The Startling Murder and Disturbing Deception Uncovered in Jennifer’s Actions
On Nov. 8, 2010, the last night of Bich Ha Pan‘s life, she enjoyed dinner with her daughter Jennifer Pan before heading out line-dancing, a weekly routine for the 53-year-old.
Returning to their home in Markham, Ontario (located about 19 miles northeast of downtown Toronto), around 9:30 p.m., Jennifer recounted to a York Regional Police detective hours later in interview footage featured in the Netflix documentary What Jennifer Did.
Later that night, Jennifer explained that she heard her mother calling for her father, Huei Hann Pan, before a man entered the house and tied Jennifer’s arms behind her back, claiming he had a gun and instructing her to comply with his demands. He then demanded to be shown where the money was kept, according to Jennifer’s statement to the police.
Jennifer mentioned that she was tied to the top of the banister and heard her mother inquire, as they were being led downstairs to the basement with her husband, whether their daughter could join them. The “last thing I heard them say was, ‘You lied to us, you lied to us,'” Jennifer recalled telling the authorities, “then I heard two pops. My mom screamed, I yelled out for her, then a couple more pops.”
While Bich tragically passed away at the scene, her 57-year-old husband survived being shot in the face near his eye and was rushed to a nearby hospital. Hann, however, spent the initial days of the investigation in a medically induced coma, as detailed by detectives.
In the documentary, homicide investigator Det. Alan Cooke expressed concerns about Hann’s survival, as Jennifer was their sole remaining witness.