Jennifer Pan

Adult life While pretending to study at Ryerson, Jennifer told her parents that she had started working as a volunteer at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Hann and Bich soon became suspicious when they realized Jennifer did not have a hospital ID badge or uniform. Bich followed her daughter to "work" and quickly discovered her deception. Livid, Hann wanted to throw Jennifer out of the house, but Bich persuaded him to allow her to stay. As she had not completed high school, Jennifer eventually began working to finish high school and was later encouraged by her parents to apply to university. She was, however, forbidden to contact Wong due to his parents being from different ethnic backgrounds (according to Jennifer), or to go anywhere except for her piano-teaching job. The two still remained in discreet contact. and gave her a SIM card and iPhone so that she could contact Crawford without using her usual cell phone. Eric Shawn "Sniper" Carty, from Rexdale, who in turn contacted Montreal-born David Mylvaganam.

The murder took place at the Pan house in Markham's Unionville neighbourhood. On November 8, 2010, Jennifer unlocked the front door of the family home when she went to bed, then spoke by phone to Mylvaganam. Shortly afterward, Mylvaganam and two other people entered the home through the front door, all armed. before being moved to a trauma unit at Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, by air. Hann later woke up from a coma, and he recalled to police that he saw Jennifer whispering to one of the hitmen in a friendly and soft manner. She was arrested on November 22, 2010, during her third interview. Jennifer admitted that she had hired the killers, but she claimed the plan was to kill her, not her parents. The interrogating officer, William "Bill" Goetz, He falsely told Pan that he had computer software that could analyse untruths in statements and that there were satellites with infrared technology to analyse movements in buildings; and the strategies they are using.

Mylvaganam was arrested at the Jane Finch Mall in North York in April 2011. Carty was arrested at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton, Ontario, several days later. Wong was arrested on April 26 at work. Pan was held at Central East Correctional Centre in Lindsay, Ontario, while awaiting trial.

Trials The trial of Pan and her accomplices began in March 2014, in Newmarket; it lasted 10 months. All defendants pleaded not guilty to the charges of first degree murder, attempted murder, and conspiracy to commit murder. At the trial, York Regional Police evidence included exhaustive tracking of mobile device movements and text message traffic, including over 100 messages between Pan and Wong in the six hours prior to the killing. Further evidence focused on the atypical nature of the "break-in", "robbery", shootings, and irregularities in Jennifer's testimony. Her obsession with Wong, emotionless confession regarding the attack, and recognition of the trauma she underwent were also detailed.

Originally, Carty was tried with the other perpetrators. However, Edward Sapiano, his lawyer, fell ill,

Penalties and imprisonment Hann's son and Jennifer's brother Felix requested a restraining order to ban her from any further contact; it was granted over Jennifer's lawyers' objections.

, Pan was incarcerated at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener. Wong, previously held at Lindsay, was held at Collins Bay Institution in Kingston. Mylvaganam was at Atlantic Institution in Renous, New Brunswick. Crawford was at Kent Institution in Agassiz, British Columbia. Carty, who was stabbed in prison after sentencing, requested to be sent to a federal prison in Western Canada or Atlantic Canada, to serve his two sentenceshis murder conviction for his 2009 killing of former friend Kirk Matthews,

The Supreme Court of Canada upheld the Court of Appeal's decision in April 2025, holding in a 7–2 majority opinion written by Chief Justice Richard Wagner that the jury should have been allowed to consider lesser included charges in the death of Bich, that Jennifer and her co-conspirators may have intended to kill only Hann, since no evidence offered at trial would be at odds with a jury finding that Bich's death might not have been intentional. "While there was strong evidence supporting the Crown's theory that both parents were targets," he wrote, "there was no undisputed evidence contradicting the idea that the plan was only to kill the father." Justice Andromache Karakatsanis, joined by Sheilah Martin, argued in their dissent that there was no air of reality to any theory that the defendants meant to kill only Hann, specifically noting that the crime had only occurred after Jennifer waited until Bich was home before notifying one of the other defendants that it was time to execute the plan, and that both Bich and Hann were led downstairs and covered with blankets before they were shot. "Even when J's evidence is taken at its most favourable," they wrote, "it is speculative to find that because J had less animus toward her mother and had months earlier planned the death of only her father, that the plan on the night in question was also to kill only her father."

Reduced convictions Having been ordered to retry the four living co-conspirators in the killing of Bich Pan, the Crown allowed three to plead guilty to significantly lesser charges, with major sentence reductions. On February 2, 2026, Wong pleaded guilty to manslaughter, which still carries a term of life imprisonment but immediately made him eligible for parole, as compared to the 25-year minimum mandated by his original first-degree murder conviction. This makes Wong eligible for parole. Pan's other convictions, associated with the shooting of her father, remain. Bich was buried on November 19. Hann could not attend due to his injuries.

Media coverage According to the South China Morning Post, the case "sent shockwaves across Canada and the Asian diaspora." A story in Toronto Life magazine brought the case to widespread attention, framing it as an instance of tiger parenting gone tragically wrong. Shortly after its release, several news outlets reported that Netflix had apparently used AI-generated images of Pan in the documentary without disclosing this information. In an interview with the Toronto Star, executive producer Jeremy Grimaldi denied the allegation. He said distortions to the images were caused by the use of photo editing software to anonymize the photos to protect the identity of the source who supplied them.