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Where is Jennifer Pan Now? Who is Jennifer Pan?
by Aishwarya
Updated Apr 15, 2024
Where is Jennifer Pan Now?
As of now, Jennifer Pan is in prison as she was sentenced to 25 years without parole after killing her parents by hiring someone, in that murder plot her father's life was saved but her mother died. She has been imprisoned at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario. The night after the murder, Pan talked to the police for the first time. Her father woke up from a coma later and told the police that he saw Pan talking quietly with one of the attackers.
Pan was arrested on November 22, 2010, during her third talk with the police in Markham. In that talk, she admitted to hiring the killers, but she said she hired them to kill her, not her parents. The police officer questioning her, William "Bill" Goetz, lied to her about having special software and satellites to catch lies. In Canada, police can lie during interrogations about evidence and tactics. Goetz used a technique called the Reid technique to get Pan to confess. Pan was kept at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario, before her trial.
Who is Jennifer Pan?
Jennifer Pan is a woman from Canada. In 2010, she was found guilty of hiring someone to attack her parents at their home in Unionville, Markham, Ontario. Her mother died in the attack, and her father was injured. Pan was convicted of many crimes and given a life sentence in jail. She could possibly get parole after 25 years. This is the same punishment her partners in the crime got. In May 2023, the Ontario Court of Appeal said Pan and her partners would have another trial for first-degree murder, but they kept the conviction for attempted murder.
Jennifer Pan Murder Plot
In the spring of 2010, Pan contacted Andrew Montemayor, a friend from high school. She claims Montemayor introduced her to Ricardo Duncan, whom she allegedly gave money to kill her father, but Duncan denies this and says he refused her request. Pan and Wong planned to hire a hitman for $10,000 to kill her parents, hoping to inherit $500,000. They got in touch with Lenford Roy Crawford, who connected them with Eric Shawn "Sniper" Carty and David Mylvaganam.
Pan unlocked the front door and talked on the phone with Mylvaganam. Shortly after, Mylvaganam and two others with guns entered the house. The other two hitmen's identities were not established; Wong and Crawford were at work. The men demanded money, ransacked the bedroom, then shot her mother Bich, and father Hann in the basement. Bich died, but Hann survived. They took $2,000 from Pan before leaving.
Mylvaganam was arrested at the Jane Finch Mall in North York, Toronto, on April 14, 2011. Carty was arrested at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton, Ontario, where he was already held, on April 15, 2011. Wong was arrested at his job on April 26, 2011. Crawford was the last suspect to be arrested, on May 4, 2011, in Brampton. Pan was kept at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario, before her trial.
Jennifer Pan Family
Jennifer Pan's parents, Bich Ha Pan and Huei Hann Pan, came to Canada as refugees from Vietnam. Hann was born and raised in Vietnam, then came to Canada as a refugee in 1979. Bich also came as a refugee. They got married in Toronto and lived in Scarborough.
The Pans have two kids: Jennifer, born in 1986, and Felix, born in 1989. They both got jobs at Magna International, a company in Aurora, Ontario, that makes car parts. Hann worked with tools, and Bich made car parts too. In 2004, they bought a house in Markham, a city near Toronto with many Asian people, and it had a garage for two cars.
After Pan's conviction, Pan's father and brother asked the court to stop her from contacting any of her surviving family members. Despite objections from her defense lawyers, the judge approved the order.
Jennifer Pan Early Life
Jennifer's parents had big dreams for their kids and expected a lot from them. Jennifer started piano lessons at four and took figure skating classes almost every day. She wanted to be an Olympic figure skater until she hurt her knee. Jennifer also played the flute in her school band at Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School.
According to Jennifer's high school friend Karen K. Ho, Hann was seen as a strict dad, while Bich went along with him. They picked Jennifer up after school and watched her extracurricular activities closely. They didn't let her date or go to high school dances because they were worried it would take her focus away from schoolwork.
Jennifer couldn't go to parties while her parents thought she was at university. By the time she was 22, she hadn't been to a club, gotten drunk, gone to a friend's cottage, or taken a vacation without her family. Jennifer and her friends felt her strict upbringing was oppressive.
Jennifer Pan Education
Even though Jennifer's parents expected her to get good grades in elementary school, her high school grades were only average, mostly around 70%. She even faked her report cards several times to make her parents think she was getting straight A's. When she failed calculus in grade 12, Ryerson University canceled her early admission. Because she didn't want to seem like a failure, she started lying to everyone, including her parents, pretending she was going to university.
Instead, she spent time in cafes, taught piano, and worked at a restaurant to make money. To keep up the pretense, Jennifer told her parents she won scholarships and later lied about getting into the pharmacology program at the University of Toronto. She even bought used textbooks and watched videos about pharmacology to fill notebooks with fake class notes to show her parents.
While pretending to be a student at Toronto Metropolitan University, Pan told her parents she was volunteering at The Hospital for Sick Children. Her parents got suspicious when they noticed she didn't have a hospital ID or uniform. Bich followed her to "work" and found out she was lying. Hann wanted to kick her out, but Bich convinced him to let her stay. Since Jennifer hadn't finished high school because she failed calculus, she started working to finish high school and later applied to university with her parents' encouragement.
Jennifer Pan Boyfriend
Jennifer asked her parents if she could stay near the campus with a friend during the week. Instead, she stayed with her boyfriend, Daniel Chi-Kwong Wong, whom she met in high school. He's of mixed Chinese and Filipino heritage, lives in Ajax, and works at a Boston Pizza restaurant. Wong, who used to go to Mary Ward, moved to Cardinal Carter Academy in North York because of low grades and later went to York University. He sold marijuana and managed a Boston Pizza.
When Jennifer was 24, Wong got tired of trying to be with her because she was too scared and controlled by her parents. She lived at home and could only see him secretly. Wong ended things with Jennifer and started dating someone else. Pan is also forbidden from contacting Wong again. Wong was previously held in Lindsay, Ontario, is now at Collins Bay Institution in Kingston, Ontario.
