One of the things that makes Pan’s case so compelling is Pan himself. She went from being a straight A student to lying to her parents about her grades and forging her documents to maintain that lie. There’s hours of footage of her three extensive interrogations with Canadian law enforcement, and it’s interesting to watch her demeanor change as her story evolves. This young woman, who confidently lied that she had graduated from high school, attended college, and had an internship at a hospital, initially thought she could easily lie to the police. , eventually her whole story fell apart. She was not in college and was spending her time primarily with her on-and-off boyfriend, drug dealer Danny Wong. Her parents began to get suspicious, and one day her father, Han, reportedly followed her to her internship and discovered that she was lying. Shortly after, it was discovered that she was having an ongoing relationship with Wong, increasing tensions in her baker’s household.
During the police interrogation and investigation, it was discovered that Jennifer Pan and Wong had hired a hitman and two of his associates to kill her parents in order to inherit vast wealth. Alleged hitman Eric Carty, along with Renford Crawford and David Milvaganam, broke into Pan’s home and demanded money before shooting Pan’s parents several times in the head and killing her mother, Vic. and seriously injured Han.