How Jennifer Pan's Fake Life Went Horribly Wrong

hey guys and welcome back to my channel so today I'm gonna be telling you a really really wild story out of Canada this is a you know lesser-known case so a lot of you probably haven't heard of it but get ready it is one of the craziest ones out there as I was reading about this case I could not believe how this all unfolded it's a very interesting story today I'm going to be telling you about the pan family so this is BIC and Hann pan so Hann was born in vietnam and he grew up there but in 1979 he actually moved to Canada as a refugee and a very similar story with his wife BIC Pan she also was born in Vietnam and came over to Canada as a refugee so the two of them ended up getting together they got married in Toronto and they ended up settling down in Scarborough Canada and then in 1986 they had their first daughter and they named her Jennifer and then in 1989 they had their second child and they named him Felix so the pans worked at an autoparts manufacturer called Magna International in Aurora Ontario han worked as a tool and die maker and then Vic actually made car parts this couple worked very hard for their money they were you know immigrants and they took every opportunity they could and worked as hard as they could they wanted to make sure that their kids had opportunities that they never even had when they were younger so they were all about working hard they were both very thrifty people and good savers so eventually they ended up saving enough money to buy a really nice house in 2004 they purchased their house and they were super excited because this was something they had always wanted for their family it was definitely their end goal their dream was to be able to afford a nice house for their family to grow up in the house was in a residential area called markham they were also able to afford really nice cars they were really living the dream Vic was driving a Lexus and han was driving a Mercedes so they were doing really well they felt like they had settled into a great neighborhood and they were super excited about their future everything was going very well for the pan family now probably the most important thing for you to know about this family though is they were very very strict parents they are what some people refer to as tiger parents and it's a Asian style of parenting that is very strict known to have you know very little leeway and oftentimes the parents are extremely controlling of their kids it can be a ton of pressure to grow up in a home with really strict parents who have extremely high expectations of you and that's exactly how the pans were they had hugely high expectations of their kids they wanted them to really excel take every opportunity that they could get them and just do even better than they had done jennifer and Felix were thought to be very well-behaved kids Felix was studying mechanical engineering and was at a very prestigious university and he basically did this because Han wanted him to go to school for engineering so that he could work on cars and be part of what their family does but he wanted him to be able to design the cars which is a whole different ball game Jennifer was also seen as a very impressive student she also had a lot going on in her extracurricular life she started playing piano when she was only four years old she also played flute in the school band she did figure skating she was actually super into the figure skating thing she wanted to become an Olympic athlete so she spent a ton of her time training which is a very stressful world as well however she ended up tearing her ligament in her knee and it was a really bad injury so bad that she ended up quitting figure skating altogether and that dream was completely squashed jennifer was also thought to be a very good student but turns out jennifer was kind of hiding a lot of things from her parents and her school was actually one of them even though her parents put a ton of pressure on her to get good grades she kind of averaged around you know the c70 ish range and definitely wasn't getting straight A's the only thing she was doing really well and was music she really thrived in music and absolutely loved it but her parents expected her to have straight A's there was no choice for her so she actually ended up forging report cards literally faking her grades on it and convincing her parents that she was actually getting straight A's when she was a pretty average student have any of you guys ever forged a report card I'm dying to I feel like that's pretty savage at the time Jennifer was attending Mary Ward Catholic school and she actually ended up having to leave the school because her behavior and grades were bad and transferred to a different school and her parents knew that she you know moved school and everything and they were so strict they picked her up every single day to watch her basically like a hawk they'd you know get her in the car take her straight home monitor all her extracurricular activities make sure she wasn't just doing whatever as a teenager as most of us did as teenagers they had a serious issue when it came to boys they were absolutely terrified of Jennifer getting distracted from her studies by boys and they wouldn't let her her even have friends that were boys really like they didn't want boys around their daughter period so she was definitely not allowed to go in like dates or anything like that in fact she wasn't even allowed to go to the school dances which I mean I would have been so angry about that as a teenager I mean that was such an important thing to me back then although now thinking of going to a high school dance makes me want to die inside but back then I would have freaked out if my parents told me I couldn't go or they like didn't want me around any boys you'd feel so restricted especially seeing everyone else live you know as somewhat normal life or have somewhat normal parents when it comes to how strict they are I'm sure many of you out there have had or have really strict parents and you know what it's like and maybe you can relate to how Jennifer was feeling she was really starting to feel trapped like she was a prisoner in her own family and not only that she was faking tons of things in her life literally forging stuff and that's a lot of pressure to be keeping up a whole fake persona despite their best efforts though to keep her from dating she ended up meeting another boy named Daniel Wong in 11th grade he was a year older than her in school and was described as goofy and really social he played the trumpet in the school band so they you know connected on that they were both in the band and in 2003 they ended up going on a school field trip together and it was a big field trip it was all the way to Europe when they were in Europe they performed at this concert hall and according to Jennifer there was a ton of smoke in the concert hall from smokers and this really raged up her asthma and she was panicking over it feeling like she was gonna have a panic attack like she couldn't breathe and Daniel was really there for her really calmed town helped you know ground her and she felt like he didn't have to do that he didn't owe her anything and she said that it literally saved her life so now she is really into Daniel she felt like he saved her life he really cared for her in that moment and so she really was head-over-heels into him so that summer they started dating and they were having a good summer together although this had to be completely secret behind her parents back so Jennifer had actually received early admission into Ryerson University however Jennifer had actually failed one of her calculus classes back in high school her senior year so they ended up revoking her early admission but Jennifer did not want her parents know what was going on so she hid this from them she told everyone in her life that she was still going to go to this school including her parents this is when she created a fake acceptance letter and gave it to her parents which I am shocked that they really fell for that I mean she must have been pretty good at faking stuff probably had been doing it her whole life and it turns out that Jennifer never even graduated high school she wasn't able to walk she wasn't able to finish and so she lied to her parents so handpan wanted Jennifer to become a doctor but he figured out after a little while getting to know his daughter more as a person you know you can't actually just make people what you want them to be he figured out that it wasn't such a good route for her because it made her like sick you know it made it gross her out to like work on bodies and stuff she didn't have the stomach for it so he decides that she needs to still be in medical though gotta stay in what he wants kind of so he settles for pharmacology he tells Jennifer that she should become a pharmacologist and she agrees she told her parents that her plan was to attend Ryerson University you know there still are the impression that she graduated and stuff so she told them she's gonna go there for two years and then she's going to transfer to the University of Toronto and get in there pharmacology program now a lot of people would say well how did the parents think that she was going to a college where they weren't paying any bills well Jennifer actually told them that she was going on all scholarship money and grants and everything and that they didn't need to pay a she could take care of it all on her own and her dad wasn't even involved in bills to seem legit to her parents she ended up purchasing textbooks and watching different documentaries and taking notes real notes to show her parents as if she was prepping for school and while she was in college Jennifer was not allowed to do any of the normal things that teenagers or you know college students do like go to parties and hang out with friends drinking Jennifer like never got to experience that at the time Jennifer was teaching piano lessons on the side and also working in a restaurant to make extra money and fund her life and eventually she went to the school and two years went by of her parents thinking that she was in Ryerson University after two years went by her dad asked if she was planning to go to Toronto University to finish out her degree and she said yes and that she was accepted and that was the next plan so at this time Jennifer suggested that maybe she should move out of her parents house in with a friend she had a friend named topes who lived a little closer to University of Toronto she thought that commuting back and forth downtown to her house would be a lot to handle and she convinced her parents that it was a good idea for her to move out move in with someone else and they were fine with this however she wasn't staying with topes imagine that during the week when she was going to college she actually was staying at her friend Daniel's house she lied to Daniel's parents said that her parents were fine with her staying there and they were cool with it so there you go she was perfectly set up and her parents again thought she was staying with a female friend so another two years went by of her parents believing that she's still in school they now think that she's been in school for four years and it was about time for her to graduate from University of Toronto so Daniel and her and ended up finding someone online to help Forge a fake transcript full of AIDS Jennifer told her parents that they had an abnormally large class size at the University of Toronto so they were only giving out one ticket per student for graduation and she didn't want to make either of her parents feel bad so she told them that she ended up giving it to a friend so she told her parents that after she was done there she was actually planning on volunteering at a blood testing lab called sick kids and conveniently she told her parents that she have to work late night shifts and during the weekend so she convinced her parents that she should probably start spending most of her time at topaz's house however her parents noticed that she did not have a uniform or a key card for sick kids so one day Jennifer's parents said that they wanted to bring her to the hospital and drop her off themselves and see what was going on so you know she's her pants at this point she gets in the car with them they drive over to the hospital and she basically just gets out and books it inside and her parents went in after her like they were trying to see where she was working you know they were really up her ass so they actually went in there looking for her and she literally hid out for a long time in the emergency room just hiding somewhere until she could leave and her parents you know had cleared the area her parents were starting to catch on though they felt like she was acting very strange and they were worried that they were being duped so the following day they called topes and they asked her where Jennifer was and topes said that she was not there so this is when they became very concerned so later on she came home and they ended up really putting her on the spot questioning her and eventually she confessed that she didn't actually work at SickKids and she hadn't made it all up she also started to tell them that she did not go to the University of Toronto that she instead was living with Daniel instead of topes which really pissed them off but she decided to keep them under the impression that she graduated high school and went to Ryerson University before University of Toronto so she kind of half told them everything her mom and dad were very pissed off to say the least they really brought down the hammer on her they took away her cell phone and her laptop they wanted to cut off her connection with the outside world and also make her stop talking to Daniel completely they literally made her quit her job at the restaurant she was only allowed to teach piano and they really put the clamp down on her they started tracking her mileage in her car literally adding up to make sure that she wasn't going anywhere that she wasn't supposed to be jennifer was absolutely miserable in February of 2009 she posted on her facebook that living in her house was like being on house arrest and even though she was only supposed to leave her house to go teach piano she still would try to go see Dan every chance she could one night she even pulled the old-fashioned trick of putting blankets and pillows underneath her bed where she would be sleeping and set it up like she was in her bed sleeping when she actually went over to Daniel's house but of course the next morning her mom went in her room pulled back the blankets and saw that she wasn't there and they were really pissed about that as well they again tried to clamp down on her they wanted her to stop having any contact with Daniel they wanted her to you also start applying for colleges again and try to become like a lab tech or something like that her dad gave her the ultimatum of going to school or being kicked out and he also told her that there is no way for you to see Daniel at all which was heartbreaking to her I mean she really loved this guy where you know teenage love she loved him for her she loved him and her dad said no more seeing Daniel which really enraged her and he even said to her if you want to see him you're gonna have to wait until I'm dead now Daniel on the other hand was actually getting really tired of Jennifer he said that she came with a lot of drama that he was sick of her was making excuses of why they couldn't be together why she couldn't see him he knew that her parents were really strict so he'd ended up deciding to end things which was horrible for Jennifer she went completely off the deep end she was so upset because she felt like everything was out of her control and her parents were causing her to lose someone that she really cared about and it wasn't long before she found out that he ended up moving on pretty quick and started dating a girl named Christine which made her even more angry she ended up being really really jealous and so she devised a plan to tell Daniel that three men randomly came into her house and attacked her and then she said that a few days later she received a bullet in the mail and she told Daniel that this was his new girlfriend Christine trying to threaten her to stay away from her man so Jennifer was going a little bit off the deep end here so then in spring of 2010 Jennifer ended up reconnecting with this guy that she used to be friends with when she was younger named Andrew at one point Andrew told her in confidence that he had at one point considered possibly killing his father but Jennifer says that this sparked an idea for her life would be a lot better for her if her tiger parents weren't around if she didn't have her dad standing the way of her and Daniel's relationship or everything else that she wanted and wouldn't be forced to be anything that she was not and so getting rid of him started to seem pretty appealing to her so Andrew ended up introducing Jennifer to his friend named Ricardo Duncan and according to Jennifer they ended up making a plan for him to kill her father in the parking lot of his work she ended up giving Duncan only 1,500 bucks from like piano lesson money and told him to do it however Duncan ended up taking her money and not doing anything 1,500 bucks is really not a lot and I don't feel like many people would do that so she eventually realized that she was being ripped off and you know gave up on Duncan so he claims that he told her no and that she gave him a couple hundred bucks that she already owed him for something else but it had nothing to do with him being paid to take out her father so fast forward a little bit in time and Jennifer ends up back together with Daniel kinda they're talking again dating again and they end up coming up with a plan to take care of Jennifer's dad cuz now this is in her brain but this time they wanted to take out both of her parents so they came up with this big elaborate scheme to hire hit men to come in and kill both of her parents and the plan was that she would get the money from their estate which would be about half a million dollars and the two of them would take that money and ride off into the sunset together so Daniel ended up giving Jennifer an iPhone to use as her burner phone to have crime-related communication on and then she also had a samsung that her parents paid for and everything that she did everything else on Daniel ended up connecting Jennifer with an acquaintance of his named Leonard Crawford and he was nicknamed homeboy now he said that he normally charged about $20,000 for this type of task however he was gonna give them a friends-and-family discount so it was only gonna be $10,000 to take out her parents and Jennifer was like sounds good to me so the three of them decide that November 8th is going to be the day that he does it lenford said that his friend David was also going to help out so eventually November 8th 2010 long that night was a pretty normal evening jennifer was watching TV in her bedroom han was reading the Vietnamese newspaper and eventually around 8:30 p.m. he had gone to bed now BIC was actually out dancing she was into line dancing so she was out doing that with a friend and she came home around 9:30 went upstairs to change into her pajamas and went into the living room to watch TV at 9:35 David called Jennifer they spoke for a couple minutes and then the call ends around this time Jennifer walks downstairs goes in and says goodnight to her mom while she's watching TV and then she went to the front door and secretly unlocks it then at 10:02 p.m. they switch in the study went on and off like the light switch and this was apparently a signal for the intruders to come into the house a couple minutes later at 10:05 David and Jennifer were on the phone again for a few minutes they also said if you text back and forth one of them was Jennifer saying VIP access which I assume means you know you have access to my home now so there was also a third hitman who ended up joining in and his name was Eric Carly so lenford David and Eric all walked through the pan family front door one of them ran upstairs to get hand brought him down and then Eric went upstairs to get Jennifer Jennifer told police that she was just sitting in a room and that she heard footsteps from people that she didn't know according to Jennifer he then made her go around the house and get any money that she had she handed them twenty five hundred bucks which is what she made in piano lessons and another eleven hundred bucks that was hidden in her mother's nightstand after this Jennifer says they took her back upstairs and tied her to a banister apparently they tied up her arm but also tied her hands behind her back and they used a shoelace to do this apparently at this time Jennifer's parents were totally confused and begging the intruders not to hurt their daughter Jennifer and they basically hinted to them that they wouldn't do that that she is going to be fine so they took her parents downstairs and they shot them both so this is when Jennifer ends up calling 911 the server code is broken don't go get at her jaw point pop I don't know what's happening I'm tied up there's a family gunshot I do you think your mom is downstairs so you can hear in the phone call that someone started screaming and this is Han and he is not dead he had you know come to and realized that his wife was next to him and was screaming he was able to crawl upstairs to the main floor of the house and was just frantically screaming like you can hear it in the call he runs out of the house and this is where one of his neighbors saw him who was about to leave for work and he sees this man come screaming out of the house covered in blood the neighbor called 911 one is well the police and the ambulance arrived and they took Han straight to the hospital where he was actually put into an induced coma so no one knew exactly what was going on in the house but Jennifer so the York Regional Police interviewed Jennifer that night and basically she told them that two men came in the house started taking money from her tied her to the banister and then took her parents downstairs and shot them when you hear your mom coming do you hear your mom in the house in the house I had gone down the stairs did you hear you so before this this is when when did you hear your mom - the first time in the house when she came home so did you physically see her mom yeah and at that time there was no one strange in the house oh my she was on the downstairs sofa she was watching TV between that time that you see her and you leave her on the sofa until you hear the noises the strange that the voices as you described them how long is that where is it your mum was before here she dancing every Monday she goes dancing with relatives what is the first when you hear these this can you hear them talking downstairs the unknown voices so mumble when's the first time that you actually can hear one of them talking when he was upstairs and I thought he had left because I was frozen in my room for a while yeah trying to listen in but I couldn't hear over my TV and I didn't want to startle startled one by turning it off like diminution of volume so I was kind of pressed up against my door for a while trying to hear it and I thought that all the people upstairs had put him down so I opened up my door quietly tried to peer out and he saw me that's when he came it only thing I can remember was him with he had dreadlocks did you see the gun always with the top part of it what did it look like um kind of black yeah and it kind of knot triangular but it was slightly wider at the end they sit me right at the bottom of the stairs like slightly out not exactly directly at the bottom of the stairwell but just slightly over a little the third guy who I didn't encounter but he was he's like where's your money cooperate with us and then my mom's you know yelling and don't hurt us and you know my money is in my wallet just please leave my paperwork this third guy who you're now describing do you see him only as a shadow okay who goes down to the basement do you can you see that from where you're sitting back towards the wall do you hear anyone else in the main level where your parents were like you can hear if people are trucking down the stairs you hear your parents going down the stairs do you hear like five sets of foot stress what footsteps going down there or can't you hear that now you wonder how she was able to call 9-1-1 when she was tied up two days after the original interview the police ended up bringing Jennifer back in because they were really questioning how she was able to so easily call 911 when she was tied up stand up and turn around put this in the side that you believe it was in great turnaround so that you only you're looking away from me you're looking exactly like now here is where the Bannister is put your hands back behind your back basically exactly how you remember they were k-know and are you restrained from movement how far can you move your hands from the banister they tied my upper arm yes around the banister yes but my hands were bound together so your hands bound together and this is the arm that's the the strings wrapped around against the banister okay so now how can you get to the phone and how do you make the phone call 9-1-1 and do you talk down like that yes I'm yelling at the phone like this and how can you hear I turned the volume on max yes so that's exactly the way that you're talking to her against the railing so Becks funeral was held on November 15 2010 at the Ogden Chapel in Scarborough during the funeral the police actually had someone there specifically to spy on Jennifer and see how she was acting see if she seemed like someone who just went through this horrible you know invasion two people come into her house tie her up shoot her parents she should be absolutely devastated but they actually noticed that during the funeral she didn't show any emotion at all which of course everyone shows grief differently that's something that everyone knows but you have to take it into consideration when someone's not showing anything at all and it actually didn't take long before people around her started to feel like the whole thing was sketchy including the police and so the police ended up surveilling her a lot of the time they had someone watching her secretly pretty much at all times one thing that really wasn't adding up to police at first was that this was supposedly a burglary that these people invaded the house and we're asking for money but this doesn't add up because the keys to their Lexus was sitting in plain view out on the counter why wouldn't someone take a car there wasn't a single electronic stolen no jewelry or anything like that and they even discovered that there was still money hidden in the house they also thought it was strange that they weren't carrying any type of crowbar with them it seemed like they knew that the front door was already going to be unlocked and just waiting for them and the thing that just really wasn't adding up was why would the intruders leave Jennifer completely unharmed if they wanted to get rid of all the witnesses then they would have killed her too so three days after this all happened on November 12th hand actually woke up from his coma and he was in really bad shape he had a broken bone close to his face so he'd bruising on his face he had bullet fragments actually stuck in his face and he had a shattered neck bone however surprisingly he remembered everything from that night he said that while the men were in the house that night he remembered Jennifer talking to one of them like they were friends he saw them he also said that her arms were not tied behind her back that she was not tied to the banister that she was in fact walking around with these people around the house so obviously this is hugely different from what Jennifer is telling police so they decide to bring her in for a third interview and this interrogation lasted a long time an interrogation lasted nine hours and they were really at the point where they were starting to put blame on Jennifer to see how she would react and see if they could get her to just spill the truth so eventually she cracked and she said that she was lying to them but she didn't tell them the complete truth she said that she was depressed that her life sucked she was you know basically on house arrest and stuff and that she wanted someone to come in and kill her but they got confused and they got her parents instead she said that she had given up on her life didn't want to live anymore and that she had just hired someone to do it all for her cuz it scared her so pleased ended up of course arresting Jennifer right there on the spot eventually the police were able to figure out who the men were that were involved in the attack by looking through old you know phone records text messages and stuff like that she had gotten rid of her SIM card but there was some that were still actually still on her iPhone they eventually arrested all of them trial began on March 19th 2014 and it lasted almost 10 months there were more than 50 witnesses that testified Jennifer was on the stand for seven days and basically since there was already text message proof that she hired them to do this her only defense was to pretend like she was hiring them for a different reason she basically went in there and said she tried to cancel and they wouldn't let her her defense started saying that she was going to have to pay regardless and that she was even going have to pay them to not do the attack at this point however the argument was really really weak and defeated in court pretty quick because there were over a hundred messages that day between Jennifer and Daniel and the other guys talking about what was going to happen to her parents that night so didn't seem like you tried to cancel that hard girls but they also did try to argue that Jennifer had been through years and years of abuse from these really strict tiger parents and that she just couldn't take it any longer that she had snapped and there was nothing she could do about it however all of them were convicted on December 13 2014 each of them received a life sentence without any possibility of parole for 25 years so it's possible that they could end up staying in jail forever we won't know until they apply for parole in 25 years but they can't even do so until then so they're gonna be in there for awhile this was only Jennifer Daniel David and lenford though there was still Eric to deal with he was still tried with them but his lawyer was sick so they ended up delaying his trial a little bit and in 2015 he ended up taking a plea deal so basically he only got 18 years because he decided to plead guilty Jennifer's dad and her brother Felix ended up requesting a court-ordered protection on them where she could have no contact with them and the judge honored this so she was not allowed to talk to either of them or have any contact with Daniel either and of course this was incredibly hard on Jennifer's dad he is said to be a shadow of what he once was he is unable to work due to his injuries he's depressed he has nightmares insomnia people around him said that he has just not lived a normal life at all since he's got such severe anxiety that he can barely function anymore which I mean it's pretty understandable it would be so hard to find out that someone you thought you loved and trusted you know hired someone to take you out you would probably never sleep okay again he made one statement saying that he hopes that his daughter can realize what she did and become a decent human basically Felix ended up wanting to kind of start his own life away from everyone so he moved to the East Coast Jennifer will be 49 before she's even considered for parole but I highly doubt any of them will get parole they're all currently being held in different correctional facilities and Eric ended up actually passing away in his cell in 2018 that's a whole nother thing but basically the fact that Jennifer's dad survived was really what blew the top off of Jennifer's whole life I mean there's a possibility they could have found out about it whether he survived or not but him being able to say all that definitely made them take a second look at her and see that her story actually made no sense it's a really crazy story I would love to know what you guys think of this but that's it for me today guys and I will talk [Music]

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Published: Mon Sep 16 2019