatively if it's not no real significant value other than today right we can sometimes iPhone you know teacher you know we're not going to go back and interview all those people that's not our intention right so I need you to fill out this portion for me so owner subscriber it's the same person as this so it's you and you your address the telephone number and in today's date and then your signature and what it is is before we go into it it's all this is all being recorded again so it's just that you consent to giving us the records for cellphone number six four seven nine six five two one one eight and you can send to allow the York Regional Police to access the phone records the said cellular phone company authorized Rogers for the following billing records incoming and outcoming numbers dialed registered owner information including credit and payment history this is really how we link phones to people we confirm that's your phone and the tower site location if requested for the above-mentioned times and dates towers now become mine just drop and towers become relevant in this case because of where you are when the phone call comes in on the on today's date right is that it ferns your story to saying that I was in my room when I made that when the calls came in and that will show up on the tower site information that's the relevance of the tower site information it also may turn out that maybe during this time period you were targeted and you were in an area and this enables us to go back and try and look for cameras and other things through the towers not saying it's going to happen in your case but it's why we asked for tower sites right tower sites always showing you're on the phone they show you where you're where you are when you're on the phone making calls and that the above-mentioned records are to be released for the Europe region to the York Regional Police for the purposes of an investigation of murder of your mum and for the time period I stated November 1st to November 9th this is the part of the consent I am voluntarily giving and sent and I know that I you don't have to you don't have to do this this is your this is you volunteering to do this you may withdraw your consent at any time I understand that these records may be used as evidence against me and may become any part of a criminal proceeding now if you relying on this you know as a part of this whole process that I explained telling us fictitious information it comes back now the records can also be used against you if you're telling the truth really point three means nothing okay but we have to let you know by law that we could use these against you if you're lying to us so will you will we be in will I be informed of Who am I if anybody if they contacted on that the chances are if you're going to be so you can almost guarantee that Adrienne and Edward are going to be we're going to need to speak to that right because Adrienne was in your house remember move on if they're doing forensic testing in your house to try and get DNA and anything else in there they're also going to need stuff to eliminate people right so Adrienne was in your house so we need to try and if you win when we shut this down I'm going to because it doesn't need to be disclosed on video about their personal information I need to get Adrienne's contact information I need to get Edwards contact information I don't know if we're going to contact them to tonight or this morning but sometime today they're going to be spoken to okay um our priority is who was with your mom that's our priority right now okay on but I just tweaked me back how many cars here deer food is your family the Mercedes in the Lexus and where do your parents park these cars inside the garage and when they where do they enter the house when they're when they park in the garage is there an entrance through Raj okay so that's the normal course as they park unless we plan on going out somewhere we leave the condo driveway instead of having to when you left today that left tonight after this incident had happened did you see the cars in the garage I did not I don't believe one of the officers went and competitive cars were still in the garage the garage doors were closed okay is there any video equipment video cameras or anything system on you didn't your house caramel corn no okay is there anything else that you can think of that might help us right now in this investigation the interview finished at 4:30 a.m. the day following the home invasion Tuesday November 9th Jennifer had to stay with her cousin Michelle DeLong and her aunt and uncle whose home was less than a mile away from her own her house was a crime scene and there was no way she could go in and get any of her belongings she was forced to borrow clothes from her cousin her phone received to text after text from friends asking if she was okay her ex-boyfriend Daniel Wong heard the news he sent a text at 9 a.m. if you need I'm here for you just hang in there and try to eat although told by detective Slade not to look at any media reports it was hard not to hear about the reports and subsequent room is starting to unfold where the pan family caught up in illegal gambling where they links the gangs or drug crime the waiting media were camped outside the relatives homes as well as the hospital waiting for a glimpse for possible statement from the only survivor able to speak Jennifer faced lots of questions from both friends and family the family held a vigil at hands bedside as he laid in an induced coma in the intensive care unit they listened as the doctor explained how miraculous it was that hen was able to survive the shooting he still had bullet fragments in his face but the fact that the bullet missed the main artery was what ultimately saved him but he wasn't out of the woods though we're still unsure if or when he would come out of the coma but there was hope he would pull through amidst the horror they were confronted with the family were very hopeful and may have the clue to solve this horrific crime Jennifer asked the doctor if the bullet fragments still in her father's neck could cause an infection the doctor said no at this point Jennifer borrowed some change from her uncle explaining that her cell phone had died and she needed to use the payphone he offered for her to use his cell phone but she refused and again asked for two quarters he handed them to her and she walked out and headed for the payphones located just up the hall Jennifer called her ex-boyfriend Daniel Wong the day after the invasion police held a press conference the media scrambled to the Newmarket police headquarters to obtain a glimpse into what the police were thinking a makeshift stage was erected and York Regional Police Chief Armand de Labarre it was less than a month away from retirement addressed the waiting press he said quote given the very brutal nature of this crime it goes without saying that the individuals that are responsible for the home invasion enter the murder last night pose a very real danger to our community these are for all intents and purposes residents that were just enjoying a nice night when suddenly three individuals burst into their home and terrorized them in other home invasions there's some criminal activity involved but in this particular situation there is absolutely no evidence of criminal activity this is a very lucky man and if not for the grace of God we could have been dealing with two homicides here to shoot an innocent woman and to shoot an innocent man I mean that's troubling police stated that they believed to the murderers may have been attracted to the home because of the family's high-end vehicles however they also noted that neither vehicle was taken as part of the robbery they released descriptions of the attack is provided by Jennifer with her father still in a coma that's all the information they had to go on police had already made some progress seeing as a neighbor had a security camera installed at the front of his house the footage captured a car driving away from the parents house behind the scenes police and forensic teams were combing the house retracing steps and attempting to get into the heads of the three attackers they couldn't find a clear reason why a hard-working family is targeted in what they could only describe as a random brutal attack two detectives canvased almost 400 homes in the neighborhood their job was to establish anything seen or heard but also to find out information about the Pens that may help them solve the crime while sitting in their vehicle during the canvass someone quietly approached them and told them that Daniel Wong Jennifer's ex-boyfriend was a drug dealer considering there was a chance that the invasion was a targeted attack and many home invasions have a drug connection this was an important tip after a quick system check confirmed that Daniel had prior drug convictions they got to work looking into him there was no secret amongst officers that the case had divided them half of them felt something just didn't sit right about the home invasion the other half saw it as a random brutal attack for money on a very unlucky family information that police were privy to but had not been released to the media was the fact that in the house they had found the two hundred and forty dollars in big cars purse $60 in hands wallet and $20 in Jennifer's wallet for intruders hell-bent on finding wallets and money they had left some behind on Thursday November 11th at 9:30 a.m. Jennifer went back to the police station for another statement the investigators hoped she may remember more about the home invasion her father hint was still in a coma in the interview room she told detective Slade she was a little nervous she was wringing her hands constantly he replied don't worry the truth is always the best way to relieve anxiety he told her she might need to be a witness in court and Jennifer got visibly upset okay so what we're gonna do now is as I said what what education level do you have high school have you gone to any other cricket and like after school a higher level of education have you been working towards anything I'm going to school and I have been on the piano education okay there's no other education that you've sought like you haven't gone to university at this point in time okay so I want I want you to forget or put aside the first statement that we had talked of it okay this is going to be where I'm going to ask you to start from the day okay on the 8th leading up until when you when the police become involved in an incident that takes place in your house I want you to tell me about your day what you do your interaction with your parents okay so we're at we are as we're dealing with the incident we're not dealing with your history right now we're dealing with the incident again to see if anything else comes for getting what you've already told me and bring you through and self through that day and through the event and we'll see if we're going to see if we've learned or if you remembered anything else and there's some questions with respect to that statement that I'm going to ask you about okay so but I'm going to let you start again and let's let's move forward from any time in that day where you want to start if it's a time you woke up or if it's a time that your first interaction it's your choice okay I'm just I'm very nervous and I why are you why are you why a nervous tell me about why you're nervous because I don't want to say the wrong thing oh you saw that day was a lot you're right and I've been scattered and so bits and pieces are here and some pieces aren't here and I'm just so I want you to sit back in your chair okay just sit back in your chair take a deep breath okay close your eyes just follow my line to sit back in the chair for a second sit back relax is the best you can close your eyes and just breathe for a minute okay we're not in any type of danger or nowhere we're in a very safe place okay and we're going to work through this and don't worry about what you forget or what you mix up or whatever you're doing is you start and push the play button for that day and if you stick to everything that you remember happening that day it will come out in sequence okay and I'm going to show you a technique after we go through this that will stub will show it to you okay so let's just start you've taken a deep breath you've relaxed you're in a good position right there let's start from the beginning of the day when you wake up and let's start moving forward from there Jennifer described the day again she was wringing her hands constantly her face was completely void of emotion she can describe among going to visit her grandfather so he left to go pick up my aunt and going to my grandfather's and I went back up to on the computer to do a little studying taking a break and playing some games remember speaking to anyone during the day on your on your phone or on the on Facebook um later on in the day yes I spoke to a long time for an Andrew who I went to elementary school with but just the usual he just asked if we could hang out any time soon but I explained to him that I wasn't able to leave the house and I couldn't meet up with him so I asked him how his life was his girlfriend how his job was going my bully that was later on in the day though that wasn't in the afternoon we'll go in later and they didn't when we talk about your past about why you couldn't leave the house okay so that isn't that hasn't gone unnoticed but we're not going to talk about that right now we're talking about that day so continue on detectives already knew what Jennifer was referring to they already knew Jennifer's parents had ordered her not to leave the house because she had lied to them about what she had been doing what she had been doing for the past decade the interview continued Jennifer talked through the evening again dinner with her mum her friend Adrienne coming over to watch TV this time Jennifer mentioned that when she went upstairs to her bedroom to watch TV she talked to her friend Andrew again the old school friend she had talked to earlier in the day this is the third time she had recounted the story of the evening but the first time she mentioned this quarter Andrew she then described with her call to Edward Edward was the friend she hung up on when the home invasion started I go back up my stairs and I call ed again okay and I had used to wash them so I did put him on mute for a quick second and then I came back and I was just watching TV and talking with it okay how long are you now upstairs on the phone with it with Edward I'm sorry with that time frame I I'm not sure okay your cell phone records are going to give us the exact times okay so all right have you talked to anyone else is it you hang up with Edward go down and see your mom come back upstairs call Edward use the washroom on the phone with Edward still have you talked to anyone else come on okay have you text message anyone else how many don't believe I had didn't do you have more than one phone I had one but I keep that I just keep the SIM card yes um again we will go into it in the history sure but uh my cell phone gets taken away from me sometimes okay and so I had a friend of mine Daniel he bought he got a SIM card for me to use sometimes but I take the SIM card out when I finish it and I know like keep it in my pocket so my parents wouldn't find it yes but I don't remember the last time I I used it okay but you didn't use that SIM card that day I did not no you did not I don't want that Alessa maybe it was a few days before that it was the last time I remember using it was when my grandfather I was in the hospital and I had messaged him and he asked me how my grandfather was and how long when is that timeframe that your grandfather went in laws but he was in a hospital for about ten days ten days okay so that's the last time you remember using that SIM card associated to from what your friend had given ya was about ten days earlier or even twelve days earlier because I believe you said your grandfather had come out of the hospital or was he still in the hospital no he was in the hospital for ten days yes on Saturday he had gone back to his nursing home and this is Monday worse so it's about 12 to 14 days earlier that this app that do you see you use the SIM card you're guessing with he probably want within a week within a week yeah because I've never seen Limon days is that we were saying it because I messaged him when my grandfather was in the hospital okay and where is that SIM card now I'm not sure I don't remember I had it in my jacket pocket but I don't remember where it is now okay Jennifer's story of the home invasion changed from her first interview detective Slade was aware of the change in her story and continued to ask for clarity as Jennifer recalled different places the three men were and the different things they said Jennifer started to sob Slade handed her a tissue he pushed her to keep going with her memories he wanted her to feel at ease he was on their side he was listening it's not uncommon for witnesses to remember more details or have changes in their story especially in highly stressful and traumatic situations such as Jennifer faced in an adjacent room other detectives were watching the interview as it happened - for a video link detective al Cook watched carefully as Jennifer salt and wiped her face he couldn't see any tears Jennifer sobbed the she recounted hearing the Pops of the gun down in the basement pop pop pop she said she thought the men went out the front door her father then came up the basement steps moaning as she called 9-1-1 she called out to her dad but he didn't go to her he ran out the front door out into the street where he collapsed on the ground and was seen by the neighbor going to work detective out-cook was still watching in an adjoining room he noticed how Jennifer was describing the way her father ran from the house screaming Cooke found it interesting that hands daughter was yelling for him he knew she was upstairs but instead of running upstairs to see if she was okay he ran straight out the front door detective Slade listened as Jennifer struggled to retell the story when she was done he made her tell about woods he continued to tell her what a great job she was doing and not to worry when she thought she said something wrong Jennifer was then asked her account exactly how she made the 9-1-1 call Slade got her to stand up and act it out Slade it's obviously very relevant we know you made the phone call but questions are obviously going to be raised that if my hands are bound and I'm against the railing how do i talk to a 9-1-1 operator Jennifer screwed her eyes up as she looked at the technics laid slate and how did you manage to tuck your phone into the waistband without it slipping down or without the intruders noticing it Jennifer took a large sip of water a deep breath and removed her sweater she slipped the fake phone given to her by Slade into her waistband while keeping her wrists together in a display of being bound Jennifer twisted herself trying to reenact to the call she pressed the buttons and then attempted to lift the phone up towards her ear while still keeping her wrists together the phone didn't reach she said the slate I'm yelling at the phone like this the phone was about a foot and a half from her ear the detectives had heard bits and pieces about Jennifer's past they had spoken to family members and friends and knew some of the answers to questions Slade was asking but they needed to hear it from Jennifer what I want to do now is I want to go into your past okay and start talking about things that have been going on with you it in in relation to your life okay you know not I'm not going back to childhood that's not my interest is obviously in the last few years is what's going on do you have a boyfriend I had a poison needle with which which what was your boyfriend's to me um Daniel what one tell me about your relationship with you and Daniel it was a really tough one we went to high school together he helped me through a really difficult time in high school when I didn't have asthma but it it wasn't a concern it was only a concern when I was younger but when I went over to Europe a lot of sick people were smoking cigarettes and it acted up over there and he took care of me when did you go to Europe 2003 okay how long were you there under two weeks you think okay so this is 2003 when you and Danny were two started dating well later on into that you're just friends okay what grade were you in it so how does your relationship with did Danny develop where is it going how long does it last last about six years um it began in the summer of 2003 before my grade 12 you we were just really good friends and I guess it just happened like we just started going out well saying that we were going out but um I didn't really get to see how much talk to that why didn't get the chance to see how much I wasn't allowed to have a boyfriend and that was when you were 18 17 turning in your 18th year 11 are going to riddle any people okay and so who was against you having a boyfriend your father how are your mother in this she took a backseat to his opinion um she would tell me I gotta find someone who was devoted to me but at that time she just my father was the one that enforced the rules what were the issues your father had with a boyfriend was it Danny in particular dinner was it just a boy just any boy had one so what happens how are you saying that you're not allowed to see this what what I know I know that there's certain ways that you can still get around your father not allowing you to see it when in grade 12 we went to school together he transferred out but he'd come over I to our original high school and he'd come see me okay and once in a while I'd go in skip class and go see him so you were seeing you were dating him essentially without your parents knowledge and consent yes what would they have done to you if they found out and did they find it not in high school okay so you finish high school and then what do you do when you finish high school I was I wanted to do kinesiology but my my father was very adamant on doing something in the medical field that was a little bit more in his opinion more like a more successful I guess you can say you know I didn't have the stomach for being a doctor so he wanted me to become a pharmacist okay did you go to school for pharmacy to get any university for pharmacy so if your being finished your grade 12 equal to Y your oh I see you like grade 12 is your finish your oh I see here I don't have a I didn't he'll only see I finish my paper and then where where do you what do you do for the next few years while your dad's want you to get into the medical field what do you do I was trying to get into channel which school I I was still taking classes at a conservative a school but I still recognized in the community as a teacher's license through the Royal Conservatory okay so how is this interaction how is this going with your dad how is the how is your home life with the your not now not living up to his expectations you didn't know I lied to him what did you lie to him what did you tell him that I was going to school for for just pre-med not pre-med sorry fines sorry - life science you would have had bills for school how is how is that coming up how are these bills being paid for for university that you weren't going I was working at Eastside Mario's and I took care of myself so financially my father was never he never took hand in bills so he didn't know anything about bills your mom know that you weren't going university no so both your parents thought you had gone to university yes okay and how long did that how long did they still to this point in time think that you had gone to university for for pharmacy for sciences and how did you feel about that how did you feel about having to lie to your parents I felt guilty but every time I tried to bring it up there was just so much so much expectation did you have any resentment towards him for this I chose what I chose but in the end I chose my family okay so now you're not allowed to see boys how do you continue really your relationship while you're supposed to be at university working at each side mario's are you working during the day too you said Mary um sometimes but not all the time so how do how do you maintain this relationship with with Dan um I bust down to see him or my parents who drive me down to Toronto and they thought I was getting going to school but I'd go see him and I'd come back what school did they figure going to Bryce okay was Daniel aware of what was going on in here with the issues in your life with your parents not at first but eventually he found it okay and what would your parents do find out did they ever find out that you were dating Dan Daniel eventually how long into their relationship was there say five years five years so that brings you up to 2008 or 2009 2008 2007 2006 well where they come to pick me up and how did that go over not well explained to me what not well means my mother she said at first she was like not supportive but she said you need to tell me and she basically gave me the the sex talk which basically was one moment could ruin your entire life but once my father found out without even knowing him he automatically put judgment what kind of judgment did your father pass on him he blamed my line and even racial profiling on him and what does that mean I don't know about the racial profile um he is half Filipino half Chinese and my father associated him with Filipino and said that you know he wasn't a good match for me he wasn't going anywhere in life and [Music] that he wouldn't be able to support my family so tell me about about Daniel we've interviewed in ok Daniel Wong had been called in the day before and interviewed he was already on the list to be interviewed but after the tip about his drug convictions he moved further up that list dressed in a black sweater and glasses he looked tired and a little unkempt he said he had a cold he had a good rapport with detective Robert Milligan who was interviewing him Milligan started the interview by saying just so you know we interview everybody everybody who is known the family at some point in the last 10-15 years so we can say we interviewed everybody so you're not anything special compared to everybody else Daniel who was 25 years old was calm and relaxed throughout his entire interview even when asked pointed questions about his drug-dealing history he answered calmly and confidently Daniel relayed his past with Jennifer he told Milligan about their on-and-off relationship which ended about two years prior when her parents found out and delivered an ultimatum they were forced apart by Jennifer's parents and he said he respected that okay again like I don't know whether who was who was behind it right I just know that her parents they don't want us to be a family didn't want us to be together and I respected that decision and I moved on now why didn't her family be good I don't know there's so many different like I asked her the first time and she said it was um because I didn't make enough money like I was working a possum Pizza and she told him I finished engineering and they're like oh whoa why they finished and meaning and just broke a Boston Pizza why wasn't he called make sixty seventy thousand being an engineer and then and then after that the next time master she's like it's not even about how much money you make it's the fact that they're Filipino and I'm like how is that possible when your cousin just married a Filipino guy she's like well my nobody the family likes him bah bah bah bah bah so there's always a reason why we couldn't be together think that her pain I don't know what their reasons alright there other reasons all those were the reasons but what do you think what is what do you think cuz you've been in the industry you've dealt with talent and how they won't see you doubled over and I won't have to go there yeah but in the industry what do you think people would kill somebody over see a number yes if someone were to it'd have to be around $10,000 someone would like add I pretty much picture for about $10,000 I'm gonna do something like that Daniel described the seven years of his and Jennifer's relationship behind her parents backs and started to unravel the twisted ball of bizarre behaviors and lies that Jennifer used to keep up the charade to her family Daniel said to Detective Milligan that when the final ultimatum came from Jennifer's parents to end their relationship he knew it was for the best he knew they had no long term life together he had never spent more than a few minutes with him and big high in all that time never shared a meal or even had a conversation with him he accepted it and moved on he said she was a prisoner it was hard daniel said since their breakup in 2009 they had more or less been estranged describing their infrequent conversations he said she tries to call me if I answer I answer or I'll call her sort of thing just to see how she's doing he said Jennifer never had any involvement with his drug dealing he told her never to touch it detective Milligan was interested in the reason why an estranged ex couple had been in quite a lot of contact in the previous few months Daniel said lately it's just been happening more and more an unknown person would call and not answer and it would just go quiet for ten seconds and then they'd hang up that would happen over and over and when I would not answer it would get worse and worse it got ridiculous it was up to a hundred times at night over time Daniel says he began receiving text messages of a more threatening nature texts like hahaha bang bang bang he said Jennifer had contacted him complaining that she too was receiving similar messages so that's why they had been in frequent contact in recent times Daniel admitted he was worried that he would be targeted next he said yeah I am worried for my safety I haven't slept because I don't know who it is if it's the crank callers they call my house they call my cell phone so they have my address it's pretty obvious if they got access to finding her address through her phone number they can find my address through my phone number my mum couldn't sleep either it kept going through my head who could it be who is it is it really just a random break-in enter it's actually the phone calls and the other stuff that I think it's related to the following day in Jennifer's interview she told the tech beep Slade she was given the ultimatum by her parents a year and a half earlier when she was about 23 when they caught her the last time seeing Daniel she says her father told her she must take the tubes Daniel or choose them she said she chose to stay home with her family hands words to Jennifer were cease your relationship with Daniel Wong if not you have to wait till on bed even as an adult in her 20s her parents were still controlling every aspect of her life the reasons why was starting to become clear after being sniper valedictorian in grade 8 and not doing as well academically as she had hoped things started to spiral for Jennifer Karen Howe a journalist who went to school with Jennifer wrote an article for Toronto Life the following is taken from that article quote a close observer might have noticed that Jennifer seemed off but I never did oz a year behind her at Mary Ward Catholic Secondary in North Scarborough as far as Catholic schools go it was something of an anomaly I had the usual high academic standards in strict dress code mixed with a decidedly bohemian vibe it was easy to find your tribe bright kids and Hardy misfits hung out together across subjects grades and social groups if you played three instruments took advanced classes competed on the ski team in starting the school's annual international night a showcase of various cultures around the world you were cool it was the perfect community through student like Jennifer a social butterfly with an easy high-pitched laugh she mixed with God's girls Asians Caucasians jocks nerds people deep into the arts at five foot seven she was taller than most of the other Asian girls at the school and pretty but plain she rarely wore makeup she had small ground wire frame glasses that when a the stylish Noir expensive and she kept her hair straight and unstyled Jennifer and I both played the flute though she was in the senior stage band and I was in junior we would interact in the band room had dozens of mutual acquaintances and were friends on Facebook in conversation she always seemed focused on the moment if you had her attention you had it completely and quote from the article it was at this time in Jennifer's life that she started to turn away from studying hard and stopped dedicating herself a school instead of getting straight A's she was averaging 70% in all her classes in the barely achieving B's not quite the high mark she needed to get into the pharmacology program at the University of Toronto her father expected his children would be the top of their classes to get into the best college which would lead them to high-paying careers so bees weren't going to cut it and so started a decade of Lies that would spin so deep even Jennifer got confused between what was a lie and what was the truth instead of telling her parents about her high school grades she decided to forge her report card she used templates from old reports use scissors glue and photocopied them to create new ones Jennifer also started cutting herself small cuts on her forearms there was a hint of her hidden torment behind the happy mask she was wearing at the time her parents were proud when she brought home a's they were thrilled when she graduated high school and they were so proud when she received scholarship letters and an early admission offer into rice and university it wasn't Toronto University but she planned to start a science degree and move over to Toronto after a couple of years she had worked hard in her parents eyes and was achieving what they had only imagined possible for her hen was so pleased that he bought her a laptop but there was one problem Jennifer didn't graduate high school she failed her last semester of calculus a high school subject she would have to repay in order to graduate she failed high school and Ryerson withdrew their offer instead of coming clean Jennifer's spiral of Lies grew deeper she spent the summer preparing for university she bought secondhand biology and physics books and set the wheels in motion for beginning the academic year in September she pretended to attend her orientation week she forged papers stating she was receiving a loan that she would pay off and convinced her dad she'd won a three thousand dollar scholarship she pretended to make her way to the University campus half an hour at way and even accepted lifts from her parents day after day she was keeping up the charade she would pack a book bag and go to the library filling notebooks full of pretend class notes and she searched the web for course related topics by this time Daniel Wang was at York University taking classes and they were seeing each other in secret her parents had found out about their relationship and put a stop to it immediately Jennifer just told them what they wanted to hear that her and Daniel had broken up but then she went behind their backs she spent a lot of her spare time visiting Daniel at York she took on a part-time job taught piano lessons and later on worked at Boston Pizza where Daniel worked as a kitchen manager he knew she was faking her studies and he helped her hide the secret Jennifer came up with a false acceptance letter into the pharmacology program at the University of Toronto complete with a made-up scholarship for tuition she continued to tell the parents she was staying with her friend a couple of nights a week as a parent saw it she was working hard towards her goals and they supported her it wasn't just her family she was lying to friends too she over exaggerated her father's control telling friends he had hired a private investigator to follow her so her friends thought Jennifer had no other choice but to live a lie in February 2009 Jennifer wrote two separate Facebook posts the first living in my house is like living under house arrest and the second no one person knows everything about me and to know two people put together know everything about me I like being a mystery she wasn't afraid of letting people know about her parents controlling ways han and big ha could not have been more proud than they were when Jennifer came home and told them she had been given a volunteer position at the Toronto Hospital for Sick Children in a blood testing lab they understood when the position started Jennifer would be required for late night shifts and weekends Jennifer suggests that it might be better she spent more nights at a friend's place bekar convinced him to let her stay away when it came time to graduate from the University of Toronto Daniel helped Jennifer hire someone online to fake a full college graduation transcript complete with straight A's she told her parents that the graduating class was so large that there weren't enough seats for two guests each and so she was only allowed to invite one person she said she couldn't possibly choose between her two parents so she would take a friend instead when her dad asked her where the pictures were she made up an excuse in September 2009 just over a year before the home invasion he noticed that Jennifer didn't have any uniform for her Hospital job nor did she have any form of ID which he knew hospitals required the following day without saying anything to Jennifer he insisted that he and her mother drive her to the hospital they dropped her off in Han parked the car he asked be car to follow their daughter in to see where she went Jennifer knew her mother was following her so she went to the waiting room of the ER and hid for three hours until she was sure that were gone the next morning Hann called topes Jennifer's friend she had been staying with except topes told him Jennifer hadn't been staying with her at all when Jennifer arrived home that day her father and mother were waiting for her they wanted to know what the hell was going on Jennifer confessed she wasn't volunteering at the hospital she had never been enrolled at the University of Toronto and she had not studied pharmacology for the four years prior it had all been a lie she also confessed that she had been living three days a week with Daniel and his family Jennifer never lived with topaz she had never stayed there Monday through Wednesday she stayed with Daniel and his family she was a part of Daniels family and meanwhile her parents the even know they were still in contact Jennifer had told Daniels parents that Han and Bakar were okay with her living with them half the week they repeatedly asked the meet appearance but she always had an excuse hen and big heart ordered her to reapply for the University of Toronto to gain her degree she had her credits from Ryerson behind her she would have no problem but she did have a problem she never went to Ryerson but she didn't confess that to them she kept the charade going that she had partially studied at Ryerson University she didn't want to come clean about everything and if they were this mad about her lying about Toronto University how would they react if they found out she never finished high school and never went to Ryerson and and big heart felt like they didn't know their own daughter she was a stranger in her own family and tried to kick Jennifer out of the house she was a disgrace to the family what she had done was unforgivable he never wanted to see her again big hair was devastated but she was also devastated to think what might happen to her daughter if they kicked her out she convinced him to let her stay for two weeks Jennifer was house parent her mother by her side nearly constantly she wasn't allowed to go anywhere on her own she had her cellphone and laptop taken away and she was forced to quit all her jobs except piano tutoring where they could keep an eye on her she was forced to repay her parents for all the money they had given her for her studies they eventually found out about high school too and Jennifer was forced to go back to complete the high school calculus course and start the process again for her future she was given a strict curfew of 9:00 p.m. and every aspect of her life was monitored over the months that followed her mother occasionally weakened enough to allow Jennifer to know where her dad did he didn't know phone allowing her to check her messages because sometimes stood up for Jennifer during argument she had with her father because sometimes said that he had to remember she had already grown up let her be yourself too much interference will not be good so though sticking by her husband and following his wishes a piece of her understood her daughter's torment once Jennifer started to gain back some trust with their parents they aged up and allowed her to have restricted time with her phone and to sometimes go places alone they still checked her messages and the odometer on the car though Jennifer and Daniel would sneak phone calls and she would often ask a mutual friend Gary to drive her to Daniel's and pick her up again still lying to her parents about where she was she continued to visit Daniel in secret even sneaking out overnight arranging her bed covers to look like she was in bed but her mum found out she was grounded completely and - now even her mother wanted her to be completely cut off from Daniel in 2009 around a year before the home invasion Daniel had grown sick of their secret relationship by then Jennifer was 24 and they were still thinking around like teenagers he was tired of the threats her parents constantly made and the fact that Jennifer wouldn't stand up to them and to move out he broke it off for good and by February 2010 he was seeing a new girlfriend Christine Jennifer was desperate to hold on to Daniel she was adamant that they still needed each other and she went to extreme lengths to gain his attention in Jennifer's second interview she admitted to detectives Slade that over the months that followed their breakup she lied to Daniel to get his attention early in 2010 Jennifer made up a story where she answered the door of her home to find a man posing as a police officer she said that he and other men then forced their way in and sexually assaulted her she told Daniel she knew it was Christine who had arranged the attack as a warning to stay away from Daniel she also admitted to lying about a string of text message threats and to receiving a bullet through the mail as part of a death threat Jennifer couldn't handle being without Daniel so she tried to come up with a plan that would keep them together by the end of June of his second interview with Slade he told Jennifer he was grateful she had been honest to which she replied there is also one other thing we were getting private phone calls at my house as well I never told my brother because he was at school when we picked up they would always hang up like I said Monday's my mother would go dancing and one time while she was gone the phone rang I picked it up my father was already on the phone there was a woman on the other line I don't know who was and they were speaking Chinese my father didn't know I was on the line but this woman was saying you have to come over right away right away you have to come now and my father kept saying I can't come near the woman said I don't care you have to come now Jennifer explained to Detective Slade that her father left the house in a hurry saying he had to go and fix a leaking tap at her aunt's place but she didn't believe the woman to be her auntie after hearing this Slade too left the room Jennifer started to breathe heavily she got up and started pacing after 25 minutes an officer walked in and offered to take Jennifer to the bathroom and offered her candy Jennifer accepted afterwards they both returned to the room and then the officer stayed with Jennifer barely audible Jennifer spat out words with no consistency while pacing back and forth I'm just being myself up he's asking me these questions like I should have been more attentive but it just happened so fast and it's like and I can't give him the answers and I don't know I wish I was able to answer I want to be able to answer it so it would help Jennifer turned to the officer and asked have they been able to find out anything did they have any leads or suspects does anyone know where the car went after she didn't get an answer Jennifer we spent a little to herself and started Rocking after nearly 30 minutes detective Slade returned [Music] hi Jennifer hey here take some Kleenex take some Kleenex tell me what you're feeling right now what's going on you might as well get used to this you got to get it out so tell me what you're feeling right now I'm just kind of like if it means like I should've it's a thing called survivor's guilt okay that you're gonna go through you're gonna you're going to nd then this is the stuff about the therapy and and getting to speak to someone because there's stages of grieving you're going to go through okay and this is the only way you're going to go through this is with properly is with health I think Victim Services is engaged right there they're trying to help you so just stick with this it's a long road but it can be a very successful okay and and what you're feeling I hate to say is normal but it is it's something that a lot of people who are in the same circumstance will feel okay but what I want to do is I want to finish off on this so that we can let you go and get and get on get out of the police station okay because I appreciate your time and I appreciate your help so what is in the safe last time I opened it Milan to better passwords and I I she's a few as the combination I don't have the combination you don't have the combination for the safe just your mom okay and so there was passports no large quantities of cash in there not that I'm not that I know of because she asked me to help pay for our two trips okay and what did you get that what did you have the two thousand dollars for what did you where did you make that money I had I was saving up to get a new cell phone do you have a blackberry I gave it today okay rather give it to me that's right but you have so the BlackBerry is it in your name that you've given the Dania so does Danny was yours and you've given it tonight my brother's friend didn't it was an old Blackberry and my brother's friend gave it to him and I gave it I gave it today when did you give it to Daniel I gave it to a friend to give to Daniel how long ago couple week we could go a week what's the pin command for that you know do you have a personal identification number for security reasons have you ever been given that by my blackberry no no dish there's no lock that you know okay so Daniel is was and likely still remains to be a drug dealer self-admitted when he was in the air the other day no so stepping back from that is I had asked you is prior to the incident when's the last time you spoke to Daniel what I should have said to you is when is the last time from today for back that you spoke to Daniel when is the last time you met with them and spoke I saw him here yesterday when I was meeting did you talk to him just briefly you didn't see him or talk to him any other times other than right here in the police station and if I told you that Daniel says that you spoke to him you did have a conversation with him somewhere else she would be lying [Music] the last time I spoke to him when he asked for the BlackBerry and that was a week ago yes because my grandfather had just he was in the hospital and I snuck over and dropped it off for a friend at his paintball place and who is the friend that you gave it to I all know his first name hustle Tristan and where's the paintball place Victoria Park in Munich oh right at Victoria Park an example between McNichol and steals on Victoria Park when there's a lot of people remember I told you about the media they're bad they can be very bad when they start to sniff around and they sense something and I can tell you that the media is portraying that this was supposed to be some sort of drug-related that you guys weren't a random target that you were a targeted house because of drug activity what would you say to that I don't deal the jobs okay tell me more about that you don't deal the drugs are you involved in the transportation and just for distribution have you ever been with Danny this is something that's very important have you ever been with Danny when Danny's doing that he normally leaves me with a friend and says he's going out with his friend the so when you go and see him for once during the time once it once a week I I tell my parents that I was going to class yes and before class or after class as go buy him lunch and bring it by his work and sometimes I would see him and sometimes I just give it to a co-worker to distance and how long when you see him how long would you see him for 10 minutes 15 minutes because he was working when you weren't when he wasn't working and you were able to get out and see him how long hasn't happened in a 1-point and how long's a long time the last time I saw him outside of that was when Gary picking up and I got popped on my parents and that was I'd say a year if not a year and a half and why why did he want your blackberry he said that he had sold his blackberry so he needed a phone and that Blackberry what like I'm kind of confused as was that an act of full no now we're talking about three phones now we're taught her that we got a SIM card we got the phone that your parents know you have and you got a blackberry up until a week ago yes the BlackBerry is what I was using with my own Roger SIM card the phone I'm using now was an old phone that I no longer used okay so here's the receptionist the BlackBerry was your normal phone that you were using on a regular basis and and you would switch SIM cards so if you were going to communicate with him with the other SIM card you put the same pair in that Blackberry and talk to him through that I had an iPhone I don't know I kept in my room that my parents I'd know about um cuz my brother I had one that Daniel gave me earlier but it broke dude so my brother he what he did with t6 apart so he can have one that he used himself but the one I had wasn't fully functioning it was just able I had no internet access on it so I just kept it for phone calls and I kept it hidden where is that phone now it should be still on like in my room yes where I believe those on my laptop table or something on my counter and it doesn't have a SIM card in it right now no I don't keep this in part in it just in case my parents asked okay so there's an iPhone on by your desk on your desk somewhere in that in your room and the Rogers those I mean the BlackBerry that you had had up into a week and it went to Daniel and and for what reason it went today he had a but another a newer blackberry but he said someone wanted to buy it like a friend of his wanted to buy it and that he needed a phone temporarily I would to a fearful so I I had another phone as well so I said okay I'll lend you this one so it sounds as if you couldn't let Danny go like you're you're still there you're still hoping the hope isn't much but what you're still hoping I still you're not you're not walking away from it right you haven't walked away from him even with the comments that you've received these comments from I had and then but I had for awhile I disappeared from him for a while but I needed it was just he he's that calm but he can even make me calm so I reached back up to him so is the cooler is it you instigating all the communication or does he reach but does he start each battle all okay now you have to figure as I said the media can be horrific in some cases and I'd told you you not to read our pay attention to the news I know for a fact that in one of the newspapers but the angle that's being portrayed it right now is that this was a drug that you guys were not a random but a targeted residence because of drug-related activity you and your family were engaged in drug-related activity now is it possible that Danny that you are being mistaken somehow as being involved in his life and that angle of things well I haven't been around his life in a while like going out with him but I wouldn't say completely out of the question but I haven't I don't I don't go around with him when he's doing that kind of stuff I I don't like it and I refuse to be a part of that then they started talking about Daniel's girlfriend Christine Jennifer encouraged the conversation when I steered towards Christine being involved in drug running detective Slade asked how would you feel if Daniel is the one through whatever activity who has brought this back to you Jennifer didn't reply counting both interviews Slade had by now interviewed Jennifer for over five hours just over the five Ella Marquis asked so you're telling me that you've you had no involvement in what happened meaning not saying how they outcome came but you you had no involvement in in any type of illegal activity that would have drawn you or the attention of you to have bad people come to your house looking for large sums of money you're not involved in this any which way because the question obviously stands jennifer is you're upstairs and they're downstairs right so it's a natural concern when why would they leave you alone why would they not do the same to you you can't answer that question only I can say if you said I cooperated but I asked him to take me the number one guy the number one guy said you cooperated okay there's no you had no threats and again we're back to the fact that you admittedly lied okay not to me right not to me well you admittedly lied you've lied to your parents right about going to school you've lied to Danny about being Daniel about being raped and about receiving a bullet who's to say this whole thing is in a line that what you're telling me is a lie because if you are lying it's the most cold-blooded thing that I have ever faced in my life there is nothing that you've said to me today is a lie and I want to thirty wanted crew just put a little preamble not nothing in here that you might have mistaken because of order of events I'm saying to you right now is there anything through the course of your statement today or you've lied to me from your interaction with Danny Daniel from your I'm not involved in drugs and I don't have anything to do with them and we don't have large sums of money what about life insurance policies do your parents have life insurance policies I I think I don't know didn't know they had a he had a I I have one of myself yes and my mom they used to have one for me when I was younger okay but a half says I went to education half went to life insurance and when they found out I I didn't go to university they they asked for the money so hang on a second here you told to me that you told me that they never knew you didn't go to university when did they find out that you didn't go to university I told them that I graduated but I never went to university that I went for two years but I never finished okay and they wanted the money back as a result of that so you did actually tell your parents somewhat of the tree that you never went to university or but it's it's half truth yes so back to this line is where we're talking about the fact that of the line right is that it I don't deal the drugs I don't associate with that okay I honest I don't now back to another very difficult question but if I don't ask it and I'm gonna be you it's an obvious one the resentment that you had that you may have had toward your parents for the interference and your relationship in your life and essentially locking you down in your house at the end of the day I love my parents and I chose to be with them and if I wanted to I could have just left but I didn't I wanted to stay with them and take care of them so this wasn't some evil plot that you thought up - oh my god no no interaction no beliefs no you didn't have anything to do with this thing at all whatsoever you don't engage in illegal activity no because you know that it'll be very easily it will be a very easy thing to discredit you on right we're in the process of trying to add credibility to what you tell us and that's through the process of asking people in doing whatever through that same process it will be very easy to find the flaws and what you've said which again then turns to focus back to you okay it's a natural progress it's a natural thing that investigators do we eliminate people or we draw our attention to them it's a natural thing it's of it's not brain surgery okay detective slide left the room briefly and when he rented Jennifer told him he gave her a fraud Slade asked her to sit down he said the interview was over he told her he didn't want her walking away thinking that he was evil for asking some tough questions he wanted her to know he was going to turn over every stone to help catch the people responsible for her mom's murder he said sometimes we have to ask really difficult questions but it's my job I hope you understand I understand that [Music] it's ready to take have you lied to me no ya lied to me about anything I said whatever I could to help okay so if you've always told the truth the truth will never hurt you it may get you in a bit of trouble right the truth can get you into trouble if you've done but something's wrong but generally in most cases if you tell the truth you'll always be fine so that's that's the Avenue that that's the Avenue you have to think about in what you I can always I never do anything wrong if I tell the truth and if I made life I've said some things that are lies or I've held something back because I think it might hurt me those are the things that will cause people to look at you more intently because the question is why would that person do that to me they've got something to hide right so you know the fact that you've lied to your parents over a long period of time the fact that you lied about to Daniel about those other two events and those are disturbing but I don't live in your shoes and I would never judge you on that fact but from an outsider looking in to have to live under those conditions to have to lie continually you're going to ask the question why [Music] and if that's the way that you have to live that's the way you have to live but people will judge you on your life right my concern lies in the fact of your lying okay you've come clean you've never lied to me before right I've never met you to be a liar but the fact is is that you've lied about stuff to Daniel you've lied to your parents so could you be lying to me I can't why couldn't you be lying physics games doesn't mean that I you couldn't be lying to me right I don't know you I've known you now for probably five hours intermittent I hope you're not willing to write that's all I can hope for but the fact of the matter is is that those three things are sitting there saying you know like give the ability to trick your parents for a long period of time - very explainable and I also weren't lit I wasn't living where you are right and I'm so I'm not going to prejudge you because i people do what they need to do to survive so it could very easily be justified as a survival mechanism this is the best avenue that you saw it and you were stuck in it okay but the fact is is that my job is is trying to get the root of a severity serious crime and I have to explore every avenue that we possibly can so I'm going to do everything in my power to either prove us as our police agency prove or disprove what you've told us the more we prove or can cooperate the more credibility you you have as a witness okay that's going to happen we may even ask you to come back again again it will be not for you will not be explaining what happened in a grand scheme of things because you've done that up and down and backwards it may be four points of clarification okay because again we're speaking that we're going to be going it's likely speaking to some of your friends and your relatives and it's just points of clarification may not have it make you know I'm only saying that in me I told you I didn't want to do the 5 and 6 and 7 interviews with you well after today that's not going to happen but we may be contacting you to help us for some other points that we come across after her interview Jennifer went to visit her father at hospital with her brother Felix she was chased through the hospital car park by reporters felix helped her shoulder from the press Jennifer covered her face underneath the hood of her jacket but was photographed when she looked up to see where she was going the following day hanpan woke up from a three-day induced coma doctors were unable to remove the bullet fragments lodged in his face and he was facing a long recovery from a shattered neck bone but the emotional recovery would take much longer han remembered what happened instantly and relived the shock of losing his wife his brother sat by his bedside and told him the things that had been happening in the last three days the first thing he told him was that while he was in a coma because father Jennifer's grandfather had passed away because family believed he passed away from grief then he told him about Jennifer borrowing some change and making a phone call from a payphone pretending her phone ran out of battery Jennifer's family knew she was lying and her phone wasn't out of battery after allowing him a brief conversation with his brother detectives interviewed him Jennifer was not allowed to see or speak to her father until detectives finished questioning him detectives marcona bogliani and David McDonald entered the hospital room they found him propped up in bed almost unable to speak having to breathe through a mouthpiece his face swollen from his injuries Hann revealed disturbing memories in his mind of the home invasion he recalled that while one of the men was moving Jennifer he saw his daughter chatting softly with him like a friend he revealed that during the time he and bokar were being threatened with guns and led away Jennifer's arms were not tied behind her back he and said she was comfortable and freely moving around the house they talked at length about Jennifer's odd behavior they talked about her past they talked about her line the officers knew Han believed his daughter had something to hide and looked both detectives square in the eye and said use your police tactics to find out who did this han said that he did not want to see his daughter and Jennifer was told not to visit him even though his family had to wait to see him properly their happiness at his recovery was evident as they gathered ready to help him through his grief and recovery Jennifer however sought out the hospital therapist having a breakdown and over how this was all affecting her she did not appear to be grieving her mother and she showed no concern for her father she was more worried about how she was being portrayed in the media her self-absorption did not go unnoticed to those around her two days later after hearing had been interviewed for the second time Jennifer snuck into his room in the hospital in a rare moment where she wasn't being monitored by someone and asked her if she thought Daniel was behind the murder she replied I don't know 100% but I don't think he was and also asked Jennifer if it was Daniel who she called from the pay phone right after she discovered he was going to survive Jennifer admitted to the call but said it was only to share the good news Jennifer then asked her dad for $1200 for college tuition that day detective Curtis officially made Jennifer a suspect in the investigation Jennifer started making arrangements for both her mother's and grandfather's funerals Jennifer complained to friends that her father left her to arrange the funerals by herself Henin chose to pay his respects to his wife in private and not attend her funeral he was still awaiting surgery to remove bullet fragments from his face at the chapel Jennifer and Felix held each other police were also in attendance this gruesome murder happened in their community and they wanted to pay their respects but they were also there to see how their new suspect behaved here's what one officer said she's up there rubbing her eyes than looking up at us and rubbing her eyes again but never crying that funeral really got to me don't be looking at us when you're paying your respects to your mum who was just killed she wasn't crying her head was down it was like she was crying but with no tears with the funerals over Jennifer's family became vocal about their confusion over her behavior she was confronted by her uncle who told her he remembered seeing her a few months earlier at a coffee shop with a black male Jennifer brushed it off on Monday November 22nd awakened a half after her last statement Jennifer was called back in for questioning this time she was being questioned by detective of William gates he went through the formalities and mentioned to Jennifer that she had the right to a lawyer but she was not under arrest the tone was different to the last two police interviews there was more formal gates asked Jennifer lots of personal questions about her friends her hobbies and herself as a person he then started to delve into how she was treated by her parents Jennifer quietly described to their expectations she described how during school her parents compared her to other people often saying she should be more like them she confirmed there was never any physical abuse of any kind Gates asked did you ever feel like you weren't as smart as they thought you were it was pretty tough to live up to their expectations Jennifer agreed he then asked and their expectations were so higher that few people could ever reach those expectations Jennifer agreed the interview continued on a much more personal note they discussed how events with Daniel and her family made her feel it became clear that Jennifer didn't really know where she stood with Daniel one day he said he saw a future with her the next day he said the opposite she was a stood she felt it was fair that at the age of 24 she had to stay at home with a curfew of 9:00 p.m. Jennifer said considering my past I understood they talked about the call Jennifer made to Andrew on the day of the home invasion they also discussed the time when she met Andrews roommate Ricardo a person she hadn't yet met and who we will get to in a minute they got onto the subject of the attackers Gates said now obviously we have spoken to a lot of people and one of your relatives has told us that you said that these guys liked you why did you say that Jennifer I didn't say that I said I asked them why when they separated me from my parents in the house why couldn't I be with them and they said you've cooperated just keep on cooperating okay so you've made that comment to a relative though that they liked you did you feel they liked you Jennifer no they had a gun to my head why did they not shoot you I don't know when I have one they took my parents away I asked to go with them in your life shut up but you must have thought of this you must be thinking I still doing why do what have you come up with in your mind you'll I don't think they think if there was they kept saying that you know I cooperate anything - shut up Audrey keep cooperating did you feel you like your parents didn't cooperate I don't know is there something that they didn't cooperate with your attorney yes I mean like so really they dig pauper when you think about it there was no money to be found they told the truth that he had $60 [Music] so there wasn't anything that he wasn't offering I don't know I'm just trying to say you were there I'm just trying to get feel hurt do you think he loves cooperating no I thought I do everyone was cooperating that's what they kept saying get certain I'm trying to figure out where they didn't cooperate now you think there's any reason why they tied you up and didn't tie your parents up oh that see my dear why the semi because I was away also separated from you some time and does it make sense that they would leave a witness behind they were going to kill somebody that makes sense just thinking about it but it makes sense for somebody that was going to kill somebody to leave a witness behind that to describe does that make common sense for killers gates went over Jennifer's previous statements and clarified a few points he asked how much finer details than she had been asked previously Jennifer struggled to answer he scrutinized the evening in the moments before the home invasion and Jennifer became visibly upset she struggled to get any words out her voice was timid the questions were very detailed gates drilled her about the timeframe between when her mum came home from dancing and when the intruders broke in Jennifer said she went down to say hello and get a glass of water the water was a new detail he asked her where exactly she got the water from he asked her if at any time when she was downstairs did she check if the house was secure she said no that's what the last person who goes to bed does he asked her specifically if she checked the front door she said no gates then asked her if it would be typical that if her mother arrived home late at night what she had done on this particular night that she would automatically lock the front door as she went inside as gates asked this question Jennifer sat up straight and looked at him it's the most attention she had given him throughout the interview almost two hours into the interview detective gates stepped out of the room by this point Jennifer was completely bent over with her face in her hands she was whimpering and breathing deeply when detective gates walked back into the room he had some news now the reason why I'm here today okay I'm an expert okay and what we call truth verification I'm not a homicide detective okay although I've worked on a lot of homicides okay so my job in any case and anybody that the witness in this case I have to speak to after they've been interviewed originally by anybody else okay and so what it's about is truth verification okay so basically all my studies come into the interviewing and detecting deception determine if somebody's telling me please the truth okay guides explained to Jennifer that he had physically written out in Tyre two statements she had previously given to detective slate every word every syllable he told her he's trained to notice when someone is speaking in a style of language which differs from their usual thought they don't even know they are doing it there is even software that helps them determine whether certain words or statements ring alarm bells Jennifer learned that the software they used to analyze her statement was event probability analysis her statement was fed into the computer that analyzed what she said and it told them areas of deception or areas of concern within her statement gates then went into minut detail about the level of forensic examination that had occurred at her house how they now knew exactly where and when people were in the rooms of the house on the night of the invasion they knew which rooms people were not in he then mentioned the door locks and latches as Jennifer nodded her head and told her hair gates explained that they could tell with layers of fingerprints who touched the door lock last possibly to unlock it after someone else had already locked it over and over gates dropped the hints and Jennifer took them she realized she was in trouble as gates continued Jennifer hung her head lower and lower I am well aware that anybody on this earth is capable of making a mistake okay I don't care who there I don't care if they're a priest I don't care if they're schoolteacher I don't care what the situation is given a certain set of circumstances everyone has the capability Jennifer making mistakes doing the wrong thing the key though when I talk to people is when they made a mistake okay that's one thing right the key is to not keep making the same mistake okay and to get that information as we get it off your chest okay do you understand what I'm saying okay so at the end of the day from this case and I can tell you I spent literally a week on this case going over information after information accessing all this sources speaking to every other expert on the case okay and at this point Jennifer I know that you have not been truthful with the police okay you've not told us everything that you know purposely okay and that you've left information out okay there's lumber of inconsistencies and what you told the police okay one of the things you have to remember is that your dad was there okay and your dad had a front row seat to all of this okay and your dad's a very smart man okay and he has a very clear perception of what's going on and he tells a very truthful story cuz I've gone through this whole process with him and had to do the same thing and I know he's being truthful okay the problem is that your story when you're telling his mantras okay we have to clear this up okay your rendition of what happened one a lot of events you say that happened never did okay a lot of things that you told the police happen never happened okay it never happened in the sequence that you told okay you've got to remember that your dad was there okay that's just one part of it there's lots of other things that tell me that he's not been truthful all this analysis that I've been doing but on top of it that yours doesn't match at all it's not for very few factors that you've told truth but you haven't told all the truth we're getting into where you know you spent a considerable amount of time in the last seven years telling half truths okay and I can understand why you've had a tough life okay what's happened to you to me equates to abuse okay and all the stresses that you've had and forced to lie I can understand why you did it okay well you're in another situation here where you're under another tremendous amount of stress okay and that stress is brought on by those same factors that brought on stress before okay the number one thing that brings on stress to you is when you're not truthful right that hurts you right okay and it doesn't feel good inside doesn't it breaks down the person that you are because at the end of the day you're a good person I know that you've got a good heart okay in this case though you've made mistakes okay and you're involved in this I know that if there's no question about it okay the only question right now is are you going to keep making mistakes are you going to go on the route that you've gone on over the years and tried to pretend that things happen that never happened today are you going to not face reality okay you were not truthful to the place in this case we know that you're involved we've done our homework okay we have to resolve that now here today okay I need to know from you what really happened okay and I mean who else is involved in this Hey because there's no doubt in a phrase that you are okay we know that we're past that okay there's no question about it at all okay and I know why this is happening okay you have spent your whole life trying to live up to expectations that you can't make okay and it's stressed the hell out of you you're a 24 old woman being treated like a 15 year old okay what you've never done anything that terrible in your life but you're being treated like you have you're not being treated like the adult that you are yes you made some mistakes big deal they're not the first person that has gone into not told their parents that they're dating a guy because in your culture they don't accept that I understand that I've talked to people in here that have kept that secret for their whole life from their parents okay so that's not abnormal but that puts a lot of stress on you right that's not easy for you is it No now what we need to get down to here today Jim is what really happened you need to tell me what went on because you know who was in that house that night you do Jen there's no question about that okay there's no question about it okay you have actually given an improper description of a person you were dealing with upstairs number one you falsified the whole description of that person we know that okay we know that okay yes you did and okay you did it made it a mistake here and we got to get to the bottom of that that person did not exist in that house that night I know that hey we've done her homework okay you heard on the news that there was video all right okay it wasn't three black guys that left that house you know that and I know that okay so we need to get down to why Eva purposely told us a false description of number one okay no again it's totally wrong and it was done on purpose okay to mislead us okay because you're involved in this okay you cannot deny that okay you cannot deny that we know okay so let's just get it out on the table you've made a mistake I know that okay but you can't live with this any longer than this you're here your buddy nervous wreck over this thing this thing if you could take it back I know that you would if you could go back to that day and play this all over again it would be different okay but you need to right now know that we know that you're involved there's no question about that none whatsoever okay but what we'd also know is that you're a good person okay that's made a mistake here right you've made some bad decisions okay and you know how you made the bad decisions and not talking telling your parents what's up you don't want to do that with us okay you don't want to do that with the police do you you don't want to mislead me do you okay so let's not do that you made a mistake that night you got involved with the wrong people okay you got involved in the wrong set of circumstances okay but that's over with now we're past that we know that that happened okay but you know what in all my years of placing it doesn't matter what it was wrong with people it's never too late to do the right thing you know that and I know that okay what you can do here today is actually do the right thing okay you have to do the right thing okay you can't go around continuing this okay remember when you said what it did to you when you went through those years it's oppression that was brought on by not being truthful living a lie you don't want to keep living this lie okay everybody knows okay you know you're getting the feeling from everybody around you that they know okay nobody is surprised okay there's nobody surprised here okay after what you've been through I'm surprised this didn't happen a lot earlier truthfully you're 24 years old and you were a prisoner in your own house you had lost your own identity there was no again for anymore okay you were living for what somebody else wanted you weren't you you were what somebody else wanted you were living someone else's expectations okay and yes family is important but when family takes over you as a human being when they take your identity there is no Morgan so no matter how good their intentions are no matter how much they love you they're taking away gen okay and you have gone through this for years in the middle of tension tension that died to the point that it makes you sick your stomach turns over you don't wake up a day that there's not some issue on the table not some stress in your household okay essentially you've been told to live up to expectations you yourself years ago knew that you could not do okay they're taking away gen there is no again they took getaway the gen that just wants to be a piano teacher why isn't that good enough why was that not good enough that was great expectations why not just be a lab technician why the dr. biden said always have to be something bigger why can't it just be what you want and all that has resulted in what's happened on us on november 8th the tension builds up to a point that you know what it's like an animal that gets cornered at some point the nicest dog when it's cornered fights back three months before the home invasion in the spring of 2010 Jennifer made contact with an old school friend called Andrew Mont a man this was the same Andrew Jennifer told detective Slade she had spoken to the day of the home invasion the same Andrew that during a later account of the story she remembered she also had a quick phone conversation with the evening of the home invasion Andrew and Jennifer had gone to elementary school together and she remembered him boasting that he had robbed people at knifepoint she told him about how awful her home life was and how her parents controlled every detail of her existence Andrew said he understood her pain and that he had once considered killing his own father this planted a seed inside Jennifer and by the early summer of 2010 she started to hatch a plan that included a world without her father in it she went back to Andrew Andrew introduced her to his roommate Ricardo done they created a plan for Ricardo for murder her father in the parking lot of his work Jennifer had saved $1,500 from her piano lessons she gave it to Ricardo and said she would contact him to make a date according to Jennifer story Ricardo stopped answering her calls and disappeared with the money Ricardo's version is that in July 2010 jennifer phoned and asked to meet him for a coffee she was in a hysterical state asking him to murder her parents his answer was no way he said that after this he stopped speaking to her Ricardo was at the blackmail that Jennifer's uncle had seen her with at the coffee shop he admitted that she did give him money once but that it was only $200 for a night out which he paid back Jennifer then went to her ex Daniel Wong Jennifer was the one in the household who always helped her mother with the bills she knew the extent of their finances if her parents died she would be set to inherit half a million dollars her and Daniel could set up a house together and deliver normal life Daniel knew someone being in the drug trade it was easy to find someone willing to do anything for money this was when Daniel introduced Jennifer to lenford crawford who they called homeboy Daniel gave Jennifer a spare iPhone so they could contact each other without anyone knowing Jennifer used this phone to call Daniel and Crawford or homeboy sometimes removing the SIM card swapping it back and forth into her own phone so with Crawford in charge and Daniel as an accomplice Crawford recruited two other friends David Miller Ganim and Eric okati who would be in charge of arranging the car and driving in a three men to and from the scene the fee was $5,000 for each parent a total of ten thousand a small down payment was given by Jennifer two thousand was to be handed over during the home invasion and the remaining money was to be handed over when life insurance payments came through the date was set for November 2nd but in the morning Jennifer received a text from Daniel Daniel was honest with Jennifer he had moved on with someone else he told her that he fell for his new girlfriend the way Jennifer felt for him Jennifer so you feel for her what I feel for you then call it off with homeboy Daniel I thought you wanted this for you Jennifer I do but I have nowhere to go Daniel call it off with home boy question mark he said you wanted this with or without me Jennifer I want it for me Jennifer then received a text from Crawford I need the time of completion think about it Jennifer replied today is a no go dinner plans out so I won't be home in time cardi was pleased the killing had been postponed as he was having trouble getting enough money together for gas the next day Daniel texts Jennifer again I did everything and lined it all up for you even though Daniel had pushed Jennifer away again he continued to flirt with her and encouraged her to flirt back on the morning of November 8th 2010 Jennifer saved another text from Crawford after work okay will be gain to him between 4:30 p.m. and 10:25 p.m. Jennifer and her old school friend Andrew exchanged nearly 100 text messages they also spoke on the phone Andrew wasn't involved in the plan but she did tell him it was about to happen he brushed it off even though only months prior he had introduced her to Ricardo someone he thought could help her kill her father he would go on to testify that he didn't really believe she had gone ahead with it Andrew had a crush on Jennifer he said he had blinkers on the extent of their texts are unknown as Jennifer deleted them before the home invasion at 6:12 p.m. lenford crawford caught Jennifer it was on after Jennifer watched TV with her friend Adria and he left her and Daniel had a long text message conversation discussing in jokes about chickens and monkeys at 9 p.m. Eric Rd and David Mill vagon Ham met up in a hire car and collected as lenford crawford at 9:35 p.m. David Milford enums phone was used to call Jennifer he let her know they were close after Jennifer hung up she opened the door of her bedroom and walked down the stairs she said good night to her mother walk to the front door and unlocked it there was 9:45 p.m. at two minutes past 10:00 Jennifer walked to the dark study next to her parents bedroom where her father was asleep she flicked the study light on for a minute then switched it off something which was caught on the security video footage from the house across the road two minutes later David mill Vaganova called again this time they spoke for three and a half minutes within seconds of hanging up the rental car pulled up at the house and Lanford crawford david miller Ghanem and derek rd walked through the front door all three carrying guns the evidence the police had against Jennifer was compelling the messages and calls made from her everyday phone as well as her burner phone learned them to piece together a clear picture of the planning that went into the staged home invasion they needed to push her just that little bit further to confess but she didn't instead of confessing she spent further hours in the interview spinning a story of how she had arranged the home invasion but the plan was to kill her not her parents she didn't want the ring shame on her family by committing suicide so she created an elaborate suicide plan for a home invasion gone wrong she said she tried to call off the hit but somehow the wires got crossed and the men arrived and killed her mother and almost killed her father Jennifer never left her third interview on November 22nd York Regional Police arrested Jennifer and charged her with first-degree murder attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder Jennifer hunched over and sobbing asked repeatedly what happens to me the day after Jennifer's arrest police held a second press conference citing a continuing investigation police provided few details about the arrest of Jennifer or the potential motive but confirmed - the investigation moved in a new direction when he woke up from his coma and provided a version of events that differed greatly to Jennifer's detective cook from the investigation team later said he knew something was up from the very beginning he was an officer who continually voiced his opinion throughout the investigation he said I knew it was an inside job I always thought she was part of it you don't break into a house shouldn't kill two people and then leave a witness tied up I mean they tied her up it's not like she hid from them she's tired up but other people are subject to being shot yet not this person why not it goes against everything we know it just doesn't make sense Jennifer was remanded into custody Judah face court a week later why now the police were tracking their other suspects and got an interesting lead in the hours following Jennifer's arrest after news broke of Jennifer being in custody cardi called Crawford while he was at work when Crawford finished work he headed towards Daniel Wong's house where he arrived at 2:00 a.m. he's in Daniels phones pinged to the same cell phone tower for 40 minutes leading police to believe they were in the same location engaging in a conversation the same thing happened to 12 hours later just after 2:00 p.m. Daniel and Crawford were in the same location again Crawford wasn't happy if Jennifer had been arrested who would be paying them it took York Regional Police five months to make all the arrests they relied on cell phone location analysis cell phone calls and texts to pieced the elaborate murder plan together along with Jennifer all were charged with first-degree murder attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder the first two arrests police made were David Miller Ghanem and Eric cardi cardi had since been arrested for another murder that occurred in 2009 and was already being held in a Correctional Facility at the time of his arrest Detective Sergeant Larry Wilson released a statement we are continuing to investigate this incident and are expecting further arrests he refused to comment on the relationship between Jennifer and the two men accused other than to acknowledge there was a connection I'm not going to get into details in regards to motive but I think with the daughter involved in the conspiracy aspect to it I think the motive is pretty clear he went on with a message for those not yet caught I urged the remaining persons involved in this horrendous crime to seek legal counsel and turn themselves in immediately York Regional Police Superintendent Wayne kolinsky also released the statement this was not a random act citizens will be relieved by the fact that we made arrests in this matter this was a targeted residence on April 26 2011 Daniel Wong was arrested in front of his colleagues at Boston pizza two weeks later lenford crawford was arrested at his goal Ren's house with five people charged and awaiting trial the prosecution got to work on their case police were commended for their diligent work in following the trail to catch those arrested there were still thoughts that other people could possibly be linked on the peripheral and it was still unclear who exactly pulled the trigger but it was agreed the case would proceed with all five charged with first-degree murder attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder the detailed analysis of phone records was described as second to none with over a million pieces of mobile phone data scanned in order to make the arrests the case took three years to come to trial and when the court said on March 19th 2014 in the Newmarket courthouse it was expected to last five months it would go on to last ten the press was in overdrive at the time of the home invasion this case had taken over the news and was one of the biggest and most intriguing stories after arrests were made the story faded and it was only now gearing back up for almost another year of intrigue is the fate of Jennifer Penn and her co-accused were in the hands of the court headlines like daughter from Hell trial begins gives a little insight into the sentiment at the time reporters descended from all over Canada the United States China the Philippines and Vietnam this story transcended through generations of Asian immigrant families to Canada hard-working parents and grandparents felt deep sorrow for Han Penn who had only wanted what was best for his daughter other children of pushy Tiger parents as they were called felt for Jennifer a daughter pushed them pushed with expectations she could never reach tipped over the edge Jennifer near 27 had aged in her three years in custody her face no longer sweet and childlike she'd had three years to reflect on the decisions she had made in her life that led her to that point three years without the love and support of her family as they had cut off all ties with her following her arrest all five accused were tried together all of them pleaded not guilty judge Kari Boswell told the jury that just because all five accused were being tried together it didn't mean they should all get the same verdict as the packed courtroom held their breath the five accused two shuffled in their ankle shattered and their hands cuffed they were led into their individual box seats separated by glass dividing walls their shackles and cuffs removed before the jury arrived so as not to create bias against them more than 50 witnesses testified and the jury saw over 200 exhibits including long segments of the ten hours of police interviews the police had with Jennifer they saw hundreds of pages of cell phone records including phone calls text messages and a location data given the nature of much of the language used in the text message conversations an expert in urban street slang took the witness stand but the key witness was Jennifer's father here who addressed the jury with a sad tale of how he and his deceased wife had only wanted the best for their daughter Crayon lawyer Jennifer halogen presented a well-thought-out murder plan concocted by an intelligent and calculated daughter who couldn't get her own way saying Jennifer was determined to get her way no matter what even if it destroyed her family referring to the co-accused their motive was money and while they didn't all pull the trigger each participated in carrying out Jennifer Penn's plan to murder her parents the theory was that Jennifer orchestrated a staged home invasion in which both appearance would be killed and she'd get half shared with her brother of a handsome insurance inheritance at least half a million dollars each which he hoped would draw Daniel Wong whom she was obsessed with back into her life it was about the money and it was about Jennifer's the loathing of her father in order for the jury to have an understanding of Jennifer's motive prosecutors took them back to the beginning of her story they argued that Jennifer pians parents only wanted the best for their children to work hard get a university education and have a better life than they did Jennifer couldn't handle those high expectations they took the jury through the lies and deceit that began in her early adolescence and continued to that day sitting in court still telling a tale so tightly woven she could no longer see where one lie ended and another began the prosecution alleged that after she was turned down by Ricardo Duncan the first time she tried to have her father killed she hatched the more elaborate and more violent plan turning to her highschool sweetheart Daniel Wong for help her plan was calculated and considered and planned and deliberate Jennifer was on the stand for seven days she resembled the same character seen in her police interviews softly spoken bordering on shy often with a head down when not on the stand she sat most of the time with a head low sometimes covering her face with her hands as she had done in her police interviews she weaved her way around the deeming text messages with her co-accused and desperately tried to convince the jury that although she had ordered a hit on her father in August 2010 three months later she had changed her mind the court heard that Jennifer only wanted herself killed and ordered the hit to not bring the shame of suicide on her family she said she never wanted her parents to be the target it was her that was supposed to die Jennifer's defense lawyer Paul Cooper painted Eric kardi as a psychopathic killer who was not happy when Jennifer caught off her assisted suicide and not happy he hadn't been paid to eight and a half thousand dollar cancellation fee Cooper stated the events of that night were never supposed to happen Jennifer would never be part of any plan to hurt her mother and she wasn't part of a plan to hurt her father if this was a planned murder why carry out the charade of the robbery why didn't the intruder shoot mr. and mrs. Penn immediately he called it a sloppy robbery led by idiots in a hurry and said Eric Rd was the one calling the shots Cooper alleged that it was Carney who started shooting because he was angry he wasn't receiving the money he wanted although sitting accused in his trial Eric Rd was now serving life in prison for the murder in 2009 a murder he was wanted for at the time of the pea and home invasion it was an easy job to paint him as a killer with nothing to lose he was present at the beginning of the trial but five months in his lawyer became sick and was unable to continue with his defense which led to cardis exit from the trial he was tried separately at a later date Cooper admitted to the jury that Jennifer had a history of lying but claimed her web of deceit only showed her to be a sheltered young woman with the social skills of a teenager he said they could not convicted murder and reminded them they had to believe beyond a reasonable doubt that she meant for her parents to die with Cardini out of this trial the defense for Crawford mill Wagoner and Daniel Wong told the court there was little evidence to convict the three men other than the phone records no DNA evidence was presented at trial there was no forensic evidence gathered from the house no bloody clothes found and no weapons recovered the defense argued that if it was such a sloppy job as alleged by Jennifer's defense then where was the physical evidence Daniel Wong's defense lawyer said are you going to commit my client of a cold-blooded murder based on a couple of text messages are you kidding me he described Daniel as a university educated hard-working man who played the trumpet who somehow got mixed up with dealing marijuana and who fell under the spell of Jennifer Penn she's a pathological liar who was playing games in the sickest possible way with Daniels head he said five months into the trial that was revealed that juror number four his wife had sat in the courtroom every day watching when Jennifer's father took the witness stand he was joined by two Vietnamese interpreters he did not look over at his daughter they said the crime had shattered his life adding that he was astonished he survived the shots through his face and shoulder he spoke with a deep sadness as he told the court of the decade of lying he and his wife enjoy it from Jennifer the jury took four days to reach its verdict on December 13th 2014 at 1:20 p.m. the jury informed Justice Boswell that a verdict had been reached the accused all stood in the prisoner's dock while their verdicts were read one by one Jennifer Penn David mill vagon 'um Daniel Wong and a lenford crawford were all found guilty of the murder a big up in end of the attempted murder of Han Penn Jennifer as she always did hung her head low and sobbed this time only she knew if the tears were real she could be heard saying they didn't even give me a chance one by one H was asked to sit down family members were crying in some screaming as they left the courtroom and chose not to deliver his victim impact statement in person a witness protection a he'd read it out at read when I lost my wife I lost my daughter at the same time I don't feel like I have a family anymore on the day big heart died I feel like I died too my life totally changed that day some say I should feel lucky to be alive but I feel like I am dead too I can't work anymore because of my injuries and I've given up on all the things I used to do like gardening working on cars and listening to music there is no joy in any of that for me I miss my wife so much she knew me better than anyone and cared about me I am so lonely without her we were married for almost 30 years big car was a good wife and a good mother she always put her children first and rarely spent money on herself she loved music and loved to go line dancing she took care of our children while I worked she had always wanted to go to Vietnam and I always said we have to spend our money on the children's education first but once they have finished school we can focus on doing the things we want then but that tour never came for her I don't find any joining holidays anymore I'm sad and lonely all the time sometimes when I see my friends I tried to pretend I am happy but struggle with being jealous of my friends families and their happiness my only hope for the future is that Felix will get married and let me live with him right now I live with my two sisters and my elderly mother as I can't stand being in my home because of all the bad memories of what happened there there are repairs that need to be done on the house but because of my injuries I am unable to do anything I don't like going to my house because my neighbors asked me what happened and I am ashamed I can't sell the house because it is in a Chinese neighborhood with superstition and no one would want to live there because of the murder I cannot sleep at night and have constant nightmares about what happened the night we were shot I feel panicked all the time especially when I see a group of young men in the street I am not racist at all a black men really scare me if I see them standing in a group I'm in a lot of pain and take medication for pain every day I have no appetite as food is not pleasurable to me because I know I would never be able to taste my wife's cooking again I am also on medication for diabetes and high cholesterol as I can not exercise as it is too painful my life has totally changed I attend my wife's grave with my brother and sister-in-law on the anniversary of her death and on other special holidays and it is so very hard on me to remember how she died and what my life has become I am a very lonely person and have no one to share my feelings with as my son Felix does not want to talk about what happened and just wants to forget it is very hard for Felix he doesn't want to hear his sister's name and doesn't want to know about what happens in court Felix has become very separate and he's a very different person he doesn't want to talk about the family and he's very closed down distant and too sad he says he doesn't want to remember and won't look for a job in Toronto because he feels like he has a bad family name because everyone knows about his mother's murder I hope my daughter Jennifer thinks about what has happened to her family and can become a good and honest person someday just as Boswell described the crime as horrific he said the circumstances faced by Jennifer's father him and mother become without if stark horror those willing to go along with such a plan have very little concern for human life these were crimes of terrifying violence all accused were sentenced to life without parole for 25 years for the first-degree murder of beaker pen and the life for the attempted murder of hand pen the sentences would run concurrently the earliest Jennifer pen will be able to apply for parole is 2035 she'll be 48 years old the judge ended with she lived a life of deception and they did not deserve the death penalty she imposed on them this was a business transaction the commodity death Eric Rd wasn't retried cardi said he wanted to put an end to hand suffering by pleading out to avoid another lengthy trial he admitted he conspired with the other accused to have hand and beak are killed for $10,000 he was sentenced to 18 years in prison to be served concurrently with a 25 year sentence he was already serving for the unrelated murder it is still unknown who pulled the trigger the case was summed up in the Toronto Star by journalist Rosie de mano who said all this horror a mother shot in the head her final words are plead that her daughter be spared a father shot through the art who miraculously survived his Grievous wounds for the obsessive love of a man who did not love her back [Music] you
