Where's Jennifer Pan Now? What Happened After Parent's Murder

Where is Jennifer Pan now?

Jennifer Pan is currently serving a life sentence in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. She’s serving at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener, Ontario. Wong, Mylvaganam, and Crawford were convicted with the same sentencing.

In 2023, the Ontario ordered a new first-degree murder trial for Pan and the three co-conspirators. The court says the trial judge erred by suggesting to the jury only two scenarios for the attack — one in which the plan was to murder both parents and another in which the plan was to commit a home invasion and the parents were shot in the course of the robbery. The court also argued that the trial judge should have given the jury second-degree murder and manslaughter as other possible verdicts in the death of Pan’s mother. The court is still deciding as of 2024.

What were Jennifer Pan’s charges?

Jennifer Pan was charged with of first-degree murder and attempted murder of her parents. The three co-conspirators pled not guilty. The court case was one of the longest in Canadian history.

Daniel Wong, Lenford Crawford, and David Mylvaganam are all serving their sentences in different prisons. Eric Carty, who was involved in the case and also another murder at the time, was severed from the case when his lawyer became ill. He pled guilty and eventually died in prison in 2018 after he was stabbed by a cell mate.

What did Jennifer Pan do?

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Growing up in Toronto, Canada, Jennifer Pan seemed like the perfect studious student. However, it was all a scam. Her parents believed that she was a straight-A student who and pushed her to do ice-skating and piano lessons. That was far from the truth when she was in high school, where she received C grades and lied about her extracurricular activities At the time, she hung out with her on-and-off again boyfriend Daniel Wong. She had her acceptance to Ryerson University rescinded and lied to her parents about volunteering at the blood-testing lab at SickKids hospital and studying at the more prestigious University of Toronto to study pharmacology—a dream of her father’s.

Her mother Bich Ha Pan and father Huei Hann found out about the lies after Hann followed his daughter and figured out that her routine didn’t match up with what she was telling him. Jennifer was banned from using her computer and cellphone after they confronted her, and they forbade her from seeing Daniel Wong. The two eventually broke up, but rekindled their relationship, when Wong proposed that they should hire a hit on her parents and have a hand in their $500,000 inheritance.

Wong introduced her to Lenford Crawford, who agreed to do the hit for $10,000. He and his associates David Mylvaganam and Eric Carty walked in through the unlocked front door of the family home and dragged Hann out of his bedroom where he was sleeping. The three ended up shooting Bich Ha in the head immediately killing her, while they shot Hann in the face. Jennifer Pan ended up calling the police claiming that intruders had came into her house and held her and her parents captive. Hann was in a medically induced coma for three days and survived.

In police interviews, Jennifer Pan recalled the scene, “He tied my arms back and said, ‘I have a gun behind your back. Do what I say. If you do what I say then no one will get hurt. Where’s the money? Show me where your money is.'” She explained: ‘I had a bit of money put aside from when I was waitressing – cash. So I showed him where it was and he took it and put it in his pocket I think.”

When Hann woke up from his coma, he immediately pointed to Jennifer Pan and accused her of orchestrating the scene and claimed that she fabricated the story of being captive as she was talking “calmly” to the suspects. After a third round of interrogation by the police, Jennifer Pan confessed in her involvement with the murders.

Hann wrote in his victim statement: “When I lost my wife, I lost my daughter at the same time. On the day Bich died, I feel I died too.”

He recalled he could no longer work and had been unable to return to the family home after the attack. He and his son Felix are currently under a no-contact clause with Jennifer Pan. I hope my daughter Jennifer thinks about what happened to her family and can become a good, honest person someday,’ he added.

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