Jennifer Pan was found guilty of conspiracy to murder her parents. Here’s her current status.

• Jennifer Pan is the subject of the new Netflix true crime documentary “What Jennifer Did.”

• In 2014, Pan was found guilty of the murder of her mother and the attempted murder of her father.

• She is serving a life sentence but has been granted the opportunity for a retrial on a charge of first-degree murder.

Netflix’s new true crime documentary “What Jennifer Did” explores the true story of Jennifer Pan, a Canadian woman who allegedly hired people to kill her parents.

Pan was 24 years old at the time of the incident in 2010. In the incident, hitmen entered her home, killed her mother and seriously injured her father. At first, Pan was thought to be a victim of the crime. She called 911 and said she was handcuffed to a stair railing.

After several interrogations, police suspected that Pan had hired the hitmen to kill her parents. In 2014, Pan was found guilty of premeditated murder.

Here you can find out what happened in her case and where she stands today.

Jennifer Pan conspired to kill her parents after lying to them about her life

Pan’s life and the circumstances leading to her crime were detailed in a 2015 Toronto Life article by journalist Karen K. Ho, who reportedly grew up with Pan. Her parents, Bich Ha and Huei Hann Pan, were immigrants who came to Canada separately as refugees before marrying and having two children.

In the article, Ho recounts Pan’s restricted childhood and the enormous pressure she faced to succeed in school. Pan is said to have lied to her parents about her grades, college admissions and volunteer opportunities. Instead, she spent time with Daniel Wong, with whom she had developed a relationship, and worked odd jobs.

When her parents found out, she was subjected to even stricter controls and was eventually banned from seeing Wong. In early 2010, Wong and Pan planned to hire Lenford Crawford, an acquaintance of Wong’s, to kill her parents.

According to Toronto Life, Crawford and two other men entered the Pans’ home on November 8, 2010. They killed Bich and shot Hann in the head and shoulder while Jennifer was handcuffed to the stair railing. From there, she called 911.

What Jennifer Did contains extensive footage of Pan’s interviews with police, in which she describes the break-in, how she managed to use her cell phone while handcuffed, and finally how the lies in her story to police fell apart. Between her second and third interviews with police, her father Hann awoke from his coma – and he remembered watching his daughter casually chatting with one of the men and walking around her house unfettered.

Police arrested Pan on November 22, 2010. In spring 2011, they also arrested Wong, Crawford and two other men involved in the incident.

Pan was sentenced to life imprisonment

According to Toronto Life, Pan’s trial began in March 2014 and lasted ten months.

She was found guilty of first-degree murder and attempted murder, CBC reported. In January 2015, she was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years for the first-degree murder, and she was given a concurrent life sentence for the attempted murder. Crawford, Wong and one of the other men, David Mylvaganam, received the same sentence, according to Toronto Life.

Pan’s family applied for and received a communications restraining order prohibiting her from ever speaking to Hann or her brother Felix again.

“When I lost my wife, I also lost my daughter,” her father, who did not appear in court, said in a written statement, according to CBC.

“I hope my daughter Jennifer reflects on what happened to her family and can one day become a good, honest person,” he wrote.

A retrial has been ordered for 2023

In May 2023, the Ontario Court of Appeal ordered a retrial of Pan, Wong, Crawford and Mylvaganam, CBC reported. According to the court, the judge in the original trial had prevented the jury from considering other verdicts, such as second-degree murder or manslaughter, in connection with the killing of Pan’s mother. The retrial only relates to the first-degree murder charge – not the attempted murder charge in connection with her father.

The Markham Economist & Sun reported in August 2023 that the Crown (the term for prosecutors in the Canadian legal system) had filed an application for leave to appeal the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision to the Supreme Court of Canada. According to the publication, if the Supreme Court denies leave to appeal, Pan may be able to get a new trial. If there is no new trial, Pan can apply for parole.

According to footage from “What Jennifer Did,” Pan continues to maintain her innocence.

Correction: April 11, 2024 – An earlier version of this story stated that Jennifer Pan was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for first-degree murder. She was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for 25 years.

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