Bich Ha Pan’s last words before a stranger shot her to death in her basement were: ‘Please don’t hurt my daughter.’
The gunman obeyed her final desire, but Bich had no idea there was a frightening reason Jennifer Pan, 24, was spared.
Bich had not died in a botched house invasion, a case of mistaken identity, or a random attack.
The men weren’t strangers at all. Jennifer had paid them to assassinate her parents.
On November 8, 2010, three burglars broke into the Pan family’s house in Markham, Ontario, interrupting an otherwise routine evening.
Bich had returned from a line-dancing lesson and snuggled into the sofa. Her husband, Huei Hann Pan, was pottering around the home, while Jennifer was hanging out in her bedroom.
But just as they were preparing to retire for the night, their door swung wide and three guys carrying pistols surged in, demanding money.
After ransacking the house, they brought Bich and Hann down to the basement and shot them many times.
Jennifer, on the other hand, claimed she was bound to an upstairs bannister but managed to contact 911 in a panic.
When police came, they discovered Bich dead, Hann battling for his life after receiving a gunshot wound to the eye, and Jennifer unhurt.
As Hann was transported to the hospital and placed in a medically induced coma, detectives began to treat the horrific crime as a home invasion.
However, they were perplexed as to why the Pann family, who lived a simple life, had been targeted, according to the Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did?
Bich and Hann, both from Vietnam, worked at the same car parts manufacturing and assumed Jennifer was a pharmacology student.
While the family did not struggle financially, they did not have nearly enough riches to justify a crime.
They were also well-liked in the community, with no adversaries and no ties to illegal activity.
However, officers quickly discovered Jennifer did.
Jennifer had been in a long-term relationship with Danny Wong, a small-time marijuana dealer she met in school.
Jennifer’s parents disapproved of Wong and outlawed their relationship, but the couple continued to meet one other in secret.
Jennifer’s lying didn’t end here.
For years, she had been falsifying her school records and pretending to be a Ryerson University student.
She also misled her parents into believing she was a volunteer at Toronto’s Sick Kids Hospital.
Jennifer had been living with Wong and was jobless.
When her parents discovered the extent of her dishonesty, they ordered her to cease her connection with Wong.
Jennifer and Wong began plotting to kill her parents at this time, according to text texts seized by the police.
With Wong’s assistance, she hired three hitmen: Lenford Crawford, David Mylvaganam, and Eric Carty for C$10,000 (£5,891).
On that night in November, she texted them to carry out her request and left the entrance to her family home open so they could enter.
Jennifer first told authorities that she had paid the guys to murder her, but her father’s evidence showed otherwise.
After waking up from his coma, Hann, now an eyewitness, stated that he saw Jennifer conversing with one of the hitmen at their house and that she was not bound.
Police arrested Jennifer and her accomplices on charges of first-degree murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder based on fresh evidence.
Lead investigator Bill Courtice tells documentary filmmakers that the terrible murder-for-hire conspiracy was as ‘evil as it gets.’
He says: ‘If you can imagine the shock or the horror that Bich and Hann must have experienced when these strangers entered the house. It’s evil.’
Jennifer, Wong, Mylvaganam, and Crawford were all convicted on December 13, 2014, and given life sentences with no prospect of release for 25 years.
‘When I lost my wife, I lost my daughter at the same time,’ Hann said in a written statement when Jennifer was sentenced.
‘I hope my daughter Jennifer thinks about what happened to her family and can become a good, honest person someday.’
Jennifer, aged 37, is currently serving her term in the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario. She still claims her innocence.
What Jennifer Did? lands on Netflix on Wednesday.
Source My Celebrity Life.